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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 4:35 pm    Post subject: TPM 25 Years! Reply with quote

https://www.starwars.com/news/the-phantom-menace-25th-anniversary

Not completely unsurprisingly, The Phantom Menace is returning to the theater in May for its 25th anniversary.

Even though I was in my 20s, I remember how excited I was for the first new Star Wars movie since the CT in my childhood. Since the RPG. A long 16 year wait. Expectations were built up high.

The film didn't just live up to my expectations. It surpassed them. Epic action adventure. Submarines and sea monsters. A Ben Hur chariot race SW-style. The twins' mother. Young Obi-Wan's Jedi trial and Master. The beginning of Vader's fall to the Dark Side and the rise of the Emperor. A masterfully designed 4-stage final battle sequence. A superlative John Williams musical score.

The first time I watched it, I was so caught up in the wonder of it all that it didn't even occur to me that Darth Sidious was Palpatine until the camera panned to Palpatine at Qui-Gon's funeral. The phantom menace! The Sith return, insidiously! Genius!

TPM made me feel like a little kid again. And in my early 50s, it still does. Haters gonna hate, but I deeply love this film. I'm so happy that my son will finally get to see it in the theater, and I get to take him.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still find it a great movie as well. I think we're outliers within the larger community, but I still think it's a lot of fun!
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