What do you think of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace?

I feel like it's weird in the fact that we don't know much about Darth Maul, and then he dies and that is just it. He was pretty much a one hit wonder as far as Star Wars villains go. It would be interesting if he had stuck around through Attack of the Clones, at least.

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Elessar · 26-30, M

Grown up with 1-6 so I guess I would necessarily have a different opinion than if I saw them all for the first time now.

After rewatching the whole saga in more recent times (2018 or so), I've enjoyed 1-3 for the political plot the most, I haven't been bothered by jar jar in the slightest (but again, see the paragraph above); the second movie is a bit flat on the first half (especially the whole romance, which arguably wasn't well written and especially in original language felt, let's say, weird.. [i]I don't like sand[/i]) but then enjoyable, the third is my favorite of that trilogy and imo it's underappreciated. The visuals and the locations are still stunning 20ish years later and very particular/original.

Of the recent ones, 8 seriously suck and 9 follows closely; 7 didn't enthusiasm me much but at least allowed for a better continuation that however didn't happen. The spin offs are much better, the third trilogy doesn't add anything meaningful and only pushed a lot of people away.

And even the originals are far from perfect, ewoks in 6 are imo on par if not even worse than jar jar if one wants to be objective.

AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M

@Elessar Ewoks were adorable and highly marketable .
Jar jar was just a racist caricature

Elessar · 26-30, M

@AthrillatheHunt To my child-age mind, ewoks were teddy bears that felt completely out of place in that movie, jar jar just a clumsy alien, but yeah as I said if I saw the movie for the first time now maybe I would've gotten a different feel out of it