Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Its a good starter movie to star wars

jarjar😍

Unpopular Opinion: I love this movie. Yes, Jar-Jar and all. unashamed to admit it. I was born in the late 90s, and this movie is truly one for my generation. PLUS Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are the best jedi team to exist (and the battle with Darth Maul? 10/10) 🔥🔥 Haters will hate but 🤷🏻‍♂️

Re-watching all movies, Andor season 2, and The Mandalorian in preparation for The Mandalorian and Grogu. Maul, Qui gon and Kenobi are the saving graces. Other than all things Qui Gon and the duel of the fates, the movie is genuinely poorly executed. I’m aware Star Wars has cheesy dialogue and that’s not what I am critiquing when I say that the dialogue was bad. Cheesy and bad aren’t synonyms, the dialogue was genuinely bad. I grew up a massive prequel fan and still love them for the good that they are, however I’m not going to pretend like they’re all objectively good. I don’t necessarily agree with the people who say TPM shouldn’t have existed, I believe the Anakin escaping slavery was important for his story however it could’ve been more about that and not at all about Naboo and the Gungans even though I love Jar Jar.

This episode is tied for me with rots but if i had to choce it would be rots

8.5/10, darth maul v obi-wan v qui-gon was cinema, the podracing too, and i loved getting the start of anakin's journey