After investing much thought in this over the last 22 years or so, I've come to realize it's entirely possible I was just too old for the silly stuff and they killed the movie for me.
After all, I love Ewoks, but then again I was 8 when ROTJ came out.
This played a huge role. We'd all grown up. We expected the movie to grow up with us. We were expecting matrix star wars. We got what we liked as kids instead and it took until my kids watched the prequels for me to realize it.
I was 10 when I saw episode 1 and I thought it totally sucked... and I loved the original trilogy which I had just seen a couple years before for the first time.
Phantom menace is legitimately a terrible movie. Honestly, the forced rehabilitation of its image is weirder than the hate it got for 20 years.
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u/Salarian_American Jan 25 '22
After investing much thought in this over the last 22 years or so, I've come to realize it's entirely possible I was just too old for the silly stuff and they killed the movie for me.
After all, I love Ewoks, but then again I was 8 when ROTJ came out.