Star Wars Episode I - The Ignorance of the Old Fans

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2009)

"The Phantom Menace" is a great movie. I was born in 1989 and as a next generation Star Wars fan Im gonna say, that I find all these accusations absolutely idiotic.
The movie follows the exact same pattern as "Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope. It has the same basic structure, the same strengths and the same flaws such as wooden dialog.
When I saw this the first time, I was eleven. Im not sure I had seen any of the other Star Wars movies at the time. Probably only "Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back".
But nothing had rocked me like this before.
Years later "Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones" was about to hit theaters world wide and one of the TV stations showed the previous four movies. I was finally going to see "Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope" and find out what the big fuss was about.
And you know what.
I was entertained in spite of the fact that the effect had become a complete and utter joke by 2002 and Carrie Fisher's acting was almost as Portman's.
But frankly I didn't find it to be any better the "The Phantom Menace". The only conclusion I can come up with is this.
"The Phantom Menace" is a great movie. The reason so many people hate it is that they were children, when they saw "A New Hope" and there simply was nothing like it at the time. Nothing can compare to a childhood memory of something.
George Lucas never failed to live up to your expectations, because it was impossible to do so.
Next generation fans such as myself who see this first will love it and look at "A New Hope" and say "This is it? Is this what all the fuss is about?"