Starting off with a (muffled) Bang

Rating: 6/10 (19 December 2019)

"Revisiting "Episode I" made me realize certain things weren't as bad as I remembered, but other things were far worse. This film has sort of earned it's reputation as being schmaltzy and ridiculous, and while it had been quite a few years since I'd seen this (I last saw it in 2012 when they did the 3D rerelease), I know I personally won't ever get to the point where I say: " Whelp, I'm never watching that again." This movie isn't that great, and maybe it's just the nostalgia factor paired with the fact that I have the ability to enjoy even the crappiest of movies, but I can't fully dislike this movie.
To me, "Episode I" feels very much like "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"; there's a lot of stuff I love- the world, a few characters, the overall direction of the story, but from a cinematic standpoint, there's still a lot to be desired.