Peter David on his daughter's reaction to the Phantom Menace
Author Peter David has posted about showing his daughter the original three films followed by the Phantom Menace 3D:
We took Caroline to see “The Phantom Menace” in 3D yesterday. She’d seen the commercials for it a few weeks ago and said she wanted to see it; we then insisted she watch what we consider the real “first three movies,” namely episodes 4, 5 and 6. She did so with some reluctance and found them enjoyable in her own way, as I mentioned in an earlier posting.
So we were most interested to see how she would react to a “Star Wars” film that she had not first seen parodied on “Family Guy.” One that is generally reviled as being boring, turgid, poorly acted, badly written, badly directed, and the debut of a character so detested that he actually made people nostalgic for the Ewoks (no small feat, that.)
Personally, watching the film yesterday–the first time I’ve seen it in its entirety since it premiered years ago–I found it as dissatisfying as ever, with 3D effects that were lackluster at best. Even the pod race, which should have rocked in 3D, was unimpressive.
So what did Caroline think of it?
“It was great!” she burbled. “It was better than all three of those other films put together!”
Holy crap. Holy freaking crap.
Follow the link for Peter's thoughts on how his daughter could have gone so far astray...or why Lucas may be right after all.
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