The first time i saw Phantom menace it was a complete boor. The second time after seeing the original movies for the first time i thought it was brilliant. When i watch ATOC (on dvd) it was all good fun till Hayden thought he could pull off the emotional scenes. Allot of scenes because of him were simply UN watchable, at the beginning of the movie when his decrepit dialogue skill became evident it was passable as just bad acting. However when the movie progressed i really wanted to turn it off. To me he added to the list of problems that ATOC had. Lucas made some BAD directing decisions; the factory scene was pointless and could have been cut. The execution scene was another scene that just dragged on forever. The scene with Zam was longer that it should have been, the little "I forgot you don't like flying master", "I hate it when he does that" and the overly annoying "How many times have i told you to stay away from powercuplings" lines just made me want keel over and die. The special effect (IMO) brought the film down as well not that it was inadequate but it was just used needlessly. It got to the point where i thought this film was just a ploy for ILM to show off their skills. Why did Ben's friend have to be cg (the one in the cafe) why did the entire environment of corusont have to be cg (when Ben is in the building) i mean you could have done a couple of shots without computer wizardry. At the rate that Lucas is going EP3 will be entirely cg. That seems to be the crutch for his films and that crutch is breaking down because the amount if times he uses cg in the movie no one will care how good it is. One of the only things good in that movie was Yoda!
