George Lucas, having total control, standing there surrounded by yes men who will never shoot down his ideas regardless of how awful they are. That's what went wrong

@stevem842

7 жыл бұрын

***** Hahahaha! Thanks for that. Made my day

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

Elitist OT fanboys Whined, moaned, and complained About all. Despite George's best efforts, To use practical effects, Shoot on location In places like Tunisia and Italy, puppets built, animatronics were used, CGI was only used where necessary, The fanboys still bitched. "CGI!", They cried. "George Lucas raped my childhood!" Whiny kids. George decided that was it: He would do the rest CGI

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Miller Don't ever compare George Lucas to the Trumpenfeuhrer.

@643eddie

7 жыл бұрын

"I may have gone too far in a few places" that sentence alone confirms that George himself implied that Episode I was crap!

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

643eddie He was referring to the editing of the rough draft. Watch the documentary "The Beginning". It's what RLM takes footage out of context from to make jokes.

'Jar Jar is the key to all this'

@MosheAlvarez

7 жыл бұрын

The idea behind that quote is that Jar Jar was supposed to be Darth Plagueis but since Jar Jar was such a PR disaster, Lucas scrapped that idea

@Rythmbot

7 жыл бұрын

Nah, it's because Jar Jar was supposed to be a huge comedic appeal to the movie (much like C-3P0 and R2 were for A New Hope) and if they fucked it up it would be a large detractor for the movie which ended up actually happening. The Jar-Jar sith lord fan theory is well constructed but at the end of the day, that's all it is - a fan theory.

@benjaminshahoulian5838

7 жыл бұрын

i think you are wrong about that.

@brandonkwei4837

7 жыл бұрын

Rythmbot they could just of used R2 and 3PO for comedic relief as they were in the film and they new they were successful in the previous movies

@daniellos333

7 жыл бұрын

I laughed too fucking hard

I feel bad for the guy who played Jar Jar.. He thought about killing himself after this came out.

@619able

4 жыл бұрын

Brandon Smith doesn’t change the fact that people bullied him into almost commuting suicide

@LurnWell

4 жыл бұрын

@@619able It wasn't all just the bullying. People hating the movie and saying it ruined their childhood took it's toll on him as well.

@619able

4 жыл бұрын

Lurn Well stfu

@DeckyStrikesBack

4 жыл бұрын

I thought about killing myself DURING it. It's like poetry. It rhymes.

@lordsaladiino8851

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe because the star wars fanbase is so shitty it does everything to destroy the life of real people. Natalie Portman is a good actress and everyone attacking her in her acting class propaganda is a star wars fan.

"The biggest trap people fall into is they go to far" *cut to shot of jar jar suit*

@evertonporter7887

4 жыл бұрын

The dudes who built the tower of Babel would agree...

@willreimer5442

3 жыл бұрын

You do realise this is an edit of the original documentary right?

@charlierock000

3 жыл бұрын

@@willreimer5442 you didn't understood the comment

@_Wakaz_

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't make the film for you, he made it for kids. Cope harder.

This is an interesting episode of The Office

@goodgriefer5294

7 жыл бұрын

Oh my god HAHAHAHHA

@erixn.

7 жыл бұрын

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

@yeetwchybaban

7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas NRG huh?

@Heisenberg_Zordon

7 жыл бұрын

Rawrrr if you watched the office, you'd get the reference

@lindgrenland

7 жыл бұрын

Haha such a good comment

"it's gonna be great" "it's gonna be great" "it's gonna be great" "it's gonna be great"

@kuribayashi84

7 жыл бұрын

The more you repeat that sentence, the more it sounds like a Donald Trump-quote.

@lindgrenland

7 жыл бұрын

Haha good catch

@martykeaton182

7 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with the movie?

@lindgrenland

7 жыл бұрын

Marty Keaton Honestly Marty, I just rewatched Episode 1 and I have to say even if it's not perfect, it's still the best out of the prequel trilogy. My mind has been conditioned by the internet to remember it as shitty, but it really wasn't that bad. Ep 2 is a terrible movie, though

@martykeaton182

7 жыл бұрын

lindgrenland I think they're both good.

George : "Its like poetry" Everyone in the room :"Hmh"

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone is impressed.

"Just like War and Peace. It's gonna be great" "It's gonna be great" "It's gonna be great" "Yeah, it's gonna be great" Man, the real life dialogues in this documentary would work so well as lines in some comedy about yes-men and brown-noses...

@Adam-qv2bd

4 жыл бұрын

Except, Spielberg is a way more successful filmmaker than Lucas.

@ChristianVezina

4 жыл бұрын

Did you just call Spielberg a yes man brown nose lol

@RetrocadePodcast

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don't think Steve Spielberg was brown nosing his friend and colleague lol...He's a billionaire too you know

@thevisitor1012

4 жыл бұрын

And it was great

@mrmessyschannel

4 жыл бұрын

The visitor101, You forgot the (!) at the end of that.

They should release a despecialised edition of Episode 1 where you see the original Jar Jar costume and there's just some black guy in a gungan costume following them around and nobody asks why he's wearing the costume.

@markkoetsier6475

8 жыл бұрын

+videogamenostalgia Lmao, ain't that the truth, my thoughts exactly when I saw the table scene at 7:24! This random ass dude just chilling around with an unexplained Gungan mask on top his head and nobody gives a shit, it's hilarious. Hell, I'd *pay* to see that version. Cause it would actually be the first time Phantom Menace could be considered amusing.

@RealBono

8 жыл бұрын

+videogamenostalgia It'd make more sense than jar jar

@zachcouch8654

8 жыл бұрын

hahahah yes they should have.

@Naedeslus

8 жыл бұрын

+videogamenostalgia The whole movie would be a fucking green screen lol

@stephenahern

8 жыл бұрын

This made me laugh so hard!

You heard him people, "Jar Jar is the key to all this "

@MrBullsBalls

8 жыл бұрын

+blueshirt06 ALL HAIL DARTH DARTH BINKS!

@DeathBringer769

8 жыл бұрын

+blueshirt06 The Binks Awakens. That conspiracy theory is more creative than Lucas has been in a long time though. It'd be giving him too much credit to actually think it's likely or real, lol.

@blueshirt06

8 жыл бұрын

Very true

@MagnsATK98

8 жыл бұрын

+blueshirt06 Jar Jar was originally supposed to be a sith lord, secretly in control of everything.

@HotHubHD

8 жыл бұрын

+John Balboa erm no...its just a fan theory.

I did want to go home after the pod race

@JuicyTobacco

6 жыл бұрын

Why? It's one of the most amazing scenes in all SW movies!

@shutterbugblues

6 жыл бұрын

Me too. But that’s because I thought it was horrible juvenile filler. We all knew Anakin was going to win the race, and the whole thing was a complete downtime and boring distraction from the main plot.

@malkamusik

5 жыл бұрын

I actually did leave after the pod race. Would've been better if were 20 years younger at the time.

@8mmkyle865

5 жыл бұрын

I actually find that hard to believe, like 90% of the people who saw it said they loved it. It wasn't until a few weeks after that people started to see the true nature of the movie.

@malkamusik

5 жыл бұрын

@@8mmkyle865 Source?

One thing I loved about the “behind the scenes” of the prequels, is that it felt like you were actually there; through all the cringe, all the production headaches and disagreements. Look at the behind the scenes of the new SW movies. It all likes polished and everyone seems dandy.

@andrewxu3602

3 жыл бұрын

What about the Last Jedi documentary?

@thomasellis445

3 жыл бұрын

Except the new movies turn out even worse haha

@654ethan

2 жыл бұрын

except that was bunch of disney edited bs 😂

@ericfelds6291

2 жыл бұрын

It’s really astonishing how you people seem incapable of saying anything else other than just reciting, almost verbatim, shit you heard Mike Stoklasa say. Really embarrassing stuff

@bern1223

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericfelds6291 Who? I don't need anyone to tell me that the sequels were not great. But Finn was my favorite character, especially since John Boyega is an actual star wars fan.

Somewhere kid#2 is like, "Whew, close one."

@uncaringmach

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Williams Right, as he wipes the greasy sweat from his brow as he flips another burger.

@Dendelin007

8 жыл бұрын

+Resale Living exactly

@AIONBERSERKER

8 жыл бұрын

+Resale Living He could be a successful lawyer, who says he's working in a burger joint?

@ThePinkMan

8 жыл бұрын

+Resale Living As opposed to Jake Lloyd, who's currently working as a millionaire gigolo for super models.

@user-vi4xy1jw7e

8 жыл бұрын

+Resale Living In comparison to Jake Lloyd, who just got arrested? Gotcha.

Here's what went wrong: Not a single person in this entire video ever says no. He was surrounded by yes men. People who are too scared to tell him what works and what doesn't.

@DestroyerGamingHD

9 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I hate how people blame Lucas for making episode 1 a dissapointment,when in fact it is mostly the guys working with him who are at fault. If you don't challenge anyone, you're not gonna make anything work.

@trenken

9 жыл бұрын

Yup, nailed it. Hes the big boss legend cutting the checks, but before this he only directed the first star wars when he was a nobody and it was a collaborative effort, as was the 2 sequels. Here he had full control and you realize hes great at all the techy stuff like special effects, but he is not a good writer or a very good storyteller, or a good actor director. Im certain JJ Abrams will do far better. He is much more concerned with good writing and stories. Star Wars is in much better hands now.

@justedge6477

9 жыл бұрын

darth destroyer

@skramamme685

9 жыл бұрын

Darth Destroyer I doubt anyone who values having a job or a career in film is going to tell Lucas his almighty vision sucks. He surrounded himself with people who would agree with him. He was well aware of the criticism of people when he changed the original films (Han shot first! I mean, come on! It changes the whole development arc of the character changing that initial introduction to Han) yet he stubbornly refused to release the original movies as they were supposed to be. He didn't listen to feed back then, why on earth would he listen during the making of these ones?

@jeremythesmith

9 жыл бұрын

That's one of the first things I notice too, everyone is in awe of Lucas and the result is the Emperor has no clothes. The result was a stunningly bad movie.

Remember kids: Never be afraid of failing. Jake Lloyd failed miserably during his audition, but still got the part.

@HarryS77

6 жыл бұрын

And then had a happy life. The End. Oh...wait.

@DistractedGlobeGuy

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, but now he's an alcoholic thug.

@OfficialEricElemen

6 жыл бұрын

It was hilarious seeing Lucas' explanation of why he liked his audition.

@thegooseman90

6 жыл бұрын

Eric Elemen move production faster and body language 😁Why have 5 takes and get a good performance than 1 shitty take and finish faster.

@OfficialEricElemen

6 жыл бұрын

thegooseman90 for real man, he even made "faster more energy" one of his direction go tos during the production of the 1977 film.

Casting crew: "We've narrowed it down to 3 possible Anakins. Kid #3 keeps f**king up his lines, so..." George: "heS THe oNe, HiRe hIM"

@faisalmemon285

4 жыл бұрын

The other two kids were more mechanical.

@Slazors

4 жыл бұрын

@@faisalmemon285 Jake was way too over inflective. "MOST BEAUTIFUL CREATURES" made me cringe. Kids don't talk like that. The blonde kid acted the best in my opinion

@razkable

4 жыл бұрын

@@Slazors I disagree...in art you take chances risks and they can pay off big like with mark hamill who was pretty bad in a new hope at times but they stuck with him and it worked out or they can flat out fail like tommy wiseau who won't change....in the end this well known franchise of films made a lot of money as did this film in particular until disney bought it was the highest grossing by far star wars movie and you can claim even now the most grossing thing if you include merchandise ever even now for its time it was insane so in the end who they chose for a young anakin in this one movie was not the end of the world eve if it was a mistake which it wasn't since he got better...why choose someone mechanical that can say the line but brings nothing to the character or screen they just are robotic when you can have a real kid with emotions who can turn a line into something else by his performance not whats written necessarily just by his tone....the issue was jake was still young he hadn't really acted before..those other kids has more comfort on camera but he was the best choice...no one would remember the other 2 kids...trust me...sometimes a little bad can be memorable and bring in kid fans who enjoy something different...a lot of characters act boring or robotic on purpose so to have a kid with different ranges of his emotions is a good thing....you believe him as the character hes not a background kid like the other 2 who seem so confident not stiff..that stiffness is unique and he could work on...the other 2 were what they were no improvement was possible and they were as flat as a board

@Slazors

4 жыл бұрын

@@razkable Kids don't talk like that, period. You can write a book about how you interpret it differently but that's just your flawed viewpoint. Children talk pretty flat when speaking casually.

@caderen5624

3 жыл бұрын

Jake did fine in my opinion

"The biggest trap that people fall into with these movies, is that they go too far" "I may have gone too far in a few places."

@NavasGonzalo

9 жыл бұрын

ErroneousNickname not in the script where he didint go any places at all...

@AyaxTelemonio

9 жыл бұрын

ErroneousNickname HILARIOUS

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

3 жыл бұрын

@@NavasGonzalo Script was great.

@NavasGonzalo

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p yeah, I wrote that comment 5 years ago. Now I think differently

@_Wakaz_

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, and then his friends critiqued it and helped him make a better film that didn't go too far. That screen test wasn't the final product, you know. That's the whole point of a screen test; then all his crew got together - with them critiquing him - to improve the film. Because contrary to your conspiracy theory, he wasn't surrounded by yes men.

"jar jar is the key to all this"

@winrockywin06

7 жыл бұрын

yes if they get jar jar cgi down right the rest will be cake. context .

@mirandac8712

7 жыл бұрын

In a way, he was right

@alexanderwikle3005

7 жыл бұрын

yep its true

@LuizCarlos-zn4hd

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, he helped to create the Palpatines empire.

@PlopstoperGames

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

"That's the biggest trap that people fall into with these movies, is that they go too far..." *Cut to guy putting on Jar Jar suit*

@DiamondFire

4 жыл бұрын

Cuts to blindwave

@SpoonDude

4 жыл бұрын

Wolf6120 Cut to George saying he may have gone too far lmao

When Anakin said, "are you an angel," I laughed out loud. I forgot how silly this movie was.

why were people so skepical to stand up against lucas? many of them look and sound unconfortable with his ideas. just mumbling back "yeas" and shit faced smiles

@bren7080

8 жыл бұрын

Because they were scared the would get fired

@VaderTheWhite

8 жыл бұрын

+JamesPlaysGames95 A mix of reasons. Partially, it was fear of getting fired. Also, considering how many people were doubtful at A New Hope, they probably were thinking that it would likely work once it was on screen. They were wrong.

@dbreiden83080

8 жыл бұрын

+JamesPlaysGames95 They are mostly special effects people, they don't know what a good story would be anyway. Lucas had to guide the ship and if I was in that room, I would certainly think he would know what to do..

@jacklame7464

8 жыл бұрын

Because they probably thought he knew what he was doing since you know, he created arguably the most successful cinematic franchise in history

@ginaszanboti5922

7 жыл бұрын

I don't know that they thought he knew what he was doing. They weren't morons. Lucas is incredibly famous for making a trilogy of movies where the cast, crew, and studio told him no all the time. "Can Chewbacca be a lizard?" No, George, no he can't. By the time of Phantom Menace Lucas was just such a huge force in the industry that no one could stop him from ruining his movies (or pretending that he is a poet and an auteur).

It was a failure because his crew didn't have the balls to say 'No.'

@earthhound

5 жыл бұрын

They didn't know how to trick George into thinking their ideas were his.

@FeroxX_Gosu

5 жыл бұрын

@@earthhound haha, you are on point!

@christianhuston897

4 жыл бұрын

Lucas created an environment and work culture where he wouldn't tolerate dissent. His fault

@FalconNest

4 жыл бұрын

No Gary Kurtz, alas.

@evertonporter7887

4 жыл бұрын

A failure? That word has become relative these days.

Spielberg was who Lucas wanted to direct the movie and Spielberg talked him into directing it himself.

@Rumpl4Skyn

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine what could have been.

@Hazztech

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck you speilberg

@hermos3602

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, because he believed in George. And it turned out great.

@nicko1641

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hazztech no

@aesir1ases64

2 жыл бұрын

@stirange Not its not, its an average movie with cringe moments and epic ones. Its far from a masterpiece and far from garbage, still a fun one for those who are fan of SW and like the lore of the movies.

5:00. Spielberg is probably thinking "what in the hell....."

@Darksider13

4 жыл бұрын

Paul WT And Ready Player One. The final battle in that movie is very similar to the one in TPM. Not saying he’s a terrible director but there’s reason to believe he probably really enjoyed TPM lol.

@dbreiden83080

4 жыл бұрын

He's made quite a few clunkers himself so probably not.

It's gonna be great.

@observeralternative4769

8 жыл бұрын

its gonna be great

@AmoralPhat40oz

6 жыл бұрын

It's gonna be great

@byteresistor

6 жыл бұрын

goongas

@ldsentertainment3130

6 жыл бұрын

It's gonna be GREAT.

@Meloni_88

6 жыл бұрын

Famous last words

Even Spielberg kissed Lucas's ass here.

There’s an interesting story about the making of “The Incredibles”, where the producer, John Walker, had to talk the director, Brad Bird, out of an original ending that would have had Syndrome killed by Mr. Incredible. These two argued with each other forever about it. At one point, Walker said “I’m just trying to get us past the finish line” to which Bird responded with “I’m trying to get us past the finish line in first place”. They probably didn’t enjoy working together, but their combative relationship was just what the movie needed.

@Zodroo_Tint

Жыл бұрын

So did Brad Bird killed Mr. Incredible or not?

@sonoftheway3528

11 ай бұрын

He kinda kills him in the actual ending though...

“Are we sure that this isn't a terrible mistake?” - famous last words

The nervous look on the faces of his crew speaks volumes.

@slothfromthegoonies8201

7 жыл бұрын

Those people were basically on a ship with a drunk captain in charge, of course they were nervous.

@thegooseman90

6 жыл бұрын

Those poor bastards knew it was going to be a mess.

@ronaldcole6101

4 жыл бұрын

YES MEN

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

3 жыл бұрын

Where did you see that? They are serious and involved.

@agoldenage9918

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p They look miserable as fuck and has no energy. George is literally sucking the life out of everyone on the set.

I see a man who loves his characters and is passionate on what he wants but is surrounded by yes men and there should have been boundaries & restraint in certain areas.

@Moodymongul

6 жыл бұрын

You totally hit the nail on the head. It's sad, when you see the earliest ideas for the prequels (to be darker and more violent then the original stories). However, we ended up with Jar Jar Binks.

@histguy101

6 жыл бұрын

The movies get darker as they go along, culminating in revenge of the Sith, the darkest SW movie of all. Which is the point of the Trilogy. It's not a "Hero's Journey," it's an "Epic Tragedy." Episode 1 is meant to show the galaxy in a state of innocence, not knowing war. If the people working for Lucas here are "Yes men," then that's always been the case. The Prequels were made by the same Lucasfilm veterans that made the Original Trilogy, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Young Indiana Jones, Special Editions, etc.

@cjrichards4342

6 жыл бұрын

I'd say that Empire is darker than Revenge of the Sith.

@aamiller90

6 жыл бұрын

Lucas is a creative storyteller, that’s his greatest talent. I just don’t think his directing is great. We all have different strengths in different areas. I also respect that he has a sense of humor about himself, how he talks about his main direction: “faster more intense” and even acted outraged with Seth Green in a skit where he is outraged someone disagrees with him.

@histguy101

6 жыл бұрын

Well, he directed 3 iconic, cult classics within the space of few years, that were completely different from one another. THX-1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars. And so far, the most highly praised SW film, at the time each was released, was Episode 4-A New Hope, the one he directed. Not including the recent films, the 2nd most highly praised SW film was Episode 3- Revenge of the Sith, also directed by him.

Feel so bad for the kid that played Anakin. Toxic fans and bullies really hurt him. Now that I’m a dad of a 6 year old son (who loves Episode 1), I can’t imagine that pressure on a child.

@OVK-Productions

Жыл бұрын

And the fact that his life is destroyed now is even more tragic just because some little kids were jealous and some fans weren’t happy they didn’t get exactly what they wanted

@A.I.Friends

5 ай бұрын

If I was Jake I'd say, "They paid me millions of dollars to ruin Star Wars, what's your problem?" If I had his money, I wouldn't care because that was George's fault.

The second kid was the one!

@orphanedhanyou

5 жыл бұрын

Ugh no. It felt so 'acted'. Jake felt genuine. Little kids really say things like that. They really believe it. That innocent was perfect.

@cmcb7230

5 жыл бұрын

The second kid even looked like Vader with his mask off

@xxcampheroxx

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. The second kid seemed like he had a darkness hidden in him. Almost like a soon to be “emo kid” which would have fit the origin of Darth Vader a lot better than the exaggerated giddy charisma that Jake showed In his audition tape. It’s almost like George simply forgot what the prequels was supposed to lead up to.

@xxcampheroxx

4 жыл бұрын

orphanedhanyou clearly you would have been one of the yes men in this video 😂 the second kid was the one. The point of this video is to show all of the missteps they took.

@ZenZill

4 жыл бұрын

@@xxcampheroxx I think he/she was being sarcastic, a la George Lucas rambling about how Jake Lloyd captured innocence.

Way the hell back in the 1990s I subscribed to _Star Wars Insider_ magazine. I remember reading the issue which divulged a few details about the upcoming _Episode I_ Notably the publication stated that we would first be introduced to Annakin Skywalker when he is just a little boy and that he starts out as A Slave. I remember thinking to myself how brilliant that was. It seemed to make sense, Luke was just a frustrated farm boy, but his dad would come from a much harsher environment. Visions of a soot-faced Annakin Skywalker, chipping away in some inhospitable, cramped mine with some sort of lazer-pick axe flashed in my head; or perhaps he would be slaving on some sort of train tracks, laying rail for a Star-Wars esque railroad. That was a perfect way to get the audience emotionally invested in this kid. He's a survivor, a salty dog even as a grade schooler...Instead we got Jake Lloyd, sitting around polishing a few props, and he's even allowed to go home before dark.

@BrianMorrison71

8 жыл бұрын

+samuraigeorge71 exactly, film 101. if you are making serials, the stories must align. if he had done that then Anakin would have been in his late 20's at the start. Lucas was the king of blowing it. Like having Luke and Liea make out in ESB then they are brother and sister in Jedi. Obiwan can't remember c3po and artoo but runs around the prequals with them. dumb

@honkeykong9563

8 жыл бұрын

+samuraigeorge71 The back story was still vague enough so that Episode 1 could have featured Anakin as an actual slave. Owen could have been a slave as well. There was the breadth of an entire universe to work with. For Episode 1, George Lucas failed to create so much as a single character for the audience to identify with; the only exception _possibly_ being OB1, but what we know and like about him is all based solely on the cannon from 4, 5, and 6.

@MrRf1975

8 жыл бұрын

+Bojo Mojo Blue astro-droids like R2 were probably very common. And Obi-Wan does not claim he doesn't remember a droid like R2, he states (and truthfully at that), that he does not seem to remember ever "owning" a droid, as R2 was claiming he was the property of Obi-wan Kenobi

@BrianMorrison71

8 жыл бұрын

There are like 90 c3po's in the first 2 minutes of star wars. And you see more in empire.. "Echuda!" "how rude"

@DarthCipient

8 жыл бұрын

Dude, you probably put more thought into this post of yours than Lucas did in all three prequel scripts.

anakin should have been 15 or 17 in phantom menace

@ThizzingRussian420

7 жыл бұрын

i think more like 12-13 so the whole hormones from puberty would make a bit more sense and a bit less creepy later on in ep 2

@keithws2779

7 жыл бұрын

Oswaldo Cortes, I agree. It would have been way more believable if he was post puberty. Or at least at the end of it. It's weird for an 8 year old to later on have the hots for Padme, she would have felt almost like an aunt.

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

Anakin was nine and Padme was fourteen. That's hardly an age difference. A fourth-grader finding an eighth-grader attractive makes perfect sense. Ten years later, he's nineteen and she's twenty-four. Still seem weird?

@JoelJoel321

7 жыл бұрын

Hans, I guess if she had looked 14 in the movie then it might have been more believable, but she was like 18 or something.

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

JoelJoel321 You find it unbelievable that a fourth-grader would find a twelfth-grader attractive? I'm pretty sure every boy alive in the 90's had a crush on Amy Jo Johnson and Britney Spears.

poor Natalie Portman, auditioning with her future "love interest"

@a.hollins8691

3 жыл бұрын

@dolofonos As opposed to the rest of America 😂😂😂

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

3 жыл бұрын

They were friends and she dated Hayden later.

I remember seeing the Phantom Menace the day it was released. It was so bad, so disappointing, so soul crushing for someone who saw and loved the original Star Wars films, when I was a a young kid, back in 70s and 80s, that I couldn't go to sleep later that night. I just kept going over, in my head, why the film was so terrible, and I kept asking myself how or why did George Lucas think that the Phantom Menace was in any way a good film, nevermind a good Star Wars film, remotely suitable for release. This video explains a lot as to what went wrong.

@Superstarseven

Жыл бұрын

Ahh there you are. An old fart trying to enjoy a movie that kids enjoyed.

@arkle519

Жыл бұрын

It's so hard to think that as an adult man with responsibilities, you lost sleep over the fact someone made a movie you didn't like. Speaks volumes for the Star Wars fandom.

The unfiltered boldness of this documentary -- even after 15 years -- still stuns me. I wish we had more Star Wars docs like this one, that are less promotional glitz, and more pure honesty in the filmmaking process.

Everyone on the set is a fucking yes man. Lucas is spouting nonsense and nobody is actually checking or saying no to ANYTHING he says. This is so absurd.

@alexojideagu

8 жыл бұрын

they really should make an OFFICE Style comedy just like this about a director making a prequel and just screwing everything up surrounded by yes men and people in silly costumes who know he is nuts, with his agent and P.R guy on the phone to eveyone saying it is wonderful

@Sergei_Ivanovich_Mosin

8 жыл бұрын

+Kujakuseki01 To be fair they probably didn't want to get fired

@mousehead2000

7 жыл бұрын

its just like my office.

@username45739

7 жыл бұрын

Evidence he fired any critics?

I swear to God, the people filming this behind the scenes saw the writing on the wall and wanted all the footage they could get. This is cringe comedy gold. Iconic.

@ComeAlongKay

Ай бұрын

The prequels are good, the sequels are what sucks.

Episode 1 is perfect the way it is. I liked Jar jar as a child and this film took me into star wars

It's like he was high during the entire production process.

@Ephisus

8 жыл бұрын

probably would have been better if that was the case.

@beambooi6431

8 жыл бұрын

If he was high I think he would have made a better movie because being high makes you creative

@germanicelt

7 жыл бұрын

True, there are some Cannabis Sativa strains that have the characteristic of giving the user creativity and inspiration.

@alejandrorosa8422

6 жыл бұрын

The director of fantastic 4 2015 would go direct high lol no wonder the movie failed

So Jake Lloyd was the only kid who couldn't get the line right, so they went with him??

@martykeaton182

7 жыл бұрын

He was trying and sounded fine.

@martinlagman

7 жыл бұрын

Steve Picray The second one was hands down better than Lloyd, but the first one I could see him turning into Darth Vader later on. If you`re going to show him as a kid, at least let him have a more serious and mature attitude. That could be one of the reasons he turns to the dark side, knowing he is more intelligent than his peers, and now discovering he´s also more powerful, seeking revenge for the years he and his mother were slaves.

@atenakehnaton3965

6 жыл бұрын

He was trying, but he did not sound "fine." He really sounded awful and he was the absolute worst pick.

@LookingTheBest

6 жыл бұрын

Steve Picray dude Jakes acting is what made Aniiie so great and his fall so sad

@Davies46

6 жыл бұрын

Poor Jake was doing the best he could with the direction he had, and it ruined him the poor kid.

"The most difficult part is to not go too far. Just go strange enough. The biggest trap people fall into with these kinds of movies is they go too far." Immediately cuts to the actor playing jar jar with with a silicone head on walking around like fucking goofy. Priceless.

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

2 жыл бұрын

By your logic: Look at Andy Serkis climnig on his stomach crawling on his stomach in motion capture suit like a worm. Priceless.

@sebass337

Жыл бұрын

at least he can acknowledge it “I might have gone a bit too far in a few parts.”

It pisses me off how in any behind the scenes footage of the prequels how Lucas just sounds so completely disinterested and unenthusiastic about working on them. It's like he's going through the motions.

@Mario_N64

3 жыл бұрын

He sounds Like he's really out of it. Aloof and despondent. He doesn't care.

@alcarbo8613

2 жыл бұрын

What? That’s how George Lucas always sounds However if you pay attention to his action you’d notice he went above and beyond in effort compared to most directors, stop with your bs

How do you NOT pick the second kid? He was amazing.

@Cat-vr8fj

8 жыл бұрын

+Zach Couch I think maybe he was too good. Certain child actors deliver their lines like adults which makes things weird because... they're delivering their lines like someone whos ten years their senior. So maybe he was acting too seriously for George. Either way it wouldn't make a difference since the script is a disaster

@creamithmanning2632

8 жыл бұрын

+Cat I disagree. He was literally the only kid of the three who delivered his lines like a human being. This did not compute with Jorge.

@Cat-vr8fj

8 жыл бұрын

SupplySide Jesus Lloyd wasnt the right pick either but he also acts less stoic than the only few seconds I have to judge that other kid

@zachcouch8654

8 жыл бұрын

Its Darth Vader he is stoic.

@zachcouch8654

8 жыл бұрын

Cat it was have been a disaster agreed. They would have made any kid say YIPEY~

Also, why the heck are they looking for 7 year old actors for this part. If they would have found an actor the same age as Natalie Portman for Ep. 1, they could use the same actor for all the movies.

@OdaSwifteye

9 жыл бұрын

It's too bad nobody ever asked that question or could ask that question. Given how the second movie was going to be him being so much younger made it weird.

@mikejandrews

9 жыл бұрын

Batman Anakin in the story is supposed to be about 9/10, and Padme/Queen Amidala is supposed to be 14. There's a lot that happens to a kid in those four years, but after 10 years that age gap (that would have once seemed absurd) becomes negligible.

@OdaSwifteye

9 жыл бұрын

imbecilik So they got a 7 year old to play the part of a 9/10 year old and got a 18/20 year old to play a 14 year old?

@mikejandrews

9 жыл бұрын

Oda Swifteye Welcome to the world cinema, where people pretend to be people they are not.

All those lucky little boys who DIDN'T get that role.

7:44 That's your Darth Vader there, yes, of all the characters in the galaxy, that's your Darth Vader.

I think most of the problems with episode one was the writing and direction. To say it's all Jake Lloyd is tough for a kid. But that other kid would not have saved the film. I mean if you make Sam Jackson and Liam Neeson seem like crappy actors... You fucked up the writing.

@nyrangersfan6325

8 жыл бұрын

I thought Jake did awesome in the prequels...

@travissloan5296

8 жыл бұрын

NYRangersfan63 I don't think he did awful, but it wasn't great or even good, and that second kid would have been better.

@KeithPickeringGuy

8 жыл бұрын

+NYRangersfan63 He did okay for a child actor; I think the main problem is that having a Star Wars film carried by a child actor is a terrible idea. We didn't need to see Anakin as a child; the details about his mother's death and his slaughtering of the sand people should've all been revealed through cleverly-written expository dialog. He should've already been the rebellious brooding asshole we see in Episode 3, making his rise even more unlikely (Yoda calls Anakin "too old" to train in Episode 1 - imagine if he was already 18, and what kind of consequences would arise from someone so emotive being trained to use the force?). The end of Episode 2 could've shown him switching sides, and Episode 3 could've been all about the rise of the Empire with some actual screen time for Darth Vader.

@CaptainFantastik1

7 жыл бұрын

Jake wasn't the problem. George was the problem.

@Fayatee

6 жыл бұрын

Spot on

George Lucas - I'll colour in the CGI stuff in purple Colours the whole board Purple

@TheBanMan

6 жыл бұрын

it was yellow. dont blame you for being confused when he used just as much yellow as purple

@arthurrangel392

5 жыл бұрын

@@darrenspraggs795 The technology is "not there" yet and will probably never be. CGI is a tool that should be used alongside the old tools like in Jurassic Park or Titanic not be the only tool.

“Let’s do that again. Aaaaand-action!” “I don’t like sand. It gets everywhere.” “Cut! Cut. That’s a good line. Rick, remember that line.” “Yes, master.”

You can feel all the awkwardness, especially during Anakin's audition. The long uncomfortable silences and the gloomy faces.

@Feber2001

4 жыл бұрын

Kind of sad that no one feels comfortable in that situation..

@eduardopazhurtado3882

4 жыл бұрын

I think it feels like that when you audition for something

@Feber2001

4 жыл бұрын

@@eduardopazhurtado3882 Yeah, it is. It gets weird at the start, but after a while, the tension goes away. And, people (actors) open up more.

I actually feel really sorry for Liam Neeson. He was so excited to be in this movie.

@erebus7306

6 жыл бұрын

He is remembered as one of the coolest jedi in the star wars universe, don't feel bad, his acting was awesome, he made a really cool mentor to also another awesome jedi: Obi wan Kenobi.

@Outerwebs

6 жыл бұрын

I always wondered how much of an 'accident' his breaking his leg and not being in the other films was...

@SteLo1008

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't he agree to be in the movie without reading a single line from the script?

@Eyeofthetiger69

4 жыл бұрын

He even voiced Qui Gon again in the Clone Wars, so I guess he still liked Episode 1.

@davidkane6145

4 жыл бұрын

@@Eyeofthetiger69 Apparently he regrets being in TPM.

From the three boys (the third being Jake Lloyd) who were auditioning for Anakin Skywalker, although I didn't like the idea of having Anakin be a kid (they should have started him out as a teenager), I liked the second one. He delivered his lines a lot better.

@Teabone3

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniella Dahoui Agreed.

@danielladahoui888

8 жыл бұрын

+Loveisintheair85xxx Yeah, there's a good video by Belated Media called "What if Star Wars Episode 1 was Good" which has their own re-written version of The Phantom Menace, which includes Anakin Skywalker as a teenager. And overall, it makes more sense to make him a teenager early on, as it also connects to Episode 4 with Luke who had his calling for adventure in his teens.

@baigandinel7956

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniella Dahoui Yes, Anakin is supposed to be highly competent, not confused.

@creamithmanning2632

8 жыл бұрын

George Lucas REALLY liked Jingle All The Way. I can't imagine why.

@graemestevenson2645

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniella Dahoui What this told me is that Jake Lloyd was the worst possible choice... and that George Lucas is clearly a kid in an adult's body. A nerdy kid with bad taste.

"It's gonna be great." "It's gonna be great." "It's gonna be great." "It's gonna be great." Admiral ackbar : "It's a trap !".

1:06 You had me at “Jar jar is the key to all this”

What went wrong? Almost everything went wrong. Don't want to parrot Plinkett to death but seriously almost every part of these movies was a poorly thought out mess. No second opinions, no touch ups, nothing. Just them using first drafts only to stumble out of the gate

@jarjarbinks575

9 жыл бұрын

What went wrong? Not enough JAR JAR!!

@user-oh5ff4gk9s

9 жыл бұрын

Jar Jar Binks youssa no funny

@jarjarbinks575

9 жыл бұрын

general grievous Mesa hilarious!

@8008boot

9 жыл бұрын

He tried to write poetry, instead ended up violently puking everywhere.

@isaacbecerra8846

9 жыл бұрын

MrZurata I'm really surprised Lucas didn't seek out other directors/writers after EP1

The thing that stands out for me in this video is all the "yes men" he surrounded himself with.

@videowilliams

10 жыл бұрын

I guess that's the key bad omen because they all seem quite professional, self-aware, Lucas included. No one's passionate, however, and no one's saying "Jeez, we gotta do better than this." I think of the saying: "Unhappy sets make the best movies."

@fargu1to

10 жыл бұрын

I think you are right and I like your concept (or term) "yes man"..

@nutyyyy

9 жыл бұрын

He got rid of anyone who questioned him long ago.

“Jar Jar is the key to all this”... Annnd...that’s all folks.

@Oodelally

2 жыл бұрын

He was mainly referring to the SFX that would make him “work”, as for the rest of the alien characters. But yes, Jar Jar served no other purpose - which is bad.

It's gonna be great That's gonna be great It's gonna be great That's gonna be gret It's gonna be great That's gonna be great It's gonna be great That's gonna be great It's gonna be great That's gonna be great It's gonna be great That's gonna be great It's gonna be great That's gonna be great It's gonna be great That's gonna be great It's gonna be great That's gonna be great

@a.hollins8691

3 жыл бұрын

Narrator: It wasn't great

"They live on the moons of Lego I think"

@sharkluxry

8 жыл бұрын

+Gnome Child iego

@benspringer4552

8 жыл бұрын

Ha, I was thinking the same thing.

Poor Jake

@keithode1737

7 жыл бұрын

I Know right.

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

Whiny OT-fanboys ruined his life.

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

+slonekettering25 Does your mother know you've been blazing it up with Johnny Hopkins and Brennan Huff every day?

@nicolasriveros943

6 жыл бұрын

slonekettering25 in minute 7:45 i feel so sorry for him, he seems legitimaly frustrated...

@matth1589

6 жыл бұрын

Even adult actors struggled with dialog. It must have been so hard for a 10-year-old kid on a movie set where no one is challenging the director. Laurence Olivier would have struggled to make anything out of lines like "Yippee!" and "Spinning is a good trick".

I honestly believe when George was explaining the movie to others, it sounded good on paper. I dont think anyone realized how it would've looked if it were in film, obviously the movie that got released was what we got. This movie was full of YES men, what made the Original Star Wars trilogy great was it was a group effort, everyone added something to the movie, unlike the Prequels, where George was the only one taking charge.

@mariazo

6 ай бұрын

The art director, Doug Chiang, seems to be a huge brown-noser.

Lucas is like that one awkward art student that never looks and sounds happy and never second guesses his own bad creative decisions.

@lunch77

2 жыл бұрын

That’s exactly what it is

@nickthepick8043

2 жыл бұрын

I can somewhat relate to that.

@ericfelds6291

Жыл бұрын

Yes holy shit are u right

you're actually seeing real footage of the moments where Jake Lloyd's life would be forever doomed

@My20GUNS

7 жыл бұрын

Skeptical Chris I know! this movie ruined his life bith personal and acting career (I don't think he's acted since)

@whynottalklikeapirat

7 жыл бұрын

Just another kid - signing away childhood, youth and early adulthood. Behold the awful price of pod-racing.

@keithws2779

7 жыл бұрын

Skeptical Chris, yeah it's quite sad. If the film was great, he'd have been a legend amongst his peers. Instead... Well, there are videos of him describing what a shitty time he had afterwards.

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

Whiny OT-fanboy man-children ruined Jake's life. Being in this film was a fun exciting time for him and he worked hard to bring his role to life. People ought to be ashamed of themselves for throwing 17 years of temper tantrums about a movie they didn't like as much as the first three that they saw when they were kids.

@hanburgundy4317

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Miller Instead, Lucas made the story he wanted to tell which was made for people of all ages - just like the OT. He threw in humor and camp into every film.

'I was feeling so good about my ability to do this, and then I screwed it up.'

I literally feel like I’m watching some sort of SNL parody of the making of the phantom menace 😂

@razkable

4 жыл бұрын

I think that was the point...they made this as a joke...they don't mean more than half the dialogue in this behind the scenes..its a gag like the office

Second boy auditioned for anakin should have got the part

You can destroy these things... it's possible.

@LeitoLegito

8 жыл бұрын

+dcy123 The foreshadowing in this behind the scenes is crazy!

@DannyWilliamH

8 жыл бұрын

I only checked to see if this was quoted. More powerful than the Jar Jar quote, IMO. It's the only time you see Lucas almost wanting to be told to stop. Like a kid with the cookie he stole from the jar, he's still going to bite it but he seems willing to not fire anyone that tells him to stop in those few seconds. If only the other guy had said "yeah, we're doing it now"

@Caladras

8 жыл бұрын

+DannyWilliamH A kid with the cookie he stole from the jar-jar

Kid #2 gave a better performance than everyone in the Phantom Menace combined.

@russianbot2179

8 жыл бұрын

+AltoCat1 nope. Liam was great, ewan was great, Ian was great, guy who was Darth Maul was great even though he had 2 lines, yeah

@beeseebee_

8 жыл бұрын

+Zhake not as good as Leon Nelson .

@2bobaf

8 жыл бұрын

+BeeSeeBee I love Leon Nelson! He is far and away a better actor than Liam Neeson and an all round great guy.

@ChristophurMoltisanti

8 жыл бұрын

Ewan McGregor is amazing, fuck off.

@DarthCipient

8 жыл бұрын

Kid 2 dodged a bullet. I like to think he went on to become a successful environmental attorney who now protects bird sanctuaries

I saw this more than 10 years ago. I always loved the prequels and Jar Jar Binks. You can tell the enthusiasm and dedication of George and his crew, how commitment they are with the story and how to make it. It's great. George is a genius, a great man.

@Zodroo_Tint

Жыл бұрын

The problem with the prequels are the yes mens like you are.

@ethereal_sad

11 ай бұрын

@@Zodroo_Tint People like you are why star wars was sold to disney.

Jeez. Even Speilberg turned into a bloody Yes Man in the end. Nothing could've saved this train wreck. It was destined.

@evertonporter7887

4 жыл бұрын

That locomotive drive through Star Wars and changed it forever, even more so than The Last Jedi!

The middle kid was better. He portrayed more confidence and seriousness in my opinion.

@EminemUncutVEVO

9 жыл бұрын

the middle kid even looks like luke skywalker a little

@matthewbrodnitz1047

7 жыл бұрын

The second kid also looked like Darth Vader without his helmet in Episode VI. Why the hell wasn't HE cast as Anakin?!

Jar Jar is the key to all of this ! did I just hear that correctly haha ha ha

@mugnoom

7 жыл бұрын

jar jar even got into senate, and everyont got WTF'ed by it

@jerrygodeep4787

7 жыл бұрын

Don't ever disrespect death jar jar sidious

@slothfromthegoonies8201

7 жыл бұрын

Jar Jar is the most powerful Sith Lord in the universe, he literally controls all events.

@xojec

7 жыл бұрын

Jar Jar is snoke

@reggaemarley4617

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe Darth Jar Jar was the original plan after all.

"Wow this sucks" -What everyone in the room is constantly thinking

And here were are.....after The Rise Of Skywalker many people want him back

@GreatLake-Blake

4 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't make a difference, the prequels are terrible

@theunknowncommenter725

2 жыл бұрын

You can't make Star Wars without George Lucas, that is a FACT.

Its not the question of which kid was better, it wasn't supposed to have kid characters in the first place. It was supposed to have focused on Anakin and Obi Wan as young Jedi knights and follow them through their swashbuckling adventures across the Galaxy. It should have started in medias res, with them as two Jedi heroes kicking butt, and seeing their friendship deteriorate (say, over a woman) as they approached the climax. And the whole Jedi order was misconceived as a sort of boring diplomats and monks. They should have been more mysterious and subtle, not the mainstream organization as they were portrayed in the end. And the whole trilogy should have played out in the periphery, on the frontier of the galaxy, as though it was a Western, away from "Coruscant", and the Senate and the like.

@tbeller80

9 жыл бұрын

"follow them through their swashbuckling adventures..." Obi Wan in Ep IV talked about Anakin like they had massive history together. Instead, we got a bunch of "hey, remember that time we..." and had to wait until a freakin cartoon to get a taste of what that backstory was supposed to be.

@BenignViewer

9 жыл бұрын

miljenko1 tbeller80 Well said both of you. A couple of run ins to the centre of galactic "civilization" would have been necessary to set the stage for what the old republic in all its splendour was, just to give some added context to the OT movies, but by far it definitely should not have had Coruscant as a main setting. As to the nature of the Jedi, I personally think that they shouldn't have had one centralized temple or anything like that, but rather be spread out across the Galaxy being in touch with all the far reaching corners of life, maybe only even meeting all of each other in the face of the galaxy wide war.

@wblake1

9 жыл бұрын

tbeller80 Yes, its really daft how the prequels waste an entire movie (the TPM) on an insignificant childhood of one of the protagonists, whereas the later installments simply list their adventures in the cheapest kind of expository dialogues: shouldn't the portrayals of these adventure have been the very essence of the prequels? Whereas, apart from those hints, all we can see and feel is that they share nothing but annoyance and resentment for each other. Therefore, when they actually become openly hostile towards one another, there's no real shock. Remember how subtly such transitions had been portrayed in the OT, with Vader smothering off his lieutenants throughout the entire ESB only to spare the last one as he rediscovers his humane side through an encounter with his son? That kind of show-don't-tell subtleties of the OT were superseded by hack verbosity in the prequels.

@tbeller80

9 жыл бұрын

My son wanted to watch AofC a few days ago and almost immediately Obi and Anakin were arguing with each other. Anakin was allowed to be so insubordinate all I could think was "prophet or no, this kid has to go. The Jedi deserve to get slaughtered by him." The one thing Lucas did right in the prequels was the rise of the Emperor. Except for showing the Jedi to be grossly incompetent it was an inventive plot line. TPM should have been the introduction of the Emperor plotline with everything older Obi Wan described about his and Anakin's friendship and adventures ending with Anakin's troubles. It would have made Anakin's mental state in the second movie a lot more believable.

@BenignViewer

9 жыл бұрын

tbeller80 "it was an inventive plot line." Except that it is almost a carbon copy of the historical rise of the Roman Emperor Augustus (with some influences from Hitler's subversion of Germany). It was definitely the single element that felt the most real though (probably because of the afore mentioned cases).

God. It is like watching a grisly murder right in front of you. They had a badass little Anakin Skywalker - futureVader kid right there in front of them and they went with Cabbage Patch Kids Face instead... You just can't look away no matter how awful it gets... To be fair though I respect Lucas a lot as a filmmaker and his struggle was real as an artist here. It is tough when you are surrounded by yesmen to find that artist's fire that you once had. Some great works of art just can't be repeated I guess.

Jake probably had the best read of all of the actors, even if he messed up the line. He actually had some inflection in his voice whereas the other two were kinda bland. Jake gets a bad rep. He did what George wanted and even the best actors struggle with bad dialogue/shitty direction. Great actors like Sam Jackson and Liam Neeson gave wooden performances in these movies. Also I like when Spielberg came to set. Cool to see him supporting his best friend.

@gvulture1277

2 жыл бұрын

The other kid that looked more like Mark Hamil just did a way better job from the word go and with enough studying and direction could had brought a incredible performance as a child actor. Jake definitely had a tone to his voice that lit up the scene more but it must have been a huge pain to constantly stop scenes because the child can't even remember the lines. Like in the audition Jake is just riffing into directions too far from the script, that's chaos for a directors especially one like Geoege who is also thinking about how they are going to pull off all that CGI in 1999. Should George had directed? No of course not in hindsight as he lacks confidence but at the same time the casting director really blew it here.

@cyberhype5495

2 жыл бұрын

Should have just had it be Hayden Christansen from the start.... the 7 year old kid was an unrealistic, unfunny bummer the whole movie

@ConernicusRex

Жыл бұрын

He really didn’t. It comes off “hammy”, overacted, and fake-enthusiastic in the way you see high school play actors. It was easily worst of the three we saw.

I really do feel bad for George, there's something tragic about him :/

'JAR JAR IS THE KEY TO ALL OF THIS' hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha

@swifty1969

10 жыл бұрын

I severely LOL'ed at that too.

@mattkindig7039

10 жыл бұрын

That was funny in hind-sight. But this whole video is just an unfair, out-of-context assassination, perfectly illustrated by the JarJar comment.

@matthewsands1572

10 жыл бұрын

Matt Kindig how is it unfair and out of context? I actually thought it could have been harsher on him, I've seen more damming behind the scenes stuff than this that could have been included. GL made bad decision after bad decision and even when something was going ok he swooped in and ruined it with his bullshit IMO

@gsimon123

10 жыл бұрын

Our movie is in the hands of a CGI rabbit, what could possibly go wrong?

@SnaredArrow

9 жыл бұрын

Matt Kindig The only assassination in this video is the murdering of the Star Wars franchise by none other than George Lucas and his loyal pack of yes men. Go out and do some research. Look into the behind the scenes for the original trilogy, and look at how vastly it differs from the making the of prequels. Go and read some of the horror stories in the accounts of people who have suffered working under this man. The reason the original movies came out to be the masterpieces they're revered as today was because there was people there to stop Lucas, and tell him, no, that idea is terrible. Just to put it into perspective, in the original screenwriting for A New Hope according to Lucas, Luke was supposed to be a 65 year old man with a robot head, Han Solo was an anthropomorphic frog, and C3PO was a shady, car salesman-type character. That should say enough. He may have created Star Wars, but if it weren't for the people around him who shaped it into what it is today, it would have just been a shitty sci fi flop in the 70s.

The making of the prequels are very telling and far more entertaining and dramatic than the actual movies. The Crew should have won Oscars for their acting performances around George.

@christopher-fy9tk

8 жыл бұрын

James Carmichael Nah, they weren't even trying to hide their disgust. Look at their faces again.

@Mario_N64

3 жыл бұрын

They were like scared or horrified by being involved in it.

"Jarjar is the key to all of this" Someone build a time machine NOW

I feel bad for Ahmed Best. He seems like such a good, down-to-earth, chill guy. It's not his fault that he got stuck playing one of the suckiest characters in all of Star Wars history. I mean, for a lot of these people, this was their big break. The only actors who really survived these movies were the ones who had been doing tons of stuff before this. Even Natalie Portman barely scraped by.

you would think Spielberg would have been the voice of reason and said "George, Jar jar is just a terrible idea, how bout just focus on the main story?"

@lizjones8096

10 жыл бұрын

Spielberg has no authority over Lucas, he woulnd't listen to anyone after 1984 when he was divorced from Marcia, who was the real driving force behind Star Wars. Make of that what you will!

@AspiePilo82

10 жыл бұрын

Liz Jones Last I know it was George Lucas directing his movies, not his wife

@ChannelBlaino

10 жыл бұрын

you would think but then why would the crystal skull have a fridge being nuked with indy inside it and surviving he had his chance then to intervene but he stuffed it up

@gsimon123

10 жыл бұрын

Nah Spielberg is a great director it is true but he's also a movie fan himself. He was just excited to see a new Star Wars movie and his friend Lucas had made excellent movies in the past and wrote many of Spielberg's successful movies with Indiana Jones. Lucas was more the writer and story-driven guy between the two of them in practice. Spielberg never wrote his own stuff. The problem is that Spielberg showing up on set for a day to see what his friend was up to was about as much artistic feedback Lucas received from his entire crew - none at all! No one is offering any constructive criticism or saying something doesn't work and those same people who are being paid good money for their artistic input gave as much as Spielberg did seeing what his good friend was up to on his day off... I feel for Lucas to tell you the truth. One man can't make a great film. Unless you are Gareth Edwards I guess :)

@majormoe3678

10 жыл бұрын

***** Before he made Star Wars he actually listen to her and his friends who told him what was fucking awful and what kinda worked. Try reading some of the earlier drafts of Star Wars, most of it is pretty clunky and weird. Even then the orginal Star Wars was saved by the editing.

The sins of "The Phantom Menace" playing out right before our eyes. And I don't think there has been any more frightening words uttered in the history of cinema than - "Jar Jar is the key to all this ".

I loved the prequels, I think many of the fans who disliked the films were far too hateful towards George Lucas and the actors involved. Lucas made the films the way he wanted to make them, people think because they're fans of the originals that they're owed something.

I cringe so much that Anakin is a child when he meets Padme, it's so weird and it's annoys the shit out of me that he impregnates her. WHY did he make him that young!

@theunknowncommenter725

2 жыл бұрын

To show that no one is born evil and that he started off as a genuinely good guy before he fell to the dark side.

@virgogaming6488

2 жыл бұрын

@@theunknowncommenter725 Right, it's why Jake Lloyd was cast. The other kid was good but he already looked evil.

That's gonna be great. That's gonna be great. That's gonna be great. That's gonna be great.

@chrisrodriguez20

9 жыл бұрын

LAWRENCE WHITEHURST It's gonna be great.

@JohnnyZenith

9 жыл бұрын

***** No.

@JohnnyZenith

9 жыл бұрын

Then you miss the entire point.

@chrisrodriguez20

9 жыл бұрын

The conversation referenced is had in regards to the worthless droids. Crappy villains that Jedi "cut down like butter" = absolutely zero tension. There's no risk of anything bad happening to the main characters ever. So it's not really action as much as it's pointless things happening until the next pointless action starts. You mentioned choreography. Yes, the Maul fight was awesome in that sense, but even that lacked any emotional investment for the audience. Who is this guy? Why is he attacking? Why should we care? Should we even feel sad that Qui Gon died?

@JohnnyZenith

9 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It isn't about the fighting. It's about what is at stake between them. That is why the New Hope Jedi showdown is superior.Christopher Rodriguez

I can't believe they filmed the entire thing with Jar Jar and didn't realize it was a terrible idea

@d2darocha

8 жыл бұрын

A bunch of people did, but they couldn't question George. I feel sorry for each one of them.

@username45739

7 жыл бұрын

Someone questioned him, and he just ingnored it. Evidence that they "couldn't question", please.

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe because it wasn't?

@minnemon110

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p but it was

@user-xx6vy9ri8p

2 жыл бұрын

@@minnemon110 Why?

2:31 I'd pick him. No questions asked. First kid is a good actor, but he's a little too monotone for a Star Wars movie. The actor who actually played young Anakin has a personality that fits more in a kids movie than Star Wars.

@_Only_Zuul

5 жыл бұрын

he is anakin. 100%

@user-tl4fi6oy8d

4 жыл бұрын

If they had picked the other kid, you'd be scoffing right now if someone suggested that they should have picked Jake.

@ronaldcole6101

4 жыл бұрын

Second kid actually comes across as smart. The actual young Anakin talked like a 5 year old.

"Some people audition real well" -- that is sometimes true but generally speaking the ones that audition well are more likely going to be able to translate that into a good final performance. To pick Jake over the second kid without having any more extensive auditioning -- and for the people surrounding George not to give their real, true opinions -- was madness on all of their parts. Just complete and utter madness. George needed someone to protect him from himself, basically.

@paulm6081

Жыл бұрын

Yeah wtf that second kid was so good

@TheKisj

Жыл бұрын

@Paul M right?

@sicboy868

Жыл бұрын

​@@paulm6081 yes

6:33 Ewan described the movie in a few seconds

The problem with Episode 1 was it was completely based around CGI and not the acting or storyline. It had a fake feel to it because even the CGI wasn't very amazing.

@Nitro192192

10 жыл бұрын

It wasn't the quality of the CGI, because the detail and shading was good. It was how cartoon like the animation was. It ruined the whole series for me. i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae169/bryangoodbye_2009/jar-jar-binks.jpg

@LaughingUltros

10 жыл бұрын

The problem with Episode 1 was fucking everything except Natalie Portman.

@citznamn1

10 жыл бұрын

***** Oh, come on. If we're singling out actors, are you saying Liam Nieson was bad? Ewan McGreggor? Ian McDiarmid? Ray Park? I could go on...

@roger767

10 жыл бұрын

I agree, the cgi of episode 1 is really bad when you look at it now, not so much with the others. Problem with the others is that you can see its all shot on a set in front of a greenscreen. Also the puppets and alien designs in episode 1 are the worst i've seen. The 2 headed alien who is the announcer at the podrace is a glaring example of that.

@Nitro192192

10 жыл бұрын

Roger Schooneveld EXACTLY!!! Couldnt have said it better. That 2 headed alien looked like someone took it from a 90s video game. I just cant believe that with Star Wars being such an iconic movie that they couldn't even manage to put out something impressive. I fall in love with episodes 4-6 every time I watch them but have to struggle not to turn off my tv when 1-3 come on

[Boy]: "Are you an angel?" It was at this moment Portman knew she fucked up.

Still love the Prequels ❤

@visiteurvisiteur7301

Жыл бұрын

There is nothing wrong to loving garbage....

@ethereal_sad

11 ай бұрын

@@visiteurvisiteur7301 You and others like you are the reason Star wars was sold to disney and destroyed.

Best Line: "Jarjar is a key to all this" Doomed from the start.

@hermos3602

3 жыл бұрын

Do you even know what he meant by that?

@xo4812

3 жыл бұрын

Hermos do tell

Jar Jar is the key to all this. wtf

@MrBullsBalls

8 жыл бұрын

+Fanni H www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user/

@jazztom86

8 жыл бұрын

+Fanni H yeah, I think he meant that he should be stuck up a lock with great violence to make him fit, I guess. It's the only possible interpretation that would make some sort of sense.

@emodante1084

8 жыл бұрын

Sigh...it happened because lucas demanded it.

@yequsun9909

8 жыл бұрын

+Fanni H George Lucas has always been that way. Think about Ewok killing all the stromtroopers, Jabba forcing Leia to wear bikinis. He wants to make goofy adventure films with ridiculous aliens but Sci-Fi fans want serious films.

@drag00n77

8 жыл бұрын

+Yequ Sun The Ewoks and jar-jar are dumb.....but the golden bikini was awesome. It takes a special kind of gangster to turn someone who's not even your own species and doesn't share any common sexual organs into a sex slave....Plus Leia looked great in a bikini.

4:08 imagine that thing driving down the highway

I love this video, I understand people are liking it as agreeing with this movie being bad. But I love this movie and I’m liking it because of that.