Did people actually seethe in 1999?

There were dozens of individual fansites out there with forums and regulars.

I was very young when I watched it, and was confused about who was the real princess, since one was a body double.

oldfag here, yes we did. once the euphoria of seeing it wore off, we realized that it sucked. fuck jar jar, fuck midichlorians, and FUCK Lucas.

Boomer & Gen X man babies did. They wanted Darth Vader but instead got a movie about a teenage girl trying to do the right thing to save her people.

Based young millenials loved it.

IMDB forums, USENET, Ain’t it Cool News.

The hype around it was palpable and it failed to meet one of cinema's highest expectations hence the overreaction.

got any links? want to read what some nerd boomer wrote 21 years ago

I was 8 or 9 when it came out and it certainly appealed to me more back then than the originals. Now that I'm older I still appreciate the nostalgia, but let's be honest half of the movie could have been erased and it would make no story difference.

Even on the poster jar jar looks entirely out of place

>Did people actually seethe in 1999?

No, most fans loved it. I was in middle school I loved Star Wars watched them hundreds of times on VHS and The Phantom Menace is the only film I've ever seen more than once in theaters. Its a fun film with great visuals, it has definite flaws but it was the first Star Wars film in 17 years.

The only thing I was pissy about was Midochlorians.

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Jar-Jar was the only thing most people complained about. Well, that and the fact they killed off the cool Sith Lord. The seething didn't occur until the later episodes, especially the 3rd one.

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This. It's honestly embarrassing to see footage the nerds who lined up for the movie saying how this was a religious experience for them. They expected a movie to give their lives meaning and purpose.

The CHILD was sent death threats. So yes. Yes they did.

Reddit will tell you that the subconscious desire to kill children is natural and healthy

Yas Forums will tell you that the conscious desire to fuck children is natural and healthy

>The only thing I was pissy about was Midochlorians
One of the most autistic things to sperg out over imo. The Midi-chlorian revelation makes no objective difference in how the force works in universe and is completely consistent with what we already know from the OT. A bizarre fixation that PQ haters have carried for over twenty years now.

No, everyone young and old enjoyed it.

I mean I think the Force is best kept a mysterious concept. As soon as you try to ground it in science it loses its mystique. I pretty much just ignore midochlorians.

Me too. My favorite part was Anakin’s racing. I wanted to ride one when I was a kid.

No they didn't. For 1 because the internet wasn't the hate machine of negativity that it is today. There just was not as much complaining about everything as today.
I remember some nitpicking but mostly everyone liked it and thought Darth Maul was the coolest thing ever. It wasn't until years later and after the Plinkett reviews that everyone started acting like the prequels were shit and George Lucas was the anti-christ

>no one hated the prequels until Plinkett
zoom zoom

yes

For a good example of it to shut down prequelshitters who think that everyone in the world adored TPM until the Plinkett reviews, the South Park episode Jakovasaurs, released the next month from TPM's, was all about shitting on JarJar. Parker and Stone said it was to point out how stupid the character was and how fans felt TPM was a huge dumbing-down.

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>George Lucas was the anti-christ
if anything JewJew Abrahams has surpassed any crime committed by George Lucas

Tasty bait

>Many aspects of the scripting and characters were criticized, especially that of Jar Jar Binks, who was regarded by many members of the older fan community as toyetic—a merchandising opportunity rather than a serious character.[137][138] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described Binks as "a major miscue, a comic-relief character who's frankly not funny".[139] Drew Grant of Salon wrote, "Perhaps the absolute creative freedom director George Lucas enjoyed while dreaming up the flick's 'comic' relief—with no studio execs and not many an independently minded actor involved—is a path to the dark side."[140]

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Ea is a horrible company but they have the rights to the franchise vidya. Podracer should only be like 5 bucks for PC and it's much MUCH more enjoyable than the n64 version.

Yeah, some people. General reaction was that TPM was good but there were some bad points like Jar Jar and the Senate scenes. Personally, I didn't like Baby Vader. I thought he should have been older. There were some people who absolutely hated it, but I think, in the eyes of most, it was Star Wars, and Star Wars could never be bad. Honestly, the absolute hype for TPM will never, ever be matched. 1999 was just the year of maximum hype.

>Drew Grant of Salon wrote, "Perhaps the absolute creative freedom director George Lucas enjoyed while dreaming up the flick's 'comic' relief—with no studio execs and not many an independently minded actor involved—is a path to the dark side."
What a revolting faggot.

I don't recall the prequel hate really taking off until the mid-00s, but I was a kid at the time. As people's greivances with the prequels mounted, it became easier to find stuff you didn't like in the earlier ones as well.

>General reaction was that TPM was good
top fucking kek

>emm ermmm uh emmm errr goongas errr jarjar is the key to errr the key to all this ermm yeah
>WOW PAPA GEORGE YOU ARE SUCH A GENIUS

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34 year old boomer, here. I thought kid Anakin was annoying even though I was a kid. It seemed pandering. Jar Jar Binks was also dumb. Sort of seemed like I was a kid, but it was made for even younger kids. Aside from that I thought it was fun

it doesn't matter how bad the prequels are, Disney managed to make an even worst trilogy

So wrong it's not even worth refuting

underage and gay

>Did people actually seethe in 1999?
the same people who say "no" also say that "obama ruined race relations, racism was over before he became president"

Just zoomers saying zoomer shit. Revisionist history because of nostalgia.

The prequels were garbage. People always knew about that. And the people who defend them, are the same retards who defend snyder shit and bayformers. Just embarrassing

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I think Ebert gave it like 4 stars

Basically this. Although I was only 10 so I didn't care too much, it wasn't until episode II came out that I realized how awful it all was.

Theforce dot net had boards called the jedi council where there was heated discussion and debate.

Eventually they delineated the factions into Bashers, who hated TPM, and Gushers, who loved TPM.

Nope you just can't refute it, zoomer faggot. You're probably a JJ apologist and you shouldnt talk shit about shit u werent even alive for

i indeed was at the premiere back then and me and my friends all were shocked and confused about how bad this was.

I actually didn't even like the OT Star Wars before this. My main interest in Star Wars was the Jedi Knight games. So to little kid me this was real Star Wars because it had lots of Jedi and lightsaber stuff without the boring shit.

I expected to be a soulless CGI and green screen filled turd after watching the special edition OT.

why quote critics? they don't reflect a picture of the public opinion.

It wasnt even until around the 3rd movie that any sort of "backlash" occured. It wasnt until all 3 films had been released and RLM released the plinkett shit that I used to think was funny but now realize are CANCEROUS videos shitting on Lucas that you zoomer queers had anythiing bad to say. You retards will start spouting any opinion you heard was the cool opinion to hold.

I remember realizing when I was 10 it didn't have the same >soul that the OT had, but I didn't hate it. I guess it was a mediocre disappointing feeling, but still heavily entertaining.

>the same people who say "no" also say that "obama ruined race relations, racism was over before he became president"
no ever said that he made it worse and that's fact.

>It wasnt even until around the 3rd movie that any sort of "backlash" occured
The fuck? Even when everyone hated the prequels at that point, it was agreed that the Episode 3 was the least cancerous of these garbage movies.

It wasn't until the Sequels flopped, that this retarded narrative of "hurr, the prequels were liked and are kino" started.

You can still look at the archived posts from 1999. It's pretty illuminating most liked it.

congrats on saying not one correct word in your entire post

Theforce.net is full of SJWs and literal cuckolds that even back then were jerking off feminism in the expanded universe and complaining about shit. Third wave feminists/leftists have been around longer than the 00's, they were just more obscure in the 90's, but they were still there and Forcenet was a hive of them.

tl;dr don't put too much stock in what they say.

>no ever said that
>but I'm gonna say it's true
lmao nice one
let me guess, your favorite movie is batman v superman: dawn of justice?

>racism was over before he became president
post links about time right now.

I was 12 and was a total star wars fan. Loved the lightsabers and getting to see coruscant (which I had read about in the EU) and then there was Padme...my friends and I had pics of her hanging in our lockers.

They hated it because MUUUUH POLITICS SENATE BORING