Archive for January 8th, 2006

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Having seen the original Star Wars films more times than I can count (and more times than any adult cares to admit), I so wanted to love this movie. I was mentally prepared to be swept back into a world I haven’t seen anew since I was 17. With the imagination behind the first trilogy re-invigorated by a long rest, and equipped with technology not even imagined in 1977, I expected an unequalled triumph of the imagination.

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