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Re: Not surprised or disappointed
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 13 Jan 2000 04:36:16 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, David Simmons writes:
> While it is a shame we won't see the original Trilogy on DVD anytime soon, I
> could care less about the Phantom Menace. I thought the film was a total
> letdown character, story, and mythology-wise, and really don't care if I
> ever see it again.
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> As others have already pointed out, Lucas has so much money now I'm sure he
> really doesn't care what the older fans think. He knows that Star Wars will
> always sell to the kiddies and those adults who have an appreciation for
> more cerebral themes in his movies will just have to lump it.
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> Dave
Well as much of a letdown as TPM was when compared to the original trilogy,
I saw on a special last night that it was the top film of the year in ticket
sales and is in the number two spot all time behind that movie with the big
ship. Although the fact that it leads for the year doesn't suprise me, but
the fact that it's #2 all time does. I hadn't heard this before last night.
-Jonathan
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| (...) Really? It was well publicized... Each week they would announce how far up the list it had gotten, and people were taking bets on whether or not it would out-do Titanic... :) -- -Bones- = (URL) = NecroBones Enterprises Jonathan Little wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| While it is a shame we won't see the original Trilogy on DVD anytime soon, I could care less about the Phantom Menace. I thought the film was a total letdown character, story, and mythology-wise, and really don't care if I ever see it again. As (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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