New Promo Commercial For STAR WARS: EPISODE I – THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D Release

say what you will about the prequel trilogy, these films will be awesome to see in 3D.

Its makes me sick to see this coming out again,why cant they leave stay wars be...let it collect abit of dust first! then in about 10 years remake the whole saga WITHOUT lucas

Trailer looked great in 99. Then later I was angry. Very angry.

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Anyway, conversions are always awful! I'm OUT!

Whose saying the third prequel film was bad?

That one was actually pretty awesome.

...soooooo, this is what it's like to be water-boarded.

No wonder those mutha fu****'* talk!

Star Wars fans suffer from selective memory loss when it comes to giving away their cash to £eorge Luca$ and he knows how gullible and easily bought they are. They all seen the film already, they all own the film already and they all know how bad it is yet they'll accept any excuse to see it again to give Luca$ more excuses to go back and find new ways to make money out of old films with more digital tinkering.

I suppose this is only way to add depth to the characters and story.

Original Trilogy in theaters (a few different versions of Star Wars), Trilogy VHS, Trilogy back in theaters (digitally enhanced), Enhanced Trilogy VHS, Prequels in Theaters, Enhanced Trilogy DVD's (more tinkering), Entire Set DVD (more tinkering), Entire Set Blue Ray, now the 3D release.

i actually like the brisk tea commercial with Yoda and Maul :) but this isn't getting my money

@valeriesghost- Ha! Funny!

Again seriously, anyone still saying films like Revenge of the Sith is awesome really aint doing anything other than watching the visuals with their brain switched off.

The opening has the biggest battle ever seen in Star Wars over Couruscant and as soon as they rescue Palpatine aftewr all that screwball comedy with a CGI R2D2 and the pointless battledroids, nobody on the planet gives a damn. Life carries on as normal as ever from the surface even though above them is the biggest battle in history, we don't even find out who won or how, that's how just a tool for visual effects the whole thing was!

Jedi's, no Jedi MASTERS who have been taught to block laser bolts with their eyes closed from kindergarten end up getting shot!

Anakin turns to the Darkside to stop Padme from dying without even first trying to find out what she's dying from, not even a call to the doctor for a check up!

The Emperor suddenly decides that a lightsaber isn't "A Jedi's weapon" as he stated in Return of the Jedi but good enough to keep up his sleeve. He doesn't even display any skill killing three Jedi MASTERS, he just pokes at them like a prisoner shanking an inmate! Then lord knows what happens between ROTS and ROTJ because he suddenly decides he doesn't need one ever again! ...can you say "Contrived for visual spectacle?"

As soon as the Emperor christens Anakin as Vader, Yoda decides that's good enough for him and starts calling him Vader as well!

Yoda stops fighting the Emperor because he loses his lucky coat and cant risk carrying on without it so he must hide for ever! ...RUBBISH!

And worse of all, Padme decides to die from grief, even though the medical robot says there is nothing physically wrong with her! Yet on her death bed after delivering twins and showing no motherly instinct to protect them, she tells Obi Wan not to give up on Anakin because she believes there's still good in him...? If that's the case then why is she choosing to die? How contrived can you get?!

Then in ROTJ Luke asks Liea what she remembers from her real mom and Liea talks some bull about Padme being beautiful but sad. How the hell would she know, both of them were fresh out of the vagina and saw her for less than 3 seconds!

Only die hard Star Wars fans can swallow this crap and pay to see more GL's 'making-it-up-as-I-go' crap as long as it has a lightsaber fight and ships blowing up. He must laugh himself to sleep every night and wake up still laughing!

Check out my "Star Wars: Love/Hate Relationship" article over in the editorial section for an in depth look at the prequels problems.

@CJ ... lol, fresh out of the vagina. agreed mostly, but the lightsaber duel quality did get quite a bit ratcheted up from the originals.

And as I was going to say before getting sidetracked by the inane, infantile ramblings that always follow an article such as this one, I was already looking forward to seeing it again on the big screen. Should be fun and entertaining - which is a movie's main reason for existing in the first place!

@Ceejay- I wrote an editorial dedicated to the incongruities between 4,5,&6 and the screenplay of 1,2 & 3.

They are so glaringly contradictory it sickens me.

Just listen to this conversation, and just about EVERYTHING Obi-wan tell's Luke- with the exception of his equivocation about Luke's dad death( for Luke's own good!)- in grossly absent AND perverted in 1,2 &3 !

It makes me sick!

Pay close attention to what Obi-wan says:

[frick] the rest of you, there's a lot of bad things with the original films too. It's a generations thing, I personally plan on seeing all 6 in 3D. Love all 6, always have.

I like ep.1 a lot more than ep.2 but the real reason im seeing it is not because I think that film is that great but because the space battles and other fight scenes would be great to see in 3D.

@headlopper - I was 10yrs old when I first saw Star Wars in 1977 and I was a hardcore SW fan until I saw Return of the Jedi and it was so bad I binned my entire collection except for the novelizations. When The Prequels were announced I was over the moon, but when I saw them they were so bad I couldn't believe they survived a logical editing process let alone a script doctoring!

When you watch normal well written and directed films and then watch this kind of crap, you realise just how stupid and infantile you must appear to normal people to go crazy over visuals before any level of a story that uses an ounce of common sense and decent continuity. Star Wars fans who love these prequel films simply can't step outside that comfort zone of love for visual spectacle over story. Luca$ knows this and that's why he'll continue taking them to the cleaners with crap like a 3D version of one of the worst movies ever made. They're like abused children who know no other way but to bend over and take it willingly!

while i agree mostly, sometimes it is about the fight itself, our a reference to the past (i.e., serialized adventure like flash gordon), the whole pit monster bit was straight out of a harryhausen movie or something, reflecting his pure love of those sorts of movies so i can appreciate it for that. if you applied strictly narrow standards you would have to erase 50 years of action-adventure films. so sometimes you can like something because its cool. of course i am pulling out bits and sequences but i think the point is a valid one. there are an infinite number of ways you can get enjoyment out of something and for me, at least with respect to the prequels, it ends with the swashbuckling. the kenobi/jango fight in particular is a lot of fun and very well paced.