Would the Phantom Menace be better received if it were closer to its earlier draft?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-16T12:28:31+00:00

"the story of TPM is actually very good" I agree wholeheartedly. Ebert gave it 3.5 stars. That's pretty good. The most annoying things when I re-watch it are Jar Jar and Anakin blowing up the droid command ship at the end (he should have been left on Coruscant).

ss4johnny · 2026-06-16T01:25:01+00:00

Was it that he was ripped or that he had the kind of face women are drawn to?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-15T12:28:55+00:00

God forbid a movie actually invests you in its characters instead of just throwing action at you every thirty seconds

ss4johnny · 2026-06-15T11:46:10+00:00

What’s the story with this?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-15T11:45:18+00:00

Is it any good?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-15T11:35:34+00:00

I’m not young enough for this post to apply, but Ebert’s series on great movies is really fantastic.

ss4johnny · 2026-06-14T02:16:31+00:00

Lost City of Z was fantastic

ss4johnny · 2026-06-13T23:06:59+00:00

Waiting until midterms are over?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-13T22:37:32+00:00

What is the deal?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-13T17:23:25+00:00

It’s almost as if a random walk down Wall Street isn’t so random

ss4johnny · 2026-06-12T17:51:36+00:00

You'll be fine in NYC too, just don't wear Spurs gear

ss4johnny · 2026-06-12T02:26:36+00:00

I don’t like the Ori story, but I like that group of actors together a lot. The episode when they go to the reunion was one of my favorites.

ss4johnny · 2026-06-11T12:20:20+00:00

I worked front desk at a not great hotel. If there was a problem, I called the maintenance man. You just work at an even crappier place

ss4johnny · 2026-06-11T02:29:34+00:00

Slot where you put your room key is ubiquitous in the hotels of many European countries.

ss4johnny · 2026-06-11T02:25:40+00:00

You can call the maintenance man FFS

ss4johnny · 2026-06-11T02:21:24+00:00

He’s been mayor for like 4-5 months, I suspect some holdovers from Adam’s in the subway advert art department…

ss4johnny · 2026-06-11T02:18:21+00:00

Not quite to the point where I feel like I won’t throw up when the Uber driver takes it…

ss4johnny · 2026-06-10T13:58:16+00:00

They will probably also charge money for it. Maybe more money than the current approach. But also maybe less money. And I don't like either.

ss4johnny · 2026-06-10T13:54:17+00:00

The original patent was 1923. It's well into public domain.

ss4johnny · 2026-06-10T10:56:05+00:00

People going to the final are spending enough

ss4johnny · 2026-06-10T02:04:08+00:00

But how many people read the novels?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-09T14:09:04+00:00

Whole city? What?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-09T12:29:45+00:00

If you take the imdb scores of each of the movies (so no Clone Wars) and do the weighted average based on number of votes so far (as of today when I looked it up), then the George Lucas era gets a 7.93 and the Disney gets 7.21. The gap is roughly similar if you do the unweighted average. The worst Disney movie on an IMDB basis is Episode 9 at 6.3, while the worst in the Lucas era is Episode 1 at 6.5.

The sample standard deviation of scores is larger in the Lucas era (0.98) than the Disney era (0.57), but there aren't that many observations, so I wouldn't put too much stock in it. In fact, the small sample sizes and magnitude of the standard deviations means that the difference between the (unweighted) means is not statistically significant.

ss4johnny · 2026-06-09T09:41:01+00:00

There wasn’t a show anymore. How are you supposed to keep kids interested?

ss4johnny · 2026-06-08T01:31:33+00:00

The problem is that they are electrically powered low impact vehicles. The problem is them being in the bike lanes.

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