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Message: <blockquote data-quote="two" data-source="post: 2115702" data-attributes="member: 9002">absolutely soulless and embaressingHI all,I'm not a Star Wars fan nor not a fan.  I watched the original trilogy and liked them ok; if they were on late at night and I was drunk I would watch 20 min. here or there during college, just as I would watch Godzilla or any number of other "dumb but fun" movies.  I wasn't and am not emotionally invested in the Star Wars franchise as such.  I simply don't think about it.  I hadn't thought about the movies for about 2 years --  until I came across this thread.I watched The Phantom Menance on DVD from NetFlix at some point in the past.  My reaction was swift.  The movie felt incredibly empty.  Entirely soulless.  The computer FX had a feeling of "oh this again" after a few scenes.  Everything seemed lit the same way; the entire world had a bland homogeneous feel to it.  It was the definition of unfunny.  I felt like my mouth was open and a dentist was telling me jokes, forcing me to smile (for I feared what he might do if I showed less than complete enthusiasm). I didn't go into the movie wanting to like it or not wanting to like it.  I sure hadn't read much about it, good or bad.  I came out of the movie feeling more than a little embaressed.  So much money spent on such an empty husk.  Completely bereft of anything approaching "art", that much was overwhelmingly clear.  So what, throw away art.  Was it even fun?  Did it make me laugh?  Did I enjoy a battle scene?  No, no, no.It's very difficult to describe the empty feeling the movie generated.  Perhaps the best analogy would be the effect of watching over-sized and artificially enhanced computer-generated figures performing sexual acts in an computer-generated environment.  What they mean to do -- provoke some good old-fashioned sexual desire in the audience -- is incredibly far removed from the audience's actual reaction, which is:  confusion, repulsion, and a lack of understanding why they didn't just use some attractive real-life humans in the first place).  This gets somewhere close to my final impression.Perhaps.Let's just say this:  until I wrote this post, I hadn't considered Star Wars in quite a while.  After seeing TPM, I can tell you with 100% certainty that I plan never to spend another second of my life watching, thinking, or writing about anything related to the series.Two out -- and I mean out.</blockquote>

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