Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) ft. Ryan Pappolla

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[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_05]: We would review on Deck The Hallmark was Phantom Menace and that jingle all the way great point. It's a great point

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[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_05]: You're not gonna hear me say a bad word about Natalie Portman for the next three weeks or ever in my life

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[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_04]: No favors were done. No favors are done for anyone here. That's that's true. Absolutely. I'm excited. I've been to it's gonna be a lot of

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[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Ryan go this list many this list the the foliage

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[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_05]: It just makes me feel really good to see the school supply stuff

[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_05]: It brings back fond memories. I said if you're happy, I'm happy here in the south that happens in late June

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[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_03]: No if I had said school supplies it would have been just a rain of hate

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[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Star Wars episode 1 the phantom menace

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_04]: What's it mean? It's about taxes

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not about taxes actually

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_03]: It's just Darth Maul this whole movie we can go and get one of these out of the way the weight went out of the way

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Right now this whole movie is named after a character. That's on screen for 12 minutes and dies

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_03]: unceremoniously by getting cut in half it's not about

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Anakin Skywalker as a child it's not about obi-wan Kenobi

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not about galactic trade and taxes all those things would be better names than the Phantom Menace

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_03]: It's one of the worst names in cinematic history

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_03]: What's a great name? It's a great name sounds awesome, but it's not what this movies about

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_05]: He was cooking

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_04]: He was cooking the movie isn't about it. I literally never even thought about the name until right now

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's a terrible name well most people just caught episode 1 right very rarely in the in the wild

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Five better names Star Wars episode 1 the princess switch em ups

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Princess switch would be a great switch switch would be

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_03]: That's where they got the idea for the movie baby, baby

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[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_04]: originally premiered in the theaters

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_04]: May 16 1999 in Los

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Angeles Gromit Chinese theater, I didn't say just as Los Angeles

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I mean let me see so almost Jake Lloyd's for handprint in the cements. You know

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_03]: So excited about being a movie star

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Even Mario Brothers think that doesn't work. They say May 19th 1999 is when it came out to everybody else not in Los Angeles and

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_04]: I would a little something like this. Let's talk trade y'all

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_04]: The trade Federation is causing chaos

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_04]: by secretly blocking off Naboo and

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Is preparing for big invasion the Galactic Republic's top boss

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_04]: sins

[00:08:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn and his side kick young Ben is also known as Obi-Wan Obi-Wan Kenobi

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Young young Ben young Ben to have a chat with the Federation's grumpy leader, but surprise

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Palpatine remember him

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_04]: He is there, but younger. He looks way better amazing skin care routine

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Amazing put that those pieces together if we don't know right, but he's supposed to be a good guy. Yes, okay

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes, yeah Palpatine who the Jedi's don't realize is actually a sneaky sniff. I wrote that good

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah

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[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_04]: clunky old battle droids Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan managed to escape by moving super fast a force feature that I was

[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Unaware of at the time, and I was blown away. I went back and watched it

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I was like wow why they move so fast, and then I was like oh yeah the force

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_04]: they crash land on Naboo they

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_04]: They're like man that was crazy how we got attacked by camp like what happened that was wild as not this was just about trade

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I thought it was a trade situation. Also. We've gotten rid of the Sith like there's no sit. That's right

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, this is hit the fan

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[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_04]: The Sith hits the fan Qui-Gon befriends a fellow named Jar Jar

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_04]: thinks

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_04]: He's a goofy, but beloved character. I'm sure

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Who's basically the galaxy's biggest walking disaster?

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_04]: They tried to get help from Jar Jar's boss

[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_04]: boss Nass

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_04]: but ends up letting

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_04]: Jar Jar just you go Jar Jar get out of here

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_04]: We don't want you around to help them reach Naboo's capital and rescue Queen

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Amidala

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_04]: their fancy spaceship gets

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_04]: beat up by

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_04]: All this stuff and so they land on a dusty planet called Tatooine Qui-Gon

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Jar-Jar, it's so hard for me to not to read this and not saying

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I thought me and Qui-Gon. Yeah, it's tough stuff everything. I know about Star Wars. I learned from weird Al

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Talk to Federation you should have just played that song I know

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Qui-Gon Jar Jar and

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Padme who is

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Queen Amidala, but she's disguised as one of her

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Servants is exactly right they head into town and they meet this grumpy old junk dealer and his young slave

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_04]: one Anakin Skywalker

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_04]: who is a

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Genius at fixing stuff good at building pods might be quite the racer one day

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, surely not now. Where do you think he stacks up midichlorian wise?

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_05]: Do not exist that are able to quantify that it's high it's high. I know that much

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_04]: And Qui-Gon like hits those numbers and he just goes nuts

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_04]: I just got the DNA test turns out 100%

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_04]: So

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_04]: So

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Anakin takes a like into the crew starts hanging around with them and

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Qui-Gon thinks that Anakin might be quote-unquote the chosen one because of those numbers that Dan brought up and

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Might fix the four so he bets

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Everything he bets on it

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_04]: And for Anakin to win the pod racing contest he's never won one much less finished one

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_04]: He hasn't finished one much less one one but midichlorians, yeah hot yeah

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_04]: And basically he makes a deal if he wins this race you got to let him go with me leave his mom behind again

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't care

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_04]: She was afterthought to begin with but would definitely need Anakin to come with us

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_04]: And he wins big race big fun. He wins

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Yippee indeed Ryan

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_04]: As they're about to leave Darth Maul Phantom Menace who I'm finding out is

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Also what he is known by

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_04]: He's the baddie of the movie, and they don't really know where he came from again

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Sith gone sit at the fan. They're supposed to be gone this guy clearly is sifting out a little bit

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Shows up. They fight a bit Qui-Gon is

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Able to get out of there after some lightsaber

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Dueling and it's like man. What's up with that guy kind of came out of nowhere also those horns. What about those?

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Palpatine yeah that Palpatine hashtag you have that Palpatine

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Persuades Amidala to call a vote

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_04]: of

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_04]: No con for the good for the or or as I say the the vote of yeah for the current

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Counselor the votes removes them from power and leads to Palpatine's nomination for the position

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_04]: And that's good. We at the time. We're like this is great. This guy rules. Yeah

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Looking out for pass exactly right he loves the people after this happened

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Amidala

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Realizes that she has to listen boots on the ground. I gotta be boots on the ground here Qui-Gon. What's that?

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Boots on the ground Qui-Gon goes before the Jedi Council and says hey guys you're not gonna believe I got a DNA test

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Annie as I call them what you can call whatever you want to hear you okay? Are you okay?

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_04]: No, I'm a midichlorians through the roof all the roof and the Jedi Council is like yo, maybe don't

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_04]: We this could mess things up especially

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Especially our guy Yoda old big Yoda

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_04]: But he's better than that do an eight-year-old yeah, I know yeah same what um big Yoda is like hey

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Don't have a good sign about this or if good feeling about this

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_04]: and once again

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_04]: No one cares what Yoda advises once again everybody's like I hear what you're saying my ways better and so

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_04]: reluctantly

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_04]: the

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Training of Anakin Skywalker is approved Padme and the crew head back to Naboo where she's revealed

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_04]: her true identity and convinces Jar Jar and

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Jar Jar and his crew of God are like thank you. I didn't know what they were I said Jar Jar like yeah

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_04]: crew

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_04]: To join them in the battle, and they're like friends

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_04]: This is amazing Jar Jar is now leading the people as he should rightfully

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Against the droid army meanwhile Anakin gets in a I don't know if you notice he can fly so he gets in this little

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_03]: It's on automatic

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Stop taking my weight was an automatic pilot and

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_04]: He starts zipping around, but he's able to get off of it, and he is able to blow up the droid control ship

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Amazing yeah, this is amazing while all that's happening Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan get into an epic battle with Darth Maul

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_04]: You might be wondering two against one

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_04]: What's even the point here well Darth Maul is a double lightsaber, and it is awesome

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_04]: He is the Phantom Menace after all and that double lightsaber is indeed menacing Darth Maul hits Qui-Gon with the hook and

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_04]: It's not looking good for him, Obi-Wan. It's not looking good for him, but he's remember

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_04]: He's young Ben so he's able to pull himself up throw up grab the

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_04]: Force the lightsaber into his hand zoom and he cuts

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Darth Maul in half falls to his death boom Qui-Gon about to die says hey you got to promise me

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_04]: You will finish the training that I you know I'm so far into this training finish it with Anakin. It's gonna be great

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_04]: And all that good stuff the heroes celebrate with a big party and Jar Jar gets a trophy for being

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_04]: best of the year

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Did it I'll say a quick break we'll come back. We'll break this movie down here on deck the hallmark

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Welcome back everybody to deck the hallmark it is Force Fridays, and we are

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Already already back to the big we're back to the beginning. That's right

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_04]: stores episode 1 the Phantom Menace

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_04]: I was very excited to give this one a watch it had been a while

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_04]: But it's also like the I think along with Ryan

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_04]: One two three I've actually seen more than four or five six because of when I did you see this in the theater

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't think I did see this in the theater. I think the first Star Wars movie

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_04]: I saw in the theater was seven seven Wow okay?

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_03]: It is it didn't happen Force Awakens yes when you saw this that's right, right right guy

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Did you see this in the theater as best I recall no I did not say yeah

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_05]: But I did see I believe I'll see every film after this I saw in theaters starting with episode 2

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_04]: I never missed another but as children who this movie was made for in 99

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_04]: It's gonna be fun to talk about it. We're gonna start with a hot take

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna share our thoughts on this movie now that we've watched in

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_04]: 2024 Ryan your thoughts Phantom Menace go yeah, it's hard to

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_05]: Articulate just how big of a deal this was I think especially

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean for everybody right, but it was trying to do this interesting balancing act and the promo succeeded and that this is

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_05]: Simultaneously for all the people who grew up with four five and six and you've been waiting all this time

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_05]: But it was also. I don't know if I'd even seen of

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_05]: All three leading up to this, but for me at nine years old this was I think the probably the biggest movie cultural event

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_05]: Of my childhood. I mean the only one I'd maybe put even close to it was maybe the Pokemon movie, but like in terms of like

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_05]: Media trying to tell you this is important and even like I had teachers telling me this was important

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Not to interrupt you, but this movie

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't remember the movie that I went to see but this movie was such a big deal that I remember our

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Set falling apart like it just

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_03]: This movie was such a big deal that when the trailer for this movie came out pre

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_03]: being able to access trailers on the internet I

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Remember peep the the the movie that the trailer was attached to I don't remember the movie

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_03]: But that movie went nuts that weekend Waldo's big son because what was big zone because people were going just to watch I was included

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_03]: In that I remember see you didn't want to see all those bigs. I didn't care. I don't care about Waldo

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_03]: I I remember seeing the trailer and just being floored

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_05]: You went to all this big zone though, right? Oh, I never miss it, but yeah

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_05]: But yeah, no

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean and that's what's also interesting about the time is that now the episode one trailer would just debut on Twitter

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Half the world would like it half the world would hate it. But like you were spending twelve dollars to go see the trailer

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, right. You don't even remember what film it was probably wasn't Waldo

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_05]: So I didn't I didn't see this in theaters as best I recall. I did buy it on VHS

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_05]: Approximately a year later. I have a soft spot for the film

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_05]: I think primarily because of the build-up to it because the first time I watched the movie

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_05]: I thought it was a bit of a snooze primarily about trade and you know

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_05]: That's not what nine or ten or brand in your case eight or nine Ryan or bran are really looking for

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_05]: It's probably the Star Wars film. I've seen most I saw it as recently as a couple months ago in theaters

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_05]: So I've now watched this film twice and what a four month span all of that to say is that this film is

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_05]: mid

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_05]: eclorians

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_05]: I

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_05]: Just did that now even when I'm not great I'm sharp but

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_05]: My pod racing

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Out to the good folks at box lunch, I might have to shout out deal a similar

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Design for our Ford's Friday shirt. Okay, so my dad but it's us droid racing. Yeah

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_04]: pod racing

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Racing hopping on the back

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Random Billy bucks

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_05]: Kentucky Derby brand

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Brain are you drunk? Yeah, stop me from a good waters and

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_05]: We're just on the back of c-3po or as he calls him cp4 5 is it at times a plotting political drama

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes, is the CGI 1999 bad they were trying their best. Yeah, but I will say and listen

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_05]: People aren't gonna like this including maybe someone on this set the highest most exciting parts of this film are

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_05]: More exciting than a new hope by miles

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_05]: by by miles, it's

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_05]: Droid race it up George. You've influenced me terribly. Oh man pod racing

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Pod racing and the last 30 minutes of this film are utterly electric

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_05]: Those two set pieces which account for I think almost half the running time of the film are really really really fun

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_05]: And I think they all hold up. I said, I don't think Jake Lloyd's that bad. I really don't

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_05]: The biggest weight what although I'll just say it here. We've already touched on it. Darth Maul is maybe the coolest design

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah of any villain ever more than Darth Vader

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_05]: Darth Vader's just a guy in a helmet

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Darth Maul so cool. They nailed Darth Maul Sabre the name the fan. He has a cool nickname

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_05]: It's the name of the film and he's in the film for 15 minutes

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Not not getting his backstory is I mean, I'm sure on some sort of no no

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Listen, I've been corrected on this so many times and it drives me nuts people are like well in the Clone Wars

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_03]: You get to hear that

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Stop it

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_04]: And in no other movie

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_04]: That I like love and care about do I have to go to something? That's not a part of the actual

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Movie franchise to understand part like I don't want to have to do extra work in order in order to understand

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_05]: Who somebody is I mean, we'll get to this when we do phase Fridays for Marvel, but I think that's a common complaint about yeah

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Boy, it's nice. You just got man. I don't know. I don't know

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_05]: We'd have to segment it out. But listen, I think one thing I do disagree with about this film. I'm around at home

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_05]: I promise um a lot does happen a lot of things happen in this film

[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean we talked about political trade a lot, but there's things that happen

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_05]: I just don't know if we're ever led to care about them as much as we should the best way I would put Phantom Menace

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_05]: Is that it probably would have made for a really really great Star Wars novel that came out between

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_05]: Jedi and whenever episode 1 whatever it would have been comes out as a film

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Although the highest points of it for me are amazing. The movie's just okay, right? I'll be a little bit shorter

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_04]: I know people got back to school supplies to get to

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_04]: I

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_04]: agree that

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Jake Lloyd not as bad as I was promised and as somebody who watches

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_04]: jingle all the way every year religiously I I

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Much better and Star Wars episode 1 that he is Wow and jingle all the way in my opinion in my opinion. That's Mike. Why gone?

[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_04]: I agree the the two things in this movie that are

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Exciting are the racing scene which I thought was

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Such a blast and not not putting

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_04]: We talked so often about in these movies how amazing the music is

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_04]: John John Williams and

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Phenomenal not putting music behind the race. I thought was a brilliant move

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought it actually really put the race front and center, and I thought it was really cool, and I really enjoyed it and

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_04]: The fight scene at the end Darth Maul phenomenal not enough Darth Maul because here's the thing

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Guys you

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_04]: Ryan you said men not nine-year-old isn't able to follow along with the tray stuff

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Is brand now today? I didn't I was I was like what's freaking what a get to the thing

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Where's Darth like Maul give me that guy I just boy howdy didn't care about all that and

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_04]: If it wasn't for some very

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_04]: Well written synopses on Wikipedia and IMDB your boy here

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't even know if I got it right, but I tried to use some of their stuff

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_04]: I felt like they had some good stuff good pointers. They're always going on

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_04]: I just didn't care about that, but as as

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Move these movies go between the race and the fight scene if

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_04]: If that's all that you remember about episode one you're like man episode ones

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_04]: Dope like amazing because those two scenes I thought were absolutely

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_04]: electric unfortunately it is in between a lot of stuff

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_04]: I just couldn't care less about and so that's tough. I'm having a tough time with this one, but

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_04]: justice for Jake Paul I mean

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Justice for Jake Paul

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Shut it down just quit

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Just

[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_03]: This for Jake Paul

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Wow

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Man the droid racing has gotten to you did you rank these Ryan? Oh?

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_03]: No

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_05]: You got

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Five

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Guys that were nine when this movie came out I have it ranked ahead of the original Star Wars so big surprise there

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_03]: I did look up something brand the trailer of this movie is very historic for a number of reasons it basically I

[00:27:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Mean I'm giving those big zone. It wasn't it was meet Joe black in the water boy those

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_03]: But it also is the the trailer that launched what it meant to watch a movie trailer online and react to it

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Like literally like this movie you can go look up how historic this trailer is really big deal um I

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_03]: for my hot take which

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Is going to be as long as both of theirs were I'm gonna read you the first paragraph of the opening scroll

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_03]: of all four movies

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Of all four movies this may come as a shock to no one my wife wanted to watch this because she has found memories of

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_04]: This one and she read it to me. Which is really sweet the first the first a new

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Hope it's a period of civil wars in the galaxy a brave alliance of underground freedom fighters has challenged the tyranny and oppression of the

[00:28:18] [SPEAKER_03]: awesome galactic Empire

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Pretty good Empire strikes back. It's a dark time for the rebellion although the Death Star has been destroyed

[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Imperial troops have driven the rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Return of the Jedi Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet of Tatooine in an attempt to rescue his friend Han Solo

[00:28:39] [SPEAKER_03]: From the clutches of the vile gangster job of the Hut sure we ready

[00:28:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Ready Phantom Menace

[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic the taxation of trade routes on to outlying star systems is in dispute

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_03]: That's the first paragraph

[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_03]: The Phantom Menace Menace. Here's the here's the thing guys this movie is two hours and 15 minutes long

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_03]: it has

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_03]: the worst

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_03]: bar none the worst dialogue

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_03]: That Star Wars has ever offered and I know that what movies we have coming up it is the worst dialogue

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I've ever heard in a Star Wars movie it has

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Like what dialogue was bad? What dialogue you you guys have said yippee a ton of time

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Korean scene is terrible anytime Qui-Gon Jinn has to give an instruction of any kind. It's like head for that outcrop

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_03]: It's the dumb

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_04]: Read read the read the crow the the crawl there turmoil hasn't gone

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Justice for Mike Tyson listen here's the thing

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_03]: This hat this movie has bar none the worst dialogue in Star Wars movie lore history

[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_03]: No question it has the worst invented character in

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Cinematic history Jar Jar Binks every time I watch this movie. I hope that the ship hits him

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_03]: The ship is gonna hit him and he ducks under it, and I'm like just hit the ship

[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Please let him get hit spare us of this

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_03]: also the characters and their personalities are

[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Tied to dialogue and voices and accents that just are really racist

[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_03]: It is Joe George Lucas at his most George Lucas

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_03]: It's really unfortunate you can go read all about that somewhere else

[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_03]: It also has an hour-long D comm in the middle of it centered around a pod race

[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_03]: There is a miracle on lane two there is

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_03]: The pot the pod race itself lasts about 16 minutes

[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_03]: But the pod race portion of this film from we need a part for our ship

[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_03]: To we're leaving Tatooine and we freed Jake Lloyd

[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_03]: That is about an hour

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_03]: And it is absurd that a movie called the Phantom Menace about baby Darth Vader

[00:31:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Has an hour-long D comm in the middle of it with a 15 minute pod racing. That is fine, but

[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Like crazy long for what this movie is trying to do it has all of that

[00:31:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Against it. It is not a good movie. It is a really really unfortunately bad movie

[00:31:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Having said all of that the last 30 minutes of this movie

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Slaps it is the last 30 minutes of this movie is better than anything in a new hope and

[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Most things in return of the Jedi and Empire Strikes Back

[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_03]: There's your hot take for the day the last 30 minutes of this movie is

[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_03]: They are breathtaking

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_03]: the the back and forth between the battle on the ground in Naboo the battle in the air to destroy that droid station and

[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Darth Maul taking on Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi the last 30 minutes this movie

[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Everything clicks aside from the dialogue delivered by Jake Lloyd and written by George Lucas

[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Which does not deliver the last 30 minutes of this movie almost makes this movie

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_03]: One that you remember fondly the problem is is that the rest of this movie pod racing included?

[00:32:21] [SPEAKER_03]: The pod racing is good my kids my eight and a half year olds

[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Edge of their seat the whole movie long their favorite one by a mile

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_03]: There's a reason that this movie works for eight-year-olds. I get why it works for eight-year-olds, but make no mistake

[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_03]: You have amazing actors delivering just some of the worst dialogue you've ever ever heard Jake Lloyd. He's a great dude

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I've heard interviews with him

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Put wrong place wrong time it wrong place wrong time

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Terrible dialogue for an unseasoned actor tough spot to be in for Jake Lloyd

[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't blame Jake Lloyd an hour-long D comm in the middle of this all that to say Darth Maul amazing last 30 minutes

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Slap still the worst of the four don't bring me this Phantom Menace is better than New Hope

[00:33:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Just that's new hope erasure. That is ridiculous

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely five six four one it's time for the delish segment

[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_04]: I wish I wish we get bringing those Star Wars

[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Oreos, it'll be great

[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_04]: It is time for all the feels we were talking about what and soon to give us those feels right yeah

[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_05]: I already touched on both

[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_05]: I'll just get a little more hyper specific when it comes to Darth Maul pod racing rules Darth Maul rules a shout-out to Ray Park

[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_05]: That dude's awesome. Yeah, and it's a shame that all he had was this 15 minutes an incredible martial artist had incredible screen presence

[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Should have done far far more with Darth Maul should have done far for far excuse me more with Ray Park Ray Park

[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Literally doesn't do much on screen in the movies in cinematic history, but from 1999 to 2000

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_03]: He was Darth Maul and his voice was replaced with someone else's voice

[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_03]: He was the headless horseman in Sleepy Hollow, and he was toad in the first X-Men

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_03]: So from like 1999 to 2000 dude made bank

[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_03]: And then he just kind of like he'd still trains and does all this other stuff

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_03]: But like as an on-screen star dude was dynamic absolutely yeah, I

[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_04]: I

[00:34:15] [SPEAKER_04]: just

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_04]: enjoyed

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Jake Lloyd I

[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_04]: people

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_04]: If you are out there, and you spent the early 2000s bullying this kid online shame on you

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, this kid this kid went out there and to what Dan said bad bad script

[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_04]: He's doing the best he can out there, and I thought that it was endearing

[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought that I had a good time when he was on screen and you know what?

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Young artist award for best performance in a feature film Jake Lloyd

[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_04]: 1999

[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Nominated for a Saturn Award for best performance by a younger actor they can't take you take that from you kid

[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_03]: They can't take that from you

[00:34:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Why did he go on to such an illustrious career of nothing because he had mental health issues

[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_03]: He didn't need to be in this movie he had no no business

[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_04]: This kid there were there were jerks online that boy this poor kid

[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_03]: But we don't know what he could have become should have never you don't know what he could have become should have never been in

[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_03]: This movie it was a bad script with an actor who didn't know how to deal with the pressure of being in Star Wars

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Everyone who was involved in casting should have known better the one thing you said this true

[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_03]: This is

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Unfortunate what happens is an award winner. It's more than I can say for myself. I didn't want a deck

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, so there you go yeah, you know

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Do all the fates. I know we talked about John John Williams all the time, but

[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_03]: literally

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_03]: John Williams is still in his 50s at this point. I think or 60s. I don't know he's written jaws

[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_03]: He's written close encounters. He's written Jurassic Park. He's written all not Jurassic Park

[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Jurassic Park all the original Star Wars

[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Indiana Jones this guy is the best of the best and you're like he's coming back to do Phantom Menace

[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_03]: There's no way the movies not as good. There's no way he could hold my beer

[00:36:15] [SPEAKER_03]: He gives you duel of the fates which may be for my money

[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_03]: The best score in all of Star Wars

[00:36:23] [SPEAKER_03]: He absolutely crushes the music at the end of this movie. Oh my goodness

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_04]: What do you think they had in the in the choir that did that?

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_03]: It sounds like a trillion

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_03]: It sounds like a trillion people what I do know is is I've never looked up any Star Wars music to listen to aside from

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_03]: duel of the fates duel of the fates is

[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_03]: unbelievable

[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Go go John Williams

[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_04]: Go John Williams indeed. Let's say a quick break. We'll come back with the way what and

[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_04]: the Star Wars

[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_04]: And start of the week here on take the home

[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I

[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Star Wars Phantom Menace 40 40 coral parts you can buy for that song which means there's 40 parts

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_04]: You have more even more people

[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Let's get to the way what is where we talk about what in this movie made us go wait what

[00:37:22] [SPEAKER_05]: Ryan, I'm not here to take

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_05]: Food off Keira Knightley's table, but they could have just had Natalie Portman do both roles, right?

[00:37:28] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean for sure like you could have just done the parent trap thing right dude talk about stuff that

[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_04]: More brand I'm over here confuses all get out

[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't know what was going on there and my but my wife was so she's like that's it

[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_04]: This is this she knew every switch and for me. I'm just like I don't know

[00:37:46] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know it could be anybody could be could be her could not be when I was a kid

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought it was both Natalie Portman. Yeah, I had no idea. This was news to me in

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_04]: 2024 so it's cool. They did it. It was just really unnecessary

[00:38:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Many chlorines we've already talked about they're confusing. I really tried to pay attention this time

[00:38:04] [SPEAKER_05]: I was like brandering the opening crawl like I really tried to focus

[00:38:07] [SPEAKER_03]: This is the movie better than New Hope you guys

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_05]: We all we all got the force we all we didn't need the force explained

[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_05]: We all understood it trying to explain the force makes the force less cool

[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_03]: The entire midichlorians come from the time he takes his I guess blood to send via Bluetooth over to test

[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_03]: That's right

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_03]: From that point forward every scene that they talk about that is more excruciating than the prior

[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, and it just it just digs a deeper and deeper hole

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_05]: Dan articulated everything on Jar Jar perfectly

[00:38:44] [SPEAKER_05]: I'll let all of that sit there the only thing I need to add and he did it once and I thought maybe I just

[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Miss heard and then he did it a second time. They keep having Jar Jar say how rude like Jodi Sweetin

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_05]: And like and then I was like, why didn't you just hire Jodi Sweetin to be comic relief?

[00:38:59] [SPEAKER_05]: That would have been like a much better choice didn't like that. I

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Totally forgot that Stephanie Tanner walking up how rude rude would have been sick. I

[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_05]: Forgot that Anakin was immaculately conceived. I'm like, yeah, I don't think we talked about that enough in Star Wars

[00:39:16] [SPEAKER_03]: You didn't mention that at all in his synopsis and it is something that I always forget when I was watching the movie

[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I was like, oh, yeah, Anakin Skywalker immaculate conception. I forgot about this

[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_04]: As a dad that'll mess you it's hard to be a father

[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_05]: And then like everyone's surprised that he might be the chosen one like he was a

[00:39:38] [SPEAKER_05]: And so this is not a Bible. Yeah, like this is not a knock on Jake Lloyd. I agree with Bran

[00:39:44] [SPEAKER_05]: I won't take it as far as Bran did

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_05]: I think he's fine

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_05]: But like the biggest reason to have casted someone other than Jake Lloyd is that

[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_05]: Natalie Portman Natalie Herschel AG is eight years old

[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_05]: They don't do a ton of it

[00:40:00] [SPEAKER_05]: but like they definitely have a few quick scenes where they are

[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Building the foundation of the romance that will take over the next two films

[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_05]: But and then they also try to hedge their bets and there's times where it just seems like she's being his big sister

[00:40:13] [SPEAKER_04]: But that makes it all the more gross. Yeah, so it was it didn't it did I

[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_04]: Literally, it made me second-guess everything I knew about Lou Skywalker's parents. I was like, do I know?

[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Who is who his mom is cuz it can't be can't be her right cuz she's a lot older than

[00:40:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Old Annie over there. Are you okay when they were making this movie?

[00:40:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Hayden Christensen was 18 years old. Yeah. Yeah, I don't understand

[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_03]: He's 18

[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Natalie Portman's like 18 when they made this movie. She's 17

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_05]: I look yeah, but that's why I think that I think the film is trying to have you think that she's only three or four

[00:40:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Years old, but in real life is what they want trying to push which I guess

[00:40:56] [SPEAKER_05]: That point but you know Natalie Portman seven like so in real life

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_05]: There is a and there it's just gross like Star Wars is gross Lee clip that off. Yeah

[00:41:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but also gross weird stuff in there you cut to

[00:41:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Episode two and Anakin has turned into a different human being and

[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Amidala same exact person looking the same exact way. It's wild

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Like the his DNA test

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_03]: And it causes you really quickly to but also I like I just want to be clear on the reasons to that

[00:41:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Jake Lloyd shouldn't been in this movie. You do need to add that. That's an important part of this

[00:41:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Not only that but he's in a tough spot as a kid

[00:41:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Who's supposed to be like future gonna marry this girl?

[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Like it was just just a lot so and the other thing then like to that point, you know

[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_05]: A hundred times out of a hundred cast Natalie Portman. Just find somebody 14 years old, correct

[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_03]: You're saying is is the age gap

[00:41:57] [SPEAKER_03]: That's not a big age gap when you're an adult that age gap was weird because of the two people that they hi

[00:42:03] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, I mean but I will say in their defense his dad is turbo man

[00:42:09] [SPEAKER_04]: So when you kind of think through that that kind of like he doesn't need the doll because he's got the real thing at home

[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_04]: so

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_05]: Anything else right now, that's it for me Bran. I'll kick it to you

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_04]: I will say there is something about knowing that the boy who will eventually become Darth Vader

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_04]: saying yippee multiple times

[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Just it made me happy

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, you always think about Darth Vader as being this

[00:42:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Miserable sack who gave in to the dark side, but when he was a kid

[00:42:48] [SPEAKER_04]: He said yippee to just like you and me. He said

[00:42:50] [SPEAKER_03]: No kid has ever said it before

[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_03]: How many takes you think let's get one more Jake

[00:43:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I just I have a we know we're an election year and we're having a good time, right?

[00:43:09] [SPEAKER_04]: Whoever is the next president of the United States whoever it is. I would request that as they're

[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Looking out over everybody and they're about to be sworn in you just go we're gonna be friends

[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Blah

[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_04]: He's fun, isn't he?

[00:43:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Not enough people do that when they're like standing in front of a crowd. They don't look at the crowd and go

[00:43:33] [SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna be friends

[00:43:35] [SPEAKER_04]: And I like that. I wish it would happen more often. We did talk about him saying it's on

[00:43:42] [SPEAKER_04]: It's an automatic pilot

[00:43:45] [SPEAKER_03]: You stand by that you think no George Lucas writing that 100%

[00:43:49] [SPEAKER_03]: You think he would be he would have been had a problem with the actor making a choice to say it's on autopilot like a

[00:43:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Normal human being that's not a robot. It is it is on him for not catching it

[00:44:00] [SPEAKER_03]: If you would not you would not say at some point the actors job is to do a good job, okay

[00:44:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, but if but he wanted

[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Better director an editor is is gonna catch it and make sure he says autopilot. That's not what I'm saying

[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_03]: You said Jake Lloyd's a delight. I think he's a delight not a delight because they don't do a good job

[00:44:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think that that's his fault. He still has to be responsible for his performance brand

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_04]: He was given the line, but Brian when somebody does a bad job

[00:44:29] [SPEAKER_04]: My problem is not on the on how he said it my problem is with him saying automatic pilot

[00:44:35] [SPEAKER_04]: But how he says it is like somebody that's never spoken English. Oh, no, I thought that was fine

[00:44:40] [SPEAKER_04]: No, it was the line automatic pilot. That's a weird lies a bad performance

[00:44:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Bad luck no one says that

[00:44:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Obi-wan hung on on the ledge there for ten seconds and then just popped up real quick

[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_04]: You could have done that any time he could have been more helpful than he was and young Ben chose not to

[00:45:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Did he have it out for quagga who can say I don't know. It's just a miss just resting in between sets

[00:45:07] [SPEAKER_03]: That's all your cell just hang out there in between four sets

[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_04]: And then shout out to this line which seemed very on the nose

[00:45:15] [SPEAKER_04]: Impossible nothing can get through our shields

[00:45:17] [SPEAKER_04]: I mean have I got like more wait until you find out what happens later on

[00:45:22] [SPEAKER_04]: You're gonna have a lot of problem with your shields

[00:45:27] [SPEAKER_04]: You would now that we know that they've had problems with their shields

[00:45:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they've had shield problems for a long time with something with the shield always something with the shields

[00:45:36] [SPEAKER_03]: They know I'll limit any more Jake Lloyd talk or Jake Paul for that matter to one more scene

[00:45:42] [SPEAKER_03]: This child who's lived his entire

[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Memorable life in slavery is freed and upon hearing this his reaction is equivalent to finding out you're having leftovers for dinner

[00:45:53] [SPEAKER_03]: He is like really you mean it that is his entire reaction

[00:45:58] [SPEAKER_03]: I've never seen a more muted

[00:46:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Reaction to the fact that he no longer has to do the thing

[00:46:03] [SPEAKER_03]: He thought he was gonna have to do his entire life

[00:46:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Than what happens in this movie after this pod racing scene. It's crazy

[00:46:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Early in this movie. I wrote there are no wait what so far because this movie spends most of its runtime

[00:46:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Explaining itself and that is very true before we get to the pod race

[00:46:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Most of this movie is explaining why we are doing things why?

[00:46:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Midichlorians and force and trade and it's it's

[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Unbearable, it's really why George or didn't get hit by the ship. I'm still trying

[00:46:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Did the whole but what does it mean a minute court?

[00:46:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Cuz they don't talk like they don't talk about at all that

[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I know Lucas George Lucas is trying to make three movies. He's trying to make a movie that competes with Star Wars on the action

[00:46:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Front he's trying to make an origin story of Darth Vader

[00:46:50] [SPEAKER_03]: And he's trying to sell toys to kids and he does none of them successfully

[00:46:53] [SPEAKER_03]: But all three have their moments that is the thing that's going on this movie. He wasn't checked

[00:46:58] [SPEAKER_03]: He didn't have Irving Kershner to come in and be like, maybe we should say autopilot instead of automatic pilot

[00:47:04] [SPEAKER_03]: He doesn't have to set the keys and have Lawrence Kasdan to write a better script

[00:47:07] [SPEAKER_03]: He has a hodgepodge beluga of an hour and 15 minute DCOM in the middle of a midichlorians

[00:47:14] [SPEAKER_03]: This guy's better than all of you and Darth Maul kicks tail, but never gets screen time. That's what happened

[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_03]: They never asked Luke. Hey, wait, let's show me your count

[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_03]: What's your deal that the idea that we give

[00:47:26] [SPEAKER_03]: One single solitary care about how many midichlorians every Jedi has is hysterical the council's like whoa

[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_03]: It's like the pollen count. We don't know what a high number would be. No, we just see the scale

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_03]: And it's like well Greenville's off the scale. What does that mean?

[00:47:41] [SPEAKER_04]: It's like when they raise a lot of money in a Hallmark movie

[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_04]: But they're afraid to tell you the number because they don't know if it's high

[00:47:46] [SPEAKER_03]: This is final time this one goes to 11 whatever Anakin's midichlorian level is make that the top of the scale so that we have a

[00:47:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Reference point out for midichlorians and why we care why they matter. It's ridiculous

[00:47:59] [SPEAKER_03]: So with as many midichlorians as he has he's still nine years old and a Qui-Gon looks right at him and goes when you're out there

[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_03]: Racing your podcast don't think and I feel like did you say your podcast? Yeah, I'm sorry your pod race

[00:48:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Justice for Jake Paul

[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_04]: We've been racing this podcast for a long time without a race in your pod

[00:48:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Just don't think don't do it. I know you're nine years old

[00:48:22] [SPEAKER_03]: There is some strategy involved that's more than just the force like he's got to fix his his pod on the fly

[00:48:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Like a lot's happening there. You probably need to

[00:48:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Be better about it and then last but not least

[00:48:37] [SPEAKER_03]: all movie long

[00:48:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Padme and Amidala are kind of switching back and forth as we know we talked about and the time that Amidala chooses

[00:48:48] [SPEAKER_03]: To reveal that she is actually the Queen is when they're talking to the Gungans

[00:48:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, there's so many important parts in this movie where this would be helpful information and she's like, this is the one

[00:48:59] [SPEAKER_03]: This is the one. Yeah, what's gonna get this deal over the finish line?

[00:49:03] [SPEAKER_03]: What if I reveal the biggest secret that I have of all time? Yeah, maybe that'll maybe that'll do it. That's all I got

[00:49:08] [SPEAKER_04]: It's time for Star Wars where we talk about things and how they kind of fall into different categories

[00:49:16] [SPEAKER_05]: Ryan yeah, I'm at war. Yeah

[00:49:18] [SPEAKER_05]: Just gotta wonder like I'm asking you both this you can't know

[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_05]: How many other drafts of this movie do you think they were like?

[00:49:26] [SPEAKER_05]: How do you think George landed on this because again? I have this ahead of New Hope but like

[00:49:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Dan to your point at no point. He must have had people read this and no one was like, you know

[00:49:39] [SPEAKER_05]: I've been watching movies a long time

[00:49:41] [SPEAKER_05]: I just don't know if trade talk is the most interesting thing in the world for a ten-year-old

[00:49:45] [SPEAKER_03]: It is it is a great point and in my head I have no this is purely conjecture in my head

[00:49:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Here's how it happened George Lucas finished Return of the Jedi

[00:49:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Decided he was done and then from 1983 to 1995

[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Every time he was driving around in his car, whatever it was

[00:50:02] [SPEAKER_03]: He'd be like if I ever made another one

[00:50:03] [SPEAKER_03]: It was a prequel I do this and all those ideas started to have like a log jam in his head

[00:50:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Because you do that when you're like if I ever got to go back and do this

[00:50:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Like when I coach basketball on time and stopped I would think like if I coach basketball again

[00:50:15] [SPEAKER_03]: I would implement this or this George Lucas gets 12 years to sit on the most popular movies ever made and then he finally is

[00:50:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I'm gonna do the prequels and then all of it just comes out as vomit on a page

[00:50:25] [SPEAKER_03]: It all it doesn't have a direct through line. It gets lost

[00:50:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Trying to be all things to all people and so yes the one group of people that are going to

[00:50:36] [SPEAKER_03]: Continue to bang the drum for this movie are the people that are your age

[00:50:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Those people that that's if you were born from 1990 to 1995. This is your jam

[00:50:46] [SPEAKER_03]: It still is your jam. You'll defend it to the hilt even if you didn't see it when you were a kid

[00:50:50] [SPEAKER_03]: That's where it landed

[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Plan but that's where it landed anybody older or younger than that's like this movie sucks, but that's where it landed

[00:50:58] [SPEAKER_03]: But that's that that's that's what a Jake Paul effect. Yeah, Jake Paul thing

[00:51:02] [SPEAKER_04]: I know you have um

[00:51:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I also have a Wars and it's just that I'm so mad that

[00:51:09] [SPEAKER_04]: This is it that with Darth Maul like yeah, yeah

[00:51:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Actually the cool go ahead. We've seen solo. That's true

[00:51:16] [SPEAKER_04]: I'm just saying if I you know I've been waiting all this year all these years all these years all this years and

[00:51:21] [SPEAKER_04]: We get this amazing baddie, and I have been

[00:51:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Conditioned to believe that we're gonna have a bit of an arc with this bad guy if it's a if Darth Vader has anything to say

[00:51:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, then we you know we're gonna get to know him a little bit and and for and then we're really gonna get to see

[00:51:36] [SPEAKER_04]: him start to

[00:51:37] [SPEAKER_04]: To shine, and I'm mad that we needed. I don't like I don't even think he's does he say a word in this movie

[00:51:43] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't know

[00:51:45] [SPEAKER_04]: That's true, that's true. I just like what's up with what's up with his

[00:51:49] [SPEAKER_04]: With his face like like that guy horns that guy didn't have a prayer to be a good guy like they didn't even try

[00:51:57] [SPEAKER_04]: This guy could like maybe we could get him over good in him no

[00:52:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Darth Maul yeah, he's he's red and black face with horns

[00:52:06] [SPEAKER_04]: so like

[00:52:08] [SPEAKER_04]: crazy character amazing character and just a

[00:52:11] [SPEAKER_04]: real shame that

[00:52:14] [SPEAKER_04]: This is it and when he gets cut in half, there's still a part of this like maybe he can

[00:52:18] [SPEAKER_04]: Listen that's what the Clone Wars about apparently maybe construction it back to oh really really yes

[00:52:23] [SPEAKER_04]: And then I had another one which is I was thinking about

[00:52:29] [SPEAKER_04]: How much pressure was on this podcast race yes podcast race and

[00:52:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Qui-gon

[00:52:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Could have like interfered via the force yes

[00:52:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Especially at the beginning when he's like can't start or whatever like just yeah

[00:52:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And he does nothing and that's an interesting like it's like hey

[00:52:49] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, let's do this right

[00:52:51] [SPEAKER_04]: Where we are this is a bet to be listen

[00:52:54] [SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'm not we're not gonna get into the dark side a bet to bet

[00:52:57] [SPEAKER_04]: That's and I could just do a little one of those numbers, but there's listen my hands are tied here

[00:53:02] [SPEAKER_04]: We're gonna win or lose or could do up to the bulb. Yes

[00:53:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Do it listen there's three there's three laps here any time they come around just

[00:53:12] [SPEAKER_04]: One of those just so you could have done all sorts of stuff didn't do anything and that's a that's a real a real guy

[00:53:18] [SPEAKER_03]: They're damn. I'm stars this week, and it's really one. It's one star. It's whoever designed the red beam system. They're on Naboo

[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Somebody designed a system where these red beams

[00:53:29] [SPEAKER_03]: They all show up

[00:53:30] [SPEAKER_03]: For like five minutes

[00:53:34] [SPEAKER_03]: You look there's a little caught you're there's either see-through, but if you touch them you're dead

[00:53:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Full a full plate of lasers and then every five minutes or so like a drawbridge

[00:53:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Well back out where you can run through and it'll count you down and it'll just warm home

[00:53:49] [SPEAKER_03]: And here's the thing is I don't know what purpose it serves

[00:53:51] [SPEAKER_03]: But they had to think when we design these red beams if anybody's in like a chase scene or a fight scene

[00:53:57] [SPEAKER_03]: This is gonna really

[00:54:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Is gonna really crank that dial up to where man people are gonna be wondering what's gonna happen

[00:54:06] [SPEAKER_03]: It's somebody like watching on a camera like just they got their finger on the button like

[00:54:13] [SPEAKER_04]: So great

[00:54:15] [SPEAKER_04]: That's not for start of the week it is

[00:54:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Where we dive deep into the life of star that has been submitted to us

[00:54:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Hello at the home or dot-com if you would like to submit your very own star Dan who we have today. We have teeth

[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Bop

[00:54:28] [SPEAKER_04]: teeth

[00:54:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Bop you spell that it's T E I F

[00:54:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Two M's with a dot between either of them

[00:54:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Bob

[00:54:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Right yeah, yeah

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[00:54:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Bop yeah first of all are you from planet Earth? I am yes, okay, Alabama. I'm glad we got a Bama

[00:54:50] [SPEAKER_03]: What what parts Wichita roll tide on that yeah, which it Wichita is in Kansas. I've had Kansas

[00:54:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes got it I got it I've been to Alabama okay, you're gonna ask that why'd you say you were from Alabama

[00:55:01] [SPEAKER_04]: I thought you asked a different question

[00:55:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, you asked if I'd been there, okay?

[00:55:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Alright great. So why are you that what are we doing the star star of the week? Yeah? What is it about?

[00:55:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I've been Alabama

[00:55:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, a lot of us have

[00:55:17] [SPEAKER_03]: I've been really yeah

[00:55:18] [SPEAKER_03]: I was told I was the first and only you were the first person to visit Alabama

[00:55:24] [SPEAKER_03]: That's why I've been star you think it's like just locked you can't go in and out

[00:55:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how they operate. I'm not part of their governmental

[00:55:31] [SPEAKER_03]: This seems weak seems weak at best here. I've been there, and I'm there now you're

[00:55:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, it's hot hot sucks. Yeah, it sucks. It's tough. Hey teeth

[00:55:49] [SPEAKER_05]: Sorry that's my B. Are you a big fan of musical group Hanson?

[00:55:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm

[00:55:57] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the last name I don't care for the group how much did you get teased as a kid teeth?

[00:56:02] [SPEAKER_02]: How old do you think I am?

[00:56:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I was 93 when that group came out. It was 93 years old you're 123 ish years old

[00:56:14] [SPEAKER_02]: How do you think I was the first in Alabama?

[00:56:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Alabama's are on a lot longer

[00:56:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Years what do you mean off this one? I have a specific one you were born in 919 oh one yes exactly

[00:56:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Happy birthday

[00:56:29] [SPEAKER_03]: It's my birthday

[00:56:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you, happy birthday teeth, what are you doing to celebrate aside from living?

[00:56:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna discover another another state you did not discover

[00:56:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Over covered Alabama

[00:56:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Did not discover I'll discover it found it yeah, if you go there you look you look

[00:56:50] [SPEAKER_03]: You'll see my name. I think we've had enough teeth. I think we've had enough. Thanks teeth. Let's go for you, Kentucky all right great

[00:56:57] [SPEAKER_03]: perfect

[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_04]: If you have a star that you would like to nominate for star of the week you can email hello doctor hallmark.com

[00:57:05] [SPEAKER_04]: We'll try to get my line

[00:57:06] [SPEAKER_04]: Always there lucky so far that's right except for week two

[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_04]: Next week with episode 2 which is entitled tag of the clone attack of the clones

[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_04]: I think that maybe that name will make sense

[00:57:21] [SPEAKER_03]: I expect a full defensive Aidan Christensen from both of you because it's not his job

[00:57:25] [SPEAKER_03]: To write the movie or direct a movie or edit the movie so I expect 100%

[00:57:29] [SPEAKER_04]: Until they were the first wish you a Merry Christmas

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