Can't argue with you on that one. The sad thing is that even disregarding the somewhat bland characters and really just horrible story problems (and granted the very entertaining yet, very incisive Plinkett reviews opened my eyes to many of the problems that I didn't really consider before. But it makes me realize that there is hardly anything that anyone does in the story that makes any logical sense), it's really just 90% flat out boring. Many of the effects were cool for the time, but now that pretty much any geek with a McIntosh could reproduce this kind of thing it requires the movie to excel based on story and acting of which TPM fails miserably. I can't even understand why kids seem to like it so much seeing as how a good portion of the movie is watching C-SPAN. I think George Costanza said it best in this case "Without story, It's just masturbation"The Phantom Menace is the kind of movie that I swear gets worse with every viewing
I wouldn't necessarily say disappointing, but like others have said, pretty good in some parts, but not much to speak of in other parts. But at least it makes a bland film a little more interesting to sit through again. I thought that when something exploded and debris flew around in 3-D was decent. Thought the 3-D worked well in the Courisant shots for the most part.....however, I was curious to see how well the 3D conversion was. Sorry to hear, that as well, was a disappointment.
Granted, I don't know much about 3-D conversion and I'm not a film expert, but even with sets that were small, the were "real" right? Not Green Screen. Doesn't that by default make them 3-D in a physical sense while Green Screen is just the opposite? (seriously, I'm asking). Assuming, the OT makes it a 3-D release, I can't imagine the Battle of Yavin, in ANH, the Asteroid chase in TESB and the Battle of Endor in ROTJ alone not being worth the price of admission.then there's no hope for something like Star Wars or The Empire Strikes Back where they were limited to relatively small sets and almost no shots with any depth to them.