"The Phantom Menace" vs "Attack of the Clones"

This post, who cares to you, important to me so back off. Im writing this after viewing "Revenge of the Sith" four times... I said back off. Revenge of the Sith, not a very good movie, at all but it does deliver what I wanted it too. Yoda vs the Emperor, seeing Darth vader again(even though his dialogue sucks), the Jedi being wiped out, yeah i think thats about it. It also had some surprises such as fine performances from Ian Mcdiarmd and Ewan Mcgregor. It also had a disapointing bad guy,General Grievous, shots of the same ships landing from 6 different angles, either a bad actor potraying Anakin or terrible directing for Anakin I havent decided yet, Bad dialogue, disapointing out comes to fight scenes, and a lava planet saber fight scene that started out great and ended...well I was alseep by the end did Anakin win? Of course I know who won. Im too big of a fan. The movie is just so crammed together with too many things that Lucas felt needed to be said or shown. Mostly shown.
Ok so Ive written a whole paragraph and havent mentioned any thing about the preceding movies. Heres my thing, Sith is the best of the prequels ,in my opinion, but what Phantom Menace and Clones had to offer was either very little or tchnically the same. It would be very easy to splice those two movies together and maybe have a decent action movie with still a movie to help split Revenge of the sith so it dosnt feel so full.
The Phantom Menace really had little to offer. Qui-Gonn Jinn who is Obi-Wans apprentice was cool but very unecasary. He added very little to the series. Well technically he added alot but someone else could have done it. Obi-Wan meet Anakin, R2 Meet 3po, Padme meet Anakin, Palpatine meet Anakin. That could easily be done by another character say Obi-Wan. Before the Phantom Menace we all thought Yoda Trained Anakin. Quote from Empire "there you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed me". Ok it doesnt say Jedi master who trained me but we all assumed.
Also in this movie I felt Anakin was too young, thats where the splicing of the two movies come into play. I dont really need to see "Obi-Wan Kenobi meet Anakin Skywalker". I have no problem with Obi-Wan playing Qui-Gonn and Anakin playing Obi-Wan in Phantom, Im getting lazy with the titles. We dont have to delete Jar Jar either, we can toughen him u or maybe still keep him stupid but super strong or a sharp shooter. Give him something that makes him a little bit cooler. I suggest a leather jacket and in office in the mens room. "Ayyyyy".
Lets cut out the pod race. What did that add, really. A half hour of "wow anakins gonna win huh". Ok so now we have Obi-wan and Anakin now in Phatom menace replacing Qui-gonn and Obi-Wan. They go to Naboo save Amidala because theres a droid army about to take over thanks to the behind the scenes working of Palpatine and Palpatine has a hit out on Padme. Amidala meets Anakin. Amidala finds Anakin Hot, Anakin wants to tap that but can't due to his dedication to the Jedi order ( no love or sex, where do jedi's come from).
They head to coroscant. Padmes asleep when the assasin attacks. Obi-wan and anakin hunt him but fail. Obi-Wan and Anakin speak before the Jedi counsel which includes Count Dooku. Dooku suggests Anakin is left to protect Amidala while Obi-Wan goes and finds info on the assasin. Amidala goes before the senate with senator palpatine. Shes asks for help from the chancellor recieves none. She calls a vote of no confidence. Palpatine runs and becomes chancellor. Obi-Wan, now on some other planet,learns information there are 2 assasins, Boba Fett (not Jango, who says how old boba is) and as hes about to find out more information he gets into a small confrontatin with Darth Maul. Obi-wan caught off guard, escapes for he was not ready to battle. He tries to contact the counsel but his system is jammed and cant send. He makes the decidion to stay on the path he has chosen where he learns of a clone army. He finds out there clones of Boba Fett. He tracks down this Fett and gets into another altercation. Boba Fett escapes. Obi-Wan is about to chase Fett when he gets a transmission that Amidala is taking Anakin and Jar Jar, there going to round up some Gungans and free the Naboo planet. Obi-Wan fearing that there is a sith lord on the loose and anakin isnt ready for a confrontation drops the hunt of Fett to help anakin. Than Phantom Menace stays the same with the exception of Anakin fighting Maul all by himself, Anakin is doing alright all by himself until another sith shows up but his face is covered. now its Anakin vs Maul with a double sided lightsaber and the unknown sith, the only thing about him that unique is that this sith lords blade is shaped oddly, like a gun. Anakin is about to lose when Obi-Wan shows up and takes on Maul. The cloaked sith lord is now fighting Anakin. As they fight the sith lord talks terrible things to make Anakin angry. Things that will happen to Amidala once Anakin and Obi-wan are dead. He mentions that is he doesnt finish him soon Obi-wan will soon be dead. Obi-Wan cant handle Maul all by himself. The mysterious Sith separates Anakin from himself through those red baracades that show up. The sith leaves and Anakin runs back to Obi-wan. The fight with Obi-Wan and Maul is going fine but from what that sith was saying made Anakin feel angry and he didnt want to lose his master. As Obi-Wan is fightting Anakin runs up from behind Maul, Fights him aggresively , all Obi-Wan can do is watch and before long Anakin chops Mauls head off. Obi-Wan shocked as to what just happened gets angry with Anakin. tells him he had everything under control and that he was fighting with anger and hate. Anakin is now confused with anger and resentment that his master is disapointed in him. Obi-Wan fearing that there imaged is captured goes and sabotages where they were recorded. And than everythign stays the same.
Even though we know as an audience that Palpatine is The Phantom Menace by the next movie we find out theres another who takes all the credit so palpatine can stay hidden, that is count dooku. The Jedi find out about Dooku by the middle of the movie and Obi-Wan and Anakin go after him. Dooku loses to the 2 jedi and is chopped and thought to be dead. Than Dooku is transformed into Grievous but is now instead Darth tyranus, that way we get a taste early on that there is a darth vader prototype. Yoda fights Tyranus yadyadayda and we have alot more room for story in both clones and sith so its not so crammed together.
Beautifully long but whatever. I just think there is alot of unecessary things about both clones and phantom that could be done away with to make room for more story.
If you didnt want to hear what I had to say than why'd you read it. =0) Later
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