The best "The Phantom Menace" review you'll ever see.

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http://techland.com/2009/12/16/the-best-review-of-phantom-menace-ive-ever-seen/

Granted, it's almost as long as the movie itself, but something like this needed to be made. Not only is it a fantastic review, but one of the best pieces of performance art ever. Do yourself a favor and set aside some time to watch this.

[Fire Walk With Me]

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for later reference. Thanks!

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5. It's totally worth the time.

The guy doing the review sounds like Milton from those old Mike Judge animated sketches. I almost split my sides watching this thing. He sums up all my feelings regarding TPM and so much more.

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Definitely a proper fan-boy lash-out!

:rofl: :hi:

[tigereye]

2. well, that's hard to believe - I'll check it out later

thanks...

[arcadian]

3. That is funny as hell.

:rofl:

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6. I'd so like to meet the guy who made this.

So many people felt slighted by the botched job Lucas did for TPM, I think that this guy has finally given them a manifesto.

[HopeHoops]

4. The guy who played Darth Maul is featured in Black Belt magazine this month.

Actually, I think it is the February 10 issue, but it just showed up a couple days ago.

[Frank Cannon]

9. He also played Toad in the X-Men movie

As a martial artist, there's no question he's talented. But as an actor, he's on par with the little kid who played Darth Vader in Ep 1.

[HopeHoops]

10. I read it a few days ago, but I think he played a character called "Snake Eyes", too.

There's a cute anecdote in the article about him wanting to learn to be a ninja and ordering "smoke bombs" thinking they would let him disappear in a puff of smoke. They just fizzled on the ground and his ninja fantasy fizzled with them. He's got a lot of legitimate martial arts training and likes the real stuff like Jackie Chan rather than the fake show-karate stuff.

The magazine is a little heavy on MMA for my tastes. After 14 years of training (Kenpo first, but Tang Soo Do since she was 7), my eldest daughter (2nd degree black) is in a MMA club at college. They're more centered on the practical rather than the "cage fight" show stuff. The WWE-like shit is probably what left the bad taste in my mouth.

[TK421]

13. Yeah, Ray Park

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661917/


extensive work....I really had no idea

[City of Mills]

7. I didn't think this would be so funny

I'm only on part two, this is hilarious!

[Brickbat]

8. Hilarious -- except for the bizarre and possibly triggering basement scene at the end of the second

episode. But I agree, the rest of it was HILARIOUS.

[Richardo]

11. Yeah, the whole serial-murderer subtext was pretty distasteful...

...I mean, yeah, one throw-away comment would have been funny in a black-comedy sense, but to keep coming back to it over and over was obnoxious.

Otherwise, had some very funny moments.

[Alexander]

14. I agree, this was incredibly funny, but that part made me cringe.

The police raid at the end was amusing though.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

15. some of it is creepy/funny

but when he gets serious in the later parts, he is spot on. Good commentary for so many modern movies, not just TPM.