The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy - Caravan Of Garbage

The hype surrounding the release of Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace is indescribable. We were finally returning to the Star Wars universe in live action under the direction of George Lucas. We would finally see the epic rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker into Darth Vader, his defeat at the hands of Obi Wan Kenobi, an insight into the Clone Wars and an exploration of new and exciting locations like Coruscant. And boy did we get all of that with Episode 1, Attack of the Clones and the finale in Revenge of the Sith. These are all of our opinions compiled together into one video. Thanks for watching
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[@keir_ks9753]

Maso’s long speech praising the technical and artistic achievements of episode 1 and then abruptly saying he hates it is one of my favourite moments on this channel

[@marvelousball]

He's so right about everything too

[@KanePlaysGames]

It's genuinely my favorite. It's that and corn of coblin

[@yoshim616]

It’s a moment where I started laughing by myself out loud for a couple minutes. I laughed so much that I had to rewind the video a bit to catch what was said after that.

[@raylder6339]

It’s an excellent bit, using a sincere and fair judgement right before absolutely dismissing it in one line which… tbh is equally valid and relatable. It’s actually encapsulating James and Maso’s whole approach to this channel imo, Dan Murrell and Lon Harris from Honest Trailers used to praise Mr Sunday Movies before I’d listened to Weekly Planet or became a fan of caravan of garbage and I know why. It’s the harsh and funny, but nonetheless fair and measured humour which they also prided themselves on being at Honest Trailers.

[@RocafellaPlaza82]

It's like Poetry. It Rhymes.

[@publicoutlaw1731]

You guys wouldn’t believe what the running title for Star Wars was back in the day.

[@niccthicc3234]

What is it? I must know

[@gabrieljolicoeur9890]

Green Trivia?

[@rorylynch7775]

RODNEY!

[@ShorePlain]

RODNEY!

[@HOTD108_]

The Dark Universe staring Tom Cruise?

[@herbsanspices3194]

The fact that I've seen the three videos individually won't stop me from watching this whole ass movie

[@JeffWiersma]

Same

[@DarkachuWasTaken]

I come back to these compilations often when I just need background noise and don't want to pick. The transformers one I've seen a ton

[@woebegone_kenobi]

Absolutely, the very same on my end lmao

[@edwardbloecher4563]

​@@DarkachuWasTaken I play them when I need to lighten up on a crappy day. Lol These guys are a blast!

[@Star_Wars_With_PercyMan]

That’s why we’re here

[@emcee6915]

Apparently James was really worried about the backlash he was going to get from Star Wars fans when he released the Star Wars caravan of garbage videos that it brought him down. So much so that he ended up playing games to relax. The main one was farming simulator due to its soothing nature. That led to the working title for these videos to be called blue harvest.

[@Tezasaurus]

That's triviarific

[@nailinthefashion]

I knew it was coming but I still did a goofy little smile and breathed extra good thru me nose

[@cable7152]

​@@nailinthefashionyou knew it was coming even with the awful set-up?

[@RocafellaPlaza82]

I have a bad feeling about this.

[@nailinthefashion]

@@cable7152 farming simulator is just such a charming phrase, sue me

[@raylder6339]

“Nah you only get one of them [force dash] in your life” remains one of the funniest things I have heard said about Phantom Menace.

[@DarkachuWasTaken]

Have we ever seen Obi Wan do another one? Or any one person do more than 1 in the movies? He might be bloody right

[@IrisCorven]

Fun fact: The midnight release of the Episode 1 toys at Toys'r'Us led to a massive spoiler that I saw first hand, as an 11-year-old. I watched a group of grown men have an absolute shitfit because they realized the Darth Maul figure had "BREAK APART BATTLE DAMAGE" on the front. They outright spoiled Maul getting cut in half on the toy packaging. I've never seen so many grown men melt down so fast.

[@badatgamesguy5399]

Oops.

[@adamgrogory]

I really thought that storyt was going to end with "Blue Harvest"

[@MariOmor1]

"I've never seen so many grown men melt down so fast" perfectly describes the modern Star Wars fanbase

[@anntastic100]

The dream, watching men crumble.

[@JarvisBaileyVA]

Damn, so tie in merch was spoiling stuff way back before I could notice

[@Lacy_Griffin]

Maso’s mini speech that he gives in the Phantom Menace video is still one of my favorite things they’ve ever done

[@melvinlinderoth7108]

Mason’s opening statement about TPM is up there as one of the best moments in this duos history for me and as he so often does James assists by completely breaking down laughing

[@shualopez1288]

For YEARS, I thought the super speed dash move was actually a flaw on our VHS tape. That was reinforced by the fact it’s never shown again. It wasn’t until I saw this movie on television as a teenager that I realized it was an intentional effect. Hence to say, I’ve always felt it’s one of the worst looking bits of the movie 😂

[@TheSleepiestPlurals]

I'm assuming it was meant to cover up something that looked silly

[@Terrible0x0Trivium]

​@@TheSleepiestPlurals"this looks silly. Let's make it look goofy instead."

[@jacobtuttle4311]

I always wondered why the scene was edited that way and even after playing a slew of star wars games where force speed is an ability it never registered that that's what they did in episode 1

[@lestibournesw6673]

anakin walked into palpatines office right as he was reviewing exhaust ports on the death star, thats how that was overlooked.

[@2723cadd]

I am once again on my knees, begging. For the fifth element caravan or garbage!!

[@ZrankFappaH]

I’ve only recently found caravan of garbage so have been binge watching lots of their content and even I’m noticing you there in the comments 😂

[@ohareport]

i mean we need a zorro before that ever happens

[@nailinthefashion]

​@@ZrankFappaHhe may be irrational but he is very consistent

[@robrt999]

i second this

[@Gojoe107]

Absolutely yes!

[@VorpalSlade]

3:08 I'm more concerned about the person who saw the Phantom Menace and immediately thought "Wow, you know what this reminds me of? The Columbine Massacre." What a bizarre article.

[@KahlessTheUnforgettable]

I’ve read about that on a couple of different analyses of the film. Basically, the theory is that the character of Anakin- brooding, emo, alienated- is designed to appeal to teen boys, and the type that would engineer a tragedy would potentially identify with the character in a a more profound way. Then, they usually mention the killing of the younglings. Not saying it’s a correct theory or that I agree; just saying I’ve read the idea from more than one source.

[@teamrohver]

​@@KahlessTheUnforgettable I've had treatment for BPS and the Tragedy of Anakin Skywalker is sincerely used as an example of BPS.. which at the time didn't help me tbh. I was like: aight, so redemption is still on the table, no matter how despicable my behaviour..

[@notyourdamnbusiness8795]

maybe they were the chosen ones ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@TheAndrewSS]

42:51 remember when we had fan theories Snoke was actually the librarian granny? good times

[@ButchersNailsEnjoyer]

The reason why there’s a new villain in each movie is because each prequel villain is supposed to be a piece of Vader. Maul is supposed represent the hate and rage vader has, dooku is supposed to represent the fallen jedi and greivous is supposed to be the cyborg jedi hunter.

[@mrsundaymovies]

That's really interesting, I never considered that

[@JakeGottfriedStudios]

Huh actually makes a ton of sense, I wonder if I rewatch the Clone Wars prequels or series they play into that.

[@jd1800]

Except Maul is barely a character in The Phantom Menace, and the hate and rage he's known for comes after he's cut in half by Obi-Wan.

[@alekesam]

So Vader is the complete of all three? Nice!

[@THEAdmiralXizor]

I love how Yoda (1) keeps putting Force lightning in his pocket (2) never has to reach for his light saber - having it jump into his hand (3) does all of his awesome lightsaber stuff (in both movies) with zero witnesses

[@equinesound]

Unbelievable no one calls Christopher Lee’s character Count Dookula.

[@bateriayvr8988]

You just did..! ;)

[@ohareport]

first 10 minutes of this is one of the all time great pieces of film criticism, especially mason’s monologue.

[@LordCaedus-bl7wi]

lol get a life mate these are just a bunch of pretentious man babies. They’re literally nothing and mean nothing.

[@oldoddjobs]

"all time"

[@ohareport]

@@oldoddjobs all time.

[@mrdrums007]

This video is garbage what do you mean?

[@LordCaedus-bl7wi]

@@mrdrums007 lol it’s such trash by a bunch of pretentious tools

[@MrMozzers]

Obi-Wan: "no! Absolutely not, I'm not putting up with this shit any more" (aka- the entire plot of the clone wars)

[@parkmannate4154]

I said it when you first posted these and I'll say it again: the second half of Attack of the Clones should have been episode 1, the first part of Revenge should have been episode 2, the second half should have been episode 3, and the relevant 5 minutes from Phantom Menace should have been a flashback

[@DerektheMenace]

I’ve seen many “reshuffle” posts but I think yours is the best one I’ve seen. Just need to say that “I hate sand” needs to be there but the latter love story scenes like “I wish that I could just wish away…” would need to be cut for me to be 100% on board!

[@mrdrums007]

Then go edit the movies yourself and make a fan edit of what you think it should be mook

[@sallygene]

Lucas saying "I designed these to work silently" is the most transparent, bullshit spin of "I can't write dialogue" in the history of cinema.

[@RocafellaPlaza82]

It's like Poetry.

[@BigBoy-ok3eg]

especially considering the music and sound design are the best parts of these movies

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

😂

[@loganthomas2421]

Him wanting it to “work silently” came to life with LEGO Star Wars the complete saga

[@buddieschiknful]

In his defense, he's admitted that he is one of the worst people at writing dialogue lol

[@caseytwill]

I can love a movie that has a great story and poor special effects, but I absolutely can't tolerate a movie that has a crap story and awesome special effects, and that's why I hate the prequel trilogy.

[@edwardbloecher4563]

I think that Obi Wan and Jango should have calmed down and shared a death stick while hugging it out. 😂

[@ChristopherFodor]

You'd think the Blue Harvest bit would be old by now but I still die laughing every time. Also Rodney!

[@Nothingman4life]

RE: yellow lightsabers The original Luke Skywalker action figures from Kenner for ANH and TESB came with yellow lightsabers. Pissed me off to no end when I was a kid. 😄

[@khankorpofficial]

Mundi: Your thoughts dwell on your mother Anakin: My thoughts dwell on your mother

[@sentientbakedziti]

Mace: He IS the chosen one

[@alanlawrence6584]

My gosh, if they really had just gone with Obi-Wan doing all the risky adventuring and finding Annakin and winning his freedom...not only would that correspond to the Obi-Wan we know from the original trilogy, but also it would make all the later confrontations he has with Annakin more meaningful, more emotionally resonant. It seems insane that they had this in the script and then they changed it--just to add a character who stands between Obi-Wan and Annakin (metaphorically), played by an admittedly good actor, for whom the role was clearly mostly just a paycheck. The whole prequel trilogy wouldn't been much less terrible as a result of that one, significant change.

[@nagger8216]

There's so many things wrong with the Tatooine part of the movie I think it completely destroyed the foundation of what was established in the OT. Which is hilarious since all it would take is just a few tweaks to the story to make them both work together. First off, obviously have Obi-Wan with Qui-Gon when they meet Anakin. Secondly make Anakin 15-18 years old, then establish Owen and Beru (yeah remember them? Because the Phantom Menace didn't) as Anakin's best friends who are also around the same age, instead of having that bizarre group of little kids who are all obviously children of the producers. Show Shmi also getting along well with Owen and Beru too, maybe Owen comes by to help her out with chores and stuff when Anakin is working. Like, instead of that random kid who helps Anakin with his podracer, have that be Owen. Maybe Beru originally had a crush on Anakin or vice versa, but he left before they really got together. And when Anakin leaves Tatooine, we can get a bittersweet farewell scene with them, with Owen promising Anakin that he and Beru will look out for his mother, which would also segway nicely into her living on their farm by Attack of the Clones. Lastly, but most importantly, don't have Qui-Gon directly take on Anakin as an apprentice. Qui-Gon believes Obi-Wan is ready to become a Jedi Knight, right? So instead of just awkwardly trying to get rid of him so he's allowed to teach Anakin, have Qui-Gon foster the relationship between these two so that Obi-Wan can teach Anakin. It can even mirror how Obi-Wan made Ahsoka Anakin's apprentice since he thought he was finally ready to teach. In this version, that can make a lot more sense because Qui-Gon already did the same thing with Obi-Wan and Anakin.

[@nailinthefashion]

Keep in mind though, they had a ton of money and knew the power of a loaded cast, so they got bigger stars this time, too many. That's why the best trilogies are pre planned, and don't prioritize that too much. Hunger Games straddled the line and gave us a reason to lile who was featured even more. Obi really coulda ate 🤷🏾‍♂️😭

[@Dorian_sapiens]

@@nagger8216 These are great suggestions. Now I'm even more angry at the prequels, so thanks, I guess.

[@astralflick]

I fucking hate the first two prequels, even as a kid I wanted nothing more than to turn it off and destroy the dvd player. The third one isn’t as bad, I would dare to say it feels like a real movie, but still not good enough to justify the prequel’s existence.

[@jonsmith5058]

The ‘just get the bus’ from Tatooine is even worse now because Obi Wan literally gets the space bus from Tatooine in that crappy series. You don’t even need to send everyone on the bus, send freaking Captain Tanaka on the bus to Coruscant and have him fly back in a working ship. He’d be there and back in no time. The plot just implies Qui Gon is having fun, pissing around, and is indulging a gambling fetish.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Mmm… path to the dark side that sounds like. Try it I must.

[@piddlepants]

1:33:09 "Annakin, I am your 2nd cousin" That's a tone poem right there. You're welcome, George

[@RocafellaPlaza82]

It's like Poetry. It Rhymes

[@TheTrueChuckNorris]

My dad took me to see phantom menace for my tenth birthday at the Winchester century theaters. That was the last time I watched a movie with him. Damn near 25 years ago

[@BensBrickDesigns]

"You're allowed to like this bad movie." 🥰

[@lukegraham317]

I truly love the way ben and lawrence edit your guys photographs into these videos. It is hilarious.

[@Bearbytez]

1:59:24 never caught this before but I'm pretty sure Mason was making a Star Trek joke and laughing that it flew right over James' head.

[@phdonme1]

Shaking Jango fetts helmet That's freaking gold

[@artyb27]

48:27 I *love* that someone took the time to animate this lmao

[@jamesroby6152]

How dare you sneak in a Blue Harvest joke, Mason? How dare you, sir!

[@ericstephenson6158]

Extra fun little fact: The person cast as Tarkin in Revenge was Wayne Pygram, Scorpius from Farscape. I loved that.

[@fatcatsgoneblack]

The one time force dash lives rent free in my head and now i finally know where it came from

[@imanassole9421]

1:51:50 Thank you! Him awkwardly yelling NOOOOO.. Just made it funny. If he would have just had a pure raw scream while fu*king things up around him with the force.. it would have been sooooo much more effective! Showing his raw anger and pain, instead of a CinemaSins.. .. No. (Ding!)

[@null6634]

I called him Franken-vader for years. These movies were just so, so terrible. But at least they weren't the Disney Star Wars movies!

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

@@null6634This!🤣

[@mr.fancypants878]

Best theory I've ever heard is that Anakin used his mind powers to make Padme love him.He leaned towards evil due to his fear of loss and being abandoned .

[@kevindoris4241]

In the movie they make it seem that she thought him killing the Sand People was really hot.

[@anntastic100]

That's my favorite theory too

[@RocafellaPlaza82]

Noooooooooo

[@anntastic100]

This has one of my favorite James lines. "I've come, as most people have" period. 😂

[@Gunbudder]

i love that they have consistently, always gotten the fact about blue harvest slightly wrong, driving me slowly insane. THEY HAVE TO KNOW lol

[@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat]

Anyone who thinks "I have the high ground" isn't a real strategic advantage hasn't seen videos of people fighting in Stadium seating.

[@gh0rochi363]

It's an one of the most well known strategic advantages

[@EpicAdrian3D]

I've seen these videos numerous times, but every time they pop up in a new form or a reccomendation I always sit through them all and thoroughly enjoy it.

[@hlb117]

I saw this thumbnail and uttered, “oh no…. They made it to the prequel trilogy” 😂🖤

[@raylder6339]

I’m actually a bit excited to engage with a fresh comment section on a KZbin video, such is the quality of Mr Sunday Movies’ fan base.

[@tompowers4013]

Well if anything, i was there for the premier and hype of Star Wars Episode I back in 1999. Ppl did in fact reserve hotels rooms and tent outside the theaters. It was like nothing anyone had ever seen before. PPl went absolutely nuts for Star Wars again. I was in the military, doing "our" mandatory service at that time, and i remember one of my service mates in the barracks, had especially saved his leave passes just to go to the premier on Episode I. I saw it two weeks later with my then GF at our local theater, and i never saw that much ppl in that theater before or since. I mean the hype and expectation was beyond incredible. But heh... As we all know.. Ppl went in with great expectations and came out with.... "wtf was that"... Rest is history. Peace.

[@First-name.Last-name]

james' whiny anakin voice at 1:02:31 is so good i really feel like i'm there on the ship

[@edwardbloecher4563]

I was trained in Gungan style at the Blue Harvest School of the Mentally Corrupt!! 😅

[@UglyGoblinBoy]

I am proud to say I saw THE PHANTOM MENANCE only in theatres, THE CLONE WARS only on DVD, and REVENGE OF THE SITH only on that workprint that was floating around on a torrent site 20 years ago.

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

I always assumed yoda/emperor didnt use lightsabres was because they had no need with their sheer control/strength with the force.

[@IvanKinkle]

The reason they didn’t take the “space bus” is kinda obvious because Tatooine isn’t in the Galactic Republic. They’re also Jedi, a highly respected group of Peace Keepers within the Republic and across the Galaxy, so they aren’t just gonna hop on some illegal spacecraft, especially with the Queen of an entire planet.

[@PaoloLery]

A fun imagining of a guy being dismembered 😂

[@jasonfischer8946]

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was the biggest disappointment since my son.

[@treycarter6736]

You better give respect to RLM and Mr. Plinkett or he will fuck your cat.

[@seth8877]

All the Australian extras don't take you out of the movie if you're from somewhere that God pays attention to.

[@seth8877]

Gottem

[@mrsundaymovies]

We don’t need god we have Paul Hogan

[@seth8877]

@@mrsundaymovies god damn it I love you

[@YoutubrYoutubr-ip1md]

Obi wan taking a metal hand to the throat on a magma planet without saying “ouch that’s hot” totally takes all the believability out of the movie

[@robertrada4783]

When Vader did the comedic “nooooo” I fell out of my theater chair and rolled all the way down the walkway to the front row in a fit of laughter.

[@UnlimitedBlakeWorks]

I demand a compilation of every blue harvest bit 😂

[@SonnyK248]

It was kind of impossible to make the prequels make sense. When you watch New Hope one of the first scenes is all the officers in the Deathstar war room calling the force an ancient religion and guys like Han Solo saying he doesn't even believe the Jedi ever existed and it's almost like that's what most people believe. Then you see the prequels and the Jedi are this huge organization with these massive temples as their headquarters and they actually work with world governments. They're basically the Avengers of the galaxy. Then you find out the time that has passed between movies three and four is 20 years because Luke was alive in both movies. When you only see a new hope you just kind of assume that whatever Vader is, he is very very old but he's probably ten years younger than most of the officers in that room 😂 Most of those generals were in their 40's when the Jedi ruled the galaxy and were probably working for Palpatine when he brought them down but now they act like the whole thing is a myth. The only way you could even kind of make it make sense would be if Anakin took down the Jedi with Palatine as a teenager and didn't become Vader until way way way later. Like maybe when he was in his 50's or 60's he was having a secret relationship with a woman and fathered kids and then after that he got burned and became black suit Vader. But even then the Jedi would never be thought of as some myth that may or may not have existed.

[@gh0rochi363]

I'm fairness when during the time I'd the Jedi most regular people would never see one and the Jedi are an ancient order. Christianity is an ancient religion but it's still being practiced.

[@SonnyK248]

@@gh0rochi363 yeah but this would be equivalent to thousands of Jesus’ being alive and working with planetary governments and being known as the galaxies protectors and then all of them being killed like in one day. Then twenty years later a bunch of 60 year old men playing it off like it was some kind of myth. It’s still 100% fact at that point 🤣

[@gh0rochi363]

@@SonnyK248 I see what you mean but I don't just watch the movies I read the comics and novels etc so Imo it makes a little more sense with their reaction. Even during the time of the Jedi again many people never even seen one and to some in the other rim who live in the lowest parts of society some when thought they were fiction. We see the space Jesus 99% of the fancy has only Heard of it.

[@SpectrumMom]

Mythbusters tested the higher ground phenomenon! They did an entire Star Wars episode actually.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

I’ve seen a few people who do HEMA (Historic European Martial Arts) do videos on fencing/fighting against the higher ground.

[@KhaymanII]

I think the prequels should have been focused on Anakin and Obi-wan's relationship. Movie 1: master and apprentice; Anakins training and adventures. Movie 2: brothers in arms ; war breaks out and the jedi choose not to fight. Obi-wan rebels and joins the war and Anakin follows. They become highly regarded soldiers due to their abilities. Movie 3: adversaries; the horrors of war have messed up Anakin, turning him to the dark side and he returns to take revenge on the jedi for not participating. Obi-wan tries to stop him.

[@patrickhamilton6677]

Love the quick drop in of Rich Evans. Fantastic

[@lirpa5]

The revisionism for the prequels has been astounding. I rewatched Phantom Menace a while ago, and I still have the same opinion I did in 1999. It's utter garbage.

[@McLarenMercedes]

I merely found it a disappointment back in 1999. Watching it today however has made me revise my opinion. It's *utterly unwatchable* .

[@CptCrash21]

I literally watched each individual episode for these just a few days ago and now here I am watching this..... what the fuck am I doing with my life.

[@futureboy314]

Don’t forget to leave a like three times.

[@ianm1462]

The amount of pointless work nerds put into trying to retroactively make all of Lucas’ first draft scripts appear coherent is depressing. That amount of brainpower and effort could have done something useful, instead of coming up with a recipe for Jawa Juice. This IP really should have ended in ‘83…

[@LudwigPaiste28]

🎯

[@alenor210]

I came back to this video after watching a 25th anniversary screening of the Phantom Menace. It was my first time watching it as an adult with a fully functioning brain and I’ve gotta say, it’s terrible but I think I love it more now than when I was a kid. It’s weird, there is so much legitimately good supplementary material set in and around TPM that it’s kinda impossible for me to separate all of that from the film I’m watching. I’d see Padmé’s handmaidens standing around awkwardly and not doing anything, but my brain was like “oh look, it’s Sabé, Saché, Yané, Eirtaé, and Rabé. I know all of their relationships and backstories and aspirations.” And it was like that with everything, my brain automatically filled in or pasted over all the terrible aspects of this movie with stuff from novels, comics, or even just the Lego games. So it became this surreal experience, I was watching a terrible film but internally experiencing an excellent one that my brain had constructed.

[@spacebees86]

As a 13 year old in 1999, loving star wars but already wary because of the special editions, the pod race was the only part of the movie I liked. Maul felt like I was being pandered to before I knew that word. This is what 13 year old boys will like, and I hated him. Too over the top evil. ooh double lightsaber wowie. I've since come around on his character, and the duel of the fates. The rest of it is still... ehn. I remember going to Revenge in the theatre and the discourse around it at the time was "This one doesn't totally suck!" and I thought it kinda sucked. I now think Phantom is the best of the prequels. Tartakovski's clone wars and some novels like shatterpoint really helped to flesh out the clone wars era for me. The best outcome of the prequels for me was being introduced to Karen Traviss' work

[@alecopedia5744]

Lol, this was posted the day after my girlfriend and I finished the prequels. What great timing!

[@brianfromstellar9979]

Thank you for this! 😂 You guys are international - scratch that - 'intergalactic' treasures.

[@projectnewtype6879]

I’ve rewatched these videos multiple times and Im still going to watch this compilation because you guys rock

[@thecedex]

The critical reception of TPM was super strange. I remember when Rottentomatoes used to have a critics score and another one for the "elite" cream of the crop critics like Ebert or AO Scott. The overall score wasn't so bad (hovering around 60%) but the cream of the crop was like around 30%.

[@SmokeyLaBear]

Wow, what a spirited and passionate comments section! At least we can all agree The Last Jedi is the greatest Star Wars film since Empire Strikes Back, right? Edit: This is the first positive comment I've made about The Last Jedi in which I wasn't immediately attacked by toxic fanboys. Huh, it only took them six years to mellow out.

[@danielplainview2584]

Hey, I've thought that since it premiered. It's aged the best of the ST.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

Probably

[@samuelbarber6177]

Eh, I’m a Return of the Jedi fan, but definitely the best since the Original Trilogy.

[@reaver11122]

Rogue One is a little better, but I did love TLJ

[@delmarfrazier2727]

Yoda with a lightsaber is one of the greatest things in Star Wars 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

Are you serious?

[@funkoxen]

Yoda was never supposed to use a lightsabre. He was supposed to stop a person's heart with an ohm. He was supposed to be able to make the planet itself swallow an army by meditating. He was not meant to be a forgetful dyslexic pinball.

[@adrianomoraes5992]

The main misreading of expectations for me was people expected A New Hope while Lucas had been way into following ROJ and the Ewoks movies for a decade at this point.

[@cg1906]

In the Jedi ways, the root of all suffering is clinging to the permanence of impermanent things. So I know that expecting these two Australian men to keep making commentaries on movies for me forever is setting myself up to be "totes devo", but Jedi god be damned if the content put out here and on the weekly planet isn't a shining gem in my relationship with movies. I feel like I'm genuinely thrusting the seeds for futute dispair into the ground with every laugh and grin I get from this channel because when you boys stop making videos one day, I will have lost two incredible voices in how I have come to know how to love and appreciate movies. I have no idea when those seeds of sadness will sprout, or when they will reach maturity and be ready for reaping. But when that time comes, it will truly be a Blue Harvest. Which is also the original working title for Star Wars

[@ellaisplotting]

This is the best Blue Harvest joke I've ever seen, and I usually hate them with a passion.

[@cg1906]

@@ellaisplotting my comment may not have the most likes, but your reply is worth a hundred that was very nice, thank you

[@Mcfly85A]

The Star Wars prequels are masterpieces and I thought that when I first saw them and I think it now and I always will.

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

I first saw them when Iwas a young kid when they first released and even back then I didn't think they were that great. They feel like a Bad Shakespearean sci-fi play lazily thrown together. I do like the story I just don't think it's told worth a damn.

[@Mcfly85A]

@@bigkmoviesandgames to each their own.

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

@@Mcfly85A yeah that's true. I will give George this though at least he knows how to plan out a story, unlike the Disney trilogy.

[@Mcfly85A]

@@bigkmoviesandgames That's very true. Disney did an awful job with Star Wars. I just ignore it.

[@DarthJarJar_542]

@@Mcfly85Asame

[@davidanderson4748]

Three things -1. Yes, Star Wars has always been political. 2. The politics have always been idiotic, muddled and overly simplistic. 3. Why in the hell do Jedi all dress like moisture farmers from Tatooine?

[@nagger8216]

The Jedi outfit thing is because George wanted Obi-Wan to wear his iconic outfit from the OT, but never stopped to realize he wore those clothes because it was a desert. But again, it was his iconic costume so fuck it, he wears that in his 20s now. So does every Jedi I guess. Unless you're a woman, you're apparently allowed to wear unique clothes like every Jedi should. But if you're a dude you get the wrinkly beige and brown robes that make you look like a desert hobo.

[@funkoxen]

Obi wan was also hiding out on tatooine trying not to be caught and murdered by the empire, so it made sense for him to constantly wear his jedi uniform and name tag.

[@believeinmatter]

The Anakin killing the younglings scene will always be heart wrenching for me. The way the kid does a little step back when Anakin takes out his lightsaber really makes it feel real.

[@delmarfrazier2727]

Yeah because in real life Hayden came in and said I’m about to kill all you lil shits 😂

[@PlayMadness]

The jump back was legitimate shock from the child actor, too! For the take that was used in the final cut, Hayden Christensen shouted "BOO!" when Anakin ignited his lightsaber, so the kid jumps realistically. Apparently it shocked the poor kid so badly that he started crying and Christensen felt awful and couldn't stop apologizing.

[@RyanMercer]

Perfect background noise while I work, keep it up lads.

[@davidsampson8226]

Can you guys do big trouble in little china? No real reason I want you to do it, other than it's a fun movie and I think y'all would have some great commentary for it. Cheers love everything you guys do!

[@mase6978]

I resent the idea that Kit Fisto isn’t a top tier loose unit Jedi

[@RX-qv2xc]

I heard these guys apologized to George Lucas after watching episode 7,8,9 and hearing the plot for episode 10

[@andrewlewis2123]

I never really thought about Mace Windu just bringing the three guys with him at the time to assassinate Palpatine. As a kid, to me they were all jedi council members I knew from the action figures and comics, so of course they were the best choices, right? But I think it speaks to the hubris of the Jedi that James mentions in Episode 1. Of course they just send Qui-Gon, a 50 year old man who’s not on the council, to fight Darth Maul. “It’s just a Sith Lord, one of our middle management and his padawan should handle him easily. Oh wait, he died? Alright, I guess for the next Sith Lord, we’ll bring four guys. Who? I don’t care, any four - come on guys, it’s only a Sith Lord!”

[@Reverse_Hood]

James is just projecting his own insecurities with authority onto fictional monks, the Jedi hubris meme is only believed by midwits

[@JvS1711]

​@@Reverse_Hoodhahahaha

[@bensneb360]

Recently I saw a KZbin video of someone using AI to make Hayden Christianson sound like James Earl Jones once he went to the dark side in Revenge of the Sith, and I got to say it made me appreciate his performance more, that he was going for that stoic, reserved, and for boating, feel James Earl Jones brought… could it have been conveyed and directed better absolutely, but it made me see Hayden performance as less wooden, and more of a creative choice.

[@SirAsdf]

Phantom Menace is weird cause all of the new aliens in it feel like they're racist caricatures of races that don't exist (or in the case of Newt Gunray, actual Asians)

[@funkoxen]

I think you'll find that they are all racist caricatures of races that do exist.

[@TheGreatDevlin]

Son... of... a... 🤦🏾‍♂️ Obi Wan being the main Jedi to find Ani makes way more sense.

[@ericvulgate7091]

starwars has always done sound well, usually does visuals well, and consistantly does acting poorly. I blame direction for that not the actors.

[@deavonturenvanjetse]

People are hating on the casino planet in Last Jedi but the underwater “there is always a bigger fish” scenes are the most useless in whole Star Wars.

[@smosby5]

Relax

[@samuelbarber6177]

The entirety of The Phantom Menace is just one long prologue with virtually no impact on the rest of the saga is the problem. It leaves the next two movies on fast forward to get to Darth Vader.

[@nagger8216]

​@@samuelbarber6177Honestly, if they didn't waste an entire movie on the Phantom Menace, they could've made Revenge of the Sith the second act of a trilogy. With a sequel that shows the immediate beginning of the Empire, Obi-Wan and Yoda forming a rebellion that inevitably gets wiped out, leading to them abandoning the fight until Luke and Leia are old enough. Show a more gradual change as Vader becomes the one we see in the originals, as opposed to getting dipped in lava once and wearing the same exact suit for 20 years. There's a lot more they could've done before wrapping everything up at the last 10 minutes.

[@virgogaming6488]

​@@samuelbarber6177The prequels are one long origin story for Darth Vader. Phantom Menace is the butterfly effect for the next 2 movies.

[@mittinman]

Can’t believe these clowns spent 2 hours talking about possibly the 3 worse movies my eyes may have ever seen…..and now I get to listen to it all while ignoring my coworkers. Thanks boys you saved my morning!

[@Faltzerbeast90]

You're cooked bro 😂 worst ever seen. Chill

[@jewsco]

@@Faltzerbeast90they are pretty bad

[@emmmmmmmmmmi]

1:44:47 "You killed those kids... which I'm indifferent to, I only like my kids." This always confused me about Padme. Why was she so surprised and in disbelief when he murdered everyone in the Jedi Temple, when he confessed to killing those Tuskens to her?

[@DarkachuWasTaken]

"I've come - and I think a lot of people have..." maso is a better man than I for leaving this one

[@OtherMomo]

I think when Yoda says "the dark side clouds [the future], he in fact /was/ using intuition, implying the dark side's shadowy actions are hard to predict, making it hard to know what the future holds. That's how I interpret it, at least. Not like the "I've got a bad feeling" "I don't sense anything" line where a certain someone is definitely ignoring his own eyes.

[@CodenameDuchess1984]

Got 'em Maso with the Blue Harvest

[@mannishgambino]

pretty sure Qui Gon took Obi Wan's gig because they wanted his death to be impactful and actually mean something in the end

[@jackjackson4851]

Yoda fighting Dooku with just his stick would of been epic

[@thisisfyne]

I was 1000% not ready for James describing the Jedi Council as "an awful pack of nerds" 🤣 Also I just realized now that "Duel of the Fates" relates to Anakin's fate, not those of the Jedi's vs the Sith's and I feel like an idiot

[@Reverse_Hood]

It's all complete nonsense, James is just projecting his own insecurities with authority onto fictional monks and the whole Duel of the Fates was BS made up my Filoni that falls apart under examination

[@thisisfyne]

@@Reverse_Hood Do you think before spewing such idiocies, or you just freestyle it and hit reply?

[@comatoasted82]

I'll always remember. So we went to see revenge of the sith, and when Anakin gets his new name. The theater was dead quite. Darth... And some child blirts out Vader right before it was said. And the theater just booed that kid. My gf at the time yelled you, "you fu*king serious!" And I just sat there like yeah she's with me. Lol

[@kamillavalter]

I kid you not, Palpatine/Anakin ship is called Palpakin among slashers!

[@jaraket]

Love the commitment of getting some Kiwis to record Boba Fett’s reveries about how he learned the asteroid trick from Obi Wan.