The Phantom Menace
The worst of the Star Wars movies, and also the one with the stupidest title (although Attack Of The Clones is daft, it doesn't sound like a name of a Scooby Doo episode). Let's just look closely at the plot for a second.. Qui-Gonn
Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to Naboo to negotiate an end to the blockade imposed by the Federation.. oh my god I'm yawning already. They rescue Padme and end up on Tatooine. Sadly without a
hyperdrive. So Qui-Gonn uses the Force to cheat at gambling with the locals, and enlists a 10 year old to race in an incredibly dangerous local sport. Does he care if the
little squirt ends up as toast? No, not really - he didn't go there to rescue slaves. Anyway, they eventually manage to scam their way off the planet, taking Anakin with them since his
midichlorians are off the scale. Uh huh. Back on Coruscant, the Jedi Council pronounce Anakin unsuitable for
Jedi training, so Qui-Gonn decides to do it anyway. Cut to big battle on Naboo, carnage, improbable battle tactics, and
didgeridoos cluttering up the soundtrack whenever we see the Gungans. Darth Maul (one of the more rubbish
Sith lords) kills Qui-Gonn and gets killed by Obi-Wan. Anakin saves the day. Palpatine starts touching him. Big
street party, the end.The special effects resemble something done to show off Luca's special effects workshop rather than anything to advance the story. Sadly, these effects are
trounced by the
WETA of LOTR fame. Rubbish acting throughout, with wooden, humourless performances from all except Liam Neeson as Qui-Gonn and that guy who plays Palpatine. Characters:R2D2 - as usual, saves the day
C3PO - Annoying as everQui-Gonn Jinn - now we found out what the Jedi were really like, a bunch of dodgy bastardsObi-Wan Kenobi - should have been played by Russell Crowe. Padme - Mmm, Natalie Portman.. shame she wasn't anywhere near as good as she is in Leon, or anything elsePalpatine - Like Liam Neeson, played by a great actor trapped amongst a cast of CG and equally lifeless actorsJar Jar Binks - Die. Please. Just die. Galactic scum.
phantom menacing
by seefranc on Jun 17, 2016 00:27:25
the idea of being
in denial, for an extended period of time, that a movie you've watched was bad or
disappointing, especially after having highly anticipated it; after this period, you eventually admit to yourself
that said movie was, in fact, not as good as you'd thought.
Example:
"My most recent case of phantom menacing was after
Jurassic World, where I
remained in denial for a good half year before finally coming to my senses."
the phantom menace
by EonBlue987 on Oct 08, 2009 13:31:50
Example:
Reasons The Phantom Menace is not the worst Star Wars movie:
- the podracing scene is pretty awesome
- free of Lucas' notoriously bad romance scenes
- the finale with multiple battles going on at once is spectacular, particularly the Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs. Darth Maul
lightsaber duel, which is the most intense
lightsaber fight of all 6 movies
- it was responsible for getting a whole new generation into Star Wars -- speaking from experience, this movie got me into the original trilogy when I was a kid (of course I now like the original trilogy far more than this movie)
Reasons it still kind of sucks:
- Anakin and
Padme's dialogue is horribly stilted, and the movie is really not very well-acted on the whole
- It doesn't really seem like anything important happens, other than scooping up Anakin from Tatooine
- Jar Jar Binks. enough said.
Phantom Menace
by Reginald D. Emery on Jan 14, 2012 04:49:35
The act of letting your dog shit in someone else's yard and then bending over to act like you are picking up the feces without actually doing so. Menace comes from the fact that your dog is making
waste on another's property, and
phantom comes from the fact that it must be done steathily. This
manuever is usually performed at night but can performed during the day against neighbors you have absolutely no respect for.
phantom menacing
by bufonidae666 on Aug 01, 2018 20:21:15
A close cousin to
submarining but not exactly ghosting, phantom menacing is the continuous act of showing signs of life on someone's social media feed (mostly through likes, possibly retweets) repeatedly or in intermittent patterns. But what makes phantom menacing different from submarining is that the
phantom menace never actually opens up a line of dialog with the target in public conversation or private messaging.
While a person can phantom menace someone of any gender that they have a
platonic relationship with, phantom menacing is virtually always done to a woman by a man after hooking up or dating. He will do this for weeks or even several months after he last exchanged a word with her yet never actually talk to her even after liking hundreds of her tweets.
Example:
"Remember that guy John I hooked up with
forever ago at that party? We still follow each other on Facebook even though we haven't spoken in almost a year. Why does he keep phantom menacing me every few months by liking up every single post yet not saying anything? I don't live in a fuckin
guarded tower, JUST TALK TO ME."
phantom menacing
by seefranc on Jun 17, 2016 00:27:36
the idea of being
in denial, for an extended period of time, that a movie you've watched was bad or
disappointing, especially after having highly anticipated it; after this period, you eventually admit to yourself
that said movie was, in fact, not as good as you'd thought.
Example:
"My most recent case of phantom menacing was after
Jurassic World, where I
remained in denial for a good half year before finally coming to my senses."