STAR BLOGS EPISODE I: The shame menace

Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying origami systems is in dispute. 

Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. 

While the Congress (*ehem!*) of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict... 

I skipped a week of posting because it was the turn of the Phantom Menace and I wanted to post on the same week of its 3D relaunch.

I thought I would be super excited about it, but I am not! And I know the reason:

Who did this horrid thing? Horrid! I see this and instead of wanting to watch the movie on theatres I want to pop my eyes out of my face.

Come on, Star Wars already has kitsch posters, with a seventies look that made them somewhat nice, and all fans were used to them and kind of understood that tatty aura of B series movie that encircled the posters.

But the new poster? That is like glueing together bits and pieces giving no sense of what the film is about! Fortunately they have been at least king enough not to include Jar-jar Binks in the poster. So the new trilogy may not be the best trilogy ever, even though Episode III has some interesting stuff going on, but if the content is not good, at least the package should be inviting!


Fans have had to defend the Phantom Menace yet too often, sure it is not like the original trilogy, sure the story itself is somewhat lacking and childish, but it is Star Wars come on! Don't make it look like a Leslie Nielsen (RIP) movie! Please. I'll have to defend it is superawesome even if the poster says the contrary and I don't like that.

May the Force be with you.

Such is Life