Dailybeast talks to Phantom Menace Review creator.
We can thank Mike Stoklasa for creating the best takedown review seen so far of a movie that deserved all the hate that it gets for pretty much ruining people's childhood memories and revealing that George Lucas is a hack.
| After some Internet sleuthing, The Daily Beast tracked down the culprit: 31-year old Milwaukee filmmaker Mike Stoklasa. “I'm aware of the ridiculousness of it,” Stoklasa said, “Most rational adults would say 'It's just a movie, it's just a stupid Star Wars movie, get a life.'” .....“I don't want to use the cliché that George Lucas ruined my childhood, because I don't care about it that much, but it is that sort of thing,” Stoklasa said. His video arguments against Phantom Menace are expertly prosecuted like a seasoned district attorney who is laying out a capital case before a jury, leaping from seasoned film-school critiques (Stoklasa is a graduate) to fanboy attacks on inconsistencies. In one particularly memorable sequence designed to demonstrate The Phantom Menace's bland protagonist, the narrator challenges several friends to describe the lead characters of the original Star Wars without referring to their clothing or profession. Asked about Harrison Ford's Han Solo, the subjects easily rattle off a list of adjectives as the film's iconic main theme swells in the background—“womanizer,” “rogue,” “dashing.” Then the narrator asks about Liam Neeson's Qui-Gon Jin, the Phantom Menace's monotonous hero. Silence—then laughter—ensues. The video review and its hundreds of rapid cuts took eight to 10 days to produce, a project interrupted by successive bouts of flu, bronchitis, and pneumonia (he was still coughing during the interview). “Basically, it ended up being 70 minutes because the movie was that bad,” he said. “There were things that I cut out—it could have easily been 80 or 90 minutes.” |




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