I remember my experience with Attack of the Clones...
I was in Manhattan. Found some dude selling a copy on the street. I bought it.
Brought it over to my cousin's house.
We watched it. It was a cam recording. So it was grainy and dirty. It looked like 4,5,6 at the time. Much less clean looking than The Phantom Menace. It helped make the movie seem more Star Warsy.
Anyway, we're watching and it cuts off just as Obi-Wan and Anakin enter the hanger to fight Dooku.
I went from seeing The Phantom Menace in theaters 8 times during it's original run and loving it to hating it over the course of three years. The new movie was okay at rhis point but was annoyed that we didn't see the whole thing.
So a couple of days later, when the movie finally gets released to theaters we go and watch it.
As the movie plays on, I realized how different it looked from the video copy I had was. It was more clean than it looked but seemed to still fit better than The Phantom Menace. The arena scene happens and Anakin says: We came here to rescue you and both my cousin and I say in perfect unison with Obi-Wan: Some rescue!
The guy in front of us turned around with a really annoyed look on his face and turned back around right away.
I thought to myself, don't be mad, you should have seen it at midnight last night. Lol.
Anyway, then we get to the desert chase and hanger and boy, was it both a treat and crap.
Obi-wan gets a little cut and is down for the count while Anakin loses an entire limb and is just out of it (shock)
Then in comes Mr jumpy jumpy and whips out his LightSaber.
The theater goes nuts with hollers and applesauce. Lol.
At first I thought it was gonna be this badass fight, but turned into early 2000s cg carton fight.
I was a bit disappointed.
Overall it was cool, but there were some dumb decisions made and executed.
Par for the course, I guess...
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