I liked the film as a whole, despite some of the annoying parts.

Stuff like this makes up for the kid themed parts.

Agree with the poster. Although -1 star for reminding me of what could-have-been, given that this is a version that editted out all the Jar-Jar and Anakin non-sense.

I loved these scenes as well.

However, -1 on the same grounds, and an additional -1 for Jar Jar as I cannot express my distaste enough for that lame character.

...and yes I know the rating systems usage, so bugger off.

Almost makes me want to watch the movie again. It's good to see a fight scene where you can actually tell what's going on and that doesn't uses a wobbly-ass camera and cuts every half a second.

Yeah this was pretty awesome.

Corn on... the cob.
Corn on... THE KABOB!

Great choreography, indeed, but I felt let down by the fact that THIS Sith had to resort to kung-fu shenanigans. I'm much more fond of the body language of Vader in his duel with Luke in EMPIRE -- he's in complete control, doesn't even look like his pulse is raised. Maul doesn't look like he could choke someone out while talking to them on a video screen...

This is the best scene in any of the prequels. Great pacing.

Although this fight is great, I'm not 100% satisfied with the new direction the jedi fights have been given in the new trilogy. Too much useless jumps and martial arts stances. In the old trilogy they were more sober and posed, I know they were all supposed to be aging jedis and there was no more fresh blood, but they didn't look like kung fu fighters like today.

-1 for lens flare. C'mon, guys! Even in 1999, you shoulda known better.

Exactly. It's not nearly as bad as the rest of the movie, but it's still the cinematic equivalent of a dragon shirt.

Is there some reason why Obi-Wan couldn't have just used the light saber to break the thing that generates the force fields, instead of trying to cut through the force fields themselves? JUST SAYIN

This fight scene is pretty damn cool, too bad every other part of Phantom Menace sucked.

Anyone notice the ironic parallel of how Obi Wan defeats Maul and how Anakin gets owned doing the exact same thing two movies later?

High Ground my ass, Anakin just sucked ass.

Oh Obi-Wan, You're my only hope!

Not rating, because the entertainment value is matched by the terrible terrible assumption that gymnastics, and wasting opportunities to strike (with an energy weapon) by twirling around, in any way enhance a sword-fight. Also seconding the comment that not enough architectural damage was involved. I expect these people to be smarter, or at least more aware of their options, given that they can apparently move objects with their minds.

Now I have to watch the StarWars kid video

All the old lightsabre fights were based off of samurai movies, which is why they're slower and more still, etc.

I'm not sure what the fuck Lucas was drawing on for the super-hyper fights in the prequels, but they're not nearly as good. Instead of fights they become glitzy light and sound spectacles. This is one is still pretty good though, but it didn't save the rest of the movie.

I like almost everything about this movie except the shitty, shitty, script. I've got a fan-edit that misses out most of Jar-Jar and all the Midiclorian rubbish, it's pretty enjoyable. The whole Tattooine segment is really watchable, and the costumes, design and cinematography throughout are great- probably because everyone involved thought they were working on the greatest movie since the first Star Wars.

cheesy star trek television level makeup, egregious OSHA violation set design, and fight choreography written up by a ballet director

hurf blurf this isn't the way real people would fight in outer space with magical laser swords

Hey guys, it's a sci-fi movie.

The phantom edit really should be the only version of this movie that ever existed.

Someone should do a montage and bring the General Grevious fights along with this.

jar jar is awesome, fags
anakin, not so much

This shit rocked. Then we get the "epic" battle between Obi Wan and Vader which was just a lot of CGI horseshit.

NEEEEERRRRRDDDDSSSSSS!

While this fight scene rocked, I personally don't think anything can top the Yoda fights from II and III. C'mon, people! Yoda! YODA!

Boy, this looks good. Anyone know when the prequels are going to come out?

Why couldn't the whole movie have been like this

My love for this (admittedly yeah, pretty crappy and disappointing) movie's power to upset nerds grows with each passing day.

The best jedi duel was in a new hope. The perfect battle for "center" that kendo masters discuss.

This is pulpy garbage.

Liam Neeson is like ranch dressing: he makes everything better.

The largest bear bar in the world contains less beard than this thread.

If this had been in another movie it might have been okay.

As it was it was bearable nonsense in a sea of unbearable nonsense.

If you think you want to see this movie again it's because you've forgotten the UNBEARABLE ENDLESS POD-RACING SEQUENCE.

However, if you go to rifftrax.com and get the one they did for this movie you will find that it's highly entertaining.

i dont like star track

You have to wonder what the hell happened to arrive at the embarrassingly awful saber fight against Christopher Lee in Attack of the Clones. It's nothing but back and forth closeups of the two as they clumsily wave their glowsticks in front of their poorly lit faces.

Also the arena battle with tons of extras in front of the world's most obvious green screen waving their plastic swords around with all the grace of the star wars kid.

This is a pretty good fight scene, and was my favorite part of the movie. Nothing else in the trilogy entertained me as much as these six minutes.

There are some fantastic villains in Episodes 1-3, and the Clone Wars cartoon redeems the entire run (1-6) of any faults it had.

The best part of the best live-action Star Wars movie. After Episode III it's all downhill.