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  • Thank you!!

    Thank you sooo freaking' much for uploading them!!

  • What on Earth? How did that second kid auditioning for Anakin NOT win? Then again, Haley Joel Osment apparently auditioned and lost out too so who knwos.

  • 2:23 "Jar Jar is the key to all of this...." Aren't those damning words...

  • What's so funny about him breaking down what's real and what's not is you see the people looking at each other just thinking 'Shit, we've got to make this now?' 

  • The only thing I took from this movie is, OBI-WAN KENOBI IS A BADASS.

  • 50,000 dollars to make a Star Wars film of this kind...why am I not surprised? Even the kid has better economic values!

  • The kid section made me face palm. Did they really need a role THAT young and inexperienced for this film? Every OTHER movie uses at least a kid in their teens. Take Wonka and the chocolate factory as an example or even a disney movie.

  • George managed to get emotionally involved with the Phantom Menace? He must be the only one.

  • @IncredibleGoliath Everyone else was. You can see the fear in their eyes. The story board section is an excellent example of this (1:34). You can see how uncomfortable they are with his decissions of what is real and not in a film mostly CGI. It's disturbing.

  • @StephensStuff I think you've misunderstood what I was saying. I mean that PM was not an emotionally involving film. George says he has to have a story he's extremely emotionally involved in to want to spend 2 years of his life on it. Unfortunately what was emotionally involving for George wasn't for anyone else.

  • @IncredibleGoliath I see what you mean then. :)

  • "Jar Jar is the key to all this" = "These go to eleven" HAHAHAHA

  • Why'd they pick the worst kid? This almost seems like a mockumentory of the making of a bad film, except we know it isn't. This Is Spinal Tap seems more plausible than this. Go figure.

  • ASPECT RATIO

  • What should I feel? Pity or Hatred...

  • Are you an Angel?

    *Shudders* 

  • How could anyone get emotionally involved with this film? This leads me to believe that Lucas is either weird as fuck or lying.The answer? Ill let you decide.

    But the answer is Lying!

  • I'm surprised the one of the kids didn't say "Come on! This dialogue sucks!"

  • The second kid was clearly the best. I bet Lucas completely pulled rank on the casting director and picked Jake.

  • 1:49 "People look scared around George."

  • Jar Jar Binx ruined the franchise... Great work George :D

  • Popular franchise, man with a lot of respect.

    Shareholders and the staff give total creative control to this man, let him go "creative" with no lines drawn and nods their head to everything he says.

    The result is a trainwreck, this kind of situation is a sure path to failure.

    The biggest problem with Episode 1 was how Lucas had complete control and NO ONE around him questioned his decisions, that's the core of it all.

  • 1:58! classic! haha

  • I am a HUGE Star Wars fan who loves all 6 films. The prequels are not my favorites, but I still have a passion for them. I actually think Jake Lloyd did a fantastic job! Jar Jar makes me laugh and I really love that character. In my opinion, Star Wars fans would at least appreciate the prequels if they don't love them.

  • The most incredible domino effect of bad decisions ever made.

  • @powerofktulu

    you forget troy all those who had run away build rome because of that we have roman warriors and romans killed jezus en now the pope lives in rome thats fucked up and i have know idea what i talking about but it does sound interestingXD

  • 7:03 I prefer Jar Jar in the early test footage: silent and as a puppet.

  • 3:28 - "Hopefully it'll work." It didn't, George, and that was obvious to all, but you tried it in the next two movies anyway.

  • 7:45 <--- what in the hell IS that thing on her face?

  • I watch Schindler's List after Episode I to cheer myself up

  • y'know that pose of that guy at 4:23, someones gotta make a meme of that, something like 'yeah helped ruin star wars for everyone, yawn, gotta go meet natalie portman yawn'

  • I think that lady really got upset at 8:36 haha

  • You know, I really feel bad for the kid who played Anakin.

    I mean, he was just a kid, of course he would sign up to play in Star Wars, wouldn't you? He didn't know this was going to be the film that will cause him to mocked forever. This is something that is going to stick with him the rest of his life...

  • Bet those 2 other kids were proper gutted they didn't get the role at the time, probably now they don't even mention they auditioned for it

  • This doco is better than the movie.

  • This is filmed like a comedy almost.

  • @galientdomo454

    I wanted to consider this a comedy for kids, you know, Anakin... Jar Jar... the cool special effects... a child humorous space adventure, why not? But then I watch those scenes of taxing trade routes with political speeches and people looking bored talking about boring things... what the hell is this movie? It doesn't work as anything, it has no focus.

  • @LaughingUltros It's nothing. It's 133 minutes of absolutely nothing except Jar Jar, who is like a fly on the screen waiting to be swatted away. And when he's not in the scene it's even more nothing. I hate my life.

  • That 2nd kid was better.

  • Look at his dead eyes when he talks about being in love. JEEZUS.

  • Remember the days when the glowing Lucasfilm logo at the start of the film meant we were about to watch something GOOD and EXCITING?

  • 5:27 ANA-FAIL

  • anyone else thinking of checking out worst nipple piercing reaction ever aswell?

  • I think that from 3:00 to 3:28 even George wasn't entirely sure about the bs he was spewing

  • I accepte Jar Jar , i find it great to have a goofy character that dont fit at all with the jedi because he is very useless and thats the point of the character. The Charlie Chapelin of the science fiction. And the gungan species where well made. Their world was really amasing to see.

  • @TheStarDeth If a character is useless, then why spend so much, if any, time on him at all?

  • What the HELL are those glasses!?

  • "Again, it's like poetry (sort of), they rhyme."

    Mr. Lucas never heard of free verse, apparently.

  • @remixsolo Ha, he also doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. WE know he's just talkin' bullshit! :D

  • Why didn't anyone try to stop him from ruining Star Wars? Who cares about their paycheck, they were all in positions to fucking save Star Wars. Take the initiative you fucking sheep.

  • what is the name of this documentary and is it on dvd

  • say what you want on the film, but this is a great documentary. its the only reason why i have the original dvd.

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  • "Jar Jar is the key to all of this"

    OOOOUUUUUGH you just kicked me in the balls...

  • Jar jar was a fail

  • Spielberg's the best.

  • i wish jar jar wasnt real! me and all star wars fans around the world!

  • @ prajogoboy ... JarJar was probably part of the axil of evil for Lucas: somebody's gotta be blamed for this movie's atrocious content.

  • You know those 7 dislikes are fucking trekkies >.>

  • They put so much work into this and the movie sucked every single human and animal cock on the planet.

  • When George Lucas said that Jar Jar is the key to all this I think that was the moment the movie was doomed to be inferior to the original trilogy.

  • While I was fascinated with the original movies, it is no longer the case with the prequels. CG has come a long way, but it does't support the awful acting and the complicated story lines within the movie.

    Simply put, I feel like all they've done is shoot the storyboards and that's it.

    Acting is too rigid, too superficial and is has to do with the script, which is not very engaging and convincing.

  • @utubecontributor, face it, george is a bad director when it comes to directing his actors. visually he's ok, like say snyder. proof of this is empire strikes back. that one wasn't directed by george, and it has the best acting.

  • This is painful to watch.

  • @TrevRockOne Why is it painful, and if so, why are you watching it?

  • Jar-Jar was the mistake NOT THE KEY -_____-!

  • 1:48 What do you guys think that guy's face said?

  • Thanks for the treat.

  • i like the original Anakin from episode one better

  • These are almost as funny as the Plinkett reviews.

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  • the second kid was the best he sounded really good and he looked like luke skywalker!

  • "Jar Jar is the key to all of this"looooooooooool!!!

  • @captainkavern That says it all doesn't it

  • y couldnt of anikin been black godmit! it would hav made things much more interesting!

  • Are you an Angel?? HUUUHH? George what is this? I think you should have made Aniken older.

  • @Chosenviper -cough- Anakin. not Anikin. say it in ur head :P

    An-Uh-Kin (Anakin)

    An-Ih-Kin (Aniken)

    what makes more sense to you??

    sorry ive watched star wars to much this year

  • LOL the dude at 1:50 is like "......WTF ?....IS HE SERIUS ?"

    I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY GEORGE WANTED THESE FILMS TO "RHYIME" WITH 4-6 ? WHY NOT JUST MAKE GOOD STORIES.......

  • @megamatt53 Actually, and a lot of people will probably disagree with me, and yes I also hate the prequels...

    but I think coming up with these kinds of ideas about the story is actually one of George Lucas' real talents. I mean, the kind of thing that he actually contributed to the old trilogy. He just sucks at execution, needs people to tell him if its nonsense, etc...

    I really think this idea would have worked if anything else had worked. All these ideas just end up suffocating one another.

  • @megamatt53, he must have ran out of ideas..??

  • i love star wars, but all the people in charge of creating the movie,in the vid, seem like nerds.like total nerds.no disrespect meant. even their jokes are nerd jokes.

  • 1:56, is about how I reacted after watching The Phantom Menance the very first time.

  • anakin was chosen for this part HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE! :p

  • is that leavesden studios?

  • she came a long way from star wars...to black swan :D

  • that's true. marriages do last 4 to 5 years.

  • Hey guys you wanna see George Lucas directing a friggin porn film with some dude and Jar-Jar in the reverse sitting position? I know ye do ye gighri freaks

    ------> 07:08 18+ only!

  • @BigBloodyMacheteGuy Holy shit i spit water all over my desk

  • Imagine everybody if Lucas gave Spielberg the directing rights and Lucas just sat back as producing or as a matter of fact give to JJ Abrams who wasn't as well known as now but I know he could pull it off? That would be awesome right instead of getting this shit?

  • That second kid nailed that audition, he also looks more like Mark Hamill

  • @TheHawkdaddy You know you are just so obviously right. They should have picked him!

  • 6:11 George Lucas: "What the hell is this?"

  • George Lucas! Your powers are weak old man!

  • I love The Phantom Menace...loved it when you could skip forward to the really exciting duel at the end!

  • Spielberg should have directed these prequels. Let George be on set and all, but not so involved.

  • Ep III was the best out of the prequels but it wasn't without its flaws. Some bad acting and some effects weren't very good (like when Anakin jumped out of the elevator). The CGI was at its best in this film but overall I thought this was just good, not great or amazing...just good, like Ep V.

    The best films in order are: Ep V, Ep III, Ep II, Ep VI, Ep I, Ep IV. That's MY list and MY opinions, i'm not speaking for everyone so there's nothing to complain about.

  • @472Colin Episode 5 is definitely the best, but A New Hope as the worst? Hope is great

  • @hhwha1 Ep IV is too talky for my liking. And was a bit cliched aswell.

  • ...of all time with his crappy lightsaber skills and lack of force usage. Vader could have just force choked him to death for all I care. Now the prequels. Ep I looked really washed out and had bad acting as I mentioned before and it was too political oriented*NO ONE UNDERSTANDS POLITICS IN REAL LIFE SO WHY PUT IT A FILM? ESPECIALLY A STAR WARS FILM*. Ep II The special effects were better but the acting and dialogue were still terrible and it was edited badly.

  • I find it funny how every thinks the originals are perfect films. I personally don't. I found Ep IV so boring I fell and I wasn't even tired. Ep V was random, had

    (like the rest of the films, but its the best and my favorite in the OT) cheesy acting. Ep VI had worse special effects than Ep IV and Luke was far too cocky in that it got on my nerves. He was a padawan at 21 and it only took him a year to become jedi knight...yeah right. And he beat one of the most powerful sith...

  • They so should have picked the other kid.

  • Star Wars is the best movie series ever!!

  • You know, he's right - after the pod race, I WAS ready to go home.

  • Good god, this is just painful to watch. Everyone looks scared around George Lucas.

  • Jar Jar is awesome even in Episode VI he managed to survive the Empire.

  • @McNabsodom I have to agree, yet disagree. Jar Jar binks is an annoying character. But i hope George Lucas never stops making Star Wars games, merchandise, ect. Please don't be here if you hate George Lucas.

  • phantom menace...what an irony!!

  • Jar Jar is not funny, Jar Jar is bullshit

    Fuck you George Lucas, please stop to make movies

  • Hey George Lucas...how dare you make YOUR movie how YOU wanted....how dare you write YOUR movie with the plotline YOU wanted...how dare you create characters for YOUR movie that YOU wanted to create...

  • @Ricoustic101 because of the prequels i think george lucas took way too much credit for the originale series,thank god he couldent make them "the way he wanted them"

  • For those you wo think this movie sucks, try to sit through the next one.

  • @JackMProductions attack of the clones was a big improvement.

  • @Robotdrummerzzk The Darth Maul lighsaber fight is the reason alone this is better than 2 and 3.

  • @JackMProductions episode three was very strong. and episode two has more of the 'fun' the originals had.

  • @Robotdrummerzzk May I ask how? A large amount of Episode 2 was the boring love story of Anakin and Padme. Episode 3 just had HORRIBLE acting.

  • @JackMProductions episode two saw the whole geonosis thing, jango fett intro etc. Episode 3 was very good, I thought.

  • @JackMProductions What the hell are you talking about? The acting was fine in all three prequels.  Get off the bandwagon for god's sake.

  • painful to watch.

  • you fucking degenerate

  • It's like watching a documentary on the Holocaust....

  • @TapasBarAmsterdam I was about to dislike that for sheer inappropriateness but then I realised you were 100% right. I loved Phantom Menace but I understand why so many people were left feeling violently raped after seeing it in 1999.

  • @JackStaplesButler

    yeah man, my butt still hurts from Episode I!!

    but I guess, it wasn't made for us....

    the same way A new hope wasn't made for our parents......

    Thanks for your comment

  • @TapasBarAmsterdam Well I guess a few minor changes after some time travel-assisted alteration to the movie and it would have been better. Nix JJB, get a different actor to play Anakin - keep Natalie Portman but give her some different direction. She definitely stays.

  • @JackStaplesButler Yeah Natalie.. I would like her to be more agressive/hands on like Leia was

    to me Annakin should have been introduced to us at a later age, then him not being able to put boundaries to the use of the force would even make more sense, and we would be spared to see him ''accidentally'' getting everything right, and the final battle is a joke, JJB goofyness aside, 5 seconds of any LOTR battle carry more emotion than every prequel Battle..every one of them has a tasteless joke in

  • @TapasBarAmsterdam Couldn't agree more. Well, I'd like to take a tour of the 1990s anyway, hopefully I can get the DeLorean fixed and then I'll need a team to help me delicately alter the details of TPM without screwing the timeline too badly. Make some suggestions to Lucas, discreetly arrange for Jake Lloyd to get a different job in 1997, alter Natalie's dialogue and get Ahmed Best arrested for jaywalking during the auditions for Jar Jar, then make the character relevant and compelling.

  • @JackStaplesButler LMAO ,careful! be sure to carry a picture of yourself

    at all times while doing that man, to check if you start fading!,

    maybe you change history in a bad way and when you come back

    Annakin is played by Justin Bieber, Obi Wan by jonah Hill and The whole world is ruled by Winged Dragon Monkeys!!

    (on the bright side JJB will be out of the picture), while you are at it,

    please smack lucas in the mouth as soon as he says ''Midichorians''

    and ''let's kill Darth Maul''

  • @TapasBarAmsterdam My theory of time travel is 'that which travels is preserved'. So if we brought back a present-day DVD of TPM in the time machine with us, it would be preserved even if we rendered the film very different. So we'd be alright. When we return we might find our lives very different. But sacrifice is worthy for the greatest film series in all of cinema history!

    Maul needed more screen time. Maybe JJB could somehow be made into a decent character, though I doubt it.

  • @TapasBarAmsterdam

    Amen..this was painful to watch....much like the prequils. Sorry. I just didn't like how they filmed the last three episodes.

  • @TapasBarAmsterdam

    LOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!

  • I just want to punch George Lucas in the face!!!!!!! Hate 'im so much!!!

  • 07:04 wtf

  • lol when Jake hi fives that chick and she tries to doo it too and he moves his hand...She walks away saying "Fucking asshole"

  • 6:28 Doug Chiang is just nodding and agreeing; why is he even there in the first place, he's the Design Director....

  • Anakin was an annoying piece of the prequels, especially this one. Don't blame Jake or Hayden. They did all they could & were told.

  • Jake Lloyd is PAINFUL :(

  • @neroxtreme1380 He was just a kid, give him a break :/

    You guys except too much from Jake Lloyd ._.

  • @MountainFox51 That doesn't mean that he's not terrible. There are tons of awesome child actors, who are really freaking good. It's Star Wars, arguably the greatest film franchise in history. Why would I not expect Lucas to choose actors who can act?

  • I think Natalie made a fine job...But the idea of Anakin as a little kid...Huh!!!? HUH!!! Fucking shit

  • natalie portman is so hot!

  • @TranceLuvr69 I want to f**k her

  • This makes me sad for Britain, we lost the Rolls Royce factory and got shitty prequels instead. Fuck that!

  • RedLetterMedia raped this film and then raped Lucas with psycho analysis.

  • man the producer sounds so much like Han, or harrison ford, i wonder if they're friends or from same area?

  • I had the same "The Lost World of Jurassic Park" watch tht jake was wearing when i was a kid lol. I think you got them at burger king with kids meals haha.

  • "Jar jar is the key to all this" - There! He admited it!!!!

  • i love how he is not even focusing on the STORY he keeps talking about the speciel effects and the fight scenes not story

  • Again it's like poetry, they rhyme.

  • @AqAZArModels

    SO DENSE ON SCREEN

  • @Ambulanceo Jedi cut them down like they're butter. They're useless.

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  • "Jar Jar is the key to this" famous last words

    I love how when you see him with the highlighters, everybody is giving each other nervous looks, like they knew from the beginning that it wasn't going to work.

  • I dont rly know what facinates me so much about watching behind the scenes on Good consepts turned bad movies. Like The phantom Mecase and The last airbender.

    Guess it's just interesting watching it just to see if the people knew back then how bad it was going to become... I wich we could have gotten thinking bubles over peoples head that stated what they were thinking as lukas japped on about jar jar.

  • Jar Jar: Me-sa be da key!? George Lucas is in some bigga doo doo!

  • Steven Spielberg is on the set, too? :D

    wheres than john williams? :D

  • lol funny how they filmed jar jar lol I almost shjt my fucking pants

  • burst my theories? are u seriously arguing that spielberg is a shit director over one movie christ is anyone allowed to make a mistake in this world anymore.

  • @TheReilly8 Agreed. I actually enjoyed Crystal Skull for Ford's wonderful reprisal of Indy. No, it wasn't as good as Raiders (I'm not blind), but I'm sure Spielberg's Lincoln film (which seems to finally be underway with Day-Lewis in the title role) will make us forgive & forget

  • @prlwctd I enjoyed Crystal Skull until they brought in Aliens. I didn't think that fit in well since all the other things he was looking for were religious artifacts. I never held Ford or Spielberg responsible for Indy 4, only George because if you watch the behind the scenes stuff, you will learn that the Aliens were George Lucas's idea. I am actually really looking forward to the Lincoln movie with Day Lewis

  • You can't help but feel sorry for jake, (yes he was a bad actor but he was like 9) he had no idea that this movie would ruin his life and would have him universally hated by an entire fandom. Come on if someone told you that you could be in a star wars movie at that age you all would jump at the chance.

  • i reckon they should of got spielberg to direct this prehaps he would have managed to talk some sense into lucas

  • @TheReilly8 hmm you have seen the indiana jones 4

  • @redbaron932 hmmmm youve seen ET, saving private ryan, jurassic park,AI, Indiana jones 1 2 and 3, jaws, schindlers list...... WTF ARE YOU A RETARD?!!

  • @TheReilly8 yes i have seen these films, and all those films you mention by Steven Spielberg how long ago were they made now, just like George Lucas with his original star wars films, and even the more recent films such as private ryan i think is over rated and no i am not a retard i just do not agree with you, Spielberg like Lucas is responsible for Indiana Jones 4 as i said before have you seen Indiana Jones 4 that was Spielberg to opps i have burst your theories again

  • battle droids look funny... I wouldnt fear them at all...

  • Anybody want a pizza roll?

  • too many critics around, i like all the new "old" episodes myself :)