That Darth Maul character looks like a great antsgonist for the prequel trilogy. I hope they develop him and give him lots of lines!!!

His insight about Hollywood executives not caring or watching movies is spot on. Over twenty years later we are seeing EXACTLY what he was talking about. The crap they produce today shows a lack of love and/or talent for good movies with compelling characters and stories.

"Its not a business, its an artform" the knowledge that everybody forgot

George Lucas achieved a peak of artistic expression. Every Star Wars film after A New Hope is technically an Indie picture. Insane.

Really admiring George’s integrity. Healthy sense of confidence because he knows what he’s doing.

3 years to score the pod racing scene, my goodness. But the result is timeless and iconic.

I miss the late 90's

"Hollywood trying to change the story to try to fit what they think the polling results are." Got that right.

The amount of work they put into making Jar-Jar look good and real to people only for him to be utterly hated by most fans... that has to hurt

Lucas is a bad ass. Incredible creative

TPM shows why Anakin is so important, his strong attachment to his mom, why Obi-Wan wasn't right teacher to him, why he hates Tatooine, Jedi rules, Palpatine becoming chancellor, world building, etc...And of course, podracing and Darth Maul. AOTC actually tells a story (Palpatine's rise to power by manipulation Republic and Separatists, Anakin's progression of falling to the Dark Side, start of the Clone Wars), develops characters, shows us real war, new planets, species, ships, droids, world, and has connection with 1 and 3. What ROTS show us? The largest battle in the Clone Wars, deaths of Dooku and Grievous, Kashyyk battle, Anakin's conflict with Jedi and himself, his weakness (save who he loves), which perfectly works with saving Luke, Palpatine's manipulation and rise to power, Order 66, 2 amasing final battles and the creation of Darth Vader and Empire, birth of Luke and Leia, new hope. It is meaning for the whole Galaxy and is the most emotional.

This is the reason Disney Star Wars isn't the same.

What a great look into the 90s.

I remember seeing this on TV back in the day before the film came out. I believe it was the first time I saw examples of how CGI was done behind the scenes for films like this, and it introduced me to a whole new world of creativity. Maybe some of the CGI hasn't aged well nowadays, but it really started something. Just like in the 70s and 80s, George Lucas really was a juggernaut for innovation in both film-making and story-telling!

It is truly insane to me how the masses give The Lord of The Rings Trilogy credit for the innovations from the Prequel Trilogy. While I understand that Trilogy is near-perfect cinema, give credit where credit is due!

Thank you for uploading this. I had this recorded on a VHS myself along with lots of other Episode I hype material. That was an exciting wait.

It's so dense, there's so much going on

10:43 - best sound effects ever.

TPM is a good film. Flawed, but still great.

I know Im the only person that not only enjoys the phantom menace, but I put it up as my favorite star wars movie. Its everything star wars was meant to be. A lighthearted updated look of the classic serials, and its the tone that best sums up the idea of star wars. I understand its not for everybody, but you cant deny the scale and magnitude of it all. The effects are mindblowing even by todays standards.

60 minutes definitely had good timing when they were filming the John Williams segment, catching Duel of the Fates. I remember how amazing it was to see that Lucas was filming most of this movie against blue screens, and also how much criticism he got that this made the film fake or unrelatable. And yet, today, this is the absolute standard practice by which all special effects movies are made. Nothing looks amazing about these clips anymore. This is now typical filmmaking.

8:04 That voiceover combined with mickey sitting on lucas's desk is so ironic in hindsight

Miss 80 and 90s

I love Revenge of the Sith, EMpire strikes back. But Phantom Menace is my favorite, music , effects...and duel of the fates. Thanks George

I DISTINCTLY remember watching this when it aired. It was the first time I realized there would be a full on racing sequence. As a racing fan, this got me SO pumped!

8:05 foreshadowing the sale of Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.

8:41 The same individuals who don’t love movies are at it again, decades later 🤷🏾‍♂️💯😂

I'm so hyped for this movie!! It's gonna be GREAT!

"Hes the key to all this"

I remember seeing this 60 mins episode and recording the show in my VHS! Downloading TPM trailer took me a whole day! lmao

The Mickey Mouse bookend at 8:13 was an eerie foreshadowing.

"Hey... suppose after all this, the movie isn't any good?"

Corey love playing The Young Indiana Jones for George Lucas for 4 years and great time !

Only 25% of the movie was digital :o Maybe Disney should back to using Windows 95 cause this CGI was a lot better than what they're doing now xD

The reason why you never hear about the dissatisfaction from the VFX team in ILM is because Lucas knows what he’s doing and what goes into the technology to create these shots. Directors/Producers need to learn about this technology so there isn’t such a disconnect between the two.

John Williams is the GOAT.

It is beyond sad how the Star Wars zealots, and the idiots who shat on his own vision for the prequels, drove him away from his own creation.

I'm a big Star Wars Fan since I was a Boy.

Funny to see a Monty Python version of Wattoo.

Let's forget the term "CGI". It's "cyber". Cyber ​​characters in cyber movies.

30 secs in. That’s how I watch films with my family. They watch a lot of films while I’m writing…

@8:27 Well well the irony!!! I give George Lucas credit for personally funding and having the control of his Star Wars creation but I was very disappointed when he sold the full rights to Star Wars to Disney for billions of dollars in 2012. Those Disney executives DON'T have a damn clue to how to develop an awesome Star Wars story and don't care for it. The annoying fanboys and fangirls wish Lucas got the rights back from Disney.

Haha he enjoys the film scoring the most because he doesn't have to do anything lol where he's involved in absolutely every little conceivable aspect of every second of the production process, from filming, dialogue, and foley to the visual and sound effects, and editing, when he finally gets over to check in on what John Williams is doing, he can just sit back and be blown away. Probably leaving each session with NO notes whatsoever for anything he'd want to change or improve upon. That's GOT to be a good feeling, knowing that you can just let someone else take the wheel over one quite significant aspect of the process, and have full confidence that it's going to be as close to perfect as it could be, when it's all said and done. 👍 I imagine that's what every filmmaker experiences working with John Williams. He's quite literally legendary, as much so as any of the "classic," composers from History, and for good reason. He's like a modern day Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, or Ludwig Van Beethoven. It's really extraordinary.

Many fans trashed it, and the later two at the time though and it cut him deeply. You could hear it in his voice at Mark Hammill's Walk of Fame ceremony when at the end Mark said perhaps George would come back for another. George then said dead serious and coldly without so much as a snicker, "I won't be coming back." He then immediately left the podium after saying it. Not a smile. Nothing.

6:11 Jar Jar Blinks

When the first Star Wars was only two decades ago😂😂

Say what you will about George's aesthetic choices. I'll readily admit that I don't care for some of them... But he cares about the STORY. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about whatever Lucasfilm or Disney exec was in charge of the sequel trilogy. Whose job was was it to make sure J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson played nice together?? They failed miserably.

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I'm a cyber character myself.

"150 degree heat" what desert were you guys filming in?

The irony is that the prequels are probably much closer to the vision Lucas had for Star Wars than the original trilogy, and failed miserably. I think the lesson here is that often time/money/creative tensions on set make for a better end result.

I hate the internet. But I love Star Wars prequels over the sequels

It’s strange cause he seems a bit difficult to work with, but then you realize he sunk so much of his own money into it and also the new Disney ones which seem like design by committee don’t really work. I think a single persons vision often works better.

George Lucas got way to much hate, i believe thats part of the reason he didn't care to make more snd eventually wanted to sell it all to Disney. People just constantly criticized everything he did and never gave him credit for the things he accomplished. The sequel and prequel trilogy were revolutionary im many ways and paved the way for others, sure dialogue was a bit plain and many effects didnt hold up, but ge actually used more practical effects in the new ones than in the old, its just that people focus on the aged cgi instead of the amazing practical effects he created even down to the outfits and props. He needs to always be remembered as one of the greatest filmakers, i know ill love his films forever and continue to rewatch them, cant say the same for most the new disney Lucasfilms. His movies will remain iconic for generations and have burned themselves into pop culture forever.

The Watto footage!!

And that is why no matter how "bad" the Prequels are, they still have actual heart and love for the craft. Disney has nothing but a brand, there is no substance, only visuals and now even the visuals are lacking (Obi-wan series).

How funny it is that there is a Mickey Mouse doll on George's table?? 8:09

Practical effects in the originals was better than the newer digital effects.

8:40 sounding a bit unhinged there George... what happened to going back to "experimental films" ?

And then the Matrix came outta nowhere

There's one thing that kind of bothers me whenever they talk about the prequels and all these behind the scenes features like 60 minutes they always seem to forget to talk about all the models miniatures and matte paintings that are made. Naboo was for the most part 90% a miniature model there are parts of the pod race that are models. The arena and episode 2 is a model the Jedi Temple is a model inside the cloning facility when Obi-Wan is walking around with Lama Su the exterior and interior of that hallway is a model

A "laser" pointer... :D

10:44

Purist’s haha now every movie and show has VFX

Great pic of Spielberg, pretending to be Lucas.

I miss the era of early CGI effects where filmmakers had less to work with so they had to make what little they had, work better. These days, the more technology filmmakers have at their disposal, the worse the CGI seems to look. It’s almost like they became lazy and it shows in the final product. The overall image quality and resolution of CGI has obviously increased but the love of the craft just seems lacking.

“Old fashioned romance” they say as Luke romantically kisses his sister. Lmao.

While very well done the CGI characters still looked CGI here. Eventually they will look as real as can be but not then and still not in 2024 but its closer.

Even Jar Jar is an ORIGINAL character and is truly a genius character even if he is annoying lol

2019 it’s the originals

3 years before a movie broke the ground for digital effect. Starship troopers is still a blast to watch. The phantom menace…

I sat through it thinking "why did he do that?"

It's great all this new tech they invented but saying Roger Rabbit didn't look real by comparisson to Jar Jar?? No no no, I believed in Roger being there no doubt!

Hard to believe it was so sh*t.

This was when I stopped being a Star Wars fan. You can have it. I like movies that actually have good scripts.

And yet the VFX of the original trilogy have more artistic merit

So animators produced 2 seconds a week. Then it isn't bad to have Sora ai produce 2 seconds an hour.

It seems like the process was more enjoyable as opposed to the finished product. But still a good piece by 60 Min

1:42 his self cringe imploded here.

Спилберг это псевдо режиссёр в Голливуде, который не умеет снимать фильмы, он не делает свое кино, а нанимает профессиональных режиссеров и операторов для съёмки фильма, потом не платит им ничего и убивает.

It was a shit film

all star wars = zZzzzZZZzzzzz trash

.... And then Lucas backed Igor. Star Wars is Dead.

And now a gorgeous Plinkett review of this fecal matter. 🥰

Sorry fanboys, the prequel trilogy sucks as bad the sequel one. Theyre not mutually exclusive and just because you have nostalgia warm and fuzzy memberberries doesnt make something better.

God, what a terrible movie

All of his aliens are tied to racial stereotypes. He doesn't know how to make an alien race. The movie does nothing to build tension. There is a Jar-Jar joke every minute. Why does this movie need so many jokes? You have a scene that starts to build, then Jar-jar has to joke, so it's all just a goof. The reason the original movies were good is because Lucas had less to do with them. Episode I, he had everything to do with, complete failure.

The technical wizardry in The Phantom Menace is incredible. It's still a terrible movie though. Lucas gets far too much credit for Star Wars, but it was a lot talented people that made the original work, namely the SFX, the editing, and the music. When he was given full reign with new technology, we get the prequels. He's a creative guy, but a terrible director and writer.

Watto is the worst character design in all of Star Wars.

One of the worst movies ever made and the beginning of the death of the real Star Wars trilogy

This aged like milk. The Phantom Menace wasn't even the best or most interesting film that came out that month. What a waste of everyone's time.

8:09 What does George have on his desk?

"I may have gone too far in a few places."

*The effects 'sleight of hand' coursing through this stuff doesn't distract me from knowing the fact that it's extremely pointless, heartless and sterile. I couldn't care less if Lucas thinks it's great. He's utterly biased. And that Jar Jar Binks ridiculousness proved he wouldn't know humour if he watched an outrageous comedy*