I watched Ready Player One without sound over someone’s shoulder on an international flight… pretty sure that was the intended format.

I cant believe the “Qui-Gon Bin” bit itself got Quin-Gon Bin’d from the video.

James sounds extremely excited to talk about this movie and I think it’s partially because he knows we are so excited to hear their take on it. A+ content yet again boys, I rate this episode of COG as Best Movie Ever 🙌

It's just occurred to me that The Duel Of The Fates is a fight between three people.

Nick mason channeling my soul in this one 😂

"Wingsy Snouter" - lol

I’m old enough to have grown up on the original trilogy vhs but was young enough when episode one came out that I didn’t think it was bad at the time. None of my friends thought it was activity bad but I think they just echos it was made for children. Also the pod racing still holds up I’d love to see them do another race with todays tech

“Oh… you live with your mum!?” Made me rofl the fuck out

If they can project an all encompassing force field for the Deathstar from Endor, they’d have the tech to project a radar field around Naboo. If any rambunctious rapscallions try to back door the embargo in some tweaked out Gemini, The Viceroy and his Pimp cohorts from the banking guild will be packing the hardware to round them up post haste.

Why do our protagonists labour so extensively vs the Droideka. It’s like the moment they come barreling around the corner and up shields Obi-Wan’s sphincter puckers noticeably. Just pick ‘em up and smash em into the wall. No need to turn it into a test of endurance.

I love Podracing and would love a modern Videogame with it as a Focus.

I think this was the first movie I ever saw that really felt poorly written. And I was 6. I remember taking frequent bathroom breaks just to get away from the discussions of taxation and trade routes

“Wingsy Snouter* 😂

I think the politics in modern Star Wars is hated because of its execution, not because it’s political. Some people just don’t know how to articulate that so they just say there is too much politics.A lot great media has its politics on display. They just integrate it better into the story.

Wasn’t Blue Harvest the code name for Return of the Jedi? Not New Hope? Lol

The new version of Phantom Menace with CGI Yoda instead of the terrible puppet is so much better.

Not sure this is 100% correct but I think they went from blockade to full on invasion so the ships that were blockading were no longer in the same place when they returned to Naboo. Also, they were blockading the hyperspace lane, they could have tried to fly in a different direction but they wouldn’t have been able to go into hyperspace and would have been shot down. Their only option was to fly through the blockade and go into hyperspace. The movie does a terrible job explaining this.

How long will Revenge of the Sith be!? 😆

C’mon James… Tatooine would have a mall outlet for funky leather desert wench bikinis. 🙄

Mason... I know. I'm so sorry.

"not without it's redeeming qualities"

Savage Opress is the worst name I've ever heard.

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Imo this is a terrible execution of a rather decent idea. If you just list the general plot points, this sounds like a well structured idea. The problem is the execution of the connecting threads. I mean, take the "Ship's hyperdrive is damaged, need to land in Tatooine for parts and fuel -> there they meet Anakin and his mom -> when the Jedi leave Tatooine to return to their original quest, they take Anakin with them but have to leave his mom" scene. Described like that, it sounds fine, no logical inconsistencies with the general structure. So it is really just how the details leading to A to B to C that are poorly written and developed. Let's try something else: Jedi Master notes the hyperdrive is damage and they can't make it to where they must go. Padawan checks the star maps and points a planet a bit off course, but within their current range and where they won't have to deal with the trade federation. "Qui-Gon: Tatooine, hmmm? *reaches out through the force* Interesting. I sense a subtle, yet powerful, disturbance of the force from there. It is as if it were intentionally being hidden. Obi-Wan: *also reaching through the force* Yes master, I too sense it now. Perhaps this is no mere coincidence, we would have never noticed this otherwise. What do you think, master? Qui-Gon: Well, we have little other option than to go there anyway, and as Jedi our first duty is not to politics, but to the will of the force. We go there and at least try to identify the source of this while using the guise of looking for parts and supplies to hide our true intentions. We can procure those things a bit slower than we otherwise would if necessary, I see no problem with a minor delay here if it means uncovering something more larger than politics. Otherwise, once we deliver the Queen to Croissant [not sorry], we will be free to return investigate further. Obi-Wan: The order will probably not be happy if we delay more than we must. Qui-Gon: I don't see the problem here, Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan: Ha, I know, I just like when hearing that. Setting course to Tatooine. Maybe the force be with us. (There, we now know they're intentionally doing things slower than their could, because their priorities are unquestionably different now). Then meeting Anakin, he is a Slave. Cool. Make it so he isn't just the slave of a single master with just a few slave, but of something larger. The Jedi wouldn't just kill them all if it came to that, and they're not there to end the larger operation they don't know how far and how deep they spread. So simply stealing from them (parts, supplies or slaves) would not be an option, the detour to deal with them (heck, even if they did want to do a Sith and kill them all just because) would get in the way of both their missions. So let's have the flying buggy guy just the taskmaster of Anakin's "lot". Now they have a reason to play along local mechanics, and also since they sense the force so strong in Anakin and his high midchlorian counts too I guess (but fuck michlorians imo), we can now connect plot A and B, they assume this boy might be related to the disturbance while clearly not being the source himself, so they agree to having him race "for the parts and supplies we need" because a high risk activity where the boy will definitely use the force intuitively willy nilly might just attract the attention of the real source of the disturbance, helping them to uncover it... and they get what they need for their now secondary (but still obligatory) objective too. And this also reinforces why they can't just take the mother with them, because that would be stealing a slave from the larger organization (the local taskmaster losing a slave in a gamble is his problem with the organization to deal with, but they taking another one by force is their problem to deal with, and we already stablished they why they won't do that). There, I fucking re-wrote it better.

When I first saw the prequels I thought that this was the worst one, but maybe it's actually the best? Or maybe they're all about the same. I. Don't. Know.

With the prequels, lightsabers battles and Jedi powers are well demonstrated versus the sequels such as the battle in SW8 when they kill Snoke and fight the red trooper. Also the fact that you can basically take any lines from the prequels and they become memes due to the fact that the delivery of the lines aren't great. There is a few things that are redeemable from the prequals but not much

If you think people have learned better. You should see some of the things the grown ass adults have said online about a kid in a Rey costume. Disgusting and depressing unfortunately. Star Wars fans don’t know how to not be terrible

The problem with jar jar isn't that he's annoying, it's that he's annoying and he's in way too much of the movie. Also because every kid imitated him for the whole of the year 2000.

Hey either of you guys want a pizza roll?

Who TF is Yoder

The Star Wars "prequels" are bad movies. They're also not good Star Wars films. No.

Ignore the Benjamin bloke. I’m first

Jedi did nothing wrong