It is so impressive, how much work had to be done to do this prequels and many people were unsatisfied with just everything. This put things in perspective.
Right I've been seeing these clips that have been popping out & it seems like he cared for his work & try his best . Its funny how he's skinny in this one on the others he's fat
He was a moronic yes man. The reason the first film worked was people questioned George and they told him when his ideas were stupid and needed to be changed like Gary Kurtz and Marcia Lucas.
George Lucas also didn't want to originally direct the prequels. He just wanted to write but couldnt find anyone to do it. George knows his limits as a Director which was one of the reason's he got Spielberg to do Indiana Jones. He reached out to Spielberg and Ron Howard to direct the pre-quels during the time but their schedules were tied. And remember Empire Strikes Back was directed by Irvin Kershner and Return of the Jedi was Directed by Richard Marquand
I was just looking at Tunisia on Google Maps and apparently there's an actual city in Tunisia called Tataouine. Apparently it's where George got the name
Here is a real producer. Disney just thinks they can hire a visionary and pay a "producer" to throw money at an idea until it makes a billion. That's how you get a product instead of a film.
George & Rick were a dream team. Lucasfilm badly needs them back onboard for the new films. Rick in particular was great, he had his finger in every pie regardless of whether or not he had to. Lovely guy with a lot of passion for the franchise & medium as a whole. It speaks volumes that the PT cast & crew recall working with him so fondly whereas the ST cast & crew barely ever mention Kathleen & always seem irritated by her in interviews.
You mean that sound stage that was on a tiny Irish island where a lot of the most important pieces of the movie take place? Or using locations and stills from salt flats in Argentina? Or going to Croatia to film street scenes for Canto Bight? Yeah, definitely never left the soundstage.
Always remember, George only sold to Disney because some fans couldn’t appreciate his hard work and passion for the franchise. I blame them as much as I blame Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson. You all ruined Star Wars.
BS. He was finished with it. He had nothing in the pipeline of Lucasfilm. Washed up. The sequels were turds on the sidewalk, making shit in a bag on the sidewalk (the prequels) look good.
3:01 These guys are out there fucking boiling in the heat and still had the sense to tell everyone to hide their water bottles before filming started. D&D 'We kinda forgot'
Pod-racing was the worst part of the movie. You knew he was going to win and not be injured (Mary Sue). If there was a chance he'd be injured, or come in second then maybe there would have been drama. Like 1st place meant him and his mother were freed (stupid having them slaves in the first place - makes you dislike them). But if he came in second he'd have to leave his mother behind (which is what he did coming in first place, anyway). Why didn't they go back after Naboo to free her? Intolerable.
quit saying it's like war...I've never been a soldier, but I'm pretty sure sitting under an umbrella and having an assistant fan you and get you imported bottled water is nothing like a war
@@jhinabloomingflower807 I understand. But when a big part of the movie just looks like a video game, the brain has a hard time buying any of it going forward. Know what I mean?
@@carmineglitch They're not, they're mostly good, but with lots of writing and dialog faults because George basically wrote the scripts at the last minute of every prequel movie, I think some of them were even 1st drafts too which is just absurd, and with no one challenging him on any of the writing ideas, its no wonder that despite all the immense hard work everyone had to go through the prequels never lived up to their potential, its actually a miracle these movies turned out half decent, writing a script long after your movie has gone into production and finishing it the day before principle photography is just ridiculous movie suicide, I don't know what George was thinking, if George had simply spent more time refining his scripts and also letting a skilled writer co write with him to make sure all the ideas work and all the dialog sounds good then the prequels would have been masterpieces, because the ideas are really strong but were clumsily executed, I don't know why George didn't play it safe like he did on episode 5 and 6, he even said he hates writing scripts and isn't a big fan of directing either, I think he mostly likes the creative side of movie making.
I watched a video from this channel that is all about nostalgia from the 50s/60s-80s. And they made a video complaining about the prequel trilogy because it used so much cgi and how they didn't use real, physical models and stuff like that. But then I come and watch these webisodes and say to myself, "Man, look at all that cgi they used" (in a sarcastic voice of course)
That's why I love watching the Blu-ray features and certain TH-cam videos regarding the visual effects on the prequels. Cuz they actually show what were CGI and what were practical effects. Even Jar Jar Binks wasn't CGI in every single shot as they'd made an actual suit for Ahmed Best to wear for certain shots.
+Geoff O'Neal yeah and then you have haters who do prequel rewrites and actually believe it's better than a multi-time films award winner's version... haters, haters everywhere
I like the prequels, but I think they just go too ambitious and made more mistakes, jar jar, choosing jake lloyd as young anikan, focusing too much on the political side, all those small mistakes combine into a worse set of movies than the originals.
@@GabeStrenke As I grow older, I like the political side. In fact, I appreciate it a lot and believe that it's the most important part, seeing that an Empire was formed from a Republic. Shouldn't that be the main point of it, regardless of what George's intent is? For me, the answer is yes.
Prequels: *working very hard to bring a unique story to life, gets shit on by everyone for virtually no reason* Sequels: *rehashed ideas, no originality, same template plot as the originals, gets praised by everyone* What the fuck?
George took it like a champ once again, but it is understandable he focused a lot more on pushing cgi on episode 2 and 3, shit like this gets too expensive when you consider the man power and clean/repair costs
But just think if they went on set with a lava fight for obiwan snd anakin, they could realistic everyone burning alive when the platform everyone is on accidently collapses from combined heat and weight stresses of full size props and crew :S
Like the film or not, it can't be denied that he put a lot of time and effort into it. Just because a product isn't great doesn't mean they automatically have a bad work ethic
The Phantom Menace is the second best Star Wars movie in my opinion. I understand if people didn't like the movie back in 1999, but it did not deserve to be trashed at all. It was one of the most technologically advanced movies of its time and took so much work. Not only that, but in my opinion, the story was so nicely timed and placed.
Revenge of The Sith is way higher. Attack of The Clones is the worse. Phantom Menace whenever I last saw it wasn’t as bad as I remembered but I wouldn’t rank it that high as a prequel movie.
I LOVE EPISODE 1, 2 AND 3!!! I love Star Wars I, II, III, IV, V, VI, 50% from VII and ROGUE ONE but I love the super cool Prequels the most! But SOLO: A FAKE WARS STORY, JOKE WARS VIII and FOOL WARS IX I want to forget forever the last three Star Wars films are a trauma for me in terms of look and story !!! I really miss George Lucas at work ...
I loved the prequels as a kid. They I became an edgy, internet-knowledgeable teen and decided they were trash. After a decade of not watching them, I've found that I actually like them better than I did when I was a kid. They aren't perfect but they're damn fun movies if you allow yourself to enjoy them.
Damn, look at this tons of work! Amazing! Though there are bunch of people depending on the Podrace might just be there to double the screentime......dfq, i don't get it..... how can't you like those scenes? :O
"...therein lies my job, my sole function, is to make everything S O D E N S E" Gotta give it to Rick McCallum though, this is some crazy messed-up shit to go through when making a film, in some ways even moreso than Episode IV and given the circumstances he and the production crew did a Hell of a good job.
Did they REALLY have to go to Tanzania? Couldn't they have just gone to some remote desert like location in California? I mean, I know it's rough, coarse. and gets everywhere, but it's just sand.
Hats off to them being able to rebuild the entire set, base camp and still finish the scene on time.
Altmile's Rebirth Yeah.
A lot of money goes a long way
When you’re having a bad day and that shit happens with the hanger lmao 4:51
I noticed too. That's the kind of thing that would melt my brain, not the wholesale destruction ...
That shit would’ve sent me over the edge 😂😂
Hell, dude, that triggered ME. I feel bad for them XD
It is so impressive, how much work had to be done to do this prequels and many people were unsatisfied with just everything. This put things in perspective.
Because the final product was so dissappointing
@@leonlawson2196 more than Star Wars Last Jedi?
@@leokorn1629 nothing is more dissapointing than TLJ
@@leonlawson2196 This is The Phantom Menace, not The Last Jedi
Production effort does not equate to a satisfying or well-written film.
George: "I'd say it's good luck."
Ben Kenobi: "In my experience there is no such thing as luck."
Say what you want about Rick Mccallum, but he really busted his balls to get that film made.
Right I've been seeing these clips that have been popping out & it seems like he cared for his work & try his best . Its funny how he's skinny in this one on the others he's fat
He was a moronic yes man. The reason the first film worked was people questioned George and they told him when his ideas were stupid and needed to be changed like Gary Kurtz and Marcia Lucas.
@@purefoldnz3070 People also questioned Lucas with the prequels, they changed over time because of it.
George Lucas also didn't want to originally direct the prequels. He just wanted to write but couldnt find anyone to do it. George knows his limits as a Director which was one of the reason's he got Spielberg to do Indiana Jones. He reached out to Spielberg and Ron Howard to direct the pre-quels during the time but their schedules were tied. And remember Empire Strikes Back was directed by Irvin Kershner and Return of the Jedi was Directed by Richard Marquand
@@anthonygordon9483 Well with Crystal Skull being shit and Howard becoming a scab making Solo I'm glad that Lucas directed them.
Im amazed that they actually built the houses and pod racers
"It's my job to get anything George wants,"
You know Gary Kurtz was saying exactly the same thing in 70s.
Except Gary actually corrected George
J. W. Rinzler's book The Making of Star Wars says something different.
Branislav Marcek lol
I was just looking at Tunisia on Google Maps and apparently there's an actual city in Tunisia called Tataouine. Apparently it's where George got the name
Poor Kenny Baker at 2:52. It must have been literally like being inside an oven for him.
Nah bro they got aircon in there
Yep, just like when they filmed in Tunisia during the original Star Wars.
He needs a little pool of water in there!
Not literally but almost.
@@Jonny-xq5cb There is a pool of water there, it came out from Kenny's skin.
Here is a real producer. Disney just thinks they can hire a visionary and pay a "producer" to throw money at an idea until it makes a billion. That's how you get a product instead of a film.
6:50 I doubt Kathleen would get on a crane. This guys is a much better producer.
George & Rick were a dream team. Lucasfilm badly needs them back onboard for the new films. Rick in particular was great, he had his finger in every pie regardless of whether or not he had to. Lovely guy with a lot of passion for the franchise & medium as a whole.
It speaks volumes that the PT cast & crew recall working with him so fondly whereas the ST cast & crew barely ever mention Kathleen & always seem irritated by her in interviews.
She would be watching from the hotel with a live video feed. Its all about making an efficient money machine now, no creativity or risk taking.
@@caseypenk
Yes, she is one of his biggest mistakes.
Then last Jedi came out...they never left the sound stage
You mean that sound stage that was on a tiny Irish island where a lot of the most important pieces of the movie take place? Or using locations and stills from salt flats in Argentina? Or going to Croatia to film street scenes for Canto Bight? Yeah, definitely never left the soundstage.
Always remember, George only sold to Disney because some fans couldn’t appreciate his hard work and passion for the franchise.
I blame them as much as I blame Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson. You all ruined Star Wars.
So do I.
BS. He was finished with it. He had nothing in the pipeline of Lucasfilm. Washed up. The sequels were turds on the sidewalk, making shit in a bag on the sidewalk (the prequels) look good.
He cared more about a Podrace than an actual plot.
We were happy and we didn't know it.
2:33
Dir. Yods
Cam. R2-D2
Lmao
Dedication for few scenes
I just have one thing to say: holy fuck. they pulled it off
2:51 Greedo HOT First
Wonder if Disney would of done this while shooting their sequels.
@Jimb0 yeah, i actually enjoy watching making of videos and seeing star wars one's are so damn good.
.... And then the cable on the crane snapped..... No just kidding.
3:01 These guys are out there fucking boiling in the heat and still had the sense to tell everyone to hide their water bottles before filming started.
D&D 'We kinda forgot'
filming desert scenes in northern Africa in the middle of summer is such a great idea
Funny enough there’s more practical sets in episode one than episode seven so eat your heart out prequel haters
Pod-racing was the worst part of the movie. You knew he was going to win and not be injured (Mary Sue). If there was a chance he'd be injured, or come in second then maybe there would have been drama. Like 1st place meant him and his mother were freed (stupid having them slaves in the first place - makes you dislike them). But if he came in second he'd have to leave his mother behind (which is what he did coming in first place, anyway). Why didn't they go back after Naboo to free her? Intolerable.
Aaaaaaah so anakins engines are the most crucial part in the movie. Now I get it.
They were a crucial part of the shooting session, yes.
5:23 The words of every Star Wars fan who watched The Phantom Menace in 1999.
It was not cgi...!
Yet in the other behind the scene video Lucas admits that he went to far in places and after the first screening McCallum looked stunned...
Thats why episode 1 is one of the forgivable of the prequels
quit saying it's like war...I've never been a soldier, but I'm pretty sure sitting under an umbrella and having an assistant fan you and get you imported bottled water is nothing like a war
You have never served the British 1800s armies
.. I'm joking of course... but the civil war did have picnickers watching....
@@aurorauplinks Civil War must have been really fun to watch tbh. lol
@@Commander_Shepard. I'm sure the aftermath turned alota hearts and minds though unless they left before the screaming and horrific surgeries
@@Commander_Shepard. that said I was sorta day dreaming about that sorta stuff as a kid, getting to see those sorts of things
@@aurorauplinks I would be the one to bring popcorn and eat them very audibly while everyone's screaming and dying.
Too bad they spewed cgi all over these awesome practical effects.
Its a mix with CGI and practical effects
@@jhinabloomingflower807 I understand. But when a big part of the movie just looks like a video game, the brain has a hard time buying any of it going forward. Know what I mean?
Star Wars is lowkey racist if you think about it... "Anakin is from Tatooine" therefore he should be much darker skinned.
"Liam's wig, how is that?"
"They're working; they're still finding bits and pieces."
"... It's only one piece."
XD
whole set in ruins lol HOWS WIG? talk about priorities
No it's Not!
This makes me appreciate Phantom Menace so much more
They actually built Pod racers... WOW!
"Prequels were just dense pop culture movies"
JUST AS ORIGINALS!
Wow it turns out that sand really *does* get everywhere!
I love the prequels...
Why the 3 dots though?
Patrik Uosukainen Why not?
3:00 What they forgot to tell the actors on Game of Thrones S8.
I like how this shows the use of practical sets and all in Ep 1 - far more so than I assumed
Yup. It was Attack of the Clones where Lucas started to lean way to heavily on CGI and that movie looks like shit.
@@emobacca3306 its actually have a lot of practical background composited together, although it doesn't look realistic enough
@@emobacca3306 It really doesn't but okay lol
Everyone who hates the prequels should see the hard work here
Tyler Crebs doesn't really change anything
es cierto pero creo que el argumento de que solo es cgi se destruye con esto
william kinlan you’re rude as hell
Every film making process requires tumultuous effort and hardwork, but the prequels are still sheet.
@@carmineglitch They're not, they're mostly good, but with lots of writing and dialog faults because George basically wrote the scripts at the last minute of every prequel movie, I think some of them were even 1st drafts too which is just absurd, and with no one challenging him on any of the writing ideas, its no wonder that despite all the immense hard work everyone had to go through the prequels never lived up to their potential, its actually a miracle these movies turned out half decent, writing a script long after your movie has gone into production and finishing it the day before principle photography is just ridiculous movie suicide, I don't know what George was thinking, if George had simply spent more time refining his scripts and also letting a skilled writer co write with him to make sure all the ideas work and all the dialog sounds good then the prequels would have been masterpieces, because the ideas are really strong but were clumsily executed, I don't know why George didn't play it safe like he did on episode 5 and 6, he even said he hates writing scripts and isn't a big fan of directing either, I think he mostly likes the creative side of movie making.
Anakin's Engines play the most crucial part in the movie? I thought Jar Jar was the key to all this...
I watched a video from this channel that is all about nostalgia from the 50s/60s-80s. And they made a video complaining about the prequel trilogy because it used so much cgi and how they didn't use real, physical models and stuff like that. But then I come and watch these webisodes and say to myself, "Man, look at all that cgi they used" (in a sarcastic voice of course)
That's why I love watching the Blu-ray features and certain TH-cam videos regarding the visual effects on the prequels. Cuz they actually show what were CGI and what were practical effects. Even Jar Jar Binks wasn't CGI in every single shot as they'd made an actual suit for Ahmed Best to wear for certain shots.
5:46 Can't help but feel bad for George, especially knowing the stress he was under when making the first Star Wars film.
Just finished watching 1-6... They are all great movies. I think a lot of people are blinded by nostalgia with the old movies.
+Geoff O'Neal yeah and then you have haters who do prequel rewrites and actually believe it's better than a multi-time films award winner's version... haters, haters everywhere
I like the prequels, but I think they just go too ambitious and made more mistakes, jar jar, choosing jake lloyd as young anikan, focusing too much on the political side, all those small mistakes combine into a worse set of movies than the originals.
@@GabeStrenke have you watched the animated clone wars 3d?
@@GabeStrenke As I grow older, I like the political side. In fact, I appreciate it a lot and believe that it's the most important part, seeing that an Empire was formed from a Republic. Shouldn't that be the main point of it, regardless of what George's intent is? For me, the answer is yes.
Yep.
It's so dense. Every image has so much going on.
I love these Web docs!!! The PT DVDS have THE best special features content then any other movies ever!
1:39 The subtitles: “The most difficult scene to deal with in the desert was definitely the Padre scene” 😂
Prequels: *working very hard to bring a unique story to life, gets shit on by everyone for virtually no reason*
Sequels: *rehashed ideas, no originality, same template plot as the originals, gets praised by everyone*
What the fuck?
The sequels are praised?
Episode 7 made me fall in love with episode 1. Thanks Disney for killing off a dream
"And at the beginning the wind blew, and the sand blew up...and then they hid in the toilet." LOL
Yeah, I noticed that too and thought gee, it's a good thing they got that insightful bit of information translated! lol
I love these movies they worked so hard
George being positive about the damage from the storm 👍
So much time, effort, materials and cost just for a few minutes of film.
Karl Robinson masters of the craft
how do these videos have such little views haha i feel like this is so cool
The Prequels are awesome
Is no one talking about the fact at 4:07 that the translator says the security guards shat themselves 😂
It sounded to me like he said that they "shot themselves in the toilet" and I thought...gee what a way to go! lol
"Shut themselves*** in the toilet" lol
George took it like a champ once again, but it is understandable he focused a lot more on pushing cgi on episode 2 and 3, shit like this gets too expensive when you consider the man power and clean/repair costs
Bless all of these guys.
I can kind of see now why they would go less and less on location for II and III.
But just think if they went on set with a lava fight for obiwan snd anakin, they could realistic everyone burning alive when the platform everyone is on accidently collapses from combined heat and weight stresses of full size props and crew :S
They didnt go on location, but they made many miniatures, for example the Mustafar scene was a miniature
Never thought I’d say this but, the prequels seem ok now........not sure why though 🤔
didn’t like them?
Don’t know why this was recommended but I like it
Like the film or not, it can't be denied that he put a lot of time and effort into it. Just because a product isn't great doesn't mean they automatically have a bad work ethic
The Phantom Menace is the second best Star Wars movie in my opinion. I understand if people didn't like the movie back in 1999, but it did not deserve to be trashed at all. It was one of the most technologically advanced movies of its time and took so much work. Not only that, but in my opinion, the story was so nicely timed and placed.
Revenge of The Sith is way higher. Attack of The Clones is the worse. Phantom Menace whenever I last saw it wasn’t as bad as I remembered but I wouldn’t rank it that high as a prequel movie.
Forever immortal and groundbreaking the making of this film was
4:11 they shot themselves in the toilet???? What the fuck?????
I LOVE EPISODE 1, 2 AND 3!!! I love Star Wars I, II, III, IV, V, VI, 50% from VII and ROGUE ONE but I love the super cool Prequels the most! But SOLO: A FAKE WARS STORY, JOKE WARS VIII and FOOL WARS IX I want to forget forever the last three Star Wars films are a trauma for me in terms of look and story !!! I really miss George Lucas at work ...
5:52 you could say it rhymes like poetry
I loved the prequels as a kid. They I became an edgy, internet-knowledgeable teen and decided they were trash. After a decade of not watching them, I've found that I actually like them better than I did when I was a kid. They aren't perfect but they're damn fun movies if you allow yourself to enjoy them.
No wonder George Lucas went and hid in a studio.
Damn, look at this tons of work! Amazing! Though there are bunch of people depending on the Podrace might just be there to double the screentime......dfq, i don't get it..... how can't you like those scenes? :O
Still can’t believe George funded all this himself
Storm: ima fuck yo shit up
George: i have the high ground
I don't like sand.
God wanted to stop this disaster :D
I like the prequels.
145 degrees every day yeah ok
The Greedo at 3:11 - I don't know about you, but it looks like he's passed out from heat stroke.
“The Greedo” lol
4:50 just gets me everytime
The crew worked so incredibly hard on this movie all to do it two more times. They must have been exhausted by the end of the trilogy.
"...therein lies my job, my sole function, is to make everything S O D E N S E"
Gotta give it to Rick McCallum though, this is some crazy messed-up shit to go through when making a film, in some ways even moreso than Episode IV and given the circumstances he and the production crew did a Hell of a good job.
Did they REALLY have to go to Tanzania? Couldn't they have just gone to some remote desert like location in California? I mean, I know it's rough, coarse. and gets everywhere, but it's just sand.
Tunisia, but yes. There's a certain look there that they wanted to recapture from the original Star Wars, such as the gray skies.
This is insanely hard work!!!...Thank you Thank you
5:52 It's like poetry, they rhyme.
Daría un brazo por volver a los días en que con mi hermano esperamos esta película.
Tengo los mejores recuerdos con él.
All this hard work for a movie everyone hated
All those practical effects and the it still looks bad because of the contrast with the horrible CGI, they were better off using Matte Paintings…
such a shame, they had this catastrophe on location
"Building a city in the middle of the desert," "Pods are two/three stories high," 145 degrees every day." So full of it.
They tried hard, wasn't the best movie but you can tell he was passionate about it.
I just checked. 145 degrees F is 62.7 degrees C... My ass is got that hot.. lies!
You shot there in the hottest time of the year!
george got what he wanted, unfortunately it was a monstrosity
Dudes arc welding with no mask looking right at it
I wish they kept the place up as a tourist location
Why he didn't let Lucas talk? I wanted to hear what he want to say.
This is the reason they went to CGI so hard later
"It was all CGI" * watches video * oh yeah sure it was
I loove STAR WARS Episode 1 - STAR WARS Episode 6
That must have been so upsetting to see your set destroyed.
It's a good thing those podracer engine got hit like that's they look WAAAY more believable after.