Thanksgiving Thursdays: “Star Wars: Episode I”

Arguably, an episode of one of the “weakest” installments of the “Star Wars” cinematic anthology, which came in the late 1990’s, and the early 2000’s, “Star Wars: Episode 1” still carries some nostalgia for me, since admittedly, it was the first movie from the “Star Wars” cinematic universe I had ever seen. In retrospect, there’s a lot of weirdness in this film, between the scripting, and wonky CGI, but overall, I still find the story itself to be entertaining, since I think for the most part, why so many fans didn’t like this film so much as it was presented was because there were so many expectations for how the beginning of the canon had ought to have been. I think the film would have been “better” had they focused more on creating dynamic characters, versus adding in characters almost superficially, but today, I still don’t think the film is as bad as it could have been.