The Phantom Menace or Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Which was worse?

[-Apples-]

There are two types of bad movies in the film industry. One of them are the poorly made movies that are rushed, low budget, low quality, and/or any other film production flaw that makes the movie worth it's bad rating. The other type are insults to the series they come from, like contradicting the purpose of the series, ruining good characters, making up ridiculous facts, and other things that gave the movie a bad rating because of all of the biased fans. And this is not just limited to films, but also books, games, tv shows, and comics.

The two films in question are examples of the latter group (insults to their series). If you want to know what they did wrong, here are the cases:

Spoiler: The Phantom Menace

All of the Star Wars prequels were deemed offensive to Star Wars fans because of the many plot holes and ridiculous facts made up. But this movie was what fans hated most. It had Jar Jar Binks (who was annoying, stupid, and no fit for science fiction), Young Anakin Skywalker (his personality in the movie ruined Darth Vader's character development), midi-chlorians, CGI characters (which looked less realistic), and more politics and less battles. There were other flaws as well, but those are production flaws that's bad for all films. It's not uniquely bad for Star Wars. Plus, there are some fans that didn't like the pod racing segment.

Spoiler: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

After 19 years of not having a sequel, Indiana Jones came out with the fourth movie to the series. Just like Phantom Menace, Crystal Skull was an insult to the Indiana Jones franchise. Unlike Phantom Menace, the few flaws it had hit the movie even harder. Some of the stuff doesn't even seem like Indiana Jones. One was when he hid in a refrigerator when the town got nuked rather than running away. There were a couple more that I couldn't think of at the top of my head. But the biggest insult coming from the movie is that the mystery they were trying to solve was about the existence of aliens. That's right! This movie has aliens in it when previous movies were about religious artifacts.

In your opinion, what movie was a bigger disappointment to you? Would it be the less action-packed sequel of Indiana Jones, or the first prequel of Star Wars?

 

[Stalfos]

I can't really comment on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull since I haven't seen so I have to say The Phantom Menace by default. I don't even like Star Wars but TPM is an abomination. What were they even thinking with Jar Jar? It's like the movie was aimed at kindergarteners (no offence to kindergarteners).

There's also a third kind of bad movies: the ones that are so bad that they get good. That's the ones I like.

 

[-Apples-]

I can't really comment on Kingdom of the Crystal Skull since I haven't seen so I have to say The Phantom Menace by default. I don't even like Star Wars but TPM is an abomination. What were they even thinking with Jar Jar? It's like the movie was aimed at kindergarteners (no offence to kindergarteners).

There's also a third kind of bad movies: the ones that are so bad that they get good. That's the ones I like.

That's funny. That movie came out when I was in Kindergarten, moving to first grade. All I could remember was the final battle at the end of the movie between Qui-gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul. I also seen Darth Maul fall. I didn't remember the Jar Jar scenes until I re-watched the movie 16 years later.

 

[Tao]

I would say Phantom Menace is worse, but I dislike Star Wars anyway. It could have been any Star Wars movie and I would say it's worse than KotCS.


Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at least made me laugh a few times from how utterly ****ing stupid it was.

 

[Mink777]

I actually enjoyed Crystal Skull(despite Shia Labeuf being annoying). Indiana Jones is probably my favorite movie series of all time and the last is the worst even though I still liked it. Menace would be worst for me.

 

[PoizonMushro0m]

Jar Jar wasn't a needed character for the prequels, he was there mainly for comic humor. Had he not been in the prequels, I might have enjoyed them more...

 

[Chris]

I enjoyed Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It was no where near as good as the original trilogy, but I liked it.

 

[Bowie]

I've only watched The Phantom Menace.

 

[Draco]

i would have to say Crystal Skull, but i would say lastest Terminator movie was far more of a insult to fans then either.

 

[King Dorado]

this question is a tough call, but i gotta say that Crystal Skull was the bigger outrage.

Phantom Menace had a few redeeming features, mainly showing characters and features we hadn't seen before that were either really cool, or integral to the Star Wars universe: Darth Maul; the Galactic Senate; the Jedi Temple; young Obi-Wan Kenobi; Luke and Leia's Mother...

Crystal Skull on the other hand, added nothing to the series, and was, overall, as they say, "bogus."