Additionally, the Star Wars prequels are the first films I distinctly remember getting really raked over the coals for how much CGI they used. People were literally holding them up as a bad example of what the future of the film industry held.

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Thinking of the bit from that Red Dwarf documentary where Patrick Stewart said he was literally about to phone his lawyer the first time he saw it. Then something made him laugh, and he realised it was a comedy and not just a ripoff, and he became a fan.

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I do think it's true that the rise of social media has lead to realisations that some opinions aren't as widespread as we thought - it's only been in the last decade I've realised some people actually liked the James Gunn Scooby Doo film, for example. But this Phantom Menace guy is kidding himself.

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There's literally a Spaced episode where Tim (Pegg's character) gets fired from his job at a comic book shop because he can't get over how much he hates the Phantom Menace, and he goes off on a tirade at a kid trying to buy a Jar Jar Binks toy.

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Thinking about in Simon Pegg's book where he talks about spending money he made on Spaced to fly to the US for the Phantom Menace premiere, and Pete Serafinowicz - who's actually in the film - warning him it's crap. Then Pegg writing how much he hated it into the 2nd series of Spaced.

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