So's Jar Jar Binks but that doesn't stop us from wanting to stab him in the neck.
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People say AOTC is bad. It's very good expect the parts with Anakin and Padme in them. Remove them and keep the Obi-Wan scenes and you have a good movie.
A film that is not plot driven is just a lot of money spent on nice effects. But nice effects and great visuals don't make a good film. It's as simple as that. It goes, in fact, against the very principles Lucas started SW with: the effects are merely the tools for storytelling. Now in AOTC the effects ARE the movie... Where did Lucas go wrong? He sinned against his own very principle, and a good one indeed.
And since the whole Anakin-Padem relationship is so terrible in this film. Anakin is an unsympathetic dickhead.... He only begins to get interesting at the beginning of ROTS... why wasn't he like that in AOTC. He is an a$$hole in AOTC, no wonder he turns Sith, but why Padme falls in love with him is a mystery to me. Again, bad storytelling. Magic CGI apples flying around doesn't make those scenes better.
AOTC is not a horrible film, it's just so damn obsolete... It doesn't take us any further, and the who-dunnit aspect... well, it's lame.... It doesn't create grand insights after TPM: a Sith is trying to meddle with the Republic.... we already knew that.
I'd say it's a horrible film...I have no idea why in the world anybody whose not a Star Wars fan would like or even be interested in ROTS or AOTC...
...but there are a lot of nerdy people out there (me included).
I think Lucas et al have a strange perception in their head that the new generation of PT Star Wars movies has as much public interest as, say, the LOTR movies...that the general public is actually following the story and actually care about what will happen...that's just not true. It's not the same as it was with Star Wars in the 80's.
The biggest reason these movies are hits is because of the nauseating advertising blitzes, the popularity, and the hordes of fans that go and see the films 3 times each...
In interviews you always hear Lucas et el say "this is what everyone has been waiting for" and stuff like that...who's eveyone Lucas? Get your head out of your butt. People cared to see TPM because it was advertised as the second coming...but that's it. Not a lot of people care about the other prequels...Older folk realize how bad these movies actually are...most younger folk just think it's extremely nerdy...
Lucas has done the crapiest job imaginable in including the general audience in AOTC and ROTS...The only decent all around film in that respect was TPM...and it was just a mediocre film.
Truth hurts...sorry.
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It always hated TPM... it got better after seeing ROTS. ROTS is not too bad, it at least has the old feel again. Bit of humor, excitement, something's clear at stake again.... Still the best of the PT in my mind.... But ANH en ESB rock big time still, and I still like Luke better than Anakin.
- Introduction (the ambush at Coruscant was really surprising)
- Coruscant Speeder Chase
- Jango vs. Obi-Wan
- Dogfight in the Asteroid Field
- Anakin already wanting power
- Geonosis Arena
- Geonosis Battle
- Climax Duels (though Yoda vs. Dooku should have been longer)
Bad Parts:
- Storyline: Some planets want to leave the Republic, and some Seperatist movement under Dooku is underway. Padme wants to create a Grand Army for the Republic, and Dooku sends Jango Fett to kill her. Anakin protects Padme, and they fall in love. Obi-Wan finds out a Clone Army in Kamino waiting to be used. Blah blah blah. It was an okay storyline, but what I didn't like is that they didn't show Dooku at all until the end. I mean, in the introduction, they say:
"This Seperatist movement,
under the the leadership of the
mysterious Count Dooku, has
made it difficult for...."
Basically, Jango Fett was the main villain for more than half the film until Dooku is shown.
Love:
Anakin and Padme's love was okay. It was kind of weird as Anakin keeps thinking about her for 10 years. What did she do to him in TPM anyway? Somehow, he manages to get her to kiss him and so forth. How does she fall in love with him anyway? But it surely isn't as bad as people think it is. Though Han and Leia's seemed to be a lot better.
Hmm.. Only with the scene of the missing planet, I briefly thought "who was that?", doesn't make the movie a Poirot movie though..
Nah, the fate of the universe doesn't really lay in the scene of them talking loveable shit towards one another.
We didn't know at the time that Anakin wanted to go dark side because of visions of her death.
Ah.. what the hell. They could've just fallen in love after AotC for my concern. I yawn at their supposedly romantic scene.
dam... and i love the love scenes..i think i'm the only weird one that does... then again..i saw it when i was 13..... now at 17... i Still like them lol
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I'm not saying I hate it, but if it came down to picking an order of the SW movies to bring with me to a desert island, it would be at the bottom.
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