Current Events > Watched Attack of the Clones for the first time in years.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Better than I remember, tbh. The events are a lot more interesting I think because I'm more invested thanks to the Clone Wars show.

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pretty much everything not awkward Anakin/Padme dialog is okay enough

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HylianFox posted...

pretty much everything not awkward Anakin/Padme dialog is okay enough

I don't even think it's that bad tbh. Or maybe I've just become desensitized to it over the years. Or Marvel movies have conditioned me not to care very much about the quality of the dialogue in a movie.

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It's a cool movie. The way everything erupts in the last act is exhilarating. Good wind up to ROTS

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No, it is absolutely not better than you remember it being.
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

No, it is absolutely not better than you remember it being.

Why are yall like this

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Padm and Anakin entering the colosseum was visually and audibly appealing.

i remember attack of the clones being one of the worst films

i guess i need to give it another watch

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I just remember it being super boring. Jango Fett was cool, though.

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Jabodie posted...

Better than I remember, tbh.

You remember wrongly.
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None of the prequels are any good. Don't delude yourself into thinking otherwise.

Trelve posted...

None of the prequels are any good. Don't delude yourself into thinking otherwise.

but potentially better than disney sequels maybe

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Yoda vs Dooku was cool

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Remember that peaceful period pre-Disney where everybody agreed that the prequels were irredeemably terrible and they hadn't yet become the latest internet culture war battleground

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All the PT movies are better then the ST, and AOTC is atleast entertaining unlike TLJ.

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Attack of the Clones is possibly the worst big blockbuster movie of all time. Almost no redeeming qualities. I would actually say there are no redeeming qualities.
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Parappa09 posted...

but potentially better than disney sequels maybe

The only reason people ironically like the prequels now is because they don't like The Last Jedi.

Go and rewatch the prequels and tell me that The Last Jedi is when Star Wars died.

TFA is in fact when Star Wars 'died'

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Attack of the Clones is possibly the worst big blockbuster movie of all time. Almost no redeeming qualities. I would actually say there are no redeeming qualities.

You think the dog humping, John Tuturro pissing, "what's cracking little bitches" Transformers movies are better than this

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Attack of the Clones is possibly the worst big blockbuster movie of all time. Almost no redeeming qualities. I would actually say there are no redeeming qualities.

It spawned many great memes.

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The only good part is the last hour when its going bonkers

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You know what's also stupid, how people imagine SW only became this huge cash grab once Disney got a hold of it, as if the prequel trilogy wasn't this huge marketing and merch extravaganza for all involved.

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

You know what's also stupid, how people imagine SW only became this huge cash grab once Disney got a hold of it, as if the prequel trilogy wasn't this huge marketing and merch extravaganza for all involved.

it started with RotJ honestly

its mostly watchable with a couple of ok moments but its definitely the lowest point of when i watch through the whole saga

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HylianFox posted...

pretty much everything not awkward Anakin/Padme dialog is okay enough

Unfortunately a sizeable chunk of the movie consists of those scenes. The dialog of those scenes is delivered with all the impact of a bad school play.

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Attack of the Clones is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen.

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Pretty much everything after Obi-Wan VS Jango in the Geonosis asteroid field is good.

Garioshi posted...

Attack of the Clones is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen.

Have you only seen like, 8 movies in your life? AotC is far from the most boring movie.

As for the topic as a whole, I just watched it last night for the first time in probably a decade if not more. Its not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. The Anakin/ Padme scenes dominant the film and are pretty terrible dialogue wise, but everything else makes the movie bearable. Everything Obi-Wan does is captivating thanks to Ewan McGregors acting, and the final battle with the Jedis on Geonosis is epic. Overall Id say the film is underrated by Star Wars standards, and definitely better than TFA or TLJ.

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clyde_frog posted...

and definitely better than TFA or TLJ.

lmao

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Attack of the Clones is possibly the worst big blockbuster movie of all time. Almost no redeeming qualities. I would actually say there are no redeeming qualities.

One redeemable quality.

https://photos.imageevent.com/afap/wallpapers/stars/natalieportman//aotc-padme.jpg

HylianFox posted...

pretty much everything not awkward Anakin/Padme dialog is okay enough

Well except for sonic weaponry in space
And the part where the monster somehow disarms the jedi by hitting the blade of the lightsaber
And Obi-Wan telling Anakin to be patient moments before jumping out the thousandth floor window
And South in space
And Obi-Wan having the greatest luck of all time when he accidentally discovers the Republic army exactly when they discover they need it
Force sensing the bug but not the assassin
and Useless Yoda

But yeah other than that

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I rewatched it the other month and found it highly enjoyable


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TFA only became when SW died because TLJ took all the plot, all the mystery, all the potential and threw it right in the garbage.

Rey being the most blatant example of this.

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I actually dug the assassin chase, the Obi-wan side missions, and the last battle.

the movie didnt bother me. I just hated when Anakin kills the sand people and Padme is still like nah Ill fuck this guy still...

XXmiznatorXX posted...

I actually dug the assassin chase, the Obi-wan side missions, and the last battle.

the movie didnt bother me. I just hated when Anakin kills the sand people and Padme is still like nah Ill fuck this guy still...

It shows how Padme is as batshit crazy as Anakin.


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XXmiznatorXX posted...

I actually dug the assassin chase, the Obi-wan side missions, and the last battle.

the movie didnt bother me. I just hated when Anakin kills the sand people and Padme is still like nah Ill fuck this guy still...

lol, that's like the one thing in the movie that didn't bother me.

Maybe it's just that I have a history of emotional problems myself.

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DevsBro posted...

And Obi-Wan having the greatest luck of all time when he accidentally discovers the Republic army exactly when they discover they need it
Force sensing the bug but not the assassin

The other being nitpicks, these are explained fairly easily.

1) It was Palpatine's idea to have Anakin and Obi-Wan protect the senator in hopes that they would find Jango Fett and Kamino. There is a good chance (almost certain, imo) Dooku was aware of Obi-Wan's presence before they caught him and he waited for him to send out a message, then used him as bait to start the war. He didn't find it by chance, he found it because Palpatine sent him to find it, then manufactured a crisis for Obi-Wan to discover so that he could seize emergency powers. If Kenobi died or something I'm sure there was another plan to reveal the Separatist plot and capture another person of interest. This may not even be the first time he tried to make it happen.

2) The assassin wasn't anywhere close. She sent a droid, which is not connected to the force.


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For the record, I enjoy the new Star Wars movies well enough. I don't really think they're the best thing in the context of "the greater Star Wars" or whatever, but I think they're alright movies on their own. They have some big flaws, but literally every Star Wars movie does.

Anyway, my main gripe with it growing up was that I thought it was super boring. What I think really changed here is my appreciation of Palpatine, and how every character is just a pawn of the Emperor, and all events are by his design.

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XXmiznatorXX posted...

I actually dug the assassin chase, the Obi-wan side missions, and the last battle.

the movie didnt bother me. I just hated when Anakin kills the sand people and Padme is still like nah Ill fuck this guy still...

Yeah, that scene only works if Padme also believes that the Tuskans are basically "animals" like Anakin says.

Which is kinda fucked up and pretty out of character. It really should have been Palpatine that he confessed that to (and of course it is implied he does before RoTS).

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Jabodie posted...

The other being nitpicks, these are explained fairly easily.

1) It was Palpatine's idea to have Anakin and Obi-Wan protect the senator in hopes that they would find Jango Fett and Kamino. There is a good chance (almost certain, imo) Dooku was aware of Obi-Wan's presence before they caught him and he waited for him to send out a message, then used him as bait to start the war. He didn't find it by chance, he found it because Palpatine sent him to find it, then manufactured a crisis for Obi-Wan to discover so that he could seize emergency powers. If Kenobi died or something I'm sure there was another plan to reveal the Separatist plot and capture another person of interest. This may not even be the first time he tried to make it happen.

2) The assassin wasn't anywhere close. She sent a droid, which is not connected to the force.

That's an awful lot of reading between lines.

Was the bug connected to the force?

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Also watched AotC recently (all the films actually in preparation for Episode IX)

It really is a meme to hate it so bad. Worst parts were the dialogue between Padm and Anakin. Everything else was at least a decent film.

Watch out for that vicious bounty hunter Boba Fett Luke!

Did I ever tell you l fought his dad? He was hired to assassinate a senator me and your father were guarding. We kept bringing her around open windows and public areas in order to draw the would-be assassin out because we knew he had too much pride to just shoot her from long range. He had used his payment to hire another bounty hunter to kill the senator for him while he sent us on a wild bantha chase. Also the 2nd assassin used her payment to buy a robot to assassinate the senator for her. Did I mention the 2nd assassin was a shapeshifter? She could have been a good friend in disguise and just shot the senator for all we knew! Then the robot used its payment to buy poisonous bugs to release into the senators room while she slept after lasering a hole through the window. It could have just lasered her too after that because we we weren't watching her at all but it already bought the bugs. So we sense the hostile life forms not the robot in the room and rush in and save the senator in the nick of time!

Then I jumped out the window to chase the robot back to its owner! Luckily it didn't have a self destruct function. Then we found the 2nd assassin and chased her across the planet and caught her when she tried to kill us instead of shapeshifting and escaping. But to our surprise Jango Fett was watching the whole thing instead of going to kill the senator while we were away chasing the bugs chasing the robot chasing the shapeshifter. He shot her with a poisonous dart instead of sniper blaster and only her instead of shooting all of us or blowing all of us with a rocket or something then he escaped with his tiny jetpack.

Luckily for the senator my good friend Dexterr Jettster owned a 50s dinner on Courscant that had Republic secrets on the menu along with cheeseburgers and malt shakes. We found the assassin and Mace Window killed him later right in front of Boba. And he was a good friend.

DevsBro posted...

Was the bug connected to the force?

Is it alive?

DevsBro posted...

That's an awful lot of reading between lines.

Yes, the movie wants you to read between the lines. Hence the last lines of it basically being: "Dooku: All went according to plan. Palpatine: Good, everything is on schedule." How could that possibly be true if everything relied on happenstance with Obi-Wan? And who is the one who ordered the assassination of Padme? Who is the one who made Padme take Anakin and Obi-Wan as body guards? If you watch the movie again, it will be extremely obvious that this is what happened, particularly if you already know that Palpatine more or less gave the order for the clone army right after he became Supreme Chancellor.

Edit: And of course, the genius of the plan is that is appears that everything relied on happenstance with Obi-Wan, when in reality Palpatine sent him on a trail and waited for him to succeed.

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Prequels apologism is morally repugnant
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But what's your opinion on sand though?

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ledbowman posted...

Why are yall like this

The same crowd who probably has a word document, full of the stock phrases, they use to copy and paste the same in every star wars related topic

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Jabodie posted...

Is it alive?

Yes, the movie wants you to read between the lines. Hence the last lines of it basically being: "Dooku: All went according to plan. Palpatine: Good, everything is on schedule." How could that possibly be true if everything relied on happenstance with Obi-Wan? And who is the one who ordered the assassination of Padme? Who is the one who made Padme take Anakin and Obi-Wan as body guards? If you watch the movie again, it will be extremely obvious that this is what happened, particularly if you already know that Palpatine more or less gave the order for the clone army right after he became Supreme Chancellor.

Edit: And of course, the genius of the plan is that is appears that everything relied on happenstance with Obi-Wan, when in reality Palpatine sent him on a trail and waited for him to succeed.

Yeah, that's a good point, actually.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

Sequels apologism is morally repugnant

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But not just the men. The women. And the children too.

"I don't like prequels and everyone who does is wrong and stupid and dumb so shut up."

Good point, fellas.

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