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Every single prequel romance related line. Just unbelievable amounts of cringe. Jokes that don't land are no where near as bad as horrible dialogue that a whole 9 movie franchise hinges on. The romance between Padme and Anakin was supposed to be what made Anakin's turn to the dark side believable and tragic and they absolutely butchered it into memedom.

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

I just watched it again for the first time in years last week and good lord the entire movie aged terribly

The CGI looks awful
The acting and dialogue is awful
Even the part at the end with all the Jedi, my favorite part as a kid, looks fucking awful. When they start cutting to random Jedi activating their lightsabers in these cheesy ass power ranger poses, then Yoda saying "around the survivors a perimeter create" which is probably the worst Yoda line ever, then that scene with Mace Windu in the gunship and the random clone trooper comes from off screen to shoot at something and the camera stays on him for like 7 seconds and it looks painfully obvious that he was CG'd into the scene

Only good thing about that trainwreck was all the Obi-Wan and Jango Fett stuff

I long time ago I heard that they never physically made a single clone trooper costume for AOTC. For whatever reason Georgey wanted them all to be cg. Sums up the whole movie pretty well.

specialkid8 posted...

I long time ago I heard that they never physically made a single clone trooper costume for AOTC. For whatever reason Georgey wanted them all to be cg. Sums up the whole movie pretty well.

It looks like it. I can't think of a single scene with the Clones where it doesn't look like an advanced (for 2002) video game model.

Pretty sure they used some legit costumes in ROTS though. The difference in quality between the two movies is unreal - ROTS still holds up pretty well today.

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sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

They fly now

They fly now?

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You realize the dialogue for the prequels was intentionally operatic and George was inspired by 1930s style acting

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LethalAffinity posted...

You realize the dialogue for the prequels was intentionally operatic and George was inspired by 1930s style acting

nah...it was bad. Mostly Anakin

don't tell me those ridiculous broadcasters and 'my bad' goofball was inspired by that

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l--l posted...

nah...it was bad. Mostly Anakin

don't tell me those ridiculous broadcasters and 'my bad' goofball was inspired by that

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/may/16/artsfeatures.starwars

Such was the fate of The Phantom Menace and, although this is a better film, it will be received by many Star Wars purists as laughable. There is one scene in which Anakin Skywalker thrashes camply about in his sleep, crying "No!" at his nightmares. It is such a terrible cliche that one assumes it was put in for parodic value; it certainly had the audience in hysterics when I saw it. Lucas doesn't smile. "It's not deliberately camp. I made the film in a 1930s style. It's based on a Saturday matinee serial from the 1930s, so the acting style is very 30s, very theatrical, very old-fashioned. Method acting came in in the 1950s and is very predominant today. I prefer to use the old style. People take it different ways, depending on their sophistication."

This hangs in the air for a few moments. The universe that Lucas created for Star Wars is vastly sophisticated, but the characters are for the most part folksy vehicles for the delivery of quaint moral lessons. This is key to the films' charm - the marriage of futuristic landscapes with old-fashioned values. It renders the dialogue starchy and ludicrous, and there seems no other way to receive it. Harrison Ford famously turned to Lucas after reading his Star Wars part and said, "George, you can type this shit, but you sure can't say it."

Lucas says he never claimed to be good at writing dialogue. "I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it. I create films that way - very visually - and the dialogue's not what's important. I'm one of those people who says, yes, cinema died when they invented sound. The talking-head era of movies is interesting and good, but I'd just like to go to the purer form.

"The problem is, the theatre aspect of it has sort of taken over, and the institutions that comment on film are very literary. They aren't cinematic; you don't have a lot of cinematic people talking about cinema, because visual people don't use words, they use pictures."

We seem to have swung round to blaming the unsophisticated critic again. There is a pause. "There's a little difficulty there, which I understand," he says indulgently, although his tone suggests that for "little difficulty" you should read "pig ignorance". "Cinema has only been around of 100 years or so - not long enough for people to really understand it."


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Only a Sith deals in absolutes

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chairforceone posted...

From my point of view it is the Jedi who are evil

THIS! Sounded like he accidentally read the parentheses of his script out loud.
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My powers have doubled since the last time we met, Count.

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Purely posted...

Poe pranking Hux was great, wtf

The humor and dialogue of that scene felt very misplaced for a Star Wars movie.

Hate/love quote.

I give the sand quote a pass because it was Anakin trying to process his emotions, something that I doubt he was able to properly do as a Jedi.

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"It's like poetry, so that they rhyme. Every stanza sort of rhymes with the next one. Hopefully it'll work."

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We have a tie.

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Last bump.

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cjsdowg posted...

It would be Sand,

But the saving what you love goes beyond that, because while it is bad by itself like that Sand line. When you add the events of the movie it makes it worse.

1. Finn was trying to save what he loved and she stopped him.
2. Holdo killed herself much in the same manner that Finn was trying to do that everyone acts like it is great.
3. While they were kissing the bad guys were blowing a hole in door.
4. Look died so everyone else can live. Because of that .

Even worse than this:

1: There was no chemistry between them, even during/after the kiss. Finn just looks confused. So it kinda comes off like Rose just kissed this immobilized guy without his consent.

2: Rose has no way of knowing a high-speed crash like that won't just kill one or both of them outright.

3: Their crafts crash-land right by enemy lines, with a bunch of giant-ass tanks waiting to shoot them. In any logical world, there is NO WAY for them to get back across no-man's-land to safety. Notice how the movie skips over how they get back >_>

Just an appalling scene all around.

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There's so many good choices. I think I have to go with "I'll try spinning, that's a neat trick!" and then his awful and fake sounding yelling right after that. Close second is Anakin ranting about the kiss that haunts him.

This is a fun topic. You should do Game of Thrones next tc.

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

I just watched it again for the first time in years last week and good lord the entire movie aged terribly

The CGI looks awful
The acting and dialogue is awful
Even the part at the end with all the Jedi, my favorite part as a kid, looks fucking awful. When they start cutting to random Jedi activating their lightsabers in these cheesy ass power ranger poses, then Yoda saying "around the survivors a perimeter create" which is probably the worst Yoda line ever, then that scene with Mace Windu in the gunship and the random clone trooper comes from off screen to shoot at something and the camera stays on him for like 7 seconds and it looks painfully obvious that he was CG'd into the scene

Only good thing about that trainwreck was all the Obi-Wan and Jango Fett stuff

https://media0.giphy.com/media/cO7j0B76pvHy0/giphy.gif

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Only the second and third gifs look silly.

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Anakin Skywalker: From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again...I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with youI can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating...hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me...what can I do? I will do anything you ask. [pause] If you are suffering as much as I am, please, tell me.

stoltenberg11 posted...

Only the second and third gifs look silly.

That scene with Mace Windu running with the Clone Troopers looks awful. Like an FMV video game.

The last gif just look like a bunch of people waiving swords at nothing. Which is what most of that giant Geonosis battle scene is because that's how it was literally filmed.
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https://youtu.be/WkwdAl7sroQ

1:55 is my favorite Mace Windu shot. Sam looks like he has no idea where the fuck he is.

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