PT Rewatching Attack of the Clones

Who can forget the comic relief, Bar Bar Drinks?

 

I actually liked AOTC even with its problems (poor dialogue, laughable love story) and thought it was an upgrade from the Phantom Disaster. None of the prequels, IMO, match any of the OT films but it seemed Lucas was trying to right the ship with AOTC. There were some positives and negatives.

 

What about Jack L. Samuelson?

AotC is my least favorite of the Saga for sure, but it's really fun from the second-half onward. Great ending, too!

 

Harris Fordson is a pretty good actor too, I hear.

 

I've always enjoyed AOTC since I first watched it as a kid. It's also my second favorite in the saga next to ROTJ and my favorite out of all three prequels. It's terribly underrated.

 

Attack of the Clones is maybe my all-time favorite film. If I have any objective criticism, it's almost too Star Wars.

 

I tried to give this thread a chance but it was never meant to have one...

 

I'm rewatching all of the movies and I'm on AOTC right now. I know all the complaints about the prequels and I think most of them are valid, but as a Star Wars fan, I still love all 6 movies unconditionally. However, there are several scenes involving Anakin that absolutely make me cringe. For example, the scene when Obi-wan and Anakin first encounter Padme on Coruscant and when Anakin starts whining to Padme as she's packing to leave for Naboo and when he cuts Padme off when she's describing her plans on Naboo. I'm only 40 minutes in right now too...

Is it the writing, the acting, me just being silly? It's been years since I watched this movie. I don't remember feeling so uncomfortable as a result of these scenes before.

 

I don't consider myself a gusher by any means,

But these "what is wrong with this movie?" threads are getting a bit ridiculous.

As for the scenes you mentioned, has it occurred to you that they're supposed to be awkward scenes?

 

Dear lord, not another anti-prequel thread!

Anyways Merkual is right. The scenes with Anakin and Padmé are supposed to be awkward. He's trying to express his feelings towards her(which is never easy). Between his childhood and his Jedi training, he's probably not the smoothest operator, if you know what I mean. Plus, she still at first views him as "the little boy from Tatooine", not as a young man. Then she realizes that she reciprocates his feelings. Yeah, that's Awkward City right there, folks.

Sure George's script could have been better, but considering the situation between Anakin and Padmé, it's kind of expected.

Let me get off-topic for a moment to say that, as an avid Anakin/Padmé shipper, my favorite part of AOTC is Jango Fett.

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Hope these threads stop in the future.

 

These guys just come out of woodwork don't they???

 

Apparently.

 

Other than Shmi, Padme's the only person Anakin's ever had very strong emotions for. As a Jedi, he's expected to hide those feelings around others in the Order. Being around Padme without having Yoda or Obi-Wan over his shoulder made him feel more free, so everything came out of him that had been pushed down before.

 

Maybe those scenes were supposed to be awkward, but I hate awkwardness in movies. Which is why I hate acclaimed movies like Moonrise Kingdom and Juno. Actually I wanna punch Michael Cera in the face because he always plays awkward. (Yet oddly enough, I'm fine with awkwardness in real life. Go figure.) Luckily Attack of the Clones had plenty of awesome moments to compensate.

 

Nothing makes AOTC cringe worthy to me. I just think it's refreshing to see someone who's so unabashedly straightforward about love. Anakin doesn't try to be clever in any way. He's being one hundred percent honest and serious about it and that's a rare thing in this day and age.





Love has many faces
/LM

 

This thread is not only cringe worthy, but also repetitive and a bore.

 

Lock/Merge with last weeks edition.