What line or lines in TPM made you cringe?

But...but it was poo!

 

"It's so wonderful, Annie. You have brought hope to those who have none."

Ugh.

 

Seeing my little thread thrive brings warm feelings to my heart.

Now tell me that didn't make you cringe.

 

I hate "Are you an Angel."

 

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"Yipee!"


That's about it.

Same for me, although I wouldn't say I thought it was so bad that I cringed.

I've heard kids say that, so the only reason to not include it would be to avoid making teens and adults cringe.

After the first viewing, "yippee" didn't bother me.

 

Every line the Trade Federation people said. The neimodians (sp?) and battle droids had horrible voices and lines.

 

"Every line the Trade Federation people said. The neimodians (sp?) and battle droids had horrible voices and lines."

Mind providing some examples?

 

I can't stand the Neimoidian (sp?) who says, "They've gone in the ventilation shaft." What was up with her voice? I just think that was a horrible voice for that character. So, it wasn't the words, but the voice, that made me cringe.

Also, the droids and their "Roger, roger." gets old after a while. And the droid that is questioning Qui Gon. "Where are you taking them?" "To Coruscant." (This next line stinks horribly) "Coruscant, that doesn't compute, wait, you're under arrest." (paraphrasing) When the droid says "That doesn't compute," it gets on my nerves for some reason. Oh well, I'm just hard to please I guess, lol.

 

The only lines that really bug me are:

the two "Yippies!!"

"Many things will change at the capital, but my caring for you will remain." Urgh

"Now this is pod racing!!!" No it isn't, it's space combat, and therefore not pod racing! Gahh!!

 

Anakins line of 'I was wondering, what are midichlorians?'. It sounded like he was having trouble with it or something

 

Any Jar Jar.

"Are you an angel?"

 

One word - Yippee!!!

I loved the movie, I just disliked that line immensley!!

 

This is one no one has yet to mention:

"I didn't exactly come here to free slaves," Qui-Gon Jinn.

I love the guy, but that was a callous thing to say.

 

Yipeeee! was pretty bad but the one that really made me cringe was "Mesa bad bombad"

 

the one that really made me cringe was "Mesa bad bombad"

Maybe I would have cringed at that, too. Good thing it wasn't in the movie.


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Just about everything Jar Jar said and Ani.

 

Are u an angel?

I cringed in the theater and I was like 12 even my 9 year old sister thought that was dumb as has every other person I've talked to. No 9 year old boy would ask that....

Isn't it interesting that Peter Parker asked the same thing about MJ when he met her? (In the Spiderman movie)

 

Nothing in TPM makes me cringe. I say that with no inhibitions. *pats self on back*

 

Well, lets see...
(thinking...)
I say take the whole frelling movie, burn it, and start over!

Lets take it scene by scene, shall we...

-The dialogue between the pilot of Anikan and Obiwans ship and the trade federation guy.
-TC-17 entering the room, introducing herself.
-The trade federation guys spazzing becuase they had Jedis on board.
-The federation robot troopers gathering around the door to the meeting room. "Roger, roger..."
(By this point, my worst fears were conirmed...the new Star Wars movie was a ball of cheese.)
-The federation dudes spazzing again becuase the Jedis are cutting through the door.
-Soon after this point, we meet Jar-Jar. Categorically, everything that Jar-Jar did or said was BAD. So, that pretty well wraps him up.
-The Gungan City...that was pretty lame too. "Yousa in big doo doo this time..." What!?!
*(Sidenote: Unrelated to dialogue, how many times did they almost get ate by a %$#@ fish in that scene??? After this point, theres was a tolerable ten minute gap in the cheese...a few cool Jedi fight scenes, etc.)
-Then, on the princesses getaway ship, we had the "scotty-wanna-be" pilot...was that an intentional ripoff, or just a coincidence? "The shield generator is hit!" (It doesnt have the poweeeeeer captain...) And then the ensueing 'NER NER NER NER' alarm in robot holding room.)
-Was Captain Tinoka commending the droid, or trying to sell it to Amidala? (An extremly well put together little droid...)
-Our introduction to Anakin...categorically, his dialogue and acting were extremly bad. It would have been alright if he were a good actor...Harrison Ford and Liam Nieson didnt have much to work with, but they pulled it off. The poor kid didnt have a chance. I think thats been covered well enough, so Ill leave that one alone.)
-The next time theres anything bad *besides* Anakin is at the pod race...the two headed announcer. The fans. Sebulba. The other pod racers. George must have been taking pointers from Saturday morning cartoons when he wrote these scenes.
-The explanation of midichlorians...thats been covered already. What the frell was that???
-The romance between Anakin and Amidala. That doesnt happen in real life...it was a great blunder in the movie.
-For a while, the only cheese is Anakin and Jar-Jar...thats been covered.
-In the return to Naboo, Portmans poor acting and dialogue become especially aparent. Its too numerous to name here in a post thats already long.
-The whole Gungan battle scene made me cringe...it was a showcase of CGI cartoons...not characters...cartoons. Weve covered the droids and the Gungans already I believe.

What made me drop 8 bucks and see the movie four times was the awesome Jedi battle scene at the end. I skip through all the rest and just watch this part.

So, theres my rant on Episode 1.

EDIT: That's off topic, but you are welcome to post that sort of thing in The Bashers Sanctuary. Thank you.

 

The only bits of lines that still really irk me today are Anakin's "I think." "When I was three, I think." "They come from one of the moons of Eago, I think." I just want to yell at Anakin and make him shut the hell up. There are maybe a few other times I kind of get annoyed, but this usually comes from the actor and not the line *cough*Portman*cough*.

I don't see what's wrong with Boss Nass. I've always found him to be rather humorous. And I think that the midichlorians scene was done efficiently.

Cometgreen

 

I wasn't afraid of any lines of dialogue in Episode I.

-Otis

 

Amen DarthZordec!

I pop that epI DVD now and all I make it through is the first part on the FED ship and then I cut right to the final saber fight.

Now that can't be good at all!

 

Almost every line by the race commentator. Especially the "I don't care what universe you're from, that's gotta' hurt"

Other than that I have no problems with the dialogue.

 

Of course, I strongly suspect that some having problems with the dialogue and others not is directly related to region and culture. What represents "cool" in one place is considered cheesy in another. And Episode 1 was writen and produced for a much larger international audience.

But it was also made to be a childrens movie which completly alienated many of the now adult fans from 20 years ago. They didnt pay 8.00 to see a kiddie flick!

(And of course, Im very critical and hard to please too...)

 

Written, Directed, and Produced By George Lucas