Leprkon said:
the basketball-pregnant Padme running off the ship at 100m speed when it landed on the volcano planet.
The Millenium Falcon (supposedly the fastest ship in the universe) takes days to go from Tatooine to the Organa homeworld of Alderaan, but Padme's ship goes to the Outer Rim in a manner of minutes (and Darth Sidius even faster since he had to stop and kick Yoda's butt)....
Sidius able to communicate by a hand transmitter all the way to the Outer Rim, when ObiWan couldn't do the same in Ep 2 using a ship-based radio about twenty times the size (maybe ObiWan needs a better wireless plan ?).
A machine-based life form that had to repeatedly cough... (what's up with that and even if it had been a real life form, why the cough ??? do all evil people cough instead of wear black ??)
Then there's the stupid battle droids... Would someone really program a droid they were sending into battle to say "Ut-oh", let alone "Get out of the way" ??
My wife - three days before child birth was still doing some jogging around - she would forget that she was the size of a house. She quickly remembered though.
Totally agree with you, and everyone else, who has mentioned the time necessary for travel. Heck, the whole timeline seemed skewed without good reference points. It is fairly obvious to me that about 6 months or more passed in the movie - which means either Georgie cut out a LOT of valuable communication between Anakin and Palpatine - or I just suck at reading invisble "4 months later" subtitles.
I can use $5.00 Radio Shack walkie talkies to communicate to the other side of the earth... as long as one of them is next to a land based telephone line. Questioning details that can be explained quite easily don't make sense. He is on a planet setup for long range communication, like cel phone towers, it isn't the phone that does the work, it is a separate transmitter. You should know that.
If you watch the movie again, it doesn't appear that it is a machine based life form, but a flesh and blood life form wrapped in a highly technologically advanced exoskelton. There are critters running those there machineries. Getting through the skeleton to the creature was the hard part.
Have you met computer programmers? Of course they would program 'ut-oh' and 'get outta my way' into droids! More likely, the droids have enough AI built in to pick up languages and words spoken to them so they can integrate into local societies better. This way, little local slang isn't foreign to them, and they are able to use it as part of their vocabulary to communicate more effectively with locals. 'get out of my way' sounds exactly like something they would hear a lot. 'ut-oh' as well.
For me, the movie just seemed to drag and while I get the flip-flop of Anakin having been a build up process, his final decision to turn did seem to happen rather quickly and suddenly. Not a path he chose and began walking down, but more like a door he opened, then was forcibly pushed through. Which Palpatine likely had a great deal of ability to do. Help Anakin open the door, then when the time was right - push his weak mind straight through to the dark side in one fell swoop - but it still didn't seem right.
One thing I noticed that I did like was on the lava world, after Obi & Annakins fight, as Obi walked away, he picked up the light saber that he would give to Luke in Ep.IV.
I'm ready for the 3.5 hour version with all the deleted scenes put back in so the movie makes a little more sense... But, with the acting, it seems like it would just drag on instead of be better. I did NOT like how every shot of Padme seemed to be of her bare-belly or bare shoulders or bare flesh... She sleeps in a pearl beaded night gown! How freakin' obnoxious! Really, she seemed like the gratuitous flesh - which was exactly what Leia was NOT. Leia was a fighter - yet was attractive - but she made decisions and fought to follow them up. She wasn't all wishy washy like Padme.
Samuel L. Jackson should not have been a part of the movie ever. He did his wise overseer part in The Matrix and giving him the EXACT same role was more than a little weak. It was distracting from every single movie. Is there no other black actor who could have played that part? I would have taken Chris Rock over Jackson.
Yoda, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Palpatine were the best they have been in any of the movies so far. Yet, they still seemed to be working with a script that doesn't allow for one shortened word or natural flow from the lips. Freakin' emotionless Vulcans I say! "I will not let you die Padme"... drrr... how about "I'm not gonna let you die" - we already KNOW he's talking to her!
I did enjoy it, but if I'm paying money to go to see a movie, I'm going to TRY to enjoy it. I want to enjoy it.
