i have now seen star wars episodes one and two, and i watched them the way lucas intended: as a pan & scan crop on a low res TFT display accompanied by the dulcet tones of a quiet yet ruthlessly persistent buzzing noise while severely jet lagged and moderately sleep deprived.
i only fell asleep four times.
i thought attack of the clones was alright. doesn't compare to the original trilogy imo. i was distinctly less appreciative of the phantom menace. i was too tired to watch the third one, so i never found out what happened to that wacky anakin character. i sure hope he doesn't turn to the dark side, or that qui gon guy is gonna look like a complete tool.
my wife told me before watching that episode 1 has a single funny joke involving jar-jar. i think she over counted by one. we both agree on the number of funny jar-jar jokes in episode 2 (that being zero).
not giving them review scores because it's not really fair to do that if i kept falling asleep due to jet lag.
Chris [list of emoji]
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in reply to Lynnesbian • • •for the longest time, i'd seen people dunking on the "coarse and rough and irritating" line. you'd see it in The Seven Lamest Lines in Movie History on cracked dot com and the like.
but having watched the scene... it makes sense. anakin is an awkward teenager desperately trying to impress the (literal) girl of his dreams. he puts his foot in his mouth constantly.
most people cut off the quote after the sand bit, but there's more: "not like here. everything here is smooth. especially you." he's trying to casually make an analogy about how attractive padme is. he's a lovesick teen! of course he talks like that!
the quote accomplishes what it's setting out to do: it shows that anakin has butterflies for this girl. it's a good line! it's not delivered poorly, it's delivered exactly how it should be!