Mr Khan said:
haxxiy said:
Mr Khan said:
Objectively, there's a good bit of bad filmmaking going on in 1-3. Have you seen the Red Letter Media reviews? It lays out the problems with the movies in a way that's hard to argue against.
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RLM dissected it in a way that can applied to almost any fiction work with the same results. I tried it once with great success on Game of Thrones, the first book of A Song of Ice and Fire alongside a friend who's a literature major. We exposed the results to the fans... and they weren't happy at all with us. Except for Phantom Menace, whose plotholes are very hard to overlook, most of the criticism directed at Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith could be explained in-universe or are not problems at all and are fallacious e.g. attacking the straw man, appeal to ridicule etc.
Except the romance of course. It's valid to criticize that one. It was completely crap from the beginning and it felt like to me that Padme found Anakin so hot she pretended his failed flirtation had any effect on her. That's my headcanon at least.
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I may have misrepresented myself. I don't agree with Plinkett entirely, just that he makes a solid argument in many cases (from a cinematography standpoint, something i'm not an expert in).
I do agree that some of the plotlines make much more sense when you think about them. I still say that Anakin's turn to the dark side was masterfully executed, even if it looks kind of stupid at first glance.
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Masterfully? Palpatine tricked him, Padme dies of sadness (or something), it was never explained why Anakin was called 'Vader'? Anakin chose to trust a Sith Lord over his fellow Jedi who trained him and educated him for years over some dream that may never happen. Masterful?
