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[RedSparrows]

Nah. Leave it.

 

[JB1981]

You forgot the laugh track

 

[SolidChamp]

Fuck it.

Ruminations. An astonishingly good scene in an astonishingly mediocre film:

https://youtu.be/_hoXNXSpmng

 

[Ushojax]

Lol. I suppose the first shot is well composed. But the cringe. Young couples can be cringey though, just not when one of you is Darth Vader.

The ruminations scene is excellent though. The one with both Anakin and Padme being emotional and staring out the windows.Just before he decides to go kill Windy and save Palpy. The ost for that scene is godlike as well.

That is the best scene in the prequels, without question. Probably the only moment where Anakin's internal struggle was convincing. No surprise that the only scene without dialogue was the one where his relationship with Padme felt real.

 

[CaviarMeths]

Fuck it.

Ruminations. An astonishingly good scene in an astonishingly mediocre film:

https://youtu.be/_hoXNXSpmng

Legit great scene.

 

[Thorgal]

honestly how can people say that is the worst scene of the film whenTHIS exists ?

Like nobody of the production crew or ANY of the Test audiences looked at that line and said " shouldn't we change that ? Vader Wailing NOOOOOOOOO with that voice sounds monumentally silly and stupid "

like NOBODY? REALLY ?

 

[BassForever]

Lots of good ideas executed terribly, the prequels in a nut shell.

 

[TheMagician]

Yeah, there are a lot more worse scenes than this in the prequels.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

What if it was really the sand that blinded him?

LOL

 

[Schlorgan]

This reads like a parody thread.

 

[ascii42]

The scene is awkward, but I always thought Padme’s “so love has blinded you?” was a pretty good response.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Fuck it.

Ruminations. An astonishingly good scene in an astonishingly mediocre film:

https://youtu.be/_hoXNXSpmng

What do you know?
A scene with almost zero dialogue except a short clip of Ian Mcdiarmid in the background is pleasant to watch?

Why I'm Shocked I tell you!

 

[Monocle]

I, as a human, enjoy the robust social intercourse that specimen Padme and specimen Anakin—also real actual humans—engage in to show their real human love, which is a satisfactory precursor to the fertilization of specimen Padme's eggs, by means of physical interface with the male subject.

 

[Torquill]

You do realise that both have essentially been soilders on the frontline of a war that has lasted since they were children. Thats right Padme and Anakin were child soilders who were fighting almost singlehandedly at times to hold everything together and they managed to find love in spite of that.

Naratively their journey is pretty incredible. Even if the prequels dont pay off as well as they could have.

How do you figure? Both were adults when the Clone Wars started.

 

[Blackthorn]

Fuck it.

Ruminations. An astonishingly good scene in an astonishingly mediocre film:

https://youtu.be/_hoXNXSpmng

The use of CG sets gives this is a real PS1 Final Fantasy era vibe that I appreciate.

 

[SilentRob]

Fuck it.

Ruminations. An astonishingly good scene in an astonishingly mediocre film:

https://youtu.be/_hoXNXSpmng

Holy shit, this movie looks like a FMV game from today's point of view.

 

[Monocle]

Fuck it.

Ruminations. An astonishingly good scene in an astonishingly mediocre film:

https://youtu.be/_hoXNXSpmng

I still can't taken Hayden Christensen's acting seriously. He just crinkles his brow a lot and poses like he's doing a cover shoot for Teen Vogue.

 

[ascii42]

How do you figure? Both were adults when the Clone Wars started.

Probably referring to the battle for Naboo in Episode I.

 

[SuicidalSteve]

 

[Amalthea]

You can say what you want but the prequel trilogy has the best memes.

 

[Astral Dog]

Thats why i dont like Darth Vader

 

[dofry]

I don’t recognise this scene. I mean the scenery looks like Star Wars but everything else is off. Fanfic?

 

[Ushojax]

honestly how can people say that is the worst scene of the film whenTHIS exists ?

Like nobody of the production crew or ANY of the Test audiences looked at that line and said " shouldn't we change that ? Vader Wailing NOOOOOOOOO with that voice sounds monumentally silly and stupid "

like NOBODY? REALLY ?

Of course they said that...to themselves...when George wasn't in the room. The trouble is that Lucas was both the director and the owner of the production company/VFX house. What are they supposed to do? Speak up and get fired? It must have been very painful for the SW fans at Lucasfilm/ILM to work on such garbage.

Just imagine how the crew in Episode 1 must have felt, seeing the rest of the planet get hyped like never before while they have to animate Jar Jar Binks for 2 years. I bet they all saw the iceberg.

 

[All Possible Ways]

You don't want to sell us this scene OP.
You want to go home and rethink your life.

 

[keuja]

Anakin: You are so…beautiful.
Padme: It’s only because I’m so in love.
Anakin: No. No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
Padme: Then love has blinded you?
Anakin: Well…that’s not exactly what I meant.
Padme: But it’s probably true.

So beautiful and masterfully acted.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Fuck it.

Ruminations. An astonishingly good scene in an astonishingly mediocre film:

https://youtu.be/_hoXNXSpmng

This is the best scene of the prequel trilogy. If they held on to this quality throughout, we'd look back on it very differently, all other things (lol-tier CGI) considered.

 

[mavericktopgun]

Anakin: You are so…beautiful.
Padme: It’s only because I’m so in love.
Anakin: No. No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
Padme: Then love has blinded you?
Anakin: Well…that’s not exactly what I meant.
Padme: But it’s probably true.

So beautiful and masterfully acted.

...and written. Lol.

I think even if Colin Trevorrow directed Episode 1-3 they would've been better..

 

[Biske]

This scene is fucking terrible. Zero chemistry, they throw out dialogue like half baked robots. Awful. Just awful.


Gonna go fix up the babies room eh? Yeah? Gonna put up some nice space wall paper, do some nice space painting queenie?


What fucking movie do they think they are in.



Sometimes I wonder if I'm living on a joke planet.

 

[CharmingCharlie]

So... Padme dies because "she lost the will to live...."

SHOULDN'T YOU TRY STICKING AROUND FOR THE KIDS YOU JUST POPPED OUT??

To be fair to Padme I felt exactly the same fucking way after watching the film. Oh and this scene the op posted was just bad in every imaginable way which kind sums up starwars 1, 2 and 3 really.

 

[Haloid1177]

I know everyone shits on Jar Jar but every Padme/Anakin scene in AOTC/ROTS was way worse.

 

[Glass Rebel]

You can say what you want but the prequel trilogy has the best memes.

I always thought this, even before I discovered the Chinese bootleg subtitles.

 

[jdstorm]

How do you figure? Both were adults when the Clone Wars started.

Probably referring to the battle for Naboo in Episode I.

Yeah this. Padme is what 14 (or is it 16?) and she's raiding a palace blaster in hand firing live blaster rounds in anger against those that took her home. Anakin is 10 ish and he's flying a starfighter into a combat zone where he shoots down the enemies primary battleship (or whatever it was)

We know that after those events Anakin joins the Jedi where he is trained as a child soilder and often sent on dangerous missions with Obi wan where Anakin is a glorified mercenry in a religious PMC. Meanwhile Padme is confident enough with a blaster in hand to join a dangerous mission to genosis sight unseen. This eventually triggers the clone wars.

 

[I Wanna Be The Guy]

I liked The Phantom Menace. Pod racing, Qui Gonn, Darth Maul. The best sabre battle of the prequels.

 

[Goldfishking]

The prequels had so many great ideas. Anakin to darth vader transition is one of them. A man in love trying to save the woman he loves, annoyed at the jedi order and filled with rage. This rage is then manipulated by the chancellor who turns out to be a sith lord, turning anakin into darth vader and causing the fall of the republic and the start of an empire.

It all sounds great on paper, but in execution...

 

[M.W.]

Horrible scene. Horrible acting. Horrible movie. Horrible thread. The Last Jedi will rock.

 

[Professional Enthusiast]

Just noticed she's brushing her CURLY hair. Wtf George.

 

[Number_6]

I need to rewatch these. Too funny.

 

[Ithil]

My question is what the hell is going with Natalie Portman in this scene?

She looks like a god damn lunatic. How does the hair and makeup department make such a famously beautiful woman look nuts? It's just this scene, too.

 

[Ottaro]

Honestly that scene gets worse every time I see it.

 

[Vital Tundra]

Can we talk about that four square screen wipe, though?

 

[JB1981]

Why is Anakin sitting back in the shadows ogling her like a stalker?

 

[Transistor]

This can't be a real thread

 

[TacoMasters]

Ehh, I'm not sure about that. This scene is still weird every time I watch through it.

 

[Ithil]

Anakin: You are so...beautiful.
Padme: It's only because I'm so in love.
Anakin: No. No, it's because I'm so in love with you.
Padme: Then love has blinded you?
Anakin: Well...that's not exactly what I meant.
Padme: But it's probably true.

So beautiful and masterfully acted.

Anakin should have been a wookie.

Anakin: RRrrrrraawwwww!
Padme: It's only because I'm so in love.
Anakin: Rawb rawb rawb!
Padme: Then love has blinded you?
Anakin: ARRRRRhhhhhh!
Padme: But it's probably true.

He would then presumably ask to borrow her hair brush.

 

[Budi]

That's deep.

 

[tci]

If you replace the entire dialog.. maybe the scene can be tolerable to watch. There is absolutely no depth to their characters, at all. In the entire Episode trilogy there are only a handful of decent scenes. This is not one of them.

 

[TheExecutive]

The worst scene in Star Wars is the one in AOTC where Anakin confesses to mudering men, women and children and Padme doesn't care. Anakin and Padme were monstrous people and deserved what they got.

Exactly. Intentional or not they made Padme a POS.

 

[Glass Shark]

.

 

[RyanW]

Anakin should have been a wookie.

Anakin: RRrrrrraawwwww!
Padme: It’s only because I’m so in love.
Anakin: Rawb rawb rawb!
Padme: Then love has blinded you?
Anakin: ARRRRRhhhhhh!
Padme: But it’s probably true.

He would then presumably ask to borrow her hair brush.

The scene would be much more memorable

 

[Oberon]

The worst scene in Star Wars is the one in AOTC where Anakin confesses to mudering men, women and children and Padme doesn't care. Anakin and Padme were monstrous people and deserved what they got.

Those were Sand People, and movie does a great job telling us what Anakin thinks of Sand. It all makes sense.

Also this

OP, have you heard the tale of darth plagueis the wise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcT4L_frrHI