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No, it's not childhood bias, I saw Epi1 when I was 11, and Epi4-6 when I was 18. The prequels 'are' bad movies, while the older ones are actually 'good' movies. I'm not going to bother getting into this (tired) but I'll give you a link to something.
Red Letter Media, Harry S. Plinkett - SW:EP1
Inconsistancy
Sorry, but I'm not going to watch an hour of someone ranting just because you're too lazy to make a point.
Reading and comprehension, I said "tired". As in, I went to bed after typing that post. (prick)1. Characters
- Han Solo - Rogue, kindhearted
- Qui Gon - The "wise" master, (who runs in foolhardy, and never thinks things through)
I don't recall any of that. In fact I recall him doing quite the opposite.
- Obi-Wan - The wise master
- Obi Wan - The "headstrong" apprentice (who is calm and thinks through every situation)
He is calm, but he clearly doesn't think every situaton through (especially about Anakin).
- Leia - Strong, intelligent, leader
- Queen Amidala - ?
The loving queen who stops at nothing to ensure the safety of her people. Who is kindhearted to keep a little boy happy after leaving his mother. Who sets aside her own beliefs to go to war against the enemy who invaded her planet? Yeah, totally nothing.
2. Plot holes: Epi1
- Why didn't they destroy the Jedi ship when it was in the hanger 'with' the Jedi in it? They seem to have no 'real' need for an ambassador to be on board in the first place.
Because Sidious hadn't order the Vicory to kill them yet. After the ship landed the Trade Federation found out they were Jedi, causing them to call Sidious for advice.
- How did the droid notice that the ambassadors were Jedi Knights?
The probably told the droid because they were sent there to force a settlement, not to negotiate.
- Why didn't they use Carbon Monoxide to kill the Jedi, instead of Diaoxin? Clear, no smell vs white crap.
They underestimated the Jedi, the Viceroy believed the Diaoxin would kill them
- Why didn't they just leave them in the room for a half hour while they died from the gas?
Because they thought the Jedi were dead. "The must be dead by now. Destroy what's left of them."
- Why was a 'Trade' Federation blockading a planet, shouldn't they want to 'Trade'?
They were protesting the taxsation of trade routes, and were manipulated by Darth Sidious. They're very greed, even to the point that they would invade a planet and kill it's people over taxes. This is all explained in the opening.
- What offer did Palpatine make to the Trade Federation to get them to do something so absurd?
Darth Sidious is also Senator Palpatine, so he could have very well told them he has power in the senate and that he would help them with the taxsation of trade routes.
- Why is it that the Trade Federation is so militaristic?
They were there to blockade a planet, why wouldn't they have an army?
- (when using the lightsaber to cut through the door), how come Obi/Qui were able to run so fast, and never were able to do so again in the movie?
May due with being exhaustion, he did just use the Force tojump for a lower walkway to a much higher one. He could have been conserving his power too, so he didn't drain up his enegy and remain defenseless throughout the duel.
- How could a giant droid ship not have any cameras, especially on the landing craft? Easily some of the worst designed militiary equipment in the history of war.
They do have some sort of surviallence since they watched the Jedi battle outside they room. The Jedi also wanted to sneak on to the ship, so they could have very easily avoided cameras. You can nitpick every movie to death like this, even the original trilogy.
--- End Section 1
((section2) skipping gungan crap)
- Why didn't they kill the Queen and forge her signature, to "make it legal"? They don't seem to need her for much else.
Because they need senate to witness the signing. The senate may need to question her later, or word might get out that the queen was killed and the signature was forged, which would also be illegal. It just isn't a good idea to kill the one person you need to sign a treaty to make an invasion legal.
- Why aren't they actually killing the citizens? Does it really matter?
They were killing citizens, the movie points that out multiple times.
- Why do they guard everything with the Droids, which are clearly utterly ineffectual in guarding vs Jedi? (kill them?)
That's all they have, besides they didn't actually know if Jedi made down to the planet or not, but they did assign a watch party. The camps could very well have many more droids than your standard patrol escorting the Queen to on of the camps.
- Why did they guard the pilots right 'next' to their ship?
Perhaps waiting to be moved to a camp, from what the movie shows they were still processing many citizens. They had just arrived, processing takes time.
- Why didn't they destroy the ship while it was on the ground?
Why should they? They believed they captured everyone, destroying a ship wouldn't help their plans unless they thought the Queen somehow escapse with her gaurds (who are all unarmed), allowing them to be able to steal a heavily guarded ship and the pilots. They had no real reason to.
- When they got on the ship, they were invincible with the shields, so why when it fell, did it not come back up 'before' getting past the Trade ship? They were in the clear, by the time the shields were back up.
No they weren't, in fact they were blasted quite a few time with and without the shields on.
- Why did they hold a stupid ceremony for R2D2, he's a droid, a tool.
They thanked R2 for a job well done making it clear they treat their droids differently than Trade Federation treats their battle droids.
--- End Section 3
I'll stop here on this. And no, before you say anything, this isn't a simple nitpick, good movies aren't so poorly thought out.
No, a lot of these points are nitpicks, while some points RLM clearly misunderstood or clearly was not paying attention to the movie.
3. If SW is a little kids movie, then why in Epi1 does it deal with such boring politics all the time?
1. Boring is sujective. I actually like watching how Palpitne's plans all work out in prequels.
2. It shows how Palpatine became Chancellor, and throughout the trilogy it's revealed that the Battle of Naboo was just his way of becoming elected. The prequels also show how he used the Clone Wars to not only distract the Jedi and wipe them out, but to also gain the support of the senate, allowing him to change the Republic into a Galactic Empire and himself into Emperor.
The whole review is just about a guy nitpicking a movie to death, you can do that with any movie.I'll do it to ANH.
- Why do the stromtroopers funnel out to their deaths through the docking door? Couldn't they have thrown a bomb to distract the rebels and then come throught the door?
- Why do C-3PO and R2 walk throught a hallway full of blaster shooting and not wait until the firing had stopped?
- How did R2 know Leia needed him for a mission?
- When the Imperials saw a escape launch, why didn't they just shoot it anyway just in case?
- Even though Vader believes the Princess sent the Death Star codes (very important) to the planet below, why does he take his Star Destroyer and leave?
That's all I'm going to do. Again, these all have answers, the movie doesn't have time to answer every little detail about the plot or story.
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