What bothers me most about the Coruscant diner scenes in AOTC is that they’re completely superficial and unnecessary, and only serve to pad out the movie’s runtime. When Zam Wessel dies, subtitle her alien language so she says something about Kamino; now you can cut out Detective Obi-Wan screwing around, cutting out about 20 minutes.

A lot of AOTC is like that, just runtime-padding nonsense. Along with the aforementioned cuts, you can trim much of the Naboo scenes, shaving off about 30 minutes or so, cut out most of the battle of Geonosis, saving 10. Boom, you’ve just cut down a 2 and a half hour movie down to one that’s only an hour and a half long. And you can trim it even further than that, with the overarching story remaining coherent and reasonable.