Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi

It wasn't really the way in which it was pulled off by Hayden and Natalie that affected me, but more of what the point of those parts were. And the music helped a great deal to flesh out the meaning of the scenes. When I saw AOTC on May 16, 2002, I wasn't concerned about the acting, I was concerned about the story. And to me, AOTC delivered more than I had expected story-wise. Yeah, I know, that may sound odd to some, but that's how I've always felt about AOTC.

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I don't begrudge anyone for crying at the end of ROTS, cause the way ROTS plays out, we should cry, it is just sad that more of us didn't cry. (No Pun Intended) I put the blame on Lucas for that one, cause those characters didn't grip us enough to care in the end. I'm sure many SW fans cried and thought it was a tragic scene, and probably many just sat there and said to Anakin and Padme as they met their fates, "See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya!"

In the end, everyone likes different movies for different reasons, so laughing at someone for crying at a certain scene is pointless, but the fact that we are all SW fans, and alot of us didn't care about the PT characters really shows how Lucas really dropped the ball on this trilogy. He created such lovable characters in the OT, and for three movies you follow them, and that was the glue to the OT, the effects, the action, and the mythology were just gravy.

But for the PT, you have 2 movies of Hayden, 1 movie of Jake, 2 movies of McGregor as the main character and 1 as a minor character, 1 movie of Neeson, the only one who truly had a major role in all 3 movies is Portman, and when she dies, not many here really cared? It is another PT problem where everything is all over the place. If Lucas gave us 3 solid movies of Portman, McGregor, and Christenson as the leads in each movie, just like Ford, Fisher, and Hammill, they may have not been loved as much as the OT characters, but I guarantee it would have worked a hell of alot better than we feel now.