Deaths shrugged off, clumsy dialogue, confusing politics, unexplained attraction of Padme ( an adult) to Anakin (petulant late teen), horendous dialog, stilted acting, weird looking effects shots with light and shade not matching backgrounds, jedi that seem to be some cross between police/church and boy scouts, and dialogue that just sounds like crap...and thats just in the first ten minutes of AOTC.
I saw PM in the cinema and groaned my way thru it, and so didn't buy the dvd. I waited for AOTC to be released on dvd to watch it, and after watching it just twice, I now struggle to sit through it again. I'm now up to the part where Anakin just chopped up the Tusken raiders, after calling my wife in to laugh at the love sceen dialogue with Padme in front of the fire. So much of the story just baffles me. Why on earth would she be attracted to him? Why has he waited untill now to go find his mother? What kind of slime are the Jedi that they just get Anakin out of slavery, but never question if he would perhaps like to try to get his mother out of slavery as well? If he loves Padme so much, why doesn't he just quit as a Jedi to be with her?
Can someone explain in really, really simple terms of who the 'good guys' and the 'bad guys' are within the political factions of the stories in the PT? And who the Jedi answer too, or who funds their cause? Because it seems to me that the Jedi are working for the ' bad guys' throughout the PT.
Anyway, I got to go do the dishes.