Originally posted by: CO

Originally posted by: sunday256
And the death of Shmi in AOTC. Some of you may think otherwise about the latter, but I was severely touched and shocked at that moment in the theater. It was handled very well I thought. So no, I don't believe they're necessarily watered down.
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I am never one to argue with a persons taste, but that scene is stolen from Superman:The Movie. Remember when the Smallville Part of the movie where Clark Kent is in high school and his father dies in front of him of a heart attack, and then he is with his mother in front of his grave and says, "With all these great powers, I still couldn't save you." Watch that part again from the 1978 movie, it is almost exactly alike.

Well thats hardly an legitimate argument against it. By that logic, most of the OT should be discarded because Lucas completely took scenes and imagery from other films--in fact the shot of Luke viewing the burning homestead, is, as i mentioned, taken from John Ford's The Searchers. Personally i found the schmi death to be a typical moment of the PT--a highly charged emotional scene that had the power to be poignant and touching, but was madly mishandled and only achieves a fraction of its power. Pernilla August was dreadful, the editing was sloppy and there is that cheesy moment that just instantly pulls you out of the film--she is having a poetic death scene but then she slumps her back dead, instantly. Its like a high school play. It's moments like that that just make even the best of the PT have some kind of ackward mar on it that any other director would been aware enough to avoid.