Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
The only two one-liners I actually enjoyed were, "I'm so confused!" and, to a slightly lesser degree, "I'm programmed for etiquette, not destruction!"

Yes, the "I'm programmed for etiquette!" line is the only one that actually comes from 3P0's character and thats why its funny--its simply the character responding to the situation he's in and the result is humorous, and this is how you write humor. 3P0 would be horrified to discover his dissassembled body is used for combat. The other stuff like "what a drag"--that was just thrown in there, out of character, out of universe, and awkward in its arbitrariness. To me those lines weren't as annoying as the Anakin-Padme stuff--I mean those are just throw-away lines, gags that you forget about 2 seconds later. The Anakin-Padme stuff was the core of both the entire characters and the story of the PT, and people were laughing their heads off in the theater--a failure of equal preportion to the success of the original film. I am still struggling to comprehend how such shit ended up being made. I mean this is the heart of the story--and Anakin is pouring his heart out. And we laughed! We laughed not only at the absurdity of the writing but that this was being passed off with sincerity by a supposed professional! I mean it was worse than high school dramas, without hyperbole--the thing feels like it was written and directed by a 12 year old. Yeah, cool scenes of stuff exploding and people fighting with swords, but not that exciting cause theres no dramatic structure--but characters that ring as true as one would expect from a boy who had never had social contact and gotten all his experience from reading third-rate 1950's comics. Theres an emotional immaturity in AOTC thats embarrassing, really, because the characters are not characters, they are just actors reading from a script.