TheBoost said:
Finally watched some of this.
What the FUCK is wrong with this dude's voice? He sounds like the lawyer from "Idiocracy."
I can't believe that this tool and Confused Mathew are actually not clear about the plot of this flick. My 8 year old nephew understood it just fine. Are there some holes, yes. Are there points that can be nitpicked, yes. But to act as if you plain dont understand the plot is ridiculous.
This dude pulls five minutes out of the idea that the Trade Federation had no way of knowing that Qui-Gon and Obi were Jedis. In a decade I've never heard anyone with their head far enough up their ass to suggest this was even an issue that crossed their mind.
That's when I gave up on it.
I know it's been a while and there were responses to this comment, but what the hell.
No, there is nothing to "understand" about this plot. RLM is completely right. The "relevant" plot is that Palpatine uses the Trade guys to advance himself politically, and that apparently this Naboo crisis somehow grows into the Separatist crisis (with no more information given other than Sidious is the chessmaster behind both, and the Trade guys are on board again).
Plinkett got that, and mentioned it repeatedly in his review. The complaint was that this "irrelevant" scheme was THE ENTIRE MOVIE, and nothing was told or shown about the Traders' motivations. And the fact that this movie was basically necessary because Palpatine happened to be a Senator on Naboo, pretty seals the deal on the plot of TPM being a complete total turd.
I wonder what your "8 year old nephew" "understood" about a whole bunch of superfluous nothing.
I have issues with some of his minor points (like the fact that Sidious DOES let the Neimoidians know about his political influence without giving away who he is, so him promising them political favours is a valid option), but he's right on the money with the general picture and the majority of the details.
The part with the Jedis was still right about the absurdity of the WAY the Traders concluded the ambassadors were Jedis beyond any doubt, and additionally made fun of the fact that the desert clothes from Tattoine are now the official Jedi uniform. Even moreso, there's a very subtle ridicule of the Jedi appearing to disguise their faces on their way to the waiting room only to take off their hoods in a cool fashion to proceed not disguising their faces. "Maybe it's not a disguise but whatever".
A brilliant little segment (that went on for maybe 20 seconds, nowhere near 5 minutes) about a small detail in the film, among segments focusing on other small details and large plot points. The fact that you even "gave up on it" because of that on your first viewing doesn't speak very highly of you ;)