Gaffer Tape said:

twooffour said:

At any rate, it could be any of the above - all I know is, I can somewhat chuckle at the goofiness of it, but ultimately, I find the Neimoidians with their inept botox faces and silly accents much more annoying than amusing, and that's what counts for me.

And there you go. After all the condescending and pretentious arguing from you, we finally get to the real reason: you find the effect to be annoying. There. Why was that so hard to say? Why couldn't you have just said that instead of posturing behind a whole bunch of crap about the jarring effects of dialects?

(Oh, and by the way, Nien Nunb speaks an actual African language. Has that ever pulled you out of the movie? Have you ever spent serious time contemplating why there are Africans in space? Or did you just accept it?)

No idea who Nien Nunb is - but obviously, nothing I said applies if the viewer isn't familiar with the language in question.
If someone gave me a sample of Elvish and told me that it's an actual archaic language, do you think I'd not buy it?

I like how you call MY arguing pretentious, while you were the one philosophizing about the "limited scope" of viewers considering their own ethnicity the center of the universe (completey understanding everything I'd written) without realizing that the actual movie was at fault, doing exactly this.

At any rate, no, the fact that I find the Neimoidians lame and annoying, has nothing to do with what I'd said earlier.
The fact that having an alien from another planet posing in a CLEARLY RECOGNIZEABLE ETHNIC GUISE breaks suspension of disbelief and suggests allusion and allegory, doesn't say anything about whether it's well-made and intentional, or unfunny and "offensive".

Clearly, you once again haven't read anything I've written, or paid any attention, otherwise you wouldn't have posted what you just did ;)
If you don't like me pointing this out, then, well, that's too bad.