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Originally posted by: jimbo"Anakin was too imature in The Phantom Menace"
He was a fucking nine year old kid. How mature are nine year old kids.
Fine -- but it makes for a lousy movie. My complaint is not that the kid didn't act his age, just that every aspect of the story would have made more sense (and been more tolerable to watch) if Lucas had written him a little older. Start the story when he's even just 11 or 12, and it would have been miles better. It's far easier to find good actors in that age range, far easier to believe both his interest and skill with building and repairing droids and racers, far easier to believe his later infatuation with whatserface if it wasn't based on their short time together when he was NINE, and on and on and on...
Seriously, the whole thing would have been so much better.