I remember people laughing at Anakin's confession of murder in AOTC and Palpatine's Gollum moment in ROTS. Can't recall Vader's "noooooooo" either way but those two scenes definitely brought on unintended laughs in every screening of the movies I went to. If it was only one screening on one night in one town, hey, it happens. But for it to happen among your most core fans at the midnight premiere AND wide audiences in other screenings on multiple occasions... well, Lucas can argue "style" until he's blue in the face but if people laugh at something they think is fucking ridiculous, he has lost the argument. Period.Easterhay said:
I've heard a lot of people found the end of ROTK moving (that line "You bow to no-one" gets a lot of plaudits), I just remember feeling "When is this going to end?". A whole cinema laughing at one line in ROTS, though? Well, that's a new one on me, I must say. Maybe the acoustics made it sound like it was more people than it truly was. I saw the movie twice at the cinema and not a titter did I hear at that scene. Just goes to show you, eh?
I understand your point but I resent that attitude. No offense. That was the biggest movie of the year it came out (nevermind it became the most successful of all time). That type of success should be rewarded. The mainstream had a positive reaction. This idea that the Academy should ignore "cinema for plebes" like Titanic just makes no sense to me.Easterhay said:
I wouldn't attach too much importance to the Oscars, you know, zombie. A lot of that voting is purely political. I'm not saying LOTR didn't deserve its awards - it probably did - but I think to ignore the technical achievements of the SW prequels was petty and undeserved. These are the same people who showered Titanic with awards, remember.