unamochilla2 said:

NeverarGreat said:

Carthage said:

No diner scenes plz.

Dinner scenes plz.

Reason being that dinner scenes, such as the one from Star Wars, was such a normal occurrence in movies that the audience could easily believe in the reality of the Lars family and their homestead. Juxtaposed with the alien strangeness of the following binary sunset, a simple dinner scene does more to make Luke's character relatable to the audience than any other interaction in the trilogy.

I agree it worked well in the original film, but the diner and dinner scenes in AOTC felt off. Especially when Anakin was showing off to Padme. Even the deleted dinner with Padme's family didn't feel like it belonged in the Star Wars universe... at least to me. I guess it depends on how the dinner scene is presented.

Of course, I did not mean to imply that those scenes in the prequels had merit. What I meant to say was that even such a cliche movie situation can have merit if done intentionally to highlight another aspect of the film. The dinner scene in TPM never gave a clear contrast to the alien aspects of the film as there were two Jedi and an alien in the scene. It may have been more powerful if the business of the Jedi was completed and they left after the storm, then Anakin had dinner with his mother, allowing the surreal nature of the previous events to settle in and show that Shmi was just a normal mother trying to provide some constancy in the life of her gifted child. And I won't even mention the AOTC dinner scene.