Worst Dialogue from Revenge of the Sith. — Page 3

Lexa C said:

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“Chancellor Palpatine, Sith Lords are our speciality.”

I always hated that line because it implies that fighting sith lords is like one of the jedi things that jedi do. Based on the original trilogy alone it seems like Darth Vader only has a lightsaber because he’s a fallen jedi, but the prequels changed that and now I’m rambling…

Anyway yeah I get it’s like a joke, but like most of the “funny” lines in the PT it comes across as cringe-inducing.

There’s so many lines between Anakin and Padme that I could choose from, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind:

“You are so beautiful.”
“It’s only because I’m so in love.”
“No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.”
“So love has blinded you?”
This is the one scene I consider skipping whenever I rewatch that movie. It’s mercifully short, but that dialogue is painful. And it doesn’t even make sense either, it’s like a line or two got cut.

But the more baffling one is this one:
“Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo; so long ago when there was nothing but our love. No politics, no plotting, no war.”
The first sentence is already bad, but then it has to go the extra mile. No politics, no plotting, no war? Did Padme get knocked on the head and forget everything that happened in the previous two movies?

JadedSkywalker said:

What I found terrible was her excusing him killing Tusken children as animals, and then she couldn’t believe Obi-Wan about the younglings.

That was also pretty ridiculous. And how you can tell Ewan McGregor is stifling laughter when he says the line “I have seen a security hologram of him killing younglings.”

“Love won’t save you. Only my new powers can do that.” is the single worst line in all of Star Wars, bar none.

philraid said:

There’s so many lines between Anakin and Padme that I could choose from, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind:

“You are so beautiful.”
“It’s only because I’m so in love.”
“No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.”
“So love has blinded you?”
This is the one scene I consider skipping whenever I rewatch that movie. It’s mercifully short, but that dialogue is painful. And it doesn’t even make sense either, it’s like a line or two got cut.

This 110%. I remember feeling my heart sink to the pit of my stomach the first time I watched that scene. I was still too young to quite recognize the abysmal quality of the dialogue/delivery in TPM & AOTC when I first watched them, but I was finally old enough when ROTS rolled around, and this exchange was a doozy.

Oh, I just thought of another one. When Mace Windu finds out that Palpatine is a Sith Lord from Anakin, and he says “we must move quickly if the Jedi Order is to survive” as he walks SLOWLY across the landing platform. That one always makes me laugh.