[Despondent]

"Not even the Dumblings were surprised."

[Shrike]

  p.s. I, too, wanted to smack each and every one of the idiots around me in the cinema who laughed when artoo set the two droids on fire.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

To be fair to some of those laughing people, if they were like me, it was because they thought it was so silly they couldn't help it. By that I mean in the Battlefield Earth, occasionally so bad it is unintentionally funny way.

[Paladin]

Great batches! I missed out on the last ones, seeing that I was just not that interested in internet forums for the past month. Anyway, I just can't wait until the next batch comes out... It makes me wonder whether I should actually buy Episode III or just leave it unwatched.

But then again, the movie marathon of mine wouldn't really take place.

What do yuo guys think I should do?

[Chefelf]

Comin' at ya!

91 Reasons to Hate Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Part 7: Reasons 61-70

[Helena]

Reason #66
Liberty Dies (Shoddy Political Statement)
"The attempt on my life has left me scarred and deformed... but I assure you my resolve has never been stronger."

When Palpatine gets before the Senate, he announces that the Republic will be reorganized as the First Galactic Empire. Everyone in the Senate then applauds wildly as if Palpatine had just opened for Van Halen. Padme, sulking in her Senate seat, says "so this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause." We are then left to reel at that biting political commentary. And by "reel" I of course mean "cringe."

I must say that given the state of the Republic as seen in the PT, I'm not surprised that its demise was met with thunderous applause. Even the Empire has to be better than a government as staggeringly incompetent as the Senate.

We know that Lucas intends this movie to be a clever metaphor for what is going on in the United States right now and, more so, where it could be heading. Unfortunately, it is so obvious and poorly done that it fails on every possible level. And that's coming from someone who happens to share Lucas's political views.

And here we have another example of Lucas's sledgehammer approach to politics. I happen to share these views as well, but did he have to make the Bush-bashing quite as obvious? He might as well have had Palpatine referring to the Seperatists as 'the Axis of Evil'.

This post has been edited by Helena: 18 July 2005 - 09:36 AM

[Chefelf]

I'm not really surprised by the applause either. It's Amidala's commentary I could do without. :yuck:

[Despondent]

(sound of tentacles slapping together)

THIS is the way "Nitpickers" get their work done: To Thunderous Applause.

Great job, Chefelf!

[julie123]

Quote

[quote=Helena,Jul 18 2005, 02:29 PM]
I must say that given the state of the Republic as seen in the PT, I'm not surprised that its demise was met with thunderous applause. Even the Empire has to be better than a government as staggeringly incompetent as the Senate.

This might have been true if the Empire was not about to be ruled over by the same person who had led the staggeringly incompetent Senate.

However, Chef, was this biting political commentary re the thunderous applause and Padme? I thought she was helping the blind members of the Senate - much like if, Palpatine had been licking an ice cream; she would have said 'oh, so that's how you eat an ice cream'

[Helena]

This might have been true if the Empire was not about to be ruled over by the same person who had led the staggeringly incompetent Senate.

But the Senate was staggeringly incompetent long before Palapatine took over; he simply allowed it to stay that way because he wanted it to fail.

On the other hand, I will admit that Palpatine himself isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the box. Why bother with all those convoluted political machinations, any of which could easily have failed, when he could just ally his clone army to the TF's droids and stomp all over the Jedi and the Republic?

[Sauron]

My nitpick at your nitpicks...

Can you count?

You skipped 55 and there are two 68's (not to mention listing '31' twice)

so what the heck is up?

so on your list these are what they actually are:

56 = 55
57 = 56
58 = 57
59 = 58
60 = 59
61 = 60
62 = 61
63 = 62
64 = 65
65 = 64
66 = 65
67 = 66
68 = 67
67(a) = 68
68(a) = 69
69 = 70
70 = 71


So once again we've gotten a bonus reason.

Where the heck is your editor? proofreader? Have these movies left you as scarred as the Emperor?

BTW: I'm not trying to be a jerk just let you know of your slight mistakes. The reasons have been 'good' so far. Episode I's reasons are still the best. Probably because you wrote them after years of hatred built up instead of weeks...

[Harvey Globetrotter]

My nitpick to Sauron's nitpicks of Chefelf's nitpicks;

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Somebody call the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance.

[Sauron]

Hey jerkoff, nobody was talking to you...

[Storm]

I think the Emperor's cackling is hilarious. I can't say how many times my brother and I have re-enacted scenes involving Sidious from ROTS. It's good stuff.

[Sauron]

Yeah, me and several of my friends have jokes we do about this movie EVERY DAY. But that's not a good thing.......

My personal favorite is to imitate the way the empereror says:"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD" - if you can get a good gargle in your voice it's fun

One thing about the emperor in the pod throwing scene that always bothers me is that when Yoda throws the pod back at him he reminds me SOOO much of the killer ghost character from the 'Scream' movies

[Supes]

Reason #65
Volcano Planet
In keeping with the true nature of Star Wars planets (i.e. ice planet, desert planet, cloud planet, forest planet, city planet), we are treated to another planet that has no variety at all: a special volcano planet! This makes me pray for an Episode VII, holding out hope that there will someday be a tornado planet.

You forgot the water planet

Another great set of Reasons Nate! Lookng forward to the last few to finally complete the set.