Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

The dialogue is stilted and lacking in finesse. Every line delivered between Anakin and Padmé feels like an anvil is being dropped on your head. It’s painful. I cringed. A lot. This is clearly nothing new. No one expects Lucas to be as skilled with the pen as Homer, but maybe if he’d bothered to make it believable that a beautiful and influential older woman like Senator Padmé Amidala could ever find Anakin Skywalker anything other than a petulant teenager then there’d be a lot less groaning out in the audience.

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