Darth Rabbitt wrote:
I’m also curious as to why you think Attack of the Clones was more mature than the rest of the movies, unless you meant you meant you thought it was less. It has the dumbest plot of any Star Wars movie not called The Ewok Adventure, The Clone Wars or The Star Wars Holiday Special.
I would certainly agree that Attack of the Clones has the most mature targets of any of the movies. It has the thesis statement of the entire prequel trilogy, and it's dark as fuck:
The Prequel Trilogy was supposed to be about the rise of fascism, and Lucas had a lot of clear insight into this process. His predictions that we would see the rise of fascism over the escalations of inane trade deal minutiae turns out to be spot on. Who knew?
Attack of the Clones is marred by clumsy storytelling, a fucking awful romance, and some of the cringiest unintentional comedy in Star Wars history. I mean, for fuck's sake:
That's really bad, alright? It's just really bad. And between that and the whole thing where the movie made it so Vader wasn't related to Owen and knew where he lives while the original trilogy plainly stated the opposite and people were
mad about Attack of the Clones. And they had a right to be. It's clumsy and most of the movie doesn't hold together very well as a stand alone work and taken as part of the series it works even less well. The call backs fail utterly because of how badly the potential romance with Amidala was set up in TPM with Anakin being played by an autistic 8 year old, and the call forwards are expletive inducing because Lucas never allowed continuity editors to go through his script drafts and match them to setting declarations from the Original Trilogy.
But Attack of the Clones is
absolutely the movie that has the biggest big boy pants in the entire series. The political subplot is dark, prescient, and actually quite chilling. But a lot of people don't notice because bad romance and messy storytelling. I mean, that movie has Elan Sleazebaggano in it. When it's not doing its galaxy brain takes on the fail states of democratic government, the movie is a fucking mess.
-Username17