Concerning Anakin's creepiness I've always interpreted it as the fact that as a jedi he wasn't taught how to express his emotions but how to repress them. I think it works for most of the jedis because they haven't known anything else because they were trained since they were toddlers. However Anakin began at 9 and he was already full of emotions, so when you have all of this in you and you aren't allowed to express it, it gives this creepy, awkward and after all overly honest talk. And I think Padme likes his honesty and his recklesness because she wasn't allowed to have fun, to be a child, since she was at the head of a planet at 14. And she must not have seen many sincere people during that time neither, so it must be good to have someone who talks his mind without any filter. That's my take on it anyway
You're exactly right about Anakin being taught to repress his emotions rather than express them. Note, the music that plays during the Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan/Maul battle in Episode I is called "Duel of the Fates" - Qui-Gon's death determined Anakin's fate as Obi-Wan teaches in a much more 'by the book' way than Qui-Gon would've, ultimately influencing many of his decisions in this movie and the next.
@@Jackalos1 Obi Wan just wasn’t the right person for Anakin, who was a troubled, and conflicted guy. I wonder why Obi Wan didn’t train Anakin the way that Qui Gon would’ve done it? At least Obi Wan learned from his mistakes and goes about training Luke very differently, he wasn’t overly critical, and he listened to him. He was able to amend his mistakes with Anakin in how he went about training Luke.
@@Shutterbug5269 I'm fairly sure it's not supposed to be "romance dialogue" - Anakin is an awkward teenager, who's never flirted with a girl - it would be way more jarring if Anakin wasn't extremely cringe trying to impress Padmé.
It is possible to write "awkward teenager" without making Anakin sound creepy. George Lucas has always suffered from poor dialog choices. In the Original trilogy, however Harrison Ford knew him well enough (they'd been friends for years before Star Wars) to take him aside and tell him when it wasn't working. Nobody acting in the prequels was secure enough in their careers or knew him well enough to dare do that and the prequels suffered for it.
This always made me laugh: the dark lord ordered count dooku to kill amidala, so count dooku hired jango fett, to kill amidala, so jango fett hired the shapeshifter bounty hunter to kill amidala, and you could say she hired centipedes to kill amidala. like wtf xD
I mean, Palpatine could've also rammed a speeder with explosives into Padmé's penthouse while yelling "It's me, Sheev!" But he didn't need her dead. Gunray wanted her dead, but the Sith didn't give a damn about Gunray. They repeatedly dismissed him when he told them to kill her. It was more than enough to endanger her, get her off the planet, make the senators feel unsafe and more prone to vote for authoritarian safety measures and give them a taste for the clone army. If Darth Sidious wants someone dead he kills them. If he wants to anonymously stir up conflict he hires a chain of underlings. Not too hard to get behind.
@@VerowakReacts The Force works in mysterious ways... So this might go into a bit more detail, but it's never directly said in any of the movies so I don't think it can really be considered a spoiler at all, and it's still just speculation on my part... You just know/recognize it if you've done stuff like read the books or played the games, but Jango is from a culture of warriors renowned for their ability to fight Jedi/Force users (based on his armor). And I think if he had targeted either Anakin or Obi-Wan with direct intent they would've sensed it coming via the Force and blocked/avoided it and taking away his element of surprise, leaving Zam (the changeling) alive in their custody, so he took the safest option to take her out of the equation entirely and then booked it out of there.
Well, now I'm laughing. Maybe Lucas meant for these to be comedies? Starmtroopers can't aim. (Not true btw, the Force protects our heroes so that the shots are deflected. Remember Vader said in New Hope, "The Force is strong with this one"), Lightsabers that somehow turn light into a solid, brother and sister kissing each other, Anakin's Mom is a knock-off of Mary, Mother of Jesus? No father, just germs for a Dad? Han Shot First until he didn't shoot first. Anakin's mom let's him make a Major Life Decision at age Nine? What could go wrong with that? LOL Need I go on? I'll stick to 4,5,6, Rogue One and Solo.
Jar Jar trivia: the actor who played him actually became very depressed at the reaction to the character. So much in fact that he contemplated suicide. He has since overcome and come to terms with it and was even given a new, important cameo role in a Star Wars series
@@VerowakReactsThe Auralnauts channel has created an alternate Star Wars with much less Jar Jar. It’s were I got the heroin joke. Check it out after you’ve finished episode III.
there is a fun little thing i've noticed with anakin starting with this movie. whenever he does something bad he responds by becoming a complete boy scout. he slaughters the sand people, then immediately wants to obey every order he's given by obi wan and the council.
I still remember seeing this in the theater. When Yoda walked in and we realized we were going to finally get to see him fight, the whole theater went absolutely nuts. It was great.
For Anakin to have a meaningful redemption arc, you have to believe that Palpatine has been controlling politics and warfare and Anikin's dreams and telling him lies and making him angry ever. Since he was a child. In ep VI Vader realizes that Palpatine has been lying and controlling him for 40 years and is about to kill his only connection to his wife.
I'd also like to note that Padme clearly reciprocated from the very beginning. Not only does she roll around with Anakin on picnics and encourage late-night fireside conversations, she invites Anakin to her luxurious vacation house for a private get-together in which she wears exclusively revealing dresses and negligees. There were also a couple of deleted scenes where Padme flirts with Anakin, notably in her own bedroom.
I love the reasons for Jedi lightsaber colors. Blue means you’re good at swordplay. Green means you’re proficient in the force. Purple means Samuel L. Jackson wanted a purple lightsaber, so he got a purple lightsaber.
That line at the start “I’m sorry, I failed you Senator” Never fails to get a laugh out of me. She’s a decoy. She literally achieved her job. Just such a bizarre “dramatic” line that really sets the tone of most of this movie being kind of a fever dream of nonsense.
She's a decoy, but she's part of the security detail, and part of her job is to be aware of, and prevent, assassination attempts, not merely just to be a catwalk model. So the fact that it got so close to happening was still a failure that she felt she had to apologize for.
Little detail at 32:42 when Anakin and Padme are fighting they’re doing the ‘Sword & Shield’ maneuver that you can see happen throughout The Clone Wars show. I love when the show referenced the movies, it makes the world feel so much more connected
what i love about the confortation between jango and kenobi on kaino is that neither are lying theyre justr straight up telling the truth then and there calmly but both know shit is about to hit the fan once theyre alone
I love the sequence on Geonosis where Padme falls onto the conveyor and she has to avoid all the obstacles. When just 3 years earlier in the movie Galaxy Quest they make a joke about this very thing. Lol. It's "almost" like it was written to be a video game level. 🤣
@@michaelkonig530 - Yup... I remember reading an interview with Terence Stamp (Chancellor Valorum). He was talking about working with George Lucas. "I didn't feel he was a director of actors, he was more interested in stuff and effects." He claims he took the role mainly because he admired Natalie Portman and wanted to meet her. But when he turned up to the set he looked around, and she was nowhere to be found. When he asked George where she was, Lucas said, "That's Natalie", pointing to a piece of paper on the wall.
The interesting thing is that it sort of wasnt 'written' at all. It was completely abscent from the shooting script, and added later to increase the action/variety or whatever based on an early cut.
@@Mr.Ekshin Well he did end up meeting her. Here's a pic of him talking to her on set: twitter.com/sw_holocron/status/1288482048856989696?t=qC8HbROgFdJ13Ex0LrwXeA&s=19
I haven't seen anyone else say it so, the clones and stormtroopers aren't one in the same. Before the events of the OG trilogy the clones were phased out and replaced by stormtroopers, which are just people recruited from across the galaxy. But they do serve as good foreshadowing.
@@VerowakReacts Okay, I was going to make a separate comment but I'll add it here since it's on this subject. Dooku being one of the best, but so is Yoda. Earlier in the movie Obi-Wan had a throwaway joke to Anakin that has a basis in truth, "If you spent as much time practicing your saber techniques as you do your wit, you would rival Master Yoda as a swordsman." Because Anakin is naturally talented at fighting. Now that scene between Anakin and Dooku that you didn't like because you felt it was like a rave with the red and blue light from the sabers is one of my favorite moments lol. In my mind they're both so good at fighting and now with it being dark they're relying more on the Force to guide their movements and they're both making adjustments to each other on the fly before they can even come into contact with each other from their last move. Which results in more of a fluid dance fight, though some moves were still hitting just not as hard and direct as we normally see. I think the scene is mainly there to show how even in darkness they don't lose their focus (mirroring the scene in episode IV where Obi-Wan has Luke try to deflect bolts from a training droid while having a visor obstruct his vision but he can't do it). To compare it with an idea from the Twilight books (no idea if you've read/seen them, sorry) Edward can read minds and Alice can see the future. So when they "play a game of chess" they often do it having only actually moved a few pieces by the time one of them wins. Since he can read her mind and she knows what move he'll make before he does it, it all plays out in their heads. That's just how I see it haha. (My least favorite scene in this movie is the fireside chat Anakin and Padme have... so cringy. "If you're suffering as much as I am please, tell me!")
Interesting fact, Christopher Lee actor who portrayed count Dooku was the friend of J. Tolkien. Christopher took participation in WW2. He was an English agent. He has spoken 5 languages. Except starring movies he sung opera songs and heavy metal songs. Also there's big chanse, Christopher- was one the real life prototypes of James Bond. I'd like to be so cool as Christofer Lee was
So, important details that the film leaves out: Count Dooku was a padawan of Yoda who trained Qui-Gon Jinn, and took Qui-Gon's death very hard. He also saw the looming corruption in the Senate and in the Republic overall, and also the dogmatic responses the Jedi had to all of this, which was to do nothing substantive. Dooku is actually a Count as well, a noble of the planet Serenno, and he decided (at the urging of Darth Sidious) to use his fortune to bankroll the start of the Separatist movement: a group of planetary systems and corporations that had had it with the Republic's heavy-handed taxation policies and regulation of their industries. Dooku wasn't exactly a model Sith apprentice, as he viewed the Dark Side as just a way for him to achieve his goal of an independent state separated from the Republic, he was never truly an evil guy, he'd just tolerated the Jedi's inaction and tolerance of corruption long enough. Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas was a former Council member, who had the gift of foresight. One day he had a vision of the future, a future in which the Republic was at war and was losing, so he proposed to the Council that they push the Chancellor to create an army to combat this threat. The Council did not put much stock in his visions and refused him, and after he repeatedly kept forcing the issue, they stripped him of his Councillor status. Sifo-Dyas was determined to aid the Republic despite the Jedi not taking his warning seriously, and sought out the Kaminoans, forging a Senatorial approval to create the clone army that they would need. Darth Sidious discovered this and had Sifo-Dyas killed, having Dooku (now Darth Tyrannus) taking over the payments to the Kaminoans and adding the clones in to his web of deceit as he worked to continue his grand plan to take over the galaxy. HIGHLY recommend you check out the Clone Wars series. The first season is a little bit campy/childish, but the rest of the series is fucking amazing. You saw some of the Jedi Masters that are in that series here in the arena on Geonosis: Ki-Adi-Mundi, Kit Fisto, Shaak-Ti, Luminara Unduli, and of course Mace Windu. You'll also meet another very important person in Anakin's life in that show: Ahsoka Tano.
Anakin senses his mother's suffering and races across the galaxy to save her. So what does he do as Darth Vader when he wants to trap Luke in ESB? Captures Luke's friends and tortures them knowing he'll sense it and come running to save them. Han wonders why they are being tortured and not even asked any questions.
This film did spawn alot of amazing games from Star Wars Republic Commando where we play as Delta Squad a group of specialised Clone Commandos from the events of Battle of Geonosis to right before the events of Revenge of the Sith which haven't even released yet. There's also the amazing Battlefront 1 that let us play through battles from throughout the movies from Episode 1 playing as the droids while we gun down Jar Jars to playing as Clones in the Battle of Geonosis to other fun maps most of them from the original movies. There's also Rebels vs Empire as well so both eras of Star Wars were in the game. Battlefront 2 then expanded on everything with Revenge of the Sith context and a fun story that started in the Clone Wars and went all the way to Battle of Hoth from Empire Strikes Back. And finally Star Wars: Bounty Hunter where we played as Jango Fett before the events of Attack of the Clones and even before the events of The Phantoms Menace, pretty sure this took place a few years before or around the same time as Episode 1. Revenge of the Sith also spawned a both of games as well so it was a fun time for Star Wars fans.
The first Battlefront has been a favorite of our family for years and years. Battlefront 2 is good, too, but it almost has too much going on. For some reason, the look of it is slightly not as good, even though it’s technically more detailed. Both are fantastic, don’t get me wrong, but the original is my favorite. Verowak, after you’re done with episode 3, if you were to get Battlefront (PS2, btw), and put out content of you playing it (live or otherwise), I would definitely be down to watch every moment.
@@VerowakReacts Oh yeah there's a bunch of really great Star Wars games from the 1990s Tie Fighter and X-Wing which were flight simulators to Empire at War an RTS to games like Knights of the Old Republic an RPG. The 2000s and 2010s spawned so many amazing Star Wars from Battlefront 1 and 2 to the Force Unleashed and the Lego Star Wars games.
I saw this one with my best friend. He had seen it the day before I did. He learned over to me as the movie was starting and said, “You’ll like this one better.” I think you will, too.
There has been a lot of stuff on Dooku lately. After watching ROTS, I highly recommend learning more about Dooku. Super highly recommended is the acclaimed Clone Wars tv series. As well as the recent animated anthology "Tales of the Jedi" that put so much more context to Dooku's fall to the Dark Side and his very close relationship to Qui-Gon, and his first apprentice, Rael Averross. I also recommend the following canon books if you want know more about Qui-Gon and Dooku: "Master and Apprentice," and "Dooku: Jedi Lost." For a non-canon look into Yoda and Dooku's relationship as master and apprentice, the Clone Wars era novel "Dark Rendezvous" is considered the best non-canon novel from the Prequel Era. More background on Dooku is useful because the films are thin on the ground, but long story short, Dooku was considered to be the finest Jedi of his time and a prodigy in the Force from a young age. So much so, that Yoda broke the Jedi rule, and his own personal rule, to take Dooku has his Padawan. Grand Masters are not supposed to have an apprentice, and Yoda had resolved to never take another apprentice, and kept this rule for 300 years. But, Dooku was so remarkable that Yoda felt only he could properly mentor him. Dooku leaving the Jedi and later falling to the Dark Side was an immense coup for Sidious. Yoda describes the whole situation with Dooku becoming a Sith as thus: "The stongest? Hmmm? The wisest? The most learned? Dooku was. *Our greatest student, our greatest failure."*
@@riveraharper8166 It absolutely does not. Half the stuff in clone wars are half-baked rips/adaptations of superior EU material or references to other things and the other half are lesser changes to the old continuity that ruined what they changed. Filoni doesn't respect the canon or continuity he was tasked to work with. That's a mortal sin in something like star wars. The only thing that measures up to the OT is revenge of the sith, followed a ways back by TPM and AOTC. I wouldn't even put 2008 Clone Wars ahead of the highly stylized 2003 Clone Wars show and it pales to the wealth of games, books and comics that came out in the prequel era. It really is substandard schlock if you looked beyond the movies and tv shows.
@@scottb3034 Well okay. If you pull Legends than sure. There are better Legends stories indeed. I meant compared to Prequels, Sequels and Rebels. Disney only using Legends for the best parts(Thrawn, Palpatine clones, force storm) to exploit it but nothing even close.
Yoda was able to move fast because he was taping into the force to help boost his abilities, like when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan super speeded away in Episode 1 and when Luke super jumped out of the carbon freezing thing Vader tried to freeze him in. Yoda can't maintain it for to long.
@@VerowakReacts You might go to the dark side if you use the Force to much. It's there to help you, if you just use it as a friend lending a hand occasionally it's fine. But if you spam it and have it do everything. that's not so good.
I wish we got to see more of the reason why Anakin became the way he did in this movie. Like you mentioned, in the first movie he was pure and innocent. It's not that I couldn't imagine him changing in this way, I would just like to see more of it on screen. As is, we just have to assume he doesn't take well to the Jedi lifestyle and Palpatines manipulation has affected him
It would have been really nice to see yeah. I don't know if his teen years are shown much in any of the TV series, but that would be a neat series to have, if not
@@VerowakReactsretty much every adventure of anakins in between attack of the clones and revenge of the sith is shown in the clone wars animated series, you should definitely watch it on here and if you watch it do it in chronological order as compared to how you watch the movies, I feel even for first time watchers it’s better, also definitely watch the other movies, the sequels rouge one and solo before watching the clone wars
Even if the dialogue isn't good, the movie still has so much awesomeness to it. The bad dialogue is expected and doesn't distract me from the rest, though I do like poking fun at it
In the original trilogy, Boba Fett was just a random bounty hunter. After this movie, in a later edit to the trilogy though, Jango's (aka Boba's clone "father") voice was added when Boba speaks.
It is established in ep 1 The Phantom menace that all of the republic politicians are kinda sketchy since the whole reason the ep 1 climax happened was because almost the entire senate were selfish which is also established when Padme says (in ep 1) to Palpatine I hope you bring reason and compassion back to the senate. that is why they didn`t notice Palpatine's malice. He seemed quite charitable in comparison to everyone else since he was putting on his act and using the dark side to cloud the metaphorical vision of the Jedi. So that is why he was able to sneak past everybody. The scene where he gets emergency powers also makes sense because he could have used mind tricks on Jar Jar since he`s ya` know... not very strong minded.
You’re wicked smart 🙌🏻, asking if Qui-Gon had lived would Anakin have fallen to the dark side. It’s actually a pretty strongly believed fan theory that Palpatine ordered Maul to kill Qui-Gon, no matter what, for that very reason. As you pointed out, he was less strict with the Jedi code and would’ve taught Anakin to understand his feelings, not to push them down. Check out some fan theory videos on it if you’re interested, really cool stuff 👌🏻
At around 12:55 (in the video) you can see the younglings, training to be a jedi (behind yoda). thats why he said to luke that he is too old, even to anakin.
@@VerowakReacts oh ye definitely. i just wanted to say how crazy this jedi thing is. like imagine being separated from your parents at 6. then told you cannot fear or have negative thoughts and you have to suppress your feelings. its like a fucked up cult if you think about it ahah
I agree with you. QuiGon probably would have been better trainer for Anakin. He could give more nuanced advice I think. Obi is a very good man but he is more pragmatic and believes in the order much more and Anakin doesn't like to be told off.
Could not have said it better myself. Definitely not a good fit for Anakin and Obi-Wan, they just don't understand each other. Qui-Gon would have been way better for Anakin
Even Qui-Gon shouldn’t have trained Anakin it should have been Mace given how Mace created his own variation of form 7; Vaapad which channels his own darkness into a weapon of the light. Given how much darkness Anakin had in him Mace would have been the perfect teacher. Obi-Wan was far too young of a Jedi Knight to have an apprentice Anakin’s age
Qui-Gon was a better fit than Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan was too much like an older brother to Anakin when he really needed a father figure. That was the void that Palpaptine was able to fill to gain Ani's trust. That's why Qui-Gon dying and Kenobi surviving the Duel of the Fates is actually the worst outcome. Both surviving has Anakin trained by Oui-Gon, both dying has Anakin trained by another Jedi at least not as young as Obi but Obi-Wan surviving and promising that he would be the one to train Anakin dooms him to join the Dark Side.
@@VerowakReacts It's exactly why the soundtrack piece to Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon vs Darth Maul fight in EpI is so dramatic and is called Duel of the Fates. Its outcome determines the rest of Anakin's life - had the Qui-Gon (the fatherly figure he needed) survived and taught Anakin instead of Obi-Wan (who's more like a brother), the future of the Galaxy most likely would have been very different.
This is why Lucas should be allowed to create stories, but not details or dialog. In case you're wondering why he's divorced - remember this is his idea of romantic dialog
You hit the nail on the head with your speculation about what Qui-Gon could’ve done for Anakin. Kid was screwed as soon as Maul killed the one Jedi who could’ve helped him!
If you go back at the 22:51 mark of the video, you can catch the faint outline of Darth Vader's helmet from the created by shadow of Anakin's head on the wall. This wasn't intentional, and they only noticed it during post-production editing. Nice Easter Egg, and George Lucas liked it so much they kept the shot in the film. I commented on the last of your video that Jar Jar had a role to play in the Clone Wars and how things develop. Padme was a member of the Loyalist Committee actively working against the creation of any Republic Army, which is why she had returned to Coruscant in the first place. She wanted to pursue more diplomatic means with the Separatists to avoid a full war. With her gone from the Senate unable to vote, Jar Jar was left as the Representative of Naboo. It was easy for Palpatine and others to manipulate and convince him that if Padme were there, she would have the courage to vote FOR the creation of an army to defend the Republic. Jar Jar just thought he was doing what Padme would have wanted done given the information they had about Dooku and the Separatists.
Fun fact! The yellow speeder Anakin takes is a reference to Milner's 1942 Ford Coupe in American Graffiti. A film George Lucas also directed prior to Star Wars.
@@VerowakReacts American Graffiti is really cool you should definitely check it out sometime! It also features Harrison Ford in one of his very first movie roles!
In the SW universe, romances don't necessarily resemble our "earth" real-life romances. You just have to accept them for what they are: simple, pure and innocent. Thank you, always a real pleasure to listen to your smiling and offbeat reactions.
The memes!! :) As a reminder NO SPOILERS in the comments. If it hasn't been said in episodes 4, 5, 6, 1 and 2, then it's not something that I know. This is building up to an amazing Episode 3, I think! And it seems now may be the perfect time to start watching the Clone Wars, too! Who is your favorite bad guy of this movie? 🌞Don't forget to subscribe to the channel ruclips.net/user/verowakreacts 🎥Sign up on Patreon for full length reactions and Patreon polls to choose future movies www.patreon.com/Verowak 🐦Follow me on Twitter twitter.com/verowak
@@SkavenDan-TotalWar I just want to see more epic fights, and his was the best! Nothing really compares to it :( Darth Maul and Obi-wan fights are great
I have thought this was the most under-rated story of the Lucas stories. I have always thought it was the best story of the prequels. Certainly, some issues with the direction sort of hurt its execution, but I don't care. There is much to love in this one.
Padme "aside from the romance" Amidala! The amazing theme music during the Ep 1 light saber fight where Darth Maul and Qui-Gon are killed was called "Duel of the Fates", signifying the importance of the fight's outcome as to who trains Anakin. Your insight serves you well.
For the Dooku/Anakin fight, its worth noting that due to Christopher Lee's arthritis, much of what you see is CGI as he wasnt limber enough to do the fighting. This may explain some of the awkward shot composition?
Lee said in his book and in the Lucasfilm documentaries that any shots above the waist are him, because he could still move his arms and hands very well, but he couldn't move his legs as well as he used to. Lee was an accomplished fencer, and holds the record for most on-screen sword fights. Even into his late 50s he was running and leaping in sword fights. Watch the old Three Musketeers films from the mid-70s to see Lee doing all his own sword fighting and leg work.
The clonetroopers are not stormtroopers. Stormtroopers are normal humans and not enhanced like the clones of Jango who is a Mandalorian at least an adopted and became one
I've been binging your star wars reactions since I found them today. love them!!! my whole life I've been a prequel apologist and I've always felt the prequels suffered because they let george lucas write the dialogue lol. the story (re how anakin falls and how he and padme get together) suffers because of that. but there's also a TON of deleted scenes between anakin and padme on naboo that add so much more depth to their story arc. I love padme being a badass because you can see a bunch of her and anakin in luke and leia
I feel like my experience with reading a lot of anime fanfiction has given me the passive ability to "fill in the blanks" and sort of embellish the writing lol The dialogue is not great, not at all, but the intention is there so I'm going by the intention of things. I do love Padme being a badass and seeing how Luke and Leia are both awesome and share similarities with their parents 😊
Fun fact: Mace Windu's lightsaber is purple just because Samuel L. Jackson likes this color and asked George Lucas. There is zero meaning or reason in the Star Wars lore for his lightsaber to be purple.
Yoda uses the same saber combat form Qui-Gon Jinn used, Form IV: Ataru. However, to make up for his size, Yoda uses a technique called "Trispzest" which allows him to use crazy acrobatics. For Count Dooku, he uses Form II: Makashi. Dooku was a true master of the combat form, and he was able to face four opponents at once with it. Side note: Christopher Lee was a master fencer in real life, so Form II in Star Wars was essentially second-nature to him.
In Lucas' defence, Jar-Jar was the first attempt to have a CGI character as one of the main characters in a movie. Luckily, they toned down Jar-Jar's appearance in the two sequel episodes, mostly due to the fans' negative response to him. So let's just appreciate the character for the advancement in special effects it generated. :)
Actually George Lucas wasn't planning on having Jar Jar in episode 2 or 3, but after the poor reaction Jar Jar received, he kept bringing him back to spite the complaining fans.
jar jar is a great character... You would need to watch the clone wars animated series to see how good of a character he really is ...they don't do him justice in the movie.. He's a ladies man actually
@@VerowakReacts you never mentioned how LITTLE we saw of Jar Jar! When you said at the beginning you dearly hoped there wasn't much of him I was thinking "then you should be happy". You'll see even less if him in III. Uh oh...was that a spoiler?
The directing fail regarding the romance is that we did not get a feeling for the passage of time. That the two of them were stuck together alone for days, maybe weeks. Both of them were constantly training and working with no free time, no one their age around, never had a chance for sexuality. Then you take these two sexually pent up attractive young adults, and have them bored with nothing to do for days alone in a villa, no TV, no work, no training. It is difficult to imagine these two not hooking up even if she was not particularly attracted to him originally. Time together would close the age gap and erase the problem that she used to babysit him with new common experiences. One could not have planned it any better if they were a Sith Lord disguised as the galactic governor trying to plant seeds of disloyalty and fear of loss in a young Jedi. Remind me, who was it who suggested Anakin escort Padme anyway?
Great reaction! So I was supposed to go see this movie in theatres with my friends once the school year was over. I was in grade 9 and starting in like January of 2002 my friends and I made plans to go see the movie after exams were over. But two things happened. The weekend before we were supposed to go, a friend of mine had a pool party to celebrate the end of the school year, and to say goodbye to a friend who was moving into the city over the summer (I lived in a rural area in the middle of nowhere). So my mom made me choose between the movie and the pool party. I chose the pool party because I could always see the movie later in the summer, but I might not see the friend who was moving away again once she moved. So then after the pool party, my mom was gonna let me go to the movie with my friends anyway, but something else came up and I still couldn't go. Another friend of mine, who I had a crush on, and who had a crush on me it turns out, couldn't go that weekend either. So, she and I planned to go later in the summer when she had time off of work. But by the time our schedules lined up, the movie wasn't in theatres anymore, so we went to see Austin Powers in Goldmember instead because there was literally nothing else in theatres by the end of the summer that either of us wanted to see since The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Star Trek Nemesis weren't coming out until like November or December. So when Attack of the Clones was released on VHS and DVD, my parents rented the movie on VHS for my siblings and I as we didn't have a DVD player yet and wouldn't get one until that Christmas. So it was like September or October before I would see Attack of the Clones. Also, sidenote, Attack of the Clones was the last Star Wars movie to be released on VHS in North America. Revenge of the Sith had a VHS release in the U.K., Germany, Finland, and Australia in 2005, but by that point most movie studios had phased out VHS releases in North America in favour of DVD by 2005, aside for Warner Bros. and Disney, though Disney would reserve VHS releases for the Disney Movie Club until 2007.
What a rollercoaster! So many things just didn't line up for you to see it in theatres 😭 But I bet you don't regret going to the pool party to see your friends! I didn't realize all those movies released during the same year, that quite a blockbuster year!
@@VerowakReacts Not at all, because grade 9 and grade 10 are when I made friends who are now lifelong friends and it was my first time being invited to a party at a friend's house, because, again, physical disabilities, so I don't regret going to that party. Yeah, it's insane to think about how those movies came out in the same year. I had an issue of Teen Tribute magazine and an issue of Tribute, the magazines that used to be on racks in the movie theatres owned by Cineplex, from 2002 and the number of big movies that came out that year is astonishing.
Actually, the first version of the script was titled 'Jar Jar's Great Adventure'. What a self-aware joke from Lucas. :D Funny how Obi-Wan says "never lose your lightsaber" but I feel like he lost his more times than Anakin did. :D If Qui-Gon lived, everything would have been different. The Jedi Council and Obi-Wan had a part in Anakin's descent, too. Force Sensitive children are usually taken as infants, so the Jedi can work on a "blank sheet". They had no idea what to do or how to handle a child with a past, especially a troubled one. Yes, Anakin was pure in Episode 1 but the one time he got angry was when Padmé asked "are you a slave?" That definitely impacted him. The strict rules of the Jedi reminded him of slavery. He would have needed therapy and a good father figure. Obi-Wan was more like a brother to him. That's how Palpatine managed to fill in the father figure role. And of course Anakin was awkward around Padmé. He never had a chance before to learn how to flirt. For first attempt it's commendable. :D I always believed that Padmé loved him because he was the only one who treated her and talked to her like she was a person and not a political figure.
Palpatine has the ability to suppress his force sensitivity in a way. That way even Yoda and Mace can't sense him even if they are in the same room as him. And those two are the strongest in the order Also sometimes Anakin's shadow takes on a shape that looks similar to Vader. His Fate
"I'm so sorry I failed you senator" Not in the slightest, actually you succeeded quite handily! Well done! Ani: "You're exactly the I remember you in my dreams" Padme: *smashes panic button under the table while smiling*
@@VerowakReacts Indeed lol. Also a little Easter egg if no one has already told you, go back and watch the scene of Anakin and Padme talking before he leaves to find his mother and focus on their shadows on the wall :)
I've always assumed that the Dooku Anakin weird fight sequence was due to Christopher Lee being older and not able to do any real fighting. That's just my assumption.
Lee could move his upper body ok but for the footwork they used a body double and cgi Lee’s head. It was kind of a visual trick that Lucas pulled to deal with this.
yes, Dooku is a very complex character, he was never bad he was genuinely a really good Jedi who loved a lot. He was just misunderstood and had his mind twisted. He loved Qui - Gon like a son. Also yes, the Taming of Animals is possible, though some Jedi / Sith are much better at it naturally than others Sith are ALWAYS red, Jedi are ALWAYS Blue / Green but Sam L Jackson asked George Lucas if he could have a purple one so he could find himself in the massive fight scene lmao
Loved elements of this movie mostly from an in universe lore building viewpoint from seeing Kamino for the first time a planet with a very advance aesthetic compared to the other parts of the universe which have that retro 1970s futurism look. I also loved the Coruscant chase very Judge Dredd (Comic series from the 1970s) in its aesthetic has that mega city looked mixed with retro 1970s and in this case 1950s futurism vehicles. Naboo of course is back and it's just amazing very Hagia Sophia designs gives it a totally different look you can tell right away its an ancient culture who held onto their culture throughout the years. Fun detail but the Naboo ships such as the yellow Naboo fighters were based on 1950s sports cars George Lucas the creator of Star Wars wanted to go for a more sleek and clean design to contrast the dirty and used look of the average more common ships of the galaxy to show the wealth Naboo had which i find really interesting and one of the reasons why i love the Naboo fighters. Should point out that the Clone Troopers are not Stormtroopers. Stormtroopers are enlisted citizens from across the Galactic Empire while Clone Troopers were Clones of Jango Fett (who you saw in this movie in his blue and sliver Mandalorian armour beheaded by Mace) who were created to be soldiers for the Grand Army of the Republic. Clones age twice as fast so by the age of 10 years of age they'd already be adults which is pretty dark when you think about it. You may notice that the Clone armour looks very similar to that of Stormtrooper armour but different enough that you can tell them apart. We also have the kid with Jango who he refers to as Boba a name you may recognise. The Battle of Geonosis was amazing we got to see some many new toys from the LAAT which acts as the main gunship and dropship for the Republic has a real Bell UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" feel to it giving it a very Vietnam war feel. We also have the AT-TE walker which may remind you of a AT-AT used by the Empire and one of my favourite and underrated vehicles the SPHA-T also known as the The Self-Propelled Heavy Artillery Turbolaser those big laser stations which shot down the Trade Federation ships that landed on the planet. On the topic of the trade ship fun detail but the middle part of the Lucrehulk also known as the donut ship to many new fans, disconnects from the ring around it which lets it land on planets and trade with the locals like you see in this movie. Also introduced in this movie is the CIS (Confederacy of Independent Systems) a faction made up of many different star systems that had withdrawn their membership from the Galactic Republic. From members of the Techno Union to some members of the trade federation this is why there's new droids vehicles and ships in this film, many factions provided the CIS with there own droids, equipment, ships, and vehicles. Of course anything you recognise from Episode 1 is provided by Nute Gunray from the Trade ships to the B1 Battledroids. And finally "Begun the Clone Wars have" pretty much a WW2 level conflict that is not explored much in these movies but the amazing Clone Wars TV show from 2018 to 2021 fills in the gaps across 7 Seasons diving into our main characters but also side characters and even the Clones making them really fun characters all with their own personality. Overall not the best of the prequals many even regard it as the weakest one i love the 2nd half of the movie but i totally agree it's really just a build up to the end of the film and the start of the Clone Wars. Revenge of the Sith is far better and in my opinion the best of the prequals and to many fans around my age who grew up in the 2000s maybe born in 1999 like myself would even say that Revenge of the Sith is their favourite Star Wars movie. The Clone Wars TV show definitely adds so much to Episode 3 which makes it even better Clone Wars taking place between Episodes 2 and 3 within the three years of the war.
I can definitely see this as the the weakest of the prequels, but at the same time there are so many great parts to it! The second half is great, along with the Obi-Wan and Jango fight (I think it happens in the first half)
They had many clone troops but could not replace them quickly. Recruits could be and it seems like the military strategy of the Empire is just to throw soldiers at the problem instead of training them well.
Ep 2. Anikin: "I killed them all, the women, and children.. " Padme: "I see nothing wrong with this, let's get married" Ep 3. Obi-wan: " he killed children" Padme: "no! He'd never do such a thing!" I do like these three over the last three (7-9)
The Novelization of this movie, deleted scenes, and Clone Wars series make the romance between Anakin and Padmé more believable and less cringe. But I still like this movie.
The scene wheee Anakin and dookoo were swinging their lightsabers above their heads was them trying to build momentum and finding a strategy for attack while contemplating a defense as they were both switching styles.
Hi! i usually post the same comment when someone's just watched ep II, so here it is :D Just know the Clones are not Stormtroopers. There is an excellent SW animated tv show called « The Clone Wars » which is set between episode II and III, created by George Lucas and Dave Filoni. I really suggest you to watch it in your free time if you want to. If you watch it in the end, be sure NOT to follow the release order (season 1,2,3 etc…) but the chronological order list instead (on the internet). Btw I actually suggest to watch the first 8 episodes on this list before you watch SW ep III, it will give you much more context :)
@@VerowakReacts and that’s a very good choice of you!! :) Clone Wars is the beginning of the so called Dave Filoni-verse which extends through numerous other series and tv shows (Rebels, Bad Batch, Mandalorian…). CW has to be watched first in order to fully appreciate the other ones. But please just only remember, chronological order, not release order for clone wars xD and as i said earlier you might want to begin to watch it before episode III actually (it makes the movie even more impactful). Anyway hope you have fun with SW!
If you like how Palpatine is already kind of guiding Anakin, there's this popular fan theory that has been semi-confirmed or at least not ruled out that he was the one who caused Shmi Skywalker to get pregnant by influencing midichlorians...
@@VerowakReacts there are some subtle hints in the next movie in some dialog between the two of them. I won't spoil it, but listen out & see if you can catch it.
The think about the Anakin/Dooku fight is that Christopher Lee was an old man and had trouble walking. In an interview he said that as a former fencer he could move his arms and lightsaber around, but he had trouble moving. So far shots there was a stand-in, but closer shots where you had to see his face, he was pretty static.
The romance dialogue is awkward but it is "intentionally awkward" - Anakin never had love interests before Padme, so it's very natural that he tried in more or less effective ways of flirting. I wouldn't call him "creepy" - just inexperience. I personally think that this is very natural - many people have problem with right putting their words, especially when they talks with their heart (not even necessarily on dating area; just during talking about something dear to them). And some other parts were also inspired by Shakespeare. Padme is drawn to Anakin because he is one of few people that are themselves around her. She is politician after all, and people with whom she works aren't always honest. Anakin is straightforward and free-spirited and she longs for someone like that. I absolutely love their romance and I think people misunderstand them in many ways. I recently found that amazing video about why "awkward" dialogue actually make sense in context of their story - I encourage to check, if someone is interested in that point of view: ruclips.net/video/4hhfEzgfvZ8/видео.html
@@VerowakReacts Dooku and Qui-Gon make a great team. Tales of the Jedi put so much more context to Dooku's fall to the Dark Side and his very close relationship to Qui-Gon, and his first apprentice, Rael Averross. I also recommend the following canon books if you want know more about Qui-Gon and Dooku: "Master and Apprentice," and "Dooku: Jedi Lost." For a non-canon look into Yoda and Dooku's relationship as master and apprentice, the Clone Wars era novel "Dark Rendezvous" is considered the best non-canon novel from the Prequel Era. More background on Dooku is useful because the films are thin on the ground, but long story short, Dooku was considered to be the finest Jedi of his time and a prodigy in the Force from a young age. So much so, that Yoda broke the Jedi rule, and his own personal rule, to take Dooku has his Padawan. Grand Masters are not supposed to have an apprentice, and Yoda had resolved to never take another apprentice, and kept this rule for 300 years. But, Dooku was so remarkable that Yoda felt only he could properly mentor him. Dooku leaving the Jedi and later falling to the Dark Side was an immense coup for Sidious. Yoda describes the whole situation with Dooku becoming a Sith as thus: "The stongest? Hmmm? The wisest? The most learned? Dooku was. *Our greatest student, our greatest failure."*
To give you idea on the numbers, there's 10,000 jedi, definitely not enough to keep the peace. Padawan, knight's and master's. Yoda Chanel's the force around him to make himself move quickly in combat
10,000 in a galaxy that has many star systems. Lots of planets have never seen a Jedi , only just heard whispers of them. Why lots didn’t believe in this ancient religion, for instance, Han Solo.
The shadow on the Lars home, when Padme hugs Anikin before searching for his mother, was meant to foreshadow Anikin becoming Darth Vader. If you look at the head of Anikin's shadow, it sort of resembles Vader's silhouette.
"Is this where stormtroopers come from? Maybe they should have cloned somebody with better aim..." Hilarious. Caught me drinking. Now I'm mopping up my keyboard...
I absolutely hate half this movie & love the other half😅 While the execution can be a bit..yikes, I do appreciate the overall story! Also R2D2 is best boy and I will hear nothing against it
That's very fair. I was actually thinking that this is the worst movie between Episode 1 and 2, but then there are lots of scenes I really liked in this movie, while there are lots that I really didn't like. I feel so torn on this movie, though overall it's good and I'll definitely rewatch it. The good outweighs the bad thankfully
About the terrible romance/dialog: In these prequels, George Lucas had gotten obsessed with the special effects visuals to the exclusion of all else. In the original movies, he didn't even direct Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi, which may be why they are pretty good. But in the prequels, everything was on green screen, and Lucas didn't care much about the directing (and he has always not been great at dialog), so they suffer a lot. Christopher Lee said it was a really bad experience because of all of that. There's also kind of a factor of Lucas being so famous at this point that people treated his dialog/script like they were reciting lines from a holy book, so it felt too awkward and serious, so the performances seem too stiff. But have hope! The third movie is better than these two.
As much as Anakin claimed that Obi is the closest thing to a father, it seems they are more like friends, equals. With Qui Gon there would probably be more of a mentor-pupil relationship. Palpatine is so cool in this. The master puppeteer. He has to act surprised when it is discovered that theres a new rise of the sith, or that there's a droid army
Finally everyone can watch this reaction. not just the men, but the women and the children too
A time for family bonding!
heh heh
oh no… did it whoosh? i think it may have whooshed
@@doctaflo Think so...
We watched it like animals!
Concerning Anakin's creepiness I've always interpreted it as the fact that as a jedi he wasn't taught how to express his emotions but how to repress them. I think it works for most of the jedis because they haven't known anything else because they were trained since they were toddlers. However Anakin began at 9 and he was already full of emotions, so when you have all of this in you and you aren't allowed to express it, it gives this creepy, awkward and after all overly honest talk.
And I think Padme likes his honesty and his recklesness because she wasn't allowed to have fun, to be a child, since she was at the head of a planet at 14. And she must not have seen many sincere people during that time neither, so it must be good to have someone who talks his mind without any filter.
That's my take on it anyway
You're exactly right about Anakin being taught to repress his emotions rather than express them. Note, the music that plays during the Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan/Maul battle in Episode I is called "Duel of the Fates" - Qui-Gon's death determined Anakin's fate as Obi-Wan teaches in a much more 'by the book' way than Qui-Gon would've, ultimately influencing many of his decisions in this movie and the next.
George Lucas is great at a lot of things.
Writing romance dialog is not one of them.
@@Jackalos1 Obi Wan just wasn’t the right person for Anakin, who was a troubled, and conflicted guy. I wonder why Obi Wan didn’t train Anakin the way that Qui Gon would’ve done it? At least Obi Wan learned from his mistakes and goes about training Luke very differently, he wasn’t overly critical, and he listened to him. He was able to amend his mistakes with Anakin in how he went about training Luke.
@@Shutterbug5269 I'm fairly sure it's not supposed to be "romance dialogue" - Anakin is an awkward teenager, who's never flirted with a girl - it would be way more jarring if Anakin wasn't extremely cringe trying to impress Padmé.
It is possible to write "awkward teenager" without making Anakin sound creepy.
George Lucas has always suffered from poor dialog choices. In the Original trilogy, however Harrison Ford knew him well enough (they'd been friends for years before Star Wars) to take him aside and tell him when it wasn't working.
Nobody acting in the prequels was secure enough in their careers or knew him well enough to dare do that and the prequels suffered for it.
This always made me laugh:
the dark lord ordered count dooku to kill amidala, so count dooku hired jango fett, to kill amidala, so jango fett hired the shapeshifter bounty hunter to kill amidala, and you could say she hired centipedes to kill amidala.
like wtf xD
Yeah, it seemed a bit weird to go through ALL of that. PLUS Jango should have killed Obi-Wan or Anakin instead of the shapeshifter
I mean, Palpatine could've also rammed a speeder with explosives into Padmé's penthouse while yelling "It's me, Sheev!"
But he didn't need her dead. Gunray wanted her dead, but the Sith didn't give a damn about Gunray. They repeatedly dismissed him when he told them to kill her.
It was more than enough to endanger her, get her off the planet, make the senators feel unsafe and more prone to vote for authoritarian safety measures and give them a taste for the clone army.
If Darth Sidious wants someone dead he kills them. If he wants to anonymously stir up conflict he hires a chain of underlings.
Not too hard to get behind.
@@VerowakReacts The Force works in mysterious ways... So this might go into a bit more detail, but it's never directly said in any of the movies so I don't think it can really be considered a spoiler at all, and it's still just speculation on my part...
You just know/recognize it if you've done stuff like read the books or played the games, but Jango is from a culture of warriors renowned for their ability to fight Jedi/Force users (based on his armor). And I think if he had targeted either Anakin or Obi-Wan with direct intent they would've sensed it coming via the Force and blocked/avoided it and taking away his element of surprise, leaving Zam (the changeling) alive in their custody, so he took the safest option to take her out of the equation entirely and then booked it out of there.
Well, now I'm laughing. Maybe Lucas meant for these to be comedies? Starmtroopers can't aim. (Not true btw, the Force protects our heroes so that the shots are deflected. Remember Vader said in New Hope, "The Force is strong with this one"), Lightsabers that somehow turn light into a solid, brother and sister kissing each other, Anakin's Mom is a knock-off of Mary, Mother of Jesus? No father, just germs for a Dad? Han Shot First until he didn't shoot first. Anakin's mom let's him make a Major Life Decision at age Nine? What could go wrong with that? LOL Need I go on? I'll stick to 4,5,6, Rogue One and Solo.
@@VerowakReacts if there weren't an insanely stupid amount of convoluted steps, truly, would it be star wars?
The smile dropping at the first sight of Jar Jar 😂
It's a special reaction reserved for him and comedy
@@VerowakReacts Darth Jar Jar, Evil Incarnate.
Jar Jar trivia: the actor who played him actually became very depressed at the reaction to the character. So much in fact that he contemplated suicide. He has since overcome and come to terms with it and was even given a new, important cameo role in a Star Wars series
Ya I was laughing about her smile drop when she saw jar jar
@@VerowakReactsThe Auralnauts channel has created an alternate Star Wars with much less Jar Jar. It’s were I got the heroin joke. Check it out after you’ve finished episode III.
there is a fun little thing i've noticed with anakin starting with this movie. whenever he does something bad he responds by becoming a complete boy scout. he slaughters the sand people, then immediately wants to obey every order he's given by obi wan and the council.
He seems quick to act then eventually realized he messed up and tries to correct it
He gets over that in the next one.
@@MoMoMyPup10 by the end sure. But its also still in the next one too before the end
I love the beginning when the decoy says "I failed you" It's like, this is literally your job. You're the decoy...
Exactly! She would have failed if Padme was attacked or killed
I still remember seeing this in the theater. When Yoda walked in and we realized we were going to finally get to see him fight, the whole theater went absolutely nuts. It was great.
And him jumping around is just great! Definitely would not expect that from him
For Anakin to have a meaningful redemption arc, you have to believe that Palpatine has been controlling politics and warfare and Anikin's dreams and telling him lies and making him angry ever. Since he was a child. In ep VI Vader realizes that Palpatine has been lying and controlling him for 40 years and is about to kill his only connection to his wife.
That's exactly it! And we can all see just how manipulative Palpatine is, so Anaking stood no chance :(
I'd also like to note that Padme clearly reciprocated from the very beginning. Not only does she roll around with Anakin on picnics and encourage late-night fireside conversations, she invites Anakin to her luxurious vacation house for a private get-together in which she wears exclusively revealing dresses and negligees. There were also a couple of deleted scenes where Padme flirts with Anakin, notably in her own bedroom.
That means nothing if her intention was to friendzone him.
This reaction was great. You were more animated and expressive in this one than any of your other movie reacts I’ve watched.
The more I get into a universe, the more expressive I am for some reason
Instantly stopped smiling when jarjar appeared 😂
He just has that effect on me 🤣
@@VerowakReacts
*on everyone.
I love the reasons for Jedi lightsaber colors.
Blue means you’re good at swordplay.
Green means you’re proficient in the force.
Purple means Samuel L. Jackson wanted a purple lightsaber, so he got a purple lightsaber.
That line at the start “I’m sorry, I failed you Senator” Never fails to get a laugh out of me. She’s a decoy. She literally achieved her job. Just such a bizarre “dramatic” line that really sets the tone of most of this movie being kind of a fever dream of nonsense.
She's a decoy, but she's part of the security detail, and part of her job is to be aware of, and prevent, assassination attempts, not merely just to be a catwalk model. So the fact that it got so close to happening was still a failure that she felt she had to apologize for.
Little detail at 32:42 when Anakin and Padme are fighting they’re doing the ‘Sword & Shield’ maneuver that you can see happen throughout The Clone Wars show. I love when the show referenced the movies, it makes the world feel so much more connected
what i love about the confortation between jango and kenobi on kaino is that neither are lying theyre justr straight up telling the truth then and there calmly but both know shit is about to hit the fan once theyre alone
Yes I loved that! The whole Kamino investigation was great
George Lucas has admitted writing romance is not his strong suit.
As long as he doesn't want to do a pure romance movie, we're fine :D
understatement of the century
I love the sequence on Geonosis where Padme falls onto the conveyor and she has to avoid all the obstacles. When just 3 years earlier in the movie Galaxy Quest they make a joke about this very thing. Lol. It's "almost" like it was written to be a video game level. 🤣
That scene definitely feels like a platformer to me :D
@@VerowakReacts You should see the behind the scenes footage. It‘s all blue screen. That was one of the biggest complaints from the actors.
@@michaelkonig530 - Yup... I remember reading an interview with Terence Stamp (Chancellor Valorum). He was talking about working with George Lucas. "I didn't feel he was a director of actors, he was more interested in stuff and effects."
He claims he took the role mainly because he admired Natalie Portman and wanted to meet her. But when he turned up to the set he looked around, and she was nowhere to be found. When he asked George where she was, Lucas said, "That's Natalie", pointing to a piece of paper on the wall.
The interesting thing is that it sort of wasnt 'written' at all. It was completely abscent from the shooting script, and added later to increase the action/variety or whatever based on an early cut.
@@Mr.Ekshin Well he did end up meeting her. Here's a pic of him talking to her on set:
twitter.com/sw_holocron/status/1288482048856989696?t=qC8HbROgFdJ13Ex0LrwXeA&s=19
I haven't seen anyone else say it so, the clones and stormtroopers aren't one in the same. Before the events of the OG trilogy the clones were phased out and replaced by stormtroopers, which are just people recruited from across the galaxy. But they do serve as good foreshadowing.
I think I've had nearly 30 people ruin that fact for me already, sadly
@@VerowakReactsNot exactly a spoiler if you do go from clones to stormtroopers
Dooku is one the best with a lightsaber. He’s about precision. Kinda like a fencer. He just cut Obi-wan enough to get him down.
He did precisely remove Anakin's arm 😂
@@VerowakReacts Okay, I was going to make a separate comment but I'll add it here since it's on this subject. Dooku being one of the best, but so is Yoda. Earlier in the movie Obi-Wan had a throwaway joke to Anakin that has a basis in truth, "If you spent as much time practicing your saber techniques as you do your wit, you would rival Master Yoda as a swordsman." Because Anakin is naturally talented at fighting.
Now that scene between Anakin and Dooku that you didn't like because you felt it was like a rave with the red and blue light from the sabers is one of my favorite moments lol. In my mind they're both so good at fighting and now with it being dark they're relying more on the Force to guide their movements and they're both making adjustments to each other on the fly before they can even come into contact with each other from their last move. Which results in more of a fluid dance fight, though some moves were still hitting just not as hard and direct as we normally see. I think the scene is mainly there to show how even in darkness they don't lose their focus (mirroring the scene in episode IV where Obi-Wan has Luke try to deflect bolts from a training droid while having a visor obstruct his vision but he can't do it).
To compare it with an idea from the Twilight books (no idea if you've read/seen them, sorry) Edward can read minds and Alice can see the future. So when they "play a game of chess" they often do it having only actually moved a few pieces by the time one of them wins. Since he can read her mind and she knows what move he'll make before he does it, it all plays out in their heads.
That's just how I see it haha.
(My least favorite scene in this movie is the fireside chat Anakin and Padme have... so cringy. "If you're suffering as much as I am please, tell me!")
Interesting fact, Christopher Lee actor who portrayed count Dooku was the friend of J. Tolkien. Christopher took participation in WW2. He was an English agent. He has spoken 5 languages. Except starring movies he sung opera songs and heavy metal songs. Also there's big chanse, Christopher- was one the real life prototypes of James Bond. I'd like to be so cool as Christofer Lee was
The look on your face every time Jar Jar is on screen? Priceless...
Thankfully he wasn't on screen much this time 😂
@@VerowakReacts George can take feedback... less Jar Jar in this one is one of the reasons this one is better than the last...
So, important details that the film leaves out:
Count Dooku was a padawan of Yoda who trained Qui-Gon Jinn, and took Qui-Gon's death very hard. He also saw the looming corruption in the Senate and in the Republic overall, and also the dogmatic responses the Jedi had to all of this, which was to do nothing substantive. Dooku is actually a Count as well, a noble of the planet Serenno, and he decided (at the urging of Darth Sidious) to use his fortune to bankroll the start of the Separatist movement: a group of planetary systems and corporations that had had it with the Republic's heavy-handed taxation policies and regulation of their industries. Dooku wasn't exactly a model Sith apprentice, as he viewed the Dark Side as just a way for him to achieve his goal of an independent state separated from the Republic, he was never truly an evil guy, he'd just tolerated the Jedi's inaction and tolerance of corruption long enough.
Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas was a former Council member, who had the gift of foresight. One day he had a vision of the future, a future in which the Republic was at war and was losing, so he proposed to the Council that they push the Chancellor to create an army to combat this threat. The Council did not put much stock in his visions and refused him, and after he repeatedly kept forcing the issue, they stripped him of his Councillor status. Sifo-Dyas was determined to aid the Republic despite the Jedi not taking his warning seriously, and sought out the Kaminoans, forging a Senatorial approval to create the clone army that they would need. Darth Sidious discovered this and had Sifo-Dyas killed, having Dooku (now Darth Tyrannus) taking over the payments to the Kaminoans and adding the clones in to his web of deceit as he worked to continue his grand plan to take over the galaxy.
HIGHLY recommend you check out the Clone Wars series. The first season is a little bit campy/childish, but the rest of the series is fucking amazing. You saw some of the Jedi Masters that are in that series here in the arena on Geonosis: Ki-Adi-Mundi, Kit Fisto, Shaak-Ti, Luminara Unduli, and of course Mace Windu. You'll also meet another very important person in Anakin's life in that show: Ahsoka Tano.
Anakin senses his mother's suffering and races across the galaxy to save her. So what does he do as Darth Vader when he wants to trap Luke in ESB? Captures Luke's friends and tortures them knowing he'll sense it and come running to save them. Han wonders why they are being tortured and not even asked any questions.
There are definitely unanswered questions and questionable decisions throughout Star Wars :D
This film did spawn alot of amazing games from Star Wars Republic Commando where we play as Delta Squad a group of specialised Clone Commandos from the events of Battle of Geonosis to right before the events of Revenge of the Sith which haven't even released yet. There's also the amazing Battlefront 1 that let us play through battles from throughout the movies from Episode 1 playing as the droids while we gun down Jar Jars to playing as Clones in the Battle of Geonosis to other fun maps most of them from the original movies. There's also Rebels vs Empire as well so both eras of Star Wars were in the game.
Battlefront 2 then expanded on everything with Revenge of the Sith context and a fun story that started in the Clone Wars and went all the way to Battle of Hoth from Empire Strikes Back. And finally Star Wars: Bounty Hunter where we played as Jango Fett before the events of Attack of the Clones and even before the events of The Phantoms Menace, pretty sure this took place a few years before or around the same time as Episode 1. Revenge of the Sith also spawned a both of games as well so it was a fun time for Star Wars fans.
I didn't know there were so many Star Wars Games! I've only heard of KOTOR basically
The first Battlefront has been a favorite of our family for years and years. Battlefront 2 is good, too, but it almost has too much going on. For some reason, the look of it is slightly not as good, even though it’s technically more detailed. Both are fantastic, don’t get me wrong, but the original is my favorite.
Verowak, after you’re done with episode 3, if you were to get Battlefront (PS2, btw), and put out content of you playing it (live or otherwise), I would definitely be down to watch every moment.
@@VerowakReacts Oh yeah there's a bunch of really great Star Wars games from the 1990s Tie Fighter and X-Wing which were flight simulators to Empire at War an RTS to games like Knights of the Old Republic an RPG. The 2000s and 2010s spawned so many amazing Star Wars from Battlefront 1 and 2 to the Force Unleashed and the Lego Star Wars games.
I saw this one with my best friend. He had seen it the day before I did. He learned over to me as the movie was starting and said, “You’ll like this one better.” I think you will, too.
There has been a lot of stuff on Dooku lately. After watching ROTS, I highly recommend learning more about Dooku. Super highly recommended is the acclaimed Clone Wars tv series. As well as the recent animated anthology "Tales of the Jedi" that put so much more context to Dooku's fall to the Dark Side and his very close relationship to Qui-Gon, and his first apprentice, Rael Averross. I also recommend the following canon books if you want know more about Qui-Gon and Dooku: "Master and Apprentice," and "Dooku: Jedi Lost." For a non-canon look into Yoda and Dooku's relationship as master and apprentice, the Clone Wars era novel "Dark Rendezvous" is considered the best non-canon novel from the Prequel Era. More background on Dooku is useful because the films are thin on the ground, but long story short, Dooku was considered to be the finest Jedi of his time and a prodigy in the Force from a young age. So much so, that Yoda broke the Jedi rule, and his own personal rule, to take Dooku has his Padawan. Grand Masters are not supposed to have an apprentice, and Yoda had resolved to never take another apprentice, and kept this rule for 300 years. But, Dooku was so remarkable that Yoda felt only he could properly mentor him. Dooku leaving the Jedi and later falling to the Dark Side was an immense coup for Sidious. Yoda describes the whole situation with Dooku becoming a Sith as thus: "The stongest? Hmmm? The wisest? The most learned? Dooku was. *Our greatest student, our greatest failure."*
I'll for sure be watching Clone Wars and I've just recently heard about Tales of the Jedi so I'll watch that eventually too
I highly don't recommend the Clone Wars, the show is terrible.
@@scottb3034 WHAT???
Clone Wars TV show is the only thing that measure up to the OG trilogy...
@@riveraharper8166 It absolutely does not. Half the stuff in clone wars are half-baked rips/adaptations of superior EU material or references to other things and the other half are lesser changes to the old continuity that ruined what they changed. Filoni doesn't respect the canon or continuity he was tasked to work with. That's a mortal sin in something like star wars.
The only thing that measures up to the OT is revenge of the sith, followed a ways back by TPM and AOTC. I wouldn't even put 2008 Clone Wars ahead of the highly stylized 2003 Clone Wars show and it pales to the wealth of games, books and comics that came out in the prequel era.
It really is substandard schlock if you looked beyond the movies and tv shows.
@@scottb3034 Well okay. If you pull Legends than sure.
There are better Legends stories indeed.
I meant compared to Prequels, Sequels and Rebels.
Disney only using Legends for the best parts(Thrawn, Palpatine clones, force storm) to exploit it but nothing even close.
Now, I kinda want to see an episode where the clones are jar jar.
No. Just no. It would probably be worse than the Christmas Special (at least based on everyone's aversion to the Christmas Special)
@@VerowakReacts probably, but it would be funny. Anakin is a lot like Luke in the first movie, kinda bratty and spoiled.
Those ear flaps hanging out the back of the helmets.....
Master Sifo Dyas: The Gungans are the key to all this
@@jaydisqus3353 more arrogant than spoiled.
Yoda was able to move fast because he was taping into the force to help boost his abilities, like when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan super speeded away in Episode 1 and when Luke super jumped out of the carbon freezing thing Vader tried to freeze him in. Yoda can't maintain it for to long.
If I could use the force I would be boosting my speed up so frequently
@@VerowakReacts You might go to the dark side if you use the Force to much. It's there to help you, if you just use it as a friend lending a hand occasionally it's fine. But if you spam it and have it do everything. that's not so good.
31:35 Jackson actually insisted on purple so he would stand out in the crowd.
Smart man, I would do that if I was a known actor
How lost is Anakin if he's telling Jar Jar Binks his love problems?
My heart is beating.
He'd better get that fixed.
The looks of annoyance at Jar Jar appearances and bad puns had me rolling. Such a good reaction.
I'm glad my annoyance is taken in a positive light for this movie 🤣
@@VerowakReacts It's easy -- we all know this is what a secret crush looks like
I wish we got to see more of the reason why Anakin became the way he did in this movie. Like you mentioned, in the first movie he was pure and innocent. It's not that I couldn't imagine him changing in this way, I would just like to see more of it on screen. As is, we just have to assume he doesn't take well to the Jedi lifestyle and Palpatines manipulation has affected him
It would have been really nice to see yeah. I don't know if his teen years are shown much in any of the TV series, but that would be a neat series to have, if not
@@VerowakReactsretty much every adventure of anakins in between attack of the clones and revenge of the sith is shown in the clone wars animated series, you should definitely watch it on here and if you watch it do it in chronological order as compared to how you watch the movies, I feel even for first time watchers it’s better, also definitely watch the other movies, the sequels rouge one and solo before watching the clone wars
In the theater, the sound of the seismic charges was *_stunning!_*
Oh I bet!! The seismic charges sound is just spectacular
I'm glad that you didn't just bash this movie for the dialoque like some people do and acknowledged that it's a Star Wars staple
Even if the dialogue isn't good, the movie still has so much awesomeness to it. The bad dialogue is expected and doesn't distract me from the rest, though I do like poking fun at it
Your remembering of the smallest details from previous movies is so good for a first watch! 👏 👏 👏
I tend to remember small details, but forget obvious ones 😂
The neat thing is that Dooku *is* being honest, but you still shouldn't trust him.
Dooku is a great villain! Honest yet still not to be trusted. So fascinating!
You should check out “tales of the Jedi”. Chapters 2,3,4 It’s 20 minute episodes of Count Dooku. It will give you more insight of why he went dark.
In the original trilogy, Boba Fett was just a random bounty hunter. After this movie, in a later edit to the trilogy though, Jango's (aka Boba's clone "father") voice was added when Boba speaks.
I think that's so neat! It seemed like Boba Fett was well known since Han and Chewie knew about him
It is established in ep 1 The Phantom menace that all of the republic politicians are kinda sketchy since the whole reason the ep 1 climax happened was because almost the entire senate were selfish which is also established when Padme says (in ep 1) to Palpatine I hope you bring reason and compassion back to the senate. that is why they didn`t notice Palpatine's malice. He seemed quite charitable in comparison to everyone else since he was putting on his act and using the dark side to cloud the metaphorical vision of the Jedi. So that is why he was able to sneak past everybody. The scene where he gets emergency powers also makes sense because he could have used mind tricks on Jar Jar since he`s ya` know... not very strong minded.
Palpatine is too good of a villain. I love how we get to see him plan and orchestrate everything that happens basically. The Jedi never saw it coming
Actors who played Jango and Boba are really nice guys in real life
I love it when actors are just good people in real life :D
"I think he is gonna lose his arm!" - yeah, about that... 😂
Technically correct... eventually
I loved the look of recognition on your face when you first heard Sir Christopher Lee.
It's the way he said "thousand" that gave it away for me. So fun realizing what actors are in movies!!
You’re wicked smart 🙌🏻, asking if Qui-Gon had lived would Anakin have fallen to the dark side. It’s actually a pretty strongly believed fan theory that Palpatine ordered Maul to kill Qui-Gon, no matter what, for that very reason. As you pointed out, he was less strict with the Jedi code and would’ve taught Anakin to understand his feelings, not to push them down. Check out some fan theory videos on it if you’re interested, really cool stuff 👌🏻
It would make sense that Palpatine would want Qui Gone so Anakin wouldn't have the support he needs
2:43
_"... she has R2. She's safe now."_
my sentiments, exactly.
R2 is just such a great droid!
40:26 that’s why the fight with maul is called “duel of the fates”
Because whoever won that fight would change Anakin’s fate
At around 12:55 (in the video) you can see the younglings, training to be a jedi (behind yoda). thats why he said to luke that he is too old, even to anakin.
If Anakin was too old at 10, then definitely Luke was too old, no need to even see the kids to know that 😂
@@VerowakReacts oh ye definitely. i just wanted to say how crazy this jedi thing is. like imagine being separated from your parents at 6. then told you cannot fear or have negative thoughts and you have to suppress your feelings. its like a fucked up cult if you think about it ahah
"This feels like a creepy first date" is an excellent summary of the scene... and perhaps, the film...
It really is! Clearly they're made for each other if they're ok with that amount of creepiness
I agree with you. QuiGon probably would have been better trainer for Anakin. He could give more nuanced advice I think. Obi is a very good man but he is more pragmatic and believes in the order much more and Anakin doesn't like to be told off.
Could not have said it better myself. Definitely not a good fit for Anakin and Obi-Wan, they just don't understand each other. Qui-Gon would have been way better for Anakin
Even Qui-Gon shouldn’t have trained Anakin it should have been Mace given how Mace created his own variation of form 7; Vaapad which channels his own darkness into a weapon of the light. Given how much darkness Anakin had in him Mace would have been the perfect teacher. Obi-Wan was far too young of a Jedi Knight to have an apprentice Anakin’s age
Qui-Gon was a better fit than Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan was too much like an older brother to Anakin when he really needed a father figure. That was the void that Palpaptine was able to fill to gain Ani's trust. That's why Qui-Gon dying and Kenobi surviving the Duel of the Fates is actually the worst outcome. Both surviving has Anakin trained by Oui-Gon, both dying has Anakin trained by another Jedi at least not as young as Obi but Obi-Wan surviving and promising that he would be the one to train Anakin dooms him to join the Dark Side.
@@VerowakReacts It's exactly why the soundtrack piece to Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon vs Darth Maul fight in EpI is so dramatic and is called Duel of the Fates. Its outcome determines the rest of Anakin's life - had the Qui-Gon (the fatherly figure he needed) survived and taught Anakin instead of Obi-Wan (who's more like a brother), the future of the Galaxy most likely would have been very different.
Qui-Gon would be the first to notice Palpatine's interest in Anakin like he noticed the deception of Padme's double.
This is why Lucas should be allowed to create stories, but not details or dialog. In case you're wondering why he's divorced - remember this is his idea of romantic dialog
You hit the nail on the head with your speculation about what Qui-Gon could’ve done for Anakin. Kid was screwed as soon as Maul killed the one Jedi who could’ve helped him!
It's great to see that everyone tries their best, but it just isn't a good fit
If you go back at the 22:51 mark of the video, you can catch the faint outline of Darth Vader's helmet from the created by shadow of Anakin's head on the wall. This wasn't intentional, and they only noticed it during post-production editing. Nice Easter Egg, and George Lucas liked it so much they kept the shot in the film. I commented on the last of your video that Jar Jar had a role to play in the Clone Wars and how things develop. Padme was a member of the Loyalist Committee actively working against the creation of any Republic Army, which is why she had returned to Coruscant in the first place. She wanted to pursue more diplomatic means with the Separatists to avoid a full war. With her gone from the Senate unable to vote, Jar Jar was left as the Representative of Naboo. It was easy for Palpatine and others to manipulate and convince him that if Padme were there, she would have the courage to vote FOR the creation of an army to defend the Republic. Jar Jar just thought he was doing what Padme would have wanted done given the information they had about Dooku and the Separatists.
Palpatine and the others definitely expertly manipulated Jar Jar to give him emergency powers. Such a smart and sneaky villain
Fun fact! The yellow speeder Anakin takes is a reference to Milner's 1942 Ford Coupe in American Graffiti. A film George Lucas also directed prior to Star Wars.
Oh that's super cool, I never would have known
@@VerowakReacts American Graffiti is really cool you should definitely check it out sometime! It also features Harrison Ford in one of his very first movie roles!
😆 Larry is awesome....
With his dope moves...
That bass though... Lol
Episode III is shockingly good 😳 and possibly the best Star Wars movie in the series!! .. enjoy 😨
I'm so excited!!!
In the SW universe, romances don't necessarily resemble our "earth" real-life romances. You just have to accept them for what they are: simple, pure and innocent.
Thank you, always a real pleasure to listen to your smiling and offbeat reactions.
The memes!! :) As a reminder NO SPOILERS in the comments. If it hasn't been said in episodes 4, 5, 6, 1 and 2, then it's not something that I know. This is building up to an amazing Episode 3, I think! And it seems now may be the perfect time to start watching the Clone Wars, too!
Who is your favorite bad guy of this movie?
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Maul they killed him off in the films too quick.
@@SkavenDan-TotalWar I just want to see more epic fights, and his was the best! Nothing really compares to it :( Darth Maul and Obi-wan fights are great
@@VerowakReacts Wait until you see the battles in ROTS.
33:54 Follow that old man on the mobility scooter!
I have thought this was the most under-rated story of the Lucas stories. I have always thought it was the best story of the prequels. Certainly, some issues with the direction sort of hurt its execution, but I don't care. There is much to love in this one.
So much to love, so much story telling and development! Definitely some issues with execution, but overall the story is told and understood very well.
The general idea for the story is pretty neat, but I think this one suffers the most from the execution.
@@Yora21 Lucas is a great world builder he is not so much a great storyteller. Its why the movies he directed are generally not super praised
Padme "aside from the romance" Amidala! The amazing theme music during the Ep 1 light saber fight where Darth Maul and Qui-Gon are killed was called "Duel of the Fates", signifying the importance of the fight's outcome as to who trains Anakin. Your insight serves you well.
I love the Darth Maul vs Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan fight SO much. The music was perfect, the fight was amazing and the outcome is so damn important
For the Dooku/Anakin fight, its worth noting that due to Christopher Lee's arthritis, much of what you see is CGI as he wasnt limber enough to do the fighting. This may explain some of the awkward shot composition?
Ahh, I didn't know about Christopher Lee having arthritis. It could be a reason for it yeah
Lee said in his book and in the Lucasfilm documentaries that any shots above the waist are him, because he could still move his arms and hands very well, but he couldn't move his legs as well as he used to. Lee was an accomplished fencer, and holds the record for most on-screen sword fights. Even into his late 50s he was running and leaping in sword fights. Watch the old Three Musketeers films from the mid-70s to see Lee doing all his own sword fighting and leg work.
The clonetroopers are not stormtroopers. Stormtroopers are normal humans and not enhanced like the clones of Jango who is a Mandalorian at least an adopted and became one
I've been binging your star wars reactions since I found them today. love them!!! my whole life I've been a prequel apologist and I've always felt the prequels suffered because they let george lucas write the dialogue lol. the story (re how anakin falls and how he and padme get together) suffers because of that. but there's also a TON of deleted scenes between anakin and padme on naboo that add so much more depth to their story arc. I love padme being a badass because you can see a bunch of her and anakin in luke and leia
I feel like my experience with reading a lot of anime fanfiction has given me the passive ability to "fill in the blanks" and sort of embellish the writing lol The dialogue is not great, not at all, but the intention is there so I'm going by the intention of things.
I do love Padme being a badass and seeing how Luke and Leia are both awesome and share similarities with their parents 😊
I loved how you counter quotes with quotes from other movies, Fellowship of the Ring, A Few Good Men, ha ha.
I love quotes! I wish I could remember more
Fun fact: Mace Windu's lightsaber is purple just because Samuel L. Jackson likes this color and asked George Lucas. There is zero meaning or reason in the Star Wars lore for his lightsaber to be purple.
I love that he managed to get it purple 😂
Yoda uses the same saber combat form Qui-Gon Jinn used, Form IV: Ataru. However, to make up for his size, Yoda uses a technique called "Trispzest" which allows him to use crazy acrobatics. For Count Dooku, he uses Form II: Makashi. Dooku was a true master of the combat form, and he was able to face four opponents at once with it. Side note: Christopher Lee was a master fencer in real life, so Form II in Star Wars was essentially second-nature to him.
In Lucas' defence, Jar-Jar was the first attempt to have a CGI character as one of the main characters in a movie. Luckily, they toned down Jar-Jar's appearance in the two sequel episodes, mostly due to the fans' negative response to him. So let's just appreciate the character for the advancement in special effects it generated. :)
I think the CGI for him was great, a job well done for the time imo. I like how you're looking on the bright side of things!
@@VerowakReacts Life is too short to be angry... lol
Actually George Lucas wasn't planning on having Jar Jar in episode 2 or 3, but after the poor reaction Jar Jar received, he kept bringing him back to spite the complaining fans.
@@tvorryn I think it would have been horrible had Jar Jar been like he was in Episode 1. He's fine in this one :D
20:34 Next to the sound of a lightsaber, it's the best sound in the Star Wars Saga.
Great reaction, and can't wait for Revenge of the Sith!
The explosions are just amazing! I want more of them :D
Padme is indeed a great character, and you can see where Leia gets it from. You get more Padme in the clone wars show :)
I'm really looking forward to the Clone wars already... I think I'll quite enjoy that series
jar jar is a great character... You would need to watch the clone wars animated series to see how good of a character he really is ...they don't do him justice in the movie.. He's a ladies man actually
I'm scared now
23:23 "sounds familiar...Sauruman" Also Dracula (1954) and The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) and many more!
I've only seen him in Lord of the Rings 😂
@@VerowakReacts you never mentioned how LITTLE we saw of Jar Jar! When you said at the beginning you dearly hoped there wasn't much of him I was thinking "then you should be happy". You'll see even less if him in III. Uh oh...was that a spoiler?
The directing fail regarding the romance is that we did not get a feeling for the passage of time.
That the two of them were stuck together alone for days, maybe weeks.
Both of them were constantly training and working with no free time, no one their age around, never had a chance for sexuality.
Then you take these two sexually pent up attractive young adults, and have them bored with nothing to do for days alone in a villa, no TV, no work, no training.
It is difficult to imagine these two not hooking up even if she was not particularly attracted to him originally. Time together would close the age gap and erase the problem that she used to babysit him with new common experiences.
One could not have planned it any better if they were a Sith Lord disguised as the galactic governor trying to plant seeds of disloyalty and fear of loss in a young Jedi. Remind me, who was it who suggested Anakin escort Padme anyway?
Great reaction! So I was supposed to go see this movie in theatres with my friends once the school year was over. I was in grade 9 and starting in like January of 2002 my friends and I made plans to go see the movie after exams were over. But two things happened. The weekend before we were supposed to go, a friend of mine had a pool party to celebrate the end of the school year, and to say goodbye to a friend who was moving into the city over the summer (I lived in a rural area in the middle of nowhere). So my mom made me choose between the movie and the pool party. I chose the pool party because I could always see the movie later in the summer, but I might not see the friend who was moving away again once she moved. So then after the pool party, my mom was gonna let me go to the movie with my friends anyway, but something else came up and I still couldn't go. Another friend of mine, who I had a crush on, and who had a crush on me it turns out, couldn't go that weekend either.
So, she and I planned to go later in the summer when she had time off of work. But by the time our schedules lined up, the movie wasn't in theatres anymore, so we went to see Austin Powers in Goldmember instead because there was literally nothing else in theatres by the end of the summer that either of us wanted to see since The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Star Trek Nemesis weren't coming out until like November or December. So when Attack of the Clones was released on VHS and DVD, my parents rented the movie on VHS for my siblings and I as we didn't have a DVD player yet and wouldn't get one until that Christmas. So it was like September or October before I would see Attack of the Clones. Also, sidenote, Attack of the Clones was the last Star Wars movie to be released on VHS in North America. Revenge of the Sith had a VHS release in the U.K., Germany, Finland, and Australia in 2005, but by that point most movie studios had phased out VHS releases in North America in favour of DVD by 2005, aside for Warner Bros. and Disney, though Disney would reserve VHS releases for the Disney Movie Club until 2007.
What a rollercoaster! So many things just didn't line up for you to see it in theatres 😭 But I bet you don't regret going to the pool party to see your friends! I didn't realize all those movies released during the same year, that quite a blockbuster year!
@@VerowakReacts Not at all, because grade 9 and grade 10 are when I made friends who are now lifelong friends and it was my first time being invited to a party at a friend's house, because, again, physical disabilities, so I don't regret going to that party. Yeah, it's insane to think about how those movies came out in the same year. I had an issue of Teen Tribute magazine and an issue of Tribute, the magazines that used to be on racks in the movie theatres owned by Cineplex, from 2002 and the number of big movies that came out that year is astonishing.
Actually, the first version of the script was titled 'Jar Jar's Great Adventure'. What a self-aware joke from Lucas. :D
Funny how Obi-Wan says "never lose your lightsaber" but I feel like he lost his more times than Anakin did. :D
If Qui-Gon lived, everything would have been different. The Jedi Council and Obi-Wan had a part in Anakin's descent, too. Force Sensitive children are usually taken as infants, so the Jedi can work on a "blank sheet". They had no idea what to do or how to handle a child with a past, especially a troubled one. Yes, Anakin was pure in Episode 1 but the one time he got angry was when Padmé asked "are you a slave?" That definitely impacted him. The strict rules of the Jedi reminded him of slavery. He would have needed therapy and a good father figure. Obi-Wan was more like a brother to him. That's how Palpatine managed to fill in the father figure role.
And of course Anakin was awkward around Padmé. He never had a chance before to learn how to flirt. For first attempt it's commendable. :D I always believed that Padmé loved him because he was the only one who treated her and talked to her like she was a person and not a political figure.
Self-aware jokes are nice! It's good that Anakin's awkwardness and creepiness was brushed off by Padme and she still loved him :D
Palpatine has the ability to suppress his force sensitivity in a way. That way even Yoda and Mace can't sense him even if they are in the same room as him. And those two are the strongest in the order
Also sometimes Anakin's shadow takes on a shape that looks similar to Vader. His Fate
"I'm so sorry I failed you senator"
Not in the slightest, actually you succeeded quite handily! Well done!
Ani: "You're exactly the I remember you in my dreams"
Padme: *smashes panic button under the table while smiling*
Basically :D Anakin was very creepy at times
@@VerowakReacts Indeed lol.
Also a little Easter egg if no one has already told you, go back and watch the scene of Anakin and Padme talking before he leaves to find his mother and focus on their shadows on the wall :)
I've always assumed that the Dooku Anakin weird fight sequence was due to Christopher Lee being older and not able to do any real fighting. That's just my assumption.
That's quite possible, it's still very strange though
Lee could move his upper body ok but for the footwork they used a body double and cgi Lee’s head. It was kind of a visual trick that Lucas pulled to deal with this.
yes, Dooku is a very complex character, he was never bad he was genuinely a really good Jedi who loved a lot. He was just misunderstood and had his mind twisted. He loved Qui - Gon like a son.
Also yes, the Taming of Animals is possible, though some Jedi / Sith are much better at it naturally than others
Sith are ALWAYS red, Jedi are ALWAYS Blue / Green but Sam L Jackson asked George Lucas if he could have a purple one so he could find himself in the massive fight scene lmao
Loved elements of this movie mostly from an in universe lore building viewpoint from seeing Kamino for the first time a planet with a very advance aesthetic compared to the other parts of the universe which have that retro 1970s futurism look. I also loved the Coruscant chase very Judge Dredd (Comic series from the 1970s) in its aesthetic has that mega city looked mixed with retro 1970s and in this case 1950s futurism vehicles. Naboo of course is back and it's just amazing very Hagia Sophia designs gives it a totally different look you can tell right away its an ancient culture who held onto their culture throughout the years. Fun detail but the Naboo ships such as the yellow Naboo fighters were based on 1950s sports cars George Lucas the creator of Star Wars wanted to go for a more sleek and clean design to contrast the dirty and used look of the average more common ships of the galaxy to show the wealth Naboo had which i find really interesting and one of the reasons why i love the Naboo fighters.
Should point out that the Clone Troopers are not Stormtroopers. Stormtroopers are enlisted citizens from across the Galactic Empire while Clone Troopers were Clones of Jango Fett (who you saw in this movie in his blue and sliver Mandalorian armour beheaded by Mace) who were created to be soldiers for the Grand Army of the Republic. Clones age twice as fast so by the age of 10 years of age they'd already be adults which is pretty dark when you think about it. You may notice that the Clone armour looks very similar to that of Stormtrooper armour but different enough that you can tell them apart. We also have the kid with Jango who he refers to as Boba a name you may recognise.
The Battle of Geonosis was amazing we got to see some many new toys from the LAAT which acts as the main gunship and dropship for the Republic has a real Bell UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" feel to it giving it a very Vietnam war feel. We also have the AT-TE walker which may remind you of a AT-AT used by the Empire and one of my favourite and underrated vehicles the SPHA-T also known as the The Self-Propelled Heavy Artillery Turbolaser those big laser stations which shot down the Trade Federation ships that landed on the planet. On the topic of the trade ship fun detail but the middle part of the Lucrehulk also known as the donut ship to many new fans, disconnects from the ring around it which lets it land on planets and trade with the locals like you see in this movie.
Also introduced in this movie is the CIS (Confederacy of Independent Systems) a faction made up of many different star systems that had withdrawn their membership from the Galactic Republic. From members of the Techno Union to some members of the trade federation this is why there's new droids vehicles and ships in this film, many factions provided the CIS with there own droids, equipment, ships, and vehicles. Of course anything you recognise from Episode 1 is provided by Nute Gunray from the Trade ships to the B1 Battledroids.
And finally "Begun the Clone Wars have" pretty much a WW2 level conflict that is not explored much in these movies but the amazing Clone Wars TV show from 2018 to 2021 fills in the gaps across 7 Seasons diving into our main characters but also side characters and even the Clones making them really fun characters all with their own personality.
Overall not the best of the prequals many even regard it as the weakest one i love the 2nd half of the movie but i totally agree it's really just a build up to the end of the film and the start of the Clone Wars. Revenge of the Sith is far better and in my opinion the best of the prequals and to many fans around my age who grew up in the 2000s maybe born in 1999 like myself would even say that Revenge of the Sith is their favourite Star Wars movie. The Clone Wars TV show definitely adds so much to Episode 3 which makes it even better Clone Wars taking place between Episodes 2 and 3 within the three years of the war.
I can definitely see this as the the weakest of the prequels, but at the same time there are so many great parts to it! The second half is great, along with the Obi-Wan and Jango fight (I think it happens in the first half)
They had many clone troops but could not replace them quickly. Recruits could be and it seems like the military strategy of the Empire is just to throw soldiers at the problem instead of training them well.
Ep 2. Anikin: "I killed them all, the women, and children.. "
Padme: "I see nothing wrong with this, let's get married"
Ep 3. Obi-wan: " he killed children"
Padme: "no! He'd never do such a thing!"
I do like these three over the last three (7-9)
The Novelization of this movie, deleted scenes, and Clone Wars series make the romance between Anakin and Padmé more believable and less cringe. But I still like this movie.
I definitely don't watch Star Wars for the romance :D I'm looking forward to more character development and overall amazingness from the Clone Wars
@@VerowakReacts yeah I agree. The romance just feels out of place.
The scene wheee Anakin and dookoo were swinging their lightsabers above their heads was them trying to build momentum and finding a strategy for attack while contemplating a defense as they were both switching styles.
Those are definitely three that I want to watch this year! I learned last year that Full Metal Jacket is about war lol
Hi! i usually post the same comment when someone's just watched ep II, so here it is :D
Just know the Clones are not Stormtroopers. There is an excellent SW animated tv show called « The Clone Wars » which is set between episode II and III, created by George Lucas and Dave Filoni. I really suggest you to watch it in your free time if you want to. If you watch it in the end, be sure NOT to follow the release order (season 1,2,3 etc…) but the chronological order list instead (on the internet). Btw I actually suggest to watch the first 8 episodes on this list before you watch SW ep III, it will give you much more context :)
Clone Wars is at the top of my Star Wars series to watch :D
@@VerowakReacts and that’s a very good choice of you!! :) Clone Wars is the beginning of the so called Dave Filoni-verse which extends through numerous other series and tv shows (Rebels, Bad Batch, Mandalorian…). CW has to be watched first in order to fully appreciate the other ones.
But please just only remember, chronological order, not release order for clone wars xD
and as i said earlier you might want to begin to watch it before episode III actually (it makes the movie even more impactful). Anyway hope you have fun with SW!
I will say one good thing about Jar Jar. He made me reconsider how ridiculous I thought the Ewoks were. ;-)
There we go! Looking on the bright side 😂
If you like how Palpatine is already kind of guiding Anakin, there's this popular fan theory that has been semi-confirmed or at least not ruled out that he was the one who caused Shmi Skywalker to get pregnant by influencing midichlorians...
If that's the case, that's just even more remarkable
@@VerowakReacts there are some subtle hints in the next movie in some dialog between the two of them. I won't spoil it, but listen out & see if you can catch it.
The think about the Anakin/Dooku fight is that Christopher Lee was an old man and had trouble walking. In an interview he said that as a former fencer he could move his arms and lightsaber around, but he had trouble moving. So far shots there was a stand-in, but closer shots where you had to see his face, he was pretty static.
The romance dialogue is awkward but it is "intentionally awkward" - Anakin never had love interests before Padme, so it's very natural that he tried in more or less effective ways of flirting. I wouldn't call him "creepy" - just inexperience. I personally think that this is very natural - many people have problem with right putting their words, especially when they talks with their heart (not even necessarily on dating area; just during talking about something dear to them). And some other parts were also inspired by Shakespeare. Padme is drawn to Anakin because he is one of few people that are themselves around her. She is politician after all, and people with whom she works aren't always honest. Anakin is straightforward and free-spirited and she longs for someone like that.
I absolutely love their romance and I think people misunderstand them in many ways. I recently found that amazing video about why "awkward" dialogue actually make sense in context of their story - I encourage to check, if someone is interested in that point of view: ruclips.net/video/4hhfEzgfvZ8/видео.html
Ani: *"It's all Obi-Wan's fault! HE'S JELLO!"*
There’s episodes of Tales of the Jedi that focus on Dooku and Qui Gon, so definitely look forward to that
That sounds like something I'll quite enjoy
@@VerowakReacts Dooku and Qui-Gon make a great team. Tales of the Jedi put so much more context to Dooku's fall to the Dark Side and his very close relationship to Qui-Gon, and his first apprentice, Rael Averross. I also recommend the following canon books if you want know more about Qui-Gon and Dooku: "Master and Apprentice," and "Dooku: Jedi Lost." For a non-canon look into Yoda and Dooku's relationship as master and apprentice, the Clone Wars era novel "Dark Rendezvous" is considered the best non-canon novel from the Prequel Era. More background on Dooku is useful because the films are thin on the ground, but long story short, Dooku was considered to be the finest Jedi of his time and a prodigy in the Force from a young age. So much so, that Yoda broke the Jedi rule, and his own personal rule, to take Dooku has his Padawan. Grand Masters are not supposed to have an apprentice, and Yoda had resolved to never take another apprentice, and kept this rule for 300 years. But, Dooku was so remarkable that Yoda felt only he could properly mentor him. Dooku leaving the Jedi and later falling to the Dark Side was an immense coup for Sidious. Yoda describes the whole situation with Dooku becoming a Sith as thus: "The stongest? Hmmm? The wisest? The most learned? Dooku was. *Our greatest student, our greatest failure."*
"Is this the scene from the meme?!" LMAO
The joys of seeing the meme and having no idea the context of the scene 🤣
Love your reacts! Your foresight is pretty good. @@VerowakReacts
To give you idea on the numbers, there's 10,000 jedi, definitely not enough to keep the peace. Padawan, knight's and master's. Yoda Chanel's the force around him to make himself move quickly in combat
10,000 sounds like a lot, but they're not all Obi-wan/Yoda/Mace Windu level
10,000 in a galaxy that has many star systems. Lots of planets have never seen a Jedi , only just heard whispers of them. Why lots didn’t believe in this ancient religion, for instance, Han Solo.
04:26 😂😂😂 la mejor reacción
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The shadow on the Lars home, when Padme hugs Anikin before searching for his mother, was meant to foreshadow Anikin becoming Darth Vader.
If you look at the head of Anikin's shadow, it sort of resembles Vader's silhouette.
ah yes the movie about a man seducing a politician by talking about sand and killing an entire city
He is a man of many talents it seems
"Is this where stormtroopers come from? Maybe they should have cloned somebody with better aim..."
Hilarious.
Caught me drinking.
Now I'm mopping up my keyboard...
I can't wait to see your Episode 3 reaction.
I feel like I'm most excited for that one!! Revenge of the Sith?! How could it not be amazing
@@VerowakReacts it is arguably the best film in the entire series.
The next one has all the memes. :D
You know what light sabers need? A lanyard.
The Kamino sequence is one of my favorite parts in the series.
Kamino was just great. There was nothing bad about the whole sequence imo
OH God, Jar Jar clones. That concept is a horror that I didn't need in my brain. You've scared me for at least the rest of the day.
You're quite welcome 👼
I absolutely hate half this movie & love the other half😅 While the execution can be a bit..yikes, I do appreciate the overall story!
Also R2D2 is best boy and I will hear nothing against it
That's very fair. I was actually thinking that this is the worst movie between Episode 1 and 2, but then there are lots of scenes I really liked in this movie, while there are lots that I really didn't like. I feel so torn on this movie, though overall it's good and I'll definitely rewatch it. The good outweighs the bad thankfully
About the terrible romance/dialog: In these prequels, George Lucas had gotten obsessed with the special effects visuals to the exclusion of all else. In the original movies, he didn't even direct Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi, which may be why they are pretty good. But in the prequels, everything was on green screen, and Lucas didn't care much about the directing (and he has always not been great at dialog), so they suffer a lot. Christopher Lee said it was a really bad experience because of all of that.
There's also kind of a factor of Lucas being so famous at this point that people treated his dialog/script like they were reciting lines from a holy book, so it felt too awkward and serious, so the performances seem too stiff.
But have hope! The third movie is better than these two.
As much as Anakin claimed that Obi is the closest thing to a father, it seems they are more like friends, equals. With Qui Gon there would probably be more of a mentor-pupil relationship. Palpatine is so cool in this. The master puppeteer. He has to act surprised when it is discovered that theres a new rise of the sith, or that there's a droid army
Damn Palpatine!!! Such an evil master mind and able to sneak so many things by the Jedi. I do feel for Obi-Wan, such a tragic character
Obi thought of Anakin as a brother while Anakin thought of Obi as a father.