LOL, this thread goes on and on!
I see the same three or four people carrying on, oblvious to how outrageous their "criticisms" of the movie are. Blockading a planet doesn't matter, because people can supposedly sustain themselves by hunting wildlife. Jamming communications during a military attack somehow needs explaining. Bail Organa, a bit character in Episodes II and III, somehow needs to be explained in TPM even though he doesn't even appear in that movie.
Yeah, I'm repeating myself again. But that's because I don't see any of you guys recanting this nonsense. You simply lower your heads and keep pressing on. Continuing to grasp at straws, even though the nature of this thread has degenerated to the point where you're all just whining over nitpicky, irrelevant things. And it's not the first time I've seen this stuff from the same people. I remember when someone asked for an explanation of why
General Grievous would have verbal clout in a meeting about military matters. Someone else claiming that it was "poor filmmaking" for no-name Trade Fed henchman to know that Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan had escaped up a ventilation shaft...when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were shown being monitored on security cameras just seconds prior.
Criticisms like these do not reflect any sort of normal thought process. Could it be...that you guys are trying way too hard to create your own flaws in the movie? Be honest with yourselves.
Bakustra wrote:So how do we translate the basal motivation of "money" into the actions taken in the films? Because we can translate the basal motivation of "power" into the actions taken by Palpatine, to a certain limited extent, but we cannot do so for the Trade Federation to any extent. They're blockading a planet? How does this get them money? That is what the film should explain, so that we can follow and understand why the Trade Federation are doing the things they do.
An economic dispute spun out of control and escalated into the use of military force. That's basically all that needs to be known. As I said before, a movie about the American Revolution doesn't have to make more than a cursory reference to taxes. A story about WWI doesn't have to explain why millions of people are dying because one guy got shot. The initial cause of the conflict pales in comparison to the conflict itself.
Once again, the
Trade Federation with a
trade franchise has a problem with taxes on
trade routes. It follows that they don't like taxes, and are acting out so that the taxes are repealed. Maybe Naboo was a supporter or beneficiary of the taxes. Maybe the Trade Fed is just bullying a weaker planet, so that others can see the weight they have to throw around. It does not matter, and the basic gist of things is easy enough for children to understand.
You should never be allowed to experience fiction in any way, because you have no fucking idea how any of it works. You gabble about how the motivations of antagonists aren't important because related words are thrown around.
Yeah, I don't know how to "experience" fiction (as if there's a proper way to do that, other than non-retard) because I care more about the conflict that the movie is actually about (hint: the invasion of Naboo), the themes, the Republic's decline, Qui-Gon taking Anakin under his wing, or Anakin leaving his mother behind for a hopefully better future. And oh yeah, the laser guns and laser swords which are the reason why people even sit down for a movie titled "Star Wars."
But compared to the TAXES, none of that stuff really seems important, does it?
Answer me this question. If you removed the Death Star Plans from ANH, would it still be a good movie?
You ask that like it's a hard question. The Death Star plans are a MacGuffin. You can remove them from the movie and still have basically the same story. Because all you need is for Luke to leave home, save the princess, then fight the Empire's big superweapon at the end.