Least Favorite Scene

I have always hated the fact that Chewbacca doesn't get a medal in ANH and the ewoks playing drums with dead stormtroopers helmets in ROTJ is kinda messed up

 

Not saying that Chewie didn't deserve a medal, but you can argue Han and Luke got them because they're the ones who actually fired the shots. Han took out the fighters and Luke took out the Death Star

 

I'm going to leave out stuff from the special editions and stick with stuff from the originals because there's a lot of stuff that I feel the special editions did wrong...

The scene that I always found too difficult to watch was 3PO's sort of storytime session with the Ewoks in ROTJ. That whole sequence just doesn't work for me... don't know why... have just always kinda thought it was strange.... maybe it's the sound effects with the story which I'm still not entirely sure where they are coming from... is 3PO making them?

 

You do make a point there, but Chewie was very involved in saving princess Leia and I think that should be enough to get a medal.

But I haven't thought about it that way before.

 

Hello all.....im a long time lurker but i just signed up (literally) to agree with this wholeheartedly. This scene is proof that one can take off the rose covered glasses of nostalgia and call a spade a spade. While watching the PT with my kids (who had the ability to watch the saga chronologically) i thought "man how is it the writing and acting could be so generic," specifically referencing AOTC, wheras the OT was damn near perfect. Then when it came time for Jedi, that scene came on........which i remember disliking as a kid, but man i hated it a million times more as an adult. This scenes dialogue, acting, and general tone was so far off the mark i genuinely cringed. I felt a sense of vindication ,however, that i finally fully realized my dislike of that scene. The thing is, ive seen Jedi sooooo many times in between that revelation, but i think watching it a day or so after the PT (and ,again ,AOTC specifically) i think it just exposed that scene even more. It just felt so "episode 2-ish" to me at that point. Also,nowthat im a member here, i look forward to participating with you fine people in the great discussions.

 

Welcome to the Cantina. I'm glad we could finally bring you out of hiding.

And yeah, it really is right down there with the AOTC fireplace scene, isn't it? You get the sense that none of the actors really liked the scene or had any real emotional investment in it. In both cases, I can almost hear the actors saying, "I can't believe that George is making me read this crap!"

Not that there aren't other scenes in the SW films that fall rather flat, but these two in particular just reek of flop sweat.

See ya 'round the funny farm, compadre!

 

Jabba's palace band

Leia/Luke as mentioned above though I find it better than the fireplace scene

Briefing scene with Jan Dodonna

A certain point of view

The Emperor's end

 

My least favorite is the new reendition of Jabba's Palace band on the 2004 DVD.
I hate the new song and it adds completely nothing to the overall movie.

I do love Lapti Nek, it has even that music from the galaxy far far away.

 

Yes, the sounds came from his highly versatile linguistic computer; C3PO can communicate with species using very strange sounds humans are incapable of producing or registering, and he tweaked this speech synthesiser-processor to emulate sound effects.

 

This.

Luke and Leia's family relations exposition scene is the only OT scene I cringe while watching (and I even like some of the Special Edition edits - in theory rather than execution admittedly). Also, yes, Leia remembering her mother being sad and all is just dumb (on the part of the PT, not necessarily the OT).

Yeah, this is one of the silly things regarding Kenobi's plot (especially post-PT). Why did he hide himself and Luke on Darth's homeworld? Why, upon going into hiding, did he wear his official Jedi robes? (That the PT made Kenobi's hermit robes into a Jedi unform put me in a really bad mood right from the start of APM).


I mean, George Lucas is a brilliant guy when he wants to be, or at least he was when in his 30s, so why did he go and make continuation problem after continuation problem when making the PT? The OT could probably have been brilliant if he'd made more of an effort and not sunk all his creativity into developing and show off his new CGI tech skills. ( <-- sorry about the rant, guys)

 

By far the WORST addition from those special editions.

I second the 'You're my sister' scene as being my least favourite, I also really don't care for the romance subplot in Empire, could have been more subtle.

 

My turn the least favorite scene was the almost kiss scene in TAOTC between Anakin & Padme I screamed at the tv ''Guys get it over with please''

 

That was indeed a toothache of a sceen, but this thread (in the "Original Trilogy" forum) is specifically about which scene in the OT you dislike the most

 

Oh sorry forgot this was not the prequel. Ok how about this Han being frozen in carbonite that was cruel for Leia & Chewbacca to witness that temporary seperation.

 

I would need to watch the Luke and Leia scene again. I was never that impressed with Hamill's acting looking back now that I am older. However I think that the point of Leia "somehow has always known" was intended to show she has insight from the force that she is not trained to understand. This stands out even more now that you see Padme holding Leia for only a few moments. Yoda points out to Luke that he will see visions of the past, future and so on. That makes her memory of "warm feelings" more evidence of the force active in her.

I don't have many scenes I don't like in the OT. The biggest issue I had is actually in one of my favorite crucial moments of ESB. Hamill's acting. When Vader lets it be known that he is in fact his father. The pouty lip curl that Luke puts on has always stuck out to me as over blown. In plays you want to "act for the back row" meaning small facial movements don't translate well. On film its possible to tighten in on the face. But man that face is cranked to 11.

 

Actually, that's a really good point, I'd d never thought of that before! One of the main sticking points that leads people to hate the PT is because of the (minor) inconsistencies, one of which is that Leia has fleeting memories of her mother:

So then, is it not possible that what Leia perceives as being memories of her mother are, in fact, Force-induced insights into the past? Or is that me just trying to blur the lines for the story and cover George's bum? Food for thought, though....

Really? I've always thought his acting was very good, even today. But bear in mind that the scene that you're criticising involves a young lad who's always been told that his father was dead, soon learns that not only has he been alive all this time, he's also one of the most evil people in the entire galaxy, responsible for murdering millions or people. So when you take that into consideration, doesn't it make sense that he's overly-emotive? I certainly wouldn't be too happy about it. Hell, even the most British of us would even lose a monocle over that news....

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Lol

I agree I feel for Luke though I believed Vader was lying till I saw ROTJ a few years later. I agree that it should have been a big moment. I just think someone should have mentioned that his pout looked a little silly. But it might be me.

 

The Ewoks. What a terrible decision. They belonged with the muppets, not in a star wars movie.

 

Personally, the Leia thing has multiple problems.

1. At no point are we led to believe that Leia knows she's adopted, so Luke asking about her "real mother" is odd.

2. If Padme was still alive for a while and in theory living on alderaan with her biological daughter, Vader would have figured that out pretty quick.

3. Yes it's possible that Leia remembers her mother from Force memories, but she also would have thought that her mother was Bail Organa's wife (who we don't know what happened to after ROTS)...again though, see point 1.


This is definitely more of an OT problem than a PT problem in this case.

 

Yes I found it strange to when Luke asked about her mother I did sense a bit of jealousy in his voice when he said he never knew her but turned back from the darkside when vader's presence on Endor had occured, Leia must have knew she was different in the novels & wookieepedia she was treated differently to the others on Alderaan, if Padme had survived she would have made the twins aware of who they were it would have been here leading the alliance until they were ready to carry it forward against the empire then she would died during a confrontation with vader.