May the Snooze be with You: Fans Vote on the Lamest Star Wars Line
While a lot of lines from Star Wars, even those which sound completely banal out of context, became popular enough to turn into memes, there is no denying that over the course of three trilogies Star Wars also had plenty of cringy dialogue.
To start with, most of the lines which come out of Jar-Jar Binks' mouth count as cringe.
The sequel trilogy also offered a bunch of very strong contenders, like "I wish I could stick my fist through this whole lousy beautiful town" and particularly "That's how we're gonna win this. Not fighting what we hate, saving what we love" (the resistance stronghold explodes in the background).
And while a lot of lines which could have been lame in the original trilogy were saved by delivery, Leia's part of the dialogue with Luke before the latter surrendered himself to Vader… wasn't.
But the character who undoubtedly gets the most hate for lame lines, as evidenced by various polls, on Reddit and elsewhere, is Anakin Skywalker. And it must be said that in many cases the fan condemnation is quite justified.
Lines like "Love won't save you, Padme. Only my new power can," are just objectively lame. And "From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!" manages to sound both dumb and too well-articulated for a character currently in the middle of throwing a murderous temper tantrum.
But in one case the fandom's loathing is objectively misaimed.
Yes, people are completely right to characterize Anakin's love confessions in Episode II in the following way: "I don't think anyone could have delivered that line believably without coming across as an angsty 14 year old."
(The Redditor here specifically meant the short monologue starting with "From the moment I met you, all those years ago, a day hasn't gone by when I haven't thought of you," but really most of Anakin's attempt to express his romantic feelings are just as lame, if not worse.)
And the problem here is… in Episode II Anakin is a bit older than 14, but he still literally is an angsty teen, and one raised among monks, too, and this characterization is quite obviously intentional.