I hate his acting and I hate his stupid ugly face. Why's he always look like a dog hiding something in their mouth?

The whole Darth Jar Jar thing makes the big bombad sith not as annoying.

Good.

His was easily the most annoying Star Wars character since Jar Jar.

Well he could easily be replaced by a thousand other actors of equal talent and looks and I doubt anyone would notice.

Adam Driver finished what Kathleen Kennedy started.

I think that's kind of the issue with the movie: It has potential, but Taika aims always for the joke instead of building that potential: Gorr, Thor's travel, Jane's cancer, the city of Gods... Taika crams a lot of interesting concepts on that film and use them for the laughs.

I don't think he should be getting more movies.

One of the worst things about the MCU is absolutely ruining villains that have so much potential to be interesting. Even in the good movies.

Love and Thunder was Taika taking the MCU as seriously as most of its haters. He did his job just well enough to piss everyone off, and added in screaming goats as a significant part of the film "just so the next guy would have to figure something out with them." And it sounds funny because it absolutely has potential, but he beats the joke to death in the movie.

And that's not even mentioning all the gags that ruined an actually stellar appearance by Christian Bale and had a phenomenal villain wasted in that film.

That was Endgame with fat Thor. He's normal buff Thor in Love & Thunder. It was okay, but I definitely felt like the movie should have been much more emotional and dark. It had the Taika/MCU humor throughout.

I had to look up what that was, not sure I've seen it yet. I have a tendency to steer away from Marvel movies until I eventually get roped into them by someone. That wasn't the one where they made Thor fat or whatever was it?

Effectively love and thunder then everything since

I was thinking the last thing I knew he was doing/in was "Our Flag Means Death" which was fun, but looking at his imdb page it appears hes spread all over. Apparently making a Charlie and the chocolate factory movie right now. Also what we do in the shadows was fun.

What did he make that you didn't like?

Yeah I was thinking the movie being on ice was the silver lining

Good his latest movies haven’t been so great

Not necessarily, could be that the reason Padme's people couldn't find her is because Lars already bought and freed her at that point.

They show up at Watto's looking for her, maybe they were trying to be discreet and didn't exactly go up to watto and say "hey, do you still own that Skywalker lady?" And instead just sort of poked around in his shop for a bit and checked at her old home and didn't find her. Maybe they asked around a bit a neighbor said that watto sold her off to some weirdo out in the desert who married her and set her free, but didn't exactly have the name or address to point them in the right direction to find her because they only had second or third hand knowledge themselves.

Maybe they did ask Watto, and he decided that Lars was a good enough customer that he didn't want to scare him off by handing out his contact info to some rando asking after his wife.

Maybe they got a straight answer and figured that she's free and married somewhere is good enough, and they didn't put more effort into finding her, though that does leave the question of why that info didn't make it's way to Padme, and even if she didn't immediately tell Anakin because obi wan told her not to, you'd think she'd probably tell him when he went off in search of her.

Aside from the Jedi and Padme's entourage on Tatooine, how many people would even know that Anakin had been a slave, let alone be able to connect the dots to figure out his mom belongs to some junk shop owner in the ass end of nowhere? If anything, moving her around would draw more attention to her. How many times can some Jedi show up at Watto's before someone starts thinking something's up? Or if the Jedi drop off some random lady from Tatooine on a new planet somewhere, that's probably going to raise some questions, most people don't exactly hire the Jedi as a moving service because they want a change of scenery, and since Shmi is kind of a nobody and not some diplomat or something, that would probably make people wonder about why she's getting a Jedi escort.

Any random person Anakin runs into probably assumes he was raised from basically infancy by the order, with no real attachments to his family, just like any other Jedi. Sure, he's not exactly shy about talking about his childhood as a slave, but that's not exactly a common topic of conversation for most people and it mostly tends to come up with someone he's built/building some degree of trust with, so not someone who's going to go try to get leverage on him.

Watto would also probably clue in that something was up that the Jedi were interested enough in Shmi that they came back for her, and ask for like 10x the normal going rate for her, and probably buy a few more slaves to replace her, again, further propping up the slaving industry.

It still feels like an easy way to allow someone to get hooks into one of your most promising, if troubled, Jedi.

If his mom is a slave, anyone can buy her, and use her as a weapon against Anakin. If instead the Jedi has bought and moved her/released her, preferably on some other planet, it would be an easy way to protect him without entrapping him.

The book canon is invalidated by the Lars guy telling anakin that he bought shmi and freed her so she could be his wife.

In anakin’s defense, the Jedi intentionally kept him away from Shmi. They basically forced him to go no-contact; and being the child he was had no reason to realize how creepy-cult-y that is

Damn, I should call my mom.

As for Padme, sure, she could probably have arranged for it

If we accept book canon, she did. She sent her handmaiden to free slaves and look for Shmi but couldn't find her. Shmi also got involved with some liberation movements and her old home had some evidence that she was likely already free. So while no one could find her, they knew she probably wasn't a slave which was at least "good enough".

As for Anakin, I'm confident that you're completely right that the Jedi were interested in tackling slavery at a deeper level. I'm sure he believed that if he put in the work and helped the Jedi that they would be able to eliminate slavery.

I think Anakin dreamed of the day he could return to Tatooine not just to free his mother, but to free ALL of Tatooine. He was going off to train and become a big hero, so he'd want to return as a big hero.

We the audience know that Anakin is important, but Padme doesn't. From her perspective, Anakin is just some kid she met once and then who went off with the Jedi. She's got more important things to sorry about (like the entire planet of Naboo even though she herself is barely a teenager, for some reason).

As for why the Jedi don't, I kinda like the other detailed answer but also I think they may have just screwed up because the influence of the dark side was making them make bad decisions.

It's indeed tragic but also pretty realistic. How often do we just forget people we have met once despite them being in a really bad situation?