SW fans hate SW article

[Lirreka]

I hesitate to even post this but I feel I must.

It is possible to be a fan of something yet also be critical of it as well. Example: Being a fan of a sport (Let's say baseball) yet being critical of those in that sport (hating the fact steroids are still being used and corrupting the game). So in the same vein you can be a Star Wars Fan and still be critical of aspects of Star Wars...

Though I'm perhaps not the best judge of such things, I still want to have a Klingon with a Ga'ould symbote being a Sith Lord with a Lightsabre Bat'leth. :) *Stands ready to accept the howls of 'heretic' and waves of holy water*

 

[Johnnysaurus Rex]

I completely agree with your points Lirr. Except that Trek and SW combination nonsense. But from the intention I get from this guy's article he is completely trashing a lot of things in the series as a whole and instead of saying that people critique it he is saying people have no love for anything that is Star Wars related.

 

[The Agriculturist]

I hesitate to even post this but I feel I must.

It is possible to be a fan of something yet also be critical of it as well. Example: Being a fan of a sport (Let's say baseball) yet being critical of those in that sport (hating the fact steroids are still being used and corrupting the game). So in the same vein you can be a Star Wars Fan and still be critical of aspects of Star Wars...

Though I'm perhaps not the best judge of such things, I still want to have a Klingon with a Ga'ould symbote being a Sith Lord with a Lightsabre Bat'leth. :) *Stands ready to accept the howls of 'heretic' and waves of holy water*

While that stands true, Your example of baseball is not equivelant to the article. Look back a page to my example of basketball. That is more of what the guy is saying (in sarcasm or not). he doesnt hate one thing about starwars, but rather everything about it. there is a difference.

 

[Green Ranger]

I think you're taking this way too literally, the article is obviously incredibly satirical in nature. The article harps on about a lot of common issues the majority of Star Wars fans out there have with the movies and EU, and then plays on that to create the comedic idea that Staw Wars fans loathe the very object they are so attached to.

 

[Lillianne Crasse]

I think the majority of the people reading this realize that, dear...lol. We're just making rebuttals is all. It's all in good fun. I think we all need to just take a step back and take a deep breath. :D

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Yeah, but rebuttals against it are being made as if this guy is being serious, hence why Boli pointed it out.

 

[The Agriculturist]

I am only treating it seriously as people started to do the same. Personally, I could care less. I hate star wars.

 

[Green Ranger]

Yeah, but rebuttals against it are being made as if this guy is being serious, hence why Boli pointed it out.

Bingo. However, i'm out of cookies, and all I have left is pocky...and you're not getting my pocky.

 

[Lavi]

Assuming this is true, then I'm not a Star Wars fan D:

(Obi-Wan: “He was our only hope.” Yoda: “No…there is another.” Obi-Wan (not in script): “Oh, right, I f*cking held both of these kids as they were born in Episode 3. Sorry Yoda, I just plumb forgot!”)

I missed that contradiction...

The Star Wars movies also contradict and completely ignore droves of information within the Star Wars books.

Didn't know that...

Star Wars fans hate Star Wars videogames.

I really enjoyed the Star Wars video games!! D:

Star Wars fans hate it when previously-deceased characters are brought back to life, but we also hate Timothy Zahn for not bringing his characters back to life.

I can agree to that: Zahn writes good books.

P.S. I totally agree with the notion that it is surreal that a primitive species took down the "finest Imperial troops"

 

[Green Ranger]

The Star Wars movies also contradict and completely ignore droves of information within the Star Wars books.

This is a reference to a lot of the novels that came out long before the idea of making the prequels was even considered, where the concept of the clone wars was entirely different, as well as things like the origins of Boba Fett. Personally, I like the older ideas - jedi fighting Jedi clones would have been a little confusing for the kiddies, though.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Gearing war flicks towards kids gives you Wicket and Jar Jar, so it shouldn't matter if they were confused. IMO, the Clone Wars should have been like the Lord of the Rings....just epic.

 

[Green Ranger]

Yeah, I was honestly dissappointed when you get to episode 3 and there's nothing that matched up to Geonosis. That was my idea of ground battles in the clone wars, and I was thoroughly dissppointed in ROTS.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

Revenge of the Sith used to be my favorite Star Wars movie, but after really looking back on it then I feel it was a disappointment. It was rushed, the plot doesn't make sense unless it's on paper and you can show what people are thinking and it just looks too fake. Mustafar is a perfect example of how fake it looks, especially during the duel. Coruscant, however, was brilliant in Episode III. It really looked like they went to a city-planet and filmed it for real.

 

[Lavi]

I wasn't satisfied at all with RotS. Like what Grim said, I expected epic/climatic battles (being one of the most thought-provoking event in the Original Trilogy)... It's littered with dialogue.

The fights were good, but they could be better.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

A lot of people would LOL at this, but I think TPM was the best prequel film. I don't really mind the Gungans, but it had the epic feel with the stuff about the prophecy and the Jedi were just how I expected them to be. The Duel of the Fates lightsaber duel was also by far the best of the saga.

 

[The Agriculturist]

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[Green Ranger]

Revenge of the Sith used to be my favorite Star Wars movie, but after really looking back on it then I feel it was a disappointment. It was rushed, the plot doesn't make sense unless it's on paper and you can show what people are thinking and it just looks too fake. Mustafar is a perfect example of how fake it looks, especially during the duel. Coruscant, however, was brilliant in Episode III. It really looked like they went to a city-planet and filmed it for real.

About bloody time you woke up and smelled the CG. So many people after ROTS came out said it was so good and amazing and shit. I swear to you, i've only seen it once and I was dissatisfied with it immediately.

 

[lol not primary]

ROTS is still one of my favorites of the whole series, but it was lacking in some areas. More specifically the battles and I hated the new voices for the Droids.... I wanted to laugh so hard in the theatres at that.

But I have to agree with Brandon. Phantom Menace is the best prequel movie and still the one I want to watch over and over again out of the entire series besides Jedi.

 

[Green Ranger]

Funnily enough, I actually prefer AOTC. I thought that it was extremely well done, Anakin was whiny and irritating, but less so than in ROTS. The love plot was actually well done imo, and it worked in relation to Christenson's portrayal of Anakin. There was comic relief for the kiddies, but it wasn't severely overdone or stupid, and it was artoo and threepio, not some stupid battle droids with dumb voices. The subtle hints as to Palpatine's force sensitivity were absolutely brilliant, once you found them, and Palpatine was I think better in AOTC than TPM, probably because there wasn't some annoying election backstory.

Lee's protrayal of Dooku was so much better in AOTC as well, in contrast to ROTS, he actually looked and felt charismatic, and his influential power was shown well amongst the other seperatist leaders (who were also designed well, imo, quite memorable, yet still very SW feasible). There also wasn't any stupid false advertising, like whatshisnameutapaududewholooksevilbutisntandhasawholescreentimeoffiveseconds.

Let's face it - ROTS was way too ambitious. Four-armed lightsaber wielder was too hard, so they cut off two of those arms in the first thirty seconds. Palpatine's duels were horribly choreographed, and for a man who kills three Jedi COUNCIL members in the blink of an eye, it simply wasn't convincing enough. There was also a bunch of lame characters in there, basically for commercial value - greivous, tion medon (utapau dude, sp?), Bail Organa, to name a few. The finishing plot simply didn't make sense either, and kills the OT if you want to watch them in order. The whole scene where padme gave birth and named her kids - and the fact that Leia remembers Padme more, despite knowing her for all of a few minutes, and that she was born second - should not have been in the film. The fate of Padme and her children should not have been covered, imo, and left up in the air. With that, Anakin skywalker probably shouldn't have been named Darth Vader, and I would have revised that whole plot, making the identity of Vader a lot more mysterious, and coinciding with Skywalker's dissappearance or something.

And Mustafar as the backdrop for a duel? My eyes couldn't keep up, it was too busy, and so I lost a lot of the fight amongst the lava flows and shit. IT was nearly impossible to watch the duel, it was so bright and visually cluttered. Every other duel except Mustafar takes place in a relatively uninteresting environment for a reason, and it botched up that battle for me completely. The whole fighting over lava thing was utterly unconvincing as well.

 

[Scurge]

I completely hate that article. It is the stupidest thing I've ever read. How in the hell do you like something you don't enjoy. Its just the fact that hes a loser and his girlfriend talked him into not liking it. Though is some dumb stuff in the movies and games thats like wtf. Mostly its awesome and enjoyable.