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Cynical Fanboys or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Enjoy The PT

posted 6 years ago by Threadkiller (2952)
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Certain fanboys, who became cynical due to the movies not meeting their expectations, nitpicked them to death which over time damaged the films' reputation(see Reddletter media reviews as example). It slowly became cool to trash the PT and if you actually enjoy the PT you were deemed to have terrible taste.

I am of the belief that the prequels are flawed but enjoyable sci-fi fantasy for kids (and adults) to enjoy and are worthy additions that expanded the Star Wars universe for the better. Hypocritical cynics like redlettermedia (who praise the cheap Di$ney rehash ST) have done their best to ruin the PT by sucking all the enjoyment out of the films.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

I've done that with two ut of three of the prequels, decided I'm just going to enjoy the spectacle and the cheesiness and not worry about all the illogic and flaws.

But I can't do it with TPM, it's just a bad movie.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 6 years ago

I've done exactly the same as you Otter, I enjoyed the other two but just can't watch TPM, other than the last twenty minutes, Jar Jar and the boy are just such annoying characters.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

Yeah, the final battle was pretty cool, and I liked Qui-Gon and Padme's wardrobe and the score, too.

But even the pod race has that damn annoying kid in it! Almost every shot has one of those pests in it.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

the only bit i remembr is the sword battle where Maul kills some jedi ... that was prettty cool

[–] rootvegetables (1343) 6 years ago

Look... I hear ya. Truly I do. But the following is an inescapable fact:
Hundreds of man hours were spent designing, storyboarding, planning, dressing, shooting, editing, mixing and visualizing via CGI an Eopie farting in Jar Jar Bink's face.
This was actually animated.
What I'm trying to say is that not only was this idea conceived and deemed worthy of further exploration, it was actually realized, committed to celluloid and unleashed upon the masses who had been camping outside of multiplexes across the nation.
Now, whatever narrative padding exists before and after the above scene, whatever story arcs, spectacle, epic scores and mythology... nothing - AND I MEAN NOTHING - will ever make me forget the sinking feeling I felt when I first viewed this scene at past midnight on opening day in 1999; and my realization that I had just witnesses the cinematic equivalent of creating a horcrux.
A piece of cinema's soul died that night; and in the darkness of that theater, we all knew it and silently mourned.

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[–] Xenopharb (617) 6 years ago

Lucas likes fart jokes. Check Return of the Jedi for that.

"Jar Jar is the key to all of this ... if we get Jar Jar working 'cause he's a funnier character than we've ever had in any of the movies before."

Jar Jar was the key, and Lucas broke the key off in the lock. Jar Jar was unfunny.