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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

/c/StarWarsMemes.

Proving that toxicity does migrate from Reddit.

Also proving that you really are the most hateful, small minded, shitty, spineless cowards in any fandom to ever exist.

I dunno why I keep wasting time on you people when you're just vile. Really am gonna die happier carving you lot out of my life

Have fun on your own and good luck keeping this community alive and not killing it yourself by driving every single person away.

Ever notice why people don't post here anymore?

It's because of you.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I don’t get how people can call out every tiny problem of the sequels and prequels then just gloss over all the trash in the originals.
Star Wars is fun. It’s way more fun if you don’t think about too much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What trash in the originals?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I mean, Obi-Wan just turning into nothingness for starters.

Luke being capable of flying an X-wing out of the blue and killing a bunch of enemies because he was able to hit a few womprats back home? He is a much bigger Mary Sue than Ray ever was.

How about Vader being unable to sense his own daughter when she is right next to him?

Or how he commanded not to shoot the escape pod because it didn't have any lifeforms. When it costs them nothing.

And that is just the first movie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

None of these things ever bothered me when I watched the originals and they won’t bother me despite having been made aware of them by you.

Far more egregious, for me, is the way the sequel series has been edited. The movies have this unrelenting pace of cuts every couple of seconds. It never lets me relax and slowly take in a scene. It’s a completely different style of filmmaking from the original series (which had a lot more long, contemplative shots).

But then I might be a dinosaur here as I see a lot of people complaining about the length of the original trilogy and seeking fan edits to speed up the pace. I have my own personal theory that this is a result of social media (such as Instagram and TikTok) and the way Hollywood has catered to younger audiences and their lack of patience for slower paced films.

I miss slower paced films and I find almost no new films appealing (the most recent one I really enjoyed was No Country for Old Men).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Really? Your problem with the sequels is the editing and nothing else?

That's a first.

Moreover, your complaint isn't about the sequels. Your complaint is about the evolution of movie making. The original trilogy had those long takes because cinema was still fairly early and evolving. That's why the editing also jumped between OT and PT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s my main problem. I found it so awful I would never want to watch them again.

Lots of ink has been spilled about the characters and plot and other issues people have with the sequels. For me they’re mostly irrelevant because the physical experience of watching the films is too uncomfortable for me to even think about that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

the physical experience of watching the films is too uncomfortable for me to even think about that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Love it! Thanks for the laugh!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

... Oh come on. You have got to be joking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Agreed. People will go insanely critical on the Sequels and Rey/Kylo but then just make jokes and dismiss Luke and Leia. But sure. The original trilogy was super planned out. That's why the lightsaber combat suddenly changed between episodes and why Lucas ended up re-editing the originals a dozen times to piss everyone off.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Last Jedi really just doesn't work for me, feels like they wanted to do anything but make a star wars film. But contractually obligated to make star wars.

I could write paragraphs about why I don't like it but far more interested in hearing what people do like about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it the one with the Luke/Kylo fight? That was pretty much the only thing I found exceptional in any way in the sequels, using Force projection like that to fuck with Kylo. Until the end where he became too sad to live or whatever and died (seems to run in the family).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Until the end where he became too sad to live or whatever and died (seems to run in the family).

The movie openly explained why he died. Like multiple times.

I swear that a good chunk of people who just complain about the Sequel trilogy have zero comprehension skills.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Nah, I probably just forgot that bullshit because it ruined an otherwise great scene.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I liked it because it didn’t feel like nostalgia slop. It felt like trying to take things in a new direction, while still rooted in the universe. Like the best of legends stuff tbh, in intentions and execution. Without being bound to actual legends stuff, making it just nostalgia slop (rise of Skywalker…).

I liked it was just a good movie as well. Great acting, great editing, great cinematography.

I grew up loving Star Wars, but I was never the attached type in general. I will always have the original trilogy, the clone wars tv show, the prequels to watch. Nothing changed about them with what happens in the Last Jedi. I don’t feel offended by a new thing being different.

Idk, it just felt so much better than Force Awakens, which felt like pure nostalgia slop. I actually had hope Star Wars would “get good again”.

I’d say I liked it for similar reasons I like Andor. But I actually do love Andor, and only like Last Jedi.

Maybe it also helped that I watched it in a cool movie theater while traveling and was pretty high…

And the whole “subverting expectations” thing… I don’t think Rian was trying to be edgy or be like “haa fuck you and your ‘expectations’”. J.J. just set up a terrible and fucking boring story with his first movie.

And Rian setting up Rey to be a nobody, and that it doesn’t matter if you have holy royal blood or some bullshit, was GREAT. That anyone can be the hero, not just the “destined one”. Like it was perfectly set up for the first new Jedi to be completely different, led by Rey guided by a changed and “grey” Luke, and the first pupils being the slaves and slum children. Idk… isn’t that much better than whatever the fuck was happening in the first and last movies..?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Because it's something different.

Every single Star Wars movie is basically the same thing over and over. Same cuts, same sequences, same energy, same everything. The Last Jedi shook it up and honestly I think that it was a good idea because the material was shaken too.

In the Prequels you had the story of the Jedi v the Sith but both were very confident. Both were established.

In the Original Trilogy you've got Kenobi and Yoda with a guiding hand helping to smooth things out and ease the path.

The Force Awakens shows the Resistance on about the same level as the Rebels in the OT in how they're managed and their goals. But then suddenly they're obliterated. While everyone keeps saying that Starkiller Base is just another Death Star, they neglect to point out that this one worked. It wasn't destroyed last second to help save other planets. It let off its first offensive, burning a number of planets from the void and into nothingness. This wasn't the Rebellion pushing to save their lives. This was a Resistance who now had just lost everything in the blink of an eye. All of their governmental backing, all of the support they had from elsewhere. Suddenly the First Order had just leapfrogged over them and they were in a scramble.

So they pull out and try to regroup. They evacuate their base and everyone gets ready to leave but suddenly First Order ships are nearly in orbit and they're about to start shooting you from the sky. You have to run, now, but tensions are high and everyone is on a hairtrigger. Thinking in a moment of high panic (again, he's never been in a situation like the Original Trilogy or Prequels), Poe makes a gut decision to help protect his people. His decision leaves his people heavily defenseless and even more of the Resistance is killed. So they start running. They pull back and flee and when they breathe a single sigh of relief, they're right back on them. They no longer have the safety of running away and they're strapped for resources. Then in that moment when you're trying to figure out what the fuck is going on, your flagship is attacked and your Commander in Chief has been taken out of the fight.

Now, I can go into how Poes decisions make sense for his character and how him mutinying against Holdo made sense for him but was objectively the bad call, how Holdo was actually doing the best she had and everything else but that's not my point. My point is that everyone is in disarray and there is no one around from the typical Star Wars era to help them.

But then you cut to Rey and Luke on an island and the wipes are Star Wars-y. The vibe Star Wars-y. Everything felt more in line with what we see from typical editing and what have you because Luke is there. He's been through the shit. He knows how to go through this. He's been helped and guided and is now doing the same for Rey.

Which is why when Luke and Rey suddenly shows up on Crait to help, everything starts falling back into those Star Wars patterns. The music swells in the same way, the cuts start looking Star Wars-y, the long lingering shots... The camera is telling the story of the energy of the movie and the panic of the Resistance. The more confident and assured they become, the more "Star Wars-y" things become.

I think that a lot of people do believe that Rian Johnson just made a different movie for the sake of making a different movie. But this dude made Knives Out. He knows how to make a movie and knows how to tell a story through direction, how to move that on. I think a lot of people were just really upset with how things were turning out for how they wished it and didn't see a lot of what Rian was doing.

Edit: Good ol' Star Wars fandom. Someone answers a question and poses a different viewpoint? Nah. Just downvote, scream and run in the opposition direction because you're too weak to be able to handle anything different than your own hate.

It is kind of insane how many Star Wars fans would be rejected en masse by the Jedi and the Sith for being too emotional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, the first Death Star worked too.

It destroyed Alderaan.

But that is the point. Everything loops.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My point is that the Death Star was annihilated almost instantly after posing its first real threat to any rebellion and heading to the next and Death Star 2 didn't do shit. Starkiller Base achieved its goal. It destroyed every planet that was a seat of power and in opposition to them. Was taken offline very quickly so no follow up operations, like the Death Star, but in its first strike had already achieved more than any Death Star before. As we saw in The Last Jedi and in Rise of Skywalker, the Resistance was on the ropes and the First Order, in a single strike, managed to retake control of the galaxy at large.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The natural lifecycle of the Jedi Master is to retire on some remote planet to become a depressed asshole hermit, just as Yoda did before.

To me, The Last Jedi rejects the constant stream of fan service in most new Star Wars films to return to the roots of the series. IMO, it’s by far the best of the sequel movies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only thing more common than Star Wars fans complaining about Star Wars is Star Wars fans complaining that Star Wars fans complain too much about Star Wars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Nah. It really isn't lol

I mean mathematically that doesn't even work because the latter group was formed by the former.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I was mostly making a joke, but I’m not sure how you came to that conclusion. Most of the internet is reactions to things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure but do you not agree there is major gap in quality and substance?

Some people like beer so much they would drink bud light.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sure but do you not agree there is major gap in quality and substance?

Oh I completely agree that there was, but not when you're suggesting. It was between the Original Trilogy and the Prequel Trilogy, the most critically hated series of Star Wars movies until... the Sequels. And 90% of the complaints I hear about the Sequels are emotionally based with nothing that people can physically point to. The other 10% have valid criticisms but most people don't voice them. They just whine.

At worst the Sequels fall between PT and OT in terms of quality. At the bare minimum, it was a step up from the confused mishmash of the Prequels.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

At the bare minimum, it was a step up from the confused mishmash of the Prequels.

You're saying this of the trilogy that was made by 2 directors actively trying to undo what the other did, interesting

I'm not a star wars fan but I am familiar with the movies and the making of them all (film school nerd) so to see someone claim something like that is wild

Honestly the comments of yours read like someone with very little media literacy who likes the ST. That's fine, you can like what you like. It's the "no actually people who dont like it are stupid nitpickers who didn't even pay attention" that gets you laughed at like an idiot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I personally dislike the whole idea that if you like the sequels you just have little or no media literacy.

The movies were hot messes; but I wanted a movie in the star wars universe with star wars things and it had those, therefore I enjoyed watching them. Doesn't make them masterpieces or anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I personally dislike the whole idea that if you like the sequels you just have little or no media literacy.

Not what I said. I said reading their other comments showed me that they seem to be that way, not their like of the movies themselves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You’re saying this of the trilogy that was made by 2 directors actively trying to undo what the other did, interesting

George Lucas couldn't even agree on his own direction for the Prequels, so you can stuff this whole idea that he had some genius masterplan. None of the trilogies were done perfectly.

I’m not a star wars fan but I am familiar with the movies and the making of them all (film school nerd) so to see someone claim something like that is wild

Right. You're not a Star Wars fan but you're in the Star Wars meme community arguing the differences between a set of trilogies. But you're not a fan.

Moreover, you being at film doesn't really mean much. Want proof of that? The countless directors who've never been and won awards, and the countless directors who have been and have failed miserably.

Then there is your arrogance which is to inject that into a post. There's no purpose except for you to say "I go to film school therefore my opinion is worth more than yours on this."

Honestly the comments of yours read like someone with very little media literacy who likes the ST.

Claims you're not "Not a Star Wars fan."

Acts exactly like a toxic Star Wars fan.

Literally incapable of arguing the point at hand and has to resort to personal insults.

For someone who is a film nerd and goes to film school, it's kind of remarkable how you have no ability to focus on the film. Your entire comment was belittling another series and then belittling me. You never argued any point I made because you have no argument against it that isn't based off of your own emotional reaction.

Star Wars was made for children but you are really pushing the frontier on what can be called a child.

If you want to cry and throw shit because you're too immature to have a conversation, by all means. But you can do it while failing at film school that you supposedly go to. I am not entertaining your ego any longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

so you can stuff this whole idea that he had some genius masterplan. None of the trilogies were done perfectly.

Putting words in my mouth, cool

You're not a Star Wars fan but you're in the Star Wars meme community arguing the differences between a set of trilogies.

I scrolled past the thread and saw you being an idiot, so I commented as I'm familiar with the topic. You think I was hunting down this discussion?

"I go to film school therefore my opinion is worth more than yours on this."

Literally yes. The entire point is that your media literacy is dog shit, and to state some of my credentials in knowing why that is. I see it struck a nerve, though, which is funny

Literally incapable of arguing the point at hand and has to resort to personal insults.

I'm only incapable of arguing the point because the other participant in the conversation is a raging baby who clearly doesn't understand media

it's kind of remarkable how you have no ability to focus on the film

Yeah see it's shit like this that I already pointed out makes you look like an idiot. Just claiming people weren't paying attention isn't an argument

If you want to cry and throw shit because you're too immature to have a conversation, by all means

Projection in the extreme

You're a very angry and very stupid 13 year old, you'll learn

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's easier to like things than hate them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I like sand. It's soft and not irritating at all and gets nowhere. :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The fuck it is. Especially when you have to engage with a fan community that is so rabidly hateful about it. I've got experience on that in multiple fandoms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to engage with anyone if you don't want to

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. I could sit alone in isolation and never try to find other people talk with or share things I find exciting, being completely alone.

That is technically an option.

What a bizarrely obtuse and frankly assholish response. Basically boils down to "Either be alone or deal with the toxicity".

I'm gonna pass on wasting my time on anymore of this nonsensical bullshit. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You seem somewhat stressed. But stress leads to anger, and anger leads to hate. A path to the dark side, stress is.