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Even If You Hate STAR WARS, This Is Cool.
Let me first say: I DO NOT HATE THE STAR WARS PREQUELS.
...or at least, I didn't. Not at first.
For sure I don't like them. IMHO they're crappy action movies made with a juvenile mindset and poor sensibilities when it comes to pacing, story flow, character motivation and tension. Not to mention the way too distracting CGI, horrible dialogue, even worse acting and barely veiled racism throughout the entire trilogy.
But "hate"? Nah, not me.
Honestly, after colossal letdown The Phantom Menace I ratcheted my expectations way down. Too low for the subsequent movies to affect me on a personal level. I couldn't sit through them for a second viewing (I have tried) but I could have easily walked away without hating them. At least I could have if not for the Star Wars FANS.
My boy, Carlyle, summed it up perfectly in one of his previous blogs:
"Star Wars fans get REAL ugly when you dare to talk negative about the prequels. They demand explanations. They argue, they fight, they claim you "clearly don't understand the films..." And they come off as some of fandoms most obnoxious denizens. They want some kind of empirical proof as to the suckiness of the films they love so much, and if you can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt they demand some sort of retraction. While they are not all mean, spiteful, scruffy looking nerf herders, enough of them are. And they won't let it die. 9 years after the first and 3 years after the last and I still am being asked to answer to this line of questioning. At this point in my career I have written thousands upon thousands of words on these films. And I'm tired of it. But the questions keep coming. I must explain my dislike of these film. Again. Take for example Andres comments to this week's A Couple of Cold Ones."
Tru dat, brudda!
It reminds me of the years between Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace when I had to listen to every Star Wars geek excited come to me whenever they sniffed a rumor that George Lucas might make another Star Wars movie. Missing work to camp out in line to see it, then beligerently not copping to the fact that Phantom was a piece of $#it. It's not enough that all this leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but three more movies and a lackluster TV series later they're still doing it!
How funny that my own most recent example centers around Andres as well. This kid has been for the better part of a week writing on my page how "thick-headed" and "narrow-minded" I am for not loving Revenge of the Sith:
That's just a small part of a 700+ wordskreed rebuttal (I'll spare you) and it's the kind of thing that makes me HATE STAR WARS!! Not just the prequels, I'm now sick of ALL OF IT! Right down to the action figures and the Howard Chaykin comic book adaptations.
...But then I come across something cool:
If you really want to check them all out you can see them here.
...or at least, I didn't. Not at first.
For sure I don't like them. IMHO they're crappy action movies made with a juvenile mindset and poor sensibilities when it comes to pacing, story flow, character motivation and tension. Not to mention the way too distracting CGI, horrible dialogue, even worse acting and barely veiled racism throughout the entire trilogy.
But "hate"? Nah, not me.
Honestly, after colossal letdown The Phantom Menace I ratcheted my expectations way down. Too low for the subsequent movies to affect me on a personal level. I couldn't sit through them for a second viewing (I have tried) but I could have easily walked away without hating them. At least I could have if not for the Star Wars FANS.
My boy, Carlyle, summed it up perfectly in one of his previous blogs:
"Star Wars fans get REAL ugly when you dare to talk negative about the prequels. They demand explanations. They argue, they fight, they claim you "clearly don't understand the films..." And they come off as some of fandoms most obnoxious denizens. They want some kind of empirical proof as to the suckiness of the films they love so much, and if you can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt they demand some sort of retraction. While they are not all mean, spiteful, scruffy looking nerf herders, enough of them are. And they won't let it die. 9 years after the first and 3 years after the last and I still am being asked to answer to this line of questioning. At this point in my career I have written thousands upon thousands of words on these films. And I'm tired of it. But the questions keep coming. I must explain my dislike of these film. Again. Take for example Andres comments to this week's A Couple of Cold Ones."
Tru dat, brudda!
It reminds me of the years between Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace when I had to listen to every Star Wars geek excited come to me whenever they sniffed a rumor that George Lucas might make another Star Wars movie. Missing work to camp out in line to see it, then beligerently not copping to the fact that Phantom was a piece of $#it. It's not enough that all this leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but three more movies and a lackluster TV series later they're still doing it!
How funny that my own most recent example centers around Andres as well. This kid has been for the better part of a week writing on my page how "thick-headed" and "narrow-minded" I am for not loving Revenge of the Sith:
That's just a small part of a 700+ word
...But then I come across something cool:
If you really want to check them all out you can see them here.
Tags: george, jedi, lucas, menace, of, phantom, return, revenge, sith, star
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Comment by Zero on November 18, 2008 at 10:46am -
Man Lucas went out of his way to mess those movies up. Long story short people said don't do this and don't do that, and he went out of his way to do it more every time. Much like when a little kid is touching something and the mom goes "I don't want to see you touching that again." And when the mom's not looking the kid does it like 50 times out of spite.
Awesome post Leon! :O
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Comment by ghostwriter on November 14, 2008 at 5:43am -
It's sad that something that started off so beautifully had to end on such a sour note with folks.
I love Star Wars, but I think it's time to put it to bed. Lucas should have moved on and done something new. I still think American Graffitti was the best thing he's ever done. Get back to basics, that's what I want to see him do now. Take this whole freaking fracking franchise and flush it once and for all and make a REAL movie!
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Comment by andres on November 14, 2008 at 1:39am -
AJ, I'm sure Leon didn't mean to make me look like an ass........
........he kinda did though, hahaha
Any ya Leon, thanx for the link, it was awesome.
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Comment by AJ on November 14, 2008 at 12:43am -
haha don't worry about it andres.
i read the entire "discussion" between you and leon about this star wars thing on your pages.
Even with your once-in-a-while spiteful and unnecessary comments towards Leon, i still think u were merely having a discussion.
As much as I understand and completely agree with Leon's opinion on the prequels. I think it was kind of a bitch move to throw you under the bus like that and make u look like an ass.
Andres, we've had plenty of these "discussions," well more like arguments, in person, but I never went around telling people you were an ass haha. There's just no need for that.
Oh, thanks for the link Leon. those storyboards are awesome by the way.
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Comment by Dr. Detfink on November 14, 2008 at 12:38am - Geezus, I didn't know one of the Huts was a Jedi.
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Comment by Matthew Jaques on November 14, 2008 at 12:31am -
I find myself reconciling my love of Star Wars through an effective policy: If Lucas has directly touched it, it will be shit. The prequels were awful for the most part. Revenge of the Sith was decent, but 1 and 2 had left me so disillusioned by that point that I didn't really care. George Lucas should be the enemy of every nerd out there after what he did to the prequels.
I always refer to Joss Whedon's commentary on how George raped and murdered the sci-fi space opera: "The Star Wars prequels killed everything cool there was about being a nerd..."
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Comment by PREÐATOR on November 13, 2008 at 9:39pm - But it is genius! GENIUS!!!
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Comment by andres on November 13, 2008 at 9:34pm
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Yeah but the blog made me look like an asshole
I'm a keeper of the peace, not a soldier :)
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Comment by PREÐATOR on November 13, 2008 at 9:30pm
- And you shouldn't apologize, Andres. If not for you we wouldn't have this sweet blog post.
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Comment by andres on November 13, 2008 at 9:29pm
- like a fox :)
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