Star Wars sucks, and you suck for liking it

**Omniyoji** · 2012-08-13 17:30

Originally Posted by Eurell

Also, FF8 was amazing because of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p_ENriuXqk

See, even Vincent Price didn't like Squall...

**Rhyis.** · 2012-08-13 17:35

That's because Vincent Price is a true bro.

**Omniyoji** · 2012-08-13 17:44

Originally Posted by Rhyis.

That's because Vincent Price is a true bro.

**Anoat** · 2012-08-13 18:00

FF8 sucked for three main reasons:
1. Squall was a crybaby cuntface.
2. Rinoa was a stupid bitch.
3. Draw system + my OCD = OHGODWHY?!?!

Meanwhile back in Star Wars land, the OT gave us slave girl Leia cosplay. The PT gave us this:

**Enedin** · 2012-08-13 18:54

First of all, holy shit at that Thriller/Deling City parade video.

Second, always nice to see a reference to my 1000 images.

And third, fuck anyone saying FF8's junction system sucks. It's broken as fuck, but it's awesome knowing that Squall's giant blade could fuck everything up in a matter of seconds. I don't play FF8 for the difficulty anyway (lol), it's for the nostalgic story.

**Rhyis.** · 2012-08-13 19:11

All FFs are terrible and everyone should feel terrible for liking them. Let's see how many pages this can drag out.

**Cail** · 2012-08-13 19:27

once again, i miss the x-wing flight simulator games..

**Kyte** · 2012-08-13 19:36

The only thing I hate about 1-3 is how much better they could have been.

**Omniyoji** · 2012-08-13 19:44

Originally Posted by Cail

once again, i miss the x-wing flight simulator games..

urge to play rogue squadron rising...

**Enedin** · 2012-08-13 20:02

Originally Posted by Rhyis.

All FFs are terrible and everyone should feel terrible for liking them. Let's see how many pages this can drag out.

http://cdn.bluegartr.com/customavata...ar40958_53.gif pages

**Furionstormrage** · 2012-08-13 21:20

When I was a very young kid, I saw Jedi in the theater. I remember being completely enveloped in the story, in the characters. Watching Star Wars and Empire at home, and Jedi when it came out on VHS, I was emotionally attached to Luke, Han, Leia, Vader. It was a classic trilogy, three acts: introduce the characters, put them in the worst situation of their lives, get them out of it. It was funny without being slapstick, it was fun to watch with cool dogfights and lightsabers, and most importantly, I gave a shit about the main characters and I felt that they had a connection between each other.

The problems I had with the prequels are their essentially opposite nature of all of the key elements that made me a Star Wars fan. All of the characters were so one-sided and stoic, the only humor was slapstick, and I never got the impression that any of the relationships between any main characters was the least bit genuine. I didn't give a crap about what happened to anyone, I just felt sorry for Ewan McGregor, because at times he really tried, he impressed me considering what he had to work with. The story was bloated, convoluted, and so full of glaring holes that I couldn't buy in to it.

I still love George Lucas for providing us with this universe, and I love American Graffiti also (simple, but fun, I'm a car guy). It's easy to blast the prequels, it's all been said, my best summation is that he decided to cater to the lowest denominator.

**Palin** · 2012-08-13 23:19

Originally Posted by Cail

once again, i miss the x-wing flight simulator games..

Read the X-Wing books, they're awesome.

**Deadgye** · 2012-08-13 23:54

FF8 was awesome. I spent so much time min-maxing my junctions and GFs on all my characters. It was perfect for the completionist young me. Triple Triad was also fun and addicting to play.

Star Wars prequels were good. First movie was good. Second movie was good. Third movie was okay/good (Fights/Choreography made up for lolteenangst). Lol at whoever was claiming that the prequels are bad because they "didn't have a (main) protagonist" or some shit. I guess all essays in existence must be one intro, two body paragraphs, and one conclusion too or else they're shit. Don't ever watch anything like Durarara or your brain might explode.

I saw the prequels in the movie theater as I was growing up. They weren't amazingly awesome movies of a generation, but they were good. When I watched the original trilogy afterwards it was just a normal movie that made me laugh because of the horrible fight scenes and choreography. Ya'll have your nostalgia goggles on. They were probably fucking amazing for their time, but that dated nostalgia is making you think that the prequels are bad when they're not.

Someone mentioned that they were let down when they were looking forward to seeing Vadar as a badass before he was Vadar and got some kid, or something. When I watched the original trilogy I expected to see the badass that was Vadar. But all I got was somebody whose force control wasn't up to par and was bad with a lightsaber; there wasn't anything badass about him. I wish I had gifs for the fights/scenes that made me and my friend laugh hysterically, him and me can both perform some of from memory because we still recall how bad they were.

I'll give you some leeway on the third prequel being bad though. They could have handled Anakin's descent to the dark side better.

Spoiler: show

**Rhyis.** · 2012-08-14 00:16

I'm seeing a pattern of really young bg members and liking the prequels. There should be a poll.

**Xno Kappa** · 2012-08-14 00:16

Spoiler: show

**Rhyis.** · 2012-08-14 00:21

Silmarillion > Hobbit > Lord of the Rings

Spoiler: show

**Alistaire** · 2012-08-14 01:20

Originally Posted by Ksandra

I hate all of you.

I still <3 ep. 1 no matter what people say. 2 and 3 were meh in comparison but I still enjoyed them.

Also, fuck ya Ewok movies. DON'T FORGET ABOUT THEM.

LOVED the Ewok movies. But ep1...this guy says it best:

Oh, and that review is from red letter media...it's a 7 part series that utterly rips ep 1 to shreds non-stop. 10 minutes each. SEVENTY MINUTES OF WELL-THOUGHT OUT UTTER CONTEMPT FOR THIS MOVIE. If you're not up for sitting through that...and it's hilarious, well worth the 70-minute watch, I think it's best summed up as "it comes off like a script written by an 8 year old" (there's probably better quotes actually, that quote's in the first minute or so of the first part and I don't feel the need to re-watch the whole thing to find a better one)

But before watching that series, I thought I knew everything that was wrong with that movie. Holy motherfucking shit did I miss a lot of the fuckups and absolute nonsense in it. After this review I felt kind of stupid for not noticing a good chunk of the shit he calls out, and for not walking out of the movie seeing it opening night. (No, I didn't camp, was in a small town then and only had to stand in line 2 hours)

Dear Hollywood: I see you're into reboots lately, redo this one as soon as you can legally do it without George Lucas, please.

**6souls** · 2012-08-14 01:37

http://www.ripleys.com/williamsburg/?s=star+wars

**Stilzkin** · 2012-08-14 03:22

Lol at whoever was claiming that the prequels are bad because they "didn't have a (main) protagonist" or some shit. I guess all essays in existence must be one intro, two body paragraphs, and one conclusion too or else they're shit. Don't ever watch anything like Durarara or your brain might explode.

Originally Posted by Draylo

Someone in this thread was the one who said they had to follow a formula, he was responding to that.

I'm assuming whoever said they should have followed a formula either has RLM in mind or would agree with what they said.

Basically, if you aren't a good writer than just stick to making a story with a basic formula. The original Star War movies used basic story formulas, people liked the original SW films, many good films use them as well. No one was expecting a complex story out of a Star Wars film, these are not the sort of film to go outside of normal story telling standards. George Lucas did not follow these standards because he was too much of a crappy writer to even think of them not because of some sort of ambitious story.

The story for the prequels was a mess, something as simple as having a protagonist, and even a clearer antagonist (trade federation plot is a mess), would have done a lot in cleaning up the story. Seriously, does anyone here know, purely from watching the films, why the trade federation was getting itself involved in a war?

**Alistaire** · 2012-08-14 04:40

Originally Posted by Stilzkin

why the trade federation was getting itself involved in a war?

I pretty much assumed Palpatine looked for a group so simple-minded he could convince them to attack his home world to stage his rise to power.

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