30 Day Movie Meme - Day 18 – A movie that disappointed you the most

[elrhiarhodan]

Day 18 – A movie that disappointed you the most

The Phantom Menace

I'm not even gracing this post with an image, that's how disappointed I was. And still am.

Okay, there were a couple of moments that I enjoyed – the relationship between Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, the fight scene with Darth Maul, but that's it. Years and years and years of anticipation and what do I get? A bratty six year old. Midi-chlorians.

Jar-Jar Binks.

Fuck You, George Lucas.



Day 1 – Favorite Movie
Day 2 – Last movie you watched
Day 3 – Your favorite action/adventure movie
Day 4 – Favorite horror movie
Day 5 – Favorite drama movie
Day 6 – Favorite comedy movie
Day 7 – A movie that makes you happy
Day 8 – A movie that makes you sad
Day 9 – A movie that you know practically the whole script of
Day 10 – Your favorite director
Day 11 – Your favorite movie from childhood
Day 12 – Your favorite animated movie
Day 13 – A movie that you used to love but now hate
Day 14 – Your favorite movie quote
Day 15 – The first movie you saw in a theater
Day 16 – The last movie you saw in a theater
Day 17 – The best movie you saw during the last year
Day 18 – A movie that disappointed you the most
Day 19 – Your favorite actor
Day 20 – Your favorite actress
Day 21 – The most overrated movie
Day 22 – The most underrated movie
Day 23 – Your favorite character from any movie
Day 24 – Favorite documentary
Day 25 – A movie that no one would expect you to love
Day 26 – A movie that's a guilty pleasure
Day 27 – Favorite classic movie
Day 28 – Movie with the best soundtrack
Day 29 – A movie that changed your opinion about something
Day 30 – Your least favorite movie

Comments

[sinfulslasher]

Do NOT get me started on Jar Jar Binks.

[elrhiarhodan]

Yeah, I wasn't going to get started on it either, but since Sheeni asked, see my points to her questions.

[sheenianni.livejournal.com]

What is it the fans and Jar Jar Binks? Not that he was my favorite character, but I always found it weird that nobody minds C-3PO (who I find rather annoying) and everybody hates Jar Jar and uses him as a major argument why they don't like the prequels...

I'm honestly curious. What makes Jar Jar so intolerable compared to the other characters in the Star Wars universe?

(And it's nine-going-on-ten year old. Just saying...)

[elrhiarhodan]

Jar-Jar Binks is little more than a stand-in for the racist caricatures of early 20th century Hollywood movies. The bumbling African-American servant who speaks in a barely intelligible patois and serves not point to the plot except to be the focus of everyone derision.

Jar-Jar is, in a word, as vile as Stepinfetchit, or Mammy.

[sheenianni.livejournal.com]

Huh. Okay, I guess it's a cultural thing...

He does serve a point in the plot; an important one. No Jar Jar, no Gungan army, Naboo is lost to the Trade Federation (which might not really make a difference on the galactical scale of things, since Palpatine still became Supreme Chancellor/future Emperor, but it definitely makes a difference to the people of Naboo). It's also thanks to Jar Jar (who is an outcast even between his own people) that the humans and Gungans of Naboo finally make peace. The one point that Qui-Gon is trying to get across is that everyone is important, even "pathetic liveforms" such as Jar Jar or Anakin.

I'll agree that the whole character wasn't written very well - for a "comic relief", the humor wasn't particularly smart or amusing. But I guess that without knowing of those 20th century movies, he's just a mild annoyance as opposed to something that bothers me. (What is Stepinfetchit and Mammy...?)

[elrhiarhodan]

I think we'll have to beg to differ on Jar-Jar. And you can always Wikipedia "Mammy" and "Stepinfetchit" - it would be a lot easier and probably a lot clearer than having me try to explain.

[sheenianni.livejournal.com]

Okay, looked it up on wikipedia. So basically Jar-Jar falls under these hurtful and offensive stereotypes - I can understand that. Thanks for explaining!

[robingal1.livejournal.com]

Jar-Jar Binks.
Fuck You, George Lucas.

my dear, you have just summerized an entire generation.

[algeiban.livejournal.com]

Yes! So very much yes!

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

It's interesting, cause for a very long time, like Sheeni, I couldn't get the hate for Jar Jar.

As a naive 14 years old, it *never* occurred to me he was supposed to be the stereotype of a black guy. He never had anything of a black guy to me. He was an alien, vaguely weird and clumsy. Yes he speaks funny, but so does Yoda. (and again, I never realized then that it was supposed to be a black stereotype, cause, well, I guess I have never heard a black person talk like that). To me, it didn't appear as an alien who couldn't speak well English (or French) but it was *his* language, the same same speaking in reverse is Yoda's.

I guess you cannot really "unsee" it, but if you could, Jar Jar would just appear as a goofy guy with a good heart.

[leonie-alastair.livejournal.com]

Yep.

I figure JJ Abrams can't do anything worse to the franchise than George has already done.

[elrhiarhodan]

From what I've seen, I'm actually excited by TFA.