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To The Haters, and Toxic Fans
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08-12-2018, 02:26 AM
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Its always a fine line.
Personally if I'm a fan I try to keep it positive, but I'm not gonna ignore a hobbies failings either.
Good example...for whatever faults ROC had...as a film I actually liked it. Sure it wasn't Joe I was used to. But as an action film designed to not only reinvent G.I. Joe to a new generation but appeal to as wide an audience as possible. It was not ARAH...but as a Summer shut your brain off and watch an action flick...it wasn't bad.
Now did it fall short? On nearly every level from the character changes, to some of the actors and even the toyline...yeah it fell hard on its face.
Similarly I felt the same about the first two Transformers Bay films. After three it was so repetitive even I stopped defending them.
Jem also had issues as well...Its actually not a bad story. Its is however a HORRIBLE adaption of what we originally fell in love with.
As for Star Wars...look I've been watching SW since the beginning...yes I was old enough to have seen ep 4 in theater when it debuted the first run. And for better or worse I loved all 3 films from that trilogy.
When the prequels showed up...I probably loved them a little less then the original trilogy. Their actually not horrible films, but needlessly between over explaining The Force, and the odd moments that don't fit what was established...like Ben not knowing about Leia etc...its markedly the lesser trilogy. Its far from awful, but you do have to acknowledge stuff like how terrible a character Jar Jar is, or Hayden's less than great performances. Stuff like Clone Wars cartoon help to make that series fit better.
I will admit...as a fan for as long as I have been...the scrapping of the EU rubbed me the wrong way. Its hard to say, "I loved what has been done for years...but that doesn't matter now." Its a little like parents getting divorced and being forced to call the new guy in your Mom's life 'Dad'...as if your real Dad never mattered.
BUT I was willing to give the new Disneyverse its fair chance.
AND I loved Rebels. And I loved Rogue One. And I also loved Han Solo.
And while I felt TFA was made to be a safe retread of ep 4 with new characters I also didn't hate it. It maybe was a bit too similar to both ep 4, 6 and 1...but I found it to have enough unanswered questions that I was looking forward to ep 8.
Episode 8...was a rough episode. My entire family walked out of a theater for the only time in our watching SW product say, "I didn't really like that film."
It has some good moments. The bomber fight is decent. So is the saber fight between Kylo and Rey...and the fight between Kylo and Luke. But for the most part cinemas slowest space chase ever with a side bar to go to a casino planet for a plot that end up failing miserably and getting more people killed, while trashing all the questions the last film brought up...the questions that were bringing fans back for this film...well it just left a seriously sour taste in people mouths.
NOW...lets talk about the toxic fans.
Look you have a right to like or not like a film. But the level of insanity that has cropped up since ep 1 has driven Jake Llyod to awful places. And caused the disgusting racist attacks on John Boyega, Ahmed Best, and Kelly Marie Tran is just unforgivable.
Yeah...I didn't like TLJ. But not enough to hate the actors or bully them online to a breaking point. Sure I might say I didn't care for such and such's performance (Channing in ROC)...that's disgusting behavior by any means.
Yeah I hope the next film is better. And frankly Solo was a better film than TLJ, so those that boycotted it...well that was arrogant entitlement and you missed a good film.
Lastly I hope I like ep 9 is better than ep 8...but if I don't will I complain about it? Sure. Enough to throw a fit and boycott more films or demand a film be REMADE, or will I trash the actors who were in it...no.
And its pretty sad that there are people that do that.
Just one man's opinion.
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