A well hung fellow like Jar-Jar surely deserves to be discussed in a Paizo forum.
Did you not get enough attention when you wer a child, wolfie?
Jar Jar immediately reminded me of a Rastafarian when the movie started. In fact, I thought that is what he was supposed to be modeled after.
I was very surprised to hear afterwards that was not their intention… yay right!
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Jar Jar immediately reminded me of a Rastafarian when the movie started. In fact, I thought that is what he was supposed to be modeled after.
I thought so as well. Which is all fine and good, but they even screwed THAT up. Lucasfilm sucks. The world sucks. Politics suck. Jar Jar sucks. End Of Story.
Jar-jar -- the world's most annoying sci-fi character.
Misa have nothing to do with Star Wars.
Jar jar and whoever came up with him should be lynched.
A good proportion of my movie going friends believe that Jar Jar was a poorly disguised black racial stereotype, right down to the pseudo-Buckwheat lingo and "pimp walk".
Someone should have told George that using Joseph Campbell as a starting point is all well and good, but not to branch into the more offensive and nasty cultural shorthands for your aliens; I mean, what about Watto? Seriously. What did he expect? For no one to notice just how shallow his writing really was?
Jar Jar is darkest blot on the clusterf**k that was Phantom Menace.
It was as if a group of white geek guys and girls got together and asked, how can we get black people to like Starwars so we can get their money too.
Then they created Jar Jar, so the black people would have a symbol they could identify with. Soooo stupid.
No, Jar Jar ddnt ruin the new trilogy. Lucas did a pretty good job of that. He almost totaly ruined the original trilogy while he was at it. That was like Leonardo DaVinci adding a handle-bar mustache to the Mona Lisa.
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Jar jar was the blaster that broke the dewback's back in a tragedy of simple minded incompetence saving the day...
Obi wan remembered what a good star pilot anakin was when they first met, because he, um, accidently flew into a ship and blew it up...
The viceroy...
The "Queen" of a democratic society, Wookie Trandoshan Firrerreo?
The best of the best racers stalling on the starting line...
the hyper intelligent droid designs...
The blockade fleet, which consisted of 1 ship when they got back...
the minor detail of HEY WE JUST SAVED A QUEEN'S LIFE, AND THE CIVILIZATION OF AN ENTRE PLANET, MAYBE THEY COULD AFFORD A TRIP TO TATTOOINE TO BUY THE SNOT'S MOM AND SAVE THE GALAXY
If jar jar was the only comic relief in the whole movie, it would have been good... instead to be the comic relief for the laughable plot, he had to be completely ludicrous (x2) and digital (x2)
gah...
Rewrite movie, get rid of Qui-gon, Obiwan on his first mission... compotent commanders in the trade federation fleet... same plan, same escape, get to tatooine, find boy, NEVER MENTION MIDOCHOND... THOSE THINGS!!!, have ar race through an asteroid belt, in star ships, smae concept, but in space, among the STARS, (what a concept stars and wars together) and in the final battle plan have Jar Jar be the ONLY incompetent one getting lucky (as opposed to the queen, the boy, jar jar, and the jedi) and the character could have been reined in enough not to suck the slime off a space slug's eyestalk...
rant over
In the movie, as written, Jar Jar sucks the slime of a space slug's eyestalk!
A good proportion of my movie going friends believe that Jar Jar was a poorly disguised black racial stereotype, right down to the pseudo-Buckwheat lingo and "pimp walk".
Someone should have told George that using Joseph Campbell as a starting point is all well and good, but not to branch into the more offensive and nasty cultural shorthands for your aliens; I mean, what about Watto? Seriously. What did he expect? For no one to notice just how shallow his writing really was?
It's not like the original 3 were any better. If C-3PO isn't an offensive caricature of an effeminate Englishman/camp gay man I don't know who is. I sometimes suspect George is just not that great and he got lucky with Star Wars. REAL lucky.
I sometimes suspect George is just not that great and he got lucky with Star Wars. REAL lucky.
I whole-heartedly agree with you on that one. I think it was some decent acting and novelty that got the first star wars going. I shudder now any time I see Lucas' name attached to a project.
I sometimes suspect George is just not that great and he got lucky with Star Wars. REAL lucky.
I have to disagree. Francis Coppola has said that Star Wars took on of the great directors from us -- Lucas was great until he was successful :/
BTW, it's 'REALLY lucky,' not 'REAL lucky' :P
Jack
grammar-boy
Jar Jar (and nearly everything about Starwars episodes 1, 2 & 3) = NOT GOOD.
I sometimes suspect George is just not that great and he got lucky with Star Wars.
I have to disagree. Francis Coppola has said that Star Wars took on of the great directors from us -- Lucas was great until he was successful :/
Three words: Howard the Duck
Touché!
No, Jar Jar ddnt ruin the new trilogy. Lucas did a pretty good job of that. He almost totaly ruined the original trilogy while he was at it. That was like Leonardo DaVinci adding a handle-bar mustache to the Mona Lisa.
*Removes Mona Lisa w/Mustache from eBay.*
Yeah, I guess that would ruin it...
Oh, and yeah...Jar Jar sucks in every way imaginable.