It shames me to say that Empire Strikes Back fans have started to make me associate that movie with immature 30-somethings who see only God-like perfection and furiously jerk-off when Yoda says,"And that is why you fail."
The reason it shames me is that I do honestly believe that disliking something because it's popular is a horrendously stupid mindset that always pisses me off whenever I see someone behave in that manner.
The specifics for me are that, while I firmly understand the cultural significance of ESB and the rest of the original trilogy, I don't think those three movies have aged particularly well. I've never been terribly impressed with the movies, even when I first saw them as a child, they never really left much of an impact on me. In the case of ESB, I think the movie only got good once they get to Cloud City. Until that point, I think: Han and Leia's dialog was just as bad as Anakin and Padme's, Ford's and Fischer's performances were equally stiff in their love scenes, the battle of Hoth wasn't that well paced, the AT-ATs and AT-STs are poor vehicle designs, the way Yoda tests Luke's patience was stupid, Han doesn't stop whining in between Hoth and Cloud City, and I wonder why everyone onboard the Falcon didn't get sucked into space when they stepped outside to clear the pests off the ship.
I wouldn't care that people claim that this is best of the series when I very much think otherwise, but I still constantly see people putting this movie on such a high pedestal, proclaiming its perfection, getting colicky over criticism, and never moving on from the fact the George Lucas released three movies starting from 1999 that they didn't care for. It is now hard for me to watch the movie now because all the faults I feel are in the movie all feel worse now that I know there is a literal legion of fans who wouldn't dare listen to a second opinion.
TL/DR: Empire Strikes Back isn't perfect, now stfu about it.
While I'm ranting, I would like to express my displeasure with another generation: namely, people whose childhoods' were based in the 80's.
Why? Because I find these people to be the most stupidly protective of their nostalgia in the last several decades.(of course, I know not all of them are like this) Myself being born in '89 and growing up in the 90's, I witnessed the boom of an animation renaissance from Disny, Nickelodeon, Fox Kids, and Warner Bros.. Having become an aspiring animation historian, I began to take a closer look into these "ninja turtles", "G.I. Joe", and "Transformers" cartoons the I hear made childhood of the 80's terrific and defined a decade. Well, I do think they defined a decade: a decade of crap. Outsourced animation with numerous basic animation errors, puns that were tired from the 70's, and shallow characterization of many minor characters all for the purpose of making toys instead of quality entertainment.
And yet, I see so many people absolutely refusing to harbor a discouraging word about these franchises, and again, they hold up a lot of these cartoons on such a high pedestal that it later became clear which franchises should be made into equally dumb live action films, starting the process of "never once stopping their bitching" anew. Again, I wouldn't mind a lot of this stuff if the fans weren't so intolerable.
TL/DR: A lot of stuff in the 80's was really stupid. Sometimes fun, but usually stupid, and many who grew up in the 80's get obnoxious when gushing about them.
/ranting. I think I'm calming down a little.
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