Whysa you hate Jar-Jar Binks?
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They made him a Senator... GAH!.
"You were banished because you're clumsy?"
and then i knew we were in for it.
Now i know George Lucas said
"There is a group of fans for the films that doesn't like comic sidekicks. They want the films to be tough like Terminator, and they get very upset and opinionated about anything that has anything to do with being childlike."
but i saw Jar jar as a kid and even i didn't like him that much, granted he has a point, were just too grown up for Jar jar to appeal to us.
"You were banished because you're clumsy?"
and then i knew we were in for it.
Now i know George Lucas said
"There is a group of fans for the films that doesn't like comic sidekicks. They want the films to be tough like Terminator, and they get very upset and opinionated about anything that has anything to do with being childlike."
but i saw Jar jar as a kid and even i didn't like him that much, granted he has a point, were just too grown up for Jar jar to appeal to us.
Well, for starters, Jar-Jar Binks served absolutely no purpose in any scene he was in.nin_ninja said:
Ignoring his terrible dialogue and impossibly bad character, Jar-Jar is utterly pointless.
Watch the movie again. The one and only impact he has on the actual plot is to lead the way to the underwater city, something that could have been done by a bit player. There was no reason for Jar-Jar to become a member of the cast and he does absolutely nothing of any importance from then on.
If he were removed entirely from the movie, it would have changed literally nothing, no part of any proceedings and that is a very bad sign for a character.
Essentially, a clear indication that Lucas has no editors at all anymore, as no editor would permit a character with literally no impact on the plot to have THAT much screen time.
i did the same thing. But i think hes just too "weird" to even be alive in the movies, like the jedi should have just killed him offAerodynamic said:
I want you to watch RedLetterMedia's Phantom Menace review [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI]. He doesn't go in to Jar-Jar that much because everyone else already has, but he does go in to why The Phantom Menace is one of the worst films ever made.
He's just not that likeable in my opinion. I think if Jar-Jar was clumsy but a little smarter his character wouldn't have bothered me. He had this whole cool outcast thing going but he can't speak straight half the time and doesn't seem particularly aware of his surroundings at any time. I think his character had potential sadly.
Hey, leave a comment on my web box if you want a pizza roll.RedMenace said:
I'm gonna take a guess that the OP is a teenager, early 20s tops. Not to say that you are immature or anything, just that you didn't grow up with the original movies. The tones of the two trilogies are polar opposites. It would be like if someone made an Indiana Jones movie with an unlikable tacked-on character and way too much CGI. Wait.
The original 3 were fun, yes. But they were also powerful, and had characters you could care pretty deeply about. What we got for prequels were candy-coated popcorn fluff. Fun, maybe, if they weren't molesting your childhood. But no depth, no power, and certainly no emotional investment from the audience. Jar Jar is the most visible and vocal symptom of that. He's the tumor indicating the cancer running deep in these movies.
Watch the original trilogy...then watch the new trilogy. The comedy in the original was...more mature. The banter between Chewbacca(Who you couldn't even understand!) and Han Solo was always great, as well as between C3PO and R2D2. Those characters were humorous without actually dedicating their whole act for that sole purpose.
Now bring in Jar-Jar, he just bumbles around and becomes some prestigious general for his people, and then a senator. If anyone saw his antics on the battlefield they would've just given up.
Now bring in Jar-Jar, he just bumbles around and becomes some prestigious general for his people, and then a senator. If anyone saw his antics on the battlefield they would've just given up.
I hate him because he served no purpose beyond "wacky black sidekick" (don't pretend he isn't a gross caricature of a jamaican). If Lucas hadn't had complete control I can't believe for a second that Jar Jar wouldn't have been shit canned in the idea stage just after creating the first line of dialogue.
Interesting fact: I'm told Liam Neeson once said that acting on the Phantom Menace drove him into such a depression he hit the bottle really hard. Mostly it was because he had to act with things that aren't there in places he really wasn't while stuck in front of a the never ending tedium of blue screens.
Interesting fact: I'm told Liam Neeson once said that acting on the Phantom Menace drove him into such a depression he hit the bottle really hard. Mostly it was because he had to act with things that aren't there in places he really wasn't while stuck in front of a the never ending tedium of blue screens.
People hate him?
I'd kiss him if I ever saw him. And I'm not a homosexual or a practicioner of beastiality.
I'd kiss him if I ever saw him. And I'm not a homosexual or a practicioner of beastiality.
cxvbones said:
There was a net boot leg called the "Phantom Edit"
Jar Jar was removed from all non plot critical scenes, as well his voice was subtitled into a alien form and it was a deep sounding tone almost like Jabbas.... Lucas freaked and tried to shut it down very hard.
And it improved the movie by a hundred fold.
basicly i hate him for all the same reasons as everyone else has posted here.
the only good thing about the character is found in a web comic http://www.darthsanddroids.net/ basicly its the movies retold as a pen and paper rpg. the character Jar Jar is played by a 8 year old girl, only thing i have ever seen with him actually being amusing.
the only good thing about the character is found in a web comic http://www.darthsanddroids.net/ basicly its the movies retold as a pen and paper rpg. the character Jar Jar is played by a 8 year old girl, only thing i have ever seen with him actually being amusing.
Hey, you know what makes any battle scene MUCH more tense and enjoyable?Mr.Pandah said:
An absolute prat fucking around in the middle of it, accidentally sabotaging his own side and paying absolutely no penalty for it. None. Hundreds of Gungans get shot to death by robots, Jar-Jar fucks around and gets away with it.
Sure did lend that scene a lot of needed gravitas. Did not at all feel like I was watching a shitty saturday morning cartoon. Honest.