Gemini73 wrote:Errkal wrote:Parksey wrote:Errkal wrote:Denster wrote:This thread is hilarious. Some of the nitpicking that goes on.
Mind blowing.
It’s Star Wars - who gives a strawberry float.
This, so much this, I swear people just can't just enjoy stuff, it's like the thread of Go 8 bit and how the top gear thread used to be, it has to be super serious and 100% accurate nothing can be fun or entertaining.
If this is true, why did fans of the original trilogy give the prequels so much vitriol? They were Star Wars, who gives a gooseberry fool?
Obviously some of the prequel's flaws were quite evident but there was a hell of a lot of nitpicking too (see some of the stuff in those Red Letter Media reviews).
We had the same sort of arguments when people dared to find fault in some of Game of Thrones' more recent episodes. If people think there's a downturn in quality or noticeable differences, they should be allowed to say instead of just being told to enjoy it.
People can have issues, my problem is the over the top reaction to something that doesn't matter, there are issues but it isn't enough to have the outright "OMG THIS IS A DISGRACE" that I get the feeling some people hold because porgs exist or bombs fell in space.
It isn't that you shouldn't give a but I think some need to give less of a gooseberry fool about it. For me it isn't just Star Wars there seems to be an inherent thing with some people that stuff can't just be fun, the Go 8 Bit thing is a key example, after every episode there is the same bitching that "DAY AINT EVIN PRO GAMERZ" and such, how the strawberry float cares it is funny tv for entertainment it isn't a documentary or something to pick the best game or gamer. Some people need to lighten up a little and just enjoy stuff as the silly thing it is because getting all worked up solves and proves nothing. Its like they thing they are better and are looking down anyone that likes whatever the entertaining thing is as a sheeple simpleton and they should be more enlightened and hate everything that is serious and refined.
So how about not enjoying something all that much because, well, you simply didn't enjoy it all that much? That's not aimed directly at you mate, more the whole "you must like this or else!" attitude that I see and hear about on a regular basis - particularly around the bigger movie franchises.
I watched TLJ a few days back and outside of a few good moments I wasn't all that enamoured by it. No one reason in particular, I just didn't think it was a very good movie overall.
Sure people will unnecessarily nit-pick something like SW just to have a pop, but equally annoying is SW fans getting all pissy because someone else just didn't like the latest film or TV series. It's all very well stating "It's Star Wars, just enjoy it!", but sometimes people just don't like stuff, even if they may have enjoyed what preceeded it.
Point in case, I've a few "friends" who are completely wrapped up in the MCU. Me? I'm not interested. I have watched some of the movies, even enjoyed a few, very much so, however it's not a priority and my not wanting to go and watch Infinity War has got said friends knickers in a right twist, even though they know I'm not big into the whole MCU thing as they are. It's like I've committed some cardinal sin by not having watched a single Marvel film, (or DC for that matter), since I took my eldest daughter to see Guardians of the Galaxy 2 last April.
It's just a super hero movie. Who gives a strawberry float?
Well my Marvel loving friends do, obviously, and that's great. Doesn't mean I have to like it, or even watch the latest installment just because I enjoyed a few of the previous outings. Same with these new Star Wars movies.