Darth Bizarro said:
And I am willing to admit that the films are far from perfect. There is some really stupid stuff in there but to say that they fail as movies is taking it a bit too far IMO.
Well to each their own, but when people judge them after the common criteria of mainstream adventure movies, i.e. story and characters (as well as the tone associated with these), I don't see how they're taking it too far.
Gili failed as a movie.
Well, some people might say it didn't beause it had Christopher Walken talk about a pie.
If they completely failed then they wouldn't have made so much money.
Well that's just silly.
It really sucks that this is what fandom has devolved into. It seems like everyone is either a total hater or a total gusher and it really sucks to be floating in the middle drifting back and forth like a plastic bag in the wind from TFN to OT.com helplessly trying to find a place to fit in as the polarized world of Star Wars fandom rips itself in two.
OT.com doesn't seem to be the radical prequel hating community you're talking about here - you'd rather find that at the RLM boards, although even that one has a refreshing percentage of reasonable members with whom you can discuss.
At any rate, you'd be well advised to drop some of your silly delusions - there is no need in the world for a "united Star Wars fandom", and neither do you have any need to "fit in" anywhere when it comes to movies and online communities.
Just let it go. I've almost never encountered another user anywhere that also loved the silly droid antics in ROTS, yet I don't feel lonely or depressed because of that. Why would this be?
From my experience, the reasonable people are usually the ones tending to reject the prequels, while the uncritical fanboys are rather found on the other side. Do you really want your plastic bag to be sort of in the middle? :D