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Post #926498

Author
Smithers
Parent topic
Filmmaker and New Yorker film critic Richard Brody's thoughts on the prequels.
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Date created
9-Apr-2016, 9:05 PM

BmB said:
Jar Jar is meant to be laughable so I don’t know why you hold that against him.

Maybe his existence is laughable. He doesn’t succeed in making the audience like him and laugh at his “comedy”

Jake Lloyd does an excellent job. If you dislike kid Anakin I suspect it’s because you dislike kids in general, rather than anything about his performance or dialogue.

I don’t think you’ve ever heard a kid speak before

Ahmed Best does not himself consider Jar Jar racist so why should you? Lame, below the belt jab.

I agree, I don’t see what’s racist about Jar Jar, although he is still the worst

Midichlorians were introduced in 1978 as part of the guidelines for EU novel authors.

Yes, and the first EU novel also had Luke and Vader both trying to find a crystal, some concepts don’t work well in the SW universe even if they’re old ideas