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   templo SUD said, 6 months ago

   Yesterday, I thought it was Alec Guinness (1914-2000).
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   Miss Tink said, 6 months ago

   Which is my parent (Disney) bought you.
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   AKHenderson said, 6 months ago

   Doesn’t Johnny Depp work for Disney?
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   Plods with Beer ( did I mention beer? ) said, 6 months ago

   With $4B of Disney money in his pocket, he can show up as anything he wants.
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   Dampwaffle said, 6 months ago

   Well, yes: you can make a case that George Lucas cut his own creative throat when he came up with Jar Jar Binks. Of course, he did the same thing earlier when he did the two Ewok movies that shall not be named, the original Ewok dance ending of Empire, and put his fingerprints on the fourth Indiana Jones movie. George is like a man who, after winning the Olympic target shooting event, then goes and takes potshots at his own feet and then acts bewildered – and angry – when people question his actions.
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   Chicago Insurgent said, 6 months ago

   I looked up who jar jar is.. What so bad about him?
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   ottod said, 6 months ago

   if Jar Jar was so bad, why did they steal him for “John Carter?” I guess the other five people who saw that one didn’t care.
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   catzilla23 said, 6 months ago

   @ottod

   Tars Tarkus was no Jar Jar, even in the movie. Try the book though – a Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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   fritzoid said, 6 months ago

   @Chicago Insurgent

   “I looked up who jar jar is.. What so bad about him?”
   

   
   If you had to look him up, you’ll never fully understand why he’s so divisive, but he was perceived by much of the original “Star Wars” audience as being cartoonish and lightweight, as well as possibly racially insensitive (there’s a similarity to the old “Steppin Fetchit” stereotype of gangly-limbed, mushmouthed Negroes from old movies). Lucas had worked some comic relief into the movies from the outset, but first with the Ewoks and then with Jar Jar Binks, there was a perception that Lucas was turning the franchise into “children’s movies.” Of course, that presupposes that they WEREN’T “children’s movies” from the beginning, which was reportedly how Alec Guinness (for one) thought of them.
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    DavidGBA said, 6 months ago

    Jar Jar was like Fonzi jumping the shark?
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    Agingstoner said, 6 months ago

    @Dampwaffle

    I thought the fourth Indie movie was fine…the real dud was the second, Temple of Doom.
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    Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago

    @ottod

    First of all Jar Jar is great, and second Lucas stole him from Snarf Quest a comic in the Old TSR produced Dragon Magazine. (Where he was also Great)
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    Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago

    @fritzoid

    The first comic relief Lucas used was R2D2 and CP3O in the first (episode IV) movie, Jar Jar carried on the tradition of not making the movies too serious. Star Wars was meant to be enjoyed by everyone which includes Children, to suppose otherwise is foolish. What’s wrong with that? To have made them totally Adult would have defeated the idea of making Sci Fi attractive to everyone not just a small tech-minded clique.
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    Miba said, 6 months ago

    I like Jar Jar…
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    fritzoid said, 6 months ago

    @Redkaycei Repoc

    “The first comic relief Lucas used was R2D2 and CP3O in the first (episode IV) movie.”
    

    
    I acknowledged that there had been comic relief since the beginning. But LUC Rambler asked why Jar Jar is divisive, so I answered him to the best of my ability, trying to keep my own opinions out of it (“he is perceived…” etc.).
    

    
    But since you mention it, I don’t like Jar Jar, but there are a number of reasons I don’t like Episodes I-III. And I think the ideal audience for “Star Wars” is 12-16, and the fact that I was 12 when “Star Wars” came out in 1977 and 16 when I saw “The Empire Strikes Back” has nothing to do with it. :-)
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