So are you all boycotting Guardians now?
Jul 6, 2018 17:12:49 GMT
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Post by Waxer-n-boil on Jul 6, 2018 17:12:49 GMT
Jul 6, 2018 1:55:31 GMT merh said:
www.yahoo.com/news/guardians-director-slams-extreme-star-125414513.htmlGuardians director slams extreme Star Wars fans
Digital Spy
July 5, 2018, 5:54 AM PDT
From Digital Spy
Despite the Star Wars films literally being about the perils of giving in to your anger, a subset of fans have fallen to the dark side and try to justify sending abuse to the (usually female) stars – and don't even get us started on the male-only fan edit or petitions to remake The Last Jedi.
The revelation that Jar-Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best considered suicide because the backlash against his character was so huge caused Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn to speak out against those extreme fans.
Gunn tweeted: "Star Wars (or any movie) may be important to you, but it doesn't belong to you.
"If your self-esteem depends on how good you think the current Star Wars is, or your childhood is ruined because you don't like something in a movie, GO TO THERAPY.
"Critique it. Don't like it. But spewing hate and bile at individuals just doing their best to tell a story, even if the story sucks, is lame. Don't watch it!"
While Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran have left social media over the abuse (let's not mince words here), The Last Jedi's director Rian Johnson is treating the more ridiculous tweets with the amount of sarcasm they deserve.
Despite the relative underperformance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Disney is still planning plenty more films in the franchise. If that bothers you, maybe it's time to draw a line.
Digital Spy
July 5, 2018, 5:54 AM PDT
From Digital Spy
Despite the Star Wars films literally being about the perils of giving in to your anger, a subset of fans have fallen to the dark side and try to justify sending abuse to the (usually female) stars – and don't even get us started on the male-only fan edit or petitions to remake The Last Jedi.
The revelation that Jar-Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best considered suicide because the backlash against his character was so huge caused Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn to speak out against those extreme fans.
Gunn tweeted: "Star Wars (or any movie) may be important to you, but it doesn't belong to you.
"If your self-esteem depends on how good you think the current Star Wars is, or your childhood is ruined because you don't like something in a movie, GO TO THERAPY.
"Critique it. Don't like it. But spewing hate and bile at individuals just doing their best to tell a story, even if the story sucks, is lame. Don't watch it!"
While Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran have left social media over the abuse (let's not mince words here), The Last Jedi's director Rian Johnson is treating the more ridiculous tweets with the amount of sarcasm they deserve.
Despite the relative underperformance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Disney is still planning plenty more films in the franchise. If that bothers you, maybe it's time to draw a line.
Would we boycott GotG?... This (AGAIN) is another example of misdiagnosis of who comprises the fanbase; and what the boycott is all about.
The majority of boycotting fans do not support these trolls who engage in personal attacks. Neither have they made personal attacks. That small subset is made up of a relatively few extreme fans and transient trolls who are not even real SW fans to begin with. They go from fanbase to fanbase doing this stuff on every mainstream film.
The boycotting fans are voicing their criticisms. Criticism of poorly written characters, poorly written plots, badly subverted storylines, and occasional cringeworthy humor. All of which has been very legibly and competently explained.
BUT YET AGAIN Disney and their fanatically faithful defenders are lumping the 2 groups together. They continue to scream that both groups have the same motives and doing the same thing. That they are actually all one group. The boycotting fans are sick of it and it's only inspired them to boycott even more.
So, no. There's no reason for the boycotting fans to boycott GotG because that's not what the boycotting is about in the first place. (In case you forgot what it's about, just look at the sentence above hi-lighted in bold).
However, continuing this narrative based off of mislabeling the fanbase (it's makeup and motives) will only continue to fan the flames of boycotting when episode IX comes around.
P.S. - The Jar Jar/Ahmed Best thing was about fanatical prequel haters. And that's a whole 'nother conversation.