docmindbender
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John Boyega ridicules Star Wars + fans; also hints at Attack the Block 2
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#Phonepunk#
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John Boyega is a real dude sometimes I think he’s the only one with his head on straight in all the ST madness
#Phonepunk#
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Plot twist on “as a black woman”
Werewolf Jones
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Hope this doesn't damage his career. Attack the Block was amazing.
infinitys_7th
Member
Not surprising.
But even taking "her" comments seriously, didn't Kylo help murder (likely) trillions of people when he exploded a bunch of planets with Starkiller? That's more than the "thousands of innocents" (where is it confirmed they were all innocent, btw) the Mandelorian killed.
GreyHorace
Member
Jesus Christ what a loser.
This is why worshiping celebrities is a fruitless exercise. These actors are human like you or me. Boo Hoo. John Boyega thought the romance between Rey and Kylo sucked. It's not the end of the fucking world.
ManaByte
Gold Member
The Reylos are already digging into his (and anyone who supports his position) old Tweets to find something to cancel him with.
MisterHero
Super Member
I only really support Reylo because I felt bad for Ben Solo being a severely damaged punching bag caricature for three movies. If all the actors involved hate that there was one moment for him, well that sucks a lot. It didn't even have to be him and Rey; it could've been him with Han, Luke, and (somehow?) Leia or even Anakin.
I know what certain "fans" have been doing on social media fucking sucks, but that's why I don't have Twitter/Instagram. Correct me if wrong, but I believe forums like here or Reddit would moderate such stupidity with the quickness.
The fuckwits don't deserve the attention but I guess people want drama. Whatever.
I know what certain "fans" have been doing on social media fucking sucks, but that's why I don't have Twitter/Instagram. Correct me if wrong, but I believe forums like here or Reddit would moderate such stupidity with the quickness.
The fuckwits don't deserve the attention but I guess people want drama. Whatever.
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ZehDon
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You gotta be shitting me...
Stiflers Mom
Banned
If I were Boyega, I'd be pretty pissed too about what RJ did to his character.
I felt it was a bit salvaged in RoS, since he looked quite competent there. But still, what a waste of a genuinely great idea of a stormtrooper redemption arc.
I felt it was a bit salvaged in RoS, since he looked quite competent there. But still, what a waste of a genuinely great idea of a stormtrooper redemption arc.
Stilton Disco
Member
Nice to see him indulging in some good old fasioned British piss taking now he's free to!
The guy's probably made enough from these three movies that he'd never have to work again if he wanted to, and can pick and choose whatever smaller roles he likes from now on even if he gets blacklisted by major studios.
Hell, he can just live off conventions now if he lost everything too. His entire financial future is watertight.
Really is just a shame the Disney Trilogy ended up shitting on his character so much though. The whole 'Stormtrooper turned Jedi' concept was the most exciting prospect to me in the build up to TFA and it just ended up as less than nothing.
The guy's probably made enough from these three movies that he'd never have to work again if he wanted to, and can pick and choose whatever smaller roles he likes from now on even if he gets blacklisted by major studios.
Hell, he can just live off conventions now if he lost everything too. His entire financial future is watertight.
Really is just a shame the Disney Trilogy ended up shitting on his character so much though. The whole 'Stormtrooper turned Jedi' concept was the most exciting prospect to me in the build up to TFA and it just ended up as less than nothing.
ScarletSpider
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“Fandoms” in any/all forms are toxic communities of rabid, hyper-sensitive, hyper-overreactive unstable fans.
If your fandom includes “shipping” of any kind, it’s terrible; change my mind.
#InclusivityWasAMistake
If your fandom includes “shipping” of any kind, it’s terrible; change my mind.
#InclusivityWasAMistake
ManaByte
Gold Member
Are you kidding? They use Reddit as base of operations and organize their brigading.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Reminds me of the weirdos who got depressed IRL because they aren't actually blue cat people aliens after Avatar came out.
GreyHorace
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Roufianos
Member
Lmao at these losers crying that Poe and Fin weren't gay. Can't two guys have chemistry without sucking each other's dicks? Nothing in the first film ever implied they liked each other romantically.
Bet they're the same ones complaining about the Rey and Kylo kiss because it came out of nowhere.
Bet they're the same ones complaining about the Rey and Kylo kiss because it came out of nowhere.
ManaByte
Gold Member
They’re the same people who sent the Russo Bros death threats because Endgame didn’t end with Steve and Bucky fucking.
#Phonepunk#
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Makes you wonder how much of KMT’s abuse was probably from lunatic shippers mad that she got in the way of their fantasy rather than racist trolls.
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XBlackCavendishX
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I wrote the "Resistance" trilogy off after The Last Jedi because it was just f'n awful. John has every right to be pissed off, and should be commended for taking a stand against the toxic fandom for being entitled twits.
Fox Mulder
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Everyone should be mocking entitled fanboy losers and toxic fanbases. I can’t imagine the amount of stupid shit all these actors put up with for years from random internet people just because they were in Star Wars.
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GreyHorace
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Loser fanboys and crazed shippers would have quavered at the refined but intimidating aura of Sir Alec Guinness.
#Phonepunk#
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Whitesnake
Banned
Mans said “fuck it mask off” the moment that last star wars check came in lmao
Rise of Skywalker is a truly progressive film, in that it’s the black guy getting cucked by the angsty white guy and not the other way around
Rise of Skywalker is a truly progressive film, in that it’s the black guy getting cucked by the angsty white guy and not the other way around
DeafTourette
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I HATE stuff like this! These instigators and racists use pics of black/Asian/etc people to spew their hatred and sow further discord... Or use them to "back up" racists to refute minorities. It's disgusting...
Stiflers Mom
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Imagine being that much of a loser that you send death threads to someone because of a fucking movie.
#Phonepunk#
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I mean that’s the thing why should he have anything to do with this franchise? Writers that mishandle his character and fail to deliver, fans who attack him for not shutting up while doing his job, for daring to have his own idea of what the character that he spent years of his life defining is all about. It’s utter bullshit he is way too good for this.
I guess it all depends on if u see Rey’s kiss as a prize or reward. I don’t necessarily, IMO this is just standard classic storytelling, a kiss in a fairy tale, but postmodernism has ruined our brains and made us hate the idea of two cishet people having sexual feelings towards one another even if they are in a toxic relationship. Newsflash, reality called, a lot of people IRL are in toxic relationships. It’s just art once again imitating life. Some people are frustrated by being unable to control life so they see the Narrative as a substitute.
Finn had a decent intro by JJ. It is a damn shame his heroic move in the first scene of the ST has been undercut so massively by TLJ, and by everyone for the remainder of his screen time, from his “friends” mocking him as a “janitor”. But they so good at class politics cos we hate the rich - typical modern mainstream leftist moralism. Ignoring actual plight of workers (Boyega, casino workers, horsey slave kids) in favor of virtue signaling. “Hey ignore the unhappiness of this literal real world POC who is on the job having issues with his work, because KMT decided to close her Twitter account”. OMG she closed Twitter! It’s such a shame everyone should use Twitter it is so great and you get so many death threats whether black white or Asian. /s
John really should have been co lead. TLJ should have been him training with Luke too. Why the fuck did he not even get to meet Luke Skywalker? Only Rey did. ROS was better but he could have had more of an arc if they had more time and JJ hadn’t been forced into setting up the stakes, doing Rian’s job that he ignored while shitting on Finn’s character. Jesus What a bullshit ST
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Whitesnake
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Yeah I always thought Finn was a way more interesting character than the other new protagonists, which is why it sucks that he was relegated to a stupid romance B-plot that goes nowhere in TLJ with the worst character in the trilogy. He at least could’ve had a pretty cool sacrifice scene at the end but instead his story ends him being ""”saved""" by being crashed into at full speed, which is followed by Rose saying what I consider to be the worst line in the entirety of Star Wars. From what I can tell about Rise of Skywalker (haven’t wathced it but have read summaries) it doesn’t seem like he has much importance there either.
I think it would’ve been better for him to be a jedi. From the prequels to now, the only people who have ever been shown to use force powers are the jedi order, the sith order, and descendants of both. Your ability to save the world has been restricted solely to your lineage. You’re not born from jedi? The you can never reach their level of importance. You are forced to be a side character in their journey.
Which is why I got the slightest hint of optimism in TLJ when Kylo tells Rey “your parents were nothing, you come from nothing, you are nothing”, because that’s way more interesting than “chosen one” shit. Somebody who comes from nothing and becomes a hero not because of their bloodline or their upbringing, but becuae eof their actions. Who they CHOOSE to be.
But nope. Rey’s descended from the strongest force user in the galaxy. Her journey, from being sent to the desert planet to finding the lightsaber to finding Luke to fighting Palpatine, was all set into motion by where she comes from. Nothing more.
But imagine a random former stormtrooper, someone who actually came from nothing who chose to risk his life so he could get away from his evil upbringing, going through a spiritual journey that awakens him to the force (the force is within everyone and everything, after all) which then allows him to use the power of the force to help others. He would be the embodiment of what the Jedi wished to be, without being held back by the bureaucracy and tradition of the past Jedi order.
He would truly be forging a new path for the jedi, something that movies say Rey does, but is something that she never actually does. She gets trained by Luke, who was in turn trained by Obi-Wan and Yoda, two of the people were a part of the bureaucracy whose incompetence caused the death of the Jedi. She follows the old faulty ways.
This hypothetical Finn-centric story would even have a progressive-friendly message, in saying that your lack of privilege doesn’t truly stop you from doing great things, and certainly doesn’t stop you from doing good deeds. Although, that message may conflict with the eternal victim-complex of the modern left.
Whatever. At least Finn was a good character in TFA. That’s more than Phasma got.
#Phonepunk#
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this Reylo shit is all Rian's fault. JJ had them as enemies in TFA. TLJ is where all the GIFs and memes really exploded. Rian and critics were openly pushing how sexy his film was.
LOL at them falling into the incest trap that George did.
more proof they did not think any of this shit thru. add it to the list.
also it was a lie, it was from the bad guy, the supposed "main villain" of Rian's fictional amazing IX that he decided not to make even after they asked him. Rey was not nothing, she was the Mary Sue at the center of the ST, she was the only thing of substance in the entire galaxy. she was already a chosen one. Rian even saw to this. Finn could have actually left to help Rey, maybe with Rose, and together they have an adventure. what if all three started realizing they had force powers? no, Rian isolated Rey and had her do the Chosen One thing anyways then made it a big deal about how it wasn't a big deal. he lied. there is no optimistic new theme that develops into anything, he is merely rehashing some old themes that were done far more subtler in earlier films. plus it is just a twist on the "shocking revelation" trope. he is doing a ESB scene in ROTJ, that is all. more hack storytelling made new thru lampshading. ultimately it says nothing new.
LOL at them falling into the incest trap that George did.
more proof they did not think any of this shit thru. add it to the list.
ugh i hated that line. it was not optimistic to me, it was cynical. imagine Darth Vader telling someone "You aren't anyone famous" it was so cringey tbh. she already knew she was an orphan from a desert planet, she just wanted to stay and wait for them to come back, she wasn't saying "Oh i just know they are legendary heroes". that is a retcon from Rian. i was like "Wait, what the fuck is he talking about?" the whole Rey Kylo thing made no sense to me in TLJ. "You are nothing" was just the kind of thing a pick-up artist would say. it wasn't some deep thing. Anakin was nothing, a slave on a backwards planet. Shmi was not force sensitive, so it was never strictly genetic. he was still the chosen one, just like Rey. Rian is lying to his own stans.
also it was a lie, it was from the bad guy, the supposed "main villain" of Rian's fictional amazing IX that he decided not to make even after they asked him. Rey was not nothing, she was the Mary Sue at the center of the ST, she was the only thing of substance in the entire galaxy. she was already a chosen one. Rian even saw to this. Finn could have actually left to help Rey, maybe with Rose, and together they have an adventure. what if all three started realizing they had force powers? no, Rian isolated Rey and had her do the Chosen One thing anyways then made it a big deal about how it wasn't a big deal. he lied. there is no optimistic new theme that develops into anything, he is merely rehashing some old themes that were done far more subtler in earlier films. plus it is just a twist on the "shocking revelation" trope. he is doing a ESB scene in ROTJ, that is all. more hack storytelling made new thru lampshading. ultimately it says nothing new.
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Punished Miku
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Yeah I've been saying that for a while. Imagine the journey of Finn from courageous morally conflicted Storm Trooper, to Jedi training under Luke. Wow, that would have been 100x better. Rey could be a scrapper / pilot sidekick good with a pistol.
Master Of Illusion
Member
LOL the level of not giving a fuck is through the roof.
I want to see an Episode I-style documentary on the making of TROS.
I want to see an Episode I-style documentary on the making of TROS.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Finn was the only stormtrooper who was a great shot... That was an early indication of his being Force sensitive... Other than his lightsaber battle with Ren
Whitesnake
Banned
Oh it absolutely made little sense in the greater context of the film/trilogy. It simply made me think of how much better of a story arc it could be before I was brought back to reality by things like Rey being super powerful in the force after like a couple days.
Wasn’t she impregnated by midichlorians or something? lmao
He was the most interesting character in TFA. There was so much potential there for Finn -- force sensitivity, lingering ties with the First Order, seeing the world from a new perspective after a lifetime of brainwashing, and his burgeoning heroism to go save Rey (his first real connection in his new life).
All turned into a joke by Rian.
Cybrwzrd
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Seven Deadly Sins is fantastic, what are you talking about?
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Deleted member 17706
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Anyone who seriously uses the word "ship" in that way is best ignored.
ManaByte
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They're real and are a cancer of Twitter.
Furlong
Banned
The older I get the more convinced I become that Behavioral Sink is a real phenomena and is happening now.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Why not both.
They could have a friendly rivalry about who can use the Force better. Or maybe they have a philosophical conflict about which direction the Jedi Order should go in which leads to drama and further character development. Or they could be the example of the New Jedi Order in the sense that they could both, as practicing Jedi, fall in love with each other and still be competent Light Side users, rejecting the stoic, monk-like dogma of the old Jedi.
They could have done a lot of more interesting things than the crap we got.
kiiltz
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Who has the time to make collages of screencaps of literal who twitter users with wow-its-fucking-nothing amount of likes/retweets?
Did you get this from LADBible?
Thaedolus
Gold Member
Maybe, but your dismission of my dismission is dismissive and, frankly, genocidal.
I am a Thaedolus...a moniker I took when Daedalus was already taken or something? I dunno it’s been a while...Anyway, do better.
kiiltz
Member
Kind of but at the same time he is just as bad as the people he is responding to. Even if he isnt like saying "fuck you", antagonizing them is just as bad as his poor behavior perpetuates theirs.
Musky_Cheese
Banned
White Twitter users mad at black man for not playing his part