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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story |OT| They rebel - SPOILERS

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So I guess every new Star Wars movie that gets released will always end up with posters ranking the movies with lists no one cares about and shitting on the prequels.

Never change, GAF.

This is what people did before the prequels and it included shitting on the prequels.

Never change, world
 
As someone who isn't a die hard Star Wars fan, for me it goes:

Empire Strikes Back tied with A New Hope

Rogue One

Return of the Jedi tied with Force Awakens

Attack of the Clones

Revenge of the Sith

Phantom Menace
 
95]It's the first time Vader has made a pun in the films[/b], IIRC, which seemed to cross a line for some. I thought it was right in line with his other dark jokes ("Apology accepted", "I find your lack of faith disturbing") so it didn't bother me. But I get why it might for others.
I'm aware, but still, it's very much in vein of Vader's dark humor.
 
Attack of the Clones

Revenge of the Sith

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I don't see how.
Not the first time he's made a joke or sarcastic comment. This is no different.
Wasn't even meant to be "haha" funny, just a bit of dark humor.

"I find your lack of faith disturbing" is not a pun, it's just him straight up intimidating a guy. "Apology accepted, captain Needa" is a sarcastic comment, but a dark one, not a silly one. In this he's force choking a guy and saying "be careful not to choke on your ambitions". With emphasis on the word choke, in case we didn't get it. I was about to say "it's a Mr Freeze tier pun" but I see I've been beaten to the punch there.

I can't believe we're still going on about that line.

You're going to see it a lot, because it's horrid.

Like, if I had to put together at Top 20 list of bad Vader lines, I don't think that one makes it.

"Alert my Star Destroyer, to prepare for my arrival" stays #1 with a bullet.

Narrowly beating out "Noo." and "Noooooooooo" to round out the top 3.

But you at least acknowledge it's a bad line?
 

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Attack of the Clones romance I can sort of try and forget. I can never get past "from my point of view the Jedi are evil" and "he killed the younglings"
 
Nobody ever includes The Clone Wars movie in these lists.
ANH
ESB
ROTJ
TFA
R1
ROTS
TPM
Clone Wars
AOTC
Caravan of Courage
Battle for Endor
Holiday Special

I haven't seen those LEGO movies but they're probably better than AOTC. If Tartakovsky's CW Volumes count then I would place them between R1 and ROTS.
 
1. Empire
2. ANH
3. Rogue One
4. ROTJ
5. Force Awakens
6. TPM
7. ROTS
8. AOTC

Rogue One might take over second. I'm loving this movie more each time I see it.
 
"I find your lack of faith disturbing" is not a pun, it's just him straight up intimidating a guy. "Apology accepted, captain Needa" is a sarcastic comment, but a dark one, not a silly one. In this he's force choking a guy and saying "be careful not to choke on your ambitions". With emphasis on the word choke, in case we didn't get it. I was about to say "it's a Mr Freeze tier pun" but I see I've been beaten to the punch there.
Apology accepted is quite silly and why should the fact that it's a pun or not matter? You're focusing too much on that one aspect.
Point is, dude has a dark sense of humor, he says morbid things that he believes are funny.
This squarely falls into this category and thus is entirely in character.
 
ESB

ANH
TFA
RO

ROTJ

Trash starts here

TPM
ROTS
AOTC

I used to be more lenient on Revenge of the Sith, but after I watched the prequels again before TFA... I found that even TPM was better. Don't think I'm ever watching the prequels again because they get worse every rewatch.
 
"I find your lack of faith disturbing" is not a pun, it's just him straight up intimidating a guy. "Apology accepted, captain Needa" is a sarcastic comment, but a dark one, not a silly one. In this he's force choking a guy and saying "be careful not to choke on your ambitions". With emphasis on the word choke, in case we didn't get it. I was about to say "it's a Mr Freeze tier pun" but I see I've been beaten to the punch there.



You're going to see it a lot, because it's horrid.



But you at least acknowledge it's a bad line?

I can see why people would be annoyed, and I don't think that opinion is necessarily wrong, but I don't agree with it myself. The point isn't exactly the type of joke, or that the joke is funny (he is a dad after all), but more that he talks like that at all. If Vader didn't do that, he'd just be basically an angry robot. I like the idea that there's still a guy in there, and that the idea that Vader killed Anakin is a lie Vader told himself (as well as Obi-Wan), and it took Luke's presence for anyone to realize that there was still someone in there.

It's his personality. He's evil, he's dangerous, and he makes crappy evil jokes at times. It felt in line with how he was portrayed in the originals for me.

I think part of it is that people have been waiting for Vader's slaughter at the end of the movie for years, but there's more to him than that. I think you need that joke to balance out the horror that comes later. It's a movie with only a small amount of space for Vader (and I think not using him more was definitely the right choice and also not at all the choice I thought they would make), so it gets trickier to get the full spectrum of the character. He's not a complicated character, but an important one nonetheless. Possibly the most iconic Star Wars character of them all.

I think it needed to be there.
 
Episode V
Episode IV

Episode VI
Episode VII
Rogue One

Episode III

Episode I

Episode II


That would be my tiers. Should note that the films are not ranked within the tiers.
 
I find the sheer number of people who missed out on some of the best SW games.. Disturbing.

And honestly people are being dramatic as fuck about the Vader line.
 
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