So sorry for this long shit.
How 'bout you tell me what your parameters of what a "real" SW fan is because you brought it up in the first place?
See, now you're talking. By "real" I simply meant "not fake". You know, that old classic meaning? Not someone born before a certain year, neither someone who owns X amount of merch. Just someone who's not a shill. No bar sliding neither. So, is there anything you said that you'd like to go back on before you jumped the gun assuming a
re-definition I hadn't given, and proceeded to base your whole post on it?
And I don't know if you realize this but the circlejerk fests on reddit you rightfully stay away from have exactly to do with this phenomenon. Half the people "discussing" a corporate product are shills. Corporations today invest more in damage control than they do in the products they release. That's why we get all shit games and shit movies.
And don't get me wrong -- I do hate that shit mentality: that "since we are in the majority, your voice is irrelevant" or "the movie was a financial success/failure, therefore it was good/bad". However, it is the only kind of mentality shills (posing as fanboys) seem to understand. So I hope you'll forgive me for exhibiting it. That stuff really should not be a factor in whether something is right or wrong.
This is a shit mentality though.
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MauLer in particular is in my eyes a flag that goes whichever way the wind is blowing (i.e. whatever pumps up that YouTube revenue). It's no coincidence that his four part TLJ "review" (if you can even call it that) brought in 1m+ views and he's decided to go back and slam TFA and now Solo.
AhAHahah what? Which way the wind is blowing? Is whether or not people like a movie as random as which way the wind is blowing? Like never mind that the movie may suck -- the reaction to it will be arbitrary anyway, is that it? You won't acknowledge the possibility that maybe, just maybe MauLer may be one among many like-minded people in a community sick and tired of iconic Star Wars characters getting gutted? Why do you automatically assume we'd not rather watch good movies than have to bash bad ones, who happen to be popular only because of their title?
So MauLer made successful videos, and he's not allowed to capitalize on his own success?? Because what? And why do you automatically assume he's only in it for the money? If anything, he's got balls opening himself to flak by bashing 2 other movies that are not as controversial. His following has now placed him on a bigger stage where he has the chance to voice his problems with past movies, reaching more people. Something he was most certainly unable to do previously -- especially with the automatic shutdown anyone would get if we attacked Disney "Star Wars" until after TLJ. Would you accept that could be why he hated on TFA retrospectively?
About Rogue One. If it was received well by fans, it was certainly not much better off than TFA. Not too much risk bashing R1 too, yes? So if MauLer didn't bash it (I didn't even know he didn't have a video on it), it must be for money? Really? I mean, if you liked both R1 and Solo, is it impossible to believe that someone who hates Solo just so happens to like R1? How about people who hate R1 and like TFA? Is it too complicated when people are not clearly divided in camps, so you just try to put them where you imagine they should be?
Be that as it may. This is the thing you should be accusing a lot of other YouTubers before MauLer, especially ones that have been shilling for Disney until now but are suddenly reconsidering their position, now that Solo flops.
But it's yet even more curious how you'd sooner accuse individual people of looking to make a buck on the back of a cause they may sincerely believe in, than the corrupt elephant in the room. Disney. Hello? The reason they even bought Star Wars is to milk it to shit. To date, not a single Disney "Star Wars" "movie" has been as uniting as the OT. Notice how I don't use the word "good". I am not trying to take away anyone's genuine enjoyment of a movie (although I probably did, sorry). However, neither will I stand by in silence while good people with legitimate concerns over (what should be) obvious flaws in these "movies" are being attacked by others with no more logical arguments in their defense. So while you want us to accept that you vocally enjoy the "movies", we want you to accept that we vocally hate them.
... and wouldn't stop ripping into the movie if it was the best thing since sliced bread.
How would you ever know? Would you stop glorifying it if it was the worst thing since shit sandwiches?
He pissed on the scene because since it's a prequel we already know Chewie will survive. Well, yeah, by that logic we could completely drop Episode 1-3 because we already know what will happen to Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan...
This may come as a surprise to you, but I'm all for that.
... we don't even need to be thrilled during the Deathstar attack in A New Hope because honestly, we know the good guys will win and Luke will be the hero.
How?? Because good guys? If you think that's a legit criticism, then can you not also apply it to the prequels (including "Star Wars stories"), in addition to all the problems they already got? And newer characters aren't helped in this regard by each being OP AF. It doesn't change the fact that all prequels are objectively more meaningless either way.
When someone says Solo isn't that bad, I can get behind that. When they say they like Solo, OK, maybe. But when someone says "9/10", knowing what we know -- name origin, shower scene, darth, stupid story, no character development, dumb jokes, cheap references -- that's a shill right there.
Did you just take me for someone with whom you once had a bitter argument on reddit? I fundamentally disagree with virtually everything you've decided about my character.
