Idiot Rian Johnson calls fans "manbabies" in new tweet - Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) Discussion

[–] Thrillhouse (1509) 7 years ago

I wonder if these people actually believe these things of if they say it to get promoted.

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[–] Guitar King (4969) 7 years ago

They DO say it to impress other SJWs, but there aren't enough SJWs to keep Star Wars fandom alive after alienating long time fans.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

They need followers.

Can't have a cult without followers silly!

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[–] kuku (3510) 7 years ago

He needs to keep proving that he's a good believer. He needs to prove his merits to deserve the job, and obviously being a good director is not one of them, so... what else could he do to keep his job but to preach out loud his faith in SJWism?

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

He seems to be talking about the sexist and racist trolls that drove Kellie Marie Tran off Instagram.

She didn't want anymore harassment from the toxic contingent of the Star Wars fandom.

Are you aware of this recent event?

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I'm aware of the claim Spanners, not of the evidence.

Do you happen to have some to support said claim?

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

Plenty of his followers are chiming in with responses on that tweet to support Rose, so there is your evidence.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Yeah, I was afraid it was a listen and believe campaign.

I asked for evidence of harassment, not support from blinkered Prometheus lovers.

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

Oh evidence of harassment -- Well it's a news story I read this morning. Kellie shut down her Instagram account because of being attacked for months, and many people saw the harassment she was getting.

I would link to the story for someone more worthy, but you just had to toss in more of your ancient Prometheus bashing, so I'm not going to bother doing your work for you.

Lazy ass.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Yes, I read the same story too Spanners.

Sadly, like you it lacked any integrity as it wasn't sourced.

Best I could find was someone having a pithy remark (At best) which wasn't related to Kellie or her work on TLJ and so...like the Hillary media mob I'm going to have to call...

...FAKE NEWS!

Oh, there's a follow up comments which you've admitted to in the past but I'm not a doxxer and so this one stays put.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Nice try though self-admitted sexual deviant statutory rapist trying to get some through sympathising with those who will give you none.

I can supply other members here though who definitely saw it and will testify to that affect.

Where is your listen and believe now Spanners?

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

It was the drugs dealing bit that got me about the whole thing really.

I could maybe have accounted for the rest, but the bragging...

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[–] Arghhhh (804) 7 years ago

Well 5 minutes of Google has informed me that she hasn't given any reasons as to why she took down her Instagram and the source of the harassment angle is a twitter account called Starwars facts.

Here's another recent tweet of theirs:

"In the book 'Maul: Lockdown' Darth Maul fought a Wampa in single combat with no lightsaber. Although the fight did not start well for Maul, he finished off the Wampa by ripping it's heart out with his bare hands #StarWars"

So now we have news stories being created by a twitter account dedicated to revealing the 'facts' of a fantasy movie series.

Jesus Christ, the sweet bliss of the rapture can not come soon enough.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Claims and no evidence.

Nothing new but being taken as factual by fuckboi fans who won't get any either way.

This is not the news you're looking for...move along!

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[–] Arghhhh (804) 7 years ago

Are you saying Maul *didn't* rip out a Wampa's heart?

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Well hello there, I'm saying he isn't voiced by the same actor anymore.

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[–] Arghhhh (804) 7 years ago

That's because they tried to look up Peter Seranoroforitz on their rolodex and gave up in frustration.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I have to agree with that assessment.

I'd have given up too! 😝

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[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

Prometheus was an attempt at greatness...

Maybe it reached too far, soared too close to the sun and was controversial for it, but that is far from a middling, ironic StarWars sequel that was controversial for offending skme fans because of identity politics and the fate of an old character from the previous movies...

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[–] Arghhhh (804) 7 years ago

"Prometheus was an attempt at greatness..."

Bwahahahahaha!

Oh dear me Renovatio, you are easily fooled aren't you?

Why do I get the feeling that if only Transformers had included a gratuitous shot of a crucifix and had characters utter pearlers such as 'That's what I believe' you'd be making excuses for that too?

The script for Prometheus reads like an idiot trying to rewrite Aliens vs Predator after smoking a fat one.

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[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

I said it was an attempt, I didn't say that greatness was realised or achieved... 😉

It's clearly a movie by someone who was reaching for more... Someone who was trying to take it further than anyone had expected from a space monster movie...

That sensibility alone sets it apart from Last Jedi or Solo...

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[–] Guitar King (4969) 7 years ago

If that's what he's referring to, he needs to comment in a more professional way instead of rolling around in the mud.

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

Well your topic is assuming he's talking about general Star Wars fans, and there is absolutely nothing specifying that in his Tweet.

I agree it's a very vague message, but it certainly doesn't say what you claimed.

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[–] Guitar King (4969) 7 years ago

There seems to be no evidence Tran was harrassed. This is looking like a typical SJW stunt of playing victim for something that never happened.

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

Ah yes, just pretend it's all some "sjw conspiracy." Yawn.

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[–] Guitar King (4969) 7 years ago

Link me too some evidence, smartass.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Need to wait for frog to create some more alts in order to create some first ...

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[–] kjc211 (52) 7 years ago

Was it also a stunt when Star Wars fans harassed and bullied a kid, harassed Hayden Christensen so much he took a break from acting and rarely associated with star wars anymore, and attacked George Lucas so much he sold the franchise? The freaks of star wars have a history of attacking people.

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[–] darkpast (8869) 7 years ago

How you know these are men?

Rose is the worst character since jar jar. The character also got between popular ships. Fangirls are just as bad as attacking actors.

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

Yes, but Kellie is not Rose. Some people have a hard time separating fiction from reality, it seems.

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[–] darkpast (8869) 7 years ago

This goes on in every fanbase unfortunately. Worse now with social media that fans take out their frustrations on actors. But Rian is only making things worse.

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[–] FFNogoodnik (776) 7 years ago

Can someone answer me this:

So in The Last Jedi, Finn decides that the only way to save everyone is to sacrifice himself and fly into the engine (I only saw it once on opening night so my memory might be a little off).

Rose, because she loves Finn and believes he is more valuable alive than dead decides to stop him.

So she stops him by ramming her ship into his ship at top speed. Does THAT make any sense?

He most likely would have died because of that action AND he would not have been able to sacrifice himself to save everyone.

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[–] Guitar King (4969) 7 years ago

Yeah, everybody thought that part was dumb.

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

What I don't get about those old "ski speeders" is that they didn't seem to have any weapons. They're rushing out there like they're going to start shooting the feet of the walkers (since they can't climb high enough to shoot at the head), but not one of them fires a single shot, making me think the speeders had no weapons.

Finn decides to sacrifice himself without even TRYING to shoot down the barrel of that cannon... The entire thing just made ZERO sense.

If the speeders had weapons, I would have expected to see at least one shot fired. The fact that no shots were fired leads me to believe they had no weapons, and thus there was no plan whatsoever.

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[–] TandyMan (11192) 7 years ago

Jar Jar was actually helpful from time to time, if only by accident.

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[–] dteam6 (5073) 7 years ago

See...*rubs my temples*...this is the problem: regardless of her character, the actress doesn't deserve such scathing hatred over it. This is Jake Lloyd all over again. She was hired to play a part and she did it. End of story. She doesn't deserve the disgusting posts she received.

And I say all this as someone who despises The Last Jedi.

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[–] Alex (1504) 7 years ago

With this kind of attitude there's going to be a negative Box Office for Episode IX LOL.

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[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 7 years ago

His rather dull website links his films to the IMDb pages of his movies...too bad they don't have forums anymore!

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I hate today's society so much. I mean seriously, when did we as human beings de-evolve so much to the point where we have come to such crappy terms like "manbabies" and "manchild" on a daily regular basis??? What is even more bothering is the fact that the people who use these terms are the biggest things they accuse others of being.

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Haha his films are void of criticism - lest you be branded on social media ...

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[–] Galactus03 (4381) 7 years ago

His tweet was the result of the Harassment that Kelly Marie Tran has been subjected to. I can't blame him. Some fans have gone way overboard. By all accounts Kelly Marie Tran is a super nice girl. She does not deserve the backlash. I for one really liked the Character of Rose.

Anyhow fans acting like Douchebags and harassing an actress from the films is not helping their cause.

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[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

I also mentioned this, but the OP might be one of the douchebags because he claims there's "no evidence" she was harassed. Apparently it's some kind of SJW publicity stunt conspiracy, or something.

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[–] Arghhhh (804) 7 years ago

But as I understand it she hasn't said why she took her Instagram down, and the 'harrasment' is just guesswork from random twitter accounts. So not only is there (currently) no evidence there's not even any claim of harassment.

Saying this, It's highly likely she was getting crap and if she was those people are arseholes but until somebody actually comes out and says something this is all just conjecture.

And how does RJ's tweet improve the situation? Every day just brings us more evidence that the internet was a mistake.

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[–] Galactus03 (4381) 7 years ago

True. But he probably said it in the heat of the moment. As for the internet is a mistake. Yeah. It just may be. Lol

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[–] FFNogoodnik (776) 7 years ago

I read a lot of that twitter conversation and one of them said :

TFA: Too Familiar
TLJ: Too Radical
Solo: Too Safe

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

That was not my problem with The Last Jedi. For me The Last Jedi was also too familiar. It was just another movies that took place during a rebellion just like Episodes 4 thru 6.
For it to have been too radical it would have been nice to have had Rey choose to join Kylo instead of doing the same thing Luke did to Vader and refuse.

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[–] Arghhhh (804) 7 years ago

Yes I saw that too and it annoyed the hell out of me. Even if it was true (and it isn't - TLJ is just a pushme/pullyou version of Empire and RotJ) then so what? Like it's not possible to go from too familiar to too radical?

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