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Our fearless readership can submit their own thoughts on Jar Jar here.

See below to read what other Star Wars fans/Jar Jar haters have to say...

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Meesa like you page! Meesa hate Jar Jar as much as everything else in the movie. The whole damn Star Wars Movie sucks a lot! That acting blew, Queen "Amadoodoo" made way to many fashion statements (and she does not blink at all in the movie), Anakin was no better than one of the kids on the Barney show, and the only people in the movie that really could act bearly had any lines! I would have loved to see Samuel L. (Jedi) Jackson blow all their Motherf***ing heads off, in true Pulp Fiction fashion.

--Teri

 

Perhaps if Yoda had become self-aware that he was a character in a movie, he would have turned to the audience and said "Fear leads to hate, but fear of losing money leads to cheap commercialism, cheap commercialism lead to greed, greed leads to Jar Jar, Jar Jar leads to great suffering, great suffering leads to websites, websites lead to the Dark Side..."

--J

 

I think all those other people are idiots and that Jar Jar is the worst character for a movie EVER.

--UnKnown

 

here is my suggestion for the next star wars title," The slow and painful death of jar jar binks" . it should pack in the houses even more then the last film, maybe win an oscar for best death.

--Bob

 

Witness what rampart commercialism does to art: it destroys it! Thanks for selling out George! Perhaps you could make the next movie with a G rating? I’m sure that would stuff even more $$ into Hollywood’s corporate coffers; cause, remember, it’s not about the fans, it’s about the money!

--Terry

 

I've recently been playing the classic game "Marathon 2". If you've never heard of it (unfortunately likely), think of it as a slightly more intellectually stimulating Doom. It had a great flame-thrower (Tozt-7) that turned enemies into charred skeletons. They had really cool screams too. I wish I could use it on Jar Jar. I have qualms about killing intelligent life, but Jar Jar doesn't qualify so let's tozt him!!

--Albert

 

Lets take a look at the etymology of the name Jar Jar Binks, it gives an insight into the creative process.

The most relevant fact in this process is that it is claimed that a number of Australians worked on the CGI process for the construct in question. To fully understand the process we must look at the Australian slang idiom.

A Jar - a colloquial term for a size of drink, repeating this means two drinks.
Binks - a great robbery (From the Bink's job)or a rip off or some fraudulent activity.

The interpretation is simple - a joke thought up by drunk Australian computer nerds that they thought no one would take seriously, Unfortunately they were dealing with Hollywood.

--Ron

 

If I ever see that fuckface walking down the street...to quote Sting's rendition of Feyd Rautha: "I will kill him!!!"

--Al

 

Jar Jar Binks ,Lucas' ill advised creation,utterly disparaged the Star Wars trilogy/story altogether. It once had wide spread appeal(Star Wars),even to people whom wouldnt consider themsleves movie goers; intelligent ,sophisticated people.... Until the ewoks and now jar jar . That "war" scene at the tail end of Phantom Menace was a complete rip off of Woody Allen's movie "Love and Death" , where the bumbling goof ball (Allen's character) won a battle out of silly cowardice and physical blunders......Lucas was so preoccupied wwith pleasing e veryone in the movie that it fell short of creativity ,especially in the screenplay area. Jar Jars only contribution was taking the attention away from Jake Lloyds awful performance as Anakin.Why a precocious protegy ,a"chosen one" ,would act and behave so annoyingly I will never know.Anyway,back to the real issue at hand, Jar Jar Binks - if George is at all serious about the Star Wars legacy retaining any form of myth like content substance, in this body of work , than he must eliminate this pathetic character from the Star Wars universe.

--Eric

 

The only real question is HOW Jar Jar must die. I'm afraid I have to disagree with all of the suggestions on your page: Aside from the Sarlacc pit, they are all quick deaths, too good for Jar Jar. I believe Jar Jar should step on a land mine early in Episode 2, having both legs blown off, after which he has to be dragged around by his eye stalks. Later, he is captured by the Emperor and tortured for information. The Emperor takes his inarticulate pidgin English to be a pathetic attempt at 'playing dumb,' and has the Stormtroopers beat him mercilessly, during which he loses an eye and suffers several broken bones. Finally, during an unruly protest in front of the Imperial Palace, the Emperor blames recent food shortages on graft by his 'Agriculture Minister', Jar Jar Binks, and throws him to the crowd. The angry crowd guts him, pulls his body apart, eats his heart, and tramples on his remains.

--Owl

 

I want to know what happened to all the wonderful sarcastic humor of the original series. Nowhere in the first three movies did Lucas slip into bathroom humor to get chuckles from the audience, but the humor wasn't always intellectual either. Even a five year old kid can laugh at Han Solo suddenly running into a wall of stormtroopers, or Leia's line about how she'd sooner kiss a Wokiee.

Jar Jar was crated for one reason, and one reason only, to draw kids to the movie. This was a huge mistake on Lucas's part. What, he didn't think kids wouldn't come to a Star Wars movie!? I admit, there were other things I found I didn't like about the movie, but none so bad as Jar Jar.

Some people also feel that Jar Jar was in the movie for comic relief, and we should cut him a break. Comic relief is fine, but not in the middle of a battle! Almost every serious, battle driven movie has comic relief, but its at the appropriate time. Jar Jar makes stupid comments and bungles around throughout the entire battle. I want to know when Lucas went from doing a tear-jerker interlude like in Jedi, where a Ewok mourns its fallen friend, to one where Jar Jar trips and falls all over himself. Even Shakespeare's Macbeth has outlandish humor in it, but not when he's killing the King!

I really hope that Lucas nix's the character of Jar Jar for Episode Two and makes the movie more like the end of Episode One, great visuals, awesome battles, and plot driven.

--Kevin