H/T to maychild for alerting me to this post on IMDB’s board:
The problem with the haters and their elitist attitudes is they feel their taste is so refined, and above the rest of the masses, they can look down and call them “sheep” or “gushers”, or any derogatory term.
Truth is, their much like the Grinch. Wallowing away atop their mountain, despising all the Whos and their merriment. Meanwhile, they wallow alone, isolated in a prison of their own making, forged in contempt.
Ohhh, how they hate the prequel trilogy. Especially the Phantom Menace. The Menace is a film they can’t stand in the least. They hate the films. They hate the cartoons. They hate the t-shirts, video games, and great big electro whocarnio floons! And then! Oh, the toys! Oh, the toys! Toys! Toys! Toys! If there’s one thing they hate! All the TOYS! TOYS! TOYS! TOYS!
“I know just what to do!” The Grinchy Trolls laughed in their throats.
“I’ll make an alternate account, to mock and to gloat.”
And they chuckled, and clucked, “What a great grinchy trick!
With this alternate account, I’ll be such a prick!”
You’re all monsters, Internet Trolls. Your heart’s an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders. You’ve got garlic in your soul.
Internet Trolls! I wouldn’t touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!
“Pooh-pooh to the PT fanboys!” they were grinchily humming.
“They’re finding out now that their Star Wars is sucking!
What happened then???
Every fanboy on IMDB, the tall and the small,
Was enjoying the prequels, not listening to the trolls at all!
The trolls hadn’t stopped The Phantom Menace from earning a billion dollars worldwide. It wasn’t such a terrible shame!
Somehow or other, it’s success came just the same!
You nauseate me, Internet Trolls, with a nauseous super “naus”!
You’re a crooked dirty jockey and you drive a crooked hoss.
Internet Trolls! Your posts are an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!
Tags: fans who get it, PT Activism
July 16, 2012 at 12:09 pm |
Yes, because everyone who criticizes the prequels are obviously trolls and monsters.
In all seriousness, though, things like these actually end up really hurting you guys, and doesn’t do much to bolster your own defenses.
July 16, 2012 at 5:53 pm |
The IMDB post refers to several years’ worth of trolling, flaming, and swift retribution against anyone who *gasp* liked TPM and dared to say so. That little verse was pretty gentle and is directed at the worst of the hateboys, not anyone who had any quibble with the film. You sound a little personally offended. I wonder why…
July 19, 2012 at 8:21 pm |
lol there’s criticism and then’s there’s the hyperbolic vitriol levelled at the prequels. Conversely, there is also the idea that the original OT is holy and flaw-free which lol (I can make a blasphemous list rn). I would love to conduct a social experiment with a post-adolescent/adult who’s never seen the saga nor heard of “popular” opinions surrounding the saga. I would love to know what they would criticize in both sets of trilogies.
I say this because I can’t honestly take the over-the-top vitriol of people who had decades of expectations (that nothing could ever live up to) and who watched the first three movies as a formative experience. Anecdotally, some can’t get past the tinge of childhood feelings associated with the OT. I came into this late (as a 20 year old and after all six movies were out) and I criticize things in both trilogies. I don’t think this hilarious little play on the Grinch hurts those who support the prequels. The dudebros who fit the post are already lost to their own myopia re: their biases and their elitism.
As for random folk, if the fairly mild post above would put them off prequel supporters what does the dudebros’ vitriol do? In my case, I roll my eyes and I decide to enjoy what I enjoy and as of last week anyway, I am glad not to be in the same ranks as people like Patton Oswalt (who confirmed his dudebro douchiness to me by supporting Daniel Tosh’s statement that it would be funny if an audience member was gangraped). So yeah.
July 21, 2012 at 6:15 am
Awesome post.
July 17, 2012 at 4:16 am |
Hm, was this the comment why you re-posted the rules of the house, lazypadawan?