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So over the weekend, Spike TV (US Channel) ran Star Wars Episode I, II, and III. I forced myself to watch all three, despite having to hear and see the most annoying movie character of all time. Yes, I am talking about Jar Jar Binks, not only is his voice and his way of talking annoying, his entire character is just a big distraction. Personally I think he's only put in the movies to entertain idiots and children. However, I have to say that Episode III: Revenge of the Sith would have to be the best Star Wars film ever! It is just awesome.

So what Movie Characters could've we done without?

So over the weekend, Spike TV (US Channel) ran Star Wars Episode I, II, and III. I forced myself to watch all three, despite having to hear and see the most annoying movie character of all time. Yes, I am talking about Jar Jar Binks, not only is his voice and his way of talking annoying, his entire character is just a big distraction. Personally I think he's only put in the movies to entertain idiots and children. However, I have to say that Episode III: Revenge of the Sith would have to be the best Star Wars film ever! It is just awesome.

So what Movie Characters could've we done without?

I have to agree with you about Jar Jar Binks. He added nothing to the movie except, possibly, a certain level of irritation. Other characters we could have done without were Kes in Star Trek: Voyager and Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: the Next Generation (I know these weren't movies, but the characters were just so ... unnecessary and annoying)

I have to agree with you about Jar Jar Binks. He added nothing to the movie except, possibly, a certain level of irritation. Other characters we could have done without were Kes in Star Trek: Voyager and Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: the Next Generation (I know these weren't movies, but the characters were just so ... unnecessary and annoying)

We are as one on this.

uhhh....

Star Wars: Jar Jar Binks and young Anakin Skywalker (a monodimensional character if there was one)... to be accurate, we could have lived better without SW1,2,3, the only two really cool characters die in SW1. And the Ewoks. Exterminate them muppets!

ST: Crusher from NG and Chakotay from Voyager. Oh and anyone from DS9, the idea was cool but the characters were lame. Not to mention Enterprise. There is no ST-Enterprise. No wai.

James Bond movies: all the Bond-girls (except Ursula Andress and Daniela Bianchi, if you don't know who she is watch From Russia With Love!), and even James Bond himself (as played by Brosnan and by that other guy from the chocolate commercials)

Western movies: any bloody singin' cowboy.

I really don't know what the big deal with old Jar jar is?

Chibi-Usa... the pink spore must die!

Frodo Baggins.


Well, maybe not.:p

uhhh....

Star Wars: Jar Jar Binks and young Anakin Skywalker (a monodimensional character if there was one)... to be accurate, we could have lived better without SW1,2,3, the only two really cool characters die in SW1. And the Ewoks. Exterminate them muppets!

ST: Crusher from NG and Chakotay from Voyager. Oh and anyone from DS9, the idea was cool but the characters were lame. Not to mention Enterprise. There is no ST-Enterprise. No wai.

James Bond movies: all the Bond-girls (except Ursula Andress and Daniela Bianchi, if you don't know who she is watch From Russia With Love!), and even James Bond himself (as played by Brosnan and by that other guy from the chocolate commercials)

Western movies: any bloody singin' cowboy.

But... but... Bond girls are to Bond movies as lightsabers are to Star Wars! :(

Xander Cage

The environmental activist-any movie they appear in, whether it the dirt-munching druid who blames killer pirhanas on an oil spill or the idiot who releases dinosaurs so they can run free. Other than the death scene, they serve absolutely no purpose but to waste film time, and do they ever get a lot of it.

Chibi-Usa... the pink spore must die!

No, no, no! Better we simply ensure she's never born in the first place...shouldn't be too hard...

So over the weekend, Spike TV (US Channel) ran Star Wars Episode I, II, and III. I forced myself to watch all three, despite having to hear and see the most annoying movie character of all time. Yes, I am talking about Jar Jar Binks, not only is his voice and his way of talking annoying, his entire character is just a big distraction. Personally I think he's only put in the movies to entertain idiots and children. However, I have to say that Episode III: Revenge of the Sith would have to be the best Star Wars film ever! It is just awesome.

So what Movie Characters could've we done without?

Oh gods, yes. Jar Jar Binks is one of those movie characters we could've done without. He's so annoying!:eek:

Other characters we could've done without are: Frodo Baggins, Legolas, Elektra, Robin (Batman), Superman, Pikachú, Flubber and any Danny DeVito character there is. Oh, oh, and friggin' Naruto!!!

Oh gods, yes. Jar Jar Binks is one of those movie characters we could've done without. He's so annoying!:eek:

Other characters we could've done without are: Frodo Baggins, Legolas, Elektra, Robin (Batman), Superman, Pikachú, Flubber and any Danny DeVito character there is. Oh, oh, and friggin' Naruto!!!

Here I am wondering how you would have made a Lord of the Rings Movie or Superman movie without Frodo or Superman ^^

Here I am wondering how you would have made a Lord of the Rings Movie or Superman movie without Frodo or Superman ^^

We could do without those films too. ^_^

Here I am wondering how you would have made a Lord of the Rings Movie or Superman movie without Frodo or Superman ^^It would be made of Pure Epic Awesome Win.

I forced myself to watch all three, despite having to hear and see the most annoying movie character of all time. Yes, I am talking about Jar Jar Binks, not only is his voice and his way of talking annoying, his entire character is just a big distraction.
Jar Jar Binks was one of the very few entertaining details in episode 1 and 2!
ST: Crusher from NG and Chakotay from Voyager.
Yeah Wesley Crusher was pretty useless, it's like the boss's kid wanted to be a Star Trek actor so the crew was ordered to let him play in front of the camera despite being a boring actor they couldn't find any useful role for.
Frodo Baggins.


Well, maybe not.:p
Removing Frodo entirely wouldn't work but Frodo, Sam and Gollum making the trip to mount doom should have been cut down to 5 minutes and shown in one go near then end rather than interrupting the movies all the time.

Any character that hides their personality behind looking tough and only talking in pick up lines, taunt lines, cool lines etc is pretty useless.

The talking donkey in Shrek that marries a dragon and makes little donkey dragons. They had a lot of interesting fairytale characters to choose from but just had to pick "the donkey who couldn't shut up" to be the sidekick.

I agree about Jar Jar Binks...

Overall, among some of my favorite movies, I'd have to say that Dr. Stephen Maturin from Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World was a character I could have done without.

I don't have any problems with Aubrey being forced to choose between duty to the Royal Navy and his friendship with the ship's surgeon... But the anarchist/naturalist surgeon is a bit too much for me. Despite that, Master and Commander remains one of my favorite movies.

Here I am wondering how you would have made a Lord of the Rings Movie or Superman movie without Frodo or Superman ^^

It would be a lot like Garfield without Garfield (see relevant thread) -- taking on a totally new, most likely hilarious, meaning.

In movies...yeah, I have to say that Jar Jar takes the cake. Aside from the occasional 'silly' (fingerquotes) moment, his presence could have been entirly dispensed with.
Although, the same could be said of all characters in Episode 1, really. Except Qui-Gon and Darth Maul. I think Episode 1 needs to be re-written to focus more on them. That would be awesome.
Runners up go to Arwen and Frodo in the LOTR movies. I liked Arwen more when all she did was sit in Rivendell not being a stereotypical toughgirl heroin. Frodo seemed fairly accurate by the book standards, beining that he was a whiny bag of emo and Sam did all the work.

It would be a lot like Garfield without Garfield (see relevant thread) -- taking on a totally new, most likely hilarious, meaning.

I would now actually want to see both.

Superman movie without superman - all the villains get to do whatever they want. His girlfriend, poor her, probably gets mugged/raped/beaten at any number of random occasions as befits the situation. I mean, how many times has he actually saved her by now?

LOTR without Frodo - Bilbo decides to take the ring to mount doom, is corrupted and dies of old age before ever reaching the mountain. Middle earth is plunged into thousands of years of despair.

Aye, they could be fairly good ^^

The tough girl stereotype who is only tough because she physically attacks men. Other than that she acts like a 3 year old. These kind of characters are always written by white middle aged men who try to be inclusive and fail.

The fat jolly stupid stereotype. Sometimes this stereotype can be pretty funny, like Homer or Cartman, but most of the time it's just annoying as hell.

The stereotypical teenage bully. If it's a woman it's always some blond cheerleader, and if it's a man it's a stupid jock with a name like "Biff." Have you ever noticed that nobody like "Biff" exists in real life?

Overall, among some of my favorite movies, I'd have to say that Dr. Stephen Maturin from Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World was a character I could have done without.

I don't have any problems with Aubrey being forced to choose between duty to the Royal Navy and his friendship with the ship's surgeon... But the anarchist/naturalist surgeon is a bit too much for me. Despite that, Master and Commander remains one of my favorite movies.

If you didn't like Dr. Maturin I'd imagine you haven't read the books. He's actually as much the main character as Aubrey is, but his importance was downplayed in the movie. One element that they left out that might have helped is the fact that in the novels, Stephen Maturin is also an intelligence agent for the British Government and often has an espionage related goal in mind. The Captain is usually aware of when Stephen is on a mission but seldom knows the details since it's a 'need to know' situation.

As for the most annoying characters IMHO:

-Jar Jar. Yes we all hate him but I think I've put my finger on WHY we hate him. We hate Jar Jar because he hangs out with Heroes and seems to keep up with them, achieving similar levels of success, despite being utterly incompetent and silly to the point of functional retardation. We resent a character who's stupid enough to slam his muzzle into a power coupling or trip over *every* possible obstacle in his path being able to get himself elected to the Galactic Senate, making him a peer of such characters as Bail and Leia Organa, Amidala and yes, even Palpatine. He's promoted to the rank of General which makes him equal to a Jedi in military rank.

- Wesley Crusher. See above. Here's a kid, incomplete secondary education, holding his own among the elites of Starfleet on the Federation Flagship. He has beenk nown to out-think people like Geordi LaForge, an experienced and highly educated Starfleet Chief Engineer who has assembles an engineering team composed of the best and the brightest personnel Starfleet has to offer (Barclay notwithstanding) and yet in comes this kid who can think rings around them all. (No blame on Wil Wheaton. My understanding is that he's actually a cool guy and knows how ridiculous that character was.)

We hate these characters because they are right next to all these really cool characters and just seem to suck the awesome right out of them. Geordi is made of awesome-except when Wesley is around and then he's just another rigid thinking Starfleet bitch.

Honorable mention (And major points for you if you recognize them all):

-Spritle/Chim-Chim
-Snarf
-IQ9
-Lin Minmei
-Annie 'Mint' LaBelle
-Moffit the Dagit
-Robin

Removing Frodo entirely wouldn't work but Frodo, Sam and Gollum making the trip to mount doom should have been cut down to 5 minutes and shown in one go near then end rather than interrupting the movies all the time.Actually... (http://youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU)

Tommy Gun, from Rocky 5. In fact that whole movie was unnecessary. Don't get me wrong, all the other Rocky movies were great. The writer must've suffered a stroke.

Honestly there are several characters that ought never of been included in Star Wars.

C3PO. because he's fucking annoying. I'd of spaced that fucker in about 30 seconds.
Anakin. Wah wah wah.. wangst wangst wangst..
Jar Jar. For every reason already listed.
Padme. Could of been a useful character, and wasn't.

I watched those movies this weekend too. The fucking story makes no sense!

What about the entire movie Miami Vice and all the actors and actresses involved. What a worthless pile of crap that was.

Gods, all the characters of the million Police Academy films and, of course, the Oompa Loompas of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I rather liked the old ones (Gene Hackmanesque) and these new ones creeped the heck out of me.

Relena Peacecraft from Gundam Wing. It's a show about giant robots. We don't care about the main character's accidental love interest.

I have to say that Episode III: Revenge of the Sith would have to be the best Star Wars film ever! It is just awesome.
Feh. Even by the fairly low standards of Star Wars, it was a bit pish. And if you don't think that Star Wars was a bit meh - try concentrating on the acting next time you watch the films. Or the hackneyed script. It's just poor.

Err anyway, Scrappy Doo from any Scooby Doo film. Obviously.

I used to think I didn't like Meryl Streep, but when I saw Postcards from the Edge (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100395/), I realized it was the characters she'd played that I didn't like. So, yeah, any character played by Meryl Streep, except Carrie Fisher (hey! I even tied it back to Star Wars! lolz!)

The tough girl stereotype who is only tough because she physically attacks men. Other than that she acts like a 3 year old. These kind of characters are always written by white middle aged men who try to be inclusive and fail.


So youre saying you hate Michelle Rodriquez acting the tough girl parts?

Hey man, the movies SWAT and RESIDENT EVIL were good because she helped