Nothing Sacred

[malestrithe]

Personally, I want to see more. Why stop with Han and Lando and Emperor and Vader? I want to see the Fetts dance off against the Skywalkers. I want to see Qui-Gon fight Darth Maul. I want to see that werewolf creature dance battle the elephant aliens in the Cantina. Why not Jawas vs Ewoks, Tusken Raiders vs Gungans, Padme vs Leia, or C3PO vs Lobot, and hell even Cindel and Young Anakin fight on appropriate stages. I also want to hear Appropriate parody songs for everyone.

I do not see the outrage behind this one. This is a genuine example of so bad its good.

 

[Vinterdraken]

I actually find it a little bit funny for the first minute or so when I saw videos of the Star Wars Kinect dance games. The only issue I had was that the two songs I heard werent very good or catchy, if they had been I would have added them to my playlists.

 

[thomaskattus]

My problem is they did not have Boba Fett dancing to Fett's Vette by MC Chris. That would be awesome.

 

[Darknacht]

I think the whole uproar has more to do with the fact that the video degraded the characters, but wasn't funny.

Was it any worse the dance when Luke and Leia danced to "we are family" at the Dancing with the Star Wars Stars and ended it with an incest joke?
At this point if Lucas could have officially licensed Star War whores he would. I don't see how people can get all upset about this, Star Wars lost its integrity a long time ago.

 

[lord.jeff]

I'm with Bob on this, nothings to sacred to parody, and besides if you don't like it no ones forcing you to play the game.

 

[Jumplion]

Oh man the han solo song, Im gonna go watch it again, it's just brilliant!
Im not kididng I genuinly love it and would buy that game, if I had kinect and it was cheap.

Besides this is the best thing ever

When Palpatine came in the second half, I burst into tears I was laughing so hard. That old fart can really groove.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Meh, personally I'm just bitter that Battlefront 3 and/or Republic Commando 2 isn't being made. I'm not against the idea, the only thing that would get me to play a dancing game would be if it was a STAR WARS dancing game, so yeah, it's funny.

 

[jamesbrown]

I think that George lucas is a great troller, and has a good sense of humor; it's not intended to be taken seriously

 

[Rack]

I'm confused Bob, I thought all this stuff was funny, while my friend thinks it's tacky and none of it should really be happening. Which one of us is the hypocrite?

 

[Wriggle Wyrm]

Yeah, I don't think it's very funny and it has nothing to do with Star Wars being sacred or an outcry at the debasement cultural icons or any of that stuff. It?s just that the series has become such a joke this last decade or so, that there isn?t any more room the make fun of it. It?s already been milked for all its worth and all that's left is this bad Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan routine.

I would also like to point out that its usually self deprecating humor that?s funny, whereas self parody is just sad.

 

[Wriggle Wyrm]

I don?t believe that?s a very good example. You?re probably thinking about self-denigrating more than anything else. Anyways, I doubt we?ll see any good examples in Star Wars, since Lucus doesn?t come across as the type to admit fault (humorously or otherwise).

 

[rickthetrick]

Honestly I could give less of a shit, but it did make me cringe with disgust.
Oh and I wear stuff because I like it, not because it's hip, or "ironic".
Bob I like your videos and articles, but I feel you need a hipster intervention.

 

[croc3629]

I just think it's a bad game. Nothing to do with it being Star Wars.

 

[Snooder]

I suspect that the reason why so much hate is directed at the "I'm Han Solo" song and not so much at the others is latent homophobia.

Seriously, look at the Han Solo dance off and tell me that he doesn't seem just a touch too effeminate. Which makes some people who idolized the character and grew up wanting to be him extremely uncomfortable, and thus angry.

Other than that, it's just yet another kinect game that fails to do what people want. When I heard they were making a Kinect Star Wars game, I thought, "hey lightsabers, awesome" (or at least I would if I wasn't a cynical bastard) Having that hope and optimism be rewarded with a really, really bad version of Dance Central is just cruel.

 

[SoulSalmon]

Oh man the han solo song, Im gonna go watch it again, it's just brilliant!
Im not kididng I genuinly love it and would buy that game, if I had kinect and it was cheap.

Besides this is the best thing ever

Fucking THANKYOU for linking that.
This is awesome xD

I seriously can't see how anyone is mad over a hilarious Kinect dance minigame.
Greedo-shot-first I can understand people getting up in a huff about, along with a lot of the other things that have happened to the franchise (It's impossible to deny that Star Wars has been bled dry and run into the ground).
But THIS? what kind of intolerant humourless person could think this is the worst thing that's happened since the holocaust? (Yeah, the Youtube comments on these vids are WAY worse then usual Youtube butthurt...)

I can completely understand someone going "Wow... these parody songs are terrible..." because most of them are, but why so much rage?

... I would buy this if I had a 360.

Edit:

I suspect that the reason why so much hate is directed at the "I'm Han Solo" song and not so much at the others is latent homophobia.

Seriously, look at the Han Solo dance off and tell me that he doesn't seem just a touch too effeminate. Which makes some people who idolized the character and grew up wanting to be him extremely uncomfortable, and thus angry.

You raise a point that's only scary because it's completely plausible...
Furthering your point: The only videos that seem to have more positive comments then negative ones? the ones with Leia in a bikini...

 

[BlackIronGuardian]

You know what, with some thought I'm convinced. Fuck it.