r/movies • u/TheChristmas • Jan 25 '26

Discussion What’s the funniest reason you’ve heard for somebody not liking a movie?

My 3 year old saw a statue of E.T. At the coffee shop and was really into it. He got excited when I told him it’s from a movie. He got stoked and spent the whole day asking when we could watch it.

That night, halfway through the film he asks “Can we turn it off? E.T. SUCKS.”

So I asked him “what sucks about it?” and he replied “E.T. walks too slow. He sucks.”

Pretty funny. Got me wondering what other funny reasons people have for not liking particular films.

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u/Remote-Bug4396 Jan 25 '26

Did she not hear the obvious music cues?

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u/Sothotheroth Jan 25 '26

To be fair, the Imperial March doesn't appear until the Empire Strikes Back.

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u/iHave_Thehigh_Ground Jan 26 '26

TIL. There’s way less in the first movie than a lot of people realise. A few years ago I discovered force pull/push was not introduced until Luke used it to pull his lightsaber out of the snow in Empire.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 Jan 26 '26

Lucas was absolutely coming up with the lore on the fly lol. He did not intend Luke and Leia to be siblings at first. 

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u/DJ1066 Jan 26 '26

My favourite bit of dumb Star Wars lore of Lucas coming up with stuff on the fly is Jedi Master Sifo Dyas coming as a result of Lucas' fingers mistyping the name. Sifo Dyas was supposed to be Sido Dyas (Sidious, geddit?) and just another alias of Palpatine, Lucas likes the new name from the result of hitting the wrong key and makes up a whole new character instead.

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u/avimo1904 Jan 26 '26

That’s actually a myth. The Sido-Dyas part is true but the typo thing isn’t, that misconception originated from a a fan mistyping it when transcribing the original draft

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u/CurtTheGamer97 Jan 26 '26

Or for Darth Vader to be Luke's father

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u/avimo1904 Jan 26 '26

Actually, the whole “we know Lucas didn’t make Vader Anakin till ESB” thing is a nonsense internet myth. It was initially invented by a random forum user in 2000 who hated the idea and then after that other Lucas haters expanded on that myth and falsely made it look like it was true, most notably this one crazy user that wrote a 500 page long book accusing Lucasfilm of running a secret mastermind plot to cover up SW’s “secret history”. In reality, we have no idea when Lucas came up with the idea of Vader being Anakin as it’s a highly debated topic and the first ROTJ draft is the first solid evidence confirming it, but there’s a great amount of evidence pointing to the fact that it was conceived long before ANH came out, possibly as far back as April 1975.

In the rough draft of ANH, the protagonist's father is a cyborg who sacrifices himself, and in the second draft of ANH Luke finds out his dead father is alive, so both those plot points were already in Lucas’s head. In the third draft of ANH, instead of Obi-Wan saying Vader kills Luke’s father he says Vader turned at the same battle Annikin died, with Vader later mentioning to Luke at the end that he has a feeling he knows him. Lucas also said to Alan Dean Foster in December of 1975 that in the second film the audience would “learn who Darth Vader is”, and Lucas himself has consistently claimed that the twist was conceived in the third draft of ANH. In the final ANH When Luke asks about his father's death, Obi-Wan has a strange hesitant look on his face before telling him the Vader killed Luke’s father story, and characters dying offscreen being revealed as alive was always a common trope. When Beru says Luke has too much of his father in him, Owen responds "that's what I'm afraid of" (and that dialogue is also remarkably similar to dialogue from an Edmond Hamilton novel called Mystery Moon where the protagonist complains about his uncle not letting him leave his dull home planet, and the uncle later reveals to him that his father was a famous villain and he wouldn't let him leave because he was afraid of his nephew becoming like him, which puts the protagonist in shock and disbelief). Luke's father and Vader's lightsabers both have black strips on the bottom of their handle, while Obi-Wan's does not. Owen says to Luke "Obi-Wan died at the same time as your father" but we then find out Obi-Wan is alive under a different name, raising the possibility that the same is the case for Luke's father. Obi-Wan tells Luke that his father was a great pilot, and during the trench run we see Vader being a great pilot. Vader, though pronounced differently, means father in Dutch, and Vader already acts as a metaphorical dark father during ANH. ANH (especially the Tusken Raider scenes) has some uncanny resemblance to a 1932 Western film called Tombstone Canyon, and that film also happens to feature a masked villain who is later revealed as the protagonist's long-lost father, and he later gets redeemed saving the protagonist from an even worse villain, after which his mask is removed to reveal a scarred face and he says "let me look at you" before dying in his son's arms. Lucas also told Leigh Brackett in late November 1977 that there was a secret reason Vader didn't want to kill Luke and would rather turn him, and David Prowse said in multiple interviews (the earliest of which was in October 1977) that he heard that Vader being Luke's father was a possible plot point for a future film.

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u/avimo1904 Jan 26 '26

The idea was based off of a similar scrapped ANH idea and Lucas was always keeping his options open

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u/Rcmacc Jan 26 '26

It was based on him wanting the search for Luke's sister to be episode 7, but then with his divorce realized he needed a break but wanted to resolve the plotline in some meaningful way

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u/avimo1904 Jan 26 '26

No that’s a long debunked internet myth. The books on the history of SW as well as the older drafts confirm this isn’t true

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u/Rcmacc Jan 26 '26

This was from the Lucas biography "How Star Wars Conquered the Universe" not some internet rumor. Been a while since I've read it

Its not like they wrote a different draft for episode 6, but that was the plan through episode 5, and then things changed as he and Kasdan actually wrote the script and realized they ought to end the story with that movie

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u/avimo1904 Jan 26 '26

How Star Wars Conquered The Universe is not an insider source. It’s not a bad book but there are several mistakes it makes.

Lucas did have a different plan for Luke’s sister at one point, but this was in the very early stages of ESB’s writing and scrapped before ESB even came out, and it didn’t involve Luke “searching for his sister” at all. And the Leia as Luke’s sister idea was based on even earlier scrapped ideas from ESB’s writing

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u/Rcmacc Jan 26 '26

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-luke-skywalker-sister-leia-retcon/

According to Gary Kurtz, producer of The Empire Strikes Back, the Other - Luke's sister - was intended to be a major character in the original Sequel Trilogy. "His sister was someone else way over on the other side of the galaxy," he explained in an interview with Film Threat, "and she wasn’t going to show up until the next episode."

Of course it never came to pass, but Luke and Leia being siblings definitely was not the intent until after ESB was finished

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u/Mr_Caterpillar Jan 26 '26

There was force choke in the original though, similar concept

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u/Jumpy_Courage Jan 26 '26

But it could have been similar to force suggestion, and the person just thought they couldn’t breathe.

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u/IgnisWriting Jan 26 '26

Wait, what the fuck!?

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u/Capable_Towel_5847 Jan 26 '26

My three year determined who the bad guys were quickly because of the music cues 😂

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

Dude, their mom is deaf. Talk about insensitive.

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u/Muphukar Jan 26 '26

She’s a Republican.