1. Jar Jar Binks New Star Wars Trilogy
Why Youre Supposed to Like Him: for the first time in my life, I have no idea what to say. Why are we supposed to like him? What was Lucas thinking when he wrote this character into Star Wars lore? Most likely, he was having a fantasy about lurid ways to use the merchandising money afterwards, like rolling around naked and masturbating in a massive pile of $100 bills. Youre not supposed to like him, youre just supposed to shut the f*ck up, swallow him and buy your four-year-old kid as many Jar Jar action figures and lunchboxes as he can physically handle before he suffocates under the mountain of cheap plastic.
Why Hes Annoying: The voice, the actions, the pointlessness, the unintentionally racist connotations theres not really anything to like about Jar Jar if youre over ten years old. If youre a fan of the original Star Wars movies, Jar Jar probably feels something like an old girlfriends new boyfriend; you dont know him, you dont want to know him, you just want your old girlfriend back, and from the moment you see him with her, all you want to do is punch him as hard as you possibly can in the face. Hes like a cynical metaphor for everything thats wrong, not just with the new Star Wars franchise, but with the whole of modern mainstream cinema. If Lucas was going to issue a f*ck you as big as this to his audience, hed probably have been just as well making Jar Jar a big CGI hand with a middle finger permanently raised to flip us all the bird. If Jar Jar didnt make your blood boil, I reckon you and I probably wouldnt have much else to talk about. So there you have our ten most unintentionally annoying modern movie characters. Did we miss anyone youd love to have seen exposed for the annoying little bastards that they are? Do let us know.