LSW brickfilms are extremely popular, which means more people will make LSW brickfilms, which means more bad brickfilmers are likely to make one. I think that's why everyone hates LSW brickfilms.

I am still waiting for a Starwars fan film that is about Hutts and smugglers and bounty hunters and has nothing to do with Jedi at all, whenever I watch a Starwars film that is about Jedi I loose a little more hope that someone will make that sort of film.

(I've looked for that sort of fan film, even in live action and nobody is making them, it's like no one likes the best part of Starwars)

Actually Jargon the series is apparently focusing on Boba Fett as a main character and is set between EPs III-IV. So we hopefully will see a lot of bounty hunter/non-jedi stuff. Also, most Jedi have been killed during that time period so its almost impossible for Jedi to be involved.

As for the other replies. Lechnology, your right about the Clone Wars thing, I despise the Clone Wars TV series, unfortunately it affected brickfilms a lot and the lego brand is very popular. More people should do literature based stuff, I would love to see a Yuuzhan-Vong war brickfilm or something, and as for SlothPaladin, I might take a shot at a film like that just for you, I will even risk being bashed for making SW

I'd like to see something from the anthology short stories about the patrons of the Cantina, the servants in Jabba's palace or some of the minor bounty hunters from ESB.  Doesn't have to be canon nor directly from those literature, but the idea being that people are aware that Star Wars is more than just beam saber welding wizards and full-body armored clone soldiers from Australia.

I love Star Wars brickfilms---if their good (like squad 42?)
I understand why the people on this site are opposed to LSW, but I think yall should just give it a chance. Use the Force!

A lot of Star Wars videos suck because they suck. We don't really need to search for any kind of deep rooted flaw with 99% of the Star Wars brickfilms when they 1) can hardly be called animated and 2) have stories that were never thought out to any extent. And I'm happy to include my "films" into that 99%.

And btw, two of my favorite brickfilms are Bane of the Sith and Rise of the Empire, neither film is afraid of the force or lightsabers.

I think that if you can put time and effort into it, you can do anything with those little Star Wars figures. In fact, recent films have actually been doing pretty well in the LSW area (Black Stowm Troopa, FOO!)

I love LSW brickfilms....if they're good. The problem is there's a lot of brickfilmers out there that aren't hardly even brickfilmers. They just see something on youtube, grab they're legos and copy the clone wars. And they never get away from using WMM and MS Paint. I love just about any half decent LSW film based on the EU, because if someone actually does that then the probably have a love for Star Wars and don't want to make a total peice of crap.

However, even things set in the clone wars can still be very good, such as S42, and......GUNS OF DUBRILLION!!! by Fireguy. The story was so wonderfully original that even if it was horribly made I would have loved it, and it wasn't the CGI was highly impressive, as were the other VFX, and the animation was good. Any hater of LSW should watch it, I think it might changed their mind.

(if you don't want to read all this, skip to the second paragraph.  I would like you to read it all though)

I am personally a prime example of this sort of thing.  When I started brickfilming, (four or five years ago) I was seriously into the Lego star wars line (being ten at the time)  My obvious choice for brickfilming was star wars, not only because of the line and because that was the Lego i had, but also because I was introduced to Brickfilming through the contest on the Lego star wars page.  I almost entered this, but I had two days, and had no idea how to edit etc. when i found the contest.  I actually had an original idea, and was going to film in 8 fps, i had even done some tests and made a set, it would have been a first brickfilm that i would be proud of today, but i was lost.  I then continued into you-tube to watch the films there, searching 'Lego star wars' led me to mainly crap films, which i loved at the time.  Also, the entrants to the LSW contest were amazing to me, (one of which is still one of my favorite brickfilms) and one even inspired my first brickfilm, which i made by taking pics with my point and shoot, then recording the point and shoots viewfinder with a video camera and voice acting at the same time.  This led to many more LSW brickfilms from me, most from way before even my days as a youtube user, and mainly in 4fps, with crazy frog music in the background.  I loved it, thought they were amazing, and it got me into brickfilming.

All this to remind me of my past, and to make a point.  Yes, most LSW brickfilms are crap, but instead of hating on them, encourage the animators, give them pointers, and compliment them on things they did well.  They are usually beginner animators, in their preteens, with a love of star wars (but what ten year old doesn't).  The reason so many are unoriginal, is not because of star wars, its because they don't care about story, they just want to make a video.  Some are not help-able *cough*legoboy*cough*, but many can be turned into, at the least, mid level animators.

LSW is a genre with two streams, the beginner-who-wants-to-animate-and-is-super-proud-of-themselves, and the professional who makes an original storyline, or who makes a lot of eye candy.  Most films will fall into the first category, and I think that is fine.  Don't hate, help, and everyone will be better off.