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Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker
jecornel
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jecornel
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But loves Star Trek.
@Swaye - they have a Rogue One TV series in development.
https://ew.com/tv/2018/11/08/star-wars-diego-luna-rogue-one-series/
And I’m all for more Diego Luna.
Rawrrrrrr.
As a 44 year old male Star Wars (the actual Star Wars) blew my mind and I’ve been pretty loyal since. Prequels almost killed me, but the Plinkett reviews got me through the dark times.
Episode 7 was shitty and boring, but at least somewhat acceptable... but Rogue One was at least decent. Pacing was a bit slow in the beginning but the last 20 minutes was at least ROTJ level (which isn’t saying a whole lot, but whatever).
The Last Jedi didn’t produce a good enough Plinkett review to justify how fucking terrible it was and having a bunch of incels think the reason it sucked was the forced PC, women leadership, diversity bullshit (which was fucking awful) instead of just realizing that it sucked because it sucked and that shit was immaterial to it sucking, but having to hear them drone on for years about how much that ruined everything... it was too much. I couldn’t even enjoy the Internet shitting on it as much as I usually can.
I tried to watch Solo in the theatre but walked out. I was like, I’m done here.
I think there are only two good SW movies (SW and ESB) and that ROTJ is bad, but acceptable on some level...
But given that since 1980 there has been only 2 movies that are even C level it’s a fucking grim reality that I’ve devoted so much of my life to this bullshit.
In the first 5 years of my life SW and ESB came out and in the 39 years since it’s been a bunch of crap.
- Siskel and Cornell At The Movies
I GAVE Y'ALL 30 YEARS OF MY LIFE AND YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL ME.
In my grad school friend group, we literally banned talking about Star Wars, because one spirited, drunken discussion ended with a relatively serious plot to assassinate George Lucas in his home.
Exactly. I was raised on the OT and consider a Star Wars and (especially) Empire some of the greatest movies ever made. Movies that shaped my fandom and tastes into my formative years and beyond. TLJ felt like someone I loved and had a healthy marriage with for decades suddenly dropping dead and dying in front of me. Truth is though, it had been deteriorating since 1983. I just kinda didn’t want to admit it.
I was too young at the time to appreciate how crappy the prequels were and yes the Plinkett reviews were cathartic. But TLJ was the only time in my life I felt anger in a theater. And then disgust. It wasn’t the bevy of unremarkable characters. Nor the plot lines to nowhere. Or bizarre casino messaging about the horrors of capitalism...I think?? (Save the space horses but not the slave children, capitalism is horrible ps Star Wars land opens in 2019 get your tickets now!!), and it wasn’t about how the current revenge politics landscape somehow got associated with it. Although that is supremely stupid.
It was the disrespect towards the original movies.
My beloved favorite characters, who I thought beat the bad guys and lived happily ever after, were actually failures who spent their entire lives fighting a horrifying, generations long, losing war that took away everything they ever loved and eventually killed them, but not before passing the horror on to a new cursed generation.
I didn’t see Solo and I probably never will. Now the episode nine trailer is hinting that Palpatine is still alive? Doesn’t that completely invalidate the entirety of the Skywalker arc?
Rogue One was an awesome spectacle and I greatly enjoyed it, but the entire premise of the movie walks back some of the original a little bit. In Star Wars, the point of Luke’s final trench run is that it was a one in 1 million shot. That he had to be completely in tune with the force to hit it.
Nerd rant over and I’ll probably not post about Star Wars again because apparently it still triggers me. Sounds like I care.
The prequels were bad but having watched them since aren't as terrible as I'd remembered. Still rubbish but pablum for a starved fan base and obviously younger fans enjoyed them.
TFA was again, on some level acceptable at the time. I walked out thinking, ok, this isn't great but at least there are some interesting arcs and if the worst I can expect from Disney is a bit of recycling the franchise then ok, you can have my money. This will at least hook my nephews and the next generation so that we can share this nerdy franchise together.
Spot on with TLJ, would have walked out had I not been with my nephews. Just fucking awful on a level that made me feel disgust. It was just a bad movie that was like some kind of bad anti-fan fiction attempting to tear down all of the positives of the other movies. It managed to also ruin TFA by making all of the interesting subplots and arcs completely meaningless. All of this in some attempt to be edgy and different and move on with the franchise. THEN WHY ARE YOU MAKING A MOVIE IN A LONG STANDING FRANCHISE IF YOU DONT CARE ABOUT THE ORIGINAL FRANCHISE MATERIAL?
Both Rogue One and Solo were acceptable if not great. Both suffered from obvious executive micromanagement and could have been vastly better with only minor changes I feel. I guess that happens when you fire people in the middle of making a movie.
I'm going to begrudgingly watch this last movie if only because fuck it, I'm however many movies deep now and how much worse can it be than TLJ? If it is at this point I'll just laugh at it like a bad horror movie or when UW loses to Cal. I'm definitely pirating it and watching it at home on my projector though.
They should get Gareth to direct all of them and refuse to hire celebrities (FWhit's part was totally shoe-horned in and destroyed the entire pace of the first half of the film) and just 'live in that world'.
It actually seemed like it was taking place in the same universe as Star Wars was. Although the encounter with Walrus Man - i'm always like 'whoever recognizes that is going to think it's retarded, why do it?'
It wasn't PERFECT, but it was pretty fucking decent. If the last half of that movie were a starting spot for a slew of them, I would enjoy every one... unfortunately it wasn't. They've been sooooo fucking bad.
Also - that chick is fucking hawt. And they resisted the temptation to have her and DL fall in love and have a love story, which was really nice. They just let the tension build and then they died.
If they wanted, they COULD make a ton of good movies like that with the Bothan spies that died to get the info and all that because we don't know these characters, we know the rebellion is dispersed and we don't know who is going to die so it makes for some decent actual suspense.
The main issue with these blockbusters is we know from the start who will not die. They could have that solved.
But obviously they want to capitalize on their 'big' characters like Han, etc... but those movies are so fucking awful it's insane.
The first three Star Wars were solid - great even. Could have stopped there
Star Trek 2 through the Voyage Home were great entertainment.
Jim Kirk was basically my dad growing up. He'll always be the man. I like the reboot too with Chris Pine as a young Kirk. He nails it
I was 5 years old when my two Dads took me to see Star Wars. My FIRST movie ever in a theater. To say it was mind boggling doesn't do justice to a boggled mind. The music, the size, the spectacle, and Darth Vader's voice....I was mesmerized for years by this. Had the underoos, the lunchboxes, MY FUCKING BEDROOM CURTAINS WERE R2D2!!!! At 8, me and all my poor friends covered the entire living room in white sheets and used pillows to build the ice planet Hoth. Crawled around in it for an entire weekend. Pretended the dog was a Tonton. Nobody cut him open. At 11 me and all my poor friends ran through the forests thinking our dumb asses were on Endor on speeders. We always pushed the fat kid into the tree to die as the Storm Trooper. It was some full on Stranger Things dork shit and IT WAS GLORIOUS. Slave suit Leia took my virginity at 12. I LOVED this franchise beyond all reason.
And then George Lucas gave me Jar Jar Binks after a 20 year wait. You fat fucking asshole! And some shitty kid actor who sucked. And then some shitty teenage actor who sucked. The only redeeming feature to all the movies post ROTJ are Rogue One (a really good movie by almost any measure) and portions of Solo. Everything else has been utter trash. I hate George Lucas and Disney with the burning intensity of a thousand suns. They ruined something magical. They are the dicks who told you Santa isn't real. Fuck them to hell.
Chris Pine and the new Star Trek movies are fucking nails. I am WAY more into them then any of this Star Wars garbage. Also,Alice Eve is slave suit Leia for a whole new generation of boys.