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Go ahead punk, make my day |
Star Wars is over. There were only 4 films in the Series. Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi And a single prequel, Rogue One. Leave the rest to your imagination or whatever book series you prefer, if you must. That's it. Period. Dot. The End. | |||
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Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon |
The Mandalorian series is quite good And the Clone Wars series, it may be a cartoon, but there is some good story there Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
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I'm finally getting around to watching Star Wars Rebels. Comcast carried it for a bit and then something changed or I didn't keep up and couldn't watch older episodes as they expired. Starting over and hoping to get it all watched in 1 month. | |||
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Finished up Rebels a few weeks ago. I had watched the first season or two years ago, but lost interest for whatever reason. The animation was well done, but overall thought Clone Wars was better. Some of the Rebels stories are hit and miss, and the kid (Ezra) got to be more of an arrogant jerk as the series went on. | |||
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Disagree, what people don't like is bad scripts/plots and polished turds. Especially when a very rich and diverse resource of stories and characters are available but, instead is discarded in an effort to 'bring newness and freshness to the SW universe' People will flock to big-budget movies, the entire Avengers/Marvel-series of movies proved it; we can debate the merits of which ones were enjoyable and which ones were awful but, they were all interconnected into a larger more complex storyline and people bought-in. People were compelled to go out and watch them because they might miss something important that's connected to the overall story arc. It was obvious that there was a singular vision (Feige) who required buy-in from key stakeholders (Russo Bros, cast, etc..) over the long-haul of the saga. Audiences will buy-in when it's clear that a vision is being executed, the people hired to execute that vision also have an understanding of the material and what's produced isn't scrubbed and polished by various committees with varying agendas. | |||
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I swear I had something for this |
The only thing you forgot was anyone who disliked any portion of their "masterpiece" and you're a racist/sexist/bigot/homophobe/etc.... | |||
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Crap is crap. Officially sanctioned crap is worse. _____________________________________________________ Sliced bread, the greatest thing since the 1911. | |||
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bigger government = smaller citizen |
Do you watch OverlordDVD too? Doomcock? “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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I swear I had something for this |
There’s no way we can be that lucky in 2020. | |||
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Official Space Nerd |
Nowhere left to go? That's just lack of imagination. This may come as a shock to some, but it IS possible to have a Star Wars movie WITHOUT the Skywalker family in it. They just didn't want to try. How many Star Wars EU novels are there? Dozens? Scores? They have an entire universe to explore, but can't get past the same one family as focus. Look at Star Trek - after the Original Series, they created TNG, DS9, and Voyager all set in the same universe with some minimal cross-over of characters, but with new crews in new situations. Don't tell me Star Wars is incapable of that. The Mandalorian proved it is possible to do, and do well.
They SAID that 'pass the torch thing' but they were never serious about it. I thought Ep 7 was a decent attempt, but they STILL brought in Han Solo & Chewie, Leia, the Falcon, Admiral Akbar, C-freaking 3PO (I really HATE his character), R2D2, etc. How can they pass the torch if the original cast doesn't get out of the way? Ep 8 was worse, centering on the 'old' Leia/Luke characters. Ep 9 didn't even try to make it better, as they brought back in Palpatine (they were so terrified of making anything truly new that they just kept regurgitating the same old crap back). And R2. And C3PO AGAIN (like we really need the same old characters in 10 movies!?!?!?!). It's like they figured if they put the same old characters in, Star Wars nerds will flock to see it. If they want to 'pass the torch,' pass it already.
I disagree. Big blockbusters are good, so long as they have good original stories. hollywood insists on churning out sjw garbage with crap stories, then blame us for 'not liking big blockbusters.' Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
And you won't, either. He outright says multiple times not to take it as anything other than rumor. However, his leaks about the Rise of Skywalker were absolutely on-point. There are people inside Disney and Lucasfilm who are really not thrilled with Kathleen Kennedy's handling of the franchise. But if you think it's nonsense, time will tell. If John Favreau has Kennedy's job by 2022, we'll know it wasn't nonsense.
I dunno if Rogue does, but I do. He's actually pretty reliable. If he wasn't over the target, he wouldn't get the flak he's gotten. YouTube has unsubscribed me to his channel several times now, and it started happening so often to so many people he started warning about it at the beginning of every video.
I disagree with everything Dwill posted and agree with everything corsair posted. The fans don't have "Star Wars fatigue," that was an attempt to shift blame to the fans for Solo torpedoing by the people who ruined the franchise instead of recognizing it for what it was: the new content is garbage. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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I hope, hope it wasn't nonsense and he was right. Nothing would give me a greater feeling of Schadenfreude than to see Kennedy and the rest of her SJWs get the boot and Favreau in the driving seat. | |||
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I can't believe that with all the talent that's out there and all the money that has been spent, we only got ONE good movie out of all that potential. ONE movie..... V. | |||
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What is the soup du jour? |
Not that Rogue 1 was a great movie, it wasn't it was okay, but if the Sequels had been even close to as well thought out, we wouldn't even have this conversation. JJ Abrams ruined two classic universes (ST/SW) by not being bothered to attempt understanding the source materials characters/universe. He then bailed and left them to be finished by equally bad action writers. It was only due to his contract he bothered coming back to close out the SW sequel trilogy. We're just expected to consider them canon, because conglomerate Disney bought their rights? Not I. How well have the products from brands like Marlin/Remington,etc turn out after their buyout by big mega corps. These movies are "products" not films and have no reason to be considered as such. | |||
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I just got around to seeing "The Rise of Skywalker" for the first time. Wow! What a load of crap. I haven't read through this thread, but I'm sure this is just a pile-on. This movie sucked, from the start to finish. The dialog was cheesy. The "jokes" were obvious and contrived. Just stupid. Right down to the insertion of the long lesbian kiss at the end. That wouldn't even be a problem for me, if the movie was otherwise good. But to insert ideologically driven crap on top of a movie that just sucked. Damn. I vividly remember sitting in the Towers Theatre in Roanoke, VA, in 1977 as a nine year old. When the Star Destroyer first showed up after the scroll, I can still remember thinking that everything for me has now changed. My Sci-Fi fix no longer was dependent on TV episodes of Buck Rogers. Up to this point, I kept holding out hope that things might change, that saner people might prevail. Good job, Disney. It took you 42 years, but you have now officially ended it for me. You have managed to make "Phantom Menace" into a feel-good, happy movie for me. Disney, your movies aren't worth the disk space to steal them, let alone worth the price of a theater ticket. You bastards! Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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^^^^^^ “The Left destroys EVERYTHING it touches” - Dennis Prager "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle |
I am with you Sigcrazy. My dad took this young 7 year old to see Star Wars and I can vividly remember seeing that Star Destroyer. No movie has ever filled me with a sense of wonder like that very first movie did. Interestingly, my second movie to see in a theater was Raiders of the Lost Ark. What a great start to a life full of great movies. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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