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The Mandalorian and Grogu has lowest box office opening for a Star Wars film in Disney era
(www.theguardian.com)
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I'll second this. Andor is incredible.
I was irrationally angry when George sold his IP to the Mouse. The original trilogy and expanded universe from my childhood is still my Star Wars.
Disney was the wrong choice.
Rogue One worked. But they got greedy.
Rogue One was leaps and bounds above the sequel trilogy but I would still say it's not a great movie. Once it gets up to speed and the whole cast has been properly introduced, it's fantastic, but it takes so much of the movie until it gets to that point. Even as a fan, the first half of the movie is a slog where the main character has very little agency or drive, and they're basically just being brought along instead of driving the plot. It's a movie that, in my opinion, starts poorly and ends amazingly.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’ll fight a bitch that claims anything other than Andor is the smartest and most watchable serialized offering on any streaming medium, with arguably the most compelling characters in the entire Star Wars arc outside of the original trilogy (hat tip to @furzegelo and @OldQwertybastard).
Thank you one and all; now I’m off to go assault dickhead @crt_alt_esc for not knowing his/her (meager and uninformed) place.
Have you seen Andor?
I watched a random clip on youtube: a ship with lateral lightsabers cutting TIE fighters. I'm not watching more of it.
I don't think that's a good scene to judge it on, personally.
As someone who hates modern star wars, and only mildy enjoys the original trilogy, I thought Andor was extremely compelling, and some of the finest sci-fi, or fiction in general, that I'd ever seen (and I am very picky).
It is, in essence, a brilliantly written rendition of an oppressed people building an effective and realistically depicted underground resistance movement against a fascist regime which happens to be attached to the star wars IP (which it uses well, aesthetically). So more of a tightly written political/espionage thriller than it is traditional space opera.
The quality of the writing is far, far beyond any other star wars movie or show, going very much into the territory of Where Eagles Dare, The Godfather, or or 3 Days of The Condor. The dialog is excellent, the plots excellent, the pacing excellent, I have very few complaints.
I think the quality of it comes from the writer Tony Gilroy putting a tremendous amount of effort into researching historical revolutions and drawing from those, which makes it feel very grounded.
If you dislike modern star wars, I really implore you to give Andor a chance, it makes none of the mistakes of modern Disney star wars, in fact it could not be more different.
There's only 3 original star wars unless you're counting the ewok movies and the holiday special. The prequels were twenty years later and are not original star wars.
The prequels are part of the original star wars (george lucas) saga
You're just referring to when Lucas owned star wars?
lol. Ok princess.
I must have struck a nerve implying that Jar Jar Binks might have less character depth than any of the Andor cast.
Don't know what was deleted there. But Darth Binks seems to evoke strong emotions in many.
Mostly for violating the anti-sniveling policy.
Ask the mods, they did it
You know Jar Jar Binks. let's see in 27 years from now how much of the Andor cast you remember.
Whelp, gonna go out on a limb and posit that I’ll be able to recall the lead character’s name. ‘Cause of the title, you see.