"Somehow, Palpatine returned"
No shit no one wants to watch this. ~~Marvel~~ Disney just milks IPs for a super long time and anyone thinking otherwise are blind and gullible.
Edit: whoopsie :l
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Solid Freudian slip.
I mean, aint Marvel under Disney wing for a while? Same feathers, same bird.
Largely everything Disney makes now is trash. Everything is written by an executive and it's always bad.
Onward is a good movie though
Same reason I dont read the Mr Men books anymore.
Actually no, the Mr Men books arent completely shit.
Do you know who Poirot or Ms. Marple are? Ever heard of Agatha Christie? If so you might want to check out the two newest Mr. Men / Little Miss books.
The writing was just… so atrocious in the last trilogy. Like, no coherent themes or through lines, characters were bland and poorly executed, dialog was clunky and stilted, pacing was none existent and the story was disjointed with completely un-engaging stakes.
Like, some say “oh well that’s true of all the previous star wars films” and no, it wasn’t. Some of that was true of some elements of the first and second trilogy. But none were all of that at once.
I just have… no faith they’ll do anything interesting. Once is a fluke, twice is bad luck, three times is a pattern. Disney’s modern methodology for producing films is clearly flawed at some fundamental level. The chance that the corporate machinery has realized there is a problem, correctly identified it, and then actually fixed it is close to zero.
Plus Kylo-Ren is not scary or intimidating
He just seems like a force wielding spaz
So there is no threat, or sense of danger....zzzz
Plus Kylo-Ren is not scary or intimidating
Adam Driver is terrible. He should stick to bad italian accents.
I remember sitting in the theater for Force Awakens. I remember the last preview finished, and I had a sense of excitement, because I didn't know what would happen. It wasn't based on a book or comic, it could be anything.
Then I watched A New Hope, but worse.
I understand it's scifi, but the stupid planet laser is one of the dumbest things Ive ever seen. Was the beam faster than light? Did it go through hyperspace? How'd they focus the laser at stellar distances? Is it a super weapon because it can destroy a couple planets or because it can shoot a mega laser beam through hyperspace or snuff out a star? Idiots.
It's fantasy, no star war film ever stood up to scientific scrutiny
That, and the bombers in space in The Last Jedi.
No cause those were cool
I have no problem with the bombers.
From a functional design it works. There's artificial gravity inside the bomb bay and once they fall out of the floor they will continue in space on their inertia.
From a style point of view it works. Space battles in Star Wars was always a love letter to world war 2 dog fights. They are planes in space, not space ships. Always have been.
The love letter to dogfights thing doesn't excuse complete stupidity. I'm not expecting Babylon 5 level of good space battles, but at the very least they could have treated it as a "escort the torpedo boats" fight and not a "bombing ground targets but in spaaaaaace". Some one should have taken one look at the script/plan for that scene and said, "No, that's stupid."
What about the lasers with bullet drop in the same movie?
I'm not familiar with that.
Important to recognise they don't shoot lasers in Star Wars. Their energy bolts have mass.
When the prequels came out, I didn't love them, but I absolutely had to wear it the fact that we got more Star Wars. At the time we really didn't expect to get any more out of the franchise. IMO Jar Jar notwithstanding, they were acceptable, but not up to the greatness of the originals. While far from perfect, they did tell a story, They added decent choreography and some reasonably pretty visuals.
The new trilogy tried to go all Kubrick on us.They try to tell a story through visual cues and really, it's not doing a great job at it. The characters have Backstories, but they're held from you until you're getting three-quarters of the way through the movie trying to figure out what the hell is going on while they get around to tying in the original characters. Star Wars requires that exposition.And honestly, another Death Star, another critical flaw, its bigger, its scarier, its all really low effort bullshit.
It was great seeing Luke and Han again, I really wanted to like Rey, They just utterly failed to develop her character, and then the crak with Snoke. You just end up coming out of the movie, feeling like you didn't understand half of what the new story is, and being utterly bored with the other half and all the horrible things happening to the protagonist that you don't really care that much about.
They could've developed the different jedi codexes, but they just let them burn!
There's so much canon and a million threads they could have picked up and pulled.
Being bland is worse than being bad.
I can watch comically bad sci fi. But... I can't remember a thing about the last two movies of the trilogy. And I remember a whole lot of "meh" sci fi.
I can watch comically bad sci fi
Ordinarily I agree but dear god stay away from Rebel Moon, worst shit ever and not in a remotely fun way
I remember that one of them, I think the second one, is called The Scargiver. I couldn't tell you who had a scar or who gave it. Those movies wish they were trash.
Yeah, because they suck.
As did the prequel trilogy.
And if we're being honest, so did Return of the Jedi.
No Star Wars media can live up to the one that lives in our heads.
TLJ had me leave the theatre saying "that was terrible" haven't touched it afterwards.
Somehow they're still making these movies.
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