Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
7. No duplicate posts.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
Looks like Disney's ability to keep milking their latest cute plush toy is coming to an end.
time to create another one. or get back to the old one. Young Yoda it is!
To be completely honest, I didn't even hear about this movie at all until like 2 weeks ago and I just assumed they'd release it as a Disney+ exclusive or something. I even went to a movie theater like a month ago and I heard absolutely nothing about it. Anecdotally, this tells me their marketing team had no faith in their product, so why should anyone else?
Going to the movies, in THIS economy?
To watch a disney movie
We go once a year. We saw across the spiderverse in 2024, tron ares last year, will see the backrooms soon and the third spiderman next year. It's not worth anymore. I had never seen an imax, so we saw tron in imax, was amazing. But not worth $80 for 2 adults and a child. And we brought our own snacks! I brought beef jerky, kiddo brought something, I don't remember. Shared a drink.
I had no idea this was being made until just now
we 👏🏻 don't 👏🏻 have 👏🏻 money 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 movies
True and If I do have money to spend on a movie I want something new and good not more milking of starwars witch has become slop.
The cost to go with a movie with one friend is around $30-35 where I live. This assumes buying no concessions.
The cost to buy that movie on a physical format (assuming it releases on one) is $20-30 depending on whether that format is DVD or Blu-Ray.
A lot of folks right now could not afford either option. But even for those who can, the math doesn't math on movie theaters.
There's a new Star Wars movie?
Bros, you killed the franchise with all the mediocre shit you pumped out. You bought an IP, you drove it into the ground by shoveling out a bunch of cash-grab trash, and now you wonder why people aren't lining up for your new movie?
Are you kidding? There is literally no industry in which this strategy works. walmart might as well put out a special new "locally made" brand on their shelves, and marvel at why people aren't falling over themselves to buy it.
The sequels were garbage. I dont think I ever need to watch them again.
I wonder why people are still watching this stuff. Maybe it is the crowd that wants to be able to say "I've seen all Star Wars movies" as the sole motivation.
Star Wars stopped being interesting a long time ago.
With the exception of Andor, which is one of the best shows of the last decade.
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.
The Mandalorian was initially meant to be a side series for fans. It was lower budget, practical effects, and little to no core characters from the main franchise. Unfortunately, basically every other Star Wars IP fell flat on its face since then, so by default, The Mandalorian is now the flagship Star Wars storyline. The movie was good as a nice side story for fans, it was bad as a franchise-running blockbuster. It's really amazing how many bad decisions Disney had to make to end up here.
The way the Boba Fett series flopped and tried, repeatedly, to draft on the Mandalorian's success within 1 session...ooofda.
Practical effects? Wasn't pretty much the entire thing filmed in Disney's version of "The Volume"?
This is the movie equivalent of "this meeting could have been an email".
it wasn't bad. but felt like it should have been a whole 5 episode season than a movie.
I went and saw it in theaters. It was pretty good. Not earth shattering, but it just basically felt like a really long episode of the show.
Also, Zeb from Rebels was pretty prominent and I'm a sucker for Rebels characters.
Get used to it. Disney is going to grind Star Wars into dust.
going to
?
From what I understand, they truly do mean to make the lowest possible content money can buy, cram full of "fan recognizable moments" to make the most amount of money out of it as possible.
As in, that's the goal, on purpose. Not as a "unintended side effect of us just being inept at making anything these days". But just being VERY good at squeezing money from brands like Star Wars.
Just turning out slop. Easy. Comfy. Low content slop. And then sell stuffed Grogu's. Andor was a fluke because the director was able to make something out of nothing. Without ever touching so much as "the force" or even a lightsaber!
We need more of that director.
For some of us the ship has already sailed. Episode 8 fundamentally changed the way I think about Star Wars. Before that, I'd already come to the realization that, despite leaning SW in the Star Wars vs Star Trek rivalry, I actually liked ST better. But I still had a love for SW that meant I would be in the theatre to see whatever SW movie was there.
Ep 8 killed that. For the better IMO because it was a stupid obsession, even if it wasn't as strong as it previously was.
I saw Ep 9 in the theatre, but it was more of a symbolic finishing what I started many years prior. My viewing was somehow full of contempt and there was much that fed it. I've watched a bit of the other stuff Disney has put out and it wasn't bad like eps 8 and 9 were, but I just don't care as much anymore.
Like I understand Andor was well done. I might get around to watching it eventually, but I'm in no rush.
Star Wars has gone from an automatic "yes!" to just another franchise, for me at least.
Casual fan, but star wars lost me at episode 2. The original trilogy are a big part of my childhood so I'd have seen the others but can't sit through them. I genuinely like Mandy but lost interest after season 3 and I tried to watch the other shows but just... didn't like them. I know some hardcore fans but even they lost it after the final couple of films
It was such a fucked up mix of genres. Half the movie people are getting their face ripped off by monsters and the other half is watching a fuckin teletubbies episode?????
I just assumed it was a streaming movie. Basically just a long episode.
Andor is the only star wars property that was in any good, and that's also because they ended it in 2 seasons. The rest are milked into mediocrity.
Wait that was in theaters? Wow. I assumed the whole thing went to shit while it was still a show.
Dude I liked it I knew everyone's gonna hate it. I knew from the start it wouldn't be a filosofical thing... is Mando for fucks sake he runs trough the galaxy shooting shit and taking care of the kid we got that that's it.
Is it perfect? nope is it bad? nope. But it is entertaining that's all I asked from it, it's my unpopular opinion but that were my expectations.
Mando and Grogu have no stake in the mainline Skywalker/Jedi vs Sith story arc the franchise is built around. Mando himself is the legacy of Boba Fett’s “rule of cool” and the idea there’s a third party in the Jedi/Sith struggle that has no Force powers but can go toe to toe with tech and training. Then there’s the Hutts. Immune to mind tricks and living tanks. Toss in an elite bounty hunter and some alien monsters. It’s two hours of a side story set in the SW universe that kinda has an impact on the main story but doesn’t. It’s all your favorite Glup Shittos glupping and shittoing all over the place. Prequel battle droids; check. Clone Wars Rotta; check. Rebels Zeb; check. OT X-Wing attack run; check. Sequels Babu Frik dudes; check. It’s basically an Ewok Adventure level movie for the modern era. A moment in the Star Wars era that means not much but a little on the galactic scale. Enjoy the fan service, enjoy the moment.
I didn't hear about it until I saw it on the drive in billboard.
That said, I've not finished season 2, but I loved season 1 enough to get the pinball game :)
Didn’t know this was a thing. I thought this trick ended a while ago?
They should've made it a buddy comedy where they do a bunch of drugs.
Good. No money for fascists.
Stop going to their parks (Disney's main profit source) and stop watching their slop; and I trust Disney will burn its way to irrelevancy within a decade. Their TCG performs miserably and their cruises aren't a profit source AFAIK; so it's just their streaming service, movies, and the parks keeping them afloat.
This happens when you burn out your fans with constant releases.