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You can shove that lightsaber deep up in your Death Star. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 33 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I have watched every single Star Wars movie in theatres since I was a kid and they released the special editions in theatres. But last Jedi was so bad that I didn’t even bother to go see rise of skywalker. Not just in theatres, i still haven’t watched it to this day.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    You're not missing out, in my opinion it was not a good movie in any sense.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I thought the first movie of the new trilogy was actually pretty good though.

    There are valid criticisms of it but it was all around a solid start to the next chapter of the franchise.

    Then the last Jedi happened. Fuck that. And then whatever the rise of skywalker is. Oh emperor palpatine is alive again for no reason at all, woo.

    If they'd have just kept the expanded universe canon and moved forward with that then everything would have been fine. But no. Let's have an aggressive needlessly secretive admiral lady ram a starship, because "believe women" somehow also means "women are incapable of lying" or whatever the fuck the point of that idiocy was.

    It's just so fucking bad.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I used to do a little camera work. #7 has my favorite shot/camera angle of the entire franchise. they told a lot of that story visually.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    People disagree on this often. I thought 7-8-9 was shit. However 8 was a special kind of shit. I think half of the movie was really good. The other half of it, was absolute dogshit. At least it wasn't a "'memba" fest like 7 and 9. It tried to do original stuff, but it fucked up royally on the pursuit / canto arcs. And I'm not even talking about the hyperspace ramming.

    However the Luke + Rey + Kylo arcs were genius. People hate it for the old man drinking aliencowtitjuice and being a bitter old man and for his sacrifice, but it's actually very characteristic of him. And the mystery of Rey's past and her connection with Kylo is very well done and explores things never seen before.

    I wonder what the story behind this is. And whether Johnson had to make concessions for Disney.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    If that is what is characteristic of Luke Skywalker, then they certainly changed the character and the fan page is it is appropriate.

    Throwing out the Literary Extended Universe, but kinda of sort of keeping elements of it is what has made it so bad.

    There were really important things that happened in the world in the LEU. Which continues establishing who the characters and the world of Star wars.

    It's should be no surprise the fan base is so divided. If you have only seen that Han Shot First that gives you a very different perspective on Han Solo. If you have read about Mara Jade, or C'Boath, Grand Admiral Thrawn, the Katana Fleet then having their names spoken in the cinematic universe gives you a very different vision of what's going on on screen because you have a or existing understanding that you can't just forget about us they don't actually explain who those people are in the on screen version of them.

    Lucas never should have licenced stories that were not going to be okay if the cannon, then go ahead and steal the names of those non canon characters or events if he didn't want to fracture the fanbase. But they did and now it's a mess.

    That being said there is now opportunity to do Star wars legends movies since they already disassociated those stories from canonical Star wars, which is great and they should absolutely do that.

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