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Interesting. That's how I felt about all the characters in Rogue One, and they were in the whole movie.
As I said. ;)
All other flicks I've liked overall.
Back when this was announced, I was not into the idea. I didn't outright hate it, but I felt it unnecessary. Well, now that I've seen the film, I still find it unnecessary, but I find it so damned entertaining that just because it's a story I didn't need to see didn't detract from it. It had all the right elements to make it a great movie, in spite of all the backstage trouble it had.
This and The Last Jedi have just taught me that there are some fans who want nothing more than to complain. Those people can just shut up, as far as I'm concerned. The movie was fun, it was like the best roller coaster ride from start to finish. If you didn't like it, that just means you're not all that fun.
You love every single SW movie?
You're likely going to bring up the Holiday Special and the Ewok movies, but those simply don't count. Of the theatrically released movies, yes.
No, I agree. They don t count.
Hehehehe.
there's nothing in SOLO that warrants a home release
Please tell me you're not buying that crap.
It was an interesting watch there were a few valid points early on though it descended quickly, and the footnote was laughable.
Seems like you just want to blame Kathleen Kennedy because she's wearing a shirt with a slogan somebody else came up with rather than actually paying attention to how Star Wars always has been.
Cue the people who disagree.
Besides, no one forced Kathleen Kennedy to wear that T-shirt at the Archer Film Festival, whether it was from a Nike marketing campaign or whatever. Would George Lucas have worn a similar T-shirt? No, he would've known better than to draw needless attention to himself.
And if you were paying attention yourself, then you'd be aware that these new Disney movies suck regardless.
- Black Panther is bad because it's just leftwing propaganda for Black rights.
- No, actually Black Panther is bad and racist because it's got a black villain while it should be a white man as the villain for once.
- No, Black Panther is too obvious pro-Black propaganda, it's going to reach the opposite effect!
it seems that whatever you do these days, unless you're an indie film no one wants to watch, you will be loved and hated at the same time. Star Wars exists in that socio-political minefield. Always has. Ahmed Best, who played and voiced Jar Jar, was used as "proof" that Star Wars hates black people because the Black man gets to play an idiot. And before that, Star Wars was criticised for being mostly white and for having no women except the often sexualised Leia. Yet last year, Star Wars was heavily criticised for dragging too many women, Asians, blacks, ... into it. Jee-zus! No wonder people suffer from heart attacks.
I submit to you that whatever permutations of races, genders, colours, ... they try for a Star Wars film, someone out there will inevitably complain.
Furthermore, Solo isn't doing too well. Fine. And The Last Jedi was met with harsh criticism too. Fine. But then every idiot with a microphone and a YouTube channel posts "post-mortem", "downfall of Star Wars", "the end of Star Wars", ... videos. Yeah yeah, whatever keeps you happy. Or you can just ignore the films you don't like and focus on the ones you do like. People often forget that almost objectively speaking, only two Star Wars films are actually great: Star Wars, a near-miss, fluke, last-minute corrected mess of a production; and Empire, a dark and tonal exception in the series.
Rogue One was bleaker than most other of the recent Star Wars films. It took risks by not pussying out at the last moment and saving a few characters from their inevitable demise. Some can't stand that film. Solo is the happy, everything-works-fine counterpart to that. Some can't stand that film. The prequels were technically speaking very original but many complained they didn't feel like Star Wars enough. Others complain that The Force Awakens was too much of a clone of Star Wars. Others still complain that The Last Jedi didn't follow The Force Awakens closely enough (while others complain it follows that film too closely.) And now that it's announced that Abrams will return to "fix" things for Ep. IV, some are already getting the pitchforks out to hate on literally everything he will do.
I can only deduce that I wouldn't want to be in Kennedy's position. It's the Frankenstein effect. They created a monster and now it's grown too big and they no longer contain it, i.e. they can no longer appease everyone. That's okay, but since every Joe Regular wants to broadcast his own opinion on YouTube these days, there's this constant anger being kept alive rather than allowing it to settle. Some films you like, some you don't. But when I see a YouTube video that has "post-mortem" in its title, I know that's not the place where I will go for an opinion.
I'm a Star Wars fan. I have a very low bar for Star Wars product. It's popcorn entertainment. The comics, books, video games, ... they make me happy; A Star Wars film is still a bit of an event for me. But some people seem annoyed they have to go and watch - sigh - yet another Star Wars film. Odd, because 15 years ago, we were complaining that Peter Jackson was doing it so much faster than Lucas was. Now it's Star Wars fatigue. So stay home and Crystal Skull these new Star Wars additions. That's perfectly fine. But please leave the pseudo-academic YouTube vids out of the discussion. In an age where you can have "everything wrong with Casino Royale" or "everything wrong with Christopher Nolan movies" vids, a YouTube opinion is the one thing that angers me.
In fact, the video posted above doesn't endorse the theory of Star Wars fatigue. That's just another theory spun by a certain section of the media trying to understand why audiences have fallen short for Solo. According to today's Hollywood Reporter Solo will be the first posted loss for Disney's Star Wars empire with a domestic total of $176.1 million. They state: "Overseas, it limped to $11.3 million from 54 markets for a foreign tally of $136.1 million and a lowly global total of $312.2 million."
For whatever reason, the fans are staying away from Solo, and despite Last Jedi having its admirers, it received a backlash. Some that loved (liked) Last Jedi won't be happy that there's a dissent in the ranks. But at the end of the day, BO and merchandise has been what the whole Star Wars empire has been built upon. Lucas got it right IMO. I'm a huge George Lucas fan myself. I've loved pretty much everything that he's done, including THX 1138, American Graffiti and Indiana Jones. Of course, I didn't think much of Howard The Duck, but you can't win 'em all. There's a lot of Return of the Jedi I don't care for, but Lucas decided to ignore Gary Kurtz when he suggested dropping the Ewoks. Kurtz stood up to Lucas and was replaced as producer on the next saga. I'm reminded of what Kurtz said about RotJ: "We had an outline and George changed everything in it," Kurtz said. “Instead of bittersweet and poignant he wanted a euphoric ending with everybody happy. The original idea was that they would recover [the kidnapped] Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base. George then decided he didn’t want any of the principals killed. By that time there were really big toy sales and that was a reason.”
The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leia grappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it.
Kurtz said that ending would have been a more emotionally nuanced finale to an epic adventure than the forest celebration of the Ewoks that essentially ended the trilogy with a teddy bear luau."
I'm afraid the genie is already out of the bottle with regards to the new Disney Wars, and there's no getting him back inside. Though there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon and that's David Benioff. It all depends on whether he doesn't have a falling out with Kennedy and walks off the future project.
I take it you're just going to ignore the truth that Vietnam was inspiration for the Original Trilogy? Hell, the ewoks and their ability to defeat the Empire is taken directly from how the US was handed its ass by the Viet Cong. And let's not forget all the WWII inspiration spread throughout all three trilogies. Politics and Star Wars have never been apart from one another, people just don't like it now because they believe everything is politically motivated.
What does that mean? She wore the shirt because she liked the message it casts, whatever the hell that is, just as anyone wears a shirt because they like it. Lucas wore a "Han Shot First" shirt during the filming of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, still maintained that Greedo shot first in his original script. No, nobody forced her to wear the shirt, but that doesn't mean she's forcing her political ideas down your throat. You're interpreting it that way because you don't like her.
That is a matter of opinion and mine is very different. I've enjoyed all four of the Disney-made movies, I enjoyed Star Wars Rebels, I'm iffy on Forces of Destiny and I'm looking forward to Star Wars Resistance. The books are more concise, the continuity is cleaner and the Force is finally magic again when so many prior tried to find stupid ways to "explain" it.
You wanna hate what Disney's doing to Star Wars? Fine. I don't care. And clearly the box office returns for three out of four movies say that less people than you want to believe agree with you. Just as you say no one forced Kennedy to wear the shirt, nobody's forcing you to watch the movies you so clearly think aren't worth it anymore, so stop bitching and let people enjoy what they want to enjoy.
I'd be up for a second one if they could make it as well.