They ruined Star Wars

I'm sorry, but I laughed. Ruined Star Wars. Is my Chewbacca action figure garbage now?

You have action figures? I'm sorry, but I laughed.

I was being facetious. Ruining Star Wars is an oxymoron.

And I was doing the same.

4-6 were on my list of favorite movies when I was little. They screwed it up.

I still have all my star war guys from when I was a kid.

What are your specific complaints?

I thought Hayden Christiansen was terrible. Jar Jar Binks was terrible. Those first 3 were boring, flat or something. Not great acting, not great writing. Too much cgi stuff. Darth Vader is maybe one of the best villains of all time. I felt like we were suppose to see essentially the rise and fall of a great man in those first 3 movies. I never got that. Darth Maul would have been a great villain he was in the movie for 10 minutes. It's like there was no character development of anyone and no impact characters.

I don't think we ever got an answer or story on Rey's family. They took the 3 characters that were suppose to replace the originals and split them up, it felt disjointed. They didn't reunite Han and Luke. Han was a loser divorcee flying around on his old ship, hand and leia were a let down. Leia flew thru space. Stupid.

Let me guess. You thought the villain in a comic book movie was going to just win in the end?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

you don't have to guess, my thoughts are documented in the infinity forever thread.

the villain was never going to win. the notion that some people had, explaining that thanos was actually the main character was absurd. he was always going to get destroyed. and they came up with the most hackneyed idea to bring back the "dead" characters.

starting episode 1 with anakin as a kid was a mistake, unless you were going to have obi wan be the true main character, which should have happened. we knew anakin's story but we didn't really know much about obi wan. they could've really developed a story of how his friendship with anakin was like a platonic romeo & juliet. the jedi council believes anakin's going to go to the dark side, so obi wan should stop training him and befriending him. obi wan disobeys and continues to forge a friendship while anakin develops feelings for padme. it could've ended up a real tragic story. hell they even brought in tom stoppard to try and beef up the dialog and setups. but it was too little too late. episode 3 was definitely the best of that trilogy but it was still lacking a lot.

Yeah Z the first three were very odd. Almost as if Lucas was behind his first three movies ever with a new CGI PC. They must have just felt it would be fine due to the fan base and I guess financially they were right.

The last three were a chore by the end. Certainly not what I expected by quality and story. Too bad that someone like myself a fan since 10 years old found it a chore for those. I still was sucked in however and the money was made.

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EP 1 is the best of them all.

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Kill yourself

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I think the problem is they aren't just making bad movies they're losing control of the project thru their inexperience or incompetence. They completed filming of The Marvels over 2 years ago and the movie was in such a state they had to spend 2 years trying to make it presentable. The 274 million dollar production budget was from 2 years ago before 5 major re-shoots. It was scheduled for an April release and they promoted it then pulled it back to work on it more. After re-shoots the production is well into the 300 millions and they marketed it twice so that's easily over 150 million on ad spend. Captain Falcon is the same situation with inexperienced probably incompetent director and that was completed in June and it looks like they've already decided to scrap it. The Eternals was a similar situation where another director had to step in.

Not a fan of Ragnarok and I really don't like Waititi the Dollar Store Dali. Did you see his comments the other day about Thor? What a POS. I don't care if he likes Thor or not at least make an effort. Thor was the most frustrating of the movies because they he had one of the great comic runs that would have been perfect for a trilogy and they pissed it away like they did everything. He also said his Star Wars movie will piss off the fans so that's what you want to hear about an IP that's on life support.

I think the main issue with sequel trilogy (which I haven't seen) is they weren't on the same page with the script. Kennedy is 100% incompetent...no organizational skills whatsoever. From the start they should of agreed on an outline of entire trilogy instead Abrams does his movie then Johnson goes in a strange direction then Abrams doesn't agree with that so tries to change it with the 3rd. What a mess.

Imagine owning Industrial Light and Magic and having to steal vfx technology from another company. We'll make you a deal...let us keep our profit from Beauty and the Beast and we'll give you the profit from Ant Man 3, Indy 5, The Marvels, and Wish instead...

I find Rogue One to be the most rewatchable…except for the final CGI shot of Leia, which I’m hoping Lucasfilm fixes at some point.

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I think “Rogue One” is way better than that prequel trilogy but it lacks a lot of the character chemistry that a “Star Wars” movie should have. I liked the drab, post-apocalyptic feel and that there was no Jedi/Force representation. It was like…Blue Collar Star Wars.

But that robot was fucking annoying. I’m not into “audience characters”.

Rogue One might be the best of all the Star Wars movies.

as long as you're comfortable with your decision.

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the blind guy has the force, what you talking about?

And the robot was one of the funniest SW characters ever.

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I guess technically but he wasn’t a Jedi. That’s more what I mean. I’ll amend my statement. I liked that it focused more on regular joes.

One of the many reasons Andor was so good

Do not care what anyone says Rouge One was an almost perfect movie

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The problem with Rogue One was that there was as a better movie that got edited down because Disney wasn’t woke enough to really lean into Jyn, Andor, and Saw being straight up terrorists and “bad” guys. Instead they were boring resistance fighters, other than one scene where Andor ices his informant. The teaser trailer has a bunch of stuff that’s nowhere in the movie. It’s still great.

I still need to check that out.

This should scare Disney. An animated feature that flopped hard during the holidays. The split with theaters is roughly 50/50 so Disney made 50 million on a movie that cost them 300 million (production and marketing). This movie has stalled out already. Some veteran animators are claiming this was directed by AI it looks so bland and generic.

Maybe giant eyeballs has run its course.

They should try hiring the writer then shooting the film instead of the other way around. This wrapped up in June. 5 months of "re-shoots" is longer than most films principal photography. Its a mystery why they can't keep a film under 300 million production.

Do they have to announce these things publicly?

Seems like they’re pre-messaging that the movie sucks so they need to Frankenstein something watchable.

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