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Post by lordyam on Dec 31, 2019 4:37:10 GMT -5
I had fun but it was not a good movie. I liked some elements but overall the sequels did not have a good focus. They needed a more coherent vision and the heroes needed to not be idiots
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Post by bonesaw on Dec 31, 2019 9:57:46 GMT -5
We will watch The Rise of Skywalker at some point. I'm trying to avoid spoilers and there is some interest left in me. It's funny that after The Last Jedi came out with stellar critical reviews and praise and adoration, and that now ROS is not getting the same critics excited, I kind of have a little hope that it'll be better than TLJ, so there's still a spark deep inside me. But for the most part, the thrill is gone. Gone in me. Gone in my kids. I feel sad writing that. I have kids too- three young boys, and am proud to say that I have not and will not see these movies or give any attention to them at all. I had spent a lot of time of 4chan's /pol/, fascinated at first, then bewildered as a lot of what gets posted over there correlates with what I have been seeing in day-to-day experiences. It's always the same agenda, and it is almost always the same demographic pushing it- and the new Star Wars movies are no different. As soon as JJ Abrams came out after the Golden Globes complaining about how "horribly white" it was and how that factored into his casting choices for the new SW movies, I was out. In fact, with anything today- as soon as I sense, whether made public or not public but still obvious- a political agenda connected to the material, I am out. It doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum its on- I'm out, and it's happening a lot. With Star Wars, it's particularity irritating because I love the original three movies. I have been telling my sons that the new movies are garbage, and they don't argue.
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Post by johnnypt on Dec 31, 2019 12:14:01 GMT -5
You know...I liked it probably way better than it deserved. The necessity for some level of "fan service" after the last few years kind of forced them to complete some loops and create echoes they may not have done otherwise. Two things I have a pretty good idea they didn't intend: it had a very Nordic sense to it, fate was going to wipe a family out and there's really nothing they can do about except go done fighting. And on the other side, the "there's more of us than them" aspect sounded a lot like Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project-We Surround Them, which I KNOW they didn't intend at all! Not having a real set plan to start with, then having Last Jedi make some...different narrative choices left them behind their own 8 ball. Then toss in the person the film was going to revolve around passed away before the last film even came out, I'm surprised it was as coherent as it was.
Now let's toss in some obvious things left unanswered: Just where the hell did Luke's saber come from?!? I remember there was a rumor before TFA came out that Luke's hand was found floating in space and the saber was still in it. Frankly, that explanation was NOT contradicted! It sounded like something we made up playing with out Star Wars dolls back in the days between Empire & Jedi, but...where did it come from? And speaking of things falling...well, I'm still not going to spoil it yet, but the return is this film has less of a plausible explanation than Superman getting his powers back in the Lester version of Superman II. I know they felt like they had to make two films in one to make up for the fact, however much they won't admit it, that they really felt like they had to do a second film over again. But in the words of Dr. Evil, throw me a frickin' bone! Give us something to work with!
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Post by mindboggled on Jan 4, 2020 14:19:52 GMT -5
I liked things about ep 1 of the The Mandalorian. Episode two and onward is crap. You kidding? Baby Yoda is AWESOME. And having rewatched Episode 4 I can say that Mirror Thief is being silly because Star Wars is GREAT Baby yoda is a gimmick. Episode four made me temporarily drop the series. I've watched the rest of the episodes now and all I can say that it's an okay show. There are a lot of illogical things that happen in each ep if you stop to think. The story is kind of a mess.
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Post by lordyam on Jan 4, 2020 19:55:42 GMT -5
I was talking about episode 4 the movie. That one's damn good.
I liked Baby Yoda because of how adorable he was and the spaghetti western feel works
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Post by kemp on Jan 4, 2020 22:01:33 GMT -5
On the lighter side of life.
You know, this was my favourite Star Wars movie ( along with Rogue One ) after the original trilogy.
I don't know, maybe go fund me movies made my fans and supported by fans are the future. Maybe this will be the only way we get a decent Conan movie made.
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Post by mindboggled on Jan 4, 2020 22:53:55 GMT -5
I was talking about episode 4 the movie. That one's damn good. I liked Baby Yoda because of how adorable he was and the spaghetti western feel works I have nothing against the original three. I haven't seen them in a long ass time tho.
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Post by deepermagic on Jan 9, 2020 15:02:14 GMT -5
I saw Rise of Skywalker the other day. I was happily surprised. It was pretty rushed and a bit disjointed, but I put the blame for that on the trilogy as a whole. I felt like this was a salvage movie, and for that reason I appreciate it for what it is. It was fun and I wish the story of this movie could be stretched backwards and be the driving story for the whole trilogy. A lot of the stumbling and subplots and such seemed to really take aim at correcting the direction of The (awful) Last Jedi. In some ways, even if it fails as a movie due to poor execution in storytelling, I think it succeeds as a rebuke of TLJ.
It was a better ending than what the new trilogy deserved.
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Post by Spartan198 on Jan 12, 2020 10:07:24 GMT -5
I almost completely lost interest in Star Wars after the prequel trilogy. Not that it was bad, mind you (okay, Phantom Menace was pretty terrible ), I just had my fill. I saw The Force Awakens on Netflix, but it didn't do anything to enthrall me. And it didn't help that Disney started on a path of pumping subsequent movies out every year, because no one knows how to run a franchise into the ground like them.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2020 9:24:16 GMT -5
A worthy successor to the original Star Wars saga: Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (AKA The Turkish Star Wars)Starring the Turkish action star Cüneyt Arkın as Murat and Aytekin Akkaya as Ali, his comrade-in arms. With the villainous Thoth-Amonian Hikmet Taşdemir as Sihirbaz (Wizard), Necla Fide as the Empress and the veteran star of stage and screen Hüseyin Peyda as Bilgin (Yoda) and Füsun Uçar, the blonde romantic interest of our hero. Enjoy Well, try your best to enjoy this flick, it is only around 80 minutes long. If you enjoy watching 7 ft teddy bears chopped to pieces by our hero, this movie is for you I'm not watching this film again by the way, it sucks - still it is probably better than the last couple of additions to the franchise
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Post by kemp on May 4, 2020 0:19:27 GMT -5
A worthy successor to the original Star Wars saga: Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (AKA The Turkish Star Wars)Starring the Turkish action star Cüneyt Arkın as Murat and Aytekin Akkaya as Ali, his comrade-in arms. With the villainous Thoth-Amonian Hikmet Taşdemir as Sihirbaz (Wizard), Necla Fide as the Empress and the veteran star of stage and screen Hüseyin Peyda as Bilgin (Yoda) and Füsun Uçar, the blonde romantic interest of our hero. Enjoy Well, try your best to enjoy this flick, it is only around 80 minutes long. If you enjoy watching 7 ft teddy bears chopped to pieces by our hero, this movie is for you I'm not watching this film again by the way, it sucks - still it is probably better than the last couple of additions to the franchise I'm hoping that once I have watched it that I can rate is as a so bad it's good kinda thing.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2020 6:39:11 GMT -5
A worthy successor to the original Star Wars saga: Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (AKA The Turkish Star Wars)Starring the Turkish action star Cüneyt Arkın as Murat and Aytekin Akkaya as Ali, his comrade-in arms. With the villainous Thoth-Amonian Hikmet Taşdemir as Sihirbaz (Wizard), Necla Fide as the Empress and the veteran star of stage and screen Hüseyin Peyda as Bilgin (Yoda) and Füsun Uçar, the blonde romantic interest of our hero. Enjoy Well, try your best to enjoy this flick, it is only around 80 minutes long. If you enjoy watching 7 ft teddy bears chopped to pieces by our hero, this movie is for you I'm not watching this film again by the way, it sucks - still it is probably better than the last couple of additions to the franchise I'm hoping that once I have watched it that I can rate is as a so bad it's good kinda thing. If you watch this movie you'll be scrambling to watch The Last Jedi and the Rise of Skywalker within seconds in order to recover from the experience
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Post by kemp on May 4, 2020 22:24:30 GMT -5
I'm hoping that once I have watched it that I can rate is as a so bad it's good kinda thing. If you watch this movie you'll be scrambling to watch The Last Jedi and the Rise of Skywalker within seconds in order to recover from the experience I honestly tried giving it a chance Hun, but I couldn't stay the course, just could't take it anymore after ten or fifteen minutes. I fast forwarded a little to see if it would improve....just couldn't do it. This makes the Star Wars Holiday special look really good.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2020 4:35:28 GMT -5
If you watch this movie you'll be scrambling to watch The Last Jedi and the Rise of Skywalker within seconds in order to recover from the experience I honestly tried giving it a chance Hun, but I couldn't stay the course, just could't take it anymore after ten or fifteen minutes. I fast forwarded a little to see if it would improve....just couldn't do it. This makes the Star Wars Holiday special look really good. You did a lot better than I did Sorry Kemp.
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Post by kemp on May 5, 2020 5:13:22 GMT -5
I honestly tried giving it a chance Hun, but I couldn't stay the course, just could't take it anymore after ten or fifteen minutes. I fast forwarded a little to see if it would improve....just couldn't do it. This makes the Star Wars Holiday special look really good. You did a lot better than I did Sorry Kemp. Once seen, it can't be unseen .
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