they wanted to reboot the whole franchise and cut off the OT/prequels because apparently George still has some kind of ownership of those characters
>“Rian was not just randomly writing a story nor was JJ. JJ’s job was to create a in canon reboot like the 2009 movie and introduce the new characters. Rian’s job was to kill off the originals and then you were suppose to not notice it was rebooted. Each was given the outline to make it and what the points were. So now you know why. Disney did not want to pay a license fee and by end of it all looked different and was a new copyright under the old name. They even changed the Falcon to be different. But the orders was in the end to leave nothing original.”
>“There is this just quick. There was always one plan. After the reaction to The Last Jedi, the decision was made to bring in J.J. to fix the plan he laid out and they threw Rian under the bus. This is why they said Rian might get his own trilogy. They just didn’t expect the backlash to be as toxic as it was and consequently Solo flopped.”
Bullshit, they didn't have to keep Luke and the old gang for 7, they could have set it 100 years post ROTJ.
Jason Jenkins
How is this franchise still making a lot of money?
Nathan Myers
>they threw Rian under the bus What? They funded a PR campaign attacking everyone who talked shit about TLJ for the better part of two years, how is that throwing him under the bus
Asher Stewart
Manchildren and boomers
Jeremiah Foster
well he didn’t let him direct the third movie
Alexander Ramirez
Call me crazy, but I don't usually trust the "rumor section" of boundingintocomics.com
James King
That's because they already put him on for an entire trilogy idiot
Ryan Flores
>criticizing a movie is now considered toxic
Ayden Robinson
Typical Disney move. They want their cake and eat it. The sequels only made money for the OT cast, the new kids don't sell tickets, neither toys
Hunter Cox
I seriously hope China wins the war or else in 10 years or less it'll be illegal to criticize Disney
Sebastian Bailey
Bullying the actors on Instagram is toxic
Julian Long
>They just didn’t expect the backlash to be as toxic as it was and consequently Solo flopped.”
This kind of defeats the point, though. If Disney had wanted to kill off all the Lucas characters and soft reboot, why did they make a movie about Han Solo, a Lucas character?
Samuel Carter
This is the stupidest star wars rumour I've seen yet. Exactly what do these retards think Disney bought for $4b? >Oh yeah, I'll sell you the name "star wars" for 4 billion. But if you want to use any of the characters, that will cost you extra >What a great deal! Why do people struggle so much with the concept that the people in charge are just idiots?
Jonathan Flores
>it'll be illegal to criticize Disney That will never happen under a western government. However under Chinese rule criticizing sacred cows, like the government will be illegal. And you will disappear.
Alexander Lee
It's not. It still hasn't turned a profit. Galaxy's Edge in Florida will make it take a fuckton longer if ever
Cooper Butler
Hello the quartering.
Nolan Hall
This sounds more like people making excuses for Disney's poor handling of the series.
>How is this franchise still making a lot of money? Is it? There's something clled inertia. A big ship doesn't come to a sudden, it's slow and steady.
Kayden Ortiz
>How is this franchise still making a lot of money?
Star Wars used to make most of its bank through the merch sales. Toys, video games, bedsheets, oranges, paper cups, etc. But merch sales have plummeted, which is what is REALLY putting the franchise in a financial bind. The movies are just advertisements for the merch; their cost has already been written off. But if the merch doesn't sell, then there's trouble.
Henry Gray
I fucking wish.
Robert Peterson
That pick of kk. Cringe.
Adrian Brooks
They've got awesome toys like Star Wars Barbie. Little girls love Star Wars toys.
>Be George. Get hated for his art and unique vision. >says fuck it and sells his IP to Disney for billions. >he knows Disney is so fucking corrupt and devoid of talent they would ruin everything. >he knows they would haggle and oy vey over making the IP just different enough to shut him out of residual profits (which is the biggest cash cow for Star Wars and Star Trek) >Disney makes Finn, Rose, chunky bland vehicles and clothing and differentiates from OT and Prequels. >nobodywantsthatshit.jpeg >Shelves are full of crap Finn and Rey plastic from china. >The Mouse is fucked and their Cash cow becomes an exercise in breaking even. >they double down on greed and open an amusement park that bleeds money >Lucas laughs as he not only ruins Disney, but shows the world only he can do Star Wars right. >they beg him to come back to fix things.
Is he /Ourguy/? Did he reach his final form of Palpantine?
>Disney spent 4 BILLION Dollars to kill off the thing that made it popular in the first place. >there are people who think this is a reality
who the fuck is this delusional?
Nathan Butler
Based
Henry Green
>"And that's a good thing."
Why is this a thing? I know those are a bunch of selected articles but you literally see that phrase everywhere, whether talking about kino, lifestyle, or politics.
Jeremiah Ramirez
>disney wanted to completely erase the OT >which is why they made Rogue One and Solo Cringing at you, brainlet
It causes outrage. people like the goy see those words. get upset, click the article, comment, and spread it all over the place.
James Allen
Just buying your own product to make infinite money is the 200 IQ play dumb goys like you can't comprehend.
Owen Flores
>Why is this a thing? I know those are a bunch of selected articles but you literally see that phrase everywhere, whether talking about kino, lifestyle, or politics.
Most people only read headlines, not articles. So if they headline-itself tells the reader how they should feel about the subject, the reader will know how to feel without having to read the article.
>Hillary Clinton Wants to be the Empress of the United State. And That's a Good Thing.
>"Whew! Thank god that's a good thing!"
David Lewis
this guy gets it. it's no longer about right wing v. left wing, thats a meme in todays world. Its now become about nationalism v. globalism. I'd gladly fight side by side with a nationalist commie as opposed to a globalist libertarian.
Joseph Ortiz
>Needing two bad movies to reboot your franchise. >Needing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars and years of marketing, merchandising, press, and coverage just to reach the point where you can start from scratch.
No one is that stupid. No one needs two huge, billion-dollar blockbuster productions just to get to the beginning of a new franchise model. That's entirely post-hoc rationalization.
We know JJ killed Han because fucking Ford wanted Han to die and because as an old dude with no skills to pass on (since Rey was written as an ace pilot and fighter from the start), he was of no value to the series going forward, and really only valuable in the emotional weight of his death.
It was Rian that decided to wipe everything clean and start again, though it's clear he wanted to wipe the "lore" slate clean but continue on with Leia in the mix because she's a woman and "The Force is Female" or whatever the fuck. But that gamble failed when she died and he ended up left with a franchise that by it's own hand had cut all ties with the one before it.
Any rationalization now is because Disney is sort of left with this shit, unmarketable franchise and new characters no one likes, with all the old characters dead and gone, and they have to justify why they're continuing at all.
Brody Moore
But this would mean it would be Bob Iger's fault, not Kathleen's, and people like to blame Kathleen.
Eli Gutierrez
>Bullshit, they didn't have to keep Luke and the old gang for 7
Yes they did.
We're seeing this era of what's not called "soft reboots" for a reason, it's perfect marketing. Having the old characters, aesthetic, music, and etc gives the reboots a layer of perceived legitimacy and allows the creators to try to use the old characters to pass the torch and hand off the franchise to the new characters to make more money eternally.
People went to see Force Awakens in the millions because in the trailers they saw Han Solo, they saw Leia, they saw Chewbacca, they saw Stormtroopers, they saw basically a new Death Star, they saw Star Destroyers, they heard the classic music and sounds. For the first time in forty years it felt like there was a new Star Wars movie to the masses after the prequels soured in the public mind. This never would have happened if they didn't use those characters.
They didn't bring back Han, Leia, and Luke to "get the band back together!" They did it as a cynical cash-maximizing ploy to trick the masses into thinking that the new endless Star Wars movies that Disney can churn out now with the property are authentic because they brought back your beloved original characters and ran them through the mud. Surprisingly though, people aren't stupid enough to all be fooled by this and they noticed pretty easily, so a lot of people have turned on the sequels now. The older fans that Disney so loathed have all turned their backs, and there are no younger fans, because kids don't give a fuck about Star Wars anymore.
Jonathan Edwards
It's a lazy blog-writer's trick of shaping your opinion on a topic before you read the actual content, or allowing you to feel like you got the message even if you don't bother to read past the headline.
Essentially the way clickbait blog writing goes is >Pick a topic and create a vapid, outlandish, offensive, or insulting headline designed to snap reader's attention and get them instantly engaged either by baiting their rage or making them think you're a fucking idiot. >Then tag on your opinion on the topic. Tell them that it's a good thing, or that it's a bad thing, or whatever else you're going to write in the article. >Now, it doesn't matter what the article says and you can be as trashy, retarded, or nonsensical as you want. They already know your idea and they are either on board, or angry and sharing it out of anger.
"And that's a good thing." works best when paired with something everyone should hate, or have good reason to be angered by. But the title needs to assure them that their emotion is unjustified and they just need to calmly accept what you're telling them.
John Davis
I hope one day an insider writes a book about what really has gone on the last few years at Lucasfilm. I really want to know the true story.
Hunter Collins
>Disney wanted to BTFO star wars nerds from the start Absolutely based.
David Sanders
All they had to do to fix the problem of not having one of the Big Three in IX after Fisher passed was cutting before Luke faded away. It was such a simple fix. It's like no one ever thought about the next movie.
Xavier Howard
>No one is that stupid.
They based their theme park "Star Wars Land" exclusively around the Star Wars movies nobody likes. Yes, Disney is that stupid.
Logan Lee
>>they beg him to come back to fix things. >implying they won't pull a tumblr and sell it back to him for a fracton of what they payed him for it.
Evan James
>How is this franchise still making a lot of money? It's barely doing it anymore. After TFA and RO, they royally fucked themselves with TLJ which practically killed their Disney universe. >biggest 1st-2nd week box office drop off >TLJ underperforming (expected to make $1.9B; made $1.3B instead) >Kathleen, JJ, and Rian are responsible for this trilogy sucking >Battlefront II EA Edition underselling >Solo bombed, leading to Disney reconsidering the development of more spin offs that no one asked for >merchandise rotting on store shelves >Kathleen is still president of Lucasfilm >Lucasfilm employees still blame and berate the fans >comic book sales have dropped immensely >novel sales have dropped immensely >"progressive" hedonistic perversions keep creeping in on the established character lore >Galaxy's Edge failed and may get rebranded >no one with a fully developed brain actually cares about Rey, Poe, Finn, Rose, Holdo, BB-8, or any of the "original" aliens that share the same horseface template meant to replace Lucas' races from Episodes 1 - 6 >constant pursuit of appealing to feminazis >lost $180M in 2018 >reported another major loss this year as a combination of Fox's recent flops and the Star Wars theme park failing >rumors escalating that they're planning to remake the Original Trilogy >nu-EU material is overwhelmingly shitty, more so than the old EU >part of the reason they're killing off the OT content is just so that they don't pay off royalties to Lucas, essentially remaking the franchise to be their own thing >things have gotten so bad that even the shill access media is now admitting that they're having doubts in Disney Star Wars, even predicting that TRoS won't do too well at the box office At this point, Star Wars is destined to die off as long as Disney controls it. Either 1 of 2 things should happen: 1.) They should just give it a mercy killing and bury it. 2.) Lucas miraculously buys it back, which will never happen.
I hate the new Star Wars as much as anyone, but this thread is pure autism. What happened to Star Wars isn't some elite conspiracy, it's exactly what happens everytime a big corporation takes an interest in their movies. They start doing storytelling by committee, start trying to appeal to whatever they think will up their profit margins, and are generally incompetent.
It's not a feminist conspiracy or a globalist conspiracy or whatever. It's just a bunch of incompetent people propelled by their own wealth to a level of creative control they don't deserve telling a story badly.
Kevin Smith
Read the leaked Sony emails. That gives you a window into how these Execs think. They're so diconnected from real people. I remember one where they were reading Youtube comments for feedback.
3. They let the Marvel Films people handle it. Marvel writers and Marvel directors.
Jaxon Howard
>>"progressive" hedonistic perversions keep creeping in on the established character lore
Such as?
Logan Ramirez
Yeah I don't think Disney is that big brained to think of that shit. I do believe they are stupid enough to let Rian destroy the franchise and just roll with it.
Chase Phillips
Everyone favorite ship was a feminazi, pan sexual, anti slavery robot all along.
Julian Bailey
star wars holiday special > literally anything nu wars
>They let the Marvel Films people handle it. I wouldn't trust them anymore considering the strongly woke direction they're taking the MCU into for Phase 4.
Gavin Clark
There is all kinds of left-wing garbage coming out of Hollywood, but you are right. Longtime fans wanted to see Han, Luke and Leia one more time. Most of those fans knew this trilogy wouldn't focus on them because they already had their movies. People wanted to see them have one last adventure and then pass the torch. Instead we got this shitshow.
Colton Peterson
MAKE A DISNEY DEDICATED BOARD
Hudson Diaz
>anti slavery >hedonistic perversion
Juan Clark
I love Ishtar
Andrew Edwards
>obvious shop.
Tyler Ramirez
George had no ownership of anything. You think Disney doesn't know how to write a contract? Worst rumor ever.
Eli Evans
>Bitch he wrote Palpatine. The greatest mastermind in cinema history who weaves plans within plans and contingencies within contingencies. He has studied every outcome and knows how to control and bait his enemies like Windu and the rebels. George Lucas is Palpatine and always was.
>I honestly can't believe there was any plans in place...
There weren't. JJ Abram's did a TED Talk about his storytelling philosophy, "The Mystery Box". The gist is that you don't have to have a plan,y ou don't have to have answers, you don't have to have substance. Audiences don't care about any of that. All they care about is "what's in the box?" So long as you never tell them what's in there, they'll stay hooked. And if you never tell them, then it doesn't matter if the box is empty or not, because they'll never know.
Leo Torres
It is all so tiresome. Nothing can just be shit any more. There has to be some fucking malevolence behind it.
Jace Gomez
Sadly it makes sense >Akbar thrown in the trash >Luke and Han are old losers and die >Chewie is a background character >R2 and C3PO get 2 min screentime
If the merch theory is true, and it fits really well, that means that J.J. deliberatly made a worse movie to earn pennies on the merchandise.
Caleb Green
>JJ Abram's did a TED Talk about his storytelling philosophy, "The Mystery Box". The gist is that you don't have to have a plan,y ou don't have to have answers, you don't have to have substance. Audiences don't care about any of that. All they care about is "what's in the box?" So long as you never tell them what's in there, they'll stay hooked. And if you never tell them, then it doesn't matter if the box is empty or not, because they'll never know.
So basically the same thing he did with LOST, he wants to do with Star Wars.
Michael Jenkins
Well Disney has not made a profit on the Star Wars acquisition yet, so it's not. Remember, they have to make 4 billion dollars of new money just to simply break even AKA fail horribly. This will go down as one of the largest corporate flops in history.
Even if they did profit on it eventually, if it took way more work to get that profit than just dumping the 4 billion into a hedge fund, then once again, its a failure.
Nolan Roberts
>you don't have to have substance. Audiences don't care about any of that. All they care about is "what's in the box?" So long as you never tell them what's in there, they'll stay hooked. And if you never tell them, then it doesn't matter if the box is empty or not, because they'll never know. In other words, JJ is nothing more than a duplicitous snake oil salesman who succeeds at deceiving his audience.
Brandon Campbell
>Rumour
good enough for me let's get 'em grrr they'll be sorry when they find they're regarded as "cringe" on Yea Forums
Jayden Anderson
Memes aside, Palpatine is legit one of the smartest people in all of cinema. Or smartest-written people. You still get youtubers who will criticise the prequels being like >HE HAD TO TRICK THEM SO THAT THEY WOULD FIGHT A WAR AGAINST... himself? Even though he already controlled both sides? WTF LOL And that's not even mentioning the ridiculous criticisms about the start of ep2 >WHAT KIND OF BOUNTY HUNTER HIRES ANOTHER BOUNTY HUNTER WHO USES A BUG INSTEAD OF JUST SHOOTING PADME????
Aaron Jones
This is incorrect according to financial analysts and Disney themselves. It is so fucking boring reading that they 'Haven't made their money back' because you ave no proof either way.
Luke Myers
>Any rationalization now is because Disney is sort of left with this shit, unmarketable franchise and new characters no one likes, with all the old characters dead and gone, and they have to justify why they're continuing at all. There's a 30 year gap in between RotJ and TFA. It might have been filled in with new books; I don't know as I haven't watched any of the new movies or read any of the new books. They could easily cast three young actors as Han, Luke, and Leia, like they did for young Han in the Han Solo movie, and have movies that explain what happened after RotJ with characters the viewers like.
Caleb Johnson
I was initially fine with Disney buying Star Wars, if they didn't treat it like a money printer and shat it up. I was unsurprisingly in for a rude awakening as that's exactly what happened with TLJ and Solo. No character arcs were expanded upon, nothing of real substance or story progression. Snoke was a very interesting plot character as he, as shown in the films, can manipulate the force from light years away. When Rian just took him out with one quick slash that's when I realized something fucky was going on. And with Palpatine now allegedly being resurrected it's just another ploy at cashing in on nostalgia.
Hunter Sanchez
>"The Mystery Box" So he took Hitchcock's MacGuffin and made it completely worthless?
Angel Howard
I doubt it. Star Wars would start dragging capeshit down, because having yet another identical script with a star wars coat of paint might start waking up their retarded audiences to the fact that it's all the fucking same. People already cottoned on to how badly TLJ tried to ape it.
Blake Torres
It's true that you shouldn't attribute to malevolence what you can more easily attribute to stupidity.
Unless there are Jews involved. Then malevolence is a given.
Ayden Allen
This whole thread is a dual of the baits.
Jack Nelson
This. It is so fucking tedious how they treat Star Wars. RJ literally gave interviews saying 'I want to make a divisive movie', and Disney let him, because "People will still see it, it is Star Wars".
Bob Iger said to investors "We are not spending money on advertising Galaxies Edge, we can just send a tweet saying 'It's open', and it will be full for months".
Fuck that attitude. Galaxies Edge is an awful product. It is one ride, with fucking super expensive shops no fucker can afford to go to after paying the ticket prices.
At least Solo bombing has put them on the back foot, and let them realize that the name Star Wars on it does not give them a licence to do what they like. Galaxy of Adventures was such a massive improvement over Forces of Destiny that it isn't even funny.
Zachary Jones
Yeah these Nerds and the shareholders were BTFO ebin style
Jeremiah Butler
For me, it's revenge of the sith.
Easton Martinez
10.2B 4B invested would yield roughly 2.2B in profit for a total of 6.2B after 10 years. They spent 4B, meaning unless Star Wars brings in 10.2B over 10 years, they'll have less money than if they had just done nothing. That said, there are non monetary benefits to the buyout. They deny the IP to their competitors, and they can use it to push social changes and propaganda.
Lincoln Lee
We already know all of this.
Isaiah Stewart
Indeed, RLM was pretty retarded in that regard. Hopefully those guys know of Hegelian Dialectic by now. It has been written that the banking clan had been ran by Sith for decades and willingly funded both sides of major conflicts until the rise of the empire. Second, no blaster bolt is going to puncture a window pane. I remember reading EU books stating many are made with "transparisteel", so that could explain why there may have been one situation out of the six movies where glass has been shot at and broken after numerous shots. I think the fair criticism is why Obi-Wan didn't pursue Jango Fett immediately after shooting the hired assassin. The answer was a plot contrivance so as to cover the tracks of the separatist conspiracy, it could have been handled better, though I did like how Dooku probably killed off Syfo-Dias and buried his plans of a republic army and having an ace in the hole in case it was discovered.
Hudson Cruz
>comic book sales have dropped immensely >novel sales have dropped immensely Source?
Sebastian Wilson
The theory is that Disney attempted to avoid paying 'licensing fees' to Lucas despite purchasing the IP in its entirety for 4 billion dollars by killing off Han and Luke but leaving Leia, Chewie, Lando, Palpatine, Darth Maul, Yoda, R2D2, C3PO, etc etc? Does this theory sound like something that should be written down and shared with other people?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_c_yby1gk They actually did resolve that plot thread in Clone Wars which led to them finding Sifo... or what remained of him in some dungeon.
Their whole plan from the start was "fuck the loyal fans, they'll watch whatever, let's go all woke and try to attract a new audience as well." The problem is they failed to keep the fans and failed to attract a new audience. People don't love Star Wars any more. At the best, they'll go see the last one out of obligation, just to see how it ends (I won't, fuck that shit). You can see this in how their merchandise doesn't sell any more and their theme park venture flopped. They should have just continued appeasing the loyal fans, or made something completely new. Instead, they got greedy.
Cameron Moore
Can you remind me how much screen time Chewie and the droids got in TLJ. Or the droids in TFA. No original character is there longer then they need to be and Leia was the only character they wanted to keep alive because Kathleen didn’t think she was strong in her own trilogy.
Michael Scott
>What happened to Star Wars isn't some elite conspiracy, it's exactly what happens everytime a big corporation takes an interest in their movies. They start doing storytelling by committee, start trying to appeal to whatever they think will up their profit margins This is why literature is so good. A book by a dedicated writer who created a story, even with ups and downs, will always be better than cookie-cutter screenplays forced to follow the guidelines of marketing departments and approved by focus-groups.
Luke Barnes
>This is why they said Rian might get his own trilogy.
Nah. They offered Rian IX and announced his trilogy a month before VIII was released, well before the backlash.
Tyler Hill
they don't own all of the licenses. 20th century fox owns the licensing rights for selling episode 4.
Angel Campbell
OK so Disney is required to pay Lucas royalties per trademarked character per minute of screen time? And they still decided to reveal Darth Maul as the baddie at the end of Solo, to reintroduce Palpatine and Lando for ep 9, to make Leia one of the 13 remaining resistance soldiers?
There is no set of 'complicated secret copyright law loophole IP rules' that makes this idea plausible. Occam's razor is that they wanted to retain old fans and attract new ones, while selling as much merchandise of old and new characters as possible.
Henry Gutierrez
This. It was supposed to be a move to establish how confident they were for pre sales. The fact that it's approaching 2 years and it's had no details but a producer announced is pretty telling, especially since said producer is a generic Disney monkey.
Oliver Williams
And Disney owns 20th Century Fox, or have you been living under a rock?
Nathan Watson
And maybe having people with ties to the stuido bully fans who complained or used proxies like IGN and 2 Scoops Stephen to call us racist/sexist people would not have abandoned the franchise. They even invited that hack to Celbration and open the Episode IX panel. They have no one to blame but themselves
Austin Anderson
This theory makes no sense at all. If Lucas still had some kind of ownership of the characters and you're using them in any capacity, you have to pay Lucas. So why not give them a proper send off while simultaneously setting up your new characters? It's patently stupid. The original heroes, aside from Chewie and the droids, would be too old to hang around long anyway. And everyone knew Ford wanted out. Fisher wouldn't last long, we knew that even before 7 came out, and Hamill, yes, he could play Luke for a while, but clearly they would have to pass the torch and the end of the new trilogy would have been the prime spot to do it.
Even the most brain dead executive could see that poisoning the well is not a winning strategy.
Landon Murphy
Fading momentum from past successes.
James Lopez
I'll bully you with my great big swinging balls on Instagram.
Austin Russell
I just think it absolutely sucks that they won’t make new Star Wars content unless fans accept social justice mediocrity.
Brayden Scott
they didn't when they decided to make star wars world and the new trilogy
David Smith
>George still has some kind of ownership of those characters
Bullshit.
Lucas Anderson
People would have gone in their millions to see it regardless. It was the first Star Wars film in 10 years.
This sounds like exactly what happened and exactly what Disney would do.
Jace Adams
This entire saga has convince me that soft reboots are significantly worse than hard reboots.
Alexander Scott
>no blaster bolt is going to puncture a window pane but obi wan can just dive through it huh
Jace Martinez
Yet cobra kai has convinced me they can work
Colton Thomas
You have to admit that's pretty based.
Jace Rivera
>This is incorrect according to financial analysts and Disney themselves If only we could use basic economy knowledge to know this...
Brayden Hall
They need to trick the nostalgiafags by using memberberries.
Do you think Red Letter Media would have shilled TFA if it was a original story with no nostalgia waved in front of them?
Jaxson Carter
I just hate Disney so much.
Jonathan Gonzalez
>3. They let the Marvel Films people handle it. Marvel writers and Marvel directors. Do you think Feige cares about anything after making the biggest grossing movie? the dude went from nobody nerd helping in X-Men movies to the Head of his own studio and making FUCKING IRON MAN a big name he doesn't care anymore
>apparently George still has some kind of ownership of those characters you should confirm if this is true or not. and i dont think it is I doubt Disney paid 4 BILLION to have George still own the characters
Lincoln Thomas
>Why they made Rogue One >A film with all-new characters while the OT characters just cameo
Charles Butler
I notice none of these are ST-exclusive characters
Thomas Brown
You think if they slapped "STAR WARS" onto a new movie in 2015 that looked just like the prequels people would have gone to see it?
Henry Bell
haha I understood that reference my fellow cumguzzling faggot
I am excited for the ep 9 trainwreck I'm not paying to see it, but i will enjoy the fall out
Caleb Moore
>Snoke...Rian just took him out with one quick slash snokes death. confused fans think he was a wasted character b/c they still see tlj as a star wars movie. but if you look at tlj as teenage girl masturbatory fanfic, then snokes character makes perfect sense. his only purpose was to die at the hands of kylo so we see how powerful our bad (but not really bad) love interest is and how far hes willing to go to choose our stronk female lead over evil when push comes to shove. think 50 shades. think twilight. think buffy/angel. think xena/ares.
whos fucking who? thats what star wars is now. whos fucking who? dont like it? hang up your robe and retire your lightsaber with the rest of the eufags. whos fucking who? is kylo fucking rey? whos fucking who? is rey fucking finn? whos fucking who? is finn fucking poe? whos fucking who? oh look a black guy fucking some asian. nice. whos fucking who? the purple hair chick is poly so shell be fucking everything. great! whos fucking who? whos fucking who? whos fucking who?
>make a war where Droids and Clones battles both of these are unimportant and the civilians are safe from dying in war a thanks to these, include jedis to command the clones, now it's just a grind machine until you kill all the jedis you want Disney couldn't make a plan this smart
Carter Ortiz
>Then nobody would have cared. Explain the critical success of Knights of the Old Republic, then.
>big red X on Luke's face >female empowerment crap everywhere in office >this woman has an actual self insert character in Rebels
Brayden Carter
so their plan was to kill off all the characters yet they are bringing back palpatine and bringing back darth vader armor. in the end george still gets a check
Lol that's literally what happened though brainlet, disney has to pay extra to use anything from the Prequels or OT
Jeremiah Robinson
Autists are literally insane. They can't accept that KK and Iger are just incompetent and egotistical
Brandon Cooper
It's easy to see why that user would think that, when the choices of villains in the films are:
Mystery Box Villain Vader Fanboy With Anger Issues Cartoon Nazi Villain Incompetent Stormtrooper
Of course the fucking Mystery Box Villain would look good by comparison. It's that bad.
Aaron Campbell
clearly, there is a brainlet here, but it isn't the person that you responded to.
Ethan Howard
>Disney tries to push more ST stuff at the expense of OT stuff >Plan fails so now they're bringing back some OT stuff >This is an autist conspiracy theory guys, it's not true!!
>Having the old characters, aesthetic, music, and etc gives the reboots a layer of perceived legitimacy and allows the creators to try to use the old characters to pass the torch and hand off the franchise to the new characters to make more money eternally. It's amusing how Sony spectacularly missed this when making that Ghostbusters reboot.
Nicholas Martin
Inertia.
Logan Fisher
>I doubt Disney paid 4 BILLION to have George still own the characters
I doubted they could make a Star Wars movie be a box office flop, but there you go
Noah Fisher
>that storybook >shows other characters as only being there to (literally) support Rey I'll bet they don't even realize how fitting that art is.
I don't buy it. So much of Disney Star Wars is built around fellating the OT. They made two whole spinoffs that existed just to feed audiences more Death Stars, Han Solos, and Millenium Falcons. Also, if this is like the Star Trek situation where a character has to be significantly changed in order to be considered uniquely the property of Disney, well age alone has done that to the characters. None of those characters are exactly who they were. They could have gone even further and had Han actually change his clothes and give up his life as a smuggler, but they didn't. No, I don't buy any of this. They wanted to shift focus to the young cast, which is just the sensible thing to do when writing a followup trilogy like this, and hopefully seeding a future for the franchise. The fuckups in writing come down more to political pandering and general ineptitude.
Lincoln Clark
Anyone using Instagram deserves to be bullied
Angel Turner
>Lucas miraculously buys it back Imagine the absolute butthurt. Lucas sells it to them for billions and buys it back for a few hundred million and makes another kino trilogy.
James Campbell
>They could easily cast three young actors as Han, Luke, and Leia
But PCness means they would have to make Luke Gay, Han Black, and Leia ugly.
>Poe Bootleg half of Han Solo character. "Charismatic and don't like to follow rules".
>Finn Bootleg other half of Han Solo character. "Coming from a criminal background and unwilling to help".
>Rose Most pathetic attempt at a new character ever. Became bootleg Jar Jar because of it.
>Holdo Bootleg Ackbar.
>BB-8 Bootleg R2-D2.
>First Order Bootleg Empire.
>Kylo Ren Bootleg Anaking from Revenge of the Sith.
>Rebels Bootleg resistance.
>Hux Bootleg Tarkin.
How do they even want to distance themselves from the OT/PT when LITERALLY EVERY FUCKING THING it's a copy? Holy shit, I know Star Wars fans are stupid, but even they are not that stupid.
If they recast the film, I would be more than okay with Anakin being black, and Luke and Leia being black or mixed. Darth Vader has the most badass nigga voice ever, but he turned out to be some bitch cracka.
Nathan Howard
I think Holdo was supposed to be the new Mon Mothma. She even wears that weirdly out of place gown, when surrounded by people in military uniforms.
No, they created them and are trying to grow more.
Colton Fisher
>>Disney pays off critics. How is this unbelievable?
Camden Gutierrez
I actually like the Sheev Ewok death cult on Endor
Sebastian Evans
>e3 2020 >Valve panel >lights dim >Gaben rolls on stage >holds one finger aloft >crowd takes notice >raises a second finger >murmurs in the audience >lifts a third >excited chatter >points skyward >George Lucas rappels from the ceiling carrying the severed head of Kathleen Kennedy >crowd starts going wild >George grabs the mic >announces that all nuDisney canon is now illegal, the slate has been wiped clean >announces that production will begin immediately on the real Episode VII >Gaben declares that Portal III, HLIII, TF3, and SW:BFIII will be released to Steam at the conclusion of the panel >crowd is erupting, geysers of cum everywhere >precipitates worldwide uprising against SJWs >millions of soiboi faggots and pink-haired dykes put to the sword >Angela Merkel crucified, rapefugees rounded up and sent back to Africa >SCOTUS declares all gun laws unconstitutional, universal concealed carry cemented as a right; wall erected days later
Dylan Sanders
Now I am become
Isaiah Turner
they don't.. Disneyland's StarWars land had major drop also merchandise aren't selling well either
I feel like these rumors are started by people who are uncomfortable about the whole identity politics discussion, and want to drag everything back to "muh capitalism". Luke was character assassinated for feminism. How more clear does it need to be?
Nathan Wilson
Wow, that's not smart. I like mysteries to be answered, but the answers adding even more mysteries. That's what will keep me coming back long haul.
Aiden Carter
Because that doesn't explain why the OT has very little presence at Galaxy's Edge.
Why is that considered a secret? Rey has always been the lead and everyone else supported her. Only Finncels believed that this human 3PO was equal to Rey and that he will still be revealed as the main hero. Sure after failing to sell toys and after Boyega bombed every movie he headlined.
Brody Rivera
And they do. They show up everywhere, whether it's Vader in Rouge One, or everyone in Battlefront.
Nolan Johnson
Faggets shoulda done KOTOR
Jaxon Sanchez
You just KNOW
Logan Garcia
this guy gets it
Justin Ross
Based autistic deepdive into Nu-Wars aliens.
Joshua Sanders
3 of those characters haven't even met Rey
Hudson Bell
>buy such a large and expensive IP >make deliberately poor use of it
Mon Mothma wasn't an Admiral though, she's just the leader of the rebellion and was originally a senator
Ryder Nelson
>And that's a good thing Weird catchphrase
Blake Perry
She's an important woman in a dress. That's what people remember.
Jacob Brooks
That doesn't explain why the aliens got changed
Jack Perez
If you don't include the original characters you get something like Men In Black: International which underperformed instead of a box office record like TFA.
Jace Allen
whom*
Jeremiah Nguyen
Every Star Wars movie introduced new aliens. You're also assuming these people have a working knowledge of the existing world-building, and aren't just throwing shit at a wall.
Brayden Harris
Can't be. The Marvel comics and books are bringing back way too many old characters for that to be true.
Jayden Phillips
The Prequels had none of the legacy actors, and only much younger and different versions of old characters. The Star Wars universe at least used to have enough pull on it's own that you could just wipe the slate clean and people would want to watch it anyway.
>Wow, that's not smart. I like mysteries to be answered, but the answers adding even more mysteries. That's what will keep me coming back long haul.
Lost went on for, like, 8 seasons. And it was nothing but mystery box shit. Abrams tested his method and it worked. People don't care about the substance, just the flash.
Brody Moore
Would actually be cool if they went full space fantasy for a FF game. I don't think they've done that, have they?
Chase Morales
>I remember reading EU books stating many are made with "transparisteel" Let me guess, wrote AFTER the movie? Because it often happens that some book tried to retro-actively fix a mistake or oddity appearing in the movies,the Parsec thing to name one.
Carson Miller
>Dude I'm totally justified because ???????
Camden Sanchez
I honestly don't like his ways. It's at best setting people up for disappointment. Because you have no planned answer, whatever you later make can be completely disconnected from both audience expectations and the movie itself. Speaking of expectations, it's possible to over-hype and get expectations way too high to deliver. Even doing a "good" job ain't enough because the audience expects even better. I feel it's directionless and sets up the audience for disappointment
Mason Cruz
they're bringing them back now for the sake of self-preservation
Nicholas Hall
How does this make sense when the Solo movie exists? Didn't Disney even want to do a trilogy of it or something? I say this rumor is bullshit and Kathleen & Friends are just absolutely incompetent.
this make so much sense that's no way can be anything but this
Joshua King
>implying it really happened
Kevin Nelson
BASED.
Jonathan Thompson
They still want people to buy new toys. You change the design slightly, so that the collectors have to buy it again. This isn't a new idea.
Caleb Clark
>>Rebels >Bootleg resistance. Ya got that backwards.
Jace Gonzalez
>new aliens >that happen to be knock-offs of established aliens >while other established aliens were getting written out
Jason Barnes
>It's at best setting people up for disappointment. Because you have no planned answer,
JJ Abram's "mystery box" technique is about making promises, not keeping them. You promise the audience that something is in the box and keep promising that it will be revealed. But nothing is in the box. You stretch it out for as many seasons or sequels as you can get and squeeze as much profit from that audience as you can. Then when it's over, you just throw something you made up on the spot out as the answer.
At that point, it doesn't matter if the audience is satisfied or not. The series is already over and you already got every penny from them you were going to get. JJ's mistake was in leaving Star Wars after 1 movie instead of sticking around for 3. As a result, Rian Johnson dropped the box and showed everyone there was nothing inside too early.
Aiden Martin
>Ewoks >kind of like Wookies, but smaller
Joshua Green
Still shows reliance on established characters and continuous plot lines though. Maybe Fantastic Beasts would pull big numbers if it had focused on young Dumbledore.
Adrian Perez
this guy definitely has a subscription to an estrogenic drink blend
Robert Cooper
I miss the Vongs even these edgies were btter than Nu Wars
Zachary Bell
>You should start using terms that highlight how much of creatively bankrupt hacks these people are. Don't tell me what to do you dumb piece of shit. Unironically have sex.
Julian Reed
And yet the Ewoks still looked different from Wookies on a vast scale , unlike the changes made for Disney era aliens
Xavier Martinez
Why buy the franchise if you want to just wipe the slate clean and start a new story?
It's obviously because they had some sort of agenda they wanted to push, and decided to push it in the context of star wars- ie the subconscious ideology that they're pushing isn't popular, and they're afriad that it would be utterly rejected and flop, if they didn't package it in Star Wars instead of a completely new space opera setting they completely owned the rights to.
Compare and contrast the originals and prequels to the followup movies. The whole vibe is completely different; I doubt most people can explain it in conscious terms- they just say that the new films suck..... but ironically, they're just trusting their feelings; something is amiss in the franchise.
>What's the poison pill they're using SWs to push and make easier to swallow?
There literally isn't anything else in the field; except Star Trek- and yet somehow Disney still managed to screw it up completely. Why?
>>Rey >Bootleg genderbender Luke. >>Poe >Bootleg half of Han Solo character. "Charismatic and don't like to follow rules". >>Finn >Bootleg other half of Han Solo character. "Coming from a criminal background and unwilling to help". >>Rose >Most pathetic attempt at a new character ever. Became bootleg Jar Jar because of it. >>Holdo >Bootleg Ackbar. >>BB-8 >Bootleg R2-D2. >>First Order >Bootleg Empire. >>Kylo Ren >Bootleg Anaking from Revenge of the Sith. >>Rebels >Bootleg resistance. >>Hux >Bootleg Tarkin. This. When you look at it, the rumor about Disney wanting to reboot Star Wars for the sake of not paying license fees becomes increasingly more true. Everything within the Disney continuity is essentially rentals and replacements of preexisting material, but with a Far-Leftist vibe added to everything in order to make it "different". It's essentially cultural revisionism ala Communism masking itself as Capitalism, but the sane fans that are left are seeing through the bullshit, hence the plummeting revenue, project cancellations, and declining general interest in the IP.
>big red X on Luke's face >on a desk of a male employee who is pro-empire I'm not really a fan of Nu-Wars, but this ridiculous sexist conspiracy crap is tiresome.
I would love to laugh at JJ being forced to open the box.
Grayson Foster
How many of the redesigned aliens mentioned in were made into action figures?
Jose Morgan
I'm still half expecting they'll reveal Rey really is Kylo's sister. They're too similar to Jacen and Jaina.
Christian Peterson
That way it would have been better
Kayden Johnson
Uncultured and uncivilized savages don't know the importance of rape. They will soon.
Kayden Baker
and is the head of her daughter ah ah I wonder how much would it cost to manifacture a fake but realistic looking severed head that could fool someone from upclose.
Carson Sullivan
Not so much, I dare you to find a Bothan or a Ithorian figure
William Cruz
>>Rey Bootleg Rule 63 Luke + Jaina Solo + Mara Jade >Holdo Bootleg Ackbar + Mon Mothma >Kylo Ren Bootleg RotS Anakin + Darth Revan + Jacen Solo
Dunno. Would not surprise me if they had a general rule to change everything a little bit, in case they decide to merchandise later on. You never know which character fans will take to. They're pre-empting a Boba Fett.
Dominic Baker
Darth Gaga?
Xavier Reyes
he seems surprisingly healthy I predict he will buy star wars back at age 90 and use his billions of dollars to CGI Mark Hamil, Lea and Han back into existance to make a proper episodes 7 8 9.
Mark hamil will be on his death bed and finally see the real episode 7, we will smirk and die in peace
Adrian Thomas
>At that point, it doesn't matter if the audience is satisfied or not. The series is already over and you already got every penny from them you were going to get. JJ's mistake was in leaving Star Wars after 1 movie instead of sticking around for 3. As a result, Rian Johnson dropped the box and showed everyone there was nothing inside too early.
And now JJ has to actually conclude the series.
Aiden Gutierrez
>we will smirk and become one with the force Fixed
Austin Jackson
>I'd gladly fight side by side with a nationalist commie as opposed to a globalist libertarian.
wtf??? All the commies are (globalists))) and all the libertarians are either nationalists or individualists? wtf are you one about
Aiden Green
I have been saying they should be the rights holders for a while
Did you not see it? The comments of really any of the actors posts were a fucking dumpster
Blake Robinson
>sunglasses
N..nani?
Hunter Hernandez
This looks like a guy with a shitty YouTube channel that is trying to get people to know who he is. His source is his ass.
Nicholas Wright
It's actually kind of fitting that he started his mystery box shit, Johnson fucked it up, now he has to try and put the lid back on it and convince the audience that the box wasn't empty. Sad thing is, all the jaded Star Wars fans will go see Episode IX ANYWAY because "Well, I saw the FIRST TWO so I might as well get some closure and see this one. But's it's my last Star Wars movie, I swear!"
Jackson Davis
Fuck me dude the RLM prediction of the time travel plot gets more real every day.
Josiah King
Cringe
Zachary Harris
>Lucas miraculously buys it back, which will never happen. could happen but not any time soon. I can see it happen in 10 to 15 years when Lucas is like 88 or 90
Jonathan Edwards
>nationalist commie
A what? I'd give you better odds of finding an actual living unicorn.
Alexander Hughes
They’re both internationalist. Any libertarian that tells you they’re nationalist is a liar. Corporations are internationalist by design.
Lincoln Nelson
Japan loves Star Wars. Dunno if it'll be good or bad but it'll be super-passionate.
>It's not a feminist conspiracy or a globalist conspiracy or whatever.
Disney employees and clickbait media constantly calling the fans sexist for not liking a movie make it very plausible though. Before if you didn't like a movie or didn't want to see a movie, you didn't have a bunch of millionaires trying to rally a mob against you.
Jeremiah Moore
>Would actually be cool if they went full space fantasy for a FF game. I'd rather not. Square already has Star Ocean for that, which they've butchered. FF is a shell of its former greatness and is milquetoast weebshit nowadays.
Luis Davis
>Do you think Red Letter Media would have shilled TFA if it was a original story with no nostalgia waved in front of them? but that's what they disliked about the movie though
Leo King
>Japan loves Star Wars. They used to before the Disney acquisition. They didn't like TLJ at all, nor did they like Solo.
Oliver Hernandez
It doesn't really matter if he was a good character. He's the character they made after weeks of deliberating and planning and he wasn't even good enough to have a role in the story despite being the villain.
It's just sad, an exercise in incompetence.
Evan Brooks
Historically a lot of communist movements were very isolationist and strongly nationalist, like the ones led by Enver Hoxha and Thomas Sankara, both of whom modernized their backwater shitholes while emphatically refusing all foreign aid. You don't hear about them because they don't fit the American mainstream narrative of "communism means evil toothbrush stealers" or even the modern left's narrative of "communism means the Soviet Union giving me millions to write slam poetry about the plight of black trans otherkin immigrants." Read more genuine 20th century political theory and history and spend less time getting your worldview from memes.
Nathan Clark
IS THIS PICTURE REAL?
Jonathan Hernandez
I could come up with a list of problems with the movie, and how they could have and should have been easily fixed; but what's the point?
My dislike for the last fiasco of a starwars movie is such that I can't even remember it's name half the time. I know it was in the SW universe, but somehow it didn't even feel like a Star Wars movie. I'm surprised I even took the time to say that I don't want to take the time to talk or think about it anymore; which is really sad, because I loved Star Wars when I was a kid. And, if the conspiracy theorists are right, it's even worse then I thought- and that some people went out of there way to deliberately make the best "worst" starwars movie they possibly could- simply because they wanted to destory that love and adoration people had for the franchise.
All they use to do was say, "Please give our movie a shot, we worked very hard. please wait till you see the finished product"
Which is a great high road answer. Ever since ghostbusters filmmakers and producers have been alienating the fans by calling them racist/sexist/virgin manbabies.
How the fuck can anyone just insult the fanbase like that and not expect backlash?
Adam Sanders
>Japan loves Star Wars. Last Jedi did badly over there. It killed long term interest in the brand not just in the US, but in overseas markets, too.
Christopher Stewart
Most likely because the new story group hates men. They're under the impression to make their characters look good other characters need to be torn down.
>can see it happen in 10 to 15 years when Lucas is like 88 or 90 He'll probably be dead from diabetes or something by then given how fat he is. Plus, Disney has some of the most powerful lawyers in history, so it's even less likely. One could hope that they realize that their purchase of Star Wars was wasted and they eventually sell it off on their own, similar to what happened to Saban and Power Rangers, but ehhh....
>How the fuck can anyone just insult the fanbase like that and not expect backlash?
They've been doing that with MCU movies like Black Panther and Captain Marvel. Both have been billion dollar films. Others assume that if the MCU can get away with it, they can too.
Connor James
And how have those people not been fired yet? That's a massive PR blunder.
Wow you’re on another level of delusional if you honestly think that’s even remotely possible.
Luis Reed
libertarians arent pro corporations. If the corporation starts telling the layman what to do the libertarian will advocate its destruction. Libertarians are anti international and pro individual
Ryder Collins
>libertarians arent pro corporations.
You’re fucking delusional.
Brayden Anderson
Captain Marvel did okay, but there was also the Endgame factor added to it. Black Panther appears to be a legit success. The real test is in seeing how well Phase 4 MCU will go because the view is getting split based on people's PR blunders on Twitter.
Ghostbusters 2016 did terribly, Last Jedi wasn't a complete flop but definitely underperformed.
Xavier Evans
Not that guy but there were loads of wrong with the film besides the tiny nitpicks they gave. They were clearly pulling punches.
William Robinson
so you think libertarians support Twitter and Google speech codes? Maybe you are the delusional one
Daniel Reyes
>Disney wanted to BTFO star wars nerds >instead they BTFO themselves Pottery of the HIGHEST caliber
Unequivocally yes. Libertarian dorks shout “if you don’t like it make your own platform.”
Jackson Taylor
>libertarians are retards who don't even really have proper political beliefs
correct
Zachary Thomas
The story is based on the Sequel Trilogy, but the actual land has references out the ass to all the movies, cartoons, and spinoff material.
Ethan Allen
I think the funniest part is that when they ripped off Bastila's character, they didn't realise her arrogance and ego weren't supposed to be positive character traits.
Henry White
>How the fuck can anyone just insult the fanbase like that and not expect backlash? This decade has seen some of the most powerfully inept bullshit ever due to the shift in politics and the wider prevalence of the internet that even MGS2 predicted. Insane vocal minorities, particularly from the Left, are gaining more control over society. Stuff you'd usually get fired over nowadays gets you promoted. Stuff that was seen as disgusting back then is now seen as "brave" & "inspirational" today. Criticism is now "harassment." If you fail, you win. These social justice fucks want to bring everyone down to their level by destroying morals and old laws for the sake of making themselves feel more better than their opposition since they view the world as a bleak place, seeing the human body as a temple for their own twisted pleasures. Thusly, it shouldn't come as a surprise to see these same types of """people"'" in charge of nu-Wars, thinking their immune to all accusations and seeing themselves as impenetrable gods of the industry that can do no wrong.
That's one of the biggest problems that made me hate TFA when it came out. They have no damn idea what made the material they copy work. At best, they copy surface details with no idea how the inner workings operate. The end result is a cheap bastardization with no sustenance.
Carson Mitchell
Good old i was just pretending to be retarded card
Logan Jackson
Yes, because regulations are verboten.
Charles Robinson
Sounds like bullshit
Asher Long
I dont think tgere is 100% agreement across all libertarians on that but if tgere is, I owe you a coke user. Im no libertarian so i dont know for sure but im pretty sure some libertarians will fight against monopolistic controll.
Isaac Garcia
>Do you think Red Letter Media would have shilled TFA if it was a original story with no nostalgia waved in front of them? I said it then and I maintain they must have been paid.
William Morgan
>The older fans that Disney so loathed have all turned their backs, and there are no younger fans, because kids don't give a fuck about Star Wars anymore. So Disney pulled a Maddox?
Nolan Stewart
>>rumors escalating that they're planning to remake the Original Trilogy evidence? >shill access media Is this your name for RLM? >2.) Lucas miraculously buys it back, which will never happen. WHY THE FUCK WOULDN'T HE?
Ryder Thomas
Wait, so they wanted to kill off the original characters but left Leia alive? That doesn't make any sense.
>Star Wars would start dragging capeshit down, because having yet another identical script with a star wars coat of paint might start waking up their retarded audiences to the fact that it's all the fucking same. >People already cottoned on to how badly TLJ tried to ape it. I never watch capeshit, so I have no frame of reference. I enjoyed TLJ, but hated TFA and Rogue One.
Wyatt Ross
Why they kept her alive especially after the coke queen died in real life i will never understand
Mason Gomez
Guess who is dieing in episode 9.
Charles Wilson
>I enjoyed TLJ
how is that even possible? all meming aside the movie in itself has a terrible story and pacing whats there to enjoy?
Christian Roberts
He sold it for 4 billion. Disney would probably want 6 or maybe even 8 billion for it.
Charles Reyes
People always fail to see Hanlon's Razor. >Kennedy was a glorified secretary and paper pusher for Lucas and Spielberg. Also happens to be a feminist, which is a form of mental illness >Abrams and Johnson on record saying they weren't really given much of an outline, despite there being a strongk PoC in charge of the story continuity >Abrams having few tricks up his sleeve other than MYSTERY BOX >Johnson being a hipster faggot and being on record YOUR SNOKE THEORY SUCKS They're just incompetent. Kennedy has no vision or creative talent. She hired people based on superficial traits, and their universe story team is filled with nobodies and mediocrity. Abrams is great at packaging some superficial stuff, but he's a one trick pony who is getting long in the tooth. Johnson was in over his head, who should've stuck to smaller budget films for his post modern quirky shit. Everyone below them are just trying to take advantage of an opportunity, and the cast has been hedging their bets since TFA. Any of this rumor shit is just that, rumors, and ignoring the known facts.
Dominic Rivera
I don't know what to say. I didn't expect to enjoy it. I hated the obsessively fast pace of TFA, and the absolute NOTHING happening in Rogue One. TFA had a decent pace, and I liked the idea of a legitimate science fiction problem. Instead of dumb space battles. Their ship is being tracked, and they have a limited amount of space-warps possible, and they need to find their way to a specific part of the ship, or something. It's been a while, so I don't remember exactly what they did. No where near as good as OT (which I hadn't seen in a long time), and watching the OT shortly afterwards, and realizing all the call-backs annoyed me.
Like the time I watched Home Alone 2 with my family, and then went back tp watch Home Alone 1. All the "oh gawd I'm watching a shitty beat-for-beat sequel" problems except they kicked in on the first movie.
Gavin Torres
I really think it's two things 1. they were stupid and fell for the hype 1. they realised the film had been made to their specifications, and they couldn't admit they may have been wrong about a few things
Charles Diaz
>They're just incompetent
Yeah no shit the easiest answer is the truth. They got it on a whim and instead of taking a year to plan shit out they rushed into it making shit up as they went along.
Its obvious they had no idea what they had or what to do with it
Nolan Walker
>1 twice Fuck, I'm retarded. You know what I mean.
Nolan Rogers
Awesome post.
Matthew Sullivan
>and they couldn't admit they may have been wrong about a few things That's probably it. They do shit like devote large portions of prequel irrelevant videos on prequel bashing. They have some problems and being unable to admit they're wrong is one of them.
Chase Gomez
>Disney would probably want 6 or maybe even 8 billion for it. Maybe Amazon could acquire it. They saved The Expanse. I could see them saving Star Wars, giving it the respect it deserves, and possibly using it as a gateway for bolstering Amazon Studios to compete in Hollywood.
Lucas James
>and they couldn't admit they may have been wrong about a few things
Mike kind of begrudgingly admitted it when he said that JJ shouldn't be writing, but only directing.
Ayden Anderson
The problem is that it's so utterly internally inconsistent that it sabotages itself. The tracking thing, for example, loses all its edge when you realise that they clearly weren't tracking shuttles coming out of the ship, or monitoring communications.
Nolan Morgan
Yeah, I was surprised to find out the TFA Plinkett review was nearly 50% Lucas jabs and Prequel jabs.
Levi Flores
It's ironic. They made a review just as nostalgia-pandering and "remember the past" as TFA was. And like TFA, it was a disjoint, disconnected mess. Someone could probably do a plinkett-style review on their reviews and show how badly those reviews fail as reviews.
Elijah Lee
Beautiful
Ryder Adams
>Why they kept her alive especially after the coke queen died in real life i will never understand Maybe her contract was the most flexible, or her pre-planned arch was the most inflexible?
Juan Jackson
More likely that she was the cheapest for a long term contract. Hamil and Ford can still work, and both get asses in seats when they do.
Luke Green
It's not just the JJ thing. The reviews go to lengths to say how genius the simplicity of the big empire vs small rebels plot of the OT, while criticising the PT for not doing that. Lo and behold, TFA copies that plot, and it's a complete rehash and a failure of worldbuilding. They said, combat should be weighty, not flashy. TFA fights are weighty, not flashy, and they're really boring. Pretty sure they also championed the "relatable characters and believable dialogue" idea, which just gave us a cast of the same vaguely sarcastic snarkers we get in every modern movie, completely robbing Star Wars of that operatic feel.
>Pretty sure they also championed the "relatable characters and believable dialogue" idea, which just gave us a cast of the same vaguely sarcastic snarkers we get in every modern movie, completely robbing Star Wars of that operatic feel. Nah, that was Whedon's fault. It can all be traced back to him, but in his defence it actually worked in most of his material due to the context.
Nolan Moore
most people only know surface level details about star wars which is why its being reused. lucas was the only one who understood the setting.
Wyatt Martin
>lucas was the only one who understood the setting.
>Of course they bought tickets, it's not even a stretch. China does it to their movies all the time. [citation needed]
Kevin Rodriguez
George seemed more interested in the themes of Star Wars than hard lore though. I think he encouraged Dave Filoni to not worry about established lore too much "just do something cool", which is maybe not terrible advice. In the end, there are only a certain number of fans who will even notice when you contradict something that was established in a comic twenty years ago.
