Regardless of how 9 turns out, it still baffles me that the full trilogy was not mapped out in any way to ensure at least somewhat consistent narrative or character/story arcs. That will always be the silliest decision in my mind.
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The Rise of Skywalker (2019) social media impressions
- Thread starter Cross-Section
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They will be fine, it was the other side who was filled with manbabies who didn't get what they wanted.
They wouldn't get mad just because JJ didn't go the way they wanted.
You know Kennedy was involved with Jurassic World until extremely late in the game.
Her and Spielberg struggled on JP4 for years the fact that she was likely aware of the direction World was going, Spielberg supporting him and then World being an absolutely massive success she was probably all over him as well.
There are very specific things wrong with the execution of GoT S8 vs previous seasons, and the comparisons seem very pointed.
It's shorthand for "things happen because they need to happen, not because it's narratively interesting"
you dont usually get this many bad social media impressions even when the movie is bad, like BvS. this cant bode well and hopefully they learned and will make better movies in the future
As someone who really enjoyed TLJ, and even liked TFA, hearing that episode 9 basically shits on TLJ makes me sad.
Same, I actually like TFA. But I can't say I care to see this movie if it just exists to throw TLJ under the bus and ape Return of the Jedi like TFA did ANH. But I'm not gonna put too much weight into these reactions.
Interesting to see how divisive it is. Will it become the new Last Jedi on this forum or will everyone yell at each other about both of them?
I'm going Friday night at 8, looking forward to seeing it.
I'm going Friday night at 8, looking forward to seeing it.
Critics are way more negetive than with episodes 7 and 8. :(
How the fuck is shit like this acceptable? They should've either handed it to one person or shoulda just taken whatever story concept George Lucas came up with, and handed it to worthwhile directors.
Disney fucked up a sure winner.
SW fans were incredibly arrogant back then too, I hate to say it but I was as wrapped up in it as anyone.
I remember my friends asking if I wanted to see "The Mummy" which was playing a couple of weeks before and I refused because I didn't want to ruin my "palette" for the "movie of the decade" which was Star Wars.
Sadly, I'd come to realize in time The Mummy (1999) is a better movie than Phantom Menace by a pretty fair margin, lol.
I guess the problem there is that when you look at the original trilogy, it too was kind of made up as they went along, and they had other directors besides George behind the other installments (Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand). Meanwhile, you have the prequel trilogy, and this time, George was in charge of the entire saga, and well, we all know how that turned out.
So I guess with the sequel trilogy, Lucasfilm/Disney were sort of trying to recreate what they did with the OT, by making up the story as they went along and having a different director for each film. Abrams for TFA, Johnson for TLJ, and Trevorrow for TROS...but all we know how that turned out. Hence why we're back to Abrams.
After just rewatching TLJ now in preparation for tomorrow this makes me very happy. The continuation of the Rey-Kylo ballet at the edge of light and darkness is something that I really want. And reading that it's properly done makes me hyped. Can't wait for tomorrow.
It's being crapped on now.
The ratio seems to be 55% positive and 45% negative at least from critics on Twitter.
Oh no. I'm still going to see it though. If anything JJ delivers a good ride once then you tear it apart because flash doesn't last.
This is basically my ranking, (having not seen 9) except I'd swap 1 and 3. So I'm guessing this is about how I'd feel about it.
...Fuck
Hmmmmm
I might go see this tomorrow. Not sure to be honest, i don't really care for J.J. and TLJ wasn't my cup of tea either. All these modern Star Wars movies have been just alright at best, but nothing that i ever thought was worth spending money on and certainly not worth rewatching. So in that respect none of these come close to the OG trilogy. But i am mildly curious to see how this wraps up and just to have context for the decades worth of forum bickering that will inevitably take place.
I'm a bit surprised how mixed these reactions seemed to be. Usually these tend to be overflowing with praise.
I might go see this tomorrow. Not sure to be honest, i don't really care for J.J. and TLJ wasn't my cup of tea either. All these modern Star Wars movies have been just alright at best, but nothing that i ever thought was worth spending money on and certainly not worth rewatching. So in that respect none of these come close to the OG trilogy. But i am mildly curious to see how this wraps up and just to have context for the decades worth of forum bickering that will inevitably take place.
I'm a bit surprised how mixed these reactions seemed to be. Usually these tend to be overflowing with praise.
This is honestly hilarious (I mean this in a good way). I remember the hype as a kid.
I think thats what they were doing. The way Luke was handled in TLJ is from Lucas for example.
but then a certain type of fans hated it so much (and liked Rougue One so much) that they back pedaled hard and changed course
Something a character needs for plot reasons, but doesn't matter in and of itself.
Think pieces of the Triforce or something, or the suitcase from Pulp Fiction
I'll enjoy this if they NAIL everything with Kylo-Rey , as they are far the most interesting, best part of the ST. Everything else I'll just deal with
TFA is the only SW movie to end on a literal cliffhanger, of course you had to pick right here, we see Luke after so many years and we do a timejump?
Hmm, this is pretty close to my own ranking (minus 9 of course.)
Great post, but I keeep discussing because I love talking about this and if we don't have the people that mostly enjoy all of it discussing it will become a mess.
Means a death sentence to whatever bullshit/promises already sprouted about the "future" of SW?
Brah, if it's actually GoT S8 level of fuckery... I just...I can't bring myself to believing that. That was next level.
Yeah, this sounds really great to me actually.
Yeah, this sounds really great to me actually.
Things that lead the cast to further the plot that serve no purpose to said plot.