Mine is they shouldn’t have made the sequel series without George as a consultant.
Magic has no place in science fiction.
I’d argue it’s the other way around: Science has no place in space fantasy. That’s why fans were so annoyed by the midichlorian nonsense - it sought to explain the magic through science.
I can’t comment on “space fantasy” specifically, but I like when fantasy builds complex science and engineering on top of their magic. The magic in something like the Stormlight Archive is compelling in its own right, but it’s massively enhanced by seeing how the ancient civilizations leveraged it to build advanced societies, and how they invent new things using the lower level tools over the course of the story.
If midichlorians were their connection to the Force and that was it it’d be one thing, where Lucas really fucked up was making it a quantifiable power level thing.
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I loved TFA, but also really enjoyed Rise of Skywalker (yes, I’m the one). Though TLJ was appalling though.
Hard to say, it just felt right to me, the tone was back to something similar to TFA and away from the horrendous attempts at ironic humour that TLJ had (the “Can You Hear Me Now” bit, the lightsaber toss, the “It’s salt” bit, the fucking Porgs, the milking scene…)
As dumb an idea though it was, I still kind of like the grandiose madness of bringing Palatine back as the big bad. And I thought the scenes where Rey confronts him, with the audience of Sith watching, were great, the kind of high stakes, overblown melodrama that Star Wars always did so well.
I liked the use of Rey and Ben’s psychic link (which admittedly was one of the few things in TLJ that I liked), especially the lightsaber handover.
I thought the resolution of Ben and Han Solo’s story was handled beautifully, a really moving moment IMO.
And the part where Lando shows up with half the galaxy genuinely made me want to cheer in the cinema.
All I can say is that I came out of my first viewing feeling great, feeling, “Yeah, that was a Star Wars movie!”
So when everyone hated it, I was genuinely surprised tbh!
The comedic bits were one of the few highlights for me in TLJ. Weird how positive you came out of it. RoS was one of the few movies I’ve watched where I dislike it during the middle of the runtime. I thought the online reception of it was exaggerated but I came out thinking “I get it now”.
Also, the plot points you mentioned I wanted to like when they were shown but they were always a let down. Like the Palpatine fight with the cultists watching was so thematic but the actual fight was so bad. The light saber toss with the psychic link was cool though (even if it did make my eyebrow raise out of my forehead in how odd the rules are for it).
Fair enough - different strokes for different folks, I guess. And my positive view on RoS is certainly not one shared by many people! :-)
They should have it directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Should have had them directed by Quentin Tarantino.
I wonder why r2d2 doesn’t simply close the stargates with his avatar powers (earth, wind, fire). 🤔
No air?!
I think Acolyte would have been a good show if they had ditched the kung fu gimmick and concentrated more on the writing. I think the overall story was a good idea that got buried under a mountain of marketing crap.
Star Wars is a story about toxic masculinity ending up galactically consequential
I’m kind of curious about this take. What do you mean?
Jedi took Anakin as a small boy away from his mother and told him “not to worry” about her (a slave on a hostile planet), because apparently experiencing fear is a slippery slope towards becoming an evil mass murderer (warrior of the Dark Side).
Then, when she was killed, he was not allowed to grieve, either.
Then Anakin got visions of Padmé, his wife, dying in childbirth, all while Jedi restricted any marriages to begin with and essentially have cut him out of any counseling, while Yoda doubled down on “ignore your feelings” line.
The entire story of Anakin on the Light Side is the story of everyone neglecting the absolute base emotions he has experienced and trying to raise him as a “tough man” he never was.
Palpatine has seen all of it unfolding, and he knew very well Anakin wasn’t an emotionless robot Jedi wanted to make of him, and all it took was exploiting Anakin’s raising wave of anxiety over Padmé’s fate along with his desperate escape into careerism to switch him to the Dark Side, where he, as Darth Vader, will end up destroying worlds and commanding an authoritarian dystopia.
Nice. I could totally see it. Andrew Tate stoic shit.
Ah yes, if only the jedi were more woke and effeminate.
Wasn’t that the plot of the Acolyte?
Yep, that’d probably end up better.
Dude committed several genocides because he had mommy issues and killed the first woman he had sex with because she sided with his adoptive dad on whether being strong or being reasonable was more important and then decided to join the literal fascists. It doesn’t get any more masculinity troubles than that.
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Hold on, this whole operation was your idea!
“disney trilogy bad” is a cold take. its not a hot take if every nerd on the planet agrees.
anyways the last jedi is the only good movie in the sequel trilogy. the people who didnt like it would rather watch a correct movie than a good one.
I want to explore the universe that has been created; I am so sick of space wizards and good vs evil
Well… Skeleton Crew apparently does that so I’ve heard
Will check out, thanks fellow Lemmy friend
“Book of Boba Fett” ruined Boba Fett…
Not really a hot take tbh
the last jedi is a top 3 star wars movie
id put it right above empire, with rots as number 1
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If by nuclear you mean OBJECTIVELY WRONG rabble rabble rabble
The only good thing that came out of the prequels was the pod racing game on the Nintendo 64.
Now THIS is podracing!
That’s a lukewarm take tbh
I love the idea Kylo Ren. Unhinged man child who worships Vader for all the wrong reasons. His soldiers are afraid of him and work around him and pity him. I love having such a broken villain.
I loved when Rey’s parents were nobodies.
I loved that Luke was a scared and broken. Should have felt crippling pity for that guard he force choked in a Jabba’s palace. Still. I loved it.
And while I’m at it. Frozen. I wanted so desperately for Hans to be entirely sympathetic and just not in love will Anna. Movie is mostly the same until Anna gets back and needs the kiss to fix her and he tries and… Nothing. Then. I dunno. Finish the movie some other way.
Bro did a 360 degree Ollie backflip with the Frozen commentary LMAO 🤣
They should have had a trilogy story arc planned out before making the new movies made the directors play within that.
How do you know “somehow Palpatine returned” wasn’t the plan from the beginning?
Because JJ Abrams never knows how he wants to end anything at the beginning.
For episode 7 it looked like they had a plan and the made a huge turn and all the beats from the first movie just fizzled
