Posted on 12/20/2017 7:34:58 AM PST by C19fan
There is a great disturbance in the Force: Angry Star Wars fans are petitioning Disney to discard The Last Jedi, the eighth installment in the Skywalker saga released last Friday, and remake the film.
More than 7,000 fans have signed a Change.org petition titled “Have Disney strike Star Wars Episode VIII from the official canon” as of Tuesday morning, after being disappointed with writer-director Rian Johnson’s continuation of the beloved space saga. Warning: Spoilers ahead.
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Just being pedantic. :-)
Now, The Thing (original)
Same group that advocates the destruction of Civil War monuments.....
Lol, its that bad, huh?
Just watched the trailer for STC. Thank you!
The whole Star Wars universe moved into the Cantina Bar a long time ago. The Force = Diversity and you will be made to care.
These people obviously don’t have a real life, so they put an unnatural emphasis on the world of make-believe.
1. The fact that the protagonist is a girl (yes, it's true but she's written the same as Luke in ANH and no one complained about his upbringing.
2. Luke. Some see this cranky hermit and think he's been written horribly. Some see his past haunting him to where he doesn't want to help anymore. Mark Hamill mentioned he disagreed with how his character was written for the movie but still did it after speaking up and out over it.
3. The biggest, though, is that the new movies discarded everything that had been written for 20+ years to make the Extended Universe - and went their own path, throwing away that much written material. (Admittedly, some of the books were incredible, and some that are toilet paper quality.)
Personally, the plot was weak in some points, the film pacing made you think it was weeks on end - when it was really about 48 standard hours - hardly any time for the events to happen (such as travel via spaceship to the ass end of nowhere - and back) as well as two of the three primary characters being badly written.
My additonal complaint is the forced actions of the protagonist in a feeble attempt to save the villain which is a common lazy writing theme of "virgin good girl saves abusive bad guy with love" which is rubbish times twenty.
Add those things together and while it looks incredible, the story falls flat mostly.
I was entertained for it, even with overlooking some of the liberal themes foisted onto the movie (such as weapons dealing being a neutral thing 'cept for being utterly filthy rich; the slave kids; making another protagonist a hot headed fly boy who can't follow orders, etc.) and see how some things work, others don't.
I can't see how they can rescue the last one to make it spectacular - but merely entertaining.
Somewhere in a galaxy far far away is a man named Luke running around naked.
In the new movie he “ascends” and his clothes are left behind.
The movie first 15 mins were good but then a long boring movie happened after that. The Han jr and Leia jr actors look like B movie actors on a Star Wars fan film on Youtube.
“Just watched the trailer for STC. Thank you!”
No problem :-) ... It took me a couple of minutes to get over new actors playing Spock, Kirk, Scotty, Bones, etc. After that, I was impressed :-). It’s pretty damn good! Better than Voyager ;-).
I stopped caring after the first three.
God has a plan, remember...?
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Disney is all about "girl power". All their movies are for a girl audience. Their "Disney Princesses" are their main money-makers.
Who should be surprised that they would make this latest movie into yet another "Disney princess" movie, where the men are all bumblers and the women have to save the day?
I guess that’s how you tell them apart. This one has pointy ears, or a forehead ridge, or three dents in the side of his head like an old Buick.
Its not that bad, but it does have some very obvious execution issues, but it has a larger concept issue in that it moves away from the good v evil classic narrative into the shades of grey world view... and that will probably cost the franchise long term.
See post 27
The Rose character...
oh, yeah. I agree. total pc bull that added nothing to the story. Heck, for that matter what is Fin’s purpose? None of this makes sense.
I feel so sorry for Luke, Leia and Han
And they all lived... awfully ever after it seems.
I’m not even accusing it of PC nonsense, the character itself was just horribly written, period... then to top it off the actress could not act... every time she came on the screen it was like watching a community theater actress, in an original play written by some local want to be playwright.
And yes the entire sub plot she was part of made no sense, didn’t work, and was ill conceived and executed as well... but even if the character had been superbly written, the actress was not up to the task.
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