Posted on 06/26/2018 10:44:50 AM PDT by servo1969
Kathleen Kennedy is the root cause for this once great franchise decline.
Her liberal, girly boy characters are a joke.
Star Wars: The Flamethrower.”
The kids love them
The original Star Wars was fun. It was a space swashbuckler and did not take itself so seriously.
The Empire Strikes Back wasn't as fun because they started getting more serious.
Return of the Jedi jumped the shark by including Teddy Bears.
The RiffTrax (rifftrax.com) send up makes it. I don’t recommend watching without the riffs.
Solo’s failure scared Disney executives who presumed that every Star Wars movie would be a billion-dollar cash cow.
I haven’t seen Solo, but blame it’s failure on Rian Johnson, who used The Last Jedi to kill the Star Wars mythology.
Kathleen Kennedy hired Rian Johnson, and should be fired for having done so.
Replace her with Peter Jackson.
Despite the hobbit movies, he showed his brilliance with the LOTR trilogy.
[It’s not 13 year old boys that were buying up all the Star Wars stuff.]
You’re not kidding! At my job, there are PLENTY of adult men with cubicles FULL of SW toys and every piece of SW s**t imaginable.
And gay robots
Sounds like Disney needs someone with Balls
In Luke’s first scene, have him say:
“My lightsaber!”
“Hell yeah!”
If the force is female, that explains Darth Vader...
at least several days of the month.
A man over af Allspark Forum, a Transformers fan site, once said something very wise.
He said: “If even George Lucas won’t try to cash in on it, you know it’s bad.”
Sugar Free Haribo Wookiees?
My question to Disney: if you feel that "white males" are passé and the SW films should be tailored for the SJW crowd -- then why haven't all the women & minorities flocked to see them? Shouldn't they have helped make a profit? Or shown support?
Ultimately liberals have no loyalty. They only care about themselves; they will turn on a dime when something else comes along. Their protests are all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Meanwhile, these clueless studios will continue to alienate their fan base.
I’ve got it! Have her plan for a new theme park ... Disneyworld—Pyongyang!
ping
There’s still a lot of potential in the Star Wars universe, but only for a talented story teller. Trying to turn it into a Disney Princess franchise is guaranteed to fail.
Reason #544 why Donald Trump won the election
This hurting Disney is one of my ultimate schaudenfreudes.
With Air America, there was revived talk of the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine was meant not just to stifle conservative talk radio, but to give liberals access to conservative talk radio audiences when they couldn't build an audience of their own.
Imagine if liberals who failed to establish a thriving vegan restaurant then tried to take over a successful steakhouse and replaced all the steak with tofu? Take somebody else's market from them when you can't build your own.
There was nothing stopping writer or producer or director from making up their own fantasy universe of diverse yet relatable characters who overcome epic struggles. Literary history is filled with such stories going back to Beowulf. Why Disney allowed the Star Wars universe to be usurped and corrupted instead of being set aside for what it is, is a mystery.
-PJ
The only thing worth watching is Carrie Fischer, as she was completely high on coke during her parts.
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