Movie Review

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I've watched the newer Star Wars movies and honestly? I thought the old ones were like kind of all right, nothing I'm absolutely batshit insane in love with but i hate all the ones that came out under disney. I should watch the shows sometime, I haven't watched any of the newer Star Wars shows

The sequel trilogy was bad. Get over it. You want a good female lead in Star Wars? Look at Old Republic video game.

I don't think it was bad. I think it was on par with 1,2, and 3.

I haven't watched a star wars movie since the one with the high ground.

What are apostrophes expensive now?

So we can't admit a bad movie is bad because itnhappens to have a female lead?

Is the reason it's bad because it has a female lead? Not without being a misogynist.
If it's for another reason, sure! Ghostbusters 2016 was shit, but not because it had female leads.
- Which was a movie when anyone who criticized it got labeled an incel

Rogue One was good though

Best score in the franchise. And that is saying a lot since John Williams did the rest. But that music drives that movie like a madman.

Ep 7 was ok, but it relied too much on nostalgia. Ep 8 was a clusterfuck of terrible decisions. I didn't watch Ep 9 and I'm happy with that.

Alls I knows is i liked episode 8 more than any other Star wars film other than rogue one.... And if it wasn't for Andor, i would have wrote Star Wars off as dead to me after episode 9.

I think episode 8 is the second best OG trilogy. But I think I might be alone on that.

I don't know, man. Without watching any reviews or commentaries I could have listed numerous issues with the sequel trilogy right after watching the individual movies. Sure, there were some I missed that only added oil to the fire, but it was still extremely obvious that the movies are horrendous.

Some people, perhaps a good number, do in fact blindly follow influencers' opinions and hate what they hate. This, however, in no capacity affects the fact that those movies are pieces of garbage. Whether you've come to this conclusion yourself, or you learned about it from someone else, the simple fact remains.

There's also another point to consider. Movie reviews and analyses are very common. Name any movie and there's nearly a guarantee that there are at least a few people analyzing their details and posting the findings on YouTube or elsewhere. There's nothing wrong with watching those videos and having them affect your opinion on the movie.

Personally, I've watched many different reviews, critiques and analyses of various movies, including Star Wars. In many cases, my opinion of the movies was improved due to broader context, technical details such as how VFX were made, plot elements I might have missed or other valuable information that may or may not have been obvious to me when first watching. I think this is a perfectly natural phenomenon. You like something, so you dive deeper to learn more, leading to you liking it more or less in the process.

However, in the case of most recent Star Wars movies, there's usually no additional context or details to learn, other than "the director changed 8 times and none of those 8 people knew what they were doing". You wouldn't know that from watching the movie, and personally, I think it's perfectly acceptable to give extra criticism to the company, based on external information.

At the end of the day, it's another corporation ruining what people love and this sole fact is enough to feel angry and spread negative sentiment towards that company. They 100% deserve it. Just make sure to hate the company and not other fans.

Havent seen anything newer than episode 7, but that one was kinda mid so I didnt even care to watch the newer ones.

Episode 8 had one scene that was really cool to look at ::: spoiler spoiler When they hyperdrived one ship into another ::: But it comes with opening a lot of plot holes and asking questions we were better off ignoring.
Episode 9 is just garbage writing start to finish though. And garbage marketing when you remember they announced ::: spoiler important plot point The return of palpatine ::: through fortnite.

Rogue one was the peak

Andor, especially season 2.

Better a white female lead than a black male lead, amirite China? And Russia? And Saudi Arabia? ....And Amerikkka?

why you pluralize

How dare you insult Mr Plinkett like that

This would be a better comic if they chose a franchise that hadn't been enshittified to the nth degree.

Name one
- I'm not completely sold, but at this point in time I'd say it'd work better with the new Fallout Show for one.
- Bond
It tracks that you don't even know what the word means.
- Are you enshitting me right now?
- I do know that Cory Doctorow used it specifically to refer to the dynamics of two sided marketplaces. I chose to use it the way it's more commonly used, to refer to the general enshittifying pressures of late stage capitalism, to get my point across.

Check their she hulk reviews for their baromoter. That was when I lost my patience with Den of Nerds.

I’m a big Maslany fan after Orphan Black but that show wasn’t good. Episodes felt weirdly short and nothing really happened.
- Actually watching that for first time right now, on 3rd season. She's so talented on it!
  Not the best writing in the MCU, that's for certain. I get it. But I had fun. Lots of world building. The Netflix bridge.. the phase 1 stuff... I'm a memberberries sucker

Star Wars comes to mind immediately.

What's funny is I liked Rey as a character and the first movie was fine, but it quickly went downhill with the next two and I haven't watched any of them since.

But I've probably watched Rogue One about a dozen times so far and it's one of the best modern Star Wars movie we've had.

A crap movie is a crap movie. Just sucks to get tossed in the incel pile because incels hate a specific movie too.

Star Wars comes to mind immediately.
I wonder if that's because the comic is about Star Wars...
and I haven't watched any of them since.
No one has, since they don't exist.
“Somehow he lived!” (Paraphrased.) Rey was fine, Disney (or whomever) just tried to capitalize on rebooting the End of the Universe scenario instead of focusing on smaller projects like Rogue One, Mandalorian, and Andor, all of which (at least partially) were significantly better than other Star Wars projects.
- They just can't let the Skywalkers go. Literally tens of thousands of years of historical framework to play around with and they laser focus on less than a century
- I think it was "somehow, he returned".

last jedi is the 2nd best star wars movie. argue with a brick wall

If it didn't demote Finn from a growing protagonist and lead love interest to a clown who gets to have the demeaning side plot so fans could have their emo boy instead, and if Rei's barely-there character development didn't fly into that brick wall, and if Poe's moral of the story wasn't to learn how to bow to authoritarianism, I might have agreed with you.
You're not alone.
Considering A New Hope was the best movie according to a lot of people, it's not surprising that people would think A New New Hope was the second best.
I think that the film would've been great if it wasn't second in a trilogy.
It introduced three extra main characters to an already very packed cast, it killed practically all the story lines started in TFA, it basically broke the Star Wars setting with the Holdo Manoeuvre, and it ended by showing not just a Force Sensitive kid, but a kid that already uses the Force for mundane tasks with ease. After Order 66, this is something tremendously important, and shouldn't be used as a "cut to ending credits" scene, with the character never mentioned again.
If it was the third film in the trilogy, without all the Canto Bight stuff and with some resolution of the Rey vs Ben story, it'd be a solid 9/10 for me. But as it is, I struggle to give it more than 6.

I mean the sequels deserve a majority of the criticism they received. They were safe, retreaded what the original trilogy did, and have no lasting cultural impact.

Rouge One always had a female lead and was fantastic. Actually added something into the series in a meaningful way and is beloved by fans.

It took kyle from us.
- They could've made Kyle's story an amazing show or trilogy of movies. Watching his growth from cadet to the Jedi who uses dark side powers would've been sweet.

Could one issue be that professional writers, on average, give female leads worse scripts to work with? Not always intentionally.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostWritersAreMale

I feel like this is a pattern in Star Wars. Not just with Rey, but Ahsoka and The Acolyte too.

As for why this is a tragedy, I would cite the A/B examples of AC: Odyssey and Cyberpunk 2077 where, given the literally identical gender neutral writing, the women VAs utterly nail their scripts.

I wonder what’d happen if TV got the same treatment.

Isn't that how Alien was written? Then Signourney Weaver blew them away.
And cyberpunk shows they can still include unnecessary softcore porn in their stories, regardless of gender. Tv writers love that shit.
- Same with a Greek epic. Alexios and Kassandra were identically horny.
Most writers being male doesn't mean that women have to be terrible characters. Shit writers are just shit, and Disney hasn't bothered with finding quality writers in a very long time.

Nobody hates Star Wars more than a Star Wars fan.

The sequels had such a good opportunity but wasted it with over correcting.

I really enjoyed the point in Episode 8 that Rey was unimportant, I thought it could have opened up the whole universe. Instead we had to be angry about everything and the on the nose fan service in Episode 9 went way too far the other direction.

Star wars had a fantastic extended universe from novels, comics and games. They threw it all away to make a trilogy where they didn't even have a complete story. As a fan, it felt like someone swapped my chocolate for cat turds.
- To be honest throwing out the Star wars extended universe stuff was a good call. Adopting that mess would have been completely impossible. All the original actors has aged out and replacing them with new actors would have been a big disaster.
  But you are right in that they started a new trilogy without any idea where they were going with it. And that's JJ Abrams all over. Him and his stupid mystery box where he invents something without having any idea what the end game for it is. He's literally done this with every property he's touched.

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Is all you need to know about this post lol

is it okay you can reupload the photo?

On RT, the TV show Pluribus has a critic score of 98%, and an audience score of 69%, so maybe the The Onion's joke about how Breaking Bad fans are not going to like it had something to it.

Fate of the old republic

Female leads are the worst aren't they? (Don't know why, some fat fucking nerd told me so)

I have a friend that thinks this exact way he is a big nerd of all things, superhero video games, etc. but he will not form his own opinion until Kevin Smith says something about it on his YouTube channel.