- Messages
- 23,679
- Reaction score
- 410
- Trophy Points
- 193
My disapproval has nothing to do with his opinion of Star Wars, and that should be obvious from the last few posts I've made in this thread.
Read BEFORE posting Trades & Request
TVs Frink said:If we could all stop quoting the humongous wall of text, that would be great.
The attention these [Reasons to Hate] articles [received] lead to a mention in Entertainment Weekly, a BBC documentary called Generation Jedi which I still haven’t seen, thousands of emails of praise and condemnation, and a fun interview for the movie The People vs. George Lucas. They even lead to me meeting my wife.
It’s hard to imagine that my criticism of The Phantom Menace would indirectly lead to the birth of my three children. Nothing else I’ve ever written has had such an impact on my life. Much like Darth Plagueis, my criticism of these movies had the power to create life.
In the twelve years since Revenge of the Sith I’ve had time to reflect and think about these movies more. While I stand behind all my gripes, I do not stand behind the word hate. I have no hate for any of them. One thing I told Alexandre O. Philippe while filming The People vs. George Lucas is that I don’t enjoy the hate that’s risen out of the prequels. Sure, I have my problems with them, I even used the term “hate” which in retrospect I wish I hadn’t done.
The Last Jedi, and in some smaller way The Force Awakens did kill Star Wars for me in a way. What they killed in me was the investment. I went into both films with low to no expectations. I emerged from The Force Awakens happy and filled with hope. I emerged from The Last Jedi a bit disappointed for all the reasons I outlined in my review. The prequels had beaten most of the hope out of me so my investment was low. I didn’t see a single trailer for either movie and had no idea what to expect. After watching The Last Jedi a second time I did like it a lot more. The beauty of so much of it balanced out some of the frustration I had with the story and characters.
[...] The Last Jedi is not the movie I was expecting, however, the more I think about the better I feel about it overall. I don’t see the perfect movie so many other fans saw and I certainly don’t see it as the franchise destroyer that others saw. To me it was a mildly disappointing movie with some truly incredible parts in it. While I wasn’t excited about this movie I do look forward to seeing it a third time when it is released on DVD. I am also really looking forward to the new trilogy directed by Rian Johnson.
There’s one thing I’m sure of: this trilogy of trilogies is getting tired. I look forward to a bold new direction for the Star Wars franchise in the future.
Gaith said:TVs Frink said:If we could all stop quoting the humongous wall of text, that would be great.
Hear, hear. Very rarely does more than a paragraph bear quoting.
DigModiFicaTion said:You do realize you just quoted a wall of text right?
Gaith said:From an outside blog not previously quoted in the thread or forum, yeah. Apples and orange sodas.
DigModiFicaTion said:
Gaith, thanks for that link.Gaith said:
One thing is for sure, the Jedi seem to be quitters. Yoda’s self imposed exile seems fine during The Empire Strikes Back but when we see how he came to that exile in Revenge of the Sith we can’t help but wonder why Yoda is so lame. We were told Yoda was a great warrior. Apparently the way he shows that is by trying to stop a bad guy one time, failing, then just giving up and going off to die on a remote planet.
Apparently this is something Luke learned from his old master. If things don’t go your way in the epic struggle against evil just leave. Run away, give up, leave your friends to die, let your sister tirelessly fight alone without your help. After all, you’re a Jedi, how could you possible help? Why don’t you just drink blue milk out of the teat of some grumpy, vaguely humanoid alien for the rest of your life instead of standing up for what you believe in? That’s the way of the Jedi. Fight to the death? No way! That’s too dangerous! It’s much easier to run away and feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life. That’s’s the classic hero’s journey.
I’m starting to think that a better ending for Obi-Wan in A New Hope would have been Obi-Wan simply sprinting down the hallway in the Death Star and jumping in an escape pod to get away from Darth Vader never to be seen again.
Garp said:Alternative blu-ray covers for 'The Last Jedi', for our talented roster of cover artists to play around with:
StarWars.com
Moe_Syzlak said:The Leia issue has to be solved in the script, not in re-casting or CGI.
TM2YC said:Just read an interesting theory that Yoda speaks the way he does because he is 900-years old and that's the way people used to talk in his day.
Certainly if you went back 900-years and spoke to an English speaking person, you'd have a hard time understanding what they were saying (unless you did 'The Canterbury Tales' for your English exams ).
DigModiFicaTion said:Rumors suggest Meryl Streep will play Leia in episode IX.
https://movieweb.com/amp/star-wars-9-meryl-streep-replace-carrie-fisher-leia/