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Post by jppiper on May 6, 2023 2:32:33 GMT
So what do you think Did we really need a ST? (for me no ROTJ was a perfect ending to the story)
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Post by Seeker of the Whills on May 6, 2023 3:29:11 GMT
I don't think we needed an ST. It seemed to be an afterthought even to Lucas. He was adamant for so long that there were no further movies after RotJ, which is really the perfect ending. But I would have preferred to see Lucas' ST rather than Disney's.
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Post by Ingram on May 6, 2023 10:07:00 GMT
Mine's been a "hard no" from day one, the announcement of Lucasfilm going to Disney/KK. Yet judging the merits of the ST on whether or not it was necessary risks distraction methinks, as necessity is not, well, necessary for a feature film venture to be great. In this case, it just wasn't particularly wise. Granted, they made a profit with the ST but also flattened the brand in the process where otherwise cooler heads governed by patience and a yearning for inspired talent may have earned profit while also catching a second lasting wind. Where the PT spurned a generation of irate disdain and mockery, on the same token, it somewhat ironically fortified its place, its reputation, as a thing of personal madcap whimsy. These last three films however have in their wake mostly just left a trail of malaise and cynicism—cynicism of the machine. They're weren't brilliantly, fascinatingly misbegotten like the prequels (devil's advocate), just so utterly transparent at being slickly produced for the welfare of viral marketing without ever really being categorically terrible 'generic space movies' therein.
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Post by stampidhd280pro on May 6, 2023 16:41:38 GMT
Yeah. I think so. The main characters needed their own return movie. And it became more a trilogy of its time, and for its time. It is different, but there was some attention to detail in their tribute to the original six. I wish they let Lucas give his advice more or something. My biggest thing against this new trilogy is that the big surprise at the end where Rey finds out shes a Palpatine, she already knew she didn't know who her parents were. We were expecting ... something. Its not a twist. They set the question up instead of letting it come natural. But I guess the big twists were all in TLJ when it seemed like they were gonna team up, and when Luke reveals himself to be a Force projection. So, there's some balance there i suppose. I think overall it just seemed too safe, and yes maybe even a little too politically correct. Should have had more ethnic stereotype muppet characters or something. Spice things up. I dunno. They're not unacceptable, but it all could have used more of that odd Lucas sensibility. Like a Ziro the Hutt character.
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Post by Samnz on May 6, 2023 20:23:05 GMT
No, it wasn't.
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Post by eljedicolombiano on May 17, 2023 2:25:11 GMT
Not really no
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Post by smittysgelato on May 17, 2023 19:20:50 GMT
Jar Jar Binks was necessary.
You have my permission to put that on a T-shirt.
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