The first five minutes of Rise of Skywalker is hilarious, JJ completely retconning the previous film like a petulant child. He made the mystery box in the Force Awakens about Luke going into hiding, didn't have the creativity or balls to come up with a solution and handed it off to someone else and didn't like the result and completely changed everything making the entire trilogy a disjointed, pointless mess. I do like that the one thing he really did not like was Rian's idea that Rey came from nothing and that anyone can use the force or 'rise' from whatever status and that is what really set JJ off as a child of two Hollywood producers, nepotism incarnate. Immediately changed it to Rey being a Palpatine. Fuck JJ Abrams, fucking clown ass bitch
TROS was so bad it killed my fandom, while we’re at it, Dial of Destiny did about the same Skywalker lineage - dead Indiana Jones lineage - dead
Like the rest of the prequels, it's a better story to summarize than it is to watch. The story of Anakin's fall, the Jedi's fall, Palpatine's rise; all of that is a great story, but the execution of it is horrendous, with lazy directing, insultingly bad screenplays, and more than a few embarrassing line readings. Lucas as a storyteller was next level. Lucas as a write-director-producer, especially by the 2000s, just didn't have it. Most of the praise people have for the prequels, in my opinion, come either from simple fanboying (which is fine, I guess, if not objective in any way), or just years of talking about the INTENT behind the movies, and all the layers and subtext that was probably always supposed to be there but was never realized on screen in the movies because Lucas just didn't have it anymore. tl;dr - the Clone Wars show retroactively made those movies better than they actually were.
watched most of The Last Jedi yesterday while waiting for a game to come on still pretty good. but there should be an extra scene where the resistance execute the traitor poe dameron.
The bolded point is so good. Like a movie equivalent of judging quarterbacks on W/L instead of how they played.
It’s only “pretty good” but imo that puts well ahead of Crystal Skull and just a hair in front of Temple of Doom which is still a mess on rewatch.
It was definitely jarring at first, like it was a fan made trailer, but by the end I was fully onboard
Maybe she can return to the only career she was ever good at: fetching coffee for Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall
Step 1: Give Filoni full creative control Step 2: Designate Star Wars as a Blue Sky project for 5 years. Anything he wants to make, he gets a green light and the budget he asks for. Step 3: Let the story be the story. There is a reason why Andor and Skelteon Squad were hits and Acolyte fell flat on its face. Learn those fucking lessons and stay on topic Step 4: No more directors/producers/show runners who don't know shit about star wars (again Acolyte). If you aren't able to nerd out and pew pew as an adult in your luke/leia pajamas, you shouldn't be creating in this universe. Step 5: Profit
I like the Filoni/Favreau tag team having full control over the movies. And if Tony Gilroy wants to tell a story in the universe, he gets carte blanche to do whatever he wants.
Also, it would be cool if Sam Witwer got some kind of medium to big role in a SW movie. He kinda deserves it imo.
I think Acolyte had potential but was poorly paced. Liked Bortles, liked the Jedi corruption stuff, liked Baby Wolverine. It was just slow. On the same point, Andor and Skeleton crew aren't "Star Wars" movies. Andor is about an insurgency, Skeleton Crew was Goonies in Space. There's room in the universe for different types of stories.
For sure. He's awesome. Announcing her leaving in advance gives them time to start publicly flirting with replacements, so they should be able to hit the ground running with announcements in 2026.
Filoni/Favreau didn’t do shit with Andor and did give us Book of Boba Fett. You need someone in the Kennedy role to provide a strategic vision but that vision needs to leave room for others than one fanboy who has made some real stinker decisions of his own to explore the universe.
There's absolutely room for different types of stories, but at the same time those stories need to feel like they are in the star wars universe even if the connection to the jedi is minimal. Acolyte had way more issues than just pacing. It felt like the goal was trying to go viral with the twists and shocking revalations rather than telling a good story.
First move as new Lucasfilm chief: Put out a press release on Fortnite declaring that "somehow, the timeline after the upcoming Mandalorian movie was destroyed. Henceforth, Mando's movie will be regarded as the most recent story in the timeline. A future Episode 7-9 will be commissioned, story by Dave Filoni."
Watch the clone wars series and tell me he's mid. I'll forgive Book of Bobba Fett when his hit rate is pretty damn high.
complaining about a shitty filler episode when the main storyline was fantastic is peak star wars fanbase
If you didn't like something that was widely praised by fans and critics alike, then I don't think there is much more to be discussed. I'd argue that the Clone Wars animated series is the best Star Wars content out there. Are there really bad episodes? Absolutely. But if you remove the filler episodes and focus on the main story it is peak Sci/Fi Fantasy.
I think Clone Wars is on net, pretty good - and does a great job of rehabilitating Anakin Skywalker from the prequels. It also contains a lot of filler, brings Maul back to life for unknown reasons, and isn’t the gospel. Rebels has its moments too, but it also gets too cute by half and raises massive common sense continuity questions while inherently devaluing the Jedi of the prequels and OT, largely for no good reason other than Filoni being a fanboy guided by the principle of “wouldn’t it be sick if (fill in the blank)” I think he’s actually well suited for the Kennedy role in providing an overall vision, as long as he doesn’t micromanage good stories being worked by other people.
really interested to see how they handle all the legacy characters who are part of the Rebel Alliance during the different periods of Andor S2. maybe they'll just ignore them.
Nah, fuck off. You're fandom was killed. You don't get to enjoy Andor s2. Go cry about it somewhere else
I may be off, but hasn’t Gilroy said he isn’t/wasn’t a SW nerd? He’s responsible for the top SW content in the last 10 years IMO