'Rey Skywalker' (Upcoming live action motion picture) - general discussion thread — Page 9

screams in the void said:

Z6PO said:

Daisy Ridley excited for “fun direction” of new STAR WARS film (YouTube)

I’m glad she is excited to return . Also glad to hear her praise of Sharmeen Obaid’s documentary experience . Wasn’t there something about George Lucas making the original Star Wars in a documentary style ? Seems like this may be in good hands , between the lead , the director and the writer , I am optimistic . Idk , we will see . anyway , looking forward to seeing Star Wars in theaters again soon .

I’m optimistic too, but if I recall correctly, the whole thing about treating sw77 like a documentary had more to do with the first (notorious) cut of the film, and that the documentary “feel” was diminished for the Final Cut once they realized that it wasn’t working. That said, Sharmeen might still make a great film, and her documentary background could still very well be a good thing for this. Only time will tell.

Admittedly, though, the lack of enthusiasm from most others makes it difficult for me to maintain my own excitement, especially since now people are hating on this director for an out-of-context quote from 9 years ago. I might not even end up seeing the movie, cause I feel like I lose either way. Either I’ll hate it, or everyone will yell at me for liking it.

rocknroll41 said:

screams in the void said:

Z6PO said:

Daisy Ridley excited for “fun direction” of new STAR WARS film (YouTube)

I’m glad she is excited to return . Also glad to hear her praise of Sharmeen Obaid’s documentary experience . Wasn’t there something about George Lucas making the original Star Wars in a documentary style ? Seems like this may be in good hands , between the lead , the director and the writer , I am optimistic . Idk , we will see . anyway , looking forward to seeing Star Wars in theaters again soon .

I’m optimistic too, but if I recall correctly, the whole thing about treating sw77 like a documentary had more to do with the first (notorious) cut of the film, and that the documentary “feel” was diminished for the Final Cut once they realized that it wasn’t working. That said, Sharmeen might still make a great film, and her documentary background could still very well be a good thing for this. Only time will tell.

Admittedly, though, the lack of enthusiasm from most others makes it difficult for me to maintain my own excitement, especially since now people are hating on this director for an out-of-context quote from 9 years ago. I might not even end up seeing the movie, cause I feel like I lose either way. Either I’ll hate it, or everyone will yell at me for liking it.

I’m looking forward to this, I didn’t think I would be, but Daisy’s excitement for it is infectious! So why shouldn’t fans be positive?

I know some of us a cautious, going on the mixed-to-disappointing content from Star Wars of late, and the ST, but this is something new from new people behind the scenes. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and look forward to it.

Screw the haters for bringing their out of context quotes from years ago and trying to merge them into something they are clearly not. Don’t let them spoil your take on the film. Hopefully it’ll be a good one, maybe something a little different too?

If it sucks, then okay, but it won’t be because of perceived political “agendas”, or the hate of Fandumb Menace and clickhaiters spout. Although they’ll be trying their best, and the usual suspects will certainly be profiting from grandstanding that hate. And that’s before we’ll see anything from the film itself!

Fan_edit_fan said:

Patronizing terms such as “click haters” and “fandumb menace” are not welcome here. You can be excited for a project you know little about without having to label and ridicule posters on this forum. You come off way more toxic than anything you’re pretending to be “against” and perhaps a bit too hostile. 😉

I was referring to the hate-based content makers; the clickhaters and the fandumb menace. As in:

Sideburns of BoShek said:

Although they’ll be trying their best, and the usual suspects will certainly be profiting from grandstanding that hate. And that’s before we’ll see anything from the film itself!

and there was also no ridiculing of posters, or being “toxic” to other posters, on here.

Fan_edit_fan said:

If you weren’t referring to any members on this board who don’t have gushing thoughts about any upcoming SW projects…then why did you mention it in the first place? Did you think anyone here wanted to hear your rant on “hating the haters”? Still is not the place for your personal vitriol against a 0000.01% minority.

Dude, he wasn’t saying “Rey is 100% gonna be good and anyone who says otherwise is a hater”, he was saying “Rey has potential, and even if it sucks it won’t be because of its ‘SJW woke agenda’ or whatever.” Try getting some basic reading comprehension before you shit on someone for no reason.

StarkillerAG said:

Fan_edit_fan said:

If you weren’t referring to any members on this board who don’t have gushing thoughts about any upcoming SW projects…then why did you mention it in the first place? Did you think anyone here wanted to hear your rant on “hating the haters”? Still is not the place for your personal vitriol against a 0000.01% minority.

Dude, he wasn’t saying “Rey is 100% gonna be good and anyone who says otherwise is a hater”, he was saying “Rey has potential, and even if it sucks it won’t be because of its ‘SJW woke agenda’ or whatever.”

100% this.

It’s all about the dyad…

Seriously though, that link with Ben is enough.

act on instinct said:

It’s all about the dyad…

Seriously though, that link with Ben is enough.

Early rumors suggested that this film would be about Rey training two new pupils, a boy and a girl, and that the movie was pitched as “Your Name in space.” Those things lead me to believe that the film itself will be about Rey finding two new “heirs” of the dyad, so to speak. The fact that it was originally supposed to be set much later in the timeline kinda adds to this theory, imo.

Daisy says she’s reading the script for this next month.

Looks like Daisy hinted at John Boyega being back too: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/daisy-ridley-young-woman-and-the-sea-john-boyega-new-star-wars-film-1235902088/

John Campea said on his show again today that this movie is gonna bomb at the box office.

Even though I’m intrigued about Rey’s return, I kinda wish they woulda announced an additional character for this at Celebration 2023 (Finn, Luke’s ghost, the two new kids that Rey is supposedly training, etc.). The fact that this movie has just been known online as “the Rey movie” for the last year seems to have caused a lot of skepticism amongst casuals, unfortunately.

With the new rumors of Boyega returning, a bunch of people on Reddit are now saying things like “don’t do it John, they don’t deserve you!!”

I’m trying to be excited for this movie, but it really is deflating when literally every little piece of news about it gets lambasted with so much scrutiny. It’s hard to ignore all the haters every step of the way.

I’m leaning closer and closer to just skipping this movie altogether.

This sorta thing goes both ways with me, though. I don’t wanna see this Rey movie cause people are already being too negative about it, and conversely, I don’t wanna see the new Deadpool movie cause people are being too positive about it and acting like it’s gonna be the best movie ever just because it might have a bunch of cameos and stuff. I don’t like seeing people get their expectations too high (especially for such superficial reasons). I guess I just don’t like “extremist” culture in general. Or maybe I’m falling out of love with movie culture altogether.

I think from now on I’m just not gonna go to the theaters anymore and just wait the few extra months for the things to come to streaming, so that I can watch things after most of the “hyperbole” has died down.