Yeah I seem to remember the GOUT version wasn’t a 1977 copy but just had the A New Hope title removed just so they could say ‘here you go idiots this is what you wanted right?’
Even David Fincher has made weird and pointless changes to the re-release of Seven. I guess this OCD stuff gets worse with age.
If you’re basing a movie on a comic series it might be wise to stay with it. Otherwise why bother? I guess he didn’t use much existing plot for Logan. But on the other hand this could be another Dial of Destiny.
You must be getting soft Anchorhead
Yeah but, y’know, jokes.
Andor S2 becomes the most expensive Star Wars project in terms of annual spending:
https://www.darkhorizons.com/andor-season-2-cost-over-291-million/
Thanksgiving is definitely a holiday that only the Emperor and his cronies celebrate.
You mean Life Day?
Because it’s dumb, and also because before 1999 it was obviously second and last name. Otherwise Ben’s former pupil could not be called Darth Vader. Pre-TPM other stories got the villain names right and they should have stuck with it.
I liked how plucky and heroic to and idealistic Rose was, to almost a foolhardy degree. Everyone was screaming at me when I said I liked her character. And I very much disliked when JJ made her a nothing in episode 9. She was all but written out of the movie, in a seeming desire to erase The Last Jedi, and all the elements people complained about, were reversed/retconned. So Rise of Skywalker was a sequel to Force Awakens but not the last Jedi making a sort of duology and no trilogy, I feel like this was a huge mistake.
How do they move forward in the next movie, I have no idea where the story can go. But I’m sure that is why writers get paid to be creative.
Some writers seem to get paid for fail upwards.
Yeah exactly, what threat, they’ve shot themselves in the foot going forwards in time too far and wasting the viable ideas already.
Oh I didn’t even catch that part so who knows.
Welcome, if you do a little reading you’ll never have to watch something that takes you out of the movie again.
Does anyone find it weird that the 2011 versions of the OT are still shown on TV? I hardly ever watch stuff live any more, and it’s even rarer for me to suffer George’s changes, but I found recently it wasn’t the Macklunkey version. Or does Disney keep the “definitive” version to themselves?
This Rotta the Hutt stuff really worries my that we’re going to end up getting a scene where Ahsoka shows up (if not in this movie, then further down the line) and solves some disagreement by reminding him that she saved him as a baby.
I’d be amazed if this didn’t happen.
Its the astral projecting bit, it’s the rebellion is reborn today and I won’t be the last jedi. Its the part of explaining the force is bigger than the light and the dark. Its bigger than the Sith and the Jedi. Its in all living things and defines the cosmos. Also Luke finally realizing how wrong the Jedi were but being too old and broken to make a change. So Rey has to take up the lightsaber instead. That i don’t know if its good or bad i’m split on that.
Yeah. But again, all interesting ideas and good jumping off points for… a third part of the trilogy that doesn’t exist.
What the fuck.
Yeah yeah, Finn becomes a Jedi, Poe becomes an Admiral, whatever, all things that should have been the story of TROS… but the issue is that these are endings not the start of new character arcs. You can throw in whatever new big bad and the problem is still there, you can’t really continue with this cast in a meaningful way now.
Well I don’t really know how; the point has passed in which Rey might have become someone interesting. Why sit through the stupidity of part IX just to see if a miracle happens in part X? I’ll have to pass.
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Off topic but I hate that RT hides the actual median score (currently only 6.7 out of 10)
Reviews of part 1 and 2 are in (which always seems counterproductive but we here are) so here are a few samples…
https://www.darkhorizons.com/the-star-wars-skeleton-crew-reviews-are-in/
“What stands out most when watching the series is that it feels so very influenced; it’s not just a “Star Wars” series, it’s “Star Wars” plus something. It’s gimmicky and not just a little cookie-cutter in its expansion of the sci-fi franchise, which gets diluted the more shows Disney+ cranks out.” – Kelly Lawler, USA Today
“Star Wars: Skeleton Crew gets off to a depressingly familiar start, while bungling the introduction of its primary protagonists and generally plodding along until Jude Law pops up.” – Ben Travers, Indiewire
“That’s all that ‘Skeleton Crew’ offers: appropriation for a halcyon era of cinema and little else. Worse, the exceptional Spielberg-ian tenor of marvel and amazement is absent, leaving behind a mostly hollow, fairly unremarkable, forgettable product.” – Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
He probably did as he was told; rehashing is a safe bet after all. What he should have done was worked on the third movie to stop it turning to mush. There’s not much point coming back now and trying to do anything post-TROS.
You know… I forgot Rebel Moon existed.
Originality isn’t everything. After all, the big release of 1999 was going to be SW… but The Matrix happened.
These days I suppose Guardians of the Galaxy succeeded in being a cohesive trilogy (plus a few odds and ends) even if the Marvel tone isn’t for everyone.
As for Villeneuve… his best films are the ones before he started doing legacy sequels and reboots of older IPs.
Dune could have been the new Star Wars though. Instead it lacks the kind of charismatic performances and tragic romance that could have pushed things beyond a dry psuedo-retelling of the books. How can he direct Dune Part Three when so much of the weird and wonderful was missing? It’s really only a warm-up or a pre-amble for the third book (and therefore fourth movie). Maybe he needs to examine why he loved The Empire Strikes Back and try again…
Then again with Dune all you have is Arrakis and the Spice. Its a great novel but its also very old.
Very old and yet still relevant. Wars over resources, religious wars, wars started by corrupt autocrats, these things exist still. Again this Dune new film series could have been the new SW, but such a thing doesn’t currently exist. The biggest flashiest sci-fi epics are either too shallow (Avatar) or too dumb (TROS) with nothing that captures the imagination in a new way.