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That look by the end.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eZlw64mI228
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I sympathize him, those press junkets can be tedious.
That's pretty much my attitude, Star Wars jumped the shark way before Episode 9, so I just switched my brain off and enjoyed it much like I do when I watch my prequels, Rebels and Clone Wars blurays etc... At this point if Star Wars is fun I am happy with that.
Star Wars truly ended for me with ROTJ, and that was far from being a perfect movie.
Apparently this is the referenced message from Palpatine in TROS.
They should have put this in the film.
Exactly the way I feel.
Although I'll always be around for the ride. I'm now enjoying Mando and will probably have a hoot with Ben Kenobi.
I will always watch SW for sure, unfortunately Mando has not aired in the UK yet, I will watch it despite stumbling on numerous Spoilers (which is almost unavoidable).
So far I really didn't like two episodes and I loved all of the others. Hope you seen it soon.
Where did George express this appreciation?
Of course comments are something like, be honest with us. If you have to see it twice, it must be bad.
I always have to see SW twice. Whether it is bad or not. Okay, I didn't see Solo twice, but you get the point. I actually feel bad for liking TROS after I've only seen it once. Like there's something wrong with me and that I'm not a real fan. So dirty.
Okay, I thought it was that. Does that not seem to others to be excessively faint praise?
Edit: quit fandom I must. Hide on swamp planet I will.
As a guy who thought this alleged trilogy was hilariously ill-conceived, I think future SW from Disney is likely to be a lot better.
I thought TFA and TLJ were both terrible films in the context of this saga, but they were legitimately enjoyable to watch in their own way. I can understand George when he said "there are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them."
Removing the need to follow up on stories very definitively finished 35 years ago can only be good.
I like Chris Stuckmann. A man with good taste. Most of the time.
While I don't worship TLJ I certainly preferred it to basically remaking Star Wars (as we used to call it for those who saw it on original release). No TLJ isn't perfect but I'll agree with those that said it did try to do something different.
Now I'm not one for YouTube commentators and this guy can get annoying but some of the criticisms by some of the fans are in my totally debunked here for me.
I understand people not liking the tone or the way some things are tossed off when someone expected more weight but the motivations of Luke in TLJ are all over the original trilogy. This guy literally show you that Luke's so called change of character that doesn't fit with the previous films is just peoples plain hating the film. The journey of Luke from this explanation makes perfect sense and although Johnson does fall off course sometimes his dealing Luke's arc is pretty spot on.
I understand being disappointed with a film in a series you love, I'm guilty as the next with SPECTRE but it won't change my feelings on 1917, I might even go and see it in the New Year.
Thankfully the feelings on Johnson for some did not affect the success of Knives Out. It looks to be doing great business.
Though you can tell the TLJ haters a mile off on social media when they say any film from the director of Brick and TLJ was always going to make a pile of rubbish or words to that affect.
Its like they had decided on their opinion before they watched the film, I doubt some of them were even aware of Johnson's output previously to TLJ to hear some of them speak.
One thing I noticed is that no Bond fans ever reacted to SPECTRE the way SW fans reacted to TLJ.
When I saw so many people hating on TLJ I tried to understand their feelings. Bond is my Star Wars, so SPECTRE being such a disappointed for me was akin to TLJ being a disappointed to SW fans. But then I realized that no, even then I can't understand such a hatred toward a piece of fiction.
Certain fans bullied and are still bullying Johnson on Twitter, they started a petition to get Disney shoot a new version of SW 8, created a subreddit dedicated to insulting TLJ and those who made it and use every single occasion to bring up the fact they didn't like it.
Really, if a guy says he's going to get married with Leia's theme as the soundtrack, a girl says she baked a Darth Vader cake for her boyfriend or a father bought a lightsaber-toy for his children - if any of these things are said on a social media there will 100% be someone saying "too bad Ruin Johnson ruined Star Wars so now the saga sucks!"
Bond fans are not like that - thank God. SPECTRE was disliked by many and to this day we still nitpick when we talk about it (I'm guilty of that) but no one does it to the same extent of a TLJ hater.
If Bond fans had reacted to SPECTRE the way SW fans reacted to TLJ you can be sure there wouldn't even be a "NTTD thread" because everyone would start saying they no longer have any interest in the series because of that one film.
The thread "Rate the various villains" would be made of posts like "Why bother ranking them? They're all better than Waltz's Blofeld!"
"Should 007 head to a streaming service?" would only get "Who cares? It's gonna be a family soap opera about Bond and his brothers" replies.
"The James Bond Movie Trivia Quiz" thread would only get questions like "guess who killed all my passion for James Bond? That's right, Sam Mendes!" "Guess what's the worst movie ever shot on this planet? SPECTRE!" and so on.
The hatred toward TLJ has become so annoying that I had to unsubscribe from every Star Wars dedicated page because you couldn't even say "I love the Imperial March" without getting a reply along the lines of "Too bad this theme now symbolizes the father of Jake 'Failure' Skywalker".
I'm not emotionally invested in these things, so I just ignore these movies. I do wonder though, and I'm genuinely curious, how fans of TLJ would have liked to see this nine-film saga wrap up? Like, in a way more in line with what Johnson was doing....
As for how I feel IX should have gone... That’s just something I leave to the filmmakers, that’s why I don’t subscribe to fan theories. Problem is the filmmakers/producers/executives assigned to this don’t seem to have had an idea where to go without pleasing EVERYONE when it was inevitable that certain sections were never going to be happy.
They had no idea whatsoever about anything. After Episode VI, Star Wars becomes pretty wildly ad hoc and subject to the whims of individual directors. I don't subscribe to fan theories either, but as a thought experiment, try to think of anything that could wrap up this saga after VII and especially VIII.
SW fans aren't necessarily that hard to please. Rogue One showed that. The Mandalorian is showing that. I've seen neither, but fans seem to like them. I think if you make something that looks like Star Wars and isn't a meta narrative designed to thwart the hopes or expectations of the most ardent fans with regard to well-established characters, you can make these movies four times a year. Ask Marvel about this.
"Well, shucks, if you didn't like Luke making a map to find him and then shutting off the Force and his family and being grouchy, I guess there's just no pleasing you people!"... That doesn't really follow