You know, I think there might be a fair bit to that line of thinking... from Spielberg, especially (as time goes on, I have my doubts if Lucas ever had the ability to achieve verisimilitude without other people to rein him in).

All of this, exactly. Plus, there’s the fact that in none of the original three films, even when the supernatural is made explicit, at no point do Yahweh, Kali, or Jesus literally show up on a cloud or in the flesh. But of course, Skull had zero restraint, so here’s a literal alien and a flying saucer! Sigh.

These are like NFTs for tech luddites with poor investment skills.

I miss 80s action movies when they weren’t afraid to be sloppy. Everything is made by committee for the largest possible audience, and everything just comes out shiny and shallow.

Given the plot rumors about the new Indiana Jones film, “Edge of History” seems to fit more for its title.

I looked up the rumor and I wish I hadn’t. I REALLY hope it isn’t true.

If you mean what I think you do, not only has it not been debunked, but it’s the one constant among the rumors! Yes it’s a bad idea.

What’s the rumor? That he’s returning the previous items to where they came from or something like that? Him realizing his whole “it belongs in a museum” thing has been pretty terrible?

Australian ;-D

I’m guilty of this. I think Obi-Wan Kenobi was overall mediocre, and suffered from some bad writing and execution, but I ended up enjoying it anyway because it hit my personal nostalgia buttons. I would trade it for a good show in a heartbeat though.

I dunno, it sounds kind of fun in a Tarantino-esque sort of way.

Wouldn’t it be fair to say that perhaps the MCU needs to start changing up “the formula?”

You could just stop watching, which is what I did after endgame. Same thing with Star Wars, after episode 9. At some point I just don’t care anymore about what happens to these characters or what’s happening in the world. I like for stories to end and leave the rest to my imagination

The more I hear about the overpriced SW experience @ Disney, the more I miss the Star Trek experience in Vegas.

At the end of episode 5, I still saw the Obi-Wan/Reva conflict as the focus of the narrative, and felt that Obi-Wan outsmarting Vader without having to engage in a direct fight was the best way to leave the two. As much as fan-boy me loved the battle in episode 6, storyteller me was disappointed that the narrative…

This is going to be a continuing problem for any Star Wars movie or tv show that takes place in-between existing stories: there’s very little room for meaningful or impactful events because those characters which have continuing arcs cannot be drastically different at the end. This means that only the new characters…

All of these studios grasping at old movies to turn them into franchises makes me think of that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Elsa is grasping desperately at the holy grail and falls to her death and then Indy does the same until his dad tells him to let it go.

Well with source material as strong as this has, I’m sure it will manage to do at least a third as well as Morbius did.

Ha ha yeah. In fact, after I left my comment, I even looked up a plot summary just to double-check. I was thinking, “Surely this movie couldn’t be as dark as I remember it being” but nope, it is!

Hey, remember when the second Ewoks movie begins with the main character’s entire family getting murdered? Because as a small child I definitely never forgot.