IT’S A TRAP!
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Dennis
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It’s highly unlikely they actually gave anything away. Disney is usually pretty good about not spoiling big plot points in trailers. They aren’t as good as the MCU but close. Yes I know both are Disney, but different hands guiding the different franchises. Read more
No wonder it folds up, Rey’s got a Sith Leatherman! Read more
I’m no huge fan of JJ Abrams in general but I think The Force Awakens is a pretty fun movie and it definitely has a lot of great imagery. Read more
The TIEs silhouetted against the sunset is still one of my favorite images of the new trilogy.
Say what you will about JJ Abrams’ storytelling abilities, he and his crew know how to shoot some striking imagery, and The Rise of Skywalker will be no different. The clip reel reminded me how beautifully lit the third act of Force Awakens was: the light on Kylo’s face turning from blue to red as a sun is consumed by…
So excited for this! The Lego Star Wars games (and all the Lego games, really) are way more fun than they probably should be, IMO Read more
I love the lego games. I still play the first star wars original trilogy one just for giggles. Read more
That’s one of my favorite scenes in just about any film ever. First of all, just the economy, as you said, of establishing so much history and context in a single scene. And man does Guinness sell it. THAT’S precisely why Lucas wanted him for that role. You can see in his eyes and hear in his tone what he lived… Read more
Yeah, I’ve come to really enjoy Star Wars as a Christmas tradition for two reasons: Read more
I still think Solo should have been moved to a December release date and given more time for Howard to work on it. But I understand with budgets it would have inflated bigger than it was. So from that point I can understand why they wanted to stick with a May release. Read more
It certainly is meant to be a negative thing. It’s the kind of thing that led to Kelly Marie Tran being harassed off of social media. It’s the sense of entitlement that some fans feel- that they are owed something because they are so invested in a thing. You definitely fall into that category. In fact, you reek of it,… Read more
What I don’t get is why people take TLJ as a “Fuck You” when it is just presenting a story in which the beats go off in a wildly different direction than some fans expected. I was taken aback on my first viewing, but loved it (except Canto Bight, hoooooly crap was that bad). I definitely expected different answers… Read more
I kind of assumed by the title, that Rey, who is no one, more or less, and doesn’t know her parents was going to take up the Skywalker name as her own. To honor Luke. Read more
Yeah, this is a lesson that the fandom really should have learnt after the prequels: it’s fine to speculate, but learn to watch a movie without expectations. Most of the complaints I’ve seen about the sequel trilogy (and also GoT, come to think of it) really boil down to ‘well that’s not how *I* imagined it would happe… Read more
There is an inescapable, fundamental flaw with the sequel trilogy: The characters have spent no time together and, thus, have no meaningful relationship with one another. Poe only met Rey at the end of The Last Jedi. Poe and Finn were together for 10 minutes in The Force Awakens (and then he was in a coma for the end… Read more
Agreed. In the case of the sequels especially, people had 30 years to dream up their ideal version of that story. There was no version of the actual trilogy that could fulfill the expectations of fans and satisfy general audiences and movie executives. Read more
At this point, isn’t Star Wars like 90% expectation and 10% actual movie? Everyone came to the prequels with their assumptions about what they’d be like, and most of them came away disappointed. Same thing with the sequels -- there was the sense that they’d be so much more than what we actually got. At this point I… Read more
There’s also a corollary here — “You can’t blame filmmakers for not following your narrative because you’re not in control of the narrative or the experience, not matter how much that upsets you.” Read more
“You can’t blame the filmmakers for not telling a story that exceeded my expectations when they had no part in crafting those expectations.”
This is a great perspective. The filmmakers, while crafting something that will hopefully appeal to the elusive “all” are inevitably creating a story and showing it in a way that… Read more