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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Hey now. Rogue One is out there.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Definitely a top 4 Star Wars movie. Possibly top 2.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I really loved that one character has a French accent, because he's from the planet France.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh god, the horror of having a completely french planet.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

french planet would have quebecouis moon that thinks they're better than the planet

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Despite some of the stupif shit like explaining why his name is Solo I liked the han solo movie too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm ok with all of the stupid stuff except for that scene. It's Star Wars, it's fine to be stupid, but "my name is Han and I'm here by myself" crossed the line.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I liked Andor :(

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Andor is amazing!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Andor is the kind of show where I would literally recommend it to someone who hates Star Wars. It's just such an incredibly raw, powerful, and vital piece of media. One of the finest works of anti-fascist art I've seen in a long time.

Anyone who hasn't watched that show is robbing themselves. Moments like "one way out" and Luthen's "sacrifice" monologue are going to live with me for a long time. Season 2 can't come soon enough.

Also B2EMO is the best droid in all of Star Wars (Fun fact; his voice is the puppeteer's, but it wasn't supposed to be. They were planning to overdub, but then the guy did such an amazing job on the set that they just gave him the role).

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[–] pantyhosewimp 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Andor was so well done that it stressed me out. The cheesy schlock of Bobafet was just what I needed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not a movie so it's fine. That and the Ewoks TV show ofc

What a banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WFjM3QWKlE

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I liked a lot of seven, but knowing that you'd have to eventually watch nine sort of invalidates the rest of that trilogy

[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Never did watch 9. My biggest problem with 7 ?and other reboots like Jurassic World) is it was literally almost a rehash of 4, except with an even bigger “Death Star”. Rather than going for a unique plot.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (11 children)

I thought they did really well on coming up with new characters, and original stories, I enjoyed most of their arcs and adventures in 7.

The biggest death Star was the biggest letdown of that movie for sure.

But hoo boy, after I watched nine, my irritation at the laziness of a bigger death Star is nearly insignificant compared to some of the plot points in 9.

When I saw the starkiller I rolled my eyes, but I literally could have walked out during 9 from

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the knife and sith island

I was already bummed out at eight that there was no Luke or character development for finn.

Then all of nine was pretty bad but especially the idiotic plot device mentioned above and a couple other things ruined that trilogy for me and definitely tarnished my enthusiasm for 7

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Idk if original stories is something you can give it. The bigger death star is far from the only plot point lifted directly out of episode 4. Seriously, go back and watch ep 4 and ep 7 it's almost shot-for-shot (not really but for some of the story beats it could be).

Maybe what you're saying is that the character back stories are original which, kinda.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (21 children)

The Force Awakens is pretty meh itself, but we were not prepared for what was coming. It feels as foreboding as rewatching Game of Thrones S5 or S6 and knowing that the deteriorating writing will only get worse.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No, there's the original trilogy, the prequels, and the "Oh, it was Palpatine the whole time. ...again. How original."

[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

8 really ruined it. 7 had problems but I could forgive some of them because "Disney still trying to figure it out."

Then 8 happened. Closed off all story threads from 7 without any fanfare at all, and closed off all of its own potential threads within itself, leaving absolutely nothing for 9 to follow up on. Multiple character assassinations, and the entire Canto section could be deleted from the film and zero context would be lost.

9 was never going to succeed. It couldn't have. There was nothing for it to build on from 8.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What story threads? There were no story threads. There was hopeful fans who wanted to create things out of thin air. That's about it. There was more from 8 to lead off from than 7.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

8 gets a lot of hate along with the rest of the sequels, and I remember being pissed off of its scorched earth treatment of every single plot point from 7 after watching it in the movie theatre, but looking back… at least it tried to be original. The scenes are visually memorable, and its message that even nobody can rise up to be a hero, is miles better than… whatever the 9 did with Rey.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (7 children)

7 put Luke hiding on an island while a war was going on and left 8 to take the flak for explaining why. There was no way to make 8 without pissing people off.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If you think 7 is good you are a hopeless movie watcher, it set up nothing just typical jj abrams mystery boxes, is a straight up rehashing of A new hope and it did nothing of note. 8 tried to deviate from another shadowy mysterious bad guy aka Wish.com palpatine and do something different and it did it well.

And then 9 is a straight up piece of shit the only good part of it is the first montage with Kylo Ten being the boss and fucking shit up, they really dropped the ball by backpedaling from 8

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

A pity they already had the entire EU to work from and decided to obliterate it all... until they fucked up their own shit so badly they started bringing it back.

We could have had another trilogy centered around an established strong female character.

Mara Jade.

Sure, mix and match in some new ideas to make it work better as films than novels. The idea of Finn (a defecting stormtrooper) absolutely works in this setting.

But the original cast is too old for that time period!

Well we've now seen that Luke can be portrayed reasonably well with another actor and face and voice changing tech.

Have a whole trilogy set in basically the Mando/Asoka time period, but use the Mandalorians in a more adult story about the difficulty of establishing and maintaining alliances when the New Republic is young, the Imperial Remnant still exists, and now basically its chaos as various factions are picking sides.

Thrawn can be the big bad, but his presence is barely hinted at in 7, makes his appearance in 8 and has a major victory, and is defeated in 9.

You could even work in Boba Fett and Asoka! Maybe Thrawn sends Fett to assassinate Luke in 8 and he is seriously wounded or his new gaggle of Jedi trainees are fucked up, but Asoka helps Luke fend him off on the Millennium Falcon!

But uh nope, instead we got A New Hope v2, A B and C plot clusterfuck with a side of break hyperspace and all space combat lore, followed by Duct Tape and Bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There is no Sequel Trilogy in Ba Sing Se.

Here we are safe. Here we are free.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Episode 3 is really good.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I love Return of the Jedi.

[–] pantyhosewimp 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I watched it in the theater as a teenager on initial release, and the Ewoks made me cringe. But at the start, seeing Luke as a mature badass was satisfying and exciting.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

the local theater (we had one in our town) kept star wars playing (and only star wars) for a year. it wasn't until around grease and jaws2 that they played anything else.

same thing happened for the other two films of what became the original trilogy.

basically turned me off to the whole 'franchise'. all the films star wars kept from me as a small town kid by being on eternal repeat in the only theater accessible to me at the time.

i did see the original first three films--one time each, the first week of their initial runs.

but none since.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I liked the prequels more than the original trilogy.

Sequels were garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Star Wars (no, it wasn't "EPISODE IV A NEW HOPE"), Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi were the only good SW movies. The rest are embarrassingly bad fanfiction. Just because people laugh at the prequel memes doesn't make the prequels good. We as a society fell when we started laughing at all the horrible parts of the prequels and then asked ourselves "wait, if we're being entertained by the prequels, does that mean they were good?" and coming to the absolute wrong conclusion.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (11 children)

The originals are overrated too.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Honestly yeah, 1, 2, and 3 are amazing and never needed sequels.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Facebook comic

Makes sense. Those people are ancient. The 6 movies are fine it is the crap Disney stuff that sucks. Apparently I am a "bad" Star Wars fan if I don't subscribe to DRM based streaming where you own nothing. Also the idea that there is a story line after the end is dumb and poorly done.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

The 6 movies are fine

I take issue with the prequels being described as "fine". Meesa think thosa terrible films...