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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:07:27 PM EDT
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There's a good documentary on HULU called "The People vs. George Lucas" that dates from 2010 and goes into the problems with the franchise as far as the fans and Lucas is/was concerned.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:08:46 PM EDT
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Soon they'll rename the force to the feelings.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:08:57 PM EDT
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It is all nerd shit anyways.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:09:35 PM EDT
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I think Disneys Star Wars park is failing because it sucks.... Its jut too expensive for a single freaking ride and to pay more to eat in a themed diner.
I would not pay to go walk around that stuff. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:11:27 PM EDT
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It is all nerd shit anyways. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:11:38 PM EDT
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The Movies failed because they suck and shit on 40+ years of expanded universe content.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:13:07 PM EDT
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The Movies failed because they suck and shit on 40+ years of expanded universe content. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:13:52 PM EDT
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Star Wars was cool at first because there was nothing like it.
Now there are lots of things like it and it doesn't do anything to stand out from the rest of them. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:14:16 PM EDT
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You can only fuck over a franchise so many times with your SJW shit and bad movies.
Star Wars has staying power, but Disney is doing everything it can to sink it |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:14:39 PM EDT
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The Movies failed because they suck and shit on 40+ years of expanded universe content. The once decent movies recently were the non 'trilogy' ones like Rouge One and Han Solo |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:15:21 PM EDT
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The Movies failed because they suck and shit on 40+ years of expanded universe content. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:16:35 PM EDT
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It's funny because killing off the stars of the first trilogy was supposed to open the door for new heroes that appeal to kids.
Perhaps kids are smart enough to see that with no character growth whatsoever in our heroine, there's no stakes to the story. A story without stakes and dramatic tension is tough to watch. Oh, and the other new characters aren't very interesting. No character arcs with almost any of them except maybe Finn. Poe is a cipher, The other minor characters have been shit. It's just boring. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:17:25 PM EDT
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Star Wars started to suck as soon as Darth Vader turned out to be Luke's father.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:18:24 PM EDT
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My 4 year old loves star wars. The old star wars. Even he hates the new shit Disney put out, without me even influencing his opinion. Even kids know shitty plot lines, horrible character development and an affront to natural law when they see it. Disney shot themselves in their own dick for the sake of liberalism. Got woke, going broke.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:18:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:21:54 PM EDT
[#16]
Anything other than admitting they put out shitty movies.
Disclaimer: I was a die hard SW fan until The Last Jedi. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:22:40 PM EDT
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Making shitty movies probably doesn't help
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:23:41 PM EDT
[#18]
Ha-Ha.jpeg
I gave up on the comic book movies. I see SJW daily—I don’t need to be reminded while I’m relaxing. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:25:51 PM EDT
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Star Wars is struggling to maintain the audience it once had.
I am done with shitty star wars movies. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:26:21 PM EDT
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Star Wars is a great franchise that went into the wrong direction by people who don't know what it is about. The writing stinks, the plot lines too thin and I agree no character building. Disney is just making movies for the sake of making money and not pleasing fans. I was really looking forward to "The Force Awakens" years ago but it failed miserably. A girl with no prior training is able to keep up with Kylo Ren who has been trained by the best, is supposed to be realistic. I know the movies are not real but it would be like putting a Samurai against just a farmer with no combat skills. So much for the franchise.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:26:28 PM EDT
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I still love 4-5-6 and that last spin off rouge one was pretty good. They keep trying to redo some shit that worked once and are failing for a whole host of reasons .
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:26:46 PM EDT
[#22]
get woke, go broke
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:28:48 PM EDT
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Phantom Menace sucks
Edit: except for the podracer sequence 
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:32:48 PM EDT
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Star Wars is a great franchise that went into the wrong direction by people who don't know what it is about. The writing stinks, the plot lines too thin and I agree no character building. Disney is just making movies for the sake of making money and not pleasing fans. I was really looking forward to "The Force Awakens" years ago but it failed miserably. A girl with no prior training is able to keep up with Kylo Ren who has been trained by the best, is supposed to be realistic. I know the movies are not real but it would be like putting a Samurai against just a farmer with no combat skills. So much for the franchise. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:32:55 PM EDT
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Star Wars started to suck as soon as Darth Vader turned out to be Luke's father. 
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:40:12 PM EDT
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The Movies failed because they suck and shit on 40+ years of expanded universe content. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:40:14 PM EDT
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Nah, i'd say it was when we found out who his sister was. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Star Wars started to suck as soon as Darth Vader turned out to be Luke's father. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:41:04 PM EDT
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Phantom Menace sucks Edit: except for DARTH MAUL Pod Racing?  Solo and Rougue One were fucking awesome. The Force Awakens had potential but they ruined it. The Last Jedi fucking Sucks; the prequels are better than TLJ. And because of all the SJW bullshit I have no desire to see any further SW movies in the theater. Which is sad because I've seen every movie in the theater since ROTJ and have been an SW fan since I was a kid. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:42:19 PM EDT
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Lifetime Star Wars fan here.
The new movies suck, they don't make any sense and they are loaded with SJW propaganda. I'm done watching them for good. Galaxy's Edge is nothing more than a Star Wars themed shopping mall full of hyper-expensive doodads. I wouldn't go there if they paid me. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:42:54 PM EDT
[#30]
No, it’s because it’s too freaking expensive
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:48:25 PM EDT
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No, it’s because it’s too freaking expensive  Disney Cast Member EXPOSES Star Wars Galaxy's Edge! |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:55:07 PM EDT
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Kids and I absolutely love Eps 3-6 and R1, and we think Solo was decent.
TFA and TLJ suck and we refuse to see Episode 9. We do not speak of Episode 1. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 12:57:06 PM EDT
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You can only fuck over a franchise so many times with your SJW shit and bad movies. Star Wars has staying power, but Disney is doing everything it can to sink it 
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:03:42 PM EDT
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My 6yo told me nobody liked Star Wars anymore because they made it dumb.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:08:16 PM EDT
[#35]
Oh well.
From the guy who has over 100 books from Star Wars to the guy who sat out Solo and will sit out Episode 9. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:10:12 PM EDT
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There's almost zero Star Wars merchandise in the stores now. Walmart has a couple dusty diecast A-wings and Tie fighters, that's it. Maybe a retro t-shirt once in a while. Used to be you almost couldn't find a spot in the store where there wasn't a Star Wars licensed product within arm's reach. Disney can blow a lot of sunshine up a lot of butts but they can't hide the exodus of licensors.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:14:42 PM EDT
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30 seconds of Jar Jar.
I walked out. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:16:03 PM EDT
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That's what forcing your kids to like what you like will do. oh well, StarWars can't die fast enough
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:19:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
The Movies failed because they suck and shit on 40+ years of expanded universe content. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:21:38 PM EDT
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It’s hard to say this, as someone who grew up pretending to be Han Solo battling Darth Vader and his stormtroopers to rescue Princess Leia. But it must be said: Kids might not be into Star Wars anymore. Walt Disney Co.’s underwhelming theme-park attendance last quarter was the latest sign that the intergalactic saga isn’t resonating for younger generations raised on Iron Man and Fortnite. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger was so sure fans would be blasting through the door that he had instituted a reservation system for visitors to enter Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the new attraction at Disneyland. It turned out not to be necessary. ... Who's the hero now that kids would like to be? My 4 year old son pretends to be Hulk or Spider-man because the books I read him show those heroes doing hero things. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:22:10 PM EDT
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They should give Porkins his own movie. Couldn't be any worse than the recent ones.
Fuckin' SJW's have managed to kill Star Wars, Star Trek, and Doctor Who all within the same year. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:28:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I agree that kids aren't into Star Wars. The appeal of Star Wars, mostly to boys, was to be the hero. SW had 2 masculine heroes, Luke and Han and every boy age 4-9 (maybe older) in 1977 came out of Star Wars wanting to be one or the other. Who's the hero now that kids would like to be? My 4 year old son pretends to be Hulk or Spider-man because the books I read him show those heroes doing hero things. Because through the years between 1984 to the mid/late 90s when the re-released were put out it was my sister repping star wars, buying novels, and playing SW games not my brother and I. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:32:11 PM EDT
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I'm not surprised. It would be like Disney decided they need a reboot of Indiana Jones, but they replace Indy with a woman, and she goes out searching for the Holy Equal Pay, which will grant equality to all women who gaze upon it. Then they build a huge theme park all about the reboot, and nobody goes. Why would they? Indiana Jones was cool, but that era has past. And you ruined it anyways, so ZFG.
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:32:23 PM EDT
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The movies suck. It’s as simple as that.
Between Star Trek and Star Wars, I think JJ Abrams may be one of the worst things to ever happen to science fiction. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:34:31 PM EDT
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Prequels had their issues, but overall had a great story, and interesting characters that actually developed over the course of the trilogy (even if you already knew their ultimate trajectory).
Even the OT had some plot holes, iffy acting, etc. After TFA, I thought it definitely had some glaring issues, but if you watch all seven back to back... it really still feels like a SW movie. Ep 8 was a great opportunity to clarify, explain, and expand on a lot of ideas and themes and characters from 7, but instead it was just a mishmash of SJW nonsense, and just bad story telling with literally zero to add to the story. The OT had great heros and villains that kids AND adults could get enjoy. The PT had awesome dynamic action and lightsaber battles that we hadn't seen before, along with good heroes, and some interesting villains, and a great story. The new trilogy looks the best, no one can fault that, but it basically has no soul, and instead of giving it one in Ep 8, Disney wiped it's ass with the whole concept. Unlike any SW film before, I will wait to see fan reviews on Ep 9 before I see it in theaters. If it doesn't get 5 star reviews from non-paid shills and totally undo everything done by Ep 8, I'll be waiting until it hits stream - if I bother to see it at all. (And I say that as someone who's seen previous films 2-3 times each in theaters) |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:34:31 PM EDT
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It is all nerd shit anyways. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:35:13 PM EDT
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If we are really being honest, there have only ever been 2 great Star Wars movies and 1 "good enough" movie which tied up loose ends.
I don't care how well done anyone thinks Rogue One was (so what if it was), it doesn't change the fact that it's a McMovie that banked on relentless fan service. It didn't move the universe forward in any meaningful way just like every other movie since Return of the Jedi and even that was a low key rehash of A New Hope. TFA and TLJ was Star Wars' opportunity to finally move things forward and instead they just circled right back to the beginning. You can only pump fans full of the comfortable and familiar before they finally lose enthusiasm. The SJW side agenda shoved in along the way probably didn't help either. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:35:54 PM EDT
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Kathleen Kennedy fucked up Lucasfilm so bad that the torrent of Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies Disney planned for them to make has been cut to a trickle. For their unexpected free time Kennedy has hand picked the beginning of the next great franchise, Children of Blood and Bone.
Gizmodo Since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the studio has been laser-focused on two of its biggest franchises: cycling up a whole deluge of Star Wars films, and getting going on a continuation of Indiana Jones. But now it's working on a new project, wholly disconnected from supernatural treasure hunting or Jedi adventures.
Deadline reports Disney is moving ahead with an adaptation of Tomi Adeyemi's 2018 young adult fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone, picking up on a Fox 2000 rights acquisition that has survived the House of Mouse's consumption of Fox and the ongoing radical cutdown of its previously planned movie slate. Set in a world where an evil king orders the culling of Majipractitioners of various elemental magicsChildren of Blood and Bone follows a young orphaned Maji named Zlie, who sets out to bring magic back to her people and strike back against the king who subjugated them. Kay Oyegun, best known for her work on This is Us, is currently in talks with Disney to write the adaptation, while Dope and one-time potential Flash director Rick Famuyiwa is still attached to direct. While prior producers back under Fox's auspices Marty Bowen, Isaac Klausner, John Fischer, and Karen Rosenfelt, as well as Famuyiwa himself, will still be onboard the Disney version of the project, the deal has apparently caught the eye of Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy according to Deadline. Disney is looking to hand over Children of Blood and Bone to Lucasfilm to be their first non-Star Wars or Indy production since being bought by the megacorporation seven years ago. IGN The novel, published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger, as a young heroine teams up with a rogue princess to restore magic in the land of Orsha in the aftermath of her mother's death.
"The greatest danger," the outlet notes, "may be Zlie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy." |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:41:35 PM EDT
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Nah, i'd say it was when we found out who his sister was. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Star Wars started to suck as soon as Darth Vader turned out to be Luke's father. |
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Posted: 8/8/2019 1:52:34 PM EDT
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It is all nerd shit anyways. |
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