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Big, big spoilers condensed from various sites, mostly makingstarwars and theforce.net... Click To View Spoiler The Rise of Skywalker is bad. Really bad.
Remember how Anakin's whole point of being was to end the Sith once and for all? He could have done it in Palpy's office, didn't, spent the next 30 years in anguish at himself, Luke was the only one who believed in him, and he came back from the Dark Side to chuck the Emperor down an elevator shaft and that fulfilled his destiny? None of that actually mattered because Palpy is back. And he has an entire fleet of Star Destroyers...each of which has a Death Star Planet Killer Gun on it. And legions of red armored Sith Troopers because Stromtroopers in red. And Kylo sacrifices himself to save the galaxy. And Rey isn't a Skywalker. She's the living embodiment of the Force. And 3PO is temporarily destroyed, but not to worry because he mind is put in R2. And of course BB8 outshadows R2 and 3PO, again. Consider yourself warned. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Big, big spoilers condensed from various sites, mostly makingstarwars and theforce.net... Click To View Spoiler The Rise of Skywalker is bad. Really bad.
Remember how Anakin's whole point of being was to end the Sith once and for all? He could have done it in Palpy's office, didn't, spent the next 30 years in anguish at himself, Luke was the only one who believed in him, and he came back from the Dark Side to chuck the Emperor down an elevator shaft and that fulfilled his destiny? None of that actually mattered because Palpy is back. And he has an entire fleet of Star Destroyers...each of which has a Death Star Planet Killer Gun on it. And legions of red armored Sith Troopers because Stromtroopers in red. And Kylo sacrifices himself to save the galaxy. And Rey isn't a Skywalker. She's the living embodiment of the Force. And 3PO is temporarily destroyed, but not to worry because he mind is put in R2. And of course BB8 outshadows R2 and 3PO, again. Consider yourself warned. Click To View Spoiler Red Letter Media predicts time travel in The Rise of Skywalker based on the trailer, but they didn't know exactly how it would be used. But there's a "Rey is Shmi" time travel theory that sounds like exactly what Disney's shit writers would do, in which Rey goes back in time. The true beauty of Rey is Shmi is that Rey is then both the beginning and the end of the Skywalker saga. The entire thing becomes about Rey. And she'll turn out to be the physical embodiment of the force. Her parents will literally be "nobody", as Kylo said without knowing how right he was.
.Perhaps the force tried to rebalance itself via Anakin and Luke once before, but they fucked it up because they're men. The Force is literally female, and the whole Star Wars saga becomes some kind of feminist parable when the force gets it right the second time with a line of females instead of the line of men in the existing series, which started with the virgin birth "Anakin's father was the Force" thing in the prequels. Watch Rey fix the Force by giving birth to a female Anakin who won't get poisoned by that teenager testosterone man rage that tipped male Anakin into Vader. Female Anakina and her daughter Lukette bring peace and happiness and puppy dog kisses to the universe instead of a never ending war. I believe it because it allows Kathleen Kennedy to completely hijack and wipe her ass with the original trilogy and the prequels and take her feminist agenda full retard times infinity Quoted:
I watched this one while I was driving to the post office today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0jeECpo3Po |
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Star Wars is failing because Disney shat on the Expanded Universe (for all it faults) and the fans that made Star Wars what it was when Lucas sold it.
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Wrong. They've been steadily increasing in price for years. They really took off after TFA. People like me who were kids of the 70's and 80's now have disposable income and we dont like the new movies. Those toys will never be worthless. I'll buy them all!?? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The 70’s Kenner toys will go the way of Beenie Babies in a few years - worthless. Pathetic Man-Child Destroys 2,387 Vintage Star Wars Figures |
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Maybe they think if they keep pretending that girls give a shit about Star Wars, it will magically come true?
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View Quote Number of guys I see every day wearing SW shirts: over a dozen minimally. |
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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. View Quote STAR WARS DARTH MAUL LIGHTSABER DUEL EXTENDED |
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Disney Star Wars'' Failure is Complete? George Lucas Rumor Update |
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View Quote If it’s true, while Disney is trying to reduce Lucas’ residuals, they're simultaneously killing the franchise and reducing their total revenue. Kind of ironic. |
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When I had to download the despecialized original trilogy to replace my original trilogy VHS tapes I knew the honeymoon was over. Haven't paid much attention since. When I want a Star Wars fix I plug a USB SSD into the side of my Roku and watch the despecialized editions.
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Resistance cancelled after Hasbro halts toy line due to disinterest
Star Wars Resistance gets new trailer and canceled on the same day |
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Just make sure you're kids see the five good minutes of footage from Episode I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uvad9uSc9k View Quote |
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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. View Quote Kids, and everyone else, are numb to it now, it isn't special, just another mass marketed commercial cash-in on their parents nostalgia. |
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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. View Quote |
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Star Wars started to suck as soon as Darth Vader turned out to be Luke's father. View Quote What were the chances that some hick farmer kid on a remote desert planet was the son of the baddest bad guy in the galaxy? Sure, there was shock value to it...but once the shock wore off five minutes later, most of us responded with: Wut? |
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Aside from the general SJW bs that ruined Star Wars, they really went overboard with all the kiddie stuff....... bring back the dark story lines. One of the greatest travesties is that Kylo Ren’s character was not allowed to become malevolent and a badass......
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What's funny is how most of fandom would probably want Lucas back now that we've seen what Disney did to the franchise. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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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Another good rant about the current state of SW.
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Another good rant about the current state of SW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afN9RVKhogY View Quote |
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Lucas could build worlds and concepts, but sucks at telling stories. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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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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Just make sure you're kids see the five good minutes of footage from Episode I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uvad9uSc9k View Quote |
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There is no hope for Star Wars with dumb & dumber from GOT doing the writing, along with Kennedys and Abrams involvement. It's a shame, Disney has double-downed and ruined probably the best franchise in movie history. However, the movie will get great reviews because no critic want's to piss-off the mouse and those that make any criticism will be called racist. The only thing that will alter Disney's decision making is for there to be extreme financial pain, by then it will be too late.
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There is no hope for Star Wars with dumb & dumber from GOT doing the writing, along with Kennedys and Abrams involvement. It's a shame, Disney has double-downed and ruined probably the best franchise in movie history. However, the movie will get great reviews because no critic want's to piss-off the mouse and those that make any criticism will be called racist. The only thing that will alter Disney's decision making is for there to be extreme financial pain, by then it will be too late. View Quote |
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Quoted: When they bomb at the box office it wont matter what critics have to say. View Quote Rey. Kinda curious to see who her parents are really, if Kylo was wrong. Otherwise, we can safely assume that Mary Sue will overcome whatever obstacles she is faced with easily, as she did in the first two. Kylo. His relationship with Rey is based on what? He turned dark because why? His potential redemption will be how? Resistance v. First Order. We literally have no idea what the political background conflict is. We have no idea how the First Order got so powerful. We have no idea where the New Republic is other than one shot of a planet being nuked. Who am I supposed to be rooting for again? Finn, Rose, Poe & the rest. Literally who cares. Does anyone care how Finn and Rose's relationship turns out? |
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When they bomb at the box office it wont matter what critics have to say. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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There is no hope for Star Wars with dumb & dumber from GOT doing the writing, along with Kennedys and Abrams involvement. It's a shame, Disney has double-downed and ruined probably the best franchise in movie history. However, the movie will get great reviews because no critic want's to piss-off the mouse and those that make any criticism will be called racist. The only thing that will alter Disney's decision making is for there to be extreme financial pain, by then it will be too late. so I'm interested to see how the critics will justify Episode 9 bombing. Probably will claim a female lead and black/brown/Asian supporting characters aren't enough, "this proves movies need more LGBT characters." |
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The Force is Tranny?
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The odd thing about that fight is that Maul is constantly on the defensive, retreating the entire time. Even his killing combination against Qui-Gon began with a block, then Obi Wan came close to simply pounding him to death. It's a surprisingly passive way to script the villain in the finale battle. View Quote |
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There is some truth to this statement. What were the chances that some hick farmer kid on a remote desert planet was the son of the baddest bad guy in the galaxy? Sure, there was shock value to it...but once the shock wore off five minutes later, most of us responded with: Wut? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Star Wars started to suck as soon as Darth Vader turned out to be Luke's father. What were the chances that some hick farmer kid on a remote desert planet was the son of the baddest bad guy in the galaxy? Sure, there was shock value to it...but once the shock wore off five minutes later, most of us responded with: Wut? Really? In contrast to the completely random crap we get in the new trilogy, this is easily answered by the actual plot of the movies. Leia was on her way to see Obi Wan Kenobi who she knew to be on Tatooine, Obi Wan was there to keep an eye on Luke and his family since Luke was the son of Darth Vader and so Luke being nearby to the action when something started up is a pretty likely. It was a sparsely populated desert planet so it's not like there were billions of people there or anything either. Now Leia being Luke's sister? That's where it gets a lot less plausible but they even explained that pretty well in Episode 3. *** end Nerd *** |
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I guess kids aren't into SJWer pandering Star Wars. The movies are failing and no ones visiting Star Wars land. View Quote |
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Neither of my girls, age 20 and 11, have ever had any interest at all in Star Wars or any SciFi type shows for that matter.
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I think it's bad because Disney is only really looking to make money off of the Star Wars name, and they couldn't care less about the actual storyline, the plot, the characters, or anything else about the IP. They paid big bucks, they want to make big bucks.
And it kind of worked, right? Force Awakens had $2billion of box office. The Last Jedi had $1.3 billion... a steep drop-off What if the next movie bombs? They'll be in trouble. |
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Cause it sucks and they don't have nostalgia for something that happened before they were born.
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I think it's bad because Disney is only really looking to make money off of the Star Wars name, and they couldn't care less about the actual storyline, the plot, the characters, or anything else about the IP. They paid big bucks, they want to make big bucks. And it kind of worked, right? Force Awakens had $2billion of box office. The Last Jedi had $1.3 billion... a steep drop-off What if the next movie bombs? They'll be in trouble. View Quote |
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I think it's bad because Disney is only really looking to make money off of the Star Wars name, and they couldn't care less about the actual storyline, the plot, the characters, or anything else about the IP. They paid big bucks, they want to make big bucks. And it kind of worked, right? Force Awakens had $2billion of box office. The Last Jedi had $1.3 billion... a steep drop-off What if the next movie bombs? They'll be in trouble. View Quote If you add up all of the BO takes for the four Disney films: So, subtract $1.1B - and that doesn't account for advertising. Then again, it also doesn't account for product licensing... At best, Disney is probably not far from breaking even. Breaking even on SW is a pretty epic failure, really. m ETA: Arfcom sucks at tables... |
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Nope. If you add up all of the BO takes for the four Disney films: So, subtract $1.1B - and that doesn't account for advertising. Then again, it also doesn't account for product licensing... At best, Disney is probably not far from breaking even. Breaking even on SW is a pretty epic failure, really. m ETA: Arfcom sucks at tables... View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I think it's bad because Disney is only really looking to make money off of the Star Wars name, and they couldn't care less about the actual storyline, the plot, the characters, or anything else about the IP. They paid big bucks, they want to make big bucks. And it kind of worked, right? Force Awakens had $2billion of box office. The Last Jedi had $1.3 billion... a steep drop-off What if the next movie bombs? They'll be in trouble. If you add up all of the BO takes for the four Disney films: So, subtract $1.1B - and that doesn't account for advertising. Then again, it also doesn't account for product licensing... At best, Disney is probably not far from breaking even. Breaking even on SW is a pretty epic failure, really. m ETA: Arfcom sucks at tables... |
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Nope. If you add up all of the BO takes for the four Disney films: So, subtract $1.1B - and that doesn't account for advertising. Then again, it also doesn't account for product licensing... At best, Disney is probably not far from breaking even. Breaking even on SW is a pretty epic failure, really. m ETA: Arfcom sucks at tables... View Quote |
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Just put this guy in charge of it. He clearly loves star wars and is creative.
Giant LEGO Mon Calamari Cruiser with Full Interior! Custom Star Wars |
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GIANT LEGO Star Destroyer with Full Interior! Custom Star Wars |
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I'm just here to make it known that I didn't give a fuck about star wars before it was cool to not give a fuck about star wars.
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Another good rant about the current state of SW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afN9RVKhogY View Quote |
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His theory is plausible. If it’s true, while Disney is trying to reduce Lucas’ residuals, they're simultaneously killing the franchise and reducing their total revenue. Kind of ironic. View Quote |
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Quoted: It might be worse: Click To View Spoiler Red Letter Media predicts time travel in The Rise of Skywalker based on the trailer, but they didn't know exactly how it would be used. But there's a "Rey is Shmi" time travel theory that sounds like exactly what Disney's shit writers would do, in which Rey goes back in time. The true beauty of Rey is Shmi is that Rey is then both the beginning and the end of the Skywalker saga. The entire thing becomes about Rey. And she'll turn out to be the physical embodiment of the force. Her parents will literally be "nobody", as Kylo said without knowing how right he was.
.Perhaps the force tried to rebalance itself via Anakin and Luke once before, but they fucked it up because they're men. The Force is literally female, and the whole Star Wars saga becomes some kind of feminist parable when the force gets it right the second time with a line of females instead of the line of men in the existing series, which started with the virgin birth "Anakin's father was the Force" thing in the prequels. Watch Rey fix the Force by giving birth to a female Anakin who won't get poisoned by that teenager testosterone man rage that tipped male Anakin into Vader. Female Anakina and her daughter Lukette bring peace and happiness and puppy dog kisses to the universe instead of a never ending war. I believe it because it allows Kathleen Kennedy to completely hijack and wipe her ass with the original trilogy and the prequels and take her feminist agenda full retard times infinity Same God damned retarded rights split is contributing to the destruction of Star Trek. That plus overwhelming SJW politics at CBS, and terrible writers who hate everything that Star Trek stands for at both CBS and Paramount/Bad Robot. View Quote |
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