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Posted: 11/11/2019 4:04:26 PM EDT

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How could anyone have been optimistic about the future of this franchise after TLJ?

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:07:07 PM EDT

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So here's how you fix it all.

Slow zoom on younger middle aged Luke meditating. Lukes eyes open. He rushes out of the room to talk to Han and Leia. He tells them he has been using the force to probe possible futures and what he has seen is pure crap and he knows how to avoid it all.

From there act like the last 2 main story star wars movies never existed. Rewrite all of it, there is a ton of great material out there about stuff after the empire. Use it.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:09:00 PM EDT

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I am ready for the reboot.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:10:12 PM EDT

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I'm sure there are lots of things about the original Star Wars that have been kept secret.

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I just laughed out loud.
Seriously, except for the original trilogy:
Bad casting
Terrible acting
Horrible directing
Atrocious writing.
That’s stuff that can’t be fixed.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:14:26 PM EDT

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Meh, Lucas is a shit dialog writer and has a cringe inducing sense of humor but at least he is capable of creating a proper story arc and setting up a "lived in" world.

His original idea for the new trilogy is a million times better than what we ended up with.

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When George Lucas is being called in to save Star Wars, you know you have serious issues.

I couldn't care less about this movie but I am excited for Mandolorian. Jon Favreau is Star Wars' last hope.

Meh, Lucas is a shit dialog writer and has a cringe inducing sense of humor but at least he is capable of creating a proper story arc and setting up a "lived in" world.

His original idea for the new trilogy is a million times better than what we ended up with.

Star Wars(A New Hope) would have flopped big time if Lucas' wife didn't unfuck his original editing.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:14:27 PM EDT

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Liberals are bad at everything. Except destroying empires I guess.

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Seent what you did.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:15:47 PM EDT

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Meh. I stopped watching after TLJ. TFA was bad, but not too bad. It just wasn't good or original. Rogue One actually restored a good chunk of my faith in Star Wars. TLJ took all my restored faith and broke it in two, then sucked away a bit more. I skipped Solo altogether and I'll skip TRoS. These rumors are, in fact, just rumors but they sound just bad enough to be true. We'll know for sure in a couple months, but the only Star Wars content I'll be consuming from now on will be market data and Youtube commentary. I won't give Disney another dime.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:15:57 PM EDT

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Creates Star Wars, Fucks Star Wars, Sells Star Wars, Saves Star Wars?

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:16:31 PM EDT

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Why are liberals not more upset about them having to erase Rose from memory because the racist Chinese didn't want a black man kissing an Asian on screen?

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:17:27 PM EDT

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Hollywood just doesn't take writing seriously these days. Can anyone imagine telling Shakespeare or JRR Tolkien to write different endings? The ending is perhaps the most important part of the plot. Either you hire someone talented enough to write a good ending or you're fucked. Hollywood seems incapable of hiring talented writers.

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Holly wood has ALWAYS hated writers. I read the autobio of the writer of STII-TWOK, and he elaborates at length on it.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:20:07 PM EDT

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Josh Robert Thompson is amazing.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:22:50 PM EDT

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Meh, Lucas is a shit dialog writer and has a cringe inducing sense of humor but at least he is capable of creating a proper story arc and setting up a "lived in" world.

His original idea for the new trilogy is a million times better than what we ended up with.

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When George Lucas is being called in to save Star Wars, you know you have serious issues.

I couldn't care less about this movie but I am excited for Mandolorian. Jon Favreau is Star Wars' last hope.

Meh, Lucas is a shit dialog writer and has a cringe inducing sense of humor but at least he is capable of creating a proper story arc and setting up a "lived in" world.

His original idea for the new trilogy is a million times better than what we ended up with.

Phantom Menace shits all over your "proper story arc" theory. "Lived in World," too, since it was a bunch of random, disjointed, but cool-looking settings haphazardly strung together. Lucas was always only good at making cool looking stuff, and relied on an empowered staff to reign in his terrible writing and directing; not sure why this should surprise anyone.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:23:12 PM EDT

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I miss George Lucas. With the right people around him, he would have made the new trilogy great. I was one that made the mistake of thinking that Disney would do a great job keeping the spirit of the series alive, but I'm pretty sure that spirit is unique to Lucas.

I actually enjoyed the prequels and like them more than the originals. The new movies are garbage

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:24:47 PM EDT

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Heard this the other day. I can’t wait for this shitshow.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:25:00 PM EDT

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the best movie franchise in my lifetime, fucked over by SJW'ers.

it sucks.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:26:00 PM EDT

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Save room in that graveyard for the new 007 movie. Maybe bury them together next to Terminator

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Death comes in threes, right?

I'm not seeing any of that Trio of Crap-tastic films. (that's after being a life-long fanboy of all three series :( )

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:28:31 PM EDT

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Return of the Jedi was the beginning of the end.

stupid 2nd graders in teddy bear costume Ewoks and a reused plotline (second death star) told me the franchise was out of steam already

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:29:08 PM EDT

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Star Wars, Terminator, Ghostbusters. How many awesome 80’s IPs are SJWs going to ruin?

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:29:30 PM EDT

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LOL, that franchise is unsavable after the last part of it

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:29:47 PM EDT

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Woman inherits the Earth?

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:29:55 PM EDT

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Star Wars, Terminator, Ghostbusters. How many awesome 80’s IPs are SJWs going to ruin?

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Don't forget Star Trek.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:30:10 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2019 4:30:46 PM EDT

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They need to start fresh and make a series of movies from the old republic era

Like a KOTOR movie

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Disney already threw all those stories out as non-canon.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:30:58 PM EDT

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Don't forget Star Trek.

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Star Wars, Terminator, Ghostbusters. How many awesome 80's IPs are SJWs going to ruin?

Don't forget Star Trek.

Star Trek has always had a SJW vibe to it.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:31:45 PM EDT

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So here's how you fix it all.

Slow zoom on younger middle aged Luke meditating. Lukes eyes open. He rushes out of the room to talk to Han and Leia. He tells them he has been using the force to probe possible futures and what he has seen is pure crap and he knows how to avoid it all.

From there act like the last 2 main story star wars movies never existed. Rewrite all of it, there is a ton of great material out there about stuff after the empire. Use it.

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Would be nice, but since Fisher is dead and Ford has wanted Solo dead since the end of ESB, neva gonna happen. SJW fest marches on.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:32:28 PM EDT

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The only good entry in the new Star Wars universe is Rogue One. Every other movie has been abject and utter garbage. They should stop milking this dead cow and move on already.

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I disagree. They abandoned what made Star Wars famous to begin with: Telling a great story. The become so greedy. They forgot it's all about telling a great and compelling story. Instead they were more into the merchandising and fast bucks and screwed themselves.They were into gimmicks, went overboard on clownish characters like Jar Jar Binks when the already had a great robotic comedy duo to carry the humor. Then to top it off they had writers who just couldn't resist creating their own version of Star Wars instead of sticking to the story line. There were too many egos in the kitchen trying to make a 5 star gourmet main course and ended up serving a deflated soufflé.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:32:39 PM EDT

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I think there is enough creativity on this forum to produce a Star Wars movie people would pay to see

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:33:15 PM EDT

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Doomcock whether you like him or not broke this news

Rise of Skywalker Test Screenings DISASTER | Lucas to the Rescue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86DErk4e1zQ

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:33:58 PM EDT

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I get the reference to your screen name!!

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:35:09 PM EDT

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The only way to fix this is to scrap the last two movies and make it look like a horrible nightmare that Luke woke up from

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:43:19 PM EDT

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Return of the Jedi was the beginning of the end.

stupid 2nd graders in teddy bear costume Ewoks and a reused plotline (second death star) told me the franchise was out of steam already

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Of course they would build a second death star. They had 25,000 start destroyers. They probably planned to build 100 death stars. One getting destroyed was not going to stop the empire from building a fleet.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:43:28 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/11/2019 4:45:26 PM EDT

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Ya people hating on it for being for SJW are a bit thinned skinned.

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Solo may have been awesome, before KK intervened.

Shared a lot of the creative team of Into the Spiderverse.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:51:06 PM EDT

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So here's how you fix it all.

Slow zoom on younger middle aged Luke meditating. Lukes eyes open. He rushes out of the room to talk to Han and Leia. He tells them he has been using the force to probe possible futures and what he has seen is pure crap and he knows how to avoid it all.

From there act like the last 2 main story star wars movies never existed. Rewrite all of it, there is a ton of great material out there about stuff after the empire. Use it.

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While a bit contrived it IS cannon and yeah is about the only way to save this shit show lol.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:52:21 PM EDT

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Star Wars yahoos will see it regardless.

The franchise is a steaming liquid turd.

Lucas ensured that the minute he signed the sale documents.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:52:39 PM EDT

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They turned the best franchise in movie history and wore it into the ground.

They should just end Star Wars with a Rick roll and kill it off for good.

Posted: 11/11/2019 4:52:55 PM EDT

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1 looks like she likes EVERYTHING.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:08:37 PM EDT

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Hollywood just doesn't take writing seriously these days. Can anyone imagine telling Shakespeare or JRR Tolkien to write different endings? The ending is perhaps the most important part of the plot. Either you hire someone talented enough to write a good ending or you're fucked. Hollywood seems incapable of hiring talented writers.

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Is it normal practice in the movie industry to have so many different cuts? Like, I could understand two slightly different versions, but here we seem to be talking about three vastly different movies? I guess this tells a lot about how SW has turned into nothing than a money milking machine.

Hollywood just doesn't take writing seriously these days. Can anyone imagine telling Shakespeare or JRR Tolkien to write different endings? The ending is perhaps the most important part of the plot. Either you hire someone talented enough to write a good ending or you're fucked. Hollywood seems incapable of hiring talented writers.

They don't make their money selling tickets. The big money comes from pushing ideologies.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:14:51 PM EDT

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They spent a four billion dollars for something then wrecked it in 7 years. LOL

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ftfy

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:20:08 PM EDT

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Didnt think anyone ever was told what his ideas were?

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Meh, Lucas is a shit dialog writer and has a cringe inducing sense of humor but at least he is capable of creating a proper story arc and setting up a "lived in" world.

His original idea for the new trilogy is a million times better than what we ended up with.

Didnt think anyone ever was told what his ideas were?

Some of his ideas were leaked. Some of it was trash as you'd have expected but a lot of it had potential. He was even taking characters from the EU. It was said that Darth Talon would have been one of the main villains and she would have literally seduced Han Solos kid to the dark side.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:21:07 PM EDT

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Woman inherits the Earth?

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Woman inherits the Earth?

There it is.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:21:28 PM EDT

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At this point I’d rather let Bollywood finish the Star Wars saga. At least it’d be worth a laugh. They could reprise the Ewok song from RoJ and let the whole cast dance (including Force ghosts of Luke, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Yoda).

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:24:20 PM EDT

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Star Wars ended in 1983. Everything since has been a weak attempt and a money grab.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:32:00 PM EDT

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Is George Lucas going to be given a lightsaber and allowed to behead the entire production group and all of the Disney executives after using the Death Star to destroy any and all copies of this movie in its current form?
If not, he ain't savin' shit.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:35:30 PM EDT

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Maybe they could write in a mandatory buyback of all light sabers into their imaginary, purple-haired universe.

It's for the children. And the Ewoks.

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They just need more transgender actors doing lesbian scenes. That will save the film by making it so woke that every SJW will have to see it five times.

Maybe they could write in a mandatory buyback of all light sabers into their imaginary, purple-haired universe.

It's for the children. And the Ewoks.

I just noticed that Ewok is an anagram for Woke. Star Wars was planning on this all along!

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:37:34 PM EDT

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Lucas needs to make a parallel timeline, title it “Star Battles” and film it the way it should have been done.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:42:43 PM EDT

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So here's how you fix it all.

Slow zoom on younger middle aged Luke meditating. Lukes eyes open. He rushes out of the room to talk to Han and Leia. He tells them he has been using the force to probe possible futures and what he has seen is pure crap and he knows how to avoid it all.

From there act like the last 2 main story star wars movies never existed. Rewrite all of it, there is a ton of great material out there about stuff after the empire. Use it.

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Nah, that's crap; not Last Jedi crap, but still crap. It'd be relieving to know all the crap is "undone," but a dream retcon wouldn't be entertaining.

Do a low-budget flick where the New Order finally annihilates the Jedi & Rebels that now run the franchise, along with all significant New Order characters still remaining, in like the first 30min of the film. Maybe blow up the familiar planets in the process. From there, entirely new badass Jedi remnants, who had been cast aside by the weak & feckless group the Skywalkers associated with for being too ruthless against evil, unite with new disaffected rebels in another sector against a different corner of the Empire than we've seen, that is committing terrible war crimes.

Recipe for awesome from all parties involved; bad baddies, big damn heroes.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:44:17 PM EDT

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This is the Toney McGuire Spider-Man Of Star Wars.

They will reboot it

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:53:59 PM EDT

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My idea is they fix it by going Gundam on the last movie. Everybody dies, many of them in futile ways.

OR they just adopt the idea the Red Letter Media guys came up with in their last video: a hundred different cuts of the film custom tailored to the audience. When you buy your ticket you are given a questionnaire, and depending on how you fill it out you get a ticket to a specific cut of the movie that aligns with your wishes. Want to see Luke kill everybody? That's a cut of the movie. Want to see Rey on the toilet for two hours? That's a cut of the movie.

Then the argument over how terrible the new films are changes to be an argument over which of the hundred different versions is the worst.

Posted: 11/11/2019 5:56:22 PM EDT

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It's dead Jim.

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