Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
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Easy. What you gonna get for your kid?
Its the Star Wars brand. Its an easy grab. Are you going to get the Bladerunner 2049 or the Star Wars? Its a no-brainer.
I had at least 2 TFA related gifts when Star Wars came back out, them not knowing my stance on the current movies. I actually had to speak up a little bit after that and felt bad about having to do it, but I really didn't want any more post-TFA era stuff. It had to be done.
This year I got an original A Hope Awakens limited edition 1977 full cinema length and sized promotional poster instead. Original print run, framed.
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Its not 1977, its 2018; There are dozens of things I am going to buy for my kids before I buy TLJ. Incredibles 2, How to Train Your Dragon whatever, Pokemon whatever, The list goes on and on. If I had to choose between BR2049 and TLJ, I will choose: Neither.
BR2049- A movie that tries to be a serious movie that asks a similar question to the original but goes in new directions, attempts to surprise its audience but also respects its original audience, and combines that with some amazing visuals.
TLJ- A movie that takes what was set up in the previous movie, provides the slightest bit of fan service but then attempts to undercut its audiences' expectations in the most hostile fashion possible and essentially breaks most of the continuity from the previous 7 films while also injection social justice and current-day politics into a 4-decade old franchise.
EDIT: I am actually a big fan of Denis Villeneuve, and own BR2049. I just won't show it to my kids and expect them to enjoy it.
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Prediction: Her acceptance speech will be a 15 minute rant about the importance of women in Hollywood.
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its not so much a ripoff of Spaceballs, but is the same spoof Spaceballs did of Star Wars. so yeah they made mel brooks tell Lone Star that his ring of the schwartz was just a prop, much like Luke's Jedi training of Rey was pointless or Dark Helmet telling Lone Star,
Dark Helmet: I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
Lone Star: So what does that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing.
to Ren,
Kylo Ren: Do you know the truth about your parents? Or have you always known? You've just hidden it away. Say it.
Rey: [in tears] They were nobody.
Kylo Ren: They were filthy junk traders. Sold you off for drinking money. They're dead in a pauper's grave in the Jakku desert. You come from nothing. You're nothing. But not to me.
the real point, is this movie didnt take an original twist on the franchise, all of it was recycled bullshit.
Dark Helmet: I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
Lone Star: So what does that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing.
to Ren,
Kylo Ren: Do you know the truth about your parents? Or have you always known? You've just hidden it away. Say it.
Rey: [in tears] They were nobody.
Kylo Ren: They were filthy junk traders. Sold you off for drinking money. They're dead in a pauper's grave in the Jakku desert. You come from nothing. You're nothing. But not to me.
the real point, is this movie didnt take an original twist on the franchise, all of it was recycled bullshit.
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As RLM said, TLJ is pretty much a comedy flick. It's not so far fetched that Johnson would have drawn from a Star Wars parody for ideas.
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Tits too big. Waist too small. Patriarchy or something. They'd model it after Rose.
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Bob Iger Talks Disney's Streaming Service, 'Roseanne,' James Gunn and a Coming 'Star Wars' "Slowdown"
Many believe Disney should pump the breaks and not put out a Star Wars movie each year.
I made the timing decision, and as I look back, I think the mistake that I made — I take the blame — was a little too much, too fast. You can expect some slowdown, but that doesn't mean we're not going to make films. J.J. [Abrams] is busy making [Episode] IX. We have creative entities, including [Game of Thrones creators David] Benioff and [D.B.] Weiss, who are developing sagas of their own, which we haven't been specific about. And we are just at the point where we're going to start making decisions about what comes next after J.J.'s. But I think we're going to be a little bit more careful about volume and timing. And the buck stops here on that.
Interesting that they mention the GoT movies but don't mention at all the Rian Johnson trilogy, wonder if its still going ahead or dead
Many believe Disney should pump the breaks and not put out a Star Wars movie each year.
I made the timing decision, and as I look back, I think the mistake that I made — I take the blame — was a little too much, too fast. You can expect some slowdown, but that doesn't mean we're not going to make films. J.J. [Abrams] is busy making [Episode] IX. We have creative entities, including [Game of Thrones creators David] Benioff and [D.B.] Weiss, who are developing sagas of their own, which we haven't been specific about. And we are just at the point where we're going to start making decisions about what comes next after J.J.'s. But I think we're going to be a little bit more careful about volume and timing. And the buck stops here on that.
Interesting that they mention the GoT movies but don't mention at all the Rian Johnson trilogy, wonder if its still going ahead or dead
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Fucking shitshow. Total denial. You could put out a SW movie every month and they would do fine if they were GOOD movies. Take some fucking responsibility.
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There is some sense in letting the rebirth of the franchise settle in before pumping out too much based on it. It's like they started off midway into the MU levels of production, without the earlier movies proving that there's a stable foothold. I agree that TLJ being garbage and Solo not being that great is the bigger issue, but it doesn't change the impact of flooding the consumer interest levels.
