New 'Star Wars' Movies Are Coming to Theatres. But Will Audiences? (cinemablend.com) 102
"The drought of upcoming Star Wars movies is coming to an end soon," writes Cinemablend. In May the The Mandalorian and Grogu opens, and one year later there's the release of the Ryan Gosling-led Star Wars: Starfighter.
But "there are some insiders who already believe that Starfighter will be a bigger hit than The Mandalorian and Grogu..." According to unnamed sources who spoke with Variety, there's a "sense" that Star Wars: Starfighter, which is directed by Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy, will be a more satisfying viewing experience. These same sources are allegedly impressed by the early footage they've seen of Ryan Gosling's performance and also suggested that Levy has "recaptured the franchise's spirit of fun." Furthermore, the article states that there's concern that because The Mandalorian and Grogu is spinning out of a streaming-exclusive series, it might not have as much appeal to people who aren't already fans of The Mandalorian... Star Wars: Starfighter, on the other hand, will be accessible to everyone equally. It's set five years after The Rise of Skywalker, which is an unexplored period for the Star Wars franchise onscreen. It's also expected that most, if not all of its featured characters will be brand-new, so no knowledge of past adventures is required.
Slashdot reader gaiageek reminds us that 2027 will also see a special 50-year anniversary event in movie in theatres: a "newly restored" version of the original 1977 Star Wars.
But "there are some insiders who already believe that Starfighter will be a bigger hit than The Mandalorian and Grogu..." According to unnamed sources who spoke with Variety, there's a "sense" that Star Wars: Starfighter, which is directed by Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy, will be a more satisfying viewing experience. These same sources are allegedly impressed by the early footage they've seen of Ryan Gosling's performance and also suggested that Levy has "recaptured the franchise's spirit of fun." Furthermore, the article states that there's concern that because The Mandalorian and Grogu is spinning out of a streaming-exclusive series, it might not have as much appeal to people who aren't already fans of The Mandalorian... Star Wars: Starfighter, on the other hand, will be accessible to everyone equally. It's set five years after The Rise of Skywalker, which is an unexplored period for the Star Wars franchise onscreen. It's also expected that most, if not all of its featured characters will be brand-new, so no knowledge of past adventures is required.
Slashdot reader gaiageek reminds us that 2027 will also see a special 50-year anniversary event in movie in theatres: a "newly restored" version of the original 1977 Star Wars.
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I am old, married and have kids... (Score:2)
My wife and I go to the movies weekly, whatever is playing. A lounger, pizza and beer, no kids...NO BRAINER.
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fingers crossed the stargate continuation makes up for all the starshit being terrible these days.
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Not a dime for Stargate. I think it was 2004 and I was a huge fan. I'd just bought a house that need a whole lot of TLC (200+ ft of drywall re-seaming) so I turned off cable for the summer. I owned probably 5-6 years of the series on DVD. When I turned cable back on, Atlantis was midway through the first season. I went online and downloaded the episodes to catch up.
Figured I'd leave the torrents up for anyone who might also need it.
2 days later internet stops working. Got a strike from MGM. I was
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To be fair, every major studio does this these days. None of them are cool with torrents, regardless of how much of a fan you are of their IP. I've done something similar - hit the high seas to get caught up on the horror flicks that got turned into houses at HHN. Do you think Universal is gonna be like "Hey, this guy bought a kind of expensive multi-night event pass and also drops a few bucks each time he visits on food and snacks, maybe we can let the piracy slide."? Of course not.
Use a VPN or seedbox
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aye matey! Lessons were definitely learned on one side of that transaction LOL
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Andor was great, legitimately one of the best shows of this decade. Season one of The Madalorian was decent, then it fell off a cliff. The rest is just bad.
To me this shows what they need is someone with a vision and the skill to make it happen, not more toy selling slop or caving in to what fans think they want.
Re:Definitely (Score:4, Interesting)
Andor was great, legitimately one of the best shows of this decade. Season one of The Madalorian was decent, then it fell off a cliff. The rest is just bad.
To me this shows what they need is someone with a vision and the skill to make it happen, not more toy selling slop or caving in to what fans think they want.
Interesting that you condemn the toys. Some of the critics have walls of the action figures. That's money.
And not "caving to what fans think they want is what got Disney to the place they are in now. We had relentless attacks on people who dared to criticize what Disney put out. We had obviously political/social material that showed the prior fan base what Disney thought of them. And the product slowly spiraled.
The crazy thing is that political and social content can be put into movies successfully. It always has been. They seem to have had a huge falloff in both writing and cinematography however, their recent offerings have been pretty clumsy, and in what is essentially a space cowboy based universe, there is a clear storytelling formula involved. There is clear cinematography formula involved. And there is clear lighting for mood formula involved.
And there is the dark truth. The area for creativity, is in the details and nuance.
And Disney (and Paramount) somehow didn't get the memo. People who considered themselves above the formulas, and tried "subverting expectations" in all areas, ended up putting out a pretty poor product, and then blamed the fans they purposely threw away.
And the worst thing for them now is that those rejected fans, who once pumped a lot of money into the product, aren't interested any more. The toys, and multiple theater visits by many of the former fans have disappeared.
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My only point about the toys is that because Andor wasn't made as a vehicle to sell them, but rather to tell a compelling story about how fascism works and the price of defeating it, it was actually good. When the studio says "you need to have this character in the show, and kill this one off so we can sell some more toys", you get Transformers The Movie.
As for the fans, Nicholas Meyer, who directed Wrath of Khan, pointed out that fans don't know what they want until you give it to them. He got threatening letters when rumours about Wrath of Khan started to emerge, that Spock was going to die, that Kirk would make mistakes and not be the perfect hero that some fans wanted. There is very little sci-fi in it, it's basically a WW2 submarine movie in space. Turned out to be the best ST movie of the bunch, even decades later.
The same goes for TNG and DS9. People complained that Picard was too old and they would have cured baldness in the future. People complained that the basic premise of Star Trek was exploration and not being stuck on a space station. Both criticisms that have been levelled at all the new shows, by the way.
Meanwhile Star Wars gave the fans what they wanted - Thrawn. Played by the guy they wanted, who did the voice in the cartoons. And it was terrible. Predictably so. Same with Asoka, same with Obi-wan between the prequels and original trilogy, same with Boba Fett. Fans want what they know and are nostalgic for, and that rarely works.
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> My only point about the toys is that because Andor wasn't made as a vehicle to sell them, but rather to tell a compelling story about how fascism works and the price of defeating it
In addition, Andor’s success can be attributed to flying under Kathleen Kennedy’s radar - sneaking past the “The Message” trap which is guaranteed to kill aesthetics.
It stuck to rugged individuals - cowboy mythos style - fighting old fashioned fascism instead of Antifa’s cartoonish straw-man
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Hmm, I very much didn't get the "cowboy mythos style" when watching Andor. The rebels were flawed, sometimes weak, with Andor himself being a reluctant anti-hero. The Empire characters were the more macho ones, using the co-opted Imperial power to boost their own weak egos. That's what made it so good, they were not cowboy movie style baddies, they were what fascists typically are - weak, craving the adopted power and authority that fascism grants them, and fighting people who are not just rebels fighting a
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> Hmm, I very much didn't get the "cowboy mythos style" when watching Andor. The rebels were flawed, sometimes weak, with Andor himself being a reluctant anti-hero.
The cowboy mythos isn’t evocative of perfection - it’s absolutely chuck full of flawed individuals. Think Lonesome Dove, or The Good The Bad and the Ugly. It’s almost exactly “every man is a sinner” rugged individuals overcoming adversity.
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But most of them were not very rugged.
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NOT! I have punished myself more than long enough hoping for modern Star Wars to improve. I am ignoring the franchise, just as I ignore the modern Star Trek franchise.
It's worth noting that Kathleen Kennedy has stepped down from Lucas Films and thus won't be producing any more utter trash in the future. I think she can be largely to blame for the absolute clusterfuck that was modern Star Wars.
We have ... A New Hope. Okay I'll let myself out now.
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NOT! I have punished myself more than long enough hoping for modern Star Wars to improve. I am ignoring the franchise, just as I ignore the modern Star Trek franchise.
It's worth noting that Kathleen Kennedy has stepped down from Lucas Films and thus won't be producing any more utter trash in the future. I think she can be largely to blame for the absolute clusterfuck that was modern Star Wars.
We have ... A New Hope. Okay I'll let myself out now.
That's a start. I wonder if they got rid of Harvey Weinstein's secretary as well? The Acolyte that she directed was modern Disney writ large.
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NOT! I have punished myself more than long enough hoping for modern Star Wars to improve. I am ignoring the franchise, just as I ignore the modern Star Trek franchise.
Pretty much this. Star Wars drove away it's core audience, and replaced it with
nothing.
It was a bold move, but they didn't have the talent ability in making the movies. Many of the recent offerings were just bad storytelling, bad cinematography, and clumsy political lecturing.
All made worse by the social/political posturing by the people running the show. And a propensity to attack anyone with the gall to give criticism. That gave rise to being better drama than the movies.
We see the people they a
but there is only one starwars movie and thats (Score:5, Insightful)
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this ... so much this
every movie franchise is a haven for rich and famous has beens
i just can't pay into hollywood given how they use copyright against us and corrupted our public domain
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Sorry but that's just a load of shit. Actors are good or bad. Direction of actors are good or bad. The famous / not famous part is quite irrelevant. There's quite a few horribly acted scenes in the original Star Wars, there's quite a few excellent acted scenes. All of this is down to the director and producer and the story that presented.
And that's before you beg the question, because Andor and the like were full of actors that were either borderline unheard of or have a history in side roles to the point w
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I agree... Rogue One showed they were capable of making movies in the star wars setting in other genres ( i.e. "A War Movie"). They could have made ("A detective movie", "A murder mystery", etc. etc.)
KK clearly had jailworthy dirt on the big wigs. Maybe Epstein? Have any of the old board member names shown up yet?
AMC needs it bad (Score:2)
AMC needs it bad
I thought the first rise of Skywalker movie (Score:3)
The second two movies were unwatchably bad. I couldn't make it through the second and dear God the third just seeing some scenes from it and the plot details I couldn't even start it. I've heard it looks cool if you can get past how everything in the movie is fucking stupid and dumb but I just can't...
You have to at least get up to the extremely low bar that is the prequel movies. Honestly at this point you probably need to write at the level of at least a new hope. I'm not expecting empire strikes Back here but you need to do something cool.
The rule of cool applies here in that I can forgive damn near anything and suspend any level of disbelief if you do something cool. But you have to clear that bar.
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The second had some good ideas diluted in a sea of inane slop and wasted potential (you have Benicio Del Toro and do that?!?).
The third dropped the good ideas and kept the slop, with a sprinkle of writer desperation on top.
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The second had some good ideas diluted in a sea of inane slop and wasted potential (you have Benicio Del Toro and do that?!?).
You are being way too kind. The second movie did its best to not only destroy the first, shoehorning inconsistencies into the new trillogy, but also to destroy the entire legacy of Star Wars and shit on the a long history of lore in the process making every other Star Wars movie irrelevant.
God fucking dammit it makes me crave more of seeing Ja Ja Binks. At least that was just a bad character, not a franchise destroying shitshow.
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Honestly, the first one in the new trilogy was pure fan service, to the point where it basically overlaps 1:1 with the plot points of A New Hope. If you're fine with directors taking the safest possible route by not ever daring to bring something new to the saga, then fine.
The second one did dare to do something more. I think the most interesting point would have been the implication that the Force is not an hereditary trait and every attempt to eradicate force users would fail as life itself would sprout n
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I've heard it looks cool if you can get past how everything in the movie is fucking stupid and dumb but I just can't...
Once you remove everything stupid in that movie, there's nothing left. Even if you just want to watch light saber fights, the actors clearly didn't train very much.
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FTL drives are stupid and dumb. From there on, interstellar Sci-Fi is all stupid and dumb, and you either come for the story, or you come for the lulz. 'Believable' is something i define as 'willing to suspend disbelief...
But I mostly go for the popcorn. So long as the flick isn't dependent on gore and woke fantasy I'm probably ok.
BTW, you gotta go see EPIC. It is.
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FTL drives are stupid and dumb.
I don't know if I'd go that far. It hasn't been conclusively proven impossible yet.
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I was stuck in a theater with relatives for the 3rd movie. It was painful only helped by high grade production work. The end of the movie was like a children's movie with me anxiously waiting to see if they actually asked the audience to lend them their support in defeating the bad guy! That would have somehow made it all worth it and enjoyable... icing on the cake made of shit that shows their disrespect of us mindless consumers who will eat anything if you market it well... and avoid viral online trolls
If Han doesn't shoot first... (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm not interested.
You're linking a FAN "concept" trailer (Score:2)
Endless YT trailer slop...
Possibly (Score:4, Insightful)
The Mandalorian was extremely popular and carried the entire Star Wars franchise post-Disney acquisition. Which is saying something since it was only on Disney+. It remains to be seen whether it has enough left in the tank to keep going.
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Kathleen Kennedy stepped down. She can be pointed to as one of the sources of Star Wars fuckups. She was directionless, swapped directors in stories, got involved in what the story should say, and in general not only approved on but actively enforced shitting on the lore.
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The Mandalorian was extremely popular and carried the entire Star Wars franchise post-Disney acquisition. Which is saying something since it was only on Disney+. It remains to be seen whether it has enough left in the tank to keep going.
It may have drained the tank in the third season - muddying the successful Star Wars character-driven “cowboys in space” formula and losing audience share. Thus no fourth season. But word on the street is the movie script recognizes the issue.
Yes if it has a decent story (Score:3)
Re:Yes if it has a decent story (Score:4, Insightful)
I watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) last year on a plane for the first time. It was so bad it will take quite a lot of work for them to get me to go and watch any more of that disney garbage. It was just the first starwars movie all over again but with more plotholes and lamer bad guys. It was kinda insulting to the watcher, honestly.
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I'm sure it is, and it sounds like Rogue One is good too.
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Mandolorian is at least done by people who respect the franchise history.
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The Mandolorian is a much better take than The Force Awakens, FWIW.
Out of curiosity, do a comparison between Gina Carano and Rachel Zegler, and relate that to the political world of Disney.
full disclosure, I disagree with both of them, But Disney only fired one.
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Yeah I feel the same way, it kinda ruined starwars for me. It's story just couldn't be taken seriously anymore after that.
Re:Yes if it has a decent story (Score:4, Interesting)
I watched Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) last year on a plane for the first time. It was so bad it will take quite a lot of work for them to get me to go and watch any more of that disney garbage. It was just the first starwars movie all over again but with more plotholes and lamer bad guys. It was kinda insulting to the watcher, honestly.
I think the problem at base is that Disney has the franchise. Hear me out.
Star Wars is Cosmic Space Cowboy stories.
Disney is Disney Princess stories.
Both are completely legitimate venues. But trying to write Space Cowboy stories when you are in Disney Princess world is a tough act.
Then coupled with the second decade and early third Decade gestalt the Disney writers could still do a modified version of the Disney Princess - mutated into the "GirlBoss", they still couldn't do legit space cowboy, and to top it off, the GirlBoss princess's ended up being more Mary Sue characters than anything else.
And that, my friends is how we get The Acolyte, and where the biggest Star Wars Character is Din Grogu.
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You might be right. Maybe Lucas should have sold starwars to some big anime company - they love that cowboy stuff and know how to do it. Not that anime companies can afford that kinda money.
Re: Yes if it has a decent story (Score:3)
Bad Batch is just awesome end to end.
Rebels is also great. While Ashoka was mediocre on its own, as season 5 of Rebels (suddenly in live action) it's somewhat elevated.
Greedo (Score:2)
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Lost interest 40 years ago (Score:4, Interesting)
Return Of The Jedi and it's teddy-bear war was as far as I could go.
Re: Lost interest 40 years ago (Score:2)
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I made the mistake of giving it another chance until they had that racist jar jar character designed to attract six-year-oldsâ¦
My son and I have had a lot of discussions about JarJar being a Jedi Sith Lord.
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Only the Sith deal in absolutes
and then we get Yoda going
There is no try, only do
Seems pretty black and white to me dawg.
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Several of the Jedi are Sith like anyway:
Only the Sith deal in absolutes
and then we get Yoda going
There is no try, only do
Seems pretty black and white to me dawg.
Well then, the discussion is over! ;^)
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Return Of The Jedi and it's teddy-bear war was as far as I could go.
You are not wrong.
"Newly restored" version (Score:2)
Sounds like a threat. (Score:2, Insightful)
"The drought of upcoming Star Wars movies is coming to an end soon," writes Cinemablend.
I haven't heard anyone say they are thirsty for more Star Wars movies.
Theatre Culture (Score:3, Insightful)
...or rather the lack of it puts me off.
You know what I'm talking about: people talking, on their phones, sometimes even taking calls, rustling noises, kids screaming, teenagers kicking your seat etc.
I'd rather pay on Prime and watch at films at home. The price is comparable but the experience is 100x better.
Talking about Star Wars specifically, political correctness has destroyed it a long, long time ago. Nothing to see here anymore. Move on.
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Talking about Star Wars specifically, political correctness has destroyed it a long, long time ago.
"A long time ago", like literally since the first film. /s The baddies were essentially Space Nazis. The metaphor wasn't even thinly veiled, with "stormtroopers" being the English translation of Sturmabteilung.
So yeah, if space fascists getting kicked in their space balls isn't your cup of tea, Star Wars probably isn't for you.
Re: Theatre Culture (Score:2)
"Talking about Star Wars specifically, political correctness has destroyed it a long, long time ago."
You mean the movies that were a metaphor for the war in Vietnam? Okay there sport.
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"Talking about Star Wars specifically, political correctness has destroyed it a long, long time ago."
You mean the movies that were a metaphor for the war in Vietnam? Okay there sport.
Except they weren't clumsy about it. To use a non-Star Wars example, Some of the most far right reactionary people I know were huge fans of M.A.S.H. television series.
And that series was a complete condemnation of war and a lot of the hypocrisy. Good script writing and good implementation can have the people you consider the enemy laughing along with you, and maybe get them to think.
Really, it points out how intelligent and competent writing is key if the idea is to make for social change.
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Depends on the culture. When I went to see Iron Lung, the theater was packed, and yet through the whole movie you could've heard a pin drop.
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That's not "theatre culture" that's you living in a hell hole with people who were raise to be selfish dickheads. I can't say I've experienced any of that.
Fake trailer (Score:1)
I would say it's a rotten move to link to a fake third-party "concept trailer" which has no relation to what the actual movie will be like.
Even though the trailers for Rogue One were also full of content not found in the movie, and those were official.
A double no (Score:5, Insightful)
From what I have seen of what they did with Star Wars, I probably have no interest anymore.
On top of that, my last theater experiences have been so bad, with never-ending commercials, unbelievably rude people and their damn phones, talking, smells (perfume and/or weed), etc, I just don't think I can tolerate that anymore.
So it looks like is a negative times two.
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From what I have seen of what they did with Star Wars, I probably have no interest anymore.
The person who did that was director of Lucas Films Kathleen Kennedy. She has stepped down. There's a good chance Star Wars can be redeemed.
On top of that, my last theater experiences have been so bad, with never-ending commercials, unbelievably rude people and their damn phones, talking, smells (perfume and/or weed), etc, I just don't think I can tolerate that anymore.
What commercials? Who doesn't arrive to the cinema 15min late to skip that junk? That said there's not much you can do about the rest other than to move to a place which isn't infested by selfish arseholes. Those places exist. I've not seen a person use a phone or talk in a cinema.
That said... smells do exist.
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>"The person who did that was director of Lucas Films Kathleen Kennedy. She has stepped down. There's a good chance Star Wars can be redeemed."
Disney green-lit what she did, even pushing it. So I guess we shall see.
>"What commercials? Who doesn't arrive to the cinema 15min late to skip that junk?"
It used to be you did have to be there before or at least on-time to get a good seat. I guess that doesn't matter now, since theaters are so much emptier. Although half the theaters around here have closed
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But they have never been anywhere near as horrible as now. It is at least 100 times worse than just 15 years ago. And a few of those smells (certain perfumes and absolutely weed) are so incredibly disgusting they make me nauseous- impossible to ignore.
What about Dine-in theaters. Definitely a more refined crowd, and can combine date night with a movie and dinner in many.
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Disney green-lit what she did, even pushing it. So I guess we shall see.
Greenlighting is meaningless. That is bureaucratic yes-manning to ideas. Without the person who has the ideas in the first place the greenlighting becomes irrelevant. A producer is orders of magnitude more critical to a direction of a film than the studio behind them just shovelling them money.
It used to be you did have to be there before or at least on-time to get a good seat.
What do you mean good seat? I've not seen a cinema in literally decades across maybe 10 different countries which were walk-in. Select your seat when ordering. Is that not a thing where you live? I remember when they
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The problem is they are making movies AT us rather than FOR us. *shrug*
Control freaks. The entire human race is a bunch of control freaks where each individual thinks that they have the absolute correct perspective. But what is worse, is that a human thinks they can control another human. The best you can do is influence another human, there is no "absolute control" button as most humans would rather just die.
Rogue One (Score:2)
Was really good. The rest are pretty forgettable. I enjoyed The Mandalorian for what it was, a light entertainment space western. I’m told Andor was good but I recall trying to watch the first episode and getting bored.
Re: Rogue One (Score:2)
Re: :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D star wars is dead (Score:2)
Bond [Re: :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D star wars is dead] (Score:2)
Actually, Iâ(TM)m sick about James Bond. Youâ(TM)re right they killed the franchise. They stopped being about the spy craft and just another blowup stuff action movie franchise
What, was the movie version of James Bond ever about spycraft? You want spycraft, look to John LeCarre, not James Bond.
...and it wasn't merely "just another blowup stuff action movie franchise", it pretty much invented the modern blowup stuff action movie franchise
No they won't (Score:2, Flamebait)
Bear with me. Back in the 1990s, I was on Slashdot and you know what Sci Fi series has the most toxic fans of all? It was Star Trek. There were only 3 Star Wars movies then, so there wasn't much Star Wars content and they were pretty well behaved. Trek "fans" were bitching about how they loved The Next Generation but hated Wesley Crusher. They hated Deep Space 9, Voyager and they really hated Ente
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Trek fans have once again become super toxic themselves.
Paramount did this to themselves. For whatever reason, they decided that their original streaming content needed to be all the Trek, and of that they produced two series that were quite good (Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds), a mediocre series (Picard), and a dumpster fire (Discovery).
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I think you'll find the fans and critics aren't the same people at all, and never have been.
Is the Empire Republican ? (Score:2)
And the rebel's the Democrats. Or is the other way round? Discuss.
What started like a commentary of the US kicking out some British Nazis, the Imperial officers sound like they come from Surrey and are wicked old Tories from 1984, now seems to be the progressives vs Project 2025. Manufactured "Star wars is for everyone" Disney corporate bullshit. I know, let's have a screen kiss for every combination we can imagine, let's have a Trans Wookie kissing Jabba who's discovered he's metro sexual. It might be wel
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According to Lucas, a partial yes. The Emperor and his throne were apparently inspired by the deep loathing Lucas had for Nixon. Whether that's still relevant is whether you believe that Lucas would consider the current Republican party to be even more fascist than they were in the mid-1970s. I say fascist, because the other aspect of the empire was the Nazi imagery, particularly the uniforms (which despite being a Hollywood shortcut is not, actually, a defining feature of fascism and not why normal people
Why would I watch Space Fascism? (Score:2)
When I can watch fascism here at home?
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When I can watch fascism here at home?
Is that you Kathleen? Found a new job yet?
I think we need more lesbian writers (Score:2)
Re: I think we need more lesbian writers (Score:2)
You forgot to applaud how stunning and brave they all are, you will be expelled from the ever increasing purity-tests cult for not towing the tolerant line of inclusivity and doublethink.
We all know how important it is to hear ALLLL the voices, so how dare you not applaud furiously and loudly enough?
What are you, some red-baseballcap-FASCIST?????????
Consume all the correct products, or else..
No. (Score:2)
No, Kathleen made absolutely sure of that. It is dead, Jim. Another franchise sacrificed at their altar of the nonexisting audience.
The Metallica Problem (Score:2)
The Metallica Problem occurs when an information-product like music, books, or cinema adapts to what its audience wants, which is by definition less focused than what the original creators envisioned, and so you end up with the same old slop that made shows like "C.H.I.P.S." and "Happy Days" so bonebrained moronic back in the day.
The fact is, the 1976 movie was fun: a triumph of integrating character drama with humor, action, and Buck Rogers style sci-fi. Everything since has been mediocre but because the a
Not I. (Score:2)
If you offered to reverse the price and pay me the going rate to sit in the seat I would still refuse.
I've got a comfortable dark room with plush furniture, a 65" LG C8, a Denon surround system that is as loud as I could want it to be, popcorn, a Whirley-Pop, coconut oil, and real butter.
There is nothing about the theatre that isn't a downgrade.
Throw on top of that the fact that I've had the enjoyment of sequels and franchises bludgeoned out if me, and you cannot lure me back.
Soup's getting a bit thin (Score:2)
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At this point (Score:2)
the Star wars franchise is nothing more that a money making machine for Disney. And that's all it is. And when you produce movies to make money, people can tell and the movie suffers. But those with nothing better to do or can't tell the difference between a good movie and a bad movie will still attend.
Disney has run out and ruined every franchise it has purchased. They'll milk it until there is nothing left but commercialism. When you make movies for money they suck, when you do it to make a great movie, p
How many times can they hump money out of ... (Score:2)
I will show up, if the stories are better (Score:2)
If they can stop bastardizing Star Wars (George Lucas has commented on this), I will show up. There is so much inconsistency and tangential storyline that it has become very confusing. It feels like the original vision has been long lost.
Most of us older folk (GRIN) are loyal to the original story, narrative and characters. That doesn't mean change can't happen -- that's life, but Disney has made a big mess.