And this is firefly with better aesthetics, less whedon being a creep, and thus far less racism.
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Roseās sidelining is so galling in particular because everything Jannah does in the last battle seems so obviously written for Roseās character instead. Iāve heard rumors of a Lando spin-off featuring Jannah and my conspiratorial thought is that she was crowbarred into this movie and given the scenes/lines that ā conveniently, for the executives ā were originally meant to go to the unpopular character whose actress got hounded off the internet by turdgoblin fanboys
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iāve finally seen both the new movie and the Mandolorian so now i can talk about star wars forever
the new movie: it sucks for all the reasons everyone here said, but i think my biggest and saddest gripe is that they very clearly tried to work around not having Carrie Fisher and tried to build scenes from extra footage that felt awkward, which is pretty transparent when you watch it and absolutely sucks. my gf and i are big fans of Fisherās and loved listening her audio books right before she passed and iāll always remember seeing TLJ in theaters with a big crowd that saw her get sucked out in space, and everyone murmured and gasped, thinking that this was the way we were gonna see her written out of the franchise. but when she used the force to move herself back into safety, it got the biggest pop from the crowd. it feels kind of corny when you look at that sequence in retrospect, but it honestly did get me. so the way they actually sent her off felt disappointing.
part of me wants to read the original Trevorrow script but i think iāll just make myself more mad at the way things really turned out.
The Mandolorian: to prepare for this new film, we watched all the movies and eventually this show and my takeaway (especially after starting the show the day after seeing the new movie) is that itās probably the most consistently entertaining piece of SW media iāve seen in the last few years. great practical effects, stellar casting, and just a generally fun kind of serial adventure you donāt get to too much in TV shows anymore. the highest highs and the lowest lows are in the movies but this felt fairly well made and enjoyable to watch. and iām happy i watched this after ROS so that i could wash Disappointing Star Wars out of my mouth.
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Wtf this sounds so good
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#justice4trevorrow
summary of the second half of the trevorrow script right here:
AV Club, Slashfilm, other sources have verified that this is a legit leak
not amazing, but it feels leagues better than what we got
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GOD DAMNIT
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So much of the plot would tie pretty closely into ideas theyāve been playing with in the cartoons for the past half decade too.
jurassic world is maybe literally the worst movie iāve ever seen
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Rise of the Skywalker is definitely the worst Star Wars movie right now so if I had a time machine Iād love to play the odds and get this bad movie instead since it seems like I would have enjoyed it more.
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God, this. It is fully the worst movie I have ever seen. Brightburn comes close though!
Like Skywalker, I think the worst part is that itās not even bad in a way where itās enjoyable to make fun of, itās just like, flavorless AI-generated nutrient paste. At least the prequels were horrible in inexplicable, bizarre ways, where an attempt was made at something and it just did not work on any level.
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i knew iād be mad after reading these and i am now mad
itās true that Jurassic World sucked shit, so i guess itād depend on how much of this would actually make it to the movie, but so far this feels decent. what a waste of a last movie
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Fallen Kingdom is a fun time.
Hux As Frustrated Jedi Weeb is absolutely perfect and cleanses Treverrow of every sin he has visited upon cinema.
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fuck this is hilarious
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Iāve never watched a Treverrow movie so I have no opinion on him, actually (everyone I know tells me he sucks, though), but the thing that keeps coming up through all the couldāves and mightāves in the handwringing postmortem thatās so disappointing to me is just how much shit was set up over the course of 7 and 8 that just had no real payoff. Even stuff thatās kind of in TROS feels rushed and not-thought-through. It feels like a handful of meetings I had with my advisor in grad school when Iād want to run some things by her, make some decisions, plumb some depths, seek counsel for my project and my life, but weād just end up talking about irrelevant surface level bullshit for an hour.
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Stealing a Star Destroyer and using its complement of light craft to replace what theyād lost in TLJ is delightful guerrilla tactics.
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Little do you know Kova reappears in a Disney+ TV show wielding the very light blade guillotine that supposedly did him in.
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