https://www.npr.org/2023/04/07/1168659447/star-wars-three-live-action-films-movies
Daisy Ridley to return as Rey.
The way things are going with Disney Star Wars...I wouldn't be surprised if it is just one more.
The first Disney Wars movie in 2015 was the last straw for me. That movie not only made me lose any and all interest in watching any future installments, but it gave me an aversion to it as well. I wouldn't watch another one unless someone paid me to do so, and a lot more than just, say, $20.
When I was a kid in the '80s I heard that they were going to make six more Star Wars movies, and I thought that was awesome. The three that existed at the time were, and still are, among my favorite movies. It never even crossed my mind that the future Star Wars movies might suck.
Then the three prequels came along and they were disappointing to say the least, but they weren't bad enough to make me never want to watch another one. But they were masterpieces compared to that steaming pile of horseshit that was unleashed upon the world in 2015.
If you were to take the best bits from episode I and II (taking out the boring politics) and edit them together, you’d end up with a good film. Episode III actually wasn’t bad either.
shareI don't see any way to turn the prequels into movies that I'd consider good, since there are fundamental things about them that I don't like. For one thing, there never should have been a movie featuring Anakin as a child. He should have at least been in his late teens in the first prequel. We never had a movie about Luke as a 10-year-old, and we didn't need one about his father as a [highly annoying] 10-year-old either.
The second problem I have with those movies is Hayden Christensen. I'm not all that critical of acting in general; i.e., it doesn't have to be Daniel Day-Lewis level acting to be good enough for me, but he was horrible. Also, he wasn't even close to being big enough. David Prowse, who was the man in Darth Vader's costume in the original trilogy, was 6' 7", 280 pounds. I didn't buy the ~average height/weight Christensen as future Darth Vader.
They didn't necessarily need to cast someone as big as Prowse for the role, but Anakin should have been played by someone substantially taller/bigger than 5' 10" Ewan McGregor and 5' 10" Alec Guinness (say, 6' 3" at a minimum). Ewan McGregor was an example of good casting; he was the right height/size and his acting was good enough, even with George's Lucas' bad dialog writing and bad directing.
If Dolph Lundgren had been the right age he would have made a great Anakin IMO, but he was in his 40s at the time. A lot of people think he's a bad actor, but even at his worst he's better than Christensen was in those movies. And at his best, I think he's entertaining as the day is long. He excels at playing asshole characters, such as in Universal Soldier and The Expendables, and Anakin ended up being an asshole character.
I wasn’t so put off with child Vader and the Pod race channelling Wacky Races was excellent.
As for Christensen, we’ll always have the immortal, "I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft, and smooth."
I mostly agree with this. The fan edits of Phantom show how dubbing/subtitled Jar Jar can improve things. If they made Lil' Annie a mute and did away with the idiotic "entire galaxy chooses to relinquish their political power to one man" then the score would have risen 3 or 4 points.
Serviceable. Only slightly less sour to me given the new low established by 8 and 9.
Part 3 was my least favorite of the blighted preqs. Fewer annoying characters but felt like it was composed of outtakes from the editing room floor after the final print was destroyed on accident.
I used to think modern Disney was run by sadists, now I'm starting to think they're actually masochists.
I’ll watch them all!
I watch all of the DC and Marvel stuff too which apparently makes me lowbrow according to certain pretentious fuckwads on MC but I don’t care.
I’m all in on some more Star Wars movies👍
IF THEY ARE AS TERRIBLE AS PEOPLE KEEP SAYING...I SAY...HEY...THEY CAN ONLY START GETTING BETTER.
shareThey’re just fun movies, I don’t want to watch a movie about a divorce or AIDS or people dying from cancer and all that depressing nonsense, I want to watch superheroes and robots blow shit the fuck up!
shareI CONCUR.
shareToss in a few Ariel battles, a sexy babe in hot pants and a wisecracking sidekick and your’e Goddamn right I’m in👍
shareYOU EVER SEE THIS FLICK?...
https://moviechat.org/tt0092746/Cherry-2000
I LOVED IT AS A KID...AND STILL LOVE IT...FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MIND WHEN I READ YOUR REPLY.
Boy, ain't that the truth. Thanks for reminding me, Shogun. Sometimes it takes effort to tune up my attitude.
shareAs long as people are liking them, then I don't see a problem. I tend to get story fatigue. I usually bail on tv shows after 5 or 6 full seasons. Usually the ones over 20 episodes per season. I don't really like cinematic universes. I watched a few of the Marvel movies, and I have liked some of the Star Wars Disney stuff, like the Mandalorian, but I absolutely hate it when I have to watch a series that I don't want to watch to know what's happening in another series (Book of Boba Fett I'm looking at you) When Chicago Fire had a crossover I noped myself out of there too. So, that was a long way of me saying that I'm not really interested, but like I said, if people still enjoy them, then they should still make them.
shareGood because I like Daisy Ridley ! But for God's sake Disney get some good writers in ( seriously they don't cost much ! ) and come up with some new stories instead of just rehashing the same old one. Enough is enough and too much is too much !
The Disney films have been a wreck so far. I wish them luck.
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