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Looks soooo much better! Colossal kudos to the movie's studio and animators for their work, and listening to the fans. I will actually see it now. :)
I'd tried to get into this series after hearing good things about it on Simspons boards, etc. I gave up on it after the episode on abortion.
Its dialogue can be very funny, but only rarely; most of the humor is obvious sight gags and plays on the characters being animals (oh, the dog man like the show "Bones", ha ha ha).
The animation in a couple of the episodes was creative and impressive, too; the whole sequence where Bojack, Todd, and the girl were on drugs was amazing, and the underwater episode essentially told entirely with body language.
Those things aside, though, the show is mostly depressing and juvenile-ly preachy. What I've learned from it is Hollywoo(d) is a messed up place full of messed up people who don't have much moral authority to said preachiness.
I'd guess it simply has way less of a hardcore fanbase that cares. And that's fine; any press being good press, the less attention movies like this gets, the less we'll see of them.
I've never seen the original TV series but I once saw the 00's movie and it struck me more as "Jane Bond(s)" than feminism, especially today's sort.
This one's Angels looks like they'd be scolding that one's Angels, for being strong attractive women who do things like use their sex appeal to men (gasp) to complete their missions. Woke blasphemy! :)
Well, that Dish Network commercial showed us it's Santa's favorite, so, I'd say greatest Christmas movie is a sound argument. :D
Ha. I admit, I too will enjoy my share of the critical ravaging.
RIP, Star Wars, the once biggest franchise in film, undone by Hollywood activist hacks who thought they could remake it in their own image. Time to go out with the proverbial whimper and hobble off to straight-to-Wokeflix TV series.
Incidentally, it feels like that Mandalorian show is getting more attention than RoS at this point; like the current fanbase is already divested from the "SWCU". Anyone else notice?
Just the movie getting the disinterest it deserves, I think.
I took my nephew to see Jojo Rabbit last weekend; after the SW trailer rolled, the theater was still silent.
I liked it too. Looking back it maybe upped the campiness too much for some, but it was still entertaining and a valid continuation of the story that didn't require retconning and PC-ifying a previous movie. :P
I see your 'movie is no longer canon' and raise you 'franchise is no longer relevant'. :)
I poked around my local theaters' websites out of curiosity. Found no suspicious patterns, although it appears not many tickets have been sold. Each theater has pretty much one showing, in the 6-8p range, each night of opening weekend that's mostly full, but not sold out. Every other showing is half or less.
I'd believe there's something to those suspicious patterns; if I were a news site reporting on them I'd probably want to go deeper so it didn't look like pure conspiracy. Try contacting employees at those theaters, see if anyone's willing to cough up what's going on etc.
The "whole point" of Terminator changed with every movie, but with the first 4 at least kept proceeding in a linear way that made sense. There is one timeline, the future war is inevitable, and the movies are about the machines winning by (perhaps misguidedly) killing key humans in the past. Maybe the machines don't realize they can't change the future by altering the past. The future (their present) is already an immutable product of any meddling in the past.
Looking back the story was very Matrix-like and maybe misunderstood. The characters slowly accept that yes, fate exists and the future is written, but the important thing is for humans to keep striving as if it weren't. And to keep the past intact so the machines don't win the future.
An imperial general falling for a prank call and "yo mama" joke in the first 5 minutes.
The first (and only) time I saw the movie, I cringed and thought, crap, how bad will the rest of this be.
One of the many things I miss about when Star Wars was still worth being invested in, was being at least consistent and loosely grounded in reality when it came to the science regarding space.
Giant hangars open to space were at least explained away with "magnetic fields" to hold in O2. Han, Leia, and Chewie wearing breathers when leaving their ship on the unknown asteroid. Grievous causing hull breach to distract and escape. Etc.
Now is just baseless, inconsistent space wizardry and retcons. It's like bad B-movie stuff.
I'm surprised (or perhaps not) Lucas still getting a cut from anything from the old movies rarely makes the mainstream movie news. Take that into account, and suddenly much of what Disney's doing to this franchise makes a lot more sense. :P
Somehow I'm reminded of "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer" South Park episode. :)
I feel like the trailer from that episode will have been better than whatever schlock is coming tonight.
Here's what I heard: "blah, blah, blah, shill, shill, shill, this is totally my unbiased opinion, Disney is not in full 'damage control' and 'get butts in those theater seats' mode." Mmhmm.
Same for Lucas and his recent take after his screening of the ending. Though for him I'd believe it was less for money reasons and more a "please don't remember my legacy as a steaming turd" plea. Sorry, George, the minute you signed the check the legacy was no longer yours.
I'm baffled that anyone puts 2 above the bottom. I felt the series was improving with 4 and 5. My ranking: 5, 4, 1, 3, 2.
Same! I only saw this movie for the first time recently. My jaw dropped at that opening scene knowing that was a real building blowing up, no CGI.
Also, "**** you, lady!" at the reporter from the rescued girl. That cracked me up.
Wow. When the critic:audience ratio is that stark, I get really interested.
Definitely going to see this now; thanks for the heads up! From the previews it does look like a good action flick.
While it's unlikely they're reshooting scenes presently, I'd totally believe they preemptively reshot much of the movie in preparation for the "leak" which I'd also totally believe was intentional and to gauge reactions. Real world focus group testing. Art by spitballing.
Their "vision" remains simply "make money", not "salvage the story" or even "make a good movie". They're treating the franchise so dismissively, and this former fan isn't fooled.
Eh. Still not interested. Hollywood at this point has burned me enough times with reanimating decades old franchises once beloved, and often "corrected" with lethal doses of PC.
I was only recently made aware of, and watched, the alternate ending to T2. I realized they've been retconning this franchise ever since then. (Spoiler: <spoiler> T2 was to have been "the end", Skynet and Judgement Day are stopped, the future is peaceful and the machine war never happens.</spoiler>)
But that aside, at least T3 and T4 were natural progression of the story such as it was. I also enjoyed Chronicles as "T2.5". But now it's just a complete mess.
I'd say that's a big "if". I mostly enjoyed TFA, but also realize it's mainly because it's ANH repackaged. I've come around to the arguments that its "story" is just mystery boxes that I doubt Abrams himself had any idea where to go with.
Jar Jar could be the key to all of this for me, at least; Darth Jar Jar is the one thing that'd bring me back to this franchise. :)