Is Star Wars Dead?
8 years ago in #movie by zyx066 (75)
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I did see Solo, cause, you know, I have MoviePass, why not. Let me assure you you're not missing anything. (And I think TFA is pretty good fanfic and I'm fine with the choice to do it that way. TLJ not so much, though it sure was pretty in spots.)
I do want to quibble with the idea that Mark Hamill didn't end up with a career, though. He's one of the top voice actors in the industry. James Earl Jones went the other direction, turning his voice work in the trilogy into a pretty solid live-action career.
Absolutely agree, @tcpolymath :-) Mark Hamill still is the best Joker ever and he voiced some of my favorite games, not the least of which LucasArts' Full Throttle. And yes, production values in both new movies are the best, but serve only as the shiny chrome plating for a bucket of rust ;-)
Solo wasn't even pretty.
Nice breakdown, but way way way way TLTR.
Joe
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You know what? You're absolutely right, @joe.nobel; this is something I'm struggling with in general... I'm working on it but my "information-efficiency" still needs much improvement. Thanks for keeping me awake in that department!
Thing is, you're right on all points. I saw the one where the rebels dropped "bombs" onto the empire space ships.
You don't fuckin' "drop" anything in outer space. I gave up following then, and just looked at the pretty CGI for the next hour.
I admit I didn't read through the end because yes, I have not seen SOLO, and yes, I didn't even know it was/is a box office flop, so of course i couldn't quite believe my eyes when I read it up there.
Seriously, though, there must have been a huge amount of fuck-ups to cause that, and I think your analysis pretty much deals with it, honestly.
I love The Force Awakens. It was brilliant and last I checked it was well-reviewed, too. I had no idea there were all those errors and textual inconsistencies.
However it happened, and whatever might have been the cause, the fact that a Star Wars movie made a box office loss is appaling and Disney should be truly ashamed!
But naa, I still don't believe this is the end. The fanbase are just too passionate. All it takes it one kickass movie.
p.s I don't buy the female protagonist toxic fans buckshit either.
Thanks, @rasamuel, for reading as far as you did :-) I really appreciate that. I should say though that I also haven't seen Solo, so I don't spoil anything about that movie. What I've seen in non-spoiler review the movie isn't even bad, just not remarkable. It's the preceding movies, TFA and TLJ that did the damage: they disappointed a lot of fans with those and Solo is paying the price for that, even if it isn't even a bad movie per se.
But I think you're right and I to hope that the patient will walk out of the operating room on two working legs! ;-) Thanks for the response and thanks for being a Star Wars fan!
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