I disagree. This one has more fundamental issues than many of them. This has some major time sunk into garbage plotlines and characters.
I don't think I walked out of other Star Wars movies wondering who the hell major characters were or how one side had gained such a lopsided advantage in between movies. We complain about the prequels for the dialogue and CGI fests, but the plots are pretty fleshed out. Right now, we're two movies into the third trilogy and I'm still puzzled about what happened to the Republic/Rebel Alliance after RoJ and how the First Order went from a remnant to appearing to have many of the resources of the old empire.Quote:
but if that's the case, how can you feel any different for any of the other StarWars movies? 'Cus they're pretty much all like that...
It's a fantasy franchise that has always been geared towards kids and young adults, y'all just happen to be grown up now.DannyDuberstein said:
A movie of failure should be more dark than this turned out to be.
DannyDuberstein said:
A movie of failure should be more dark than this turned out to be. Too many poor attempts at humor, too many new, key characters that I didn't give a **** about, a useless plotline for Finn which made me not give a **** about his character by the end, and a confusing, weird death for Luke.
This is not some disappointed fanboy with high hopes that cant be met viewpoint. They just screwed up some basic storytelling elements.
ApachePilot said:
I never felt Star Wars was made for kids. I always thought it was for mature audiences. Empire was dark and when it came out I was 8. It was not my favorite as a kid. ROTJ was my favorite. But as I got older that changed. I think ROTJ was starting to gear towards the children toy market. Star Wars realized what they had and we got Ewoks. Now it's gotten ridilous. These movies just cheapen the Star Wars brand imo.
Farmer1906 said:DannyDuberstein said:
A movie of failure should be more dark than this turned out to be. Too many poor attempts at humor, too many new, key characters that I didn't give a **** about, a useless plotline for Finn which made me not give a **** about his character by the end, and a confusing, weird death for Luke.
This is not some disappointed fanboy with high hopes that cant be met viewpoint. They just screwed up some basic storytelling elements.
There was two to three new characters.
Thanks for proving my point with the immature and sexist use of language champcbr said:
Uhhh, that's not the problem. This smarmy-ass loser *****
1) had no rational plan
2) was leading them all to certain death
3) instead of exhibiting leadership or inspiring confidence, she went out of her way at to be snotty condescending and insulting-to her best commander
4) she failed to win even enough confidence in anyone that her whole bridge crew mutineed and tried to save the fleet with their own stupid plan
5) she was such a ***** she lost command if the fleet and had to be bailed out by Mary poppinsiscle
6) after getting bailed out, she proceeded to watch her whole fleet die. But only after the smarmy, smug, two-faced kiss-ass captain Bligh with a purple wig Went out of her way to lie through her teeth about 'liking' the guy she was just a snotty ***** to - just to kiss Mary poppinsicle's ass.
Basically, she was a complete and total *****y disaster and no wonder the whole galaxy couldn't give a **** about their little club med rebellion.
Saxsoon said:Thanks for proving my point with the immature and sexist use of language champcbr said:
Uhhh, that's not the problem. This smarmy-ass loser *****
1) had no rational plan
2) was leading them all to certain death
3) instead of exhibiting leadership or inspiring confidence, she went out of her way at to be snotty condescending and insulting-to her best commander
4) she failed to win even enough confidence in anyone that her whole bridge crew mutineed and tried to save the fleet with their own stupid plan
5) she was such a ***** she lost command if the fleet and had to be bailed out by Mary poppinsiscle
6) after getting bailed out, she proceeded to watch her whole fleet die. But only after the smarmy, smug, two-faced kiss-ass captain Bligh with a purple wig Went out of her way to lie through her teeth about 'liking' the guy she was just a snotty ***** to - just to kiss Mary poppinsicle's ass.
Basically, she was a complete and total *****y disaster and no wonder the whole galaxy couldn't give a **** about their little club med rebellion.
And i agree there could have been better ways to handle it, absolutely. However there have been folks who literally have called this SJW women empowerment and had their feelings hurt granny haldo put poe in his place
Or the number of posts saying that Rose would be a better character if the actress was more attractive to them.Saxsoon said:
The fact that there are posters in this thread that are offended that haldo dressed down Poe for being an impulsive man also explains a portion of the male audience not liking it
My 9yo son thought the movie was, "great". He enjoyed his plush porg christmas gift, probably as much as I (way back when) enjoyed my ewok teddy bear...Saxsoon said:ApachePilot said:
I never felt Star Wars was made for kids. I always thought it was for mature audiences. Empire was dark and when it came out I was 8. It was not my favorite as a kid. ROTJ was my favorite. But as I got older that changed. I think ROTJ was starting to gear towards the children toy market. Star Wars realized what they had and we got Ewoks. Now it's gotten ridilous. These movies just cheapen the Star Wars brand imo.
Disney is laughing to the bank for every porg sold. Which were great by the way and easily made me like the movie more
DannyDuberstein said:
That video may explain the dislike for some, but my problems wjth the film are the "MAJOR ISSUES" that he acknowledges it has. Plot issues, pacing, red herrings, some bad short-shrifted characters. I think it's kind of silly to say "this movie has all
sorts of major, fundamental problems but your reasons for not liking it are just because you are a sentimental codger that cant he pleased. ".
Saxsoon said:
The fact that there are posters in this thread that are offended that haldo dressed down Poe for being an impulsive man also explains a portion of the male audience not liking it
aggiephoenix02 said:It's a fantasy franchise that has always been geared towards kids and young adults, y'all just happen to be grown up now.DannyDuberstein said:
A movie of failure should be more dark than this turned out to be.
Rogue One was REALLY dark. Did you enjoy that? Perhaps we'll get more 'adult' StarWars movies in the spin offs. This would be a great way to cater to everyone: StarWars Episodes to get the story to all especially young adults and children, and the spin-off/side movies to be more mature and darker...
Hi, Im Brett said:
On a side note...I wonder if the OT would have been viewed different if social media was around back then.
cbr said:
Awww. Triggered. Guess what? Leia in the original movies was a great character. Rey in fta was a great character.
Plenty of great female leaders.
However, This movie SHOULD piss off feminists, because the female 'leaders' were total and complete loser *****es.
Instead, people like you got so excited that this worthless ***** got to talk nasty and condescendingly to a man, that you missed all that.
Did you miss the part that even multiple women were in on the mutiny?
Or that this dumbass character left the entire rebellion dead and the entire fleet destroyed, except for a couple of dozen people on a transport scow limping towards certain death themselves?
Another joke you missed is the movie ended with the '*****ed out guy' IN CHARGE, lol.
aggiephoenix02 said:That's not a bad point, but if that's the case, how can you feel any different for any of the other StarWars movies? 'Cus they're pretty much all like that...DannyDuberstein said:
That video may explain the dislike for some, but my problems wjth the film are the "MAJOR ISSUES" that he acknowledges it has. Plot issues, pacing, red herrings, some bad short-shrifted characters. I think it's kind of silly to say "this movie has major problems but your reasons for not liking it suck".
FL_Ag1998 said:Saxsoon said:
The fact that there are posters in this thread that are offended that haldo dressed down Poe for being an impulsive man also explains a portion of the male audience not liking it
No, that's just your own politics and bias projecting.
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Finally got to see it.
Rian Johnson should be imprisoned and given the ESB Han Solo torturing he deserves.
I won't repeat the universally loathed parts.
I just cannot believe that Disney was okay with using Super Bowl commercial-level humor for Star Wars.
Liked: Falcon vs. FO. Never fails to deliver.
The OT characters interactions.
"A Quiet Place" trailer
G Martin 87 said:How can we be sure that's all they were? Luke spent more time explaining who they were to Rey than he did on Lesson 3. Obviously they must be important.Texaggie7nine said:Comic relief.bobinator said:
You know, another thing that annoyed me about this movie (not enough to sway my overall impression, but just didn't care for it) is the stupid caretakers on Achto. Like... what was the point of them?
My son got a Porg from Santa this year.Saxsoon said:ApachePilot said:
I never felt Star Wars was made for kids. I always thought it was for mature audiences. Empire was dark and when it came out I was 8. It was not my favorite as a kid. ROTJ was my favorite. But as I got older that changed. I think ROTJ was starting to gear towards the children toy market. Star Wars realized what they had and we got Ewoks. Now it's gotten ridilous. These movies just cheapen the Star Wars brand imo.
Disney is laughing to the bank for every porg sold. Which were great by the way and easily made me like the movie more
pimplepopper said:My son got a Porg from Santa this year.Saxsoon said:ApachePilot said:
I never felt Star Wars was made for kids. I always thought it was for mature audiences. Empire was dark and when it came out I was 8. It was not my favorite as a kid. ROTJ was my favorite. But as I got older that changed. I think ROTJ was starting to gear towards the children toy market. Star Wars realized what they had and we got Ewoks. Now it's gotten ridilous. These movies just cheapen the Star Wars brand imo.
Disney is laughing to the bank for every porg sold. Which were great by the way and easily made me like the movie more
Perhaps if she had gotten out of that cocktail dress she was in and put on a military uniform reflecting her rank she might have been much more convincing.Quote:
her character was not convincing