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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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Star Wars: The Acolyte
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Kansas City
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I'm not impressed so far with this. The destruction of the coven compound, as depicted, is ridiculous. Quote:
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I'd be interested AF to hear Carrie-Anne Moss talk about the show, though. Maybe those "unspoiled" eyes are part of the difference in perception of the heavy-handedness of the intent. And I'm saying... it's weird to see some of the freakouts in this thread about "LGBTQ IN YOUR FACE COVEN!" when all we saw were a few subtle moments that indicated that those two members were lovers/partners. Without any dialogue about their love, or finding each other, or having to run away to be together, or anything other than the casual reveal the Zabrak carried two obviously human girls and the human woman manipulated the force to create them. Isn't that the type of depiction of unexpected love/partnership we'd prefer in media in general, when it isn't a love story? You see a couple of people do a few small things that make it clear they're "together" but it isn't discussed unless central to action on the screen or set up of the story. Kind of the opposite of SHOVING IT IN OUR FACE, no? |
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#122 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Kansas City
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Oh, and focus on making a good and fun movie first, and selling toys second, but... you know... capitalism. |
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#123 |
The man you could post like.
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Am I the only one that thinks Force Awakens is the worst of the three movies? Sure, Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker are both horrible abominations of Cinema, but Force Awakens is the movie that completely ripped away any semblance of a happy ending the OG characters had and assassinated their characters.
Han and Leia are bitterly divorced geriatrics that completely failed as parents and Luke is a complete pussy that abandoned the galaxy to its fate and went into hiding with no intention of being found. That's on top of it being a damn near 1:1 recreation of A New Hope except with far less interesting characters. |
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Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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I still didn't think it was as bad a movie as Rise of Skywalker (and I never watched TLJ) but as far as story goes, there's never been a worse betrayal of the fanbase than TFA. Because as you've said, the fundamental premise of the movie and following trilogy is essentially "All of your heroes will die miserable and alone after spending decades as broken husks of themselves..." Yeah, it's real real bad and I said at the time that it was the biggest gut punch of anything that's happened to the Star Wars universe. Using the 'Big 3' as little more than step-stools to your vaunted next generation of Star Wars heroes (who you were never given much of a reason to actually like) was a major stab in the back. |
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#126 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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They're pretty openly anti-conservative. But it's a good show so i don't really care that much. There's an occasional eye-roll when they lay it on REAL thick, but it's otherwise entertaining so whatever. |
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#127 | |
I'll be back.
Join Date: Nov 2002
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That's why I'll always give Rian Johnson credit. He at least TRIED to make the sequel trilogy interesting. |
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#128 |
The man you could post like.
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Meh. While I agree he's far from the worst offender the one expectation he didn't subvert was the one fans would've actually appreciated. But no, Luke was still a fat depressed hermit that gave up on the galaxy because his angsty teenage nephew had some bad thoughts.
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#129 |
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Join Date: May 2005
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Anakin/Vader killed millions yet Luke thought he could be saved, yet his nephew dreams about bad things and he had to die!
The sequels are complete shit as Star Wars movies. By themselves the are below average. |
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#130 |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Disappointing. I watched the first couple of episodes when it came out, but lost interest and never went back. I was considering giving it another go, but not now. **** 'em.
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#131 |
The man you could post like.
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#132 |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Join Date: Aug 2000
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#133 | |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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Though I do think it's MUCH easier to just look past it than it is some of the Disney stuff. |
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#134 |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
Join Date: Aug 2000
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I've pretty much used up my allotment of looking past shit at this point. As I mentioned earlier, I dumped Disney last night. Never watched a second of Acolyte, and didn't bother to finish Ahsoka. I never even clicked on an episode of season 3 of The Witcher, and I made it about five minutes into season 3 of Discovery before I shut it off and never looked back. Haven't watched any of the new Marvel shit, either. **** them, too. The people who make these shows have nothing but contempt for me, and I have nothing but contempt for them right back.
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Colorado Springs
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