JCC Embrace The FU - Formerly the STAR WARS IS BAD thread

Note that it's older people who didn't grow up with the OT. That's a marked difference. If you didn't grow up with them, you just won't appreciate the boundaries that the first two films broke. This is what we have to deal with: film critics with no sense of history.

That's not comparable at all. One person made the Queen's English into his personal identity, the other did not but affected it for a space opera movie. Watch any interview with Guinness. Dawkins-avant-la-lettre, even more nasal. Watch a McGregor interview. Scottish bloke.

 

I believe the correct term, SuperWatto, is "manky Scots git"

 

He's a good actor with great charisma, but that gets kind of muffled under the beard and the wig and the Jedi robes and the fake posh accent.

 

Frieda please. Why.

You know it upsets me.

 

Luke and a dead woman are Rey's parents.

 

I admire people who watch the Clone Wars and think they're important to the saga.

 

It's like that whole EU wipe went straight over their heads, like the Starkiller beam

 

You had to edit it? The deadpan delivery made my day!

 

Mean is what made it funny.

 

Exactly

 

Hi Frieda

From what I can infer, you edited the post to soften the blow.

However the post was directed at me.

This decision is at best, incongruous. Please reconsider, as your target is a massive bell end who deserves it.

Regards

Enderz

 

Again, it's interesting what people's thoughts are when Game of Thrones is mentioned. The TV show is just more than rape and violence. If it were just that it wouldn't have lasted more than a season.

And yes, I did say Games of Thrones because it's more widely known than A Song of Ice and Fire.

And yes, Star Wars is known for its high fantasy. However times have changed and audiences have been more sophisticated, which is why Nolan's Dark Knight is a far cry from Schumacher's Batman. There should be a Star Wars series that expands the franchise to a Game of Thrones type level of story telling and character development. I'm not sure why there people want to pigeon hole Star Wars into being only one certain thing.

And come on, you know there wasn't any real "intrigue" in the prequels and the talking was mostly exposition. A Star Wars story deserves a GRRM like treatment.

 

Jesus SSP, move on. We're talking about me now.

EDIT: Frieda, that's so much better. I'm going to unlike it, and then like it again.

 

So, same as usual? Got it.

 

My Facebook full of fantasy and sci-fi artists sure pays off these days. Look what now.

https://www.change.org/p/disney-lucasfilm-kathleen-kennedy-george-lucas-back-to-the-star-wars-movies
"Bring back George Lucas for the Star Wars movies. Put the father of the franchise as director of Episode IX . We really want this, please"

 

No, Star Wars should not get an ASOIAF treatment (a GoT treatment would just make it dumb and incoherent). No. While ASOIAF isn't a complete deconstruction of high fantasy tropes, one of its central themes is basically "hey, feudalism is a stupid system and the nobility focus on their petty dynastic squabbles that don't matter to 99% of the population while there's a real existential threat on the horizon." (It's almost as though fiction can be a reflection of the real world.) Apply this same sensibility to Star Wars and, well, you'll have dying Stormtroopers crying for their mothers and the galaxy's other species asking why humans get to do everything.

 

I for one look forward to episodes in which tax disputes are resolved.

 

i think one of the allures of a tv series as opposed to a film is that it does allow the space to develop more fleshed out three-dimensional characters. however you don't need mature r-rated elements or a grimdark dystopian setting to accomplish this.

 

"Marvel Star Wars".

 

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