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Outside of Original Trilogy, the best Star Wars movies movies were the ones that JJ Abrams made.
What trilogy? There were only ever two Star Wars movies: Star Wars, and The Empire Strikes Back.
Everything else is an unfunny Internet conspiracy theory.
Yeah I feel like Lucas didn't really understand Star Wars. He had to follow a lot of studio notes for the first one and thought it made it terrible. Instead it was the most successful movie ever and he didn't understand why. It was a smart move to get someone else to direct the next movie. Unfortunately because of his petty squabbles with the director's guild he didn't just keep on doing that and instead got a non-union director for RotJ (and ended up pretty much directing it himself anyway) and directed the prequels himself. He just saw it as a way to make money by selling toys in the end.
But the throne room stuff with Luke, Vader and the Emperor was pretty great. The action was fun in the Jabba part of the movie, but of course that didn't have anything to do with the rest of the movie. Overall not a good movie, but pretty fun.
The big problem with Star Wars now is that because it's so popular and makes so much money, people take it way more seriously than they should. Ultimately it became popular because it was fun action adventure movies, that can at times have interesting subtext. I think only JJ Abrams has made Star Wars movies like that, the rest are trying to do Saving Private Ryan in space or Citizen Kane in space, which results in a mediocre versions of those kinds of stories.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Throne room? Emperor with Luke and Vader? Jabba part?
RotJ?
Are you trying to push that silly 4chan conspiracy theory that there were movies after The Empire Strikes Back?
Look, I get it. Everybody wanted to see how things would turn out after the downer ending of Empire, but it just didn't happen. You don't have to hallucinate a hundred more movies like some kind of prehistoric LLM!
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Three decades ago or so I read 13 novels in the Star Wars Story. Got tired of Sci-fi and went Fantasy because in that last one Luke got laid and didn't lose his Jedi powers like he was supposed to.
Whatever. I put that last book as not real to the story and like the dozen that came before I read to be what I respected. Still didn't give a flying fuck to read any more Star Wars.
Then GL comes back from the grave and summons it all again, finally. After a few movies popped up the super duped fan club psyched up and asked him what his fucking stand held on all these SW novels written were regarding the matter and if they had any cannon.
He muttered and I couldn't here him so obviously the're fucking cannon and literally everything he's vampirised the entire notion from and to just didn't fucking happen. If you were a sucker to his reverse mechnics on a trash truck and tried to say fucking anything to me, then I facepalmed crying out laughing because I called it again but gorram not even that candidly such. He Cash Cows over all the ressurected fan club to the biggest business butcher brand co. on the planet like dissing the joint on your leg for respecting them, ever. Suckers.
Are you having an aneurysm? Or are you a malfunctioning LLM responding randomly to posts or something? This is the second time you've replied to me and in both cases what you responded with was a) incoherent, and b) not actually relevant to what you're responding to.
I didn't even notice you were the same. In the second case, it had nothing to do with you. It was just an opportunity to tell the story. In the first case, I'm not even going to touch that again when you don't have a question. Nope.