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Proving that toxicity does migrate from Reddit.

Also proving that you really are the most hateful, small minded, shitty, spineless cowards in any fandom to ever exist.

I dunno why I keep wasting time on you people when you're just vile. Really am gonna die happier carving you lot out of my life

Have fun on your own and good luck keeping this community alive and not killing it yourself by driving every single person away.

Ever notice why people don't post here anymore?

It's because of you.

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

I don’t get how people can call out every tiny problem of the sequels and prequels then just gloss over all the trash in the originals.
Star Wars is fun. It’s way more fun if you don’t think about too much.

[-] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is the way

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What trash in the originals?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, Obi-Wan just turning into nothingness for starters.

Luke being capable of flying an X-wing out of the blue and killing a bunch of enemies because he was able to hit a few womprats back home? He is a much bigger Mary Sue than Ray ever was.

How about Vader being unable to sense his own daughter when she is right next to him?

Or how he commanded not to shoot the escape pod because it didn't have any lifeforms. When it costs them nothing.

And that is just the first movie.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

None of these things ever bothered me when I watched the originals and they won’t bother me despite having been made aware of them by you.

Far more egregious, for me, is the way the sequel series has been edited. The movies have this unrelenting pace of cuts every couple of seconds. It never lets me relax and slowly take in a scene. It’s a completely different style of filmmaking from the original series (which had a lot more long, contemplative shots).

But then I might be a dinosaur here as I see a lot of people complaining about the length of the original trilogy and seeking fan edits to speed up the pace. I have my own personal theory that this is a result of social media (such as Instagram and TikTok) and the way Hollywood has catered to younger audiences and their lack of patience for slower paced films.

I miss slower paced films and I find almost no new films appealing (the most recent one I really enjoyed was No Country for Old Men).

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[-] finley@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Clone Wars gives a lot of necessary context that just isn't there otherwise.

Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith suffer greatly by feeling like the 1st and 3rd movie of a trilogy that we just don't have the second part of, so Clone Wars bridging that gap (and giving Anakin character development so that his fall to the dark side means something beyond "Emo former-slave farmboy has bad dream and goes on child killing spree", seriously Anakin sucked before Clone Wars redeemed him.)

I like Phantom Menace, but it's too heavily disconnected in the timeline from the other two movies in the trilogy for it to really work with them, which is funny because if you ask me what my favorite Star Wars film the list would be.

Occupying Slot #1 - All of them for different reasons Occupying Slot #9 - Attack of the Clones

Honestly I think in a decade or so we'll come to see the sequels become beloved much like the prequels were, and for similar reasons (younger genreation that grew up with them, memes, and media that fills in plot holes now existing)

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I doubt the sequels become more well thought of. It's already been 5 years from ROS a decade from TFA and nothing has really changed in a positive direction.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It took the prequels quite awhile, people STILL hated them when TFA came out.. That was the whole point of trying to make it look and feel as much like the OT as possible.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

There are people that still hate the prequels, but they are the clear minority. Even on release the hate wasn't as strong for the prequels as it has been for the sequels. Some of it may be the toxic behavior of Disney outside the movies themselves, but that's a self inflicted wound.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeaaaah, I'm not gonna pretend Disney's great, but I'm not going to pretend they "RUINED MARVEL AND STAR WARS FOREVER!"

Especially since if Lucas didn't sell we wouldn't have had sequel movies, we'd have had Detours.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Forever is unrealistic, but they do need to string together some well received movies and shows without attacking the fan base. As it is now I'd sacrifice the few good things to have no Disney star wars. The lack of new shows or movies didn't make me like it less.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's a shame Disney feels the need to attack fans, if they didn't more people would have watched Acolyte, which is a shame because I liked that show

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

And there will be people who still hate the sequels when the next trilogy arrives. But they will also become a minority.

Just like Star Wars itself, life repeats itself.

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[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Last Jedi really just doesn't work for me, feels like they wanted to do anything but make a star wars film. But contractually obligated to make star wars.

I could write paragraphs about why I don't like it but far more interested in hearing what people do like about it.

[-] novibe@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked it because it didn’t feel like nostalgia slop. It felt like trying to take things in a new direction, while still rooted in the universe. Like the best of legends stuff tbh, in intentions and execution. Without being bound to actual legends stuff, making it just nostalgia slop (rise of Skywalker…).

I liked it was just a good movie as well. Great acting, great editing, great cinematography.

I grew up loving Star Wars, but I was never the attached type in general. I will always have the original trilogy, the clone wars tv show, the prequels to watch. Nothing changed about them with what happens in the Last Jedi. I don’t feel offended by a new thing being different.

Idk, it just felt so much better than Force Awakens, which felt like pure nostalgia slop. I actually had hope Star Wars would “get good again”.

I’d say I liked it for similar reasons I like Andor. But I actually do love Andor, and only like Last Jedi.

Maybe it also helped that I watched it in a cool movie theater while traveling and was pretty high…

And the whole “subverting expectations” thing… I don’t think Rian was trying to be edgy or be like “haa fuck you and your ‘expectations’”. J.J. just set up a terrible and fucking boring story with his first movie.

And Rian setting up Rey to be a nobody, and that it doesn’t matter if you have holy royal blood or some bullshit, was GREAT. That anyone can be the hero, not just the “destined one”. Like it was perfectly set up for the first new Jedi to be completely different, led by Rey guided by a changed and “grey” Luke, and the first pupils being the slaves and slum children. Idk… isn’t that much better than whatever the fuck was happening in the first and last movies..?

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 6 points 1 year ago

Is it the one with the Luke/Kylo fight? That was pretty much the only thing I found exceptional in any way in the sequels, using Force projection like that to fuck with Kylo. Until the end where he became too sad to live or whatever and died (seems to run in the family).

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[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The natural lifecycle of the Jedi Master is to retire on some remote planet to become a depressed asshole hermit, just as Yoda did before.

To me, The Last Jedi rejects the constant stream of fan service in most new Star Wars films to return to the roots of the series. IMO, it’s by far the best of the sequel movies.

[-] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 10 points 1 year ago

The only thing more common than Star Wars fans complaining about Star Wars is Star Wars fans complaining that Star Wars fans complain too much about Star Wars.

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Sure but do you not agree there is major gap in quality and substance?

Some people like beer so much they would drink bud light.

[+] Stamets@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

At the bare minimum, it was a step up from the confused mishmash of the Prequels.

You're saying this of the trilogy that was made by 2 directors actively trying to undo what the other did, interesting

I'm not a star wars fan but I am familiar with the movies and the making of them all (film school nerd) so to see someone claim something like that is wild

Honestly the comments of yours read like someone with very little media literacy who likes the ST. That's fine, you can like what you like. It's the "no actually people who dont like it are stupid nitpickers who didn't even pay attention" that gets you laughed at like an idiot

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

I personally dislike the whole idea that if you like the sequels you just have little or no media literacy.

The movies were hot messes; but I wanted a movie in the star wars universe with star wars things and it had those, therefore I enjoyed watching them. Doesn't make them masterpieces or anything.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I personally dislike the whole idea that if you like the sequels you just have little or no media literacy.

Not what I said. I said reading their other comments showed me that they seem to be that way, not their like of the movies themselves

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My only real problem with the sequels is Last Jedi, Rian Johnson needed a plan outside of "subvert expectations!"

There's nothing wrong with doing a movie where "Okay, now I'm going to do the opposite of what the audience thinks I should do!", but it really should be your own IP, it's not an experiment you should run during the middle part of an important trilogy for a franchise so well-renowned that they border on a major world religion.

Force Awakens - A re-telling of A New Hope that brought the franchise "Back to basics" after all the weird shit the PT did (Weird, but not unwelcome)

Rise of Skywalker - Beautiful film, wonderful ending to the story, I just wish Finn did more outside of yell Rey and have his scenes and romance with Poe Dameron cut to appease China.

Last Jedi... feels like a decent film, that belongs in a different trilogy than the other two.

Really there's not many Star Wars things I actively hate, but the ones I do include Book of Boba Fett

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Subverting expectations also needs to serve a purpose. If you have people use a window instead of a door to get in a house, it subverts expectations, but if nothing comes from it then it's meaningless. Most of TLJ feels like subversions that don't actually change anything.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed, the only one I liked was funnily enough the one people complained most about... Luke throwing the saber away and being done with the whole Jedi thing. I kinda liked that, he saved the galaxy and became a legendary hero only for it to all go to shit with everyone expecting him to come back and save the day again like he's Jesus or something, there was never going to be any reason outside of "I don't want to be found!" that would have been anything other than a contrivance.

The rest ugh... just "Why?" Why make a location as cool of a concept as the casino planet of Canto Bight if nothing is to be done with it. Why introduce the Master Code Breaker if he's not going to contribute anything or be important in anyway?

The Original Trilogy subverted expectations too, but it did so in a way that served the story and themes well: Yoda being the absolute best example, we think he's a comic relief muppet just there to be funny, but it turns out he actually is this wise and powerful warrior teaching us a lesson about not judging based on appearances.

In Last Jedi, the Master Codebreaker just looks over to our heroes, decides not to help them, and is never referred to again..

There's never any point to him, there's no "Heroes aren't what they're cracked up to be" statement, nothing, he's just.. there... they find A codebreaker that isn't the one they were sent for, but he just betrays the group, does some "both sides" shit we're supposed to think is profound, and ultimately ensures nothing is actually accomplished, making the entirety of Canto Bight pointless filler.

I wanna like Last Jedi, there's some good stuff. I like the subversion of Kylo Ren being the one to kill Snoke, I like that there was no deeper meaning to Snoke he was just a puppet of Sidious, I like Rey and Ren teaming up to fight the Crimson Guard, I like Rose stopping Finn from sacrificing himself, I like the whole message of "Defending what we love." being what's important, I like the stand-off between the First Order and Luke's Projection, but I don't like that so much of the movie is wasted on the slowest high speed spaceship chase in history for no other reason than Rian Johnson thinking he's smarter than he really is.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Kylo killing snoke isn't actually a subversion though. That's how sith worked, the apprentice would eventually get strong enough to kill the master.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It's easier to like things than hate them

[-] Haaveilija@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I like sand. It's soft and not irritating at all and gets nowhere. :D

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