Science Fiction

The prequels were just as hated as the sequels are right now, but then gen z grew up and the nostalgia for those movies suddenly made them okay in the public awareness.

Being bland is worse than being bad.

I can watch comically bad sci fi. But... I can't remember a thing about the last two movies of the trilogy. And I remember a whole lot of "meh" sci fi.

Yeah, because they suck.

Somehow they're still making these movies.

TLJ had me leave the theatre saying "that was terrible" haven't touched it afterwards.

Fuck Disney.

Andor shits on the rest of Star Wars, also Solo was good.

The rest? Mediocre at best.

The first one of the new set was ok. Slightly darker overtones.

Backing up a bit - the second trilogy had an all-star cast, yet a wooden log had more writing skill, acting ability, and charisma than the people on the screen. It was like people in a classroom being told to take turns reading out loud from the assigned book. The lack of acting and directorial skill was made up for by the abuse and overuse of CGI. Awful. I have never watched the second set since release. Lump the Boba Fett series in with this set, it was so wooden and poorly written they had to bring in the Mandalorian to rescue it.

Han Solo? Throwaway movie. Really didn’t do the character justice. Turned him into an Errol Flynn “Robin Hood”. I think everyone’s forgotten about it even existing.

The new set? Love the practical effects. Way less CGI. Awesome. But now the acting was ridiculous and over the top as were the characters. I know she gets some hate, but I think Ridley did a decent job of it with what she was given. The rest? Meh. Just written crazy with shameless bad writing, merch placement, and trite lines.

We’ll have to see about the new Mando movie.

Best Star Wars? ANH, ESB, R1, Andor. Some of the Mandalorian series. Probably some of the animated ones, but I haven’t watched them.

Eh, turned into more of a critique than I wanted, but I guess I’ll leave it.

Every time I consider watching them I remember how they butchered logic and character development. Or plotlines that could be removed with no impact whatsoever.

The only thing I can say is that the dialogs are at least not as shallow as in the prequel trilogy.

I trid to re-watch those a few weeks ago and.... No. I couldn't stand the moments they opened their mouths to speak their lines, sorry to say.

Nobody hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.

As an idea, it's fantastic with limitless potential. As a finished product, it's two and a half good movies, and two good series.

Narcos cast members unironically did more for Star Wars than the Skywalker family ever did.

The last two of the new trilogy are borderline unwatchable. Just abysmal, b-movie level storytelling.

They should have had Jon Favreau write and direct all three of them.

I gave Disney the benefit of the doubt when they shelved the EU and JJ talked about doing something completely new. I was impressed by the lengths they went to to get the look right (even hunting down the original lenses). I went to quite some lengths avoiding spoilers.

It didn't take long in cinema to realise I was watching a soft reboot trying to dismantle the original trilogy. I felt betrayed and disgusted. Since then I haven't touched anything Star Wars and completely started to boycott everything Disney.

As soon as it was evident the new movie was just the old movie, but with an even bigger no moon that could blow up 7 planets at once with red lasers instead of green, I was over it. Seeing the fucking laser arches in a space chase in the other movie just killed any desire to watch more.