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Of course there will be a sequel. Disney wil not throw a $300M budget at it or probably any future Star Wars but there will be multiple sequels with more modest budgets and longer lapses between films.
Saw a new Hope in the theater multiple times on its original release and each part of the trilogy after that. I found Star Wars dopey. Fun but irrelevant fairy tales in space. I had no interest in learning the various alien background characters. There weren't Star Wars figures on my Christmas List. I never cherished their fairy tale ending, I never cherished their characters. Star Wars mattered as an amusement park ride. The acting and emotional story never registered.
My pain of watching Solo die in TFA was not that of a beloved character being denied a happy-ending promised long ago. He may have been playing a character named Han Solo in TFA but it was Harrison Ford playing a dad named Han Solo. No real relation to the Han from my childhood.
The same with Luke and Leia. Carrie Fisher moves me because she is Carrie Fisher not because she is Leia. Luke isn't the height of Jedi prowess, it's Mark Hamil who never had a career in spite of playing one of cinemas most iconic roles, getting to play his only success one more time.
I like the new Disney Star Wars. I like Rey, Poe, Finn. Not because they are connected to the has-beens but because they are their own thing breaking free from all that. Kylo Ren typifies this best with his Vader-wannabe dreams being crushed.
And now we get. a brand new Han Solo. Harrison Ford. The early years.
You spend much of your time measuring your genitals, don't you?
It's not even a disappointment financially.
There has never been any indicators (i.e. forecasting, advance ticket sales, polling) suggesting this episode would perform anywhere near TFA. It has and continues to perform where it was always expected.
If it had been a masterpiece, it might have "broke out" and been able to milk the awards season for a broader audience and for a longer period. but no one ever expected that and likely never will for a franchise film.
So you hype a three minute scene from the best movie in the franchise as "good direction". There was certainly no "useless menagerie" because they were all old white men. C3PO's quip is so subtle and intelligent that, the joke part went over my poor weak sense of humor. Nothing feels real about Darth Vader's helmet or Solos fur-lined hood. Kittens are scary when the Vader theme is blasting 50 decibels louder than needed for the scene.
It did look cool and if you are not going to show blood in your fairy tale wars, it was a very cinematic way for Johnson to suggest the carnage that would be there in reality.
Do you only know how to drive one make and model of car?
Sorry, if it's dead for you. I'm excited and intrigued where it's going. I haven't lost faith that Disney will keep producing spectacular productions and that Kennedy, Abrams, Johnson and Howard will entertain, surprise and challenge my preconceptions and expectations. I hope you find a new pacifier to gratify you.
I thought Snoke was a silly rehash of the emperor when I saw TFA. I was glad to see him go...I hope. But would have been happier if he was never introduced.
He is a producer so why would he abandon that franchise to take on someone else's. I'm not blaming him for the quality of the Justice League films. Not all observations are an attack unless you're a Lucas cultist or a Nolan cultist.
There you go "incendiary arguments, insults, bickering, name-calling," all in one post. If you block castilvenia, Star Wars will be fun again.
Explain to me how "I know you (hate what Star Wars has become) and I'm sorry" shows no empathy but wishing my face would be "pummeled" draws your sympathy. I wasn't aiming at either of you but it looks like I hit a nerve with the "my life sucks and I want escapism crowd".
I sincerely am sorry if that is your situation and raging at Star Wars movies that don't meet your emotional neediness is how you displace your anger at yourself and the circumstances around you. I do think therapy could beneficial for all three of you before you do something dangerous but it's your life and a free country. God Bless America.
Ever see Brazil? Gilliam willfully put a disturbing scene in, that references the callous destruction of life that goes on in the Star Wars films.
Bless your little heart. I hope you get the help you need. You've been reduced to babbling incoherently.
"destroy Star Wars completely" ? Can you not see how childish your histrionics sound? Of course they have things in common with Star Wars. It's called Star Wars not Luke's Journey. Where did anyone say anything about Star Wars being ugly? You're either a child, a loon or a looney child.
Doesn't he have his own Justice League franchise that he is producer on to save first?
They never should have called it Lucasfilm. They never should have fed the fancult the Lucas is a creative genius nonsense. Lucas should have been a story consultant and special effects advisor and producer. They should have stuck with the collaborative efforts that made ESB and ROTJ work. Lucas just couldn't resist making it all about him. When he couldn't live up to his own self-promoted hype, he sold out.
Lawrence Kasden wrote her so you can take that up with him.
Just because she doesn't conform to the flawed, weak, boy who struggles to overcome his flaws and triumphs, after assistance from old guys, heroes journey paradigm doesn't disminish Rey for me. I've seen that. I've seen flawed weak boy struggles and fails and gives into the temptation of the Darkside.
I love that Rey is smart, confident, capable, takes ownership of her own development and I'm excited to see where it goes. It's interesting to see what might happen if instead of what can the world do for the character, the character is already "evolved" and chooses to see what she can do for the world.
Some people aren't open to "different than I liked before". I get that.
In what reality does that in any way resemble "official"?
I know you do and I'm sorry. Maybe it's time for you and your therapist to look at why you are so emotionally invested in a film franchise and your "fond memories" instead of the real things currently in your life.