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...and it was a powerful provocation of the audience. Some people just can't handle having their assumptions challenged especially little boys who like playing with their phallic substitute light sabers. At least if Rey had castrated Luke, she could be blamed. But it was Luke himself casting aside his "manhood". A "manhood" fought for over three movies and cherished by his fans for decades. What blasphemy! How glorious!
I would argue the exact opposite. Star Wars is so big and iconic, that people should feel liberated to explore without fear. There is no genius to be found in some strict "traditionalist" literalism. We can watch the OT again if we want that. It's not a daytime drama, it's cinema.
Porg's are the tribbles of the Star Wars universe. It's how Kylo Ren will be turned from the Darkside, overwhelmed by cuteness. Cue the Ewoks.
It's not like there was a plan to free anything. They were just trying to escape at that point. Freeing a few animals and trashing the place were just icing on the cake...Unless you are just looking for things to find fault with
Nice limiting, stipulative requirements in the name of "tradition". Do you like to keep your personal life so small and narrowly defined? It makes you feel safe and secure when things stick to your definition of "tradition", doesn't it.
TLJ is trending where it has been since its release. Better than R1, which still had $150M in its tank at this point in its release but behind TFA.
You are overreacting to on one data point and claiming a non-existent trend.
Let me guess, you along with Trump don't believe in climate change because it's cold in NYC this weekend.
You may not like the plot but there is a plot. This isn't Antonioni.
It must be very disappointing to have your escapism safe-space violated by an 8 second character beat that shows empathy. Most people think anti-cruelty to animals is part of being a decent human regardless of your politics. But bristle away if it was such a challenge to your worldview.
No, these movies are made by creative people who know plot is a means to convey theme and emotion and that 'literalists" are small-minds who call creative people hacks from behind their keyboards so they can reassure their egos.
Flashbacks are neither good or bad depending on their use. This is a just another straw man argument being used to convince themselves and others that their "reaction" has some objective validity.
Ren telling Rey that her parents were dead trash was one of the most powerful moments in any Star Warss. He didn't need to lay a hand on her. That was soul damaging shit brilliantly acted by both. Rey's vulnerabilities are on clear display for those with the heart to feel them.
That was very well articulated.
You are an amazing psychic. Please bump this thread next Friday so we can celebrate your talents.
Good luck with those predictions. You are already wrong on your TLJ estimate by at least $200m maybe $300M, depending on how China goes.
I know verbalizing your fantasies is popular but that is not based in any reality. Episode nine would also have to be a Justice League size disappointment and it clearly be Kennedy's fault and not Abrams before anyone at Disney would even attempt to formulate the thought that Kennedy should go.
As insightful as ever.
Challenge accepted. Do you really think there is any movie you can't superficially nitpick and apply the Daily Show comedy techniques to and not make a funny video for. Mocking anything is easy. Cynicism doesn't requireeffort. Milennials are masters at it including Rian Johnson. Engaging, appreciating, and seeing the layers and truths, that requires effort. Johnson did a pretty good job at that too but you wouldn't know it reading the comments many of you write.
I'm beginning to think these people really did deserve the prequels. George Lucas made pedestrian, connect-the-dots, little boy masturbatory fantasies. Anything non-linear, expectation subverting, or at all inclusive and they start kvetching like eighty year-old grandmothers.
Do any of you watch GOT.? Did you see Abrams Star Trek. Did you see Inception or Memento? Did you see Unforgiven? Do the names David Lynch, Robert Altman Quentin Tarantino mean anything to you? I feel like I'm in some time-warp where Rod Serlings Twilight Zone is just way too mind expanding for the audience.
It's been six Lucas films and forty years later. It would be the equivalent of someone watching A New Hope and complaining that it doesn't follow the conventions of Buster Krabbe's Flash Gordon serials. Open your minds people and enjoy what is being presented to you and stop fixating on what was presented before by Lucas. It was special but not special enough to close yourself off to other possibilities. Certainly, not special enough to be squelching the creativity of current, working artists who are not multi- millionaires.
But you would expect a NASCAR mechanic to be able to drive a car regardless of the make or model.
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