Star Wars: #&^#$ The Bed (Again)

From another website, exactly sums up what I think of modern movies.

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I’ve seen about 10 movies in the theaters in the past 5 years and they’ve ALL been shit. I don’t think I’ll go again. Including the tickets and snacks it’s about $50 for two people. Fucking insane.

The problem with modern movies is that they have absolutely NO PLOT! They don’t know how to make a movie anymore and make the audience actually give a shit about any of the characters. It’s just “a bunch of random shit happens, the end.” The last movie I saw (something about a mystery on a train – I can’t even remember the name of it) was so horrible I wanted to walk out about 15 minutes in. But I stayed for its entirety and you know what? I can’t remember the name of even ONE character! I couldn’t care less either because modern movies have the background music up so loud and the character’s voices so muffled you can’t hear anything they say!

Pretty much EVERYTHING I watch is from the 1990’s or older. I was born in fucking 1991, so I feel like some old doddering fool (no offense to people that are older than me, but imagine you back in your 20’s only being interested in shit that came out before you were born. It’s fucking ridiculous).

Movies nowadays are nothing but a shitfest of throwing shit at a wall because they know dumbasses will pay to watch it no matter what it is. Take the new Star Trek / Star Wars shit with Abrams. A bunch of mindless explosions and the crowd goes wild! People are like stupid fucking sheep. Sure, I like an explosion just like the next dude, but if that’s what the movie is all about I’ll watch some random explosion compilations on YouTube. If I don’t give a shit about any of the characters, then WHY AM I HERE?

It’s like they’re following a checklist with modern movies:

1. Strong female that kicks ass

2. Males are constantly meek and whipped by said female

3. Random sex for no reason

4. +500 bonus points if it’s mindless gay sex

5. Gotta have at least a few blacks in there just to prove we’re not racist. Double points for black female.

6. Gotta make sure to mention the character’s names once in the beginning. Who gives a fuck if the audience can remember who the fuck they are throughout the rest of the movie?

7. Mindless explosions with the sound level pumped to 9,000+ for no reason

8. Make sure to turn up the background music and muffle the voices so the audience begs for closed captioning

9. Pacing? Who gives a fuck about proper pacing? So long as we get to the mandatory 90 minute runtime, it doesn’t matter how we get there.

10. Introduction? Protagonist? Antagonist? Climax? Resolution? What are all these foreign words you’re speaking? I just have a bunch of random people doing random things and following #’s 1-9 so I can get my paycheck.
 
Star Wars isn't even hard to do: save the princess, retrieve the magic sword, pay Jabba or you're a dead man, ... Its a kid's movie, a natural fit for Old Disney, but for the past 20 years its been somebody trying to make an "epic" about dumb shit. You can't ham-fist maturity and politics, and boring shit like jedi nihilism, into the movie - and ffs pay some actors with chemistry.:D
 
Re: the rant above

Star Wars (including the latest one) is primarily influenced by OLD films, particularly the Samurai films of Japan, French and German.

Of course, being born in 1991 I will give him a pass. He claims to watch old movies, but he's probably talking about 80s or late 70s films (with the emergence of Scorsese), while George Lucas was into 40's dramas, Akira Kurosawa, and French New Wave, which came a little earler.

The Last Jedi gave us something "new" or atleast a new take on something old. The battle sequences were the best we've ever seen in a Star Wars films thanks to the technology Lucas did not have at the time.

The casino (Monaco) setting was an homage to Casablanca.

Why on earth a guy would complain about explosions in Sci Fi film is beyond me. Its called Star WARS for f*cks sake. Emphasis on WAR.
 
liveandletlive said:
The casino (Monaco) setting was an homage to Casablanca.
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Here have some blue milk:

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liveandletlive said:
Re: the rant above

Star Wars (including the latest one) is primarily influenced by OLD films, particularly the Samurai films of Japan, French and German.

Of course, being born in 1991 I will give him a pass. He claims to watch old movies, but he's probably talking about 80s or late 70s films (with the emergence of Scorsese), while George Lucas was into 40's dramas, Akira Kurosawa, and French New Wave, which came a little earler.

The Last Jedi gave us something "new" or atleast a new take on something old. The battle sequences were the best we've ever seen in a Star Wars films thanks to the technology Lucas did not have at the time.

The casino (Monaco) setting was an homage to Casablanca.

Why on earth a guy would complain about explosions in Sci Fi film is beyond me. Its called Star WARS for f*cks sake. Emphasis on WAR.
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And, The Last Jedi is fine.

Lottsa haters complaining, but most real movie-lovers see a good story unfolding & a lot going on that seems to be invisible to some.
 
The Last Jedi's Gargantuan $151M 2nd Weekend Plunge Is An Epic Hollywood Choke

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robcai...-is-an-epic-and-hollywood-choke/#3885791018d8

Star Wars Merch Can't Sell

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lukethompson/2017/12/21/why-arent-star-wars-toys-selling-as-well-this-year/#ca82a4d54e5a

Not just this year, but selling bad for a few years now. This is an actual trend: people are sick of Star Wars. Disney bought a toxic turd and keep making it worse, but I feel bad for Hasbro and Lego. Disney have been buying up enough media of late, its time they shit themselves.

 
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Sorry if it takes a little brains to get the film. ;)


https://www.wired.com/2017/12/geeks-guide-last-jedi/

The new Star Wars movie The Last Jedi is thoughtful and inventive, presenting a fresh take on familiar elements like Luke Skywalker and the Force. Fantasy author Erin Lindsey says those changes have proven to be too much for some diehard Star Wars fans.

“When people get really attached to a property, they get a certain sense of entitlement about how the story needs to unfold,” Lindsey says in Episode 287 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “And when expectations are dashed—even in a way that ought to be pleasing, because having your expectations dashed sometimes is a lot of fun, it’s a good thing—it can be disappointing.”

But Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley is fully on-board with director Rian Johnson‘s vision of the Star Wars universe.

“This is arguably my favorite Star Wars movie,” Kirtley says. “It has the most moral complexity of any of the movies, it has the most surprises of any of the movies, and is the most intellectual and self-aware, and gives you the most to think about afterward.”

Science fiction writer Seth Dickinson agrees that The Last Jedi is doing fascinating things with the Star Wars universe, particularly when it comes to the movie’s surreal presentation of the Force.

“There was a sort of David Lynch-ian scene where Rey goes down into this ‘dark side hole’ and encounters a mirror that turns her into a causal string of herself in the past and the future,” he says. “I thought that scene was fantastic. It wasn’t a pastiche of any other mystical vision. I wanted Rey to have three more of those scenes.”

Author Rajan Khanna feels that some amount of disorientation and alienation is inevitable, as we start to lose some of the most familiar Star Wars actors and characters. “They’re setting up a world more removed from the touchstones that we know from Star Wars,” he says, “which I think is why it’s starting to feel a little bit weird to some people.”
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