Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw in my life. I really want to be excited about this. Really badly. But I'm just not. The title is awful, the last movie is awful. I'm not going to stop loving the Star Wars that exists, and every once in a while they have a happy surprise like Andor, but my excitement for new stuff is dead.

The people making Star Wars movies today don't understand the things that make it unique from everything else, so they make it garbage.

[–] Blackbeard@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Gotta agree with you, unfortunately. I'm just not excited about the Skywalker story anymore. I watched 7-9 with giddy excitement and even left the theater each time thinking good thoughts, but it only took a few hours of reflection for reality to sink in afterwards, and it quickly became clear that Disney somehow managed to fumble at the goal line three times in a row (TFA being the best of the three). Andor and Mando are giving me hope that there's still room in that time period for good content development, but for the most part I'm shifting my attention to the high republic era and hoping that they can formulate a coherent hero/story arc from that timeline.

[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Call me a heretic, but I think last Jedi was the best of the 3 if you separate it from the star wars universe. TFA was just a meh rehash of the original, and ROS was a dumpster fire.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

We can be heretics together. But you're wrong. It was the best of the three because it commented on the universe.

I wanted to love TFA. So much promise wasted by repetition. They had an es-storm trooper! A super emotionally damaged Vader worshipping anger Jedi. The wiggly light saber. I should have loved it. The characters were so cool. But they didn't do anything new. Felt very design by committee.

In TLJ the characters did new things. It didn't all feel right to me. But it was new. I loved Luke's story. War stories should leave their heros damaged. I loved the worthless dirtfarmer parents. Everyone can't have special parents. Even Poe's stupid story with pink hair general was a commentary on how ruthless rebels have to be. People die. You can't waste resources. There was a lot wrong about TLJ but it tried.

And ROS had one good line. That's it.

The actors deserved so much better. They worked hard. They loved star wars. They wanted to make something good.

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