Star Wars Thread (a Galaxy Far Far Away) Obi-Wan Movie In The Works! (36)

Alright, I'm going to jump in here with my opinion on where Star Wars is.

Agreed - Kennedy needs to GO. She has no clue what she's doing. Obi-Wan needs to remain a show.

Disagreed - That Trevorrow's version of ROTS would have been better. The concept art, it was better how it was with Bisc Kova's head quickly tossed on the table, not a whole execution scene. That would have been completely unnecessary, not to mention too adult-oriented for an all-ages movie. This isn't Game of Thrones. This is Star Wars.

Tor Valum looks pretty wicked but doesn't feel like Star Wars, more like some strange far-out-there sci-fi, or even the next DC Justice League villain. No thanks.

Kylo Ren fighting Vader in the cave, no thanks. With all the backlash at JJ emulating the old trilogy, this would have been far worse, like a 100% carbon copy of Empire. It's better that they just had Vader's melted helmet around, and poetic that it got smashed at one point.

Coruscant, again too nostalgic and too much re-hashing from the original trilogy. It was better with Exegol and the tropical planet the Resistance was on.

Broadcasting Leia's hologram by attempting to activate a beacon??? Feels exactly like Rogue One where they were trying to activate the beacon on Scarif to deliver the Death Star plans. Would have felt old and boring and repetitive. Thank God this wasn't in the movie.

Old walkers? Nah, I'm glad I saw the old ruined Death Star though; that was good nostalgia where you visit something from earlier in a film series or tv show, except it's the modern day and it's in ruins. Kind of a thoughtful exercise on how so much changes over time. Who cares about old walkers; it would have done nothing for me. The one in The Mandalorian was totally badass though. It belongs there, not in the Star Wars sequels.

R2D2 dies. Okay, this would have literally and completely ruined Star Wars. Not just split the fanbase like TLJ, but actually just make all fans young and old, casual and hardcore, not care about the franchise anymore. R2 is the one character that remains true and unchanging that ALL fans love, and should live throughout the entire saga. Almost like a franchise narrator or all-seeing character. Killing him off would have totally been a Rian Johnson move, but far, FAR worse than anything he's ever done to Star Wars. Worst. Idea. Ever.

Luke blocking a lightsaber? LOLLLL okay that is laughable. I can't. I'm not sorry. That's worse than Leia Poppins and Forcetime and Augmented Force Reality all put together in one. That would have just been embarrassing and spawned memes similar to "Nuke the Fridge." Terrible idea.

Hux seppuku - Awful. Again, this isn't Game of Thrones. This is Star Wars. No sane person would put this in a Star Wars movie and expect kids to enjoy it or even understand what's going on. That's just ridiculous.

Leia and BB-8 recording the hologram - What???? Yet another idea 100% ripped from the OT! If people complained that JJ stole from the OT, Treverrow's ideas are FAR WORSE.

I already knew Trevorrow was a terrible director after his pathetic showing of Jurassic World (yes, it was worse than all the Star Wars sequels), but these concept photos just take the cake. Wow. I am thrilled he did not direct a Star Wars movie.

My opinions on the sequel, I thought Ep 7 was okay, had some moments that delivered for what it was, but just okay. The acting was bland (the director is usually to blame for this) and the execution was meh. The movie couldn't make me care for the new characters. As far as Rey having too many powers, whatever, it doesn't make or break a movie for me (another topic altogether), as long as the execution of the story is engaging and believable.

Ep 8, yes the controversial one, yes it was a terrible fit in the Star Wars universe. The only merit I give is that I think it is good as a standalone if you scrubbed everything you knew about Star Wars. I'll still throw it on my Disney+ rotation every now and then. But it did not fit within the Star Wars universe at all, so I can see why it got so much hate. I had seen Rian Johnson's Looper and already guessed correctly that yes he has directing talent, but no he's not gonna make a movie that people would expect or particularly like.

Ep 9, yes the movie had a lot of problems, started off too choppy, had unfinished business (although that's what TV and novels are for and why movies are made differently nowadays than before) but I felt the characters and interactions were more believable, and the action and intensity delivered. Sure things didn't make sense, but come on it's Star Wars. Did Ewoks toying around with storm troppers make any sense? Luke and Leia are all of a sudden siblings after they had kissed??? Zero sense whatsoever! I cut JJ some slack because he had to undo a lot of what Johnson did with TLJ, and you only have so much run time to do that while trying to make your own movie.

Whew alright, that was my $0.02. Carry on.

 

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