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After suffering through The Last Jedi, I am done with Star Wars until the producers, directors, and writers show up at my door with fine wine, red roses, and a personal apology plus those hours of my life back. The Last Jedi made my skin crawl.
I used to be a Star Wars guy.
People that take great franchises and produce vomitous sequels need to swing - and not on the dance floor.
I don't object to filmmakers making kid-friendly movies. I do object when filmmakers pander to kids.
Even at eight years old, I would have much rather had a planet full of angry Wookiees than a moon filled with cuddly teddy bears.
It sure did. The funny legend back then was that "a Wookie army was beyond the film's budget, so we had to go with Ewoks."
Biggest load of sheep doo, ever. It cost the same, if not more. And the budget wasn't an issue. After two hit movies, they'd have backed up a second fleet of Brinks trucks to make ROTJ happen.
What do you mean by 'water world' scenes, which scenes where those?
Where Obi Wan went to the planet to find out about the clones. He met the skinny long-necked aliens making the clones and had his run-in with Jango Fett. Those scenes were all great. The rest of the movie needed a complete do-over.
It sure did. The funny legend back then was that "a Wookie army was beyond the film's budget, so we had to go with Ewoks."
Biggest load of sheep doo, ever. It cost the same, if not more. And the budget wasn't an issue. After two hit movies, they'd have backed up a second fleet of Brinks trucks to make ROTJ happen.
It was never a budget issue.
The legend Lucas has built in his own mind: He always wanted a bunch of "primitives" to rise up and defeat the high-tech Empire. He had originally intended that to be Wookiees, but after two movies Chewbacca had evolved beyond the "primitive" he had originally envisioned, so he came up with Ewoks. (Take the --ee off of Wookiee, put it on the beginning, shorten the vowel, and you've got Ewok.)
The truth is that Lucas was adamant that he be able to control his own movies without big studio interference. But to do that, he had to be able to finance his movies without studio support. That meant making a lot of money to invest in the movies, along with the production company he was hoping to make the star of the movies (succeeded by the way), and the first two movies proved that the way to do that was merchandising --- posters, T-shirts, coloring books, novelizations, radio adaptations, and above all toys, toys, toys. The Ewoks were invented to sell toys.
Like I said, it was a "legend." It was something he spat out during an interview earlier on (who knows where is my guess), but nobody bought that bs. I heard that roughly 35 years ago, not in this decade.
Where Obi Wan went to the planet to find out about the clones. He met the skinny long-necked aliens making the clones and had his run-in with Jango Fett. Those scenes were all great. The rest of the movie needed a complete do-over.
Oh okay. For me, the podrace sequence went on too long. Not the actual race per say, but just the plot surrounding it, as a lot of time is devoted to Aniken winning the race, so they can get money to continue the plot, but it seems there could have been a better way, or if this race must happen for the plot, why spend so much time on it, when they could just make a bet on the race, and then cut to the actual race, and then that's it. Plot point over and move on. But they spend a lot of time on it, unless I'm wrong?
Well to be fair it wasn't just death by burp. It was death by a burp followed by him finding a new definition of pain and suffering as he was slowly digested over a thousand years.
Well to be fair it wasn't just death by burp. It was death by a burp followed by him finding a new definition of pain and suffering as he was slowly digested over a thousand years.
I'm almost certain it didn't take him that long to die.
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