>Nearly 8 years later . . .
I'm already feeling nostalgic for it.
No, seriously, this was the last time I was part of a full house genuinely enjoying a Star Wars movie. Frick your revisionism.
>Nearly 8 years later .
>Nearly 8 years later . . .
I'm already feeling nostalgic for it.
No, seriously, this was the last time I was part of a full house genuinely enjoying a Star Wars movie. Frick your revisionism.
>Frick your revisionism
It was labelled a safe nostalgia bait flick on day 1
And everyone was fine with that, because that's what it needed to be to ease audiences back into the franchise before going off in newer directions.
But no, because certain "fans" couldn't handle said newer directions, now almost everything we've gotten since has been safe nostalgia bait.
I didn’t need or want that kind of movie at all.
>before going off in newer directions
There aren't any newer directions
Yeah, because you idiots closed them off for Lucasfilm with all your b***hing and harassment.
>you idiots
Take your meds. And I guarantee all the shit your nerdy ass thinks is "new" is just more of the same repeated shit with a new coat of paint
Speak for yourself. It was a lame retreading of 4 & 5 essentially.
How much of my comment did you actually read?
The whole thing. What's your issue?
>What's your issue?
That you wanted something bold and daring after TFA, something that actually takes risks, but then act like it's the friggin apocalypse when you get exactly that.
Could you point out where I said or did any of that.
Well, not you specifically, but you know what I'm talking about.
please don't fight
Don't cry anon.
Uh huh.
maybe they could have actually done something creative and new instead of remixing ESB/RotJ scenes as a subversive parody
Were the new Force abilities not good enough for you?
In Luke's final moments he tells his nephew and student that he doesn't care about him and has no interest in trying to redeem him effectively betraying everything he ever stood for. He then dies a trite meaningless death.
>I did not actually watch the movie and instead got all my opinions from MooLer.
EU was pretty bad at times, but at least it didn't do Luke dirty.
No, they literally weren't. They were great, but they don't make up for the aforementioned remixing.
>that's what it needed to be to ease audiences back into the franchise
Bullshit. Show me a single person who said that they wanted safe nostalgia bait. Nobody claims that except apologists desperately trying to cover for the flick's mistakes.
It was lame, and as a start to a trilogy it had potential, but it didn't really stand as a good movie on its own. It was always going to rely on the rest of the series.
Imagine if the the first matrix was like that, just a setup to the other movies that turned out to be powershite.
I'm older than a lot of people here and Star wars was something I could enjoy with my parents and children. It's a shame how it turned out.
>And everyone was fine with that, because that's what it needed to be to ease audiences back into the franchise before going off in newer directions.
That's not how you do the whole movie though.
If your whole perspective is "We have to reestablish the old feeling first" that first movie should END with a sense of new direction. TFA and TLJ should have been one movie. Save the Luke shit for the second movie if you want, but end that first movie on
>Han Dead
>Snoke Dead
>Kylo in charge
>Resistance down to a handful of people
>Republic destroyed
>First Order reduced to a single fleet
>Suddenly the galaxy has no heroes and no structure of government
JJ didn't set anything new up. He just teed the series up to be a rehash of the original trilogy. New Emperor, new Luke, new Han, New Empire, New Vader, etc And Johnson tore it down but also didn't add anything new. That's what fricked them by movie 3. All the same pieces in identical play. It does nothing to distinguish itself from the original story.
So what is your investment supposed to be as an audience member?
>I want the rebels to beat the Empire
We already saw that. If it just resets at the end of the trilogy why am I even bothering to watch this?
>literally non-issue for anyone with half a brain
>2 established actors everyone knows and loves
>greasy british shouting nignog
This. Billy Dee and Sam Jackson may be black at least they can act outside of
>ooga booga REY REY REY REY REY
>naw imma clap them asian cheeks now
>FRICK DISNEY
>yo when you disney plussin me, senpai?
This Black person was a born Black person from day 1.
>is that...A LITERAL WHO??? NOOO I NEED TO SEE A-LISTERS RIGHT NOW SHOW ME SOMEONE I KNOOOOOW
Watched it in theaters and haven’t seen one since. I don’t even go back to the old movies. Star Wars is dead and should’ve died with the originals.
The prequels are better than the originals
Good one, anon. You should really do stand up.
>groundbreaking filmmaking technology
>truly epic character-driven stories with big stakes, not just "band of weirdos team together to defeat bad guy"
>excellent score
>great character design
>great cast
>ties everything into the original trilogy without smacking you in the face with rememberberries
>overused CG that has aged poorly
>poker faced gits we're supposed to care about
>yeah ok, the score is nice
>UGLY character design
>great cast wasted by reading bad Shakespeare infront of non-existent backgrounds
>'member Boba Fett? 'member Chewbacca? 'member 3PO and R2? Well here they all are for literally no explicable reason!
> ties everything into the original trilogy without smacking you in the face with rememberberries
I shan’t be acknowledging that a swarm of bugs helped design and built the death star
>groundbreaking filmmaking technology
Yes, the OT did this as well.
>truly epic
I'm gonna stop you right there and say no.
The PT is by no means more 'epic' than the OT. More CGI bodies on the screen doesn't make it more epic.
The Battle of Hoth, despite being 50 Rebels vs 5 AT-ATs was more epic than any Clone Wars battle depicted.
>excellent score
OT did it.
>great character design
Obi-Wan, Vader, Boba Fett, Jabba, Chewbacca, Yoda, C3PO, R2D2, etc don't count now?
>great cast
They could have been had they been given halfway decent dialogue.
>ties everything into
Nope. Everything about is forced an we already know the major plot points beforehand. None of the extra stuff added anything of value.
Don’t mind him. He grew up with them.
Same
Same, but I do watch the old three every now and then. Childhood memories and good times.
why can't black people just not be ugly and stupid?
This thing cranial cavity is so small wtf
I hated it from the moment I saw it and was genuinely amazed it got good reviews and my incel YouTube critic community enjoyed it.
Literally just derivative plots and memberberries start to finish then destroyed the OT by powerwanking and subverting the entire existential of a Death Star as small potatoes.
I was one of the first to notice it was just Episode IV... 2
If anything, I'm nostalgic for a time when Star Wars was a franchise I had hope for and not a shambling zombie.
Soulful kino
This movie proved to me that 70% of people are easily swayed both ways it was praised as fast as it was discarded.I was suspect of this due to avatar being so shitty yet everyone watches it but no one likes it.
I just buy tickets to Avatar because I like watching James Cameron break the box office record and people flipping out. I was on my phone all through Avatar 2
You bought tickets to Avatar 2 for James Cameron.
I bought tickets to Avatar 2 for Abatap.
We are not the same.
I saw this movie with my 2 friends from elementary school because we loved Star Wars as kids and made our own movies. I hadn’t seen them in years and haven’t since, but all 3 of us were disappointed and didn’t like it. Such a shame, instead of reigniting our friendship it buried it
I hated it from before the first trailer came out, eat a bullet shill.
Frick off, mousecuck.
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now that disney is trying to put the sequels behind them and change direction, how long until Cinemaphile starts praising them? I mean it's inevitable right?
>trying to put the sequels behind them and change direction
What do you think the Mandoverse is building towards?
>mfw kinda liked it a bit when it came out
>remember liking rogue 1 alot too
>have fond memories of the time leading up to TLJ
>have my soul ripped out and stomped on by how bad TLJ is
>saw Solo and know it bombed because of how bad TLJ was
>don't even finish the trilogy
these movies have SANK the franchise and no amount of yidsney shills, israelitetuber shills, glup shitto cameos in the discount boba fett shows will fix it
twa was a terrible movie but i will always look back fondly on all the exctiment surrounding the lead up to the movies release
Kys moron
Nice self-portrait, anon. 🙂
Well if anything I respect your honesty. But that film was unoriginal trash then and it's unoriginal trash now.
I saw TFA 5 times in theatres and TLJ only once. TFA is okay by itself but it's made worse by TLJ ignoring half it's plot points and saying frick you to the rest of them.
>ignoring half it's plot points and saying frick you to the rest of them
Did they say specifically that it was Luke who made/left the map in TFA?
lmao they never mentioned the map again
Doesn't really answer my question.
I know. Sucks, doesn't it?
The movie is almost a scene for scene remake of the original, it undoes RotJ in the most nonsensical ways, and it gave VIII and IX nowhere to go. This was obvious after the first viewing, and nobody with an iq over 80 enjoyed it.
>To be fair, you have to have a very high iq . . .
>it undoes RotJ in the most nonsensical ways
With the way RoTJ ends it’s be way too easy for the empire to regroup anyway. You saw how many imperials were hauling ass while Luke was unmasking Vader. By all accounts the Death Star would’ve already been mostly empty by the time it blew up. And ending the trilogy in them just chilling with the ewoks? It’s entirely too wishful to suggest they won the war as simple as that. Comics and books pulled the
>somehow the empire returned
trick with even less time passing than TFA’s 30-ish years. I dislike that movie for basically skipping a record but we can’t pretend it wasn’t inevitable anyway.
I pissed off my friends right after watching by saying it would be the least rewatched of the new trilogy. If only I had known how bad Rise of Skywalker would be
principal photography was 2014
kys
TLJ and TROS are both better than it. Obviously not saying much.
Any complaint that people have about "The Force Awakens" illustrates a weak grasp of its creative choices. How many sci-fi fans would argue that it has 'too much nostalgia and callbacks'? They might watch the film and whine about its reliance on familiar elements. Their expectations for innovation and groundbreaking storytelling in a beloved franchise might come from unrealistic standards, particularly when comparing it to the original Star Wars trilogy, the benchmark they hold dear. They could similarly overlook the purpose of paying homage and revitalizing the franchise for a new generation.
Abrams' only mistake with "The Force Awakens" was attempting to strike a balance between honoring the legacy of the original trilogy and introducing a new generation to the Star Wars universe. It's a tough act to follow, and some fans conditioned by their nostalgia might lash out against his efforts to recapture the magic while forging a new path.
bad bot
Glitch please.
was the most organic comment I've read here thusfar.
Chat GPT isn't organic.
If TCW Babys are Nostalgic for that Cartoon and call that Show the Peak of Star Wars the Disney ST Babys will feel the same
There is a lot of revisionism about TFA. People complained about it being a rehash of Star Wars, but the atmosphere was generally positive. People wanted to know who Rey was, could Finn feel the Force, who are "the knights of ren", who is Snoke, what happened to Luke, etc. It setup a lot of things people wanted to see.
TLJ came in and shit on every one of them, making TFA a worse movie because it's now setup for nothing.
Before some gay talks about mystery boxes, I'm well aware of who JJ is. That was supposed to be the whole point of a middle man director, and that was supposed to be KK's job, to ensure there was a plan and the boxes had something in them. None of that shit happened, and so Disney squandered what was probably the most valuable IP of all time at one point.
>that was supposed to be KK's job
I thought the job of the Exec Producer was just to greenlight and finance each project, none of that annoying creative stuff.
She was as in-charge as anyone, and let everyone know it, buck stops with her. She could have had a coherent trilogy telling a single story, instead she had the sequels.
>and so Disney squandered what was probably the most valuable IP of all time at one point.
And then they did the same with the MCU and Pixar. Oh and they released another Indiana Jones movie that managed to gross less than an Uncharted adaptation. Disney is an amazing company.
Guardians of the Galaxy was a Star Wars knock off comic nobody ever heard of, and it blew a Han Solo movie out of the water. Crazy how things turn out.
This movie is a damn good time. It copies ANH's homework shamelessly, and becomes increasingly stupid as it goes along, but I struggle to call it a bad film, at least in isolation.
The part where they show the Death Star on the holo-projector and then show the slightly bigger Death Star and everyone gasps is the most shit-eating piss take in all of cinema.
>Frick your revisionism
I was there, half the goddamn people in the theater walked out before the end. It was full when we started, and the idea that anyone 'enjoys' modern Star Wars slop is facetious at best.
>Already feeling nostalgic for it
Sounds like a you issue.
>half the goddamn people in the theater walked out before the end
Anons always tell really obvious lies like this because they have literal autism and can't understand other people or how they think, and so can't understand how unbelievable their story is. It's a weird thing you encounter rarely in real life, but basically every day here.
i know this is a sequel trilogy thread but i want to ask, which of the big battle from the original trilogy was your favorite?
Battle of Yavin was the best at building tension but it does get a bit repetitive. i also don't like that the Y-Wings didn't really get any spotlight except to job on the first trench run
Battle of Endor was cool because it was the only time in the OT that we got to see a huge fleet battle between the Empire and the Rebellion. I really hope we can see another big battle between Mon Calamari cruiser and Star Destroyers some day. However, the destruction of the second Death Star definitely wasn't as exciting as the first one.
Battle of Curtis Yarvin was pretty dope
I loved the build-up, seeing the trailer for the first time was cool. Then it shit the bed.
How about shut the frick up, sit the frick down and go watch some real Star Wars to be nostalgianc about before we cut some bacon off your back?
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