It’s like they took the worst shit from Star Trek and ramped it up to 10. Everything about this series of movies blows. That is all.
What is Open Ass? Is it a new Linux distro?
If you do not know, do NOT search for what tossing a salad means…
Not unpopular.
Yeah I feel like most fans love the OG trilogy, tolerate the prequels, and ignore the latest trilogy.
This is me, but my unpopular opinion is Revenge of the Sith is my favorite movie out of the nine mainline ones. Empire’s great, but I loved Anakin’s fall the most even though there were several glaring problems with that movie.
Because the Sequels were so bad, I have no desire to watch those again any time soon and thus ignore their existence. For now, I’m finally checking out the side shows - I’m currently on Season 2 of the Clone Wars and haven’t watched any other Star Wars show. I know nothing about Baby Yoda except that he exists.
All people I know are the other way around and hate the prequels (especially Episode I) and tolerate the latest trilogy. Only that they majorly screwed with the extended universe, but at least the movies are decent.
It’s like Metallica: was brilliant at first but has now sucked far far longer than it was ever cool
Just like Halo🙁
TBF, kill em all was pretty crap. Lightning was good, and Puppets/Justice pretty great, tho.
We know. It did spawn a fantastic series of books and other products though (like in them, Han Solo & Leia got married, had kids, who became jedis - it was a whole freaking universe that people created based on the original triology!), before George Lucas came back in and ruined it, and then Disney bought the franchise and flat-out crapped into its corpse (even so, those movies have their moments too, yet are so obvious cash-grabs that it is hard to ignore the bad in order to see the good).
The thing to remember is that the original Star Treks - TOS & especially TNG - were so “fantastical” and not relatable b/c they had basically eliminated poverty, and for the most part people got along quite nicely. They CHOSE to work, out of the spirit of adventure, b/c they were just that awesome. (Later, DS9 added terrorism and such, but it was hard to follow that show at the time b/c if you ever missed even one episode, then you had no clue what was going on in the next one - this was a different TV technology than today when you can guarantee watching them in sequence, without a VCR and your family members not taping over the show, grrr…:-P).
Whereas in Star Wars, there was literal fucking slavery, and politics and such - like even though technology was so advanced that literally nobody ever had to work ever again, they still forced people to, just for the sake of the cruelty of making that happen… Racist Jar Jar aside, the prequels tried to show more of that, like Naboo was being attacked, yet hardly anyone in the Senate fucking gave one single, tiniest crap about any of that (sound familiar?).
TLDR: Star Wars was more relatable than Star Trek, to many people, b/c it had more greed, power dynamics, fighting, broken people, just MOAR of the evil that pervades our world - and not just from the outside, from “them”, but from the inside too, from “us”.
It’s a bit cringe, mixing sci-fi with religion and weeb samurai shit. The writing and acting don’t help it any.
The only good thing about star wars is the model work from the original trilogy, which is honestly phenomenal. ILM really knocked it out of the park with everything from the sets to the props to the models and sounds.
Oh and some of the video games it spawned are fun.
Oh! And the concept of “old future” is cool, but I guess that’s not unique to Star Wars.
It spawned the greater Lucas group of companies which included LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound and created THX and Pixar. It created the expanded universe model and was the primary driver behind the popularisation of sci-fi conventions. It was the first franchise to meaningfully leverage licensing for action figures, games, and other merchandise (not necessarily a good thing but maybe because it drastically increased movie budgets and production quality). It has also been a major contributor to independent film festivals, regularly hosting them at Skywalker Ranch. The innovations of the Star Wars franchise have been central to the industry for the past 40 years. Cinema and fandom would look a lot different without Star Wars.
Unpopular/popular agree/disagree that phrasing is getting downvoted. Just why.
I didn’t like the EU, and I don’t like what they replaced it with either.
SW is just three movies and two seasons of Mando.
Also if I can go my whole life without hearing a bunch of mystical gibberish from dudebros holding glowsticks, it’ll be too soon. Wizards are usually supporting characters, and far less overtly dumb, yet everything SW tries to make these guys the centre of that universe.
You should give Andor a shot.
I did. It had some okay ideas (the ones that weren’t heavily borrowed) but questionable execution.
