as I used to be. It honestly baffles me too. I just can’t figure it out. Does anyone else feel the same way?
I'm quite excited to see the upcoming movie. I used to always look forward to a Star Trek movie during the Christmas season but Star Wars will do in a pinch. The dreary days of December is when you need something visually exciting on the big screen.
I'll go see it but only because I'm too invested in this series at this point not out of excitement. I think The Force Awakens just killed it for me.
I was hoping that The Force Awakens would be rereleased just before The Last Jedi comes out as I missed seeing it when it came out.
I can't stand the thought of having to see this new Star Wars movie. But it means a lot to my wife, so I'll suffer through it I guess. The one that came out about a year ago was I saw Murder On The Orient Express a week or two ago and we both really enjoyed it, and recommend it - great cast.
Since episode 7 was a sideways remake of episode 4, and episode 8 looks to be a sideways remake of episode 5, I kinda don't see the point any more.
My feelings about Force Awakens are mixed. Yes, it's a retread of Star Wars in many ways. I didn't feel any sense of ominous, impending doom at the approach or sight of Starkiller Base, unlike the reveal of the Death Star in Star Wars. Heck, I think the sight of the approaching Death Star in Rogue One had way more visceral impact than Starkiller Base. I felt nothing when Starkiller Base destroyed those Alliance planets, because the movie had done nothing to establish any character as having any connection to anyone or anything on them. With the destruction of Alderann, we felt Leia's pain and anguish at having to watch her home and everyone she knew on it annihilated. I think my main problem with Force Awakens continues to be the idea that despite the Rebellion's victory in ROTJ, the destruction of Death Star II and the deaths of Vader and the Emperor, it doesn't seem like the Rebels actually ended up gaining much of anything. All these years later they're still battling the Empire, now in the form of the First Order. Just as the off-screen deaths of Newt & Hicks at the beginning of Alien 3 invalidate everything that happened in Aliens, the struggles of the Rebellion throughout the original trilogy are negated by the existence of the First Order.
And we've already heard your schtick a hundred times, @Forbin. "This better not be a retread of ESB!!!1!"
FWIW, I generally avoid threads like that because they devolve into out-of-universe plot speculation, which is annoying. This one is about feelings.
I had a thought, are we going to get "remakes" of Star Wars every thirty or so years so newer generations can be exposed to the franchise?
"Over-saturation", is a good problem to have. Y'know what happens when I literally get over-saturated from guzzling drinks? I wait, I pee it out, new thirst comes, I drink again. It's not a biggie. Think there's "too much", Star Wars? Take a break, come back to it, it'll be there.
Star Killer Base made no sense. In fact the Death Star made no sense but you can let it slide since it was there first. You don't need such a large device to destroy a planet. A big rock, antimatter bombs, nuclear weapons could do it. Hell you could slap a hyperspace engine on a giant slug of manufactured rock (think shotgun slug) the size of a Super Star Destroyer and ram it into a planet at Hyperspace speeds. Nothing is going to walk away from that.
Death Star/Starkiller is as much a propaganda tool as a weapon. I mean, Nicholson Joker could have dropped the smylex gas from helicopters, but parade balloons had STYLE. Gozer could have just turned into Surtur, and stabbed the Earth down to the mantle, and cracked the crust, and split it in two from the onrushing ocean water making steam pressure, but making the Ghostbusters choose the form had STYLE.
I think part of why I don't get so excited about a new Star Wars movie is that it's not 1979 and I'm not 10 any more. There's a way bigger world full of stuff for me to get excited about these years. Besides, with a far more interesting (to me) story going on in SWRebels, the continuing saga of the Skywalkers has become the flogging of a dead tauntaun.
Well I had no problem with the idea that what the Rebellion accomplished actually made things worse. That was a recurring theme in The Expanded Universe where eventually everyone just said "the hell with it" and reestablished another Galactic Empire (though somewhat less bloodthirsty than Palpatines). I too loathe the repeated "superweapon that can destroy a planet" when to "destroy all life on a planet" (which is all that matters) is no great feat.
With the lame Rogue one and then solo debacle it seems Kathleen is putting all her hopes on Rian Johnson. Ep8 must be done good. The film's been locked for a few months and we've heard no drama ie Gareth Edwards or Lord and Miller or treverow
