YESS

Curtis @ 5/9/2017 19:57

Wouldn't be upset with Johnson doing 9 if 8 turns out good It'd also be cool if they brought in some BIG GUNS with a distinct style like Danny Boyle or Fincher

I wouldn't want someone like Fincher to be wasted on this tbh. Disney doesn't seem at all interested in giving directors a creative vision on Star Wars movies

Sapochnik/Marshall would be cool tho

Curtis @ 9/7/2018 19:41

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-billy-dee-williams-returning-as-lando-calrissian-xi-1125818

as much as I love Billy Dee they need to stop this shit. LET THE PAST DIE

http://collider.com/star-wars-9-jj-abrams-turned-down-directing/#images

sounds promising? maybe?

bringing back Palpy to make Vader's sacrifice in ROTJ completely pointless? Neat

I mean that'd be one thing but I feel like they wouldn't have made such a big reveal out of it if that's the case (end of the teaser + bringing the actor out on stage). That'd be like teasing Yoda in one of the trailers for Last Jedi

I still feel like I don't know what this new trilogy's even ABOUT

Curtis @ 18/12/2019 9:07

Woof, 56 on RT. The second worst. Phantom Menace is the worst at 54% PS slightly insane that Clone Wars is FRESH but whatev

technically the worst initial release tho because Phantom Menace's score went down after its re-release

in any case I'm seeing this Sat, I'm maybe looking forward to it more than I was before (which was very very little)? Just because I'm really hoping for an entertaining mess, but realistically they'll probably play everything too safe for it to even be that

lol

gotta say, after the first hour or so I was starting to wonder what all the fuss was about, I thought it was actually a p good first act. But boy oh boy did it get increasingly dumb after that

Spoiler

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I should say I liked the first act with the big caveat of...the Palpatine of it all. What a DUMB plot point, the retconning to make that work was just laughable. Literally, what was this whole trilogy's point? To tidy up the loose end that Vader unknowingly left behind? Neat! Guess the whole Anakin redemption arc was for nothing in the end? They definitely threw everything at the wall with this which I guess I can respect...it's just that almost none of it was original whatsoever or felt interested in telling a NEW story. The problems with TFA were amplified tenfold with this movie The pacing was so fucking breakneck, it was insane how many planets they jumped between and how little worldbuilding they had time for on each. Once the plot got going there was so little time to BREATHE and think about anything that was going on I wasn't a fan of Last Jedi but it's not because I hated the ideas in that movie, it's mostly that they seemed to pull back each time they were about to commit to an interesting story direction/development. But either way I totally see the criticism with this movie undoing basically that entire movie, LIKE IT OR NOT that was the 2nd movie in this trilogy and reverting that hurt this movie a lot. Shit like "When I said your parents were nobodies...it's cuz they HAD to be...but you didn't even think of your grandparents!" was...ugh. Rey being a nobody actually was one of the new directions I really liked out of Last Jedi so that reveal was very disappointing The Leia stuff could've been worse but you could definitely tell how much they had to Frankenstein that dialogue together. I still don't get why they didn't kill her off when they had the perfect opportunity story-wise in the last movie, literally just cut out the floating through space scene Baboo Frick ruled tho, best character of the trilogy ez https://letterboxd.com/carter_sauce/list/star-wars/

Unless you care about spoilers I'd wait for streaming tbh. But I don't think it's quite bad enough to totally skip if you're already a fan, it's entertaining enough as a big dumb rollercoaster ride

man after finishing Mando I wish so much that Favreau had been the one to head up this whole trilogy. Not that Mando is AMAZING but it definitely captured the original Star Wars spirit WHILE doing enough new things in a way that this didn't