what stands out as "are you shittin' me?" with 7-9 is that it's all the same story as the original trilogy.
uh oh, the "remnants" of the empire have rebuilt an omnipresent armada (somehow) and...
are developing A GAME CHANGING SUPERWEAPON!
it's another a GIANT LASER BEAM that kills MULTIPLE planets instead of just one at a time.
oh, well at least the big bad is new. NOPE, same guy. literally a clone. the new big bad you saw and were curious about? just a ruse! GOTCHA!
complex character motivation: yeah, it's father-son shit. are ya winnin' son? stab
main arc: are we force friends or force frenemies? credits
i wasn't expecting much, because we're not talking dostoevsky here. i can watch a big budget action movie with little else going on. hell, i'll watch the shit out of that. but they lured me in with Boyega's dude being interesting and teasing out the lore of the First Order and some new big bad. slave army decays into fanatical terrorist paramilitaries, warlordism, and some revolutionary insurrection? that's a cool stew to pull a story out of.
and then they spent the rest of the movies ignoring that and clumsily shoehorning in the old hits. honestly, felt like the story arcs were developed by a committee of algorithms.
I was so excited when I heard that the two protagonists of the new Star Wars trilogy were going to be a storm trooper defector and a hermit woman who had grown up in an apocalyptic wasteland. To me, that's a story that writes itself. I mean, those must be some interesting people, right?
But the end result was exactly the bland corporate pap I worried Disney would start churning out when I heard they bought Lucasfilm.
It was unreal and Ill never stop being mad. I still kind of cant believe giganto corp Disney actually winced because Star Wars fans are so racist, I guess thats a point for the chuds.
god I was so interested after Kylo killed the big bad in The Last Jedi, because we had the obvious set up for redemption character reject that redemption and grab the ultimate evil power. How cool! Surely this will lead to some kind of interesting and new scenario as we enter the third act, right? And then you get the worst movie Ive ever seen in a theatre.
what stands out as "are you shittin' me?" with 7-9 is that it's all the same story as the original trilogy.
i wasn't expecting much, because we're not talking dostoevsky here. i can watch a big budget action movie with little else going on. hell, i'll watch the shit out of that. but they lured me in with Boyega's dude being interesting and teasing out the lore of the First Order and some new big bad. slave army decays into fanatical terrorist paramilitaries, warlordism, and some revolutionary insurrection? that's a cool stew to pull a story out of.
and then they spent the rest of the movies ignoring that and clumsily shoehorning in the old hits. honestly, felt like the story arcs were developed by a committee of algorithms.
I was so excited when I heard that the two protagonists of the new Star Wars trilogy were going to be a storm trooper defector and a hermit woman who had grown up in an apocalyptic wasteland. To me, that's a story that writes itself. I mean, those must be some interesting people, right?
But the end result was exactly the bland corporate pap I worried Disney would start churning out when I heard they bought Lucasfilm.
It was unreal and Ill never stop being mad. I still kind of cant believe giganto corp Disney actually winced because Star Wars fans are so racist, I guess thats a point for the chuds.
Disney doing :both-sides: so they always come out on top
god I was so interested after Kylo killed the big bad in The Last Jedi, because we had the obvious set up for redemption character reject that redemption and grab the ultimate evil power. How cool! Surely this will lead to some kind of interesting and new scenario as we enter the third act, right? And then you get the worst movie Ive ever seen in a theatre.