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one of the worst films of the last 20 years.
I left the theater scratching my head and as soon as I begun to really think about the movie, I realized it was absolute dogshit and George Lucas should've never sold the franchise.
Not saying this in the cliché passive aggressive manner - seriously, you do you, if you like it that's great - but UGLY on every level is the word I'd use for it. And it's not said enough. The movie was fucking ugly. The actors, the creatures, uninspired new locations, the ridiculous Muppets-level practical effects, the TV lighting of these Disney SW movies, the outdated designs who look like a joke when presented with modern day technology with current day tech.What’s funny is that it’s the most beautifully filmed Star Wars movie with one of the worst character arcs and ridiculously nonsensical stories put to the silver screen.
That slow ship chase scene is just so stupid it’s hard to wrap your head around. It was also the movie that ruined whatever cohesiveness the new trilogy meant to have.
Not saying this in the cliché passive aggressive manner - seriously, you do you, if you like it that's great - but UGLY on every level is the word I'd use for it. And it's not said enough. The movie was fucking ugly. The actors, the creatures, uninspired new locations, the ridiculous Muppets-level practical effects, the TV lighting of these Disney SW movies, the outdated designs who look like a joke when presented with modern day technology with current day tech.
It's a visual medium and yet close to everything about it - besides Oscar Isaac [no homo] - is not pleasant to look at. Add to it all the disgusting, petty, fan-detesting, political underlying garbage, lack of story & characters, etc.
MehRogue One is better than all Star War movies not 3 to 6.
Meh
It was OK. A step in the right direction but not a great film. Its still a fuckin movie about something that destroys planets, if it werent for the final scene,id completley forget this movie existed,and thats all basically relying on an actually good movie (a new hope) from 50 yrs ago
Well it being better than them is not saying much i guess. Too many gush about this movie but its only OK to me except for the endI think you misinterpret my post. I am not saying R1 is great, I am saying the rest sucked.
Oh, the OT was stylish. And I do get brought back and immersed in the world when I revisit them, but it's like sports athletes - you can't take a man out of his time. All the OT artists worked within the limitations of their time. But when you take something that was built to be shot a certain way by equipment of its time - take those limitations and put them into current day of unlimited opportunities - it's not flattering to them.Really I think all the sequels tend to follow the more simplistic style of modern blockbusters, bright eye catching colours and really simple in your face compositions. If a modern Starwars film has a case for being the best looking(personally I think thats still ESB) for me its clearly Rogue One which I think understands the style of the originals far better and is was made by a director with a history of visually strong films like Monsters and Godzilla.
As I said in the thread a week or two ago I think the visual style of the originals is very underrated, they might be the dawn of modern blockbusters but they were made by people who's background was new hollywood. ESB for example was shot by Peter Suschitzky(I suspect with quite a free hand was Kershner was more an actors director) who went onto work with David Cronenberg for years.
Look at say the lightsaber fight between Luke and Vader on Bespin and its a masterwork of understatement compared to the modern films were everything is ultra brightly lit with ultra closeups.
Yeah Awakens has some good moments. But TLJ Rise are both laughably bad. I think Rise is even worse than this movie, which shouldn't really be possible.
Lol and the way the line is delivered makes it so much better. He sounds so bewilderedSomehow palpatine has returned....
Lol and the way the line is delivered makes it so much better. He sounds so bewildered
I went to see it in the cinema and the tone was set immediately in the opening with a "yo momma" joke. I actually thought the beginning of the movie was a spoof advert for Star Wars or an outtake.
I tried to like it at first because i love Star Wars but upon watching it again i was unsuccessful in convincing myself it was any good. It's not my least liked movie ever just because it's a shit movie, it's my least liked because on top of being a shit movie it also ruined something i enjoy a great deal and have done my entire life.
It became the last Star Wars movie i would see in the cinema having seen the prequels and OT on the big screen. I did eventually watch Rise Of Skywalker and while i didn't find it as bad it was still quite poor and nothing more than an unsuccessful salvage operation.
The Mandalorian series has given Star Wars hope again though, and for the future of the franchise i would like to see the new series' bulldoze the sequel trilogy and make something worthy of Star Wars. I'd also like to see The Old Republic era in movies and series as that is quite a vast playground for competent writers to work their magic.
It tops Will Smiths what are we, some kind of suicide squad? But can't match the earnestness of Fassbender saying I'll do the fingering.It was like Oscar Isaac begged JJ for a week not to make him say it, then got his manager to call JJ, then tried to get a meeting with Kathleen Kennedy and she wouldn't see him, and then shooting day arrived and he just kind of trudged to his mark and said it.
The new version of Harrison's voice over narration for Bladerunner.