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Wasn't as stale & visually flat as TFA or as boring & ugly as TLJ. The way it vandalizes and grave robs the OT is still disgusting, but... I just didn't have any hate for this. It is what it is.
Anyways, Disney's gotta huge dilemma on their hands. Star Wars, much like superhero comics and pro wrestling, just isn't exciting, beautiful, cool, charismatic and manly anymore. Progress and humanity is what people crave, but they're pandering to these old smark fans who stall progress and the PC twitter folk who're anti human. That's a kiss of death to a business.
I mean, it's not my investment, ultimately. I don't mind skipping on the brand for the rest of my life, so they can proceed in this direction, but... OK, keep writing boring stories and characters, but can't they at least stop relying on these old, morally outdated designs? So I can at least have fun building a LEGO set with my kids? It made sense for the prequels and R1, but this is the future, the sequels - draw some new ships and worlds already. SW has never been a beauty contest, as far as creatures go, but the creature work in all of these Disney flicks has ranged from plain disgusting to look at to straight up pathetic and loathsome. Most of these creatures... whenever I'm able to stomach looking at them, I just feel sad for them. That they have to exist like this.
And the cast... the background extras are some of the goofiest looking motherfuckers I've ever seen. It's like a John Waters joint. The main cast - everyone has their own look, but the way Disney writes these characters and makes them look is repulsing. Boyega in this last one looked alright, but in the other two the guy resembles Ron Perlman in blackface. In contrast, I was crushing on Daisy in the previous two, but in this last one she's all skinny and boyish looking. Fucking anti-thicc Hollywood always does this to girls...
My goal isn't to be superficial and insulting, but when you're not giving me a fun story and characters to root for - at least throw a bone with some eye candy. It is a visual medium, at the end of the day. But there's nowhere to look away. Like, what the fuck was Snoke? An old, wrinkly pale dude? And you keep zooming in on him? And you idiots had to do mo-cap for that shit? Don't tell me it's cause he was tall, he was just sitting on a throne in an empty room, they could've Hobbit'ed that shit easy and just had a real actor play the part. It's not like there's a lack of old, wrinkly pale actors out there. And what, Kylo is supposed to look cool? Intimidating? Long face, tiny chin, feeble stare, sounds like a dork... good actor, overall, but go fuck yourselves Disney. Same with Hux and Rose Tico - it's like they're deliberately trying to make those actors look like goofs. Trump hair and yellow potato bags don't look good on anybody.
And then there's the writing, but I won't even go there. Proud to say I've left a small footprint of the Disney criticism online since 2015. This seems like the most off topic and weirdly appropriate place to vent out a bit. Going to a place like originaltrilogy.com and shitting on the flick would just bum folks out and I don't mind if people dig this. At least they made it for someone.
Anyways, Disney's gotta huge dilemma on their hands. Star Wars, much like superhero comics and pro wrestling, just isn't exciting, beautiful, cool, charismatic and manly anymore. Progress and humanity is what people crave, but they're pandering to these old smark fans who stall progress and the PC twitter folk who're anti human. That's a kiss of death to a business.
I mean, it's not my investment, ultimately. I don't mind skipping on the brand for the rest of my life, so they can proceed in this direction, but... OK, keep writing boring stories and characters, but can't they at least stop relying on these old, morally outdated designs? So I can at least have fun building a LEGO set with my kids? It made sense for the prequels and R1, but this is the future, the sequels - draw some new ships and worlds already. SW has never been a beauty contest, as far as creatures go, but the creature work in all of these Disney flicks has ranged from plain disgusting to look at to straight up pathetic and loathsome. Most of these creatures... whenever I'm able to stomach looking at them, I just feel sad for them. That they have to exist like this.
And the cast... the background extras are some of the goofiest looking motherfuckers I've ever seen. It's like a John Waters joint. The main cast - everyone has their own look, but the way Disney writes these characters and makes them look is repulsing. Boyega in this last one looked alright, but in the other two the guy resembles Ron Perlman in blackface. In contrast, I was crushing on Daisy in the previous two, but in this last one she's all skinny and boyish looking. Fucking anti-thicc Hollywood always does this to girls...
My goal isn't to be superficial and insulting, but when you're not giving me a fun story and characters to root for - at least throw a bone with some eye candy. It is a visual medium, at the end of the day. But there's nowhere to look away. Like, what the fuck was Snoke? An old, wrinkly pale dude? And you keep zooming in on him? And you idiots had to do mo-cap for that shit? Don't tell me it's cause he was tall, he was just sitting on a throne in an empty room, they could've Hobbit'ed that shit easy and just had a real actor play the part. It's not like there's a lack of old, wrinkly pale actors out there. And what, Kylo is supposed to look cool? Intimidating? Long face, tiny chin, feeble stare, sounds like a dork... good actor, overall, but go fuck yourselves Disney. Same with Hux and Rose Tico - it's like they're deliberately trying to make those actors look like goofs. Trump hair and yellow potato bags don't look good on anybody.
And then there's the writing, but I won't even go there. Proud to say I've left a small footprint of the Disney criticism online since 2015. This seems like the most off topic and weirdly appropriate place to vent out a bit. Going to a place like originaltrilogy.com and shitting on the flick would just bum folks out and I don't mind if people dig this. At least they made it for someone.
