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Yes, they copied the original Star Wars trilogy but done bad. RIP Star Wars.
The sequel trilogy was a shameless cash-grab attempt by Disney. It was unimaginative, unoriginal and boring.
The first one had some good plot hooks to further and grow the franchise beyond what it was. These were immediately dumped by Disney corporate and replaced with slop.
TFA felt like a cheap knockoff of the original a New Hope.
I remember enjoying The Force Awakens in the cinema, but I probably enjoyed it about as much as I would have enjoyed rewatching A New Hope, because frankly they're the same movie.
I started watching the 2nd one in the new trilogy (don't even remember the name) and got bored. Never watched the 3rd one.
And then there was Rogue One, which I also watched in cinema. I did enjoy it, but it was also an absolute nothing burger of a movie with 0 lasting impact or characters worth remembering.
I found Rogue One a satisfying conclusion to the independent Andor story.
I remember enough that I know they do in fact exist. But I couldn't place anything in order, let alone mentally reconstruct them in my mind from start to finish like the other 6.
Same. But I think a big part of that is I only watched each of them one time. Where as the first 6 I've seen more times than I could count.
I'm not one to overthink movies, I really enjoy just watching them do their thing without thinking about it, But there were no twists everything felt so linear and so repeated.
I even liked solo because it was at least different.
I thought Solo was a lot of fun. It was great to watch a Star Wars film that didn't have galactic stakes. It felt more focused.
I personally liked Solo more than Rogue One
disney ruins everything it touches
No you're thinking of capitalism.
Hey I can hate the players and the game! ;-)
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Disney is an instance of applied capitalism.
Your memory was wiped because you only bought tickets to see the movie, not remember it
It was straight up nostalgia porn. Nothing but call backs and a cloned bland story line. Absolutely forgettable. Rogue One and Andor are the only good things Disney did with Star Wars (live action wise).
Nope. Your memory is fine. There were only two and a half good Star Wars movies of the original nine; A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi right up until the Ewoks arrive.
Beyond that there was some good stuff, like Andor and Rogue one.
I liked Solo.
Fight me.
It was ok. Certainly better than A Phantom Menace. But I think, aside from a cool sword fight scene and a giant fish The Phantom Menace was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
The ewoks weren't bad especially given the time period.
Kids loved the ewoks ... I will admit I liked them when I was young. However, they were kind of stupid and pointless. He should have just make them cookies like he planned.
Seems like a lot of the entertainment Disney makes tries to be extremely average. Not edgy, not offending anyone. The end result is almost like AI slop before AI slop existed. Entertainment so mediocre that it doesn’t make you feel anything.
Movie by committee.
Entertainment doesn't need to be good anymore.
As we use more and more electronic distractions, we start to leave streaming on all say while we work, play, etc..
This means people aren't really paying attention, so the streams just play and generate cash, with people not noticing that the quality has dropped
Why why pay top dollar to make programs when they can just dribble out pablum to stream.
So we get dumb crap with bad writing and childish titles.
Just enough to maintain their grip on the IP and make some merch sales
Rogue One was the only decent star wars story in recent history. It was within the star wars universe but wasn't a total rehash of the same Jedi story.
If they had done the Solo twins storyline with the Jedi academy they would have had all the YA books to pull ideas from that was original stories instead of the modernized remake.
One day I sat down to watch the movie after force awakens (can't even remember the name). About 30 minutes in I had an extreme sense of deja vu. Come to find out I watched that movie in theaters and had completely forgot it. After that I watch ed rise of the Skywalker and definitely will remember that as being the worst stars wars anything I have ever seen... christmas special and babu frik excluded!. I felt bad for the actors on that one.
Between Lost, Star Trek, and Star Wars, I hate J.J. Abrams. The only reason he even has a career is because he sucked up to Spielberg.