Bad Luck Brian

Star Wars nerds are going to be disappointed. The movie rips off the old trilogy so much it's unreal. :l

Yeah, but hopefully it's still better than episodes I and II. Those were just plain awful.

Why do you think that? I didn't like Jar Jar and the actor playing Anakin, but everything else was perfect. And besides, that's Star Wars. It's what it is. I hate how people who were expecting it to cater to adults and were disappointed started the whole Lucas bashing phenomena. I loved the prequels and special editions.

The new films are going to just copy the old trilogy and add in political correctness/topical elements. And they disregarded the EU. That was a real shitty move by them. They screwed over a lot of the true fans who bought all those books and games by doing that. And to make it worse, they're taking what they want from the EU and mixing it in to their rip offs of the OT. If they had just made the trilogy the Thrawn trilogy, the films would actually match the hype. :l

Well just like you mentioned, speaking of episode I, I can't stand Jar Jar or the kid as Anakin. For episode II, I found the romance between Anakin(who grew up way to fast) and Padme extremely awkward, plus the CGI for that movie was horrible. I mean, the plots were okay, but the actors and CGI were horrible, even hard to stand at times.
If we were to talk about episode III however, it was AMAZING. The action, the actors (who did a lot better here), and even the CGI was really well handled. That's why III is my favorite from the prequels.

WHen I said actor for Anakin I meant Hayden. I should of put that. So bad cg and Jar Jar and Jake Lloyd bothered you enough to say they were awful?

I think that there is a "meme" of bashing the prequels/special editions going around that gives people this false sense of intelligence(not saying you're stupid by that). It's like they all started hating Jar Jar but let it snowball into an automatic fail for the prequels and then lead to the current "hate" for Lucas. I loved George's movies and shows. And I especially loved the EU. But now, thanks to Disney wanting to be able to work LGBT/white guilt and other topical RL issues into the films, we're getting a hyped up toy ad that will have too much of an Earth feeling to it when it's supposed to be in another galaxy.

I'm also worried about the writing. George was writing a lot of great material before the sell and then they just trashed it and started talking shit about him in that one trailer. All the hype will wash away and people are going to see how Disney's SW is too much like Disney and nothing like SW.

I think that Episodes I and ll could have been much better, but the opportunity was wasted. I don't know too much about what George was planning, but hey, Disney's doing pretty good with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So as long as they keep issues like LGBT out of the picture, I think I'd give it a shot.

Marvel Studios is doing the Marvel stuff though and Disney just makes the money. They kept the same people. But with SW they got rid of George and destroyed the EU. At least with the Marvel stuff they had multiple universes set up already and it would make sense to have stories that are new.

The only things the first two could have done better would be to reduce how much Jar Jar was there and use more practical effects. Everything else was perfect. That's what I was saying about there being this bandwagon effect with bashing the prequels. People really only disliked small portions of it and then make a mountain out of a molehill of it. Lucs FTW and f**k Disney. Their movies suck. And Avengers 1 and 2 are proof of that. :l

Well, maybe Avengers aren't the best MU films, but The Winter Soldier film was incredible and so was Guardians of the Galaxy. I mean, if you say these two sucked, you're clearly hating. And yes, the Disney deal was already made by then.

Yeah right at Christmas so all the parents can buy the merch that hyped up toy ad is pushing. That is already a bad sign. :l

That's actually a good point.

Winter Soldier was great. And GoG too. I wasn't saying they did, but the two Avengers films so far have. But these are written by Marvel Studios and funded by the Disney merch machine,. If it was all Disney, WS and GoG would suck.

But think about other Disney films. All the animated films suck. Wall-E is good. But everything else they've done is just terrible. SW is going to suck. People will go and see it but be disappointed. I'm sure they'll make more than what they spent to make it, but they're going to feel the wrath of fans not buying their merch(BB-8) and being weary of the next film. :l

I guess well just have to wait and see... At least Han and Chewie are back.
For the animated films, c'mon man Wreck it Ralph and Monsters University? Those were great!!!

I have to watch a lot of Disney(nieces) and I saw the Monsters film and Ralph. I wasn't impressed at all. And they have weird underlying messages all through their movies and shows. Disney is brainwashing kids to beg their parents to buy crap all the time. And their films are always so predictable. Even WS and GoG.

I'm glad the OT cast are coming back, but they are going to be support roles and not the main cast. Finn, Rey, Kylo, Poe, and BB-8 are going to be handed the torch so to speak by Leia, Han, Chewie, and Luke. and I'm fairly sure one of the OT cast(if not more) are going to be killed off. And Disney is kind of race baiting by trying to force an interracial relationship with Finn and Rey to placate to the whole white guilt thing being spread around. And that's not me saying I'm racist, I'm just saying don't do use PC to win favor. It's lame. If they made Finn Lando's son and made Rey Jaina from the books(and used the EU) that would have been fine. But they're doing their "new" story that cherry picks what it wants to use form the EU. I even heard they might have Boba Fett in it. That's just to try and get people like me who are on the fence to go. He wold be like 70 years old by now and would probably be explained away as another clone.

It's going to suck. Get ready for it. :l

Guess we'll find out soon.

It will still be watchable to a degree I'm sure. But for fans like me it's going to give us health problems. lol :l