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The pettiest detail that stood out to me was the fact that you needed a disney+ subscription to watch movies in your hotel room. Like the easiest thing they could make complimentary to guests in their expensive rear end hotel, costs them nothing to just give out for free, it's not like people are gonna spend much time in their rooms anyway, but maybe during bits of downtime they'd watch star wars in the star wars hotel for fun, nope, you get yet another paywall
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Yeah I don't see Vader killing Watto. When he was still Anakin, maybe. It seemed like in Attack of the Clones he just saw Watto as this pathetic loser. If at any point he would kill him it would be right after his mother died. If he didn't want to kill him as Anakin then why do it when he's Vader and has better things to do
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Jan 25, 2025 20:54
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Disney has just hired 1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters in the hopes that one of them can write a Rey movie that's not a boring waste of time
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Jan 26, 2025 23:21
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Given how the sequels consistently set up potentially interesting stories that eventually went nowhere or turned into a joke, makes me think it was an executive mandate to dodge any actual conflict and replace it with generic uplifting platitudes or shrug it off as a comedy. It seems there were a lot of ideas bouncing around what happened with Luke, and conveniently the one they went with avoided the actual kerfuffle that went down at the Jedi academy and events leading up to and during Kylo's turn to the dark side. Ultimately, Luke jokes around a bunch with the lightsaber throw and doing Yoda shtick with Rey, gives a heavily truncated explanation for what happened with Kylo (yada yada, Luke got a whiff of the dark side and didn't actually mean to kill Kylo, honest, yada yada, now Kylo dark side and Knights of Ren), Luke feels bad, Yoda shows up and tells Luke it's ok to make mistakes, that's why pencils have erasers, then Luke does a force fake out to make Kylo look stupid but it took so much force he died. The end. They had plenty of good ideas, they just ended up not using them. The opening setpiece in Force Awakens? Really good! The bloody handprint on the stormtrooper helmet, FN sweaty and panicked with Phasma coldly telling him to put it back on and get back to work? Great stuff. Then, what? He's suddenly best buddies with Poe and Rey, and spends the rest of the time as a comedy sidekick. All that stuff at the beginning? Oh it's just because he's actually a janitor and Phasma's just like an rear end in a top hat boss who gives him a hard time. So he didn't have any like, crisis of conscience about being a soldier, he spent all his time cleaning toilets and the one time he went out into battle he's like "wait, we KILL people??" and ran away. Then the rest of the movie is about some british girl, sorry. I just cannot give a gently caress about Rey, there is nothing convincing about the character at all. Her background is being exiled in the desert and surviving by salvaging scrap for food, maybe some of that could come across in her behaviour, like I dunno, she doesn't trust people or she's overwhelmed by going new places or she has gaps in her knowledge about the outside world, or doesn't fit in with the crowd. Instead she, what, she's a good mechanic and hesitates for a few seconds before becoming everybody's best friend? Not just Rey, but in general characters rarely act like characters - more like a gang of overly excitable college students bantering and cracking jokes and awkwardly hitting on each other. I'm sure this was a mandate too, that these are the new characters going forward, we can't risk any negative reactions towards them, they have to be likeable, relatable, unambiguously good, self aware, good role models.. I dunno, I'm probably repeating poo poo that's been said before. I just think that at the end of the day, this is what Disney wanted. It's what they do with all of their live-action remakes. Dilute the conflict, lighten the mood with some comedy, hammer home the same empty messages about believing in yourself, do whatever needs to be done to maximize social media engagement.
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Jan 30, 2025 21:14
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I like the droids more than the humans honestly, they’re just doing what they’ve been told to do and people give them poo poo for it regardless, like man, I’ve been there. Who watches star wars and is like, oh those two robots are just fake, they’re not people, throw them in the trash compactor, who cares. Like drat, why are you even watching star wars then?
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Did they ever do a star wars thing with just the droids and puppet aliens? Like Fraggle Rock but star wars? I'd take a whole show where they do stuff like the pod race or hanging out at jabba's palace
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