Star Wars Episode IX Cast Announced (Billy Dee Williams is back) - Sensationalist Headlines

damn dude this is embarrassing. stop getting so flustered over some bad movies. and a list of all movies i like is still irrelevant to the topic but sure keep asking about it all you want. but hey sure ignore my posts because you cant handle an accurate 3-word depiction of modern star wars fans.

thanks for the pleasant response, it was a real joy to read.

Not sure i'll be able to watch any Star Wars movies after this one since its John Williams last Star Wars he's doing the music for, and Star Wars just dont seem right without him

do you not see the problem with a character named akbar flying a craft into a massive object to destroy it?

I enjoyed 7. I enjoyed 8. The visuals were outstanding, and it was great to see modern-day SW movies that weren't the prequels. Yeah the plot wasn't the best and there were some shoehorned moments but I still thought it was a good movie overall. Of course I'm just a casual star wars fan so I guess I'm not allowed to comment on things like this. It's almost like different people are allowed to have different personal tastes and opinions 🤔

That reminds me https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/323/328/d9a.gif

then we see Planet Express somehow get involved and the whole thing ends up being revealed as a Star Wars-Futurama crossover

No i don't. I know America is still "all blown up" about it. But i think fantasy/Sci-fi fiction should be beyond all that. After all, it might be an American product, but Star Wars is global. Either way, i've always hated when entertainment that professes to be part of the treasured "timeless art" of filmmaking bend over backwards and cater to the controversies of the time. It almost always makes the movies worse. Almost every movie produced before 911 but released after that had to remove scenes, drop thematic threads and so on got absolutely neutered. I will never get this stigma. I wonder if making a period movie set in the 1990's is gonna require the filmmakers to just blank out that the TWC existed. Either way, no i don't see the problem but what i intended to say was that he would be the one blasted into space from the bridge during the attack and Leia be the one going for the virgins.

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I'm not remotely excited, but I'm still going to go and watch it, at least fucking Rian Johnson isn't directing it, people here gave me shit when I called him out and saying I wasn't hopeful for Episode 8, then it turned out to be a mess and I was right, so fuck you guys who talked shit, you're dumb.

Any news about what his trilogy will even be about?

Trash Fire.

Every release of Star Wars feels like getting fast food instead of witnessing a monumental event for sci fi and fantasy fans. It doesn't feel as special anymore, before they only milked additional products like action figures, comics etc, but now even the movies do that. Not to mention the whole safeness of Disney's projects, and how they keep that fanservice going by calling back characters whose narrative arcs where completed back in the original trilogy. While the prequels were pretty flawed and generally boring except for maybe a couple shots here and there (Pod race, Grievous, Dooku, episode 3's last act), atleast Lucas tried to offer somethng new there visually, while these new movies just try to replicate what we've seen before. Last but not least, TLJ had tons of potential to be actually innovative, it felt like they wanted to remove the distinction between light side and dark side of the force in the first half of the movie, but then they played it safe during the finale, making all that plot development at the start feel pointless.

I'm not sure what universe you live in but every single star wars film past ANH was a product of raw consumerism.

Hopefully nothing, he never should have gotten his own trilogy in the first place. If they really want to keep him around so much they should just give him an anthology film and see how he handles that first. Really hope they'll just quietly dismiss him.

Yeah okay, but episode 4 came out in '77, episode 5 in '80, and episode 6 in '83. Now we get a Star Wars every year. Yes, i'm counting the spin off because while they are not the main story, they are still major Star Wars material.

So was the Star Wars Holiday Special.

I enjoyed ep7 and I enjoyed Rogue One, but I didn't think they were particularily great and I didn't go to see any of the others because I don't care - and frankly the shitshow that the franchise has become turns me off.

Looking back, he was. Hadn't slept for 30 hours as of that woosh.

I miss Jar Jar.

I can see where people are coming from when they talk about Star Wars fatigue, I'm definitely not as excited for a new Star Wars film as I was this time last year, but I don't get where all of this STAR WARS IS FUCKING DEAD AND AWFUL stuff is coming from? The last few films were great? Even Solo was "okay" and that's far better than something so uninspired had a right to be. The last Jedi didn't suck because of one cheesy scene and a joke or two that didn't land. Idk I think it's a bit weird that people are presenting "not as excited as I used to be, but I will probably still go and see Star Wars" as "0 interest i will boycott the Star war forever"

The composers for Rogue One and Solo captured his style well.

People grow increasingly cynical as they age so things they used to get excited over now seem tired and old, and their childhood is put on a pedestal of nostalgia without proper acknowledgement that those issues existed in the past and are not new. It's only natural that your expectations and tastes temper over time and become somewhat more mild, and to an extent it's also natural that people take that decrease in raw personal interest/excitement rather poorly or explain it as things being worse.

The last Jedi wasn't bad because of a few jokes or a couple of bad scenes. It was broken throughout. There's extremely poor writing and storytelling in some of the situations - e.g. this whole "Here's a mystery we're setting up, we'll expand on this later so get excited for it!" only for the next movie to go "Haha, you thought that would lead somewhere? You expected something? Idiot! Here's absolutely nothing instead, that means I've I've subverted your expectations, which means it's automatically great!". The movie wasn't bad because of just a few problems, or it "wasn't what you expected", the problems with it are much bigger than that.This is a long series of videos so i doubt you'll watch them, but they really summarize well just how badly a lot of the moments in the movie are and just why they're a big problem: https://youtu.be/vw7pcCj0ORk

Surely there's better ways to convey why you think a film is bad than link a nearly five fucking hour long video essay about it made not even a month after release. The plinkett reviews manage to cover an entire trilogy, with some heavy bits of comedy thrown in, and do so in less time than this abomination time-wasting sludge.

My main gripe with TLJ is that Johnson purposefully didn't explain where the fuck Snoke came since he thought it would mess up the pace of the movie.

My main gripe with TLJ is Johnson. Can't wait for that new trilogy they gave him.

Well his new films are not tied to the rest of the Saga.

To be fair, Remember what happened when we got back story on the rise of the Emperor. I didn't hate the prequels, they are pretty bad movies but I watched them as a kid so I can appreciate them on a nostalgic level, as well as enjoying the genuinely good worldbuilding in amongst all of the boring bits. But now that I'm older, I would definitely have preferred not knowing that the ultimate evil sith emperor was once just some idiot from naboo. I'd prefer to believe his ghoulish appearance was the price of consorting with such dark forces, not just burns he got by getting ganked by his own force lightning. I feel like they were right to keep Snoke's backstory as vague as possible. My problem with a lot of the criticism of the last jedi is that people often state their subjective opinions as objective facts. "It was complete garbage, because I didn't like [thing]" I actually don't think the identity reveal of Reys parents was bad, Ironically I liked it for the same reason I liked Vader being revealed as Luke's farther.

i enjoy star wars and will continue supporting star wars