Posted on 04/25/2017 6:47:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
No, the potential problem with Episode IX is its strange placement in the bigger Star Wars picture. It is, technically, a final chapter to the current trilogy, if not the entire "Skywalker Saga" that has run through seven of the eight Star Wars movies to date. Fandom had long considered the model of a trilogy of trilogies to be the length of the series, even before The Force Awakens was announced, so there's a double weight of expectations resting on it from the very start; it has to not only tie up the themes and plots of the past two movies, but also offer some level of payoff to eight earlier features, as well.
On the one hand, this isn't an impossible task. After all, both 1983's Return of the Jedi and 2005's Revenge of the Sith managed variations on this task for their own trilogies, with Sith attempting to tie together the two trilogies into an airtight — some would say, airless — whole. Both of those movies had an advantage than Episode IX lacks, however: they actually were intended as final chapters at the time they were made.
Episode IX, by comparison, will arrive before an audience who will likely know the release date, plot and cast of another couple of subsequent Star Wars movies; no matter how much it tries to offer a conclusion to events, audiences will know that it's not the end, or even the end for awhile. Instead, there'll be another chapter coming along, most likely in the next year. How can a movie successfully provide closure when everyone involved knows that the story isn't actually closing?
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In other words - "Dune."
I’m waiting for Valerian and maybe Space Tripping.
Star Wars...meh.
Was he reprising his role in Lawrence of Arabia?
Wrong Brit, old chap.
But I thought that I read that Lucas had an outline of 9 movies in his head at the time of the first one, had been thinking about it for years as he absorbed the samarai movies while in film school. Maybe that was just myth.
Star wars was fun the first time I saw it and so was “The Empire Strikes Back”. Then it started going down hill.”Return of the Jedi” seemed to start out OK then sort of fell off the rails.
I can’t even begin to name all the rest but I thoght the ones with Padme were not that bad. Not sure why everyone seemed to be down on them, Oh yes the Midichlorians were stupid. I am not sure how to spell them either.
The last one I saw was probably the worst, The one where the Black storm trooper turns good. Weren’t they all clones of Boba Fett’s Father? How did a Black one get in?
None of the movies have been awful but they really are going the wrong way. It doesn’t much matter tho. As long as they are not just awful the fans will watch and discus every little thing.
Near as I can tell Lucas was going all out for awful in the prequels. Like it was some kind of personal quest.
Check again, my young jedi.
Good one!
You are 100% correct.
Right Brit.
Lol the black Storm Trooper is like the random black sperm guy in Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex.
Btw Force Awakens royally sucked.
The last 8 years have seen a explosion of Comic book, fantasy fueled CGI films. I have just about gotten to the point of burnout with this stuff. Star Wars and Star Trek included.
I really can't get excited about any more of them, the ones coming out, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Justice League just are not that exciting to me. And I am tired of remakes and the such. I just haven't seen anything that compelling to really want to see. By the way I saw Fate of the Furious and frankly I think they have gone as far as they can take that franchise. They probably should have stopped at Furious 7 when Paul Walker died. That's my worthless two cents worth.
Don't care. All Disney has done to the franchise is PC feminize it and crank up its merchandising game. There has been zero creativity and no marvelous new special effects. Audiences can look forward to a string of tired "Love Bug" type sequels.
Wasted my money on the lame "The Force Awakens". Not going to waste any more.
He was so good as an Arab king. He sure felt like his career had hit bottom when he had to play a weird sci-fi role with a light saber and a bunch of sand monkeys skittering about.
Every couple of years, a new movie set in the Star Wars universe will be released, and each time it'll be lucrative—certainly sufficient to keep the ball rolling.
Star Wars has become a perpetual self-sustaining franchise...
The biggest problem is that with everyone related to everyone, how do you avoid incest?
One day we will probably see an “American Jedi” type movie. I saw a snippet of it in a dream once, but I doubt Disney goes that way. They won’t use my idea of a Jedi Master either. R. Lee Ermey would break the mold.
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