Posted on 09/20/2021 1:35:35 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man
Thank you Marcia for coming out and saying what so many people feel about the disney craptacular sequels to Star Wars and the horrible betratal treatment the original characters had in their terrible storylines.
Just remember folks, she deserves the credit for Star Wars being the movie it is. We wouldn't have the final death star ending and fighting if she wasn't the editor of that movie, it would have suffered greatly. She also edited Taxi Driver. She's got extreme credibility.
Not a huge deal relatively speaking, but most of us remember Star Wars and it and the characters have a warm nostalgia to us. For the wokers to come in and do that damage to something lots of people feel fondly about, I'm glad she said something about it.
Whoever is watching anything Disney or pushing it on their kids must not have discernment of evil. There is a payday for those who have an evil influence on children . . .you know the milstone thing in Scripture.
Disney managed to do something that I didn’t think was possible: they made Star Wars movies that were so bad that the prequels looked good in comparison. That’s amazing, and not in a good way.
An acquaintance once said that “the prequels are the best of the fan films.”
More seriously: the prequels were an achievement of “world-building” that the franchise needed to move into the sequels.
I still want to know who to blame for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
The prequels were clunky and the midichlorians unforgiveable. But I didn’t hate them.
I watched “The Force Awakens” in the theater. I watched “The Last Jedi” on Netflix. And I haven’t watched the last one because it’s not free and I ran out of barf bags.
But on the plus side the latest trilogy inspired dozens of very funny critiques on youtube.
Any executive worth his salt would have fired Kathleen Kennedy and her entire stable, regardless of the financial consequences. Disney’s CEO is a wimp.
Agree but this is pounding the rubble at this point. Disney made money but not as much as they could have. The Last Jedi was the last straw for me.
Fred Silverman?
I watched the first Star Wars, didn’t like it and haven’t seen another one since. I did like the original Star Tours at Walt Disney World.
I hate Jar-Jar, Hayden Christensen's lemon-puss face, the Imperial Senate, rabid-frog Yoda, and the multi-cultural Jedis.
All the prequels are irredeemable.
I thought “Rogue One” was pretty good. The rest blew a big Moose. The Last Jedi needed to be edited with a weed whacker.
George Lucas had 2 and 1/2 good SW movies. “Rogue One” was a decent movie. The rest, either by Lucas or the Mouse, were terrible.
I'm in 100% agreement that the wokeness is bad and the overall quality is not as good as older Star Wars movies.
But there is an impossible problem for Disney: making us middle-agers enjoy a space fantasy today as much as we did as kids when when we had much more imagination then than we do now. So when I criticize the new movies, I criticize them only so much knowing it's impossible for them to live up the standard of me enjoying space fantasies like I used to.
One thing I will say that's still good about the SW movies: the music.
We'll, to be honest, it all started going down the tubes with the stupid Ewoks. The "cringe" factor was turned up on Return of the Jedi and I can hardly watch that movie any more.
As a Genxer who’s been a Star Wars fan since 1982, I disagree
The first two prequel films had their faults, they’re campy and fun. The music is incredible.
Revenge of the Sith is a masterpiece. Camille Paglia knows her art, and she thinks it’s the best piece of visual art in the last 30 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibkmh72_1pw&ab_channel=DamienKazanFilmmaker
You realize the description “campy” means gay, right? Rocky Horror Picture Show was campy, Queen was campy, even Top Gun was campy. Even though I believe the prequels are total trash they were not campy.
I’m a woman, so it’s ok that I like camp.
And camp doesn’t mean gay. It means art that is performed earnestly but comes off unintentionally hilarious or cheesy. If you can’t enjoy Hayden Christiansen seducing Natalie Portman by talking about his dislike of sand, that’s fine.
Millions of people worldwide proudly adore the prequels, warts, and all. They’re fun entertainment with no agenda, which is what movies should be.
You bring up a perfect scene where when I saw this in the movie theater everybody started laughing when she rebuked him and he made that face like he just ate a lemon. That was some funny stuff right there!
To be fair, the Disney of old DID actually try to adhere to classic notions of Good and Evil, and even the Dark Age and the very beginning of the Renaissance, ie, The Little Mermaid, STILL attempted to stay with that classical notion as well (in fact, The Little Mermaid arguably had a pretty neat takedown of radical feminism in the form of Ursula, who actually did state the kind of thing you’d expect to hear from a Gender Studies course regarding how men viewed women, and she was treated negatively and it was made clear to all be lies). It was around the time of Beauty and the Beast where things REALLY started going down the crapper, and even then it wasn’t until Iger got in that things REALLY took a turn to the worse.
Besides, WB’s arguably much worse on that front.
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