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Posted on 12/19/2017 9:12:23 AM PST by EdnaMode
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has become quite the controversial entry for certain fractions of “Star Wars” fandom, so much so that an online petition is currently circulating asking Disney and Lucasfilm to remove “The Last Jedi” from official canon. The petition, started by Henry Walsh of Georgia, has well over 13,000 signatures and counting.
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“That cash cow has run dry...................”
I blame Dinsey..George should have never have sold to them
I can’t get this worked up over a damn movie.
These people need to get a life, and put away the light sabers and Darth Vader helmets......................
One thumb up!
hmmmm....
He remembered Obi Wan
That’s a lot of bluster and typing for a kids movie.
It sucked - it was full of PC nonsense no matter how much truthiness you think it is.
Frankly you’re the perfect Disney customer (although you claim to hate Disney)
How about those two horrid EWOK movies.
Lol. Talk about a First World problem! It’s just a movie people.
“Vox popli, Vox Dei” (the voice of the people is the voice of God) is running amok, especially for a ‘major’ movie. If you are not sure you’d like it, wait for it to come to Streaming or DVD or even TV. “Removing it from the canon??” These ‘fans’, what idiots they are!
His memory was wiped at the end of revenge of the sith
They should have filmed the Thrawn trilogy.
“That’s a lot of bluster and typing for a kids movie.”
Yeah, I flew off the handle there.
“It sucked - it was full of PC nonsense no matter how much truthiness you think it is.”
Sucked is rather harsh. What, exactly, was PC about it? The only thing I saw that could be interpreted as PC was the quip about the arms dealers in the casinos being war profiteers ... but there’s a certain amount of truth to that. I could see a warmonger like Hillary Clinton or John McCain living the high life by keeping a war going and profiting handsomely off it.
“Frankly you’re the perfect Disney customer (although you claim to hate Disney)”
Really? Outside of Episode 9, I won’t see anything Star Wars / Disney related in the theater. The only reason I go to see these movies on opening night is due to seeing all of the sequels with my dad. He’s gone, but I just keep the habit alive I suppose.
I love Guardians of the Galaxy, but didn’t pay one red cent to see that :-). The Marvel stuff is overhyped garbage.
If I’m the perfect Disney customer, expect them to be out of business shortly.
A most excellent rant! /NO sarc
... it’s not like they made a crossover between MLP and Star Wars (Star Wars: the Last Earth Pony)....
R2 remembered Obi-Wan... and Obi-Wan should have remembered the droids. That is a plot hole. But they made a point of wiping C3PO, but not R2D2.
I’m mixed regarding The Last Jedi from what I’ve heard of it, to be honest (which is actually a positive in a sense, since it’s probably going to be slightly better rated in my mind than The Force Awakens, aka A New Hope 2.0, which I downright hate to such an extent that I think The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea was a far better movie than that piece of garbage. The only real good thing I have to say about the movie is that the First Order, poor man’s substitute for the Empire or not, at least is based directly and primarily on an actual real life villainous group [the Empire was based on us Americans during Vietnam, unfortunately. In fact, if anything, the “heroes” of the original trilogy were in fact based on real-life villains, the Vietcong.].).
On the one hand, I’m glad it isn’t an Empire Strikes Back rehash of Star Wars, plus I’m glad that they at least justified Luke’s basically going into hiding which originally made him seem quite out of character due to him absolutely not being the type to just hide like that, and while he arguably had far more advantages than Obi-Wan and Yoda did. Plus, it’s nice to learn that not only does Rey actually have some apparent flaws she needed to overcome after basically coming across as a quasi-mary sue with how she had a knack for being a prodigy in the Force, but even her rather infamously being skilled in something she shouldn’t have any knowledge in was at least now justified by it implying that she is merely one of several children who became knowledgeable in the Force. And we actually DO get to see the First Order be truly menacing, after The Force Awakens basically did a bad job at them being anything more than The Empire 2.0, and being far more befitting of the title of a resistance movement than the actual Resistance.
That all being said, though, there are some flaws. For one thing, they really killed off a bit too many major characters right now (Han and Luke are dead as of now, and while Leia technically survives this movie, we know she’s most likely going to be killed off-screen by the next episode thanks to Carrie Fisher’s death beforehand, meaning that, besides the droids, the only ones left of the old cast to be still alive are Chewbacca and Lando Calrissian, and even the latter’s fate is ambiguous, so that only leaves Chewbacca.). There’s also the fact that they kind of prematurely killed off Snoke, which we knew even LESS about than Palpatine in Return of the Jedi (we did know regarding Palpatine that he became Emperor via squabbles in the Senate via the novelization, which is more than we’ve got with Snoke as far as we know). And while Kylo Ren did get his own standing rather than be a poor-man’s substitute for Darth Vader, it came at the cost of him arguably being even LESS competent than in The Force Awakens, coming across as even more of a Morgana type than the actual Morgana (for Disney fans, I’m referring to the villain of the sequel to The Little Mermaid).
Now, bear in mind, I have not actually seen the movie yet, so this is just a preliminary view of the movie. Things might change once I see it with my parents.
I might consider voting to have it be de-canonized, but only under the condition that The Force Awakens gets de-canonized as well (and Rebels and the Aftermath trilogy and anything related to that crappy book trilogy, while we’re at it. Now, Rogue One and that SCAR Trooper story by Marvel, I probably could keep canon.). Otherwise, I’m not gonna bother with de-canonization of The Last Jedi, since I don’t have much reason to like or dislike the film right now.
Actually, its entire premise was basically bashing American involvement in Vietnam and rooting for a certain commie guerrilla group. That’s what made rooting for the Rebels disgusting starting in 2016.
And to be fair, Lucas isn’t even involved in this trilogy (not that it makes it much better either way).
If they didnt go so blatantly anti white, anti male, things may have gone differently.
To be fair, that’s not much different than what George Lucas has done with the EU and even to some extent his own films. Lucas often changed things in his films (despite, ironically, speaking out against that exact same practice with Time Warner films to the extent that he even petitioned to Washington to stop that practice), like with Han Shot First. There are even times where he “forgets” scenes from the Original Trilogy (like how someone pointed out how Obi-Wan should remember R2-D2 instead of being unfamiliar with him, or how Obi-Wan claimed Yoda taught him instead of Qui-Gon Jinn, or, you know, Leia somehow managing to remember her mom despite the fact that she died during childbirth.) when making the Prequel Trilogy, or even scenes he edited in the Original Trilogy (such as the time he claimed that Greedo “always shot first” despite the shooting script, which he obviously wrote, claiming otherwise), or, heck, countless examples where he makes the EU canon yet contradictorally indicates they’re not canon.
That said, though, at least Lucas had the decency to not blatantly rehash one of his movies plotlines route-by-route, unlike JJ Abrams and The Force Awakens (if they’re going to copy the first movie almost exactly, you might as well call it a remake instead of a sequel. Honestly, even Return to the Sea was more original compared to the film it acted as a sequel to than that garbage.).
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