And Last Jedi gives us guys:
Posted on 06/11/2018 8:21:36 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Racist harassment of 'Last Jedi' star Kelly Marie Tran and the 'Solo' backlash: Lucasfilm’s problem isn’t the movies, it’s trolls who want only the nostalgia of their youth, like "old Luke Skywalker hiding on an island from everything new," writes columnist Marc Bernardin.
Fandom has always been an us versus them proposition. In the early days, it was because you loved something that the world at large found silly, be it comic books or Doctor Who. It was you and those who felt like you, against everyone else. Star Wars redefined fandom because it built a bigger tent than had ever existed before. Suddenly, the "everyone else" also loved Star Wars. Your mom knew what The Force was. Mark Hamill was on The Tonight Show. There was Yoda underwear. It was the first real “fan” thing that exploded into a phenomenon. But fandom always needs a “them.”
Star Wars is in an interesting place right now. The most recent film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, has been drastically underperforming at the box office. After two weeks in release, it had pulled in a mere $271 million worldwide. Analysts believe Disney will lose $50 million or more on the film, and Solo comes on the heels of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which — despite making $1.3 billion worldwide — proved itself an incredibly divisive film. While critics loved it (judging by the 91 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes), fans were split.
Some loved the bold liberties of writer-director Rian Johnson. They understood that there was room under that big tent for characters like Vice Admiral Holdo (Laura Dern) and Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), women placed alongside Carrie Fisher’s Leia and Ridley’s Rey at the center of the Star Wars drama.
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They exploit the geek culture and revile the geeks.
Oddly enough socialist utopians, libertarians, and homosexuals had a happy enough home in fandom for the better part of a century.
The SJWs started attacking the old white people at SF conventions a few years ago, hating that they were still winning author awards, etc. and looking forward to the day that the old white people just die off.
Worldcon has been going on over 80 years, San Diego Con is around 50 years, and this tard thinks there was Yoda underwear in 1977.
The Socialist Just-Us Warrior class thinks that there ALWAYS was a Star Wars and since the world was rotten ever since the day they were born into it, Star Wars is PART of what was horrible with the world and “must change”.
I’m not defending Star Wars or finding it to be some sacred thing, it is not. They are Obamajugend who seek to “reinvent” things rather than create NEW things.
Even the actors of the originals have said that these films are off character. Have to wonder just what Carrie Fisher told them while working as a script doctor on the new films.
>>So you are a bigot and a troll by default if you don’t like the latest “leavings” from the studios. Really a new approach to marketing they got there.
It did wonders for lamechick Ghostbusters.
Deadpool is polysexual as well.
Fandom kept Harvey Weinstein from ruining Lord Of The Rings.
it may be a flawed adaptation but the studios would’ve f&**ed it up much worse with their input.
It all played out on the AintItCoolNews website around 2000.
Was American Graffiti also luck?
Lucas made it before Star Wars but he was lucky “for awhile” and went off the rails.
Jar Jar Binks was George Lucas.
Woody Harrelson ruins it for me. The guy is a militant Leftist asssshole who tried to get his thugish murderer of a dad off death row.
No. UNdoing everything SW is is killing it’s COMMERCIAL value. Making the OT a waste of time,a failure and mocking it is kind killing it. Trashing heroes is killing it. Star Wars will always be alive in the hearts of fans.We wont buy s**t
No. UNdoing everything SW is is killing it’s COMMERCIAL value. Making the OT a waste of time,a failure and mocking it is kind killing it. Trashing heroes is killing it. Star Wars will always be alive in the hearts of fans.We wont buy s**t
No. UNdoing everything SW is is killing it’s COMMERCIAL value. Making the OT a waste of time,a failure and mocking it is kind killing it. Trashing heroes is killing it. Star Wars will always be alive in the hearts of fans.We wont buy s**t
No. UNdoing everything SW is is killing it’s COMMERCIAL value. Making the OT a waste of time,a failure and mocking it is kind killing it. Trashing heroes is killing it. Star Wars will always be alive in the hearts of fans.We wont buy s**t
No. UNdoing everything SW is is killing it’s COMMERCIAL value. Making the OT a waste of time,a failure and mocking it is kind killing it. Trashing heroes is killing it. Star Wars will always be alive in the hearts of fans.We wont buy s**t
No. UNdoing everything SW is is killing it’s COMMERCIAL value. Making the OT a waste of time,a failure and mocking it is kind killing it. Trashing heroes is killing it. Star Wars will always be alive in the hearts of fans.We wont buy s**t
editing can do a lot for a film. Supposedly a test screening (opening?) of 2001 went over poorly (although even today there are widely mixes reactions) and Kubrick went out to Sam Goody or something and bought some classical music to rescore the film.
Tell me about it. They started attacking gamers a few years ago for not being “inclusive” even though gamers don’t care about anything except how you play. It’s embarrassing to see them gush about female avatars as though they haven’t existed since the dawn of gaming.
“She had good taste.”
And so the socialist thugs began to double down ...
And Last Jedi gives us guys:
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