Posted on 09/05/2024 4:04:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
But these aren't *GIRL POWER* bosses, they are ordinary people caught in a situation where they desperately fight for their lives.
Even Hunger Games is a similar situation.
But girl warriors? Doesn't resonate with anyone.
That's a winning formula. Too bad Hollywood isn't doing that anymore. Maybe they will when they become bankrupt.
I saw the first one the week it came out. I was a college student and found it somewhat juvenile and also disjointed. I may have missed some critical stuff because as the weird lettering “In a galaxy far far away...” was still going by, the film broke. We sat there maybe 5 minutes and then it started again with what I remember as something like mechanical camels in the desert.
I was expecting science fiction and I felt like it was a mixture of a western with some Wizard of Oz overtones. I was not at all impressed.
I never saw another one.
That said, I have a friend who would like to see the 3 trilogies and I said I would watch them with an open mind.
Should they be viewed in the order they were released? Or in the chronological order of the story line?
That’s beautiful.
Most of them nowadays have to have some kind of “ethnic” look to them.
Yup. It was all over after that. Teddy bears, rehashed Death Star assault, ridiculous plot devices, and the worst acting of the entire original trilogy.
It was over with Episode 8...actually before that since they have since admitted what was obvious - they had no set plan or storyline and had zero respect for the storyline they were supposed to be adhering to as though there was no established source material.
Rogue One is the only decent Star Wars product released since Disney took over.
I hadn’t seen the first one that summer but in the first week of college there were some guys who were excited about it, and one guy said he had seen it 11 times at the theater. 11 times, that was a turn off. I saw the second one first, then the first one. The second had better special effects. The third one was dumb with the teddy bears. It was like a toy commercial. I thought the Star Trek TV shows had better plots.
Yes, Star Trek had some action/adventure components but also had some deeper thought provoking scenarios.
I only remember watching one or two episodes when it was in first run prime time. But a few years later it was syndicated and shown on our local ABC affiliate between 5:00 and 6:00 (back when the news was only 1/2 hour). That’s when I became a fan.
It started when they added in the original 3rd movie, the furries called Ewoks that were put in the movie solely for selling toys. The next set of 3 movies were not good. A kid racing, a whiny soon to be Darth Vader. The other movies that followed were terrible. Some will say they liked Rogue One but I think it is because everyone died in that story....
Like Indiana Jones, the studio just had to do that stupid Crystal Skull movie. I have not seen the bomb that was the latest. Just clips and read the reviews.
“Spaceballs” is the 2nd best Star Wars movie ever.
“Should they be viewed in the order they were released? Or in the chronological order of the story line?”
The later trilogies were a disaster. I don’t think they even flow in chronological order. It seems the stories where changed from the original trilogy. There may be a very thin line of plot continuation, but it seems the characters were even changed.
“The teddy bear movie was just stupid.”
She said she cried for George when she saw the teddy bear movie. It was that bad.
+1.
It was so stupid I kick myself for watching it. Clearly she was the talent in the marriage.
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