Posted on 12/13/2016 6:59:58 PM PST by MoochPooch
At the Saturday premiere of the latest Star Wars film, “Rogue One,” Disney chief executive Bob Iger offered a curious reading of the upcoming movie. This entry to the behemoth science fiction franchise was not political, he said. At all.
“Frankly, this is a film that the world should enjoy. It is not a film that is, in any way, a political film,” Iger said to the Hollywood Reporter. “There are no political statements in it, at all.” He added that he was “very proud” of the diversity of the cast but that, too, was “not a political statement, at all.”
Iger was eager to play down political tensions in a fictional far-off galaxy because he had been asked to respond to an all-too-real boycott percolating through social media: Dump Star Wars. “I think the whole story has been overblown and, quite frankly, it’s silly,” Iger said to the Hollywood Reporter. “I have no reaction to [this] story at all.”
The film’s ending was reshot to undermine President-elect Donald Trump, according to boycotters. Disney poured millions of dollars into the movie to give “Rogue One” subliminal, anti-Trump messages. If you voted for Trump, well, the minds behind Disney’s Star Wars hated you.
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The last one was the first one I didn’t go see. I don’t plan to see any of the future ones, either.
TV and movie trends: all chicks are badass.
Except if you look at them cross-eyed. Then they need laws, courts, enforcement, NOW and a bizillion equalizers.
Retread of the ‘60s hit.
Washington Post reporting on Disney... Yeah, got it.
The last Star Wars was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. So I’m not inclined to waste my money on this one, regardless of their rancid politics.
That the Post has to write this article is telling.
The latest female lead looks more feminine than the previous one, but I still know she is going to be a pseudo-guy.
I was 18 when the 3rd Star Wars movie came out About 1985?
Was so bad I never went back
Pc is now so bad, I don’t bother with movies, tv, radio, sports, newspapers...
Communism is shit, I have no use for communism presrnted to me as entertainment.
I'm heading in that direction, also. I'm so fed up.
No kidding. Are there any TV shows or movies where the women are not beautiful, brilliant, powerful martial artists? 130 lb. women with D cups physically destroying 4 or 5 men simultaneously.
Still more weenie hand-wringing from the Post.
If you saw "A New Hope" you saw the last movie.
After racking my brain, I have come up with this synopsis (may be out of sequence due to bad memory).
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The movie opens with Landau 2.0, a soldier for The Dominion The Galactic Group The Association The Byrds The Weekend Bridge Group The Empire 2.0 on Endor 2.0 reenacting All's Quiet on the Western Front.
Cut to Leah 2.0 on Tattoine 2.0 reenacting WALL-E.
Back to Landau 2.0 who meets up with Dirk Benedict aka Luke 2.0 and together they reenact The Defiant Ones, inexplicably morphing into 48 Hours.
Somewhere along the ways, we meet Ren Stimpy aka Plain Wrap Darth Vader 2.0 (same evil but at 1/2 the price) who inexplicably wears a kabuki mask WHEN HE DOESN'T HAVE TO and we also meet his boss Snookie aka Emperor Palpatine 2.0.
In a plot twist NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN CINEMA, Luke 2.0 hides the plans to DeathStar 2.0 in droid Magic 8 Ball aka R2D2 2.0.
Hilarity ensues when everyone then spends quite some time reenacting It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World frequently having the droid with the plan under their noses without realizing it.
Eventually, after accidentally being in an air traffic accident and killing Luke 2.0, Landau 2.0 crosses paths with Leah 2.0 who inexplicably morphs from WALL-E to that chick from The Hunger Games.
Together, they reenact Gone in 60 seconds with the Millenium Falcon, disguised as Oscar the Grouch's trashcan home and which apparently doesn't need fuel and whose batteries work after 30 years of sitting idle. Inexplicably, this morphs into Top Gun while Leah inexplicably morphs into Maverick.
Somewhere along the ways, Leah 2.0 meets Yoda 2.0 who gives her Luke 1.0's light saber, which has been in a box, unhidden, unlocked and unguarded for about 30 years. Gandalf Yoda 2.0 intones "this light saber WANTS to be found."
Also somewhere along the ways, in yet another cinema first, we discover LUKE 2.0 ISN'T DEAD *gasp*.
Now, Magic 8 ball and the plans are retrieved by The Rebel Alliance 2.0 who start planning to reenact the attack on Death Star 1.0 from A New Hope but without the trench.
Now Han Solo (1.0) decides to meet up with Ren Stimpy, who removes his kabuki mask to reveal... he is an average looking guy. No radiation burns, no special breathing apparatus needed to live. He also reveals he is Anakin 2.0, adolescent petulance and all.
In yet another cinematic first, Han an Ren reveal to US that... HAN IS REN'S FATHER *gasp* (and Leah 1.0 his mom)!!! Together they reenact Gladiator and Han finally pays for shooting first as Ren kills him, ensuring Harrison Ford is completely free to film Indiana Jones and the Wheelchair of Destiny only having to do some studio work for appearances in the Force and flashbacks.
As we ramp up to the attack on DeathStar 2.0, we meet Leah 1.0 who waves at the camera and says "see, I don't look nearly as old as US Weekly shows me."
The last all but 1 minute of the film is a reenactment of Attack on the Death Star, without the trench and adding Admiral Akbar (1.0) from SW VI but doesn't get to say "IT'S A TRAP!" although down on the planet we see Leah 2.0 and Ren Stimpy reenact the battle between Gandalf and Saruman in The 2 Towers which inexplicably morphs into the end of Star Trek IV where Genesis rips the planet apart.
Another in the unending set of plot twists and turns at the final critical moment before DeathStar 2.0 kills everyone in sight, the Revel Alliance 2.0 destroys it, with a satisfying Earth Shattering Kaboom.
In the final minute, in one of the most profoundly surprising revelations in any movie anywhere, we find *gasp* Luke 1.0 who through his actions that shows that Leah 2.0 was created when he kissed his sister, belieing what we learned in grade school -- you CAN get pregnant from a kiss!
I can't wait for the next movie, The Midichlorines Strike Back.
Final production note: The gratuitous violence in this movie is much more graphic than in any SW segment to date. It looks like Peter Jackson decided to take the "Meat's back on the menu, boys!" scene from LOTR and just drag this movie through it.
Yes, Disney has clearly sided with the Imperium.
The force is with the people and Skywaker Trump.
Ditto.
Did you really write that in 10 minutes or was it a paste?
I did see the movie on TV. Boring as hell. I hated that round droid from the moment it was revealed. I don’t see the appeal of it at all. The girl is the ultimate Mary Sue. “I’ve never flown a ship, and now I’m sharper than Lando when he flew inside the Death Star.”
I haven’t seen a Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi and don’t plan on seeing this one for sure political or not.
Holllywood and the big ad agency’s are dominated by the Gays and the femanazi’s. By the end of this seasons Game of Thones every kingdom was run by women. Ads are full of reversed “gender stereotypes”. I am sick of it all.
Disney has dropped a crapload of money to buy the franchise and is greedily cackling at milking it for years to come ... [s] so of course they’ll throw all that away, and their carefully worked out details to maximize their profits (we’re talking potentially billions here) for a political stunt. [/s]
Sorry bozo - your writers said it was and they wrote it that way to begin with!
You either reprimand them or suffer the consequences.
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