MGibster
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You should give the sequel a chance as it's much better.
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Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
A sequel so good it forever ruined the original
payn
Glory to Marik
Whizbang Dustyboots
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I don't think I'd ever seen a movie where the filmmakers seemed actively angry at the fans of the original movie. We were stunned and eventually furious when we walked out of the theater after Highlander 2.
The Last Jedi.
Whizbang Dustyboots
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No, he took a very big swing and for a large part of the fanbase, it felt like an attack, but it was clearly a desire to shake up the franchise in a way that he (and fans of TLJ) thought was for the better.
I loved it, personally. It might even be my favorite Star War after Andor. But I can certainly see why him attempting to create a statue by using a sledgehammer on a block of marble freaked a lot of people out.
In contrast, Highlander 2 suggests that everything people liked about the original was stupid and wrong.
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Micah Sweet
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He should never should have been allowed to swing that hammer. The sequel trilogy deeply suffered from a lack of cohesive vision. There's nothing wrong with a big narrative shift in something like Andor, or a film separate from the core series. But doing such a thing in the penultimate episode of a 40+ year saga is a mistake, and it hurt the brand.
Faolyn
(she/her)
I saw TLJ and was so upset that they took my favorite character from the previous movie (Finn) and relegated him to minor side position with a ham-fisted social message (this isn't Trek! We don't need social messages in Star Wars!). I liked the very beginning and the very end (although I think I liked the end more for the visuals than anything else), but found everything in the middle to be dreadful.
I still haven't seen Rise of Skywalker. A friend did, and when I asked him how it was, he paused for a moment and said, "the music was very good."
Whizbang Dustyboots
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Oh, TLJ isn't a perfect film. I definitely agree that Finn was done dirty after The Force Awakens. But I agree with Johnson's other big aims of democratizing the Force and getting away from the fairly gross Great Man theory that Star Wars has traditionally leaned on. I get that him making Luke Skywalker agree with his premise upset some fans as well, although it didn't seem implausible to me. (Given what he'd seen up to that point, I find it hard to believe that Luke would be all-in on the traditional Jedi worldview.)
That said, the fault for all of this is Disney deciding they could wing the sequel trilogy without putting a detailed plan together ahead of time. It took Elon Musk buying Twitter to outdo this as an insane way to handle a brand.
That said, the fault for all of this is Disney deciding they could wing the sequel trilogy without putting a detailed plan together ahead of time. It took Elon Musk buying Twitter to outdo this as an insane way to handle a brand.
Whizbang Dustyboots
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Keri Russell, who basically was parachuted in from a non-existent entirely different movie, was also excellent.
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