Funny story... (Rogue One spoiler alert, I suppose, for what it's worth)
Legolas Send a noteboard - 21/04/2017 08:22:26 PM
View original postI thought Episode VII sucked. It was just a bad rehash of the original movie. For a while, I was thinking that perhaps I had just outgrown the love of my childhood. I even found myself asking questions that should never be asked, like, "Was Episode I really that bad? Maybe kids liked it the way I liked Empire Strikes Back? Am I just seeing the original trilogy through the lens of my own childhood?"
I didn't grow up with Star Wars - saw A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back probably somewhere around the time of Episode II in the early 2000s. Somehow never got around to Return of the Jedi.
So a couple months ago I was looking for something to watch on Netflix, came across RotJ and figured I should give it a shot. After something like half an hour of pointless and remarkably silly action scenes involving mostly obnoxious characters (all the stuff with Jabba the Hutt, Leia's infamous outfit, you know the drill), I gave up, switched to a re-watch of Episode VII, and had far more fun.
Now I'm not denying that Episodes IV and V, and for all I know VI in its later stages, do have genuinely great moments, and obviously the original trilogy wrote movie history in terms of special effects and technical innovation. But yeah, I'd say nostalgia does play a big role in how negative people are about the later movies compared to the original trilogy (leaving aside for a moment the Jar-Jar factor).
View original postThen I saw Rogue One. Even though the dead people animation was not entirely perfect, and even though the feel was a bit "off" for the time period, it was great. It had depth and good dialogue (I know, I said it felt a bit "off" already). It was well made and it kept my attention from start to finish. In short, I loved it. I saw what a good Star Wars movie could be, rather than just cheap derivative crap that was just to keep the fucking retards who eat up anything Star Wars without criticism happy.
Rogue One was certainly a good and entertaining action movie, which I enjoyed far more than that first half hour of RotJ, but it was a one-off with all the main characters dying at the end, designed to fill a well-defined lacuna in the original trilogy's main story, thus explaining the remarkable lack of character development and the limited exposition. TFA is the first in a trilogy - it's inevitable that it has to spend significant amounts of time building up characters and plotlines in order to make the events of later movies resonate more.
So I don't really think it makes sense to blame episode VII for not being more like Rogue One, nor to expect that VIII will be, apart maybe from the dialogue aspect which I can't say I noticed myself.
Star Wars 8 - New Trailer - LAST OF THE JEDI - 
- 16/04/2017 02:05:21 AM
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I'm lukewarm about this (pun intended)
- 21/04/2017 05:18:20 PM
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DAMN, YOU CRAZY!
- 21/04/2017 07:44:22 PM
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So you enjoyed the weak characters are was it just the pretty? *NM*
- 25/04/2017 03:40:19 AM
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Funny story... (Rogue One spoiler alert, I suppose, for what it's worth)
- 21/04/2017 08:22:26 PM
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Go back and finish RotJ. Good lord. *NM*
- 22/04/2017 12:41:54 AM
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Give me a reason to? 
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- 22/04/2017 06:41:06 PM
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*NM*
- 22/04/2017 06:41:06 PM
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So that your path to the Dark Side can be
- 22/04/2017 06:50:12 PM
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It is significantly better than III. V > IV > FA > VII > VI > III > I > Christmas Special > II. 
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- 22/04/2017 08:38:24 PM
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*NM*
- 22/04/2017 08:38:24 PM
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Vader's redemption is sweet. And like aero said, fully armed and operational battlestations. *NM*
- 22/04/2017 08:37:17 PM
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I was given a suggestion on order of watching
- 23/04/2017 12:34:54 AM
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Machete order. I personally think release date is best, but that's just me. Machete is fine.
- 24/04/2017 04:25:03 AM
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What Ghavrel said. What retard doesn't finish Return of the Jedi? *NM*
- 22/04/2017 04:01:39 PM
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I believe you just answered that question in your previous post...
- 22/04/2017 06:59:11 PM
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Jar jar factor
- 22/04/2017 05:01:14 PM
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C3P0 and bigotry? You need to explain that one to me! I understand the whining about Jar-Jar. *NM*
- 22/04/2017 05:10:58 PM
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Lucas:
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His counterpart, R2D2, redeems the character. *NM*
- 22/04/2017 08:39:31 PM
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*NM*
- 22/04/2017 08:39:31 PM
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Or they can give R2 a voicebox *NM*
- 22/04/2017 09:42:22 PM
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Okay, firstly, how dare you *NM*
- 22/04/2017 11:25:01 PM
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Our phones already talk but it's too hard for them to have talking Astromech droids? *NM*
- 24/04/2017 12:02:45 AM
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He does talk
- 24/04/2017 02:05:34 AM
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Because it would be terrible. That's why it's not installed.
- 24/04/2017 04:29:28 AM
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I think it mostly makes sense
- 24/04/2017 02:15:18 PM
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Yeah, but characters' understanding of R2 seems to ebb and flow. Doesn't Obi-wan in the prequels? *NM*
- 24/04/2017 04:37:58 PM
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PAUL. That's not funny, that's a travesty.
- 22/04/2017 08:44:34 PM
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The reactions to it certainly are funny.
- 23/04/2017 12:20:53 AM
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- 23/04/2017 12:20:53 AM
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*rips up your​ list; makes new one* *NM*
- 24/04/2017 09:34:56 AM
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ROTJ is the fourth best in the sites but it is a big drop from IV V and 3.5 *NM*
- 25/04/2017 03:42:52 AM
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The movie will probably be fine. The trailer wasn't that enticing though. *NM*
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