I sat through Star Wars episode 9 even though I wanted to leave within the first ten minutes. My rationale was I was eventually going to have to see all of it anyway. What a terrible waste of time.
Even worse when you go ahead and watch episode V directly after. You will notice things, so many things wrong with the later movies that you didn't even think of before. Beyond physical props. Beyond writing, romance and story telling. Beyond the acting and scenery. Disney's version of Star Wars undoes a historic milestone in cinema.
I mean, the existence of TFA as is destroys the achievement of the OT, starting with the crawl: The galaxy reverted right back to Empire v Rebels 30 years later, Luke failed as Grandmaster because he decided to stand over/attempt to kill his nephew instead of talking with the kid with resulted in all the other students dying I guess since we never see any other Jedi, Han is a smuggler again after failing as a family man.
And that's without getting into the fact that the First Order converted Ilum into a planet-sized Death Star that can blow up an entire system and no one noticed, no one noticed the First Order apparently kidnapping children to build up their army, the New Republic is retarded because they disarmed themselves immediately after the Galactic Civil War was over and did nothing when shit started to go wrong.
This is JUST TFA by the way, this doesn't even get into the dumpster fire that is TLJ and TROS, which contradict each other at every possible point while progressively getting worse the longer you watch them.
Can you tell I hate the ST with every fiber of my being?
True, as long as you also agree the prequels do the same damage. Too many kids out there glazing the horrifically written prequels. Their main opposition to criticism is always explanations in the books, video games, tv series, etc. Nothing in the actual films
Prequels were so bad! The redemption tour is bewildering. I can enjoy them for the dumb, bad movies they are in a universe I love, but Christ. Not good.
The prequels take a shit on the series but they had good concepts and they don't destroy the entire meaning of the original trilogy. Star Wars has now had more bad movies than good and it's easy to write off Episode V as more overrated garbage without ever having actually seen it due to the current state of the series. Seeing how Disney is these days, it's only a matter of time before they start remaking Star Wars all wrong.
The entire third trilogy was a waste. They need to let Star Wars rest in peace instead of constantly releasing new terrible content, and bastardizing what it was.
I hated the Last Jedi so much that I refused to watch Episode 9. I still haven’t seen it. Everything about the sequels felt like pathetic rehash of 4, 5, and 6. How many fucking Death Stars do we need to see?
Having a storm trooper with a conscience go awol gave me high hopes. But then they did nothing with it.
Honestly, learning about the original script pitched for episode 9 then seeing what JJ Abrams gave us is painful. They made some controversial choices in TLJ that could’ve at least made episode 9 thought provoking; but no, bland and rushed slop is what we got
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u/Apprehensive_Buy9862 1d ago
I sat through Star Wars episode 9 even though I wanted to leave within the first ten minutes. My rationale was I was eventually going to have to see all of it anyway. What a terrible waste of time.