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TFA is a bad movie. It is barreling through scenes at a breakneck pace. There is no time to have a moment of reflection. In the original trilogy and in the prequels, there were moments of reflection where characters talked quietly to each other, or sat and looked at the scenary while the score...

The thing that made me tilt my head about the romance was that the psychology didn't make sense to me. What do women look for in a man as a husband? The strength and security to provide for her and her children. That typically means an older man who has some wealth, and is more calm and...

I don't think it's an issue with the hotel specifically. Most things in California are too expensive for normal people now. Amusement parks like Disneyland require tickets that cost hundreds of dollars per person per day (unless you're talking about really small ones like Castle Park), and...

The Imperials can't win the war by simply killing lots of rebels. They would still run into the Vietnam problem where even with a 10-to-1 kill ratio, the war is unwinnable militarily since more boys are becoming men and joining the Rebellion than Rebels are being killed. So the war will never...

I overall quite liked the Prequel Trilogy. They are very good, high production value fantasy films. You get to see a lot of different planets and cultures and the trilogy is visually iconic. Great aesthetics. There is a reason why there are dozens and dozens of Prequel trilogy artbooks and...

Didn't know but I don't pay attention to current movies or TV.

RotS isn't cynical. The heroes are not powerless and at the mercy of far great powers or being forced into becoming morally compromised. They are in full control of their own destinys. RotS is a tragedy*. There is a moral point to the story. It's about a man who consciously, willingly made bad...

The morale shock of losing a second death star, the fleet and flagship protecting it, several admirals, Darth Vader, and the Emperor all at once would probably cause many Imperials to just surrender. The Imperials are not an ethnic group fighting to defend a homeland; their raison d'etre was the...

I never understood why TFA was liked. TFA killed my interest in the Disney Star Wars trilogy. It had no authenticity. You wouldn't buy tickets to a "Metallica" concert that starred people who weren't Metallica, would you? There are two original members of Metallica: Lars Ulrich and James...

Here is some cool stuff from the Galaxy's Edge art book: They were thinking of doing a free-roaming animatronic, like Lucky the Dinosaur. Too bad it wasn't realized. Cantina ideas Cantina owner could have been a creature inside a water tank. Cool barbecue

We'll never be free. I'll be in a nursing home. The nurse will come into my room and play the 4th remake of Star Wars on the TV that debuted for the hundredth anniversary, and I'll still be hearing James Earl Jones' voice and the same sound effects and seeing Peter Cushing's CGI face. And the...

My understanding as to why movie CGI usually looks so crappy is that usually the CGI work is auctioned off, and the lowest bidding company wins the contract. The effects companies are constantly taking in jobs and trying to get them done ASAP. So basically the system reward companies doing the...

Once again, I strongly recommend reading The Secret History of Star Wars. It documents the evolution of Star Wars, from George Lucas' formative years, to how Star Wars got funded, to how the drafts changed over time, the co-writers and producers of the movies, Lucas' statements and how he began...

The movie we got was bleh but the horror trailer was fantastic. Wish the movie was like that. Also, RIP the scene where they're charging towards the AT-ATs. Didn't make it into the final cut. Wonder what the movie before the reshoots was like.

I'd imagine that audiences would be shocked by the lack of heart in the new stuff. I found the Vader scene in Rogue One to be rather masturbatory, in a bad way. Feels like Darth Vader was reduced to an action figure being played with by a kid rather than an actual character in his own right...

I think what you are describing is the first layer of appeal. It doesn't matter how "deep" something is, if it isn't enjoyable to actually read or watch. Much like the character or virtue of a smelly, dirty person doesn't really matter because they aren't appealing enough for people to dive...

I don't think "the story" needs to be about the Force and the Jedi and the Sith. Lucas' 6 films did a pretty good job with that material, and then you had decades of spinoffs that subverted it and thoroughly beat it into a dead horse. Stuff like the Mandalorian is conceptually good: explores a...

The Galactic Alliance sounds nice. I don't think it makes sense for everyone to want to join the Republic and be forced to conform to its values, but it does make sense that some systems would be amicable enough to want to remain allies. Honestly, if I were writing a sequel to the OT, I'd...

If you mean if we will get a good, high quality, big budget space opera that does all of those things and shared the same values as the Star Wars OT, no I don't think so. You don't really see people funding high quality art out of their own pockets for the sake of creating art rather than purely...

Aren't the Jedi supposed to be following the will of the Force? Did the Force tell them to go along with the Republic's war? It seems like by the time the prequels happened, the Jedi Order had somehow gotten their priorities mixed up, becoming official state agents of the Republic and being...