Star Wars

Star Wars... it's not just a series of movies, it's a cultural phenomena.

Star Wars is a cultural phenomena, but I'm not a huge fan despite seeing all of them. 4 and 5 were good. 6 diverged as Lucas replaced Kurtz as Producer and converted the series from serious adult story into merchandising for kids. Lucas ruined 1, 2, 3, and his juvenile re-edit of 4 was worse. 7, 8, 9 (Solo, Rogue 1) were better, thanks to Disney being less purile than Lucas.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-09-16

Star Wars • [6 items]

Gina Carano
Gina made a valid point that the problem with Hitler was that the people supported him. Despite other people being defended for far worse, Gina was fired from the Mandelorian. And I cancelled my subscription. She was picked up for a job by The Daily Wire. But Disney claimed that was anti-semitic is moronic. Their double standards are worse.

Star Wars: I-VI (Links)
I'm not going to do rehashed reviews that covers the basics: Lucas is a hack that ruined the series after Episode V, and stuff like that. It wasn't THAT bad, it was just a shallow shell of what it could have been, if George was deeper than a kiddie pool. These are just some links to amusing theories, links and info around the movies, instead of staring into them (and reviewing them) directly.

Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

This movie seems to be a vehicle not only for rampant merchandising of goods by Disney, but also a vehicle for people to peddle their rants and opinions about the movie and everything else -- like cynical observations about that merchandizing, or how derivative this movie is (failing to observe that's true of 98% of what comes out of Hollywood). Viewers were mostly happy, which makes sense, while derivative, it wasn't bad.

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Solo: A Star Wars Story is a prequel about the Star Wars character Han Solo. It tells about the early adventures of Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian, and their caper heists within the criminal underworld of the Empire. On it's own, it's thoroughly predictable but done well enough, and it adds a lot of nuance to the lore/canon.

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker (2019)

My Mom and I do a movie every year -- it's a way to spend time together without pushing buttons. Like a storm trooper missing a urinal at 2 feet, it wasn’t unexpected. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t exactly 1, 2, or 3 either. It wrapped up the story lines in a somewhat predictable way. And yes, a little Girl Power’y, and a whole lot of failure of being consistent with it’s own canon... but Disney didn’t ruin it.

Star Wars: Rogue One (2016)

For me, this was the best movie in the Star Wars franchise. Called Rogue One because Episode 3.5 was a bit awkward. But while I liked it, I was never a super-fan of the genre; too campy, inconsistent, and they lost me at the Ewok orgy and Jar-Jar. Despite being shallow escapism, it wasn’t horrible; I liked the effects and wanted to see how the story arcs progressed. This one closed a lot of arcs: the best of the pretty good.

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Memes/Star Wars - Not a huge Star Wars fan (though I've seen them all)... but a fan of things that make fun of Star Wars or their fans.

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Movies
A list of Movie Reviews.

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List of things I’ve watched, read, seen, cooked, ate, heard about, and so on.

Disney
Disney used to be the all American Company, but it has changed with the times in ways that Walt and Roy would never have approved.

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