As someone who is not a big fan of either Star Wars or Star Trek, I thought this somehow appropriate for the holidays. Yeah, I’m weird.
Seven years ago, my wife's family took me to see this movie. It was one of the kindest things they've ever done, and one of the worst things that's ever happened to me. A thread: https://t.co/rLkkj5nyaY
— Isaac TRexArms (@IsaacBotkin) December 16, 2024
Saw the original Star Wars movie back in 1978. Thought it was pretty good entertainment. The rest are dreck as far I’m I am concerned.
Bit like the first Dune novel. Excellent but the subsequent ones (I only got through #2) were dreary.
The studios have no respect for the content they steal and told people who don’t like their new method of storytelling that the content wasn’t for them. I agree with them and haven’t been paying for their content or doing anything to allow them to fund it.
One day they might produce content that is copacetic with the original stories, we all expect some artistic license, but if/when that happens, I will be patient before rewarding them with my time and money.
At a societal level, I do think change is coming but from new storytellers.
As near as I can tell, that was also the last semi-watchable Star Wars film, horrible as it was
Loved the first one–an obvious homage to the Buster Crabbe movie serials and such a relief from the doom-and-gloom and shades-of-gray stuff that had been permeating SF films for the last decade. The second one was less fun–better written, perhaps, but already starting to break some stuff that had made the first one so fun.
Yeah, the first one was fun. Lots of old SF tropes – the two suns, the space pirate (er – freelancer), the transition to hyperdrive, the Mos Eisely cantina. The ending was pretty silly though. Ignore the targeting computer, close your eyes and fire.