That's awesome, lol.
Haha yeah, I'm in
Got my tickets for the 8th.
gonna try to bring 2 more friends with me this weekend to see it!
Eh let's just say that my enthusiasm for TLJ has been on a bit of a downward trend after Rian Johnson himself started lashing out at fans, lol. Plus the whole copying the OT but not actually equaling the OT has been bugging me as of late as well. I just largely consider it to be a mixed bag that I can still enjoy while watching it but that never seems that great after the fact, lol.
As for FR, RO, and Alita I might be inclined to rank them like this:
1. RO
2. Alita
3. FR
We'll see as time goes by.
Awesome that people are actually taking up the alita challenge!
Like I said in my post before, it's hard to quantify how much of an effect anything truly has over the net, but it'd be amazing if the box office shot up by a ton on March 8th
Yeah it seems to be a common thing to hear. The movie was already divisive but I've heard from alot of people that their stance shifted after the name calling and lashing out began. It's a good way to turn off anyone with a conscience/morality. The only people who see that kind of behavior as a show of strength are the you-know-whos lol
And you bring up a good point about the OT similarities - I know that you and many others dislike the PT, but if someone wants their PT fix, they need to go to the PT because it's entirely different and 'unique' (in both the good and bad connotations of that word lol, it's not like I'm blind to the flaws)
Whereas if someone wants their ST fix, you may as well go back and rewatch the OT which already did the same stuff so much better. I wish they had told a truly new story. That's how I see it anyway, but I understand others may/will disagree.
I recently rewatched AOTC and ROTS (and had watched TPM late last year at some point) - I found them to still suck, most particularly ROTS and AOTC - but I agree with the point you're both making - they are a different experience to the OT, the stories are very different. In better hands (sorry George) they would have been very worthwhile.
The Sequels? All this we saw before. Even though they're better executed than the PT they feel pointless. And if I accept them as canon then the OT was pointless because everything achieved in those films has ultimately been undone and things went right back to how they were at the beginning of ANH.
TFA and TLJ are, to me, the definition of 'tacked on'. It's like how I feel about Alien Resurrection...you went to the trouble of conceiving a way to bring back Ripley...for that? Or Terminator 3 - you've shat on T2's great and neatly tied ending...for that?
I know right.
I'll always appreciate the ST for bringing back the communal SW cinematic experience with "new" movies.
I just don't know what Episode IX can ever do to overcome the fact that so far the ST has:
1. Negated the victory of ROTJ (and the entire OT)
2. Repeated 80% of the OT's sequences, but never even equaled them let alone surpassed them
3. Without even providing the joy of reuniting Han, Luke, and Leia on screen together
So I'm just left with "why?" and more and more I just find myself without a valid answer to that.
And lastly:
GO SEE ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL DUDE!!!!
lol
Hope there's more to this than just hoping
Now that Disney will own Alita, it might get a sequel.... lol
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