matty matt
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I would not have a problem with an ESB influenced film. Just as long as it's a good film. But I loved TFA and R1 so what do I know?
Its kinda got funny in a way. You get chastised for loving them and equally chastised for hating them. As long as we realise that it's just opinion and both are important I think we can move forward. The problem comes when people use their opinion and state it as fact when clearly statistics show the opposite.
Ben
The RPF is getting a little too one minded lately as far as SW discussions. It's the definition of groupthink. There's plenty of room for people to disagree. You're allowed not to like any of the new movies you want, for whatever reason. Now if anyone wants to start a Disney Fanboy thread that's just for gushing on the new trilogy anyone is totally free to do that and not have to hear anything bad about those movies.
Yeah, except TFA and R1 were great films by all metrics, so I say sheep are people who just don't get it.
I watched a great video on George Lucas and the prequels. The video said that often special effects, acting and dialogue are like icing and toppings of a cake. They are often the things you notice first, and people often judge the cake by them. But it's really the cake that matters the most.Good metrics doesn't necessarily mean "good movie". Hamill spoke at length about that. TFA was decent for a remake. R1 was decent, but weighed down by poor editing choices and some flat characters. Still, not bad. I'd argue that the sheep are the ones who fuel great metrics for crap movies. The rest of us recognize we're being served ground chuck when it could've been Kobe.
He is kind of a snarky *******. I kind of think he is borderline arrogant. But hey, if his movie is great, and he makes sure everyone knows it, thats cool then. The worst is when someone talks smack but then backs it up. :lol
Also, is his name pronounced "ryan" or "ree-ann"?
It seems like everyone (almost) is so afraid this movie will not be up to their expectations, that they are posting comments about the director and Disney just to be ready with the "I told you so" card if the movie goes in the toilet. If it is a huge hit critically; (not financially, which is almost a given) they will have to roll up their ITYS cards into suppositories and place them, carefully, where the sunlight never reaches. Then they will simply come up with semi-lame reasons, or pompous justifications why they were such haters before they ever saw the film. Or they'll just disappear in to the darkening shadows of troll caves all over the Star Wars world and hide until they can re-emerge to begin slamming episode 9.
Whereas I have heard JJ Abrams say that he doesn't storyboard action scenes. He just films a bunch from different angles and makes the story in editing. To me, that's incredibly obvious and actually arrogant. Especially considering that he was trying to take the mantle from Lucas.
"This will begin to set things right"
Suuuuuuure it will
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Back then you just pretty much talked to your local friends & family about movies & saw an occasional review on TV or in a magazine/newspaper. Now with the internet you potentially can get exposed to millions of opinions & it's much easier to talk snarky to someone from behind the confines of a keyboard under a username than it would be in person, of course.
Being critical is fine as long as it's well considered and presented. Unfortunately, sometimes they are not and contain a healthy dusting of sexism or misogyny and come across as single, lonely, angry guy.
And, there it is. The old false argument that if you don't like something then it must mean that you're a racist, misogynist, sexist, kitten-killing neanderthal. It can't possibly be that a given work is utter crap. No. Not at all. It just means that the "brilliant" creative team behind the most recent failure are "victims" of bullying or sexism or any of a string of favored fall-back imagined offenses or "mico-aggressions" that they can become the standard bearer for instead of taking responsibility for producing detritus. After all, it's so much easier. Do the "Hollywood Victims" have jerseys, yet? They should. It's become their team sport. Haven't seen a drop of that in this thread aside from it being used by the Baghdad Bobs as the usual boring tactic to try and shut down dissent from the state mandated group think. Can we at lest invent new offenses to be victims of? "The sky is falling!" has been yelled out 1 million times too many, and people have called b.s.