Or if their character has been killed off.....oh wait.No one would bash a company that is signing their checks. Unless they are planning to leave the company.
No one would bash a company that is signing their checks. Unless they are planning to leave the company.
3, same as TFA and R1.
Saw TLJ for a second time tonight. Was in the crowd, upon Initial viewing (opening night), wondering "what the heck did o just watch?".
Gotta say, I thoroughly enjoyed it this time. Not original 77 SW good nor ESB good, but definitely ROTJ good. Just my opinion.
I think I'll have to adopt a Dr. Strangelove attitude about Disney's Star Wars,
"How I learned to stop worrying, and love the bomb ."
Other than nuking Disney from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. Its similar to the mindset I have about Jar Jar's, Nu Trek. While I despise frakkin my own mind like that, it's better than letting these hacks do it. A little schizophrenia is a small price to pay. To preserve my nostalgia, while still having popcorn fare, from time to time. ; )
#notmystarwars
Actually, it's helped me tremendously to just think of the wizened old man as "Jake Skywalker" as Mark Hamill did. Just as the old EU was rebranded "Legends" and removed from official canon, so has this movie been in my head. It's like reading the special Superman comic series set in an alternate universe where his spaceship landed in Russia and he was raised with communist values.
So TLJ (and to a lesser extent TFA) have become for me an interesting thought exercise of:
"What would happen if Han abandons Leia and returns to smuggling over disappointment in one kid's outcome, gets offed by that kid, and Luke becomes a bitter old man removed from the Force who spends his day fishing and teasing green milk from sea giraffes's nipples because of the shame of almost killing his nephew, all the while being bested in the Force by a young lady that's been using it for a few days?"
Then I return to the real SW universe where the above events would not logically follow what had come before, and patiently wait for true sequels of the OT.
I've heard more than one fan elsewhere have to put it in a separate box to enjoy it.
The common box is "fan film", that's a direct quote from a fan at my work and some gaming types on the webz.
All of which is s fine. On the reciprocal side you have a new generation of young fans for whom this will be their Star Wars, just like what happened with the PT. Nothing has changed over the past 40 years in regards to that.
I have seen Mark Hamill blurt out in so many interviews "But it's not my film" and "It's not my story anymore" and that will always bother me. You can almost see him deflate a little bit when he exclaims this stuff.
I certainly don't find "Luke Skywalker is not the main character anymore" a compelling enough reason to write Luke Skywalker the way they did. It's also interesting that he got in a slight dig with saying they would have an outline for the next trilogy. That was pretty clever.
OK, but I'm still not clear why JJ would have been against what Rian wrote when he seemed very enthusiastic about it. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are saying.
I love Mark and respect his opinion but I found his performance, as written with all the pathos weighing in him, really compelling and the best work I have seen him do. He may be struggling with the character arc but it allowed him to really shine, IMO.
I love Mark and respect his opinion but I found his performance, as written with all the pathos weighing in him, really compelling and the best work I have seen him do. He may be struggling with the character arc but it allowed him to really shine, IMO.
Other than nuking Disney from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Everything Rian Johnson Has Been Forced to Explain About The Last Jedi (So Far)
https://io9.gizmodo.com/everything-rian-johnson-has-been-forced-to-explain-abou-1822598181