Doesn't it strike you as weird that they would announce a trilogy before his movie is even released? It seems like a pretty blatant PR move, and I admit it worked on me. I thought, "Damn, this movie must be something else!" But now I very much doubt it will get made. Lord and Miller were 2 weeks short of finishing principal photography when they got fired. It's easy to cancel his trilogy when so many other movies are being developed, you have IX next, GoT dudes, Simon Kinberg project, etc. There's no poster, no trailer, and no hype for a RJ trilogy. Maybe it will depend on how Solo does... if it flops it will shine a brighter light on the downward trend and negativity that TLJ ushered in.Something tells me they will double down and just keep defending him. It's too late for them to fire him now after he made them all this money so I doubt that his trilogy is really in any danger of not being made.
Back in 2002 or whenever Attack of the Clones came out I was excited to see it because I loved the Phantom Menace (I was only 10). But I remember leaving the theater feeling suddenly disinterested and deflated about Star Wars as a whole to the point where I didn't even see Revenge of the Sith. Exact same thing happened when I saw the Last Jedi. I enjoyed both the Force Awakens and absolutely loved Rogue One so naturally i was eager to see this. But like Attack of the clones before it this film kind of killed my enthusiasm for the rest of the trilogy and Star Wars as a whole.
We'll see as I'm not totally writing off episode IX yet. With the advent of this new trilogy I was finally getting a reinvigorated interest in Star Wars again after years of it being dormant. Then the Last Jedi came along and killed that interest like AOTC before it. That happen to anybody else?Well maybe we'll get luck again, and episode IX will be the saving grace of the trilogy, like ROTS was for the prequels. Although admittedly, I enjoyed AOTC much more than TLJ.
We'll see as I'm not totally writing off episode IX yet. With the advent of this new trilogy I was finally getting a reinvigorated interest in Star Wars again after years of it being dormant. Then the Last Jedi came along and killed that interest like AOTC before it. That happen to anybody else?
if sales aren't as projected) then it begs the question, would they risk firing ANOTHER director, even after he made one Star Wars film? Who the hell knows.
That's one thing I appreciated about Rogue One is that it didn't adhere to the usual Star Wars plot structure. Or atleast not as much as the TFA or TLJ. The benefit of being a singular film not connected to a trilogy (until the end anyway). Rogue One also reminded me most of the kind of Star Wars I grew up with. As in it was a bit more adult and serious opposed to the other new films which understandably seem more constructed to appeal to children. Not only the films but I remember Star Wars games from the 90's like Dark Forces and Shadows of the Empire were often pretty bleak and scary.Let's see. TFA was a rehash of ANH. To some degree, TLJ borrowed elements from both ESB and ROTJ. So, unless they do a retread of the prequels. Episode IX should be completely new territory. We may not like it, but it will be new:rolleyes
Let's see. TFA was a rehash of ANH. To some degree, TLJ borrowed elements from both ESB and ROTJ. So, unless they do a retread of the prequels. Episode IX should be completely new territory. We may not like it, but it will be new:rolleyes
This right here. But how many times have I heard this described as the best fight sequence in the whole saga? Choreography doesn't mean much if your characters are just going through the motions. The next time we see Rey after the fight, she's grinning in the gunner seat having the time of her life. There's no weight to anything she just experienced or heard from Kylo, and she makes it off the Supremacy like a 10th grader sneaking out of study hall.I hate that fight scene, it is one of the worst choreographed movie fights I've ever seen.
Jackie Chan once said that if you fight multiple opponents then you have to give them something to do or be occupied with when they are not directly engaging, which makes perfect sense.
Here they gave them spinning around, "you're not actually fighting anyone at the moment, thats ok, go spin in the corner".
They actually managed to make a lightsaber fight lame.
It's written and directed by Jar Jar Abrams, it will borrow heavily from something.