Star Wars already has enough violence. I mean, limbs getting chopped off and shit.
If they want to add sex to Star Wars I better see some wookie sex and some mon calamari sex. I can see human sex just about anywhere else. Don’t miss the opportunity.
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Back in the 80s-90s, theaters often let kids (within reason) go to R rated movies regardless of if they had a parent. That seems to definitely not be the case these days.
Conversely, theaters are less important to movie audience (especially kids) these days. If they don’t see it in the theater, they’ll see it on streaming (with or without parental permission).
I don’t get the impression that the younger kids today care about seeing Star Wars “in the theater” like we do.
All the more reason we shouldn’t put any barriers up. The Star Wars must be passed on to the future generations, and we may not be doing a good enough job of this.
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When I went to see The Last Jedi last year, while I was sitting on my chair and waiting for the movie, or even trailers to start, I looked at people pouring in and noted the large amount of kids in the audience. I even thought back to them in few more heavy handed moments of the movie “this movie is for them, this is fine”.
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What about Deadpool was bad for superhero movies?
Nothing that was the point :-p
Oops, reading comprehension failure on my part.
The guys who make Game of Thrones are really bad. The latest seasons, without the much more well-structured narrative of the books, have been really only propped up by good actors and a high budget.
So I have no interest in their work in anything, let alone Star Wars.
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God that would have been so much better.
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In my re-scripted edits of episodes two and three, the jealousy of Anakin towards Kenobi is a big part of his turn to the dark side, and Anakin suspecting Padme had feelings for Kenobi involved.
However I only ever released the episode one edit, and those other two movies are sitting half done on a hard drive in my cupboard.
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Almost literally this:
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The reason Deadpool worked so well was that it was true to it’s source material and basically what everyone wanted out of a Deadpool Movie. An R-rated comic book movie.
I don’t think you can do the same to the Star Wars franchise and have it done well.
The only reason I think the Game of Thrones guys are being considered is more for their project management skills than their storytelling skills. If you think about the large numbers of people in GoT and all of the various locations that were being shot in, you want someone who can deliver a good product.
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I went to a convention recently that featured Star Wars pretty heavily, and surrounded by all of the cosplay, the constant Star Wars music remixes, and speculation over the movies, I realized that I don’t even care if the next movies suck or not because Star Wars is just played out. I’m not saying that I won’t watch the next movies since they’ll be water cooler movies, but at this point they’ve lost all emotional resonance with me.
I probably feel the same way about Star Trek since I haven’t even bothered to pirate Discovery. Seems like its time for a new Star XYZ series.
Welcome to what I felt after watching Rogue One… which is why I’m at least glad I went to a midnight screening of a Star Wars movie before I passed the phase in my life when it meant anything more to me than just another series of movies.
Meh, all the Jaded folks can go over to the Jaded corner of the net :-p
Says 12 year old eternal Child Cremlian who can’t imagine this crazy 2018 media world he never dreamed would occur.
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12 year old Luke and 35 year old Luke would never have believed 37 year old Luke didn’t care much about new Star Wars movies anymore. Empire Strikes Back is still in my top 10 movies list though.
I used to say Empire was the best, but when I watch now all I see in rape culture personified as Han Solo.