Star Wars : Got woke, going broke. The Force is not so strong w/ Disney , theme park woes.

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UPDATED: Monday, January 10, 2022 22:40
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, August 16, 2019 10:37 AM

I never thought Natalie Portman was a bad actress. I haven't seen her in anything since V or the Star Wars flicks myself. Star Wars certainly shouldn't be counted against anyone.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

AURAPTOR

Friday, August 16, 2019 4:36 PM

SW counted against Hayden Christensen in my book.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, August 16, 2019 7:04 PM

It definitely didn't do Jake Lloyd any favors.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

ZEEK

Friday, August 16, 2019 8:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
SW counted against Hayden Christensen in my book.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

I've only seen him in two other movies and he was awful in both. Jumper was hilariously bad. So, much so that I actually enjoy rewatching it from time to time just to laugh at it. Then there was some other movie where Hayden and Nick Cage are like warriors in the crusades and they're in China. They're apparently the greatest warriors ever lol. Hayden becomes an opium addict with a heart of gold who saves a princess. It's so awful but this time not even in a funny way.

All that being said I kinda hope he makes an appearance in Star Wars IX. I mean if Anakin became a force ghost (which doesn't make any sense) then where has he been when is grandson is going off the rails?

AURAPTOR

Saturday, August 17, 2019 4:53 AM

Hayden wasn't nearly as bad in Jumper as he was in the trilogies. ( imo ) Sure, it was a cartoonish movie, but I didn't cringe nearly as much at his lines or the way he gave them as I did for literally everything he did in SW.

The changing to younger force ghost Anakin from older force ghost Aankin makes no sense. Maybe Sith Kylo Ren can't access the good side of the ghost force ? Of course, where was good Anakin force ghost when his own son was trying to murder his nephew while he slept ?

Also...

ZEEK

Tuesday, August 20, 2019 9:49 PM

And now there are rumors of an Obiwan Kenobi series on Disney+. He's a white male and I don't want that series at all. There should not be anything interesting going on during the time between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Trying to force stories into that time period is just going to make for bad TV. Disney needs to hire some serious writers and stop running this franchise like a cash printing machine. Tell good stories and the cash will print itself.

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 6:28 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek: Tell good stories and the cash will print itself.

Disney has gone beyond that. The SJW mindset demands it.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, August 22, 2019 4:06 AM

Meh... It's already dead. The kids don't care. Action figures aren't selling.

In the entire history of the franchise, the box office only accounted for 1/3 of the revenue generated by the toys.

Disney killed Star Wars.

They'll kill Marvel next if they didn't learn anything.

They seemed to have put a muzzle on Brie Larson though, and I do find the idea of sampling different genres of film for different characters in era or generation 4 or whatever they're calling it pretty interesting. I never had any desire to see the first Dr. Strange, but an H.P. Lovecraft inspired second flick titled "In the Multiverse of Madness" certainly has my curiosity piqued.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, August 22, 2019 4:09 AM

On a side note, I find it hilarious all the pink haired weirdo movie reviewers online talking about how Star Wars has paid for itself already, when it's apparent these idiots majored in their liberal arts and weren't required to take accounting 101 or probably even a basic math course in college.

If you buy an apple for a dollar and sell it for 50 cents, you didn't make money, dummy.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, August 22, 2019 6:17 PM

Let's be honest here though...

Did anybody really enjoy the prequel trilogy? I think a lot of people are giving that a pass these days because of how bad the new movies are, but I think Star Wars has been dying for a very long time.

Back when the first one came out, I was stoked. My girlfriend at the time picked up my brother back at my old house and we all went to see it. We enjoyed it. It wasn't all that bad, really. But when my friend convinced me a few years later to go downtown Chicago with him to see the second one on the IMAX, I was pretty bored. And that might be the only legitimate Hollywood flick I've ever seen on an IMAX in my life. Living around Chicago growing up, I'd seen quite a few science and history related things on the IMAX on class trips, and I remember seeing something on the X-Games with a few friends back when we played Tony Hawk games all the time. Those were amazing. Star Wars Episode II.... not so much.

I even downloaded an early leak of Episode III back in the day, but it was not great quality and I decided to wait until I was watching something with better quality. But I just never got around to it. I'd already lost interest. I've never seen Episode III.

Maybe I've just grown up, but it's certainly not an age thing in general. My brother's basement man cave has so many collectibles that it would have been paradise for me and my brothers when we were kids. My friends tended to be more along the jock spectrum, where his tended to be more along the drama/chior/band spectrum too, so it's no surprise that, as adults, their basements look a lot different than my friends basements do.

I never read any of the fan-fiction that Lucas himself deemed good enough to become cannon. But my brother read all of it. He could read one of those paperback novels in a night or two, and he read them all.

I think that's probably the biggest F*U to all of the real Star Wars fans out there. The moment that Disney bought the franchise from Lucas and then retroactively destroyed this entire fan made universe by removing everything from the cannon except for the three original movies.

The icing on the cake though was putting out this pandering horseshit after the fact and saying "All that stuff you created and loved as a community doesn't exist. That universe is dead. This is Star Wars now."

Okay. Whatever. I enjoyed visiting it when I was a kid, but I was already done with your universe 20 years ago and had moved on. It's just sad when people like my brother were evicted from it, and even more sad when he doesn't even want to visit there anymore.

Shame on you, Disney.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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