STAR WARS IX: The Rise of Skywalker

POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Monday, January 13, 2020 00:40
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AURAPTOR

Sunday, January 5, 2020 8:17 AM

TLJ had 3 of the most idiotic moments in the SW saga..

1. Space bombers , having to fly DIRECTLY over the target...

2. Space Grond! The Galactic battering ram!

3. The tug boat speed armada scene... just irredeemably bad.

Even the hyperdrive kamikaze attack wasn't enough to counteract this nonsense.

Also most anything having to do w/ Luke, the blue boobie milk, Mary Rey Sue's emerging power...just horrific.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 5, 2020 8:20 AM

Would you guys say that Spaceballs was a better Star Wars movie than the Disney Trilogy?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

AURAPTOR

Sunday, January 5, 2020 8:24 AM

How did I never notice the 'cock and balls' tie on Dark Helmet's uniform? LOL!!!

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 6, 2020 9:28 AM

lol Dunno buddy. It was staring you right in the face this whole time.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SECOND

Monday, January 6, 2020 7:41 PM

Disney rushed J. J. Abrams into completing ‘The Rise of Skywalker’

The Rise of Skywalker crew had three months less to work on the new film than they did for The Force Awakens, according to editor Maryann Brandon’s estimates. Disney set the Dec. 20, 2019 release date and was steadfast that it could not change.

With Disney’s refusal to change the date, the editor and director continued onward, doing the best they could. However, three months more of shooting, directing, and editing might have created an entirely different movie. From film editor Brandon’s account, it is evident that the work environment created by Disney was not ideal.

“The TROS we saw last night was not the TROS we thought we worked on,” an unnamed source, close to Abrams, reported through a Reddit post.

“J. J. [Abrams] was devastated and blindsided by this,” the source continued. “He’s been feeling down over the last six months because of some of the ridiculous demands Disney had that changed his movie’s story. While the scenes were shot, a lot of the changes were made in post-production, and the audio was rerecorded and altered.”

“My source said they’ve never seen anything like this happen before,” wrote the Redditor who is keeping the source anonymous. “He’s the director, and he wasn’t in the know about what they (Disney) were doing behind his back.”

If this new information is accurate, it is likely Abrams will refuse to work with Disney again.

More at www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-d
irector-j-j-abrams-will-likely-never-work-with-disney-again.html/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 6, 2020 8:39 PM

Double post.

Oh shit. There goes the planet.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 6, 2020 8:39 PM

Yup. I heard that they started going re-shoots on September 10th. Not a good time for that with what should have been the biggest movie of 2019 premiering only 3 months later.

Nobody should be blaming JJ or anyone working for him, including the actors and the editors.

This is something to put on Kathleen Kennedy and anybody above her all the way to the tippy-top of the Disney Pyramid. Hell... at this point, I'm even willing to give Kennedy some slack. She should have been removed from the franchise a long time ago when it was apparent she couldn't do the job.

Disney wasn't paying attention because they thought of Star Wars as the golden goose that nobody could fuck up. They were wrong.

It's probably fixable though. People seem to like Mandalorian, and I've heard some interest in other side projects. Disney also seems to want to ditch the whole Trilogy format from here on out, which I also think is a very wise decision.

Maybe they should consider slowly introducing the extended universe back into Star Wars through movies and TV shows over the coming years. I'm only a fan of that idea if the people who wrote the stuff originally are compensated well for their ideas though and Disney isn't just stealing other people's work after throwing it in the garbage.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, January 6, 2020 9:26 PM

ROS is already past $1 billion in ticket sales. That's a profit already of about $700 million, even before merchandising and dvd profits are calculated. Nobody at Disney is gonna be upset with that. Why should they give a rat's patoot if the movie disappoints 50 & 60 year-olds who still expect and yearn for the quality of the original trilogy? Money talks, quality walks.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, January 7, 2020 4:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
ROS is already past $1 billion in ticket sales. That's a profit already of about $700 million, even before merchandising and dvd profits are calculated. Nobody at Disney is gonna be upset with that. Why should they give a rat's patoot if the movie disappoints 50 & 60 year-olds who still expect and yearn for the quality of the original trilogy? Money talks, quality walks.

Nah. It's only at $920 Million right now, although it will hit a Billion.

It's not a profit of $700 Million either because you almost always double the production budget for a movie for the marketing budget. So let's be conservative and call it a $500 Million profit when it reaches a billion.

Merchandising won't be much. Have you seen the Star Wars sections at toy stores this holiday season? The last few years there were entire aisles devoted to them, but they didn't sell out and this year all you had were little nooks that were half taken up with crap that didn't sell out in the last 2 years. Hasbro has been turning them into plastic cubes to recycle. It wouldn't be surprising to me if the toys themselves have actually amounted to a net loss since the Disney Trilogy has come out. They'll make some money on DVD and BluRay sales though for sure. Lots of stupid people out there.

At the end of the day though, the first movie cost less money to make and made over $2 Billion. And they actually lost money on SOLO in between. Try as hard as they might, but they're not pulling in enough new fans to displace the old ones. They took one of the most marketable names in Hollywood history and made it a mediocre property. They'll no doubt find a way to milk that cash cow for all that it's worth and be happy with the $4 billion the spent to acquire it, but it's going to take a lot longer and a lot more work then they thought it would.

Honestly, I haven't given a real shit about Star Wars itself since I was a kid, and was only mildly entertained by the first two entries of the second trilogy and didn't even bother with the third one. I don't really care about the past or the future of Star Wars, as the only real properties in that franchise to me are and will always be the original trilogy.

I'm just hopeful that with the lessons to be offered here along with other hard core flops like Cats, Dark Fate, Charlies Angles and all of the other woke bullshit that lost money dating back to at least Ghostbusters 2016 that they're going to take them to heart and stop making shit that nobody wants to see.

But even then, I don't really care about that either. I hardly watch any of the shit Hollywood puts out... even the stuff supposedly "made for me".

I'm always for a little schadenfreude.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, January 7, 2020 6:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
ROS is already past $1 billion in ticket sales. That's a profit already of about $700 million, even before merchandising and dvd profits are calculated. Nobody at Disney is gonna be upset with that. Why should they give a rat's patoot if the movie disappoints 50 & 60 year-olds who still expect and yearn for the quality of the original trilogy?

Money talks, quality walks.

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