It's OK to hate actors if they hate you too. Social media has destroyed the Hollywood star and Mark Hamill is the best example when it comes to our favorite space opera. I've felt sorry for him in the past but I slowly realized he's a nutjob as I started to "know" the man. He openly hates half the country, lashed out at fans, little children and wanted to abort his own granddaughter in 2016. Political sperging coming up but I'd love to tell Hamill that a majority of the people who tore into Disney and Lucasfilm when it dropped Luke Skywalker like a hot potato lean right while his SJW pals are A-OK with the iconic character's humiliation and destruction. Luke is barely even in Kenobi and I fully expect him to lick the Lars homestead's windows, piss his pants and pick his nose when he's shown again.
Going by Mark Hamill's obnoxious twitter page he is a complete faggot but you gotta give it to him, he did a great job in TLJ (it's NOT a good movie, he just gave a very good performance). Imagine absolutely hatting everything about a movie you're working on and vehemently disagreeing with your director about everything, but still putting in the performance he did. He could have phoned it in like Harrison Ford in TFA, but he didn't. He played Jake Skywalker to the best of his ability and I can respect that. If he were in any other movie playing actually getting to play Luke, people would have lost their minds.
If TFA weren't a 2 hour movie trailer with half a plot I can imagine Mark being in it and doing a great job as Luke. He was so excited to come back as the character, but only got a 5 minute cameo because JJ Abrams was too much of a pussy to put Luke in the film. By TROS you can tell he stopped caring.
They're funny for their comedy sketches and back and forths but taking them as the sole authority on Star Wars is something I'll never understand and even their behind the scenes knowledge is based on personal biases and Hollywood mags, as noted by their claims that the editing alone saved SW and that it was a badly directed film which even Marcia Lucas herself has denied by still giving credit to George (and bashing KK while doing it).
@Zaryiu2 The clip here alone tells you enough about how they genuinely feel about the original films and how uninformed they are about their production, like just blown condescension.
They're diehard turbo trekkies at heart but they have always looked down on SW for some reason and believe Star Wars has no right to be engaging, well written or complex. Just mindless and repetitive schlock as seen with their TFA review or Evans' dumb comments regarding the setting, and its clear they only get their info from wookieepedo as seen with that Vader armor video they made. Kenobi only seems to get a pass for them simply because it validates their opinions on SW.
Their reviews can be entertaining but I really wish people stopped treating these two Milwaukee comedians as the sole voices and authority on a 50 year old franchise.
"B-But you don't understand!"
The OT is one of the most well documented film productions in the existence of film but the fans are so completely ignorant of how it came together it's astounding. There are dozens of books and documentaries about how they made the damn things but most people just lazily spout overly biased opinions from other people and dumbass rumors as fact. The fact that so many people think George accidently stumbled into ANH being a success (instead of carefully crafting the most entertaining crowd pleasing movie he could) or that his wife (who they don't know the name of) "saved" the movie with her editing (
which is not how fucking editing works) which genuinely pisses me off or that he had nothing to do with the other movies in the OT being good. These opinions get parroted all the time but nobody seems to give a shit. Like
@Mississippi Motorboater said, they hate Lucas so much they've crafted a ridiculous narrative about how the movies were made out of spite because they hate the prequels and felt betrayed by him.
I watched the entire video. Yes they like it, Jay seems to be the least positive but still over all likes it. They repeatedly make fun of cheap and dumb segments, but they appreciate lame incompetent Kenobi(they state he's an awful character and only like Ewan McGregor), they are fine with things looking cheap cause it's more OT, they like seeing McGregor killing Stormtroopers that are there instead of CGI Clonetroopers cause that is PT. The terribly choreography is good cause PT choreography is over done. Also it's not as terrible as Picard, and they aren't invested in Star Wars anymore, so they can enjoy it. They compared it to Mando season 1 in terms of quality.
So this confirms my suspicions that RLM peaked with the Star Wars sequels. After TROS came out I haven't been bothered to watch them anymore. Sure they can still be funny sometimes (Best of the Worst) but I 'm not invested enough in the friend simulator anymore to watch it.
Who actually treats them as the sole arbiters of SW though?
I hate to say this, but Reddit. No, seriously.
too many fans especially on reddit and the farms treat them as an authority on SW or treat their opinions as absolute and that SW should be the way they say it is.
Can confirm. Sometimes when I get bored at work I go on r/movies (yes I'm retarded) and any time the prequels are brought up (when it's not just to shit on them and jerk off the sequels) RLM and the reviews are too. It's gospel to them. They're like Jehovah's Witnesses going door to door spreading the word of the Plinkett reviews to other redditors as if everyone on the fucking internet hasn't seen them already.
Apparently a new Disney+ show is being made but it wasn't announced anywhere outside of a little showcase on SW.com.
Talk about an uneventful reveal. Yet news articles are just calling it "secretive".
Forgive my lack of optimism but it convinces me even more than ever that they're trying to force the whole
Star Wars Babies/Star Wars Kidz Club as the new direction for the franchise but with "mature" Filoni video game writing. Its also another post-ROTJ story because they either want to keep forcing a cinematic universe where all the main shows take place around the same period so they can have a forced MCU-style crossover or they're too cheap and lazy to build new sets so they want to recycle assets from the Mandalorian and Book of Bob.
Another codename for the show is "Grammar Rodeo" that makes me think they'll be doing another western on... Tatooine.
Actually this was brought up at Celebration a few weeks ago, I just didn't post about it here. It's by the guy who directed the MCU Spider-Man movies, John Watts.
You'd be surprised.
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And while imperial sympathizers have always existed, making the "mole" a literal mole is so obnoxiously on the nose I can't even take it seriously, that along with the quality of this dumpsterfire and the absolutely disingenuous state of Lucasfilm PR.
I really wish this scene with Luke and Biggs was kept in the movie. It helps explain a lot of details about the Empire which would have been nice to know, but at the same time it would have screwed up the pacing and it wasn't too important to keep when the movie came out.
