Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Freedom Fries]

I’d really like to know why you’re so upset over my purchases. Like the edit says, I made these ticket purchases well before this review fiasco. I’m not a shill for a major company, I’m someone who likes to go to the theater and watch the occasional movie. If the movie is as terrible and filled with SJW or whatever as everyone proclaims, I’m going to affirm it.

Most theaters do not honor refunds on tickets, so what the fuck am I supposed to do - not see it? They’ve already got my money, so might as well have a few drinks and make the best of a “bad” situation.

It's more just that you have shit taste. If you told me you had tickets to see something like Ford v Ferrari or Richard Jewell, I would tell you to go enjoy the movie. There are "good" movies out there which could arguably be considered worth the money. Why you wouldn't wait for Starwars to be a rental or free plane movie (which is how I catch up with Disney if I ever feel like it) is beyond me.

Edit: It would make sense if you were some huge starwars fan who liked all the other movies a lot, but your posts don't imply that.

 

[Not Really Here]

Dropping the review embargo on the same day the House is supposed to vote on impeachment?
Nah, no way Disney would try to bury the reviews like that.

 

[Haramburger]

Throne room scene in TLJ doesn't count

Do you know why it doesn't count? Because a red Praetorian guard magically loses a vibro-knife in the middle of an attack on Rey, glaring CGI error.

 

[BrainProlapse]

It's still baffling to me they went ahead with this new trilogy without even a basic outline of what they wanted to do. It also strikes me that you could cut TLJ down to just the Snoke scene and maybe half of Luke's scenes; this last one would still make sense without 90% of it's predecessor

On the main cast: John Boyega is utterly wasted on these films and gets no chance to shine past the first 30 minutes of TFA. Ridley is passable, no great talent. Driver was pretty good for what he had to work with.

These films should have been about Finn; a cowardly Stormtrooper deserting after being ordered to commit brutalities and losing his squaddies, maybe he finds he can use the force and commits to freeing his fellows. Cue three films of growth. You know, like Star Wars.

That opening scene where his buddy dies in front of him and smears blood on his helmet should have set his tone, but no we get the Maryest of Sues and he's just a whimsical cowardly janitor instead of a scarred soldier.

 

[wholetthegodsout]

Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry

George Lucas echoed Spielberg's sentiments at an event touting the opening of a new USC School of Cinematic Arts building, saying big changes are in store.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Long ago there was a prophecy foretold by Master Spielberg that there would be a major Hollywood blockbuster that would fail bringing the entire industry down with it.

Is Rise of Skywalker the ONE from the prophecy? The ONE to bring balance to Hollywood?

 

[Judge Holden]

So here's a dumb question.

Are the critics giving negative reviews because they legit thought it was bad or because it went against The Last Jedi, which was the progressive Holy Grail film that they gave a 90-something% to?

Maybe both? They thought it was bad, but only because it went against The Last Jedi and that was enough to activate their NPC brains?

Both.

The narrative was set early on with TLJ that there was a vast gamergate conspiracy of evil bigoted manbaby nerds who hate the idea of women and non white people in star wars, and Rian Johnson has deep ties with the critic sphere given his longstanding and hastily covered up friendship with the likes of Devin Faraci, so when this narrative was officially declared it attracted every #woke media person in the industry to declare jihad in defence of the movies and to aggressively attack anyone who even vaguely criticised the movie.

A mistake many, including myself have made when discussing woke checkmark media sphere is not quite grasping that whoring out their approval for various corporate bidders will always come second to defending their own clique and the narrative of the clique.

 

[L50LasPak]

This is the best fucking ending to the saga ever.

Not the movies, I mean.

The franchise. This is so fucking hilarious.

"Go get your mother and all her friends. They'll never see a fire like this again."
When Charles objected, Edison said,
"It's all right. We've just got rid of a lot of rubbish."

I can feel my heart lift.

 

[ComeoutandJULAY]

I guess they fall now.

They fall now?!

...they fall now.

 

[Candidae]

Ugh, so I'll be honest, I didn't hate Last Jedi (probably because of how unimpressed I was by force awakens so I couldn't care less about them deciding to put a stop to the plot threads I didn't care for), but I was worried that it was creating a snowball effect for episode IX. Obviously those plot threads in VII were intended to go somewhere, and regardless of me personally not caring for those plot threads, it was pretty glaring that the screenwriters or whoever didn't bother communicating a vision for the trilogy amongst each other allowing it to happen. This movie seems to be what happens when the creators want something new that wasn't set up before, to try and figure out what people actually liked in the other movies, and have "omg the bestest ending to star wars evers" in order to keep selling more and more star wars properties and not because they actually wanted to make more stories for star wars. If that really was the intention then these writers would have written extended universe stories or Disney would have hired those fantastic EU novel writers to help write these movies. Or hell, actually followed the drafts Lucas created for this trilogy instead of fucking him over.

It all was a corporate cash grab from the beginning but Disney has made good projects with the idea of making money. These movies just felt like three different people trying to make three different stories that mashed in together and calling it star wars. Sorry, I don't know where my sperg is really going at this point. I'm just sad :/

I'm also sad that this may have been the last movie my dad and I ever see together in theatres. He first showed me star wars when I was 7 and I was obsessed. He helped me find old extended universe books at thrift shops, showed me his old VHS tapes of different star wars editions he'd recorded on tv over the years. Star Wars was a big thing for both of us and on his 65th we watched and were utterly unimpressed by TFA, again for his birthday we watched this. He has Parkinson's that's rapidly progressing and it took everything he had to see this piece of shit. Happy birthday dad. I love you and I'm sorry I suggested this. It wasn't worth the effort

 

[Looney Troons]

Fans: "The stuff Rose says to Finn at the end of TLJ is the dumbest shit ever said in Star Wars, including 'I hate sand' and anything Jar Jar Binks ever said."
JJ Abrams: "Hold my Manischewitz!"


It was blatantly obvious that this movie would be troubled at best and an utter shitshow at worst. What we got is an utter shitshow. We were warned in advance. "But I bought the tickets before the reviews were out" my ass. The writing was on the wall since TLJ came out.

Let me put it like this: Did you enjoy TLJ? If so, then buying tickets is sensible. You are entitled to your own opinion and you can enjoy whatever the hell you like. I don't care. I mean, I don't understand how anyone could enjoy a crippled mess of a plot with inane subplots that lead nowhere, a poor structure, annoying characters and absolutely nothing interesting happening over the course of >2 hours, but you know, none of my business.

But when someone knows that a product is going to be shit (or at least should be aware of it having a very high chance of being shit) and he still falls over himself to throw his money in the furnace that is a heartless, mindless, passionless company like Disney, then I do call that person a fucking idiot.
You could have done the unthinkable and wait before buying tickets. You could have waited for camrips to check out a snippet of the movie and then decide if you want to buy a ticket or not. But nope. You had to throw your money into the maw of Disney for a lackluster, shitty product.
Without trying to be overly dramatic, but people paying money for products that they hate is why shit that no one likes is being made. Sure, there's also a bunch of people with shitty taste that enjoy -say- Adam Sandler movies with all their fart- and poop-jokes.
And you know what? Buying a ticket to a movie that you hate makes you dumber than that Happy Maddison crowd of fans, cause they at least pay for the shit that they enjoy.

I don’t have any strong feelings about TLJ. It was a movie. I don’t feel as if it was money squandered, but I didn’t sing it’s praises. It had a myriad of issues but I didn’t leave theaters with seething hatred for it. It was more akin to mild amusement. In a similar hand, Quantum of Solace was a complete train wreck of a Bond film. The movie that proceeded that was Skyfall, a personal favorite and one I’ve watched many times over. Bond films are only loosely connected at best, but I was optimistic enough to gamble with this new Star Wars film. Lesson learned.

 

[Creep3r]

So the narrative among checkmarks is officially set:

This is all the fault of the evil toxic bigoted fanboys as the movie is obviously trying to pander to them

R-etarded critics keep saying this, but this certainly isn't what any fan except maybe Reylos and nu-fans wanted, and even they were disappointed. So who the fuck is this movie for? They say its pandering to evil Russianbot Nazis and "hardcore fans" but this shit had nothing I or anyone I knew wanted. And they say it panders because TLJ is "retconned" even though it isn't, aside from Rose being less than nothing. Luke and all the old gang are still hateable losers and Rey's parents are still nobodies who just happen to be Palpatine's bastard offspring, and I hate Rey and her parentage as well as all the nu-shit characters, so it never made a difference to me. So again, who is this movie made for? Why are these critics babbling incoherently? Just say its a shit movie and be done with it.

I'm just gonna leave this here.

Actually, I'm gonna go one step forward and place his original image here:

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Oskar sure loves letting us live in his head rent free.

 

[Hexadecimal]

I know that Rogue One gets a lot of shit ... And I'll be the first to say that there's SO much about it that should have been changed.

I'll also be the first one to say that this Vader scene could easily be seen as "pandering to the fans." At least ONE of the directors for Disney Star Wars had the fans in mind, though. This scene is still fucking rad. Too bad Disney decided to change most of Gareth Edwards' movie.

You could say that, but it was done well. Unlike JJs attempts, it wasn't clearly taking OT content and rehashing it, or responding directly to things that fans wanted. Not to mention it fit into the continuity quite well.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry

George Lucas echoed Spielberg's sentiments at an event touting the opening of a new USC School of Cinematic Arts building, saying big changes are in store.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Long ago there was a prophecy foretold by Master Spielberg that there would be a major Hollywood blockbuster that would fail bringing the entire industry down with it.

Is Rise of Skywalker the ONE from the prophecy? The ONE to bring balance to Hollywood?

Heaven's Gate has returned in the form of The Rise of Skywalker to punish Hollywood.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

To make sure my eyes aren't playing voodoo tricks with me:

Lord Sidious, a sith lord so powerful that not even yoda could beat him 1 on 1, dies to his own lightning, and instead of simply stopping he chooses to scream while he dies....to himself.

 

[7proxy]

This is the best fucking ending to the saga ever.

Not the movies, I mean.

The franchise. This is so fucking hilarious.

The franchise will never die. The Mandalorian is getting good reviews, the video games still make money and they will keep making movies. I expect them to go the Ghostbusters route and after the new trilogy's relative failure they will reboot some sort of Star Wars Classic.

Disney will never let the cash cow die.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

"There's nothing bold about this movie."

 

[Judge Holden]

R-etarded critics keep saying this, but this certainly isn't what any fan except maybe Reylos and nu-fans wanted, and even they were disappointed. So who the fuck is this movie for? They say its pandering to evil Russianbot Nazis and "hardcore fans" but this shit had nothing I or anyone I knew wanted. And TLJ isn't even retconned. Rey's parents are still nobodies who just happen to be Palpatine's bastard offspring, and I hate Rey and her parentage as well as all the nu-shit characters, so it never made a difference to me. So again, who is this movie made for? Why are these critics babbling incoherently? Just say its a shit movie and be done with it.

The fact they are trying to spin this despite the movie ending with Rey single handedly defeating Palpatine with ease as every dead jedi says how awesome she is and she winds up declaring herself the "new" skywalker with a gold fucking lightsaber, demonstrates just how fucking desperate these specimens are to deflect blame from the trite woke schtick they declared war on the fans for criticising back in 2015

 

[Cod of War]

LOL

 

[Hexadecimal]

Do you know why it doesn't count? Because a red Praetorian guard magically loses a vibro-knife in the middle of an attack on Rey, glaring CGI error.

I'm violently aware of why it doesn't count. It could have been fucking great if the choreography wasn't total ass, weapons were CGI'd from existence, and Rey had an ounce of physicality to her and wasn't a posh rich Brit with a stick up her ass.

 

[Absolutego]

I’d really like to know why you’re so upset over my purchases. Like the edit says, I made these ticket purchases well before this review fiasco. I’m not a shill for a major company, I’m someone who likes to go to the theater and watch the occasional movie. If the movie is as terrible and filled with SJW or whatever as everyone proclaims, I’m going to affirm it.

Most theaters do not honor refunds on tickets, so what the fuck am I supposed to do - not see it? They’ve already got my money, so might as well have a few drinks and make the best of a “bad” situation.

There's a subset of posters who treat this backlash like some holy crusade instead of laughing at a megacorp letting their own hubris cheat them out of practically guaranteed money, they usually out themselves by typing up spergy essays at any user expressing remote interest in a Disney Star Wars product or admitting to having seen any of them post-TLJ legally.