When has a JJ movie ever had good fight coregraphing?
If I recall from behind the scenes stuff, Lucas -- at least for the prequels -- studied various forms of sword fighting and let it show in the PT and what eventually because the in-universe seven forms of lightsaber combat. In short, he took time to study dueling and used it to choreograph the realistic, action-packed, kick-ass fights that we see in the PT. Due to then-crude technology and the fragility of the props, this wasn't possible for the OT, but Lucas made up for that and took full advantage of the improved technology and effects available when the PT was filmed and released.
While I'm willing to concede that Rey wields a lightsaber just like her quarterstaff out of presumed familiarity with the latter, the fights in Episodes 7 & 8 seem un-choreographed, jerky, and all-around sloppy. A skilled duelist would be able to bisect Rey or Kylo easily.
Omg yes. That is one of the reasons Carrie signed on, that she wasn't just a damsel in distress. I'm pretty sure Leia had one of the highest rate of fire/accuracy ratings in the entire franchise.
With the exception of TRoS she always has a pistol on hand and she almost always hits her mark.
It shows that they didn't even watch Star Wars, Leia in ANH grabbed Luke's blaster and made a hole in the vents to escape 'Someone has to save our skins. Into the garbage chute, fly boy!'
Any regulars on the thread have probably seen my comments about female characters that are both attractive and kick-ass. This scene is probably the best example of what I'm talking about. In ANH, Princess Leia may look like the beautiful princess who needs to be rescued from the bad guy(tm), but she's hardly the the damsel in distress and shows she's not afraid to take charge when needed and appropriate. Similarly, she may have been captured by Jabba in RotJ and forced to wear skimpy clothing, but she wastes no time killing Jabba when the opportunity presents itself and subsequently helps Luke destroy Jabba's sail barge to make sure nothing like that happens again any time soon.
In the ST, we get women who are frumpy, bland, and seem rather passive or emotional. We see few, if any, take charge women except maybe Holdo who goes to the extreme in terms of asserting control. Once again, Disney seems to not realize characters with brains, brawn, and beauty in a single package can and do work with fans who won't and don't necessarily sexualize them.
So essentially all the new headless freaks in Disney Wars are dumb Wojak posts come to life?
I have to wonder how successful Disney has been with pandering to the LGBTetc community with these non-movie characters that are part of the alphabet soup, especially Soggy Boggy Toilet Man and his gay lover. I imagine the average fan would be indifferent about character gender/orientation, but this forced diversity can't always work as intended -- especially with headless or other mutated characters whose existence implies that gay characters are somehow lesser beings.
I dunno man, I think Mon Mothma never showing up or Ackbar literally having a background death is just as bad.
Mon Mothma was another example of a OT-era strong woman who didn't go overboard with her authority or gush about wokeness. Maybe that's why Disney ignored her. Ackbar's ST fate isn't surprising when one looks at how the other OT-era characters, especially male ones, fared in the newest films.
This is why even if you write organically, you lay out the beats and outline FIRST before you do this shit. That and don't tardpanic and interfere too much so long as you're on site regularly.
Even if Disney rejected the original outline/ideas for a ST, one would think they'd go to their story group and say something such as, "This outline doesn't work (for reasons). See what you can come up with that tells a story that can be told in three parts/films." The ST feels as if each film had its own outline separate from the others or no outline at all with everyone making up stuff on the fly.
How scary is it that there are amateur fan fiction authors who know enough to outline first then write whereas Disney can't even appear to outline its ideas well or at all?
Honestly, these shitty guide entrees regarding the knights don't really spoil anything and would've made more sense to have them released before the films came out. Instead they wait till the last minute.
if I recall, before the release of
Star Wars Rebels S1:E1, there was an animated short and very brief character profiles of the new main characters on starwars dot com. Why something similar couldn't have happened for the movie characters, especially the Knights of Ren, is baffling.
It's almost as if the story groups for various media (books, comics, animated stuff, movies, etc.) don't communicate with each other or work in conjunction with each other to have a unified vision and presentation when it comes to SW content.
These are admittedly half baked ideas that I’m unsure would be good, but feel could improve the sequel trilogy.
Sadly, our half-baked ideas are infinitely better than the lack of ideas Disney has given SW fans. It's almost like they're on auto-pilot or just cranking out something akin to a stream of consciousness.
Article seems to suggest Disney could have left the scene in and got a higher age rating, but they caved and cut it. Very brave and stunning.
With as poorly as Episode IX has done so far, one wonders if Disney has cut the kiss out where it would be reviled or outright banned in an attempt to maximize its box office numbers in those locales. How will social media respond to the kiss largely being localized to US audiences? Will they still see it as woke and stunning, or will they call it out as a form of tokenizing?
Old authors have said they have no control and get paid no royalties due to original deals.
That really sucks for them
. I imagine they never foresaw anything like this happening, and it's a bit slimy to see Disney declare their work non-canon and subsequently recanonize their own interpretation of that work and pass it off as new content and avoid giving credit or royalties to the original people.
(E: Clarity, spelling, & grammar)
