Movies & TV

star wars is trash for children and i don't respect anyone who's a fan of it

When I first saw Star Wars in the theater in 1977, my mind was reeling with questions afterwards.

It wasn't lost on me that we entered the story in the middle, and I was hungry for backstory, and one of the things I wondered about was the events that allowed the Rebels to get the plans for the Death Star. I thought it would make a great movie, but then I remembered that everybody involved died while stealing it, and a movie where all the heroes die is never going to be made.

So I was shocked decades later, when Rogue One was released to tell that story after all.

overrated as hell

https://watch30rockonline.cc/ is one of my favorite website, I like just clicking random episode and watch 30 rock out of context. However, whenever S1 episode came out and it says "18 years ago" it feels depressing

And its still a piece of shit

I actually kinda like Rogue One but the main thing I remember about the movie is that when they properly introduce the blind monk character, Chirrut Îmwe, it's in the middle of a fight and he shows up to knock out stormtroopers with his walking stick. And at first it's sort of cool, but then it goes on forever, and it starts to feel silly, and you can feel the cracks in the choreography because you start to think "surely one of these guys would just shoot him in the back" and then the character is just there and basically doesn't do or say anything of significance until his death scene. Sort of the problem of the entire movie in microcosm. Lots of interesting ideas for characters that don't get much to do or say. Even the best fleshed out character, Jyn, feels contradictory and ultimately thinly characterized.

As I always say, the novelization is much better.

The scene where Jyn tells Cassian that he's basically a stormtrooper because he's willing to kill her father for the rebellion frames her as correct and it's such 2016 lib shit that it actually damages the 'evergreen' or 'timeless' quality you want in a fantasy movie

I've been struggling with whether to rewatch this one. The only time I saw it I got so zoinked on over the counter dissociatives that I basically lived inside the movie for most of the middle of it.

It was so awe-inspiring and terrifying that I don't want to paper over that experience with a normal watch, but I also don't remember good chunks of it.