• Revonult@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I mean didn’t they kinda get lucky on the first movie? I saw Rogue 1 as more of a return to form.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Rogue one is only held up as great because the rest are so awful. Like the first Wonder Woman movie in the DC universe.

      It’s a mediocre movie that ends with an amazing action sequence that capitalizes on nostalgia.

      • djsoren19@yiffit.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’d even go further, people have seriously just forgotten the first 2/3rds of Rogue One. The characters are stiff and boring, the plot is meaningless because you know nobody survives, and the few action sequences before the big battle are nothing to right home about.

        Once you get to the big battle, it’s bombastic and exciting, and you even get a little tension from “but how exactly do all these people die?” I don’t even think it’s just nostalgia talking, the battle really was executed incredibly well. It’s like ~45 minutes of the greatest sci-fi war porn ever made. It’s so high quality that it makes you forget the other hour and a half of your life that the movie wastes on Jyn Erso’s angst.

  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I really don’t think that:

    1. Andor
    2. Rogue One
    3. The Clone Wars

    belong with the group in the second panel. I love Star Wars and I’m also very critical of how much it reuses concepts and content across its (mainly film, but in other mediums occasional as well) catalog. There’s a whole fucking galaxy of shit out there – approximately 50 million populated worlds and 100 quadrillion sapient lives in known space alone (according to the EU, so take it as you will) – and we see like two dozen planets and one family in the movies. It’s frustrating.

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The point is that the star wars films draw inspiration from Star Wars and nothing else. It’s like a loss for the industry as a whole that new big studio scifi films aren’t being written or produced aside from one single intellectual property. It doesn’t matter at all if some of them were decent.