• Jake@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I can’t watch any of them any more it ruins the nostalgia and reminds me how dumb I must have been. I can’t stand to watch most mainstream stuff any more though. The second the plot goes stupid I turn anything off. I’ve wasted far too much time due to investment banker produced media. First hint is all I need.

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      1 year ago

      I totally get what you mean. I wonder wheter writing a decent plot/characters/dialogues is really that impossible or whether there’s some other issues at play.

      I mean, book authors routinely manage to do pretty good writing, why can’t we have that for film as well?

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        1 year ago

        Try watching movies/shows from around the world, you’ll be amazed. I gave up on USA shows some time ago and never looked back.

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          That is true. The issue is only that it’s mostly hard to find these movies. It’s much harder finding movies from my own country than US movies.

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    You need to go more unpopular. Most SW is only really good when you’re 8.

    An edit for the aggrieved: If actual creative people are in control instead of GL or idiot corpos, SW can make for decent space opera. Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars will be good no matter how old I am lucky enough to get, as will some of the EU books that were de-canonized by Disney.

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      1 year ago

      I totally agree!

      But with I-III and VII-IX, there’s a common consensus that they weren’t exactly great.

      The only exception to the rule is Rogue One. Generally speaking: Star Wars without Skywalkers is better.

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      The prequels at least didn’t have actors that were so drunk on set that they constantly had to hold on to furniture so they didn’t topple over.

      But go rewatch the original trillogy with an open mind. It’s not good.

      The only advantage it has is that you were younger when you watched it.