This is just flat out wrong because the story isnt about HOW they got that power. The story is what they chose to do with that power.
My point was being tall doesnt mean you will be great at basketball. Being fast doesnt mean you will be an Olympic running. Having the force doesnt mean you will be a good kind hearted person who wants to protect innocent people and topple an evil empire. Having a gift in and of itself is meaningless. Its actions that matter.
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That's the core of the vast majority of human writing/story telling. Superman - lazy writing. The matrix - lazy writing. Sherlock Holmes - lazy writing. Hercules - lazy writing. This is the most rediculous stance I have read in a long time.
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I believe depth is in the eye of the beholder. A (good) story-teller will have put thought into incorporating their themes into their stories, but whether a member of the audience catches those themes and engages with them, and how deep they engage with them, is dependent on a certain chemistry between the story and that particular audience member. Like how some people love discussing and theorizing about Mulholland Dr. while I completely bounced of it and did not find it interesting, and some think TLJ is an affront to the franchise while I think it's the most clever Star Wars put to film.
The weird arc the Proton Torpedo took on screen is related to bad VFX and nothing more. Go watch the briefing scene from ANH. Not a single person is concerned with the torpedo being able to make the arc necessary for the shot to be a success. They are just worried about how difficult the shot is in general, their biggest concern being the size of the target. A more accruate summary would be. Rookie pilot manages to make difficult shot using precise timing.
I suspect that TLJ was actually just a good movie as far as movies go (though way out of sync with what 'Star Wars' has been), and this one might not be.
Cause, yanno, that's the simple answer, that film critics who watch thousands of films like interesting, disruptive films more than cookie cutter, formulaic films.
wow. . . . she can some how use force lightning without BBQing herself, yet when the Sith Lord Palpatine, master of the dark side uses it, he turns into Smoked Brisket. . . all three times hes used it for the past 40 fkn years. . . . I guess Rey is a 120 ele shammy or something.
Opinions will always be subjective, but when a majority of professionals and the audience are criticizing the material at large, there is something fundamentally flawed with the story craft and quality, be it pacing, plotting, dialogue, etc. It doesn't mean you can't like it and that in your eyes it's bad. I love plenty of movies critics and audiences at large hated, namely X-Men: Apocalypse but I recognize I'm in the minority and what I loved about it outweighs in my eyes its many flaws, which to me are far and few in between, but for most people, it didn't work as well as its predecessor, or even the best in its series.
If it’s anything like video game reviews often are, there’s a strong suggestion from the magazine/website editors to talk favourably or the reviewer/magazine won’t be allowed to review next time by the publisher, which means less ad and viewer/reader revenue.
Disney or EA or whatever isn’t actively paying any critic, but they have a habit of subtly suggesting that an unfavourable review this time means you won’t get to review at all next time.
Cheerful lack of self-preservation
Palpatine has been written as the stupidest genius Sith Lord ever. Orchestrates the fall of The Republic, but doesn't know best range and angle to shoot force lightning without causing harm to himself. Dooku used it elegantly and to satisfactory results, neutralizing Anakin and trying to hurt Yoda. Palpatine...? Should have stuck to his light saber game.
Do you have some links to occurrences of that habit? However, I doubt it really happens, because there is nothing that stops somebody from reviewing a film, at worst their review will be a few days delayed from the embargo. If a studio is afraid of their movie doing poorly critically, the go-to strategy is just making the review embargo lift as late as possible, and at this point even that is a bad strategy because people have started to recognize the pattern of "no reviews yet + movie releasing imminently = bad sign".
If a director decides to demolish all of the previous plot points of the first movie in a trilogy and shoehorn it into some political propaganda piece about "anyone can be special, rich people are da devil, leaders don't need to convince their subordinates of competency" that was also crammed into one of the most narrow frames of time I think we've seen in a SW movie... yeah... it's a slap in the face.
TFA was alright. It was obviously another death star rehash with new people, but it at least set up tons of plot points I was looking forward to.
Who are Rey's parents?
Who is snoke?
Is Finn a jedi?
I want to see more Poe being a badass?
HOLY FOOK IT'S LUKE! GIMME MORE TRADITIONAL JEDI STUFF FINALLY MAYBE?
Nope.
TLJ spat on all of it, and intentionally. Director wanted to shatter it and force his own "this is what *I* think the new starwars should be about!" Utter. Horse. Shit.
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