FogBlueInSanFran
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I thought Rogue One was brilliant. Actually managed to improve thr 1977 original. Solo had a messed up producing but was better than expected, the force awakens was pretty decent, copied the originals top much but set things up nicely only for rian johnson to have a massive turd on its potential with the last jedi. Honestly that script was worse than anything lucas had ever written
I think Rogue One is hands down better than all the franchise names except A New Hope. Maybe the first 1/3 of The Force Awakens is okay. Solo was okay too -- better than most of the franchise.
I've always thought Empire vastly overrated and cannot understand why most prefer it to the original. I'll take a few things from Return -- the forest chase, Leia in a bikini and "It's a trap!" plus a pretty evil emperor. The prequels have effectively nothing redeeming about them. I like Rey and Fin as characters and the tortured Darth Vader Light idea is interesting but the fucking pompsity of the language, the utterly inane planet killer, Luke the hero exiling himself or whatever . . . ugh.
Anyway the franchise should never be forgiven for Jar Jar Binks ever unless there is a 20 minute short made that covers his death.
A New Hope was great not just because we all like good v evil and lasers are cool, but because Luke and Han and many of the other characters spoke and acted like real, actual people, not like Charlton Heston as Moses or King Arthur.
I'd say Starship Troopers is better sci fi than all the Star Wars flicks save ANH and RO.
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