Pretty sure pretending 1-3 are now anywhere remotely competent movies all the sudden when this new trilogy started happening is the actual “hipster” thing to do

Although for from the greatness of both SW trilogies made by George Lucas, TLJ is still a LOT better than TFA

If not this bullshit hipster criticism of George Lucas, he might would not sell Star Wars and would do the third trilogy, which would be great! but no! everybody had to bitch about how bad episodes 1-3 were! The more I watch episodes 1-3, the more I value them, I imagine how great it would be to have another trilogy from Lucas . . . not this crap we have now

Are you crazy or high? 😮

I must respectfully disagree. JJ didn’t really set up anything at all. All of a sudden there’s this thing called The First Order (which is such a stupid name for a villain group for the final movies). They’re never explained, and came out of nowhere.

The New Republic is also never shown except for when they get blown up (by a completely unoriginal super-weapon). Snoke is never explained and he’s a painfully boring character, although in TLJ he had charisma and was far more intriguing and entertaining.

Abrams didn’t set anything up. He simply ripped off the first movie.

Sorry to have to respond to your post. Nothing personal and I hope IX is great and everyone loves it. It just boggles my mind that people hated TLJ with such vitriol, while not only giving TFA a pass, but throwing such praise on it as if it were as good as the originals.

But even Hamill himself seems to blame everything about Luke’s character on Johnson, as well as rabid bugman fans. Like what did they think Luke was doing on the planet all this time? TFA established he was a hermit; why blame Johnson for “ruining his character?”

It drives me nuts that people like TFA and hate TLJ. I’m the opposite. I thought TFA undid the victories of the original trilogy, and was a shameless remake. Total trash, and Abrams sucks a fat one as big as his ugly Jewish nose. But TLJ picked up the pieces and tried to do as best as it could with what was left, and excelled in that by going in totally new directions and being original and unpredictable. All you people who love TFA and hate TLJ are the problem. Dumb mob rabble.

nothing is disappointing about throwing whatever george lucas wrote in the trash and starting over

or media writers are just really intent on making this narrative reality and reading this into everything mark hammil is going to say til the end of time now

“Legendary storyteller”

lmfao. this attempt at rehabilitating george lucas once the first disney star wars came out has been incredible. nobody wanted another george lucas directed star wars before then

He did make the sale understanding that they would realize his original treatments. He said they then changed their minds to make a more “retro” trilogy. It’s all very disappointing.