1983: George Lucas killed Star Wars
1999: George Lucas killed Star Wars
2002: George Lucas killed Star Wars
2008: Dave Filoni killed Star Wars
2012: Angry Birds killed Star Wars
2017: Rian Johnson killed Star Wars
2019: JJ Abrams killed Star Wars
2024: Taika Waititi killed Star--
I once got to attend a birthday party at Martin Short's house (I went to the same high school as his son). Martin and his wife Nancy (RIP) were some of the nicest, most generous people I've ever met.
So to be called a fucking phony by someone like him is truly deadly:
@jfwong
@ar1aster
There’s gotta be a shitload of deleted scenes. It feels like a movie gutted to fit a predetermined runtime and now it’s bit them in the ass.
@ar1aster
Being Force-linked to Kylo Ren, Grandson to Darth Vader and Supreme Leader of the galaxy, is an insanely great “present tense” problem for Rey to overcome. Why does her lineage need to become her main struggle? So bizarre.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK would be ripped to shreds by social media had it been released today. That movie is rife with plot holes, geography cheats, and “cheap” fakeouts. That’s why I ignore the movie mob mentality.
LMFAO. This is from the original Time magazine review of RETURN OF THE JEDI. Again: a lot of revisionism being applied to the general opinion of EMPIRE STRIKES BACK back in the day:
@JennyENicholson
The flawed moral of Episode 6 was "your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side," and so I've been a dedicated Sith acolyte since childhood. Clearly I understand storytelling.
Twitter Headlines in 1977:
"Too Little, Too Late: Lucasfilm Tries to Cram Important Political Backstory in Novelization."
"What Exactly is the Empire and Who is this Unseen Emperor Character? Star Wars Novelization Offers Info That Should've Been, Y'know, in the Actual Movie."
@FilmGob
Holy shit this clip. I hate doing this because it’s only going to end with a block, but... wow
@KristianHarloff
you are an embarrassment to the site and to your co-workers. Very happy I stopped watching Council months ago.
@FilmCritHULK
@ObserverArts
Amazing. You've perfectly articulated why LAST JEDI got the reaction it did. It seems modern audiences don't want to hear how hard life is and how to deal with it. They want stories about how pain and suffering are merely temporary setbacks on your path to invincibility.
@k_trendacosta
Love it or hate it, but Palpatine’s sudden involvement in the sequel trilogy is 1000% in the spirit of Lucas and OG/EU Star Wars, and I just think people weren’t quite prepared for Disney to make that sort of bonkers jump that the franchise used to make on the regular.
@goedharted
LMAO, just watched — not only did they rip off the TFA blaster bolt freeze, the R1 hallway scene, and the TLJ throne room scene all at once, they also ripped off the newest Marvel Vader series with all the Padme visions. It’s literally a *Disney* Star Wars fan film.
It took almost a month for Herman Cain to die from COVID, with plenty of "no really, he's getting better everyday!" updates from his team.
Just an FYI, for no particular reason.
No reason at all.
This akin to LAST JEDI hitting $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, easily making it the highest grossing movie of 2017, while crybaby dipshits threw huge tantrums online.
And for what?
@FreddyInSpace
The internet: "Tarantino is sexist!"
Sane person: "Oh yeah? And what did you think of Margot's answer to the reporter's question?"
The internet: "I dunno, I skipped past that."
@virtualjustin
@brettwhite
Yes, we all remember when Luke befriended a stormtrooper, stole a ship, got taken hostage, then dueled on an imploding planet.
@FilmCritHULK
100%. It's why so many Star Wars prequel defenders vehemently dislike the sequel trilogy because, in a weird way, they've been trained by Lucas to think "character says exactly what they're thinking and/or feeling at any given moment" = good dramatic storytelling.
@KevinCogneto
@Brandon_Bird
The last shot of the movie tells the audience: “STAR WARS is amazing and important.” And all the crybabies got out of it was: “Ohmygod, the bad guy said Luke was a failure and the Jedi are lame!! Fuck this movie!!”
@drmistercody
@scrowder
@amazon
The "Not Gay" guy is undoubtedly not gay, nope, not a single gay thought in that head of his, totally super straight that guy is.....
What if THE MANDALORIAN as a series culminates with a live-action "Siege of Mandalore, Part 2" with Din Djarin, Boba Fett, Bo-Katan, Sabine Wren, Ahsoka Tano, et al. teaming up to reclaim Mandalore from Moff Gideon and the Imperial Remnants?
@syndulla2
@goedharted
“We don’t like what Disney is doing with Star Wars, so we’re gonna prove they’re going in the wrong direction by directly lifting action beats and story ideas from the last few movies.” Geniuses.
@DianogaVee
@OmgMoreJames
The internet if ROTJ had come out in 2019: “Ohmygod, they’ve built up the threat of Jabba for three movies and then they just kill him off in the first half-hour, and Leia does it by choking him with a chain??? Bad writing! Ruin Marquand should’ve been fired!!”
@AdamLanceGarcia
Wait 'till these goobers find out the character of Rey (name subject to change) and her immense Force powers was created by Lucas himself...
Jim Lee confirms that there are no future plans for Zack Snyder or future Snyderverse materials at
#SDCC
. Jim Lee is part of development for all DC films.
@the_moviebob
The Canto Bight sequence alone gives more information about Snoke & the state of galaxy than anything in the OT. If you can’t figure out Snoke is just a super rich dude collecting dark side artifacts & taking advantage of late-stage capitalism, then you’re being willfully thick.
It is objectively hilarious that in the span of an hour Elon Musk completely fucked over
@mtaibbi
and
@bariweiss
by rendering all their deep-dive work moot. Awesome career move!
At least Goebbels got to be rich. You propagandists get jackshit.
A Star Wars movie being the last billion dollar movie ever, oddly and sadly enough, is an inevitable end to Hollywood’s forty year Era of the Blockbuster.
Cineworld, the largest cinema company in the U.K., is closing all of its locations in the U.K. and Ireland this week. It will also close all 543 Regal Cinema theaters in the U.S. The news comes after
#NoTimeToDie
abandoned its 2020 release date
Film Twitter regularly dunking on Sorkin while excitedly and unironically retweeting behind-the-scenes images of Trevorrow’s next Jurassic abomination. 🙃
@StupendousWave
@starwars
Uh, Star Wars has had the top earning movie at the box office three years in a row. How much more unstoppable does one franchise need to be?
I am looking forward to returning to the Senate on Monday. We've got important business to tackle and big fights to win for Kentuckians and the American people.