Should I watch Star Wars

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Yes.

 

[Bawbag]

No. It's a gateway drug to buying funko pops.

 

[BradeRunna]

Yeah, watch the original 3 movies. Don't bother with the prequels or the Disney Woke Wars garbage. I would go even further and say you should get the Project 4k77 4K80 and 4K83 versions as well as the Harmy's De-specialized editions. I have them and it's really the best way to watch them now. You could always just watch the original publicly available versions but George Lucas had an obsession with CGI and he filled the movies up with a lot of unnecessary CGI garbage. It hasn't aged well either. A New Hope is probably the one that got ruined the most. Return of The Jedi is the second worst with the CGI and The Empire Strikes back was the least changed.

Just a warning last I checked they still haven't released a version of Empire Strikes back that has been put through DNR which means digital noise reduction. That means it will have a lot of old-style film grain it. A New Hope and Return of The Jedi have gotten the DNR treatment so they look pretty good. But Harmeys lacks the film grain because it was taken from other sources. The 4K projects were literally taken from old theater film.

 

[The best and greatest]

Rogue One doesn't deserve a lot of the hate it gets.

I just don't see what people get out of that movie unless its some sort of "Just consume product and then get excited for next product" thing.

Do you even remember the character's names without having to look them up?

 

[Count Grishnackh]

Watch Rogue One, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, then Return of the Jedi. Stop there, and watch nothing else.

 

[Preacher ✝]

I just don't see what people get out of that movie

What more do you expect to get out of a movie than an entertaining couple hours?

unless its some sort of "Just consume product and then get excited for next product" thing.

This is the "Everyone I don't like is Hitler" of media discourse.

Do you even remember the character's names without having to look them up?

A few of them when I think about it.

Hardly relevant since they all die in the end anyway.

 

[The best and greatest]

What more do you expect to get out of a movie than an entertaining couple hours?

But its not entertaining, which is my whole point. Maybe you can go into detail and highlight all the things you think make the movie worth watching?

This is the "Everyone I don't like is Hitler" of media discourse.

But I'm also correct so it doesn't matter

 

[Preacher ✝]

Maybe you can go into detail and highlight all the things you think make the movie worth watching?

It's a more grounded approach to Star Wars. There's no Jedi chosen one plot, just a bunch of nobodies on a mission. The action is pretty good.

We get to see some more world building and insight into how the empire functions and alike.

The plot isn't bad either. I like that they gave us a compelling story for how the rebellion got the Death Star plans and why there's such a critical weak spot in it.

Finally the cinematography is all round solid. It's a good looking film.

 

[draggs]

If you want to save time and understand why Star Wars became the biggest IP ever, go to youtube and watch

-Battle of Yavin (WW2 dogfights in space)
-Battle of Hoth (walking tanks, big laser gun on the planet shooting at big spaceships)
-(space) Battle of Endor (more WW2 dogfights in space but with big spaceships also fighting each other)

You could also watch the Battle of Scarif from Rogue One I guess (walking tanks AND WW2 dogfights in space AND big spaceships fighting each other, but not as satisfying as the other three tbh)

 

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I would kill (something in my basement) for a well produced, good political space drama that didn't have dialogue that sucked ASS. Or a jester with main character levels of screen time.

 

[Adolf Hulkler]

No.

Knew a guy who got genuinely upset when i said Battlefront was a shit game. Like red in the face and became pouty and argumentative.
Guy was also kinda autistic who jacked off and came into his own hand and then rubbed the cum on his sheets.
Mind you this was in a room where multiple people were sleeping on bunk beds.
I guess star wars audience is like that.
Dont be like that guy.
DONT

 

[Absolutego]

The original trilogy is a perfectly cromulent series of films
skip the prequels

 

[The best and greatest]

It's a more grounded approach to Star Wars. There's no Jedi chosen one plot, just a bunch of nobodies on a mission. The action is pretty good.

We get to see some more world building and insight into how the empire functions and alike.

The plot isn't bad either. I like that they gave us a compelling story for how the rebellion got the Death Star plans and why there's such a critical weak spot in it.

Finally the cinematography is all round solid. It's a good looking film.

I'm not saying I agree with you necessarily but I do appreciate that you responded.
The movie is competent in a number of technical ways. Some individual elements to the movie I liked, but in a way where I feel its too bad they werent things in a better movie. I like the battle at the end which is good because its what the entire movie is building up to and exists to show us.

The plotting isn't awful but I wouldn't say its very good either. Collecting a bunch of characters that exist to do one thing as part of a quest before perishing feels pretty lazy imo. You could maybe argue that its part of a wider theme of mortality or how these are 'real people' and not 'heroes' but that's not the feeling I get. The feeling I get is that we had more characters than we needed or knew what to do with. Probably could have cut down the number of characters and given more screentime to develop the remaining ones, which also ALSO circles back to my earlier point of this movie having too many plates spinning

If I were to make this movie I would have cut down the number of characters, cut down the number of locations we need to visit and center the movie more around the characters and their arcs.

Skip the "Building a team" plotting and introduce our main cast closer together at the beginning so they all have more time to interact. In the original Star Wars almost all of our main cast is introduced and team up before they even leave the first planet.

Dont put Darth Vader in it/At least do so in a way that respects him as a character. I get it he's a big fan draw, nevertheless the movie suffers for his inclusion because it has to make him look stupid at the end when he could have very easily gotten the plans back and avoided the entire first three movies if he just used the force instead of using his lightsaber (which sort of highlights the inefficiency of the lightsaber as a weapon if you think about it.)


Beyond that I don't really feel like continuing to shit on what is otherwise a mediocre movie. It occupies the same space as the recent Dungeons and Dragon movie, which I liked better than Rogue One overall. D&D is a perfectly watchable movie and at times even good. I don't have much in the way of bad things to say about it but I also have no desire to ever see it again.

 

[John Badman]

Only the first one. They call it "Episode 4" or "Episode IV" now, but it's the original. If it has Jar Jar Binks in it it's the wrong one.

Why would he skip the only good one?