I knew the backlash from the “Negative Nancys”, “Nerdville,” “The Big Bang Theory Crowd” and any miserable social media user with a four-year-college degree in “Bitching” about how much "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" (2017) failed to live up to their expectations despite it being the top grossing film of the holiday season regardless of the article in Forbes which laid out the doom and gloom that the franchise Disney inherited from Lucasfilm in 2012 is beginning to look like a “spent force.”
I paid ZERO attention to the reviews, negative or positive, about The Last Jedi and ignored actor Mark Hamill’s comments on his disagreements with the unexpected vision director/screenwriter Rian Johnson did with his character, Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker in episode VIII. Hamill later retracted those comments saying, ““Creative differences are a common element of any project but usually remain private,” Hamill wrote on Twitter. “All I wanted was to make a good movie. I got more than that – [Johnson] made an all-time GREAT one!”
If anyone like some wannabee movie critic who thinks they know everything about films offered me their personal opinion on The Last Jedi, my comment to them was going to be the meme I subscribe to on a Facebook page called “I speak sarcasm as a 2nd language” that says, “Do you remember me asking for your opinion? Yeah. Me neither.”
Keith’s less-than-glowing comments echoed much of what “Nerdville” wrote on social media back then. In short, they didn’t want a remake of "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" (1977) showing a different Death Star and a female lead heroine (Daisy Ridley) who comes from a sand planet similar to Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine. They wanted something new.
The trouble with the Star Wars franchise is fans who grew up on Episodes IV through VI (1977-1983) when they were barely in their teens, gullibly, perhaps stupidly, thought director/creator/screenwriter George Lucas could do no wrong when he returned to the series helming episodes I-III (1999-2005). Jar Jar Binks, a boring subplot involving intergalactic politics mixed with impressively choreographed lightsaber duels, a pod race, bad acting and laughable dialogue in The Phantom Menace (1999) changed all that.
I liked all the Star Wars movies and last year’s standalone film, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (2016). Excuse me for being entertained! I am even looking forward to "Solo: A Star Wars Story" (2018), the next standalone movie in the franchise due out next May which has had a roller coaster of behind-the-scenes drama earlier this year that started with the firing of directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ("The Lego Movie" – 2014) over creative differences who were replaced by Oscar winning director Ron Howard.
The difference between the “Negative Nancys” and supposed wannabee Know-It-All movie critics who I pay ZERO attention to as their reviews are nothing more than press releases minus any ounce of an original thought is I see movies to be entertained.
I wonder if it has something to do with that meme, I saw a while back where seeing a Star Wars movie is like having sex and eating pizza. “Even when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.”
©12/20/17
I paid ZERO attention to the reviews, negative or positive, about The Last Jedi and ignored actor Mark Hamill’s comments on his disagreements with the unexpected vision director/screenwriter Rian Johnson did with his character, Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker in episode VIII. Hamill later retracted those comments saying, ““Creative differences are a common element of any project but usually remain private,” Hamill wrote on Twitter. “All I wanted was to make a good movie. I got more than that – [Johnson] made an all-time GREAT one!”
If anyone like some wannabee movie critic who thinks they know everything about films offered me their personal opinion on The Last Jedi, my comment to them was going to be the meme I subscribe to on a Facebook page called “I speak sarcasm as a 2nd language” that says, “Do you remember me asking for your opinion? Yeah. Me neither.”
My being done with everyone’s bitching about the Star Wars franchise started in December 2015 when The Force Awakens (2015) was released.“I didn’t hate it,” said friend Patrick Keith on social media back then (though I suspect after this column he will unfriend me-like that hasn’t happened before and yet I somehow still sleep well at night despite the mild infestation of bedbugs I inherited from a laundromat!). “I just feel if you are going to spend $250 million on a film make something different.”
Keith’s less-than-glowing comments echoed much of what “Nerdville” wrote on social media back then. In short, they didn’t want a remake of "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" (1977) showing a different Death Star and a female lead heroine (Daisy Ridley) who comes from a sand planet similar to Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine. They wanted something new.
The trouble with the Star Wars franchise is fans who grew up on Episodes IV through VI (1977-1983) when they were barely in their teens, gullibly, perhaps stupidly, thought director/creator/screenwriter George Lucas could do no wrong when he returned to the series helming episodes I-III (1999-2005). Jar Jar Binks, a boring subplot involving intergalactic politics mixed with impressively choreographed lightsaber duels, a pod race, bad acting and laughable dialogue in The Phantom Menace (1999) changed all that.
Suddenly, the idea of furry teddy bears called Ewoks taking on the Empire’s finest in "Return of the Jedi" (1983) wasn’t such a bad idea after all. When it came to the prequels, fans went from uttering the negative words of Jar Jar Binks’ “Meesa no!” in Episode I to the one word of “Noooooo!” Darth Vader uttered at the end of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005).Suddenly, Star Wars was just as disappointing a franchise as every other movie series spawned since the James Bond films of the 1960s. There is a difference, however. I liked a majority of installments from many franchises that had audiences searching for the barf bags. The list is endless and a majority of them end with the number “3” like "The Godfather Part III" (1990), "Halloween III: Season of the Witch" (1983), "Spider-man 3" (2007), "Superman III" (1983) and some that didn’t have the number “3” beside their title like "Batman Forever" (1995), "A View to a Kill" (1985), "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (1989), "Quantum of Solace" (2008) and yes, the Star Wars prequels.
I liked all the Star Wars movies and last year’s standalone film, "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (2016). Excuse me for being entertained! I am even looking forward to "Solo: A Star Wars Story" (2018), the next standalone movie in the franchise due out next May which has had a roller coaster of behind-the-scenes drama earlier this year that started with the firing of directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ("The Lego Movie" – 2014) over creative differences who were replaced by Oscar winning director Ron Howard.
The difference between the “Negative Nancys” and supposed wannabee Know-It-All movie critics who I pay ZERO attention to as their reviews are nothing more than press releases minus any ounce of an original thought is I see movies to be entertained.
The Last Jedi was not perfect by any means, but it did what movies are supposed to do. Entertain. In a world full of mass murders, terrorism, biased political nonsense and social media losers who do nothing but bitch about President Trump, if a movie manages to take me away from all the depressing garbage people talk about for a few hours, then the film did its job!The Negative Nancy’s with a four-year-college BS degree in “Bitching” (and by BS, I am not talking about a Bachelor of Sciences) need to start putting their money (which they don’t have) where their mouth is and stop being the hypocrites who a majority of the ones representing the country in Congress are. If they have such a hatred of Star Wars, why do those same people since 2015 buy advance tickets and are the first ones at the first screening opening day to see these movies?
I wonder if it has something to do with that meme, I saw a while back where seeing a Star Wars movie is like having sex and eating pizza. “Even when it’s bad it’s still pretty good.”
©12/20/17
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