4d ago

So many

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I was a huge Star Wars fan before Disney took over, and haven't liked anything they've done with it. Most people agree, with 2 exceptions: Andor, which I admittedly haven't watched yet, and...Rogue One
I don't think Rogue One is much better than the other Disney Star Wars drivel, but I'm apparently the only person in the universe who thinks that. I've watched it three times and just don't get why people think it's good.
- I enjoyed Andor but I think that has more to do with it seemed to focus far more on telling a good story than relying heavily on all of the tropes that make Star Wars content Star Wars
- So I actually do like a lot of the Disney stuff (I get enough hate please noooooo) but Rogue One I cannot stand and don't understand why it exists. The whole movie was justified off of a single line from A New Hope and the ending of Rogue One changes the opening of A New Hope in a bizarre way. Went from him chasing her down to her literally being like 15 feet from him as he watches her leave and follows her easily. Not necessarily bad because Leia bold faced lying to Vader and giving no fucks is kind of hysterical knowing he just watched her 10 seconds ago but odd.
  Andor... I watched the first episode and was interested to an extent but I think I'd have to push myself through a few episodes to really get into it. I've been in stress mode the past few months so just rewatching what I like over and over again. I've seen Penn and Teller so many fucking times in the past 3 weeks...
  
  Interesting that we both dislike Rogue One, but I also don't like anything else recent. That being said, I'm always down for some Penn and Teller, those guys are great
  
  The Last Jedi is probably my favorite Star Wars movie. What I was surprised to find out recently was that on Rotten Tomatoes, the critic review of TLJ is high but audience is low. Bizarrely, it's the dead opposite with Rise of Skywalker. That confuses me considering I've never heard anyone other than myself say a single good thing about it.
  And hell yes Penn and Teller. Although Teller does look like Yoda lately...
  
  it's so weird to me that the hate for TLJ (easily the best of the sequels, and imo better than any of the prequels) is so strong but the reaction to and criticism for RoS (the worst SW movie to date by a WIDE margin) are and remain extremely tepid.
  Also they did my girl Rose Tycho dirty af and I'm still salty to this day.
- In descending order: Andor, Empire Strikes Back, A New Hope, Rogue One. Everything below that isn't worth watching. (OK I didn't see any of the animated stuff yet, and I heard some of that was good, but I also heard a lot about baby yoda, so who knows?)
  
  for animated stuff skip the dave filoni garbage and go straight to Visions and the Genndy Tartakovsky Clone Wars.
  
  I want to read your next unpopular opinion on an even more controversial topic, especially if it involves sincerely held beliefs.
- I didn’t used to think this but now have come around to believing that it’s about how old you are because I dislike both the prequel and sequel trilogies but most people younger than me generally feel as good about the prequels as I do the original. Which seems like an obvious difference to me but I guess it’s that bias.
  
  I'm fine with the prequels, and I'm old enough to have seen a New Hope before it was called a New Hope. In the theaters even, though I didn't actually see it there. I don't think the prequels are as good as the originals overall, but I enjoy watching them every few years.
  But you're right, the prequels are almost always split on generational lines. Most of us old farts don't like them.
- Rouge One was okay, in my view. It wasn't spectacular, it wasn't terrible, it was okay.
- Andor tells the story of how a full scale rebellion was born from a guy who pretty much wanted nothing to do with it and the choices the empire made for their agenda. Rogue one is the peak of that story and shows you just what it takes to defy a galaxy wide space government bent on total control.
  I liked it because i grew up on the original trilogy and it was nice to see a fleshed out depiction with characters who barely had screen time or none at all in the OT but had so much to do with the events leading up to it. It feels like history and they did it very well imo

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