The standalone series is set in the same time frame as <em>The Mandalorian</em> and <em>Ahsoka</em>.
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Jude Law’s Jedi befriends kids lost in space in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew trailer
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What, is The Goonies not "good enough" for you!? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
I'm expecting "gotta go fast".
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This actually looks kinda fun. Doesn't look like it takes itself too seriously, so a bit of silliness and suspension of belief is fine. Unlike Ahsoka, which took itself really seriously and was entirely crap. I'm fine with serious – Andor and Rogue One were awesome, after all – and I don't mind there being both silly and serious outings in the Star Wars universe. They have different audiences, of course.
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Albino_Boo
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The 4th one wasn't that bad, it could have done with being about 30 minutes shorter but it was an good Sunday afternoon film. I don't know why they don't set an Indiana Jones set in South America, it would be dead easy to do. Puts fingers in my ears la la la la
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Running right on the heels of the poorly reviewed Acolyte... They need to pump the brakes before even the die hards get Star Wars'd out just like everyone got super hero'd out.
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When I was a child, x was magical.
Now that I am an adult, x seems childish.
Seems like x must be aimed at children, then. Not that there's anything wrong with being an adult and liking stuff made for kids. Just don't hold it to the same standards that you would if it was meant for an audience with a more nuanced view of the world.
(whooshed pretty hard here)
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The bar for those awards must be staggeringly low. Temple of Doom would be bad without Short Round, but that character sure doesn't help.
I didn't say child actors stay bad, just that most of them are bad when they are children. I'm sure having parts written by adults doesn't help.
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George Lucas was clearly going through Some Shit as far as women were concerned at that moment, but it was weirdly discordant to have a strong, hard-drinkin', ass-kicking female protagonist in Raiders replaced for no apparent reason by a shrill, wimpy, grating character that seemingly existed to piss everyone else off.
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Temple of Doom was set in 1935 , Raiders was set in 1936. Karen Allen's character couldn't be in Temple of Doom without retconing Raiders.
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Temple of Doom was probably some of John Williams' best work. The Parade of the Slave Children is right up there with The Imperial March and Asteroid Field from Empire.
Aside from that, this looks like it could be fun! It doesn't have to be perfect or amazing, it just needs to be fun.
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I think the major problem is they are marketing Star Wars to the adults and lost the magic that the original 3 movies had. They were just campy fun. Then the prequels tried to hard to be more serious and there are parts of them that harken to the originals. The sequels were just a CGI fest with recycled stories.
The Animated shows were decent. Mandalorian started out good, wend off the rails a bit and then sorta got a little better in season 3.
Ashoka was OK.
The rest are take it or leave it. Although I can't comment much on the Acolyte because I couldn't make it thorough episode one. Thought it would be closer to the original Star Wars and less modern Disney.
That said, all of that rant was in relation to Star Wars. I left Andor out because that could stand alone and was a decent show for adults. Reminds me of Empire Strikes Back. More somber but tells a story.
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As a once-diehard StarWars fan who can't unbleach eps 7-9 from their eyes, I've enjoyed the offshoot stories more than I thought I would. I'll give this a shot. At some (distant) point I'd love them revisit the Skywalker arc and go into some post-Return of the Jedi Luke's adventures, kind of like ths stuff he was up to in heir to the empire.
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Poe's Law and all, but the sarcasm was palpable and you are reiterating their real point.
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Stop using that cheap and sloppy churned out vocabulary...
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You should care about Andor. Everything else? Meh, generally, but there are some highlights, e.g. S1 (and I'd argue S2) of The Mandalorian.
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Great, now I'm imagining Vader as the black knight. ::heavy breathing:: tis but a flesh wound ::heavy breathing::
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I think I have seen the Obi Wan/Anakin battle dubbed with that scene, but not currently in a position to search YouTube for it.
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Original Trilogy establishes that Luke is the last Jedi. Prequel movies codifies this by showing the murder of all the Jedi. Disney buys Lucasfilm and erases this entirely so they can introduce a Jedi whenever they want. Is it really so difficult to tell stories that are in the distant past that don't screw with existing canon or the beloved EU?
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Poe's Law, indeed. After scrolling past so much self-serious chestbeating and rending of clothes over the direction of the property, I didn't see intelligence when it was right before me.
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It looks extremely uninspired. I'm thinking a new kind of electron microscope is going to be needed to detect ratings this small.
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I don't mind a 'fresh take', but IMO even a fresh take should preserve the overall aesthetics of the Star Wars universe. The Earth-like urban environment in the first half of the trailer looks more like Star Trek. I personally don't like to see any sci fi series losing its aesthetic individuality.
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Real Episode 1 speeder race vibes.
Watching this trailer made me realize how old I am!
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Watching this trailer made me realize how old I am!
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Here's hoping for some Star Wars that's actually for children and not just appealing to the nostalgia of adult fans...(speaking as a adult fan with plenty of nostalgia).
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I'd argue Rouge One proves that ... both ways.
It is best when it is an adventure story. Worst when it shoehorns in some other things.
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Something something something dark side… something something Disneyfication com-plete.
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44% of them are... and there's nothing racist about saying that indians are "famously vegetarian".
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Rogue One would have been a better movie outside the SW universe.
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"Most," maybe not?
But "lots, lots more than any other ethnicity or religion" is surely true.
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Albino_Boo
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Apart from they aren't famously vegetarian. Go into an Indian restaurant anywhere in the world and you will find meat dishes.
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Literally yes unless we're including random small web projects, but I feel like it's possible to tell the difference between something that is the materialization of a vision and something that is the product of focus groups and data mining. Star Wars, Marvel, and.. most large franchises have felt like the latter for a long, long time.
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I watched it again as an adult and of course it didn’t work as well as when I first viewed it, when I was about the same age as the protagonists.
But it’s also not fair to compare it to the movies of today. Maybe you’re not doing this, though I think it’s natural to do so.
I think the fairest comparison is vs movies if its era. Here I think it compares much, much better. There really weren’t that many good movies back then IMO.
But stepping back from the film, I think the core story still works today, and it’s why I’m interested in this new Star Wars project.
Another movie that could have been used almost as a drop-in replacement for inspiration and thematic reasons is “Explorers.”
It was even released the same year as Goonies, and starred very young versions of Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix.
Basically, suburban boys discover space travel and adventure; I won’t spoil it.
I found Explorers worked much better for me as an adult than Goonies.
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After the total botch that The Acolyte was, I'd love to see even minimally competently written Star Wars. LA looking suburbs are kind of an ehhhh...but then again, Mos Eisley was just a cliched Western town so are any of these worlds all that original? They all have antecedents. Just don't suck okay?
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