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Veggeta_MAX
09/02/20 12:56:28 PM
#52:


ThunderTrain posted...
What does Rian Johnson have to do with future Star Wars movies?
You're implying people ONLY hated TLJ, the movie Rian directed.

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Trelve
09/02/20 12:58:08 PM
#53:


The Last Jedi is by far the best sequel trilogy movie. If it was between seeing more Star Wars movies by Rian Johnson or JJ Abrams, I'd go RJ in a flash.
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Taharqa_
09/02/20 12:59:39 PM
#54:


The only thing Kathleen Kennedy was concerned about was propping up Rey. Finn was an interesting character in TFA, a former Storm Trooper. By the third film he's little more than a glorified extra.

They didn't Finn, Poe and the original trilogy cast dirty in the sequel trilogy

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CruelBuffalo
09/02/20 1:02:09 PM
#55:


DarthAragorn posted...
Rose was fine, not great but fine, as a character, the problem was her entire plot was fucking pointless

Also yeah I agree with the general sentiment in this topic that Finn was the best part of TFA and I expected him to be awesome in TLJ. And then we got that...

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AngelsNAirwav3s
09/02/20 1:03:36 PM
#57:


I wonder if there was some serious studio meddling in Rise of Skywalker if he is telling everyone to lay off JJ? At least Finn and Poe had character arcs in The Last Jedi.

Or is he trying to call out Chris Terrio for being a racist and sidelining his character, if it's not JJ?

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IShall_Run_Amok
09/02/20 1:04:25 PM
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I thought he was fine in the first two movies, but its like they finished his arc and said "...and Finn was there, too, give him some stuff to do, first thing that comes to mind" in the third.

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SSJGrimReaper
09/02/20 1:23:07 PM
#59:


Abrams was the one who pushed for John to be cast in the first place so I'm not surprised he has JJ's back

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Crazyman93
09/02/20 1:31:03 PM
#60:


I mean, as much of a cluster fuck as the ST turned out to be, I'd be pretty happy to get forgotten about by the writers. Gives me a better chance of still having a career in acting when the dust clears.

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ox0shadow0xo
09/02/20 1:32:30 PM
#61:


ThunderTrain posted...
Should've made him a Jedi also instead of making Rey a Mary Sue.
This! I was so disappointed when they didn't go that route.

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Joeydollaz
09/02/20 1:41:52 PM
#62:


Female Heroes is the key now

sorry

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CruelBuffalo
09/02/20 1:44:05 PM
#63:


SSJGrimReaper posted...
Abrams was the one who pushed for John to be cast in the first place so I'm not surprised he has JJ's back
He doesnt really since hes shit talking the treatment of Kellie Marie Tran which JJs view of her character seemed to be the video below since he didnt create her

https://youtu.be/KyAkgIsC2js

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Giant_Aspirin
09/02/20 1:46:46 PM
#64:


InhumaneRaider posted...
Disney needs to stop acting like they actually care about diversity.

Disney, like every other publicly traded corporation, cares about one thing, and only one thing: profit. They "care about diversity" only when it ultimately benefits their actual bottom line of making as much money as possible. This is why the poster looks the way is does in China -- because that will maximize profit in that region.

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LethalAffinity
09/02/20 1:48:27 PM
#65:


The new characters are just bad across the board. The overarching ideas for the sequel trilogy (rebels vs. empire AGAIN?) were flawed. Most importantly, it's become clear that they had no actual plan with the story.

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0Renegade
09/02/20 1:50:18 PM
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Finn being a former storm trooper then finding out he was just a janitor in TLJ was ass. It's like when they said Rey was nobody then find out in IX she was palpatines god damn grand daughter but in the opposite manner

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Kuuko
09/02/20 1:52:41 PM
#67:


0Renegade posted...
Finn being a former storm trooper then finding out he was just a janitor in TLJ was ass. It's like when they said Rey was nobody then find out in IX she was palpatines god damn grand daughter but in the opposite manner
We find out he was a janitor in TFA. He says it to Han. The cool-sounding "reformed Stormtrooper" character profile was already dead in the movie that introduced it

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LethalAffinity
09/02/20 1:54:33 PM
#68:


Kuuko posted...
We find out he was a janitor in TFA. He says it to Han. The cool-sounding "reformed Stormtrooper" character profile was already dead in the movie that introduced it

This. Could have been a cool concept but they squandered it. I wish they illustrated him being more torn with leaving the First Order but instead he's completely cool with murdering his former comrades 15 minutes after defecting.

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archedsoul
09/02/20 1:56:26 PM
#69:


He was in charge of sanitation when he was on Starkiller Base in the past. That's not his job when he leaves the FO at the start of TFA.

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FortuneCookie
09/02/20 1:56:27 PM
#70:


InhumaneRaider posted...
Disney needs to stop acting like they actually care about diversity.

They care about diversity when diversity means Strong White Girl.

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ThunderTrain
09/02/20 1:57:50 PM
#71:


Kuuko posted...
We find out he was a janitor in TFA. He says it to Han. The cool-sounding "reformed Stormtrooper" character profile was already dead in the movie that introduced it

They couldn't even say that he was just a low level stormtrooper who didn't actually know anything. They had to go with janitor to get the cheap laugh from the audience.

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Giant_Aspirin
09/02/20 1:58:52 PM
#72:


LethalAffinity posted...
The overarching ideas for the sequel trilogy (rebels vs. empire AGAIN?)

no no no, in the ST they fight the First Order. it's totally different! and they aren't "Rebels", they're "the Resistance". see, again, totally different things!

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bknight
09/02/20 2:01:38 PM
#73:


JJ Abrams brainstorming with his team of writers
"What if, we make the storm trooper black?"
Brilliant write that down, we'll put that in the trailer and figure the rest out as we go.
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Jiggy101011
09/02/20 2:02:04 PM
#74:


Yeah, im not sure this was a smart decision shitting on Disney.

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BeyondWalls
09/02/20 2:06:03 PM
#75:


Master_Bass posted...
Yeah, Finn was such a wasted character.
Was he though? Because it seems like his story was pretty much wrapped up by the end of TFA.

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SSJGrimReaper
09/02/20 2:11:07 PM
#76:


BeyondWalls posted...
Was he though? Because it seems like his story was pretty much wrapped up by the end of TFA.
after tfa the trilogy became kylo & friends

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0Renegade
09/02/20 2:12:08 PM
#77:


SSJGrimReaper posted...
BeyondWalls posted...
Was he though? Because it seems like his story was pretty much wrapped up by the end of TFA.
after tfa the trilogy became kylo & friends

Its like when naruto shippuden became more about sasuke than naruto
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LethalAffinity
09/02/20 2:19:10 PM
#78:


Jiggy101011 posted...
Yeah, im not sure this was a smart decision shitting on Disney.

Nah fuck em.

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Venger2112
09/02/20 2:25:48 PM
#79:


I'll preface this first by saying imo, Ridley is the worst of the main actors, and Rey is the worst of the MCs.

Now Finn wasn't a bad character, and he was definitely wasted, but lets be real here. Boyega is an average actor at best. Not everything is always about race like he thinks. I can't stand Harrison Ford but lmao, you want to sideline Han Solo on a poster for some random new character? As said above that shit is purely about money.

Solo is (for some reason) the most popular character in the series, its moronic to think he needs to be the small guy on the poster.

IMO Boyega has kind of baited these issues a little, like that asian side character was just that; a side character. Is she supposed to fuckin turn to the dark side and become the main Sith? Or follow the light, kick Rey into the ocean, and train w Luke?

IDK. There's so many problems with nu-Star Wars but the racism thing he keeps probing doesn't seem to exist here the way he thinks it does. IMO

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bknight
09/02/20 2:26:18 PM
#80:


Jiggy101011 posted...
Yeah, im not sure this was a smart decision shitting on Disney.
Meh, it's not like Daisy Ridley is getting job offers left and right, she's down to voice acting for a game. Looks like only Adam Driver and maybe Oscar Isaac will come out unscathed from the trilogy, much like only Harrison Ford went on to become a big movie star.
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SSJGrimReaper
09/02/20 2:28:10 PM
#81:


bknight posted...
Meh, it's not like Daisy Ridley is getting job offers left and right, she's down to voice acting for a game. Looks like only Adam Driver and maybe Oscar Isaac will come out unscathed from the trilogy, much like only Harrison Ford went on to become a big movie star.

oscar and adam were already established actors before being in star wars though


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Venger2112
09/02/20 2:28:43 PM
#82:


SSJGrimReaper posted...
oscar and adam were already established actors before being in star wars though
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BakonBitz
09/02/20 2:34:38 PM
#83:


Yeah, they really squandered Finn's role. Had a lot of potential for something good.

Then again the whole sequel trilogy was wasted. They're fun to watch as popcorn flicks but they fall apart as an actual trilogy.
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bknight
09/02/20 2:34:52 PM
#84:


SSJGrimReaper posted...
oscar and adam were already established actors before being in star wars though
Were they though? Driver's biggest role before Star Wars was on Girls, a HBO niche show. When he got casted, everyone went 'that guy from Girls?'. Oscar biggest role in a major movie was the Bourne Legacy movie, and he probably only got the Ex Machina gig as exposure from TFA.
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Venger2112
09/02/20 2:35:58 PM
#85:


Oh Ex Machina was post TFA? I take it back then. To me that's his defining role despite it being mildly niche.

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TomNook20
09/02/20 2:37:33 PM
#86:


Venger2112 posted...
Oh Ex Machina was post TFA? I take it back then. To me that's his defining role despite it being mildly niche.
It came out a year before tfa

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bknight
09/02/20 2:38:18 PM
#87:


Venger2112 posted...
Oh Ex Machina was post TFA? I take it back then. To me that's his defining role despite it being mildly niche.
Nope, my bad, ex machina was before TFA, so yea I guess he was an established actor, but probably still not a household name.
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The Wheelman1
09/02/20 2:42:10 PM
#88:


Makes no sense that Rey became a Skywalker when it should be Kylo. Kylo is related to Luke and Leia. But let's give Rey the name just for the sake of having a female Skywalker. Talk about bad writing.

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Venger2112
09/02/20 2:42:37 PM
#89:


Yea not household, but even from that movie alone I was just like DAMMMMN this guys good!


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Venger2112
09/02/20 2:42:55 PM
#90:


The Wheelman1 posted...
Makes no sense that Rey became a Skywalker when it should be Kylo. Kylo is related to Luke and Leia. But let's give Rey the name just for the sake of having a female Skywalker. Talk about bad writing.
yep

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UnfairRepresent
09/02/20 2:43:14 PM
#91:


He got paid a fortune and given massive exposure to play a role thousands of struggling actors would literally have ripped their mother's liver out of her body (without aesthetic) and eaten it in front of their father just to get because"It wasn't good enough in the sequels they paid me to do!" and complains about it.

What an ego. He's not Harrison Ford. There are 27,000 actors who could have done that role just fine.
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Venger2112
09/02/20 2:44:29 PM
#92:


UnfairRepresent posted...
He got paid a fortune and given massive exposure to play a role thousands of struggling actors would literally have ripped their mother's liver out of her body (without aesthetic) and eaten it in front of their father just to get because"It wasn't good enough in the sequels they paid me to do!" and complains about it.

What an ego. He's not Harrison Ford. There are 27,000 actors who could have done that role just fine.
Yeah exactly. He seriously thinks he is hot shit. Hes average. Hes good enough. That's it.

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SSJGrimReaper
09/02/20 2:50:32 PM
#94:


it's funny that the sequel trilogy cast want nothing to do with sw nowadays

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HBOSS
09/02/20 2:51:23 PM
#95:


new star wars was never going to live up to the hype of the OT. but, the tfa trailer promised something different. fresh new and its all interesting back then. that was all it ended up being. all hype and conclusion to the skywalker saga.

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Philip027
09/02/20 2:53:41 PM
#96:


Not surprised. After episode 7 he was basically relegated to Token Black, and he knows it.

He's got every right to be upset.
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Vampire_Wreath
09/02/20 3:01:47 PM
#97:


If he didn't like it, he shouldn't have come back for the third film

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SSJGrimReaper
09/02/20 3:03:36 PM
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John325
09/02/20 3:04:36 PM
#99:


When you cast a token just for token's sake, it's just wasted plot potential. Either have something good planned for the character or stop trying to virtue signal hoping for that sweet woke cash. Just write the characters you actually want to write. Not that what they did with the other characters was all that good. He might have got off fairly easily. At least now maybe an EU book can pick up the slack...
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cjsdowg
09/02/20 3:11:48 PM
#100:


I told everyone how it was.. and people didn't believe me.



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glitteringfairy
09/02/20 3:12:51 PM
#101:


cjsdowg posted...
I told everyone how it was.. and people didn't believe me.

Even if you were right you'd still never be right because your cjsdowg

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KyerWiz
09/02/20 3:13:53 PM
#102:


The main problem by far of the whole ST was the lack of planning. Finn was just another of its victims.
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