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Post by ck100 on May 26, 2021 21:00:10 GMT
That was a problem for the Star Wars sequel trilogy. It felt like they were winging it with each of the films. They work better as individual films than as a trilogy. www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/j-j-abrams-admits-obvious-191100249.html"There are projects that I’ve worked on where we had some ideas but we hadn’t worked through them enough, sometimes we had some ideas but then we weren’t allowed to do them the way we wanted to. I’ve had all sorts of situations where you plan things in a certain way and you suddenly find yourself doing something that’s 180 degrees different, and then sometimes it works really well and you feel like, ‘Wow that really came together,’ and other times you think, ‘Oh my God I can’t believe this is where we are,’ and sometimes when it’s not working out it’s because it’s what you planned, and other times when it’s not working out it’s because you didn’t [have a plan]." "“You just never really know, but having a plan I have learned–in some cases the hard way–is the most critical thing, because otherwise you don’t know what you’re setting up. You don’t know what to emphasize. Because if you don’t know the inevitable of the story, you’re just as good as your last sequence or effect or joke or whatever, but you want to be leading to something inevitable.”"
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Post by thisguy4000 on May 26, 2021 21:51:37 GMT
The problem isn’t so much that they didn’t have an overall plan. It’s that TFA was written in a way where all these mysteries were set up and waiting to be explored, so the fact that they didn’t have any answers to those mysteries is ridiculous.
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Post by ck100 on May 26, 2021 22:09:00 GMT
The problem isn’t so much that they didn’t have an overall plan. It’s that TFA was written in a way where all these mysteries were set up and waiting to be explored, so the fact that they didn’t have any answers to those mysteries is ridiculous. I remember The Force Awakens had someone ask Maz where she got Luke's lightsaber and that question was never answered in any of the sequel trilogy films (not unless it was answered in a deleted scene).
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Post by thisguy4000 on May 26, 2021 22:21:38 GMT
The problem isn’t so much that they didn’t have an overall plan. It’s that TFA was written in a way where all these mysteries were set up and waiting to be explored, so the fact that they didn’t have any answers to those mysteries is ridiculous. I remember The Force Awakens had someone ask Maz where she got Luke's lightsaber and that question was never answered in any of the sequel trilogy films (not unless it was answered in a deleted scene). Yeah, that’s become a pretty notorious example.
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Post by Marv on May 26, 2021 23:17:10 GMT
The problem isn’t so much that they didn’t have an overall plan. It’s that TFA was written in a way where all these mysteries were set up and waiting to be explored, so the fact that they didn’t have any answers to those mysteries is ridiculous. Exactly.
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Post by vegalyra on May 27, 2021 1:15:03 GMT
TFA was probably the best of the sequels for me, they set up some interesting mysteries that had me pretty excited to figure out only to be let down by last Jedi. Rise of Skywalker just seemed like obvious damage control. The prequels were the first knife in the gut for the downfall of the saga, the sequels were the double tap to the chest and one in the head by a semi automatic.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 27, 2021 1:50:06 GMT
The plan was to take a lot of ppl's money & it worked. I heard about JJ's open ended nonsense after hearing podcasts about TLJ. Rian Johnson asked JJ stuff like who was Snoke, where did Rey come from, etc. JJ laughed & told him that's where the fun comes in - we don't know yet, you figure it out! It's no f'n wonder JJ was hauled back for ROS because probably no one else wanted anything to do with it.
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Post by darkpast on May 27, 2021 4:21:08 GMT
The set plan was to make money.
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Post by onethreetwo on May 27, 2021 4:39:59 GMT
At least Kylo was kind of cool. That's something anyway. There's not a whole lot to love about the trilogy.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 27, 2021 5:19:32 GMT
Obama figured as much, and I like them anyway.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on May 27, 2021 8:43:31 GMT
Only seen The Force Awakens, so I don't know how the trilogy will ultimately unfold. A lot was left unexplained and it rehashes a lot of themes and tropes form the Original Trilogy. Narrative defects aside, it's a nice-looking and reasonably entertaining flick nonetheless.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on May 27, 2021 16:34:26 GMT
Rogue One is the only truly good Star Wars movie that’s not one of the OT films. Others may be somewhat entertaining in various ways but they’re all otherwise weak overall.
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