Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

[Ravenclaw78]

Oh I knew everything at 15!

And now you're guilt-stricken, sobbing, with your head on the floor?

 

[ToTBellHop]

And now you're guilt-stricken, sobbing, with your head on the floor?

I can’t be held responsible.

 

[marni1971]

I remember disney.force9.co.uk!

Me too mid 1999

 

[Ravenclaw78]

No one will see the film so it won’t matter. 57% on RottenTomatoes...eek

I'll watch it anyway, as will probably most people, but the reviews all seem to boil down to "JJ Abrams retconned almost all of TLJ and sidelined Rose Tico to appease the trolls, and then tried to check off 8 movies' worth of items on the fanservice spreadsheet all at once, resulting in an utter train wreck."

 

[ToTBellHop]

Me too mid 1999

Didn’t this start as an IllumiNations fan club, basically?

Remember IllumiNations?

 

[marni1971]

Didn’t this start as an IllumiNations fan club, basically?

Remember IllumiNations?

Yes and yes. I signed up since Steve had some of the first RoE videos on the web.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I'll watch it anyway, as will probably most people, but the reviews all seem to boil down to "JJ Abrams retconned almost all of TLJ and sidelined Rose Tico to appease the trolls, and then tried to check off 8 movies' worth of items on the fanservice spreadsheet all at once, resulting in an utter train wreck."

I don’t want to go too far down this rabbit hole but wish they had just given J.J. the trilogy. You need one person in charge like Kevin Feige for the MCU. That’s what makes the MCU so cool to me. A single vision.

 

[disneygeek90]

No one will see the film so it won’t matter. 57% on RottenTomatoes...eek

And it'll still most likely do well at the box office.

 

[ToTBellHop]

And it'll still most likely do well at the box office.

I mean it’ll make a billion. But they want $2bn. You need repeat viewers for that.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

No one will see the film so it won’t matter. 57% on RottenTomatoes...eek

Welp. There goes that. Up next "Sonic the Hedgehog"
(Is it too late for Disney to acquire this one?)

 

[ToTBellHop]

Welp. There goes that. Up next "Sonic the Hedgehog"
(Is it too late for Disney to acquire this one?)

Hold my beer

 

[Ravenclaw78]

I don’t want to go too far down this rabbit hole but wish they had just given J.J. the trilogy. You need one person in charge like Kevin Feige for the MCU. That’s what makes the MCU so cool to me. A single vision.

While I've got a list of at least 20 directors I'd rather have been handed the trilogy before JJ, you're absolutely right that the lack of a coherent vision for the trilogy is at the root of most reasonable complaints about it. I'd take a JJ-directed trilogy over how it ended up going down, but his films tend to be all about rehashing the past rather than moving a story forward.

 

[Ravenclaw78]

Hold my beer
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THERE IS A REASON NOBODY HAS EVER REVIVED "CATS" ON BROADWAY!!!!!!!

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

While I've got a list of at least 20 directors I'd rather have been handed the trilogy before JJ, you're absolutely right that the lack of a coherent vision for the trilogy is at the root of most reasonable complaints about it. I'd take a JJ-directed trilogy over how it ended up going down, but his films tend to be all about rehashing the past rather than moving a story forward.

JJ relies too heavily on fan service but we're getting OT. (off topic - to avoid confusion)
In retrospect I probably should have stopped typing the shorthand and just said "off topic" - but the point has now passed.

 

[ToTBellHop]

THERE IS A REASON NOBODY HAS EVER REVIVED "CATS" ON BROADWAY!!!!!!!

They revived it in 2016 and closed it a year later. It needs to stay dead. Anywho...rise.

 

[ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ]

They revived it in 2016 and closed it a year later. It needs to stay dead.

There's at least 7 more lives left.

 

[MisterPenguin]

No one will see the film so it won’t matter.

Spoiler

57%

on RottenTomatoes...eek

spoilers

 

[Parker in NYC]

They revived it in 2016 and closed it a year later. It needs to stay dead. Anywho...rise.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

THERE IS A REASON NOBODY HAS EVER REVIVED "CATS" ON BROADWAY!!!!!!!

There's a national tour on now.

 

[Bleed0range]

Messed up that Disney spent 1 billion on a theme park based on characters that no one wants to see.

You know, they probably should have waited to invest in a SW land that featured only the new characters and timeline after they actually made the movies to see if people wanted it. Harry Potter land didn’t exist until that established world was a hit. Neither did the original Star Tours.

I guess we might actually get that OT refresh judging by the Rotten Tomatoes score for TROS.