"5 Reasons Kathleen Kennedy Needs To Step Down From Lucasfilm" By John Campea
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I can forgive the blueberry, what matters is the lemon sorbet
This part sticks with me. This is why this kerfuffle with Kennedy angers me so much. There is a demand for someone to lose their job because there is disagreement about how a movie was handled.
I don't know about anyone else, but I am so glad that every time a customer was mad with a product and demanded I get fired for it, I didn't.
Exactly. It was fun but it doesn’t hold a candle to the 1984 version. That’s okay.
I thought it was better than the 1989 sequel. Actually, I saw this movie right before I saw the 2016 movie. Don't get me wrong. I thought the 1989 movie was okay. But my opinion of it has declined since my last viewing.
I don't know if Kathleen Kennedy's "handling" of the Star Wars franchise is completely her fault. Does she answer to higher executive or executives? This is a woman who has spent over thirty years working with both Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. Either she just doesn't know how to handle Lucasfilm or she is being hampered by the Disney suits. Or . . . perhaps it's a combination of both.
1. Star Wars fans are big misogynist neocon Trumpanzees with no love of anybody but white males as characters, with women and minorities as background.
2. Star Wars fans are big misogynist neocon Trumpanzees with no love of anybody but white males as characters, with women and minorities as background.
3. Star Wars fans are big misogynist neocon Trumpanzees with no love of anybody but white males as characters, with women and minorities as background.
4.Star Wars fans are big misogynist neocon Trumpanzees with no love of anybody but white males as characters, with women and minorities as background.
5. Star Wars fans are big misogynist neocon Trumpanzees with no love of anybody but white males as characters, with women and minorities as background.
Simpler language? It isn't her, it is a small, loud group of racist, sexist, neocon (and faux 'liberal') morons who can't stand change and can't accept the fact that this is happening, or the fact that people of color and women have not been served well by the American film industry, and change on that front is past due.
FIFTY.
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When TLJ tried to explore what else was happening in the Galaxy, people complained even louder and said it had nothing to do with Star Wars. So what do you want? More lightsaber fights?
Exactly.... if one of the girls had been Egan's daughter..... and the GB had done their job so well that people forgot it was real.... and she found Egan's equipment after he passed.... and then evil is unleashed... and Ray was still on board.... like an overenthusastic mascot ..... with a Murray cameo telling them all to go stuff it.... and they have to rebuild and learn to use the equipment in time to save ny now that they have been vindicated...
trust me, no one would have cared that they were mostly female.
What do you mean? TLJ was mostly a slower, less exciting version of Fury Road.
I thought the movie wasn't awful. It was just a standard comedy of the 2010s. It just had the unfortunate luck to be a remake of one of the best comedies of all time, so there was no way it could even come close. Even the people who made the original couldn't come close to it when they made a sequel.
A sequel would have been better though.
Um, nope?
Most definitely nope. Fury Road was an audiovisual masterpiece with a pretty simple linear plot, not much character development and a blunt moral of the story.
It was a league ahead of TLJ in terms of cinematography, art direction, sound editing etc., but TLJ had much more ambitious storytelling and characters. Also, covered a slightly different set of themes.
I can only guess the extended car/spaceship chases are the parallel
Oh no they fucking didn’t.
Ahsoka was very loudly loathed from announcement, until around the second season. Because:
(a) she was a teenage girl. Which are generally considered The Devil on principle, but also because she was allowed to acf like a teenager. aka, have flaws.
(b) she was a ‘creators pet’ that was ‘made up’ to butt into ‘Anakin and Obi-Wan’s story.’
(b) she was a ‘creators pet’ that was ‘made up’ to butt into ‘Anakin and Obi-Wan’s story.’
Even by the end of TCW, there was still corners of fandom which resented her existence. That didn’t wear off entirely until Rebels, at least partially because there was now new things to band up and vocally hate. Like the entirety of Rebels.
And now, the cycle continues.
There are feminist themes in both, but from a completely different angle. Same difference to some people I guess, they just file it all together under "SJW propaganda".
I suppose many saw her as a mere attempt to break out into the girls' toys market, and the TCW movie Ahsoka did not offer a lot to make them question that preconception. I think a lot of people felt embarrassed for being biased against her after it became clear that her character arc was actually going somewhere.
Personally, I think she's a solid role model, a heroic Jedi knight who values loyalty, but doesn't follow the rule book blindly and eventually says fuck you to the Jedi order which turned its back on her*... And all this without being seduced by the dark side.
*Luke was rightfully disillusioned about the Jedi Order, they were a bunch of self-righteous arrogant hypocrites. Obi-Wan's failure to see right through them the way Anakin did was a big part of what brought down the Republic.
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