I have no desire to see the new Star Wars movie. I resent the way J.J. Abrams totally trrashed the new Star Trek franchise with the Wrath of Khan rewrite. His deliberate misportrayal of Kirk and whitewashing of Khan just makes me want to strangle him. If he liked Star Wars so much better, he should have turned down the Star Trek franchise.
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SailAweigh - Apr 17, 2015 2:47:01 am PDT #28724 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Tom Scola - Apr 17, 2015 3:25:50 am PDT #28725 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
In addition to what SailAweigh said, I feel that Abrams' ability to tell a story is so bad that he either has some sort of cognitive defect, or outright contempt for his audience. (I've felt this way going all the way back to Alias).
So I might see The Force Awakens, but I will go in with extremely low expectations. It will be a very pretty simulacrum of a Star Wars picture.
SailAweigh - Apr 17, 2015 4:55:27 am PDT #28726 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
If I went, I would just wait for the big red ball to show up. Maybe it will be the source of the midichlorians, whatever that was meant to be.
P.M. Marc - Apr 17, 2015 6:50:59 am PDT #28727 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I said in someone's FB re: Khan that it's not that he whitewashed him (RM was an ethnic minority, but not a racial one, seeing as both his parents were from Spain, and he was in brownface for the TOS episode) so much as that he used him period.
As good as WoK was, Space Seed is an appalling episode, filled with all sorts of problematic crap, and Khan in it is epically rapey and gross.
SailAweigh - Apr 17, 2015 9:11:21 am PDT #28728 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I think one of the reasons they even considered using RM was because of his accent. I remember reading somewhere about how bitter he was that the accent held him back from a number of good roles. For Khan, it kind of helped that he had one so that the audience was better able to buy into the role; it fulfilled some kind of expectation of the "other." At that period of time in Hollywood, I wouldn't be surprised if that was their main consideration.
Atropa - Apr 17, 2015 9:16:33 am PDT #28729 of 30000
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The prequels for the Star Wars movies burned out any lingering enthusiasm I had for the franchise as a whole, and Pete feels the same but even more so. So we'll go see The Force Awakens if we hear/read good things about it, but it isn't an automatic "must see in theatre!" movie for us right now.
beekaytee - Apr 17, 2015 9:49:24 am PDT #28730 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
The prequels for the Star Wars movies burned out any lingering enthusiasm I had for the franchise as a whole
There is no WORD big enough to articulate how much word I have for this.
Someone will have to give this one a gold-plated review before I can be bothered, nostalgia be damned.
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2015 9:55:24 am PDT #28731 of 30000
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I enjoyed enough of the sequels that I'd watch them again if I stumbled across them.
-t - Apr 17, 2015 10:08:03 am PDT #28732 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have such complicated feelings about Star Wars. Cannot sum up.
quester - Apr 17, 2015 5:16:39 pm PDT #28733 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I've never had any great attachment to Star Wars. I enjoyed the original movies well enough, but thought the overall reaction to them to be out of proportion to the quality of them.
The prequels were pretty but the cartoon Clone Wars are better. I'll see the sequels for completest reasons, but I don't have a great investment in the whole thing.