So much potential set up in TFA that was just squandered.
We saw this in the theater opening night and I knew something was wrong when the first 20 minutes seemed like they adapted a World War II movie script, but replaced the Memphis Belle with fucking spaceships dropping bombs from orbit????? But by the time they got to the extended 'car chase in space' sequence, I was attracting attention from people around us with uncontrollable, audible sighs after stupid lines or pointless scenes.
As we walked out of the theater, a burden was lifted off me as the care I had for Star Wars was left behind with this debacle. From that night onward, while I may have followed the behind-the-scenes stories about the last Star Wars movie from Professor Doomcock (that turned out to be 100% accurate) and I have a copy of Ivan Ortega's fan recut, (which is the superior cut) I've not spent a single minute on Disney's Star Wars since.
Instead, I've gone back and collected all of the "despecialized" versions and theatrical cut transfers of the original trilogy to remember Star Wars as it originally was meant.
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So much potential set up in TFA that was just squandered.
We saw this in the theater opening night and I knew something was wrong when the first 20 minutes seemed like they adapted a World War II movie script, but replaced the Memphis Belle with fucking spaceships dropping bombs from orbit????? But by the time they got to the extended 'car chase in space' sequence, I was attracting attention from people around us with uncontrollable, audible sighs after stupid lines or pointless scenes.
As we walked out of the theater, a burden was lifted off me as the care I had for Star Wars was left behind with this debacle. From that night onward, while I may have followed the behind-the-scenes stories about the last Star Wars movie from Professor Doomcock (that turned out to be 100% accurate) and I have a copy of Ivan Ortega's fan recut, (which is the superior cut) I've not spent a single minute on Disney's Star Wars since.
Instead, I've gone back and collected all of the "despecialized" versions and theatrical cut transfers of the original trilogy to remember Star Wars as it originally was meant.