Mandalore76 said:
The gender and races of characters in the new Star Wars movies have nothing to do with them being poor as far as Star Wars movies go. Rey and Finn are original characters, so Disney can make them whatever gender or race they want. Black people existed in the original trilogy. Finn is not a revolutionary character in the Star Wars universe. Nor is a female main character. I am aware of the backlash against the Mary Sue nature of Rey, but that's a bigger issue than Rey being female. I do have an issue with both "The Force Awakens" and "The Last Jedi", but it goes way beyond race and gender of characters. My biggest issue with the "The Force Awakens" is that it was a total and unoriginal retread of Star Wars, and I got that feeling immediately while watching it in theater opening weekend. I don't need to see a shot for shot remake of Star Wars when I can just watch Star Wars. Case in point, this weekend there was a Star Wars marathon on the FX channel. I happened to miss the showing of the original Star Wars. Instead of watching "The Force Awakens", I went into the On Demand and qued up Star Wars instead. "The Last Jedi" has even more going against it, in that it just wasn't a very good movie. There were completely out of place jokey scenes that just because they worked in "Guardians of the Galaxy", Disney is trying to force them into everything. I'm talking about the kind of scenes that are hilarious in Seth McFarland's Family Guy Star Wars parodies or episodes of Robot Chicken, but have no business being in Star Wars. Also, the 2 films are completely incongruous. Every plotline JJ Abrams set up in TFA went nowhere or was reversed in TLJ. Worst of all was the treatment of Mark Hamill. They lied about how Luke would be used in the new trilogy to get him under contract. They showed him a script where he would be heavily involved in the plotline of TFA only to reduce him to a wordless pre-credits scene, and then completely subverted the essence of his character in TLJ. Those are my issues with the new Star Wars trilogy. I just want a good Star Wars movie, and TLJ was completely underwhelming on that front. |
I've said this before, but I thought the "diversity" was done perfectly in Rogue One, but the feminism in TLJ was over the top and (was one of many things that) kept me from enjoying the film as much. Pretty much every male was a dumbass in the movie who either continued being a dumbass (pretty much all of the empire) or was "fixed" by a female (Luke, Finn, Poe to an extent). If there was any argument between the sexes, you knew the female was right. In addition, not only is Rey pretty much a Mary Sue (which is fine and doesn't really bother me much) but EVERY SINGLE OTHER FEMALE in the movie is pretty much perfect. Leia, Holdo (or whatever her name is), Rose, Rey - all completely mistake free and incapable of making a mistake. The only female who isn't perfect in the movie is Phasma, but of course she's covered in a mask.
Of course all the things you mention about the movie were terrible as well. Ugh, I just can't get over how much I hate that movie.
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