thismeintiel said:
Yet, more poor excuses for lazy writing. Sounds just like the fans of the prequels when they released. And even though the prequels did the stupid "Anakin is basically Jedi Jesus" they had enough sense to NOT have him master everything on his own, in the matter of a few days of finding out about the Force. It took him years to pull off the crap Rey is doing. Same goes for Luke. So, yes, it is a stretch you can go 0-Jedi in under 48 hours. And she did a lot more than pull a lightsaber and trick a stormtrooper. She stopped a trained Jedi from reading her thoughts, while seeing into his. She did a mind trick, something Luke could only do til movie 3 in the OG trilogy. She used it to defeat a trained Jedi/Sith in a lightsaber battle. And that said lightsaber was not just laying there, a trained Jedi/Sith was trying to pull it towards him at the time. The true sad thing is that no one would be defending this poor writing if it was a man. They would have expected more. And they have been given more in the past. But because it wasn't, we have to have those that sympatize with the modern feminist movement defending because of... uh...sexism. And don't post NC like he's the end all be all on opinions. His is also a poor excuse. You can do something different AND it be good. Many movies have proven this before. With that thinking Empire and Jedi should have been exactly like Hope, with slight changes, and would have been exceptable. Many people have even given suggestions for what they could have done to this movie to make it different, but not seem like a paint by numbers, and quite a few of them have been very good. Sadly, Hollywood likes to keep playing it safe and/or played out, and people keep making excuses for them. Yet, some of those same people complain about remakes. Go figure.
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Maybe they could have done something original if the prequels didn't fuck the franchise and alienate a large part of the audience. And there would be no "yeah but you gotta watch the next one to see Darth Vader!" hook that saved Ep.III either.
Star Wars was fizzling out after the prequels ... the Clone Wars animated movie *bombed* and the Phantom Menace 3D re-release was a dud (compare to how enthusiastically A New Hope was re-released to big box office in 1997).
The franchise was in trouble and declining. Disney is going to make 50 different Star Wars movies anyway, what's wrong with using ONE to re-center the damn franchise and take it back to its roots? The approach they took was smart.