Arkaign said:
Bingo. Episode 8 was a really divisive piece of work that took a huge dump on the franchise, and it only gets worse with more inspection and reflection. The entire idea to begin with to have separate directors and no cohesive story planned out for the trilogy ahead of time was one problem, but to have the second film basically make the previous one completely pointless was unbelievably stupid.
RJ is absolutely terrible in terms of fitting the SW universe as a creator. He'd be ok if left to cinematography, but no creative input at all.
Rewatching the interviews where Mark Hamill speaks about TLJ is stunning. He tried to warn them and us, but could only say so much. Now he's starting to be able to tell us more. RJ will completely sink the franchise if he's left in the loop. If they want a director that has a good feel for science fiction and human grounding, Duncan Jones or Alex Garland would be a wise option. |
Hamill was critical about his role, but he has been pretty positive of the movie.
And the fan backlash to TLJ is probably orders of magnitudes smaller then what many percieve and probably not the reason for Solo's dissapointment. A movie that would be received so badly wouldn't exactly top the DVD and Blu-Ray sales charts for 2018 wouldn't it?
