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Star Wars: Remaking The Sequel Trilogy?

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I was watching the Snyder Cut of Justice League and was wondering if this would be something Hollywood do in the future. The idea of remaking a recent movie because it didn’t meet expectations or downright was terrible. And it made me think about the Star Wars sequel trilogy. It’s very hard to find someone that says that the Star Wars sequel trilogy was actually good.

Then one day I stumbled on this post on Facebook. It seems as though there “might” be a chance Disney is remaking the trilogy. I use the word might because there is a lot of misinformation on the subject. But the same thing happened with the Snyder Cut. At first, they told the fans it didn’t exist, then it would be too expensive to film and then one random day it was announced to stream on HBO Max.

Hollywood has been doing things like forever. I remember when the series finale of Seinfeld was filming, cast members were only given their specific lines in the script and that was it. Not many knew the actual ending. And Tom Holland isn’t even given the actual script sometimes because the company fears him shouting out leaks.

So all we can do now is speciate until a mysterious trailer drops one day in the future. The idea of remaking the trilogy is good for Disney and the fans. I would imagine they would get Jon Favreau to write and direct the entire thing. Favreau made the Star Wars franchise cool again with the success of The Mandalorian.

One of the biggest missteps in the sequels were the competing directions of directors and writers. Very strange that they didn’t have a full plan for all three when production started and they were mostly scrambling to put something out. You’d expect more from one of the most well know companies in cinema.

This would also be a massive win for Disney as well because the last series was terrible and still managed to make over 4 billion dollars worldwide. So they would still be making a massive profit, be able to sell a ton of toys and merchandise and get to pat themselves on the backs why saying “we wanted to do right by the fans”.

However, I don’t see Disney making another billion-dollar movie in the future, Disney + put an end to that. Why would I go rushing to the theaters when I can simply wait a few months to watch it for no premium markup? But it would still make a profit in the long run.

Either way, the idea of remaking the failed sequels is a win for Disney and the fans. So now all we can do is speculate, keep the idea alive online and hope that Disney actually gives the fans what they want.

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Why Didn’t Palpatine Use His Child?

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Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious | StarWars.com

One of the biggest questions I had in Star Wars Rise of Skywalker, was why didn’t Palpatine groom his own child to be his successor? Rey Skywalker is the granddaughter of Palpatine and he spend so much effort trying to convert her to the dark side, so how did his own flesh and blood escape and more importantly why?

Besides the Death Star, there should be nothing in the galaxy as important as Palpatine’s only child. And I child like this I imagine would be groomed in Sith teachings for their entire life. And let’s say this child saw what the Empire really was and decided to escape, how powerful would this child be? Certainly, powerful enough to outrun the most powerful being in the galaxy for a long time and someone who shouldn’t be able to be stabbed to death so easily?

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Shorter Seasons Are Better

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One of best shows to come out of Disney+ is The Bad Batch, a tv show that follows a group genetically altered Clones, who go on missions and kill everything in their path. The show is very entertaining, filled with action, deep emotions, good plot, pretty much everything Star Wars fans have been begging the studio for years. However, I find one flaw to the show. Its too long.

There are some episodes, not many in the 16-episode season, feel like fillers. My main interest in the show is seeing The Bad Batch on the run from the newly formed Empire and one of their rogue members Crosshairs, who might be one of the greatest villains Star Wars has ever made.

I would’ve liked to see the show maybe be about 10-12 episodes at the most. I mean the filler episodes did have some value. They added some depth to some characters and some plot points found themselves later on in the season, but I really hated coming off such a high on some episodes and then brought back down to Earth an episode later.

So, what do you think about longer season? Would you rather have more seasons, or more episodes and less seasons?

Simptastic Joe

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You Learned Nothing?

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Is Movie 'Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018' streaming on Netflix?

Around the 15-minute mark, Han joins the Empire and is sent to bootcamp. The next scene has the title card 3 Years Later. Han is in the middle of a battle and doesn’t know anything. And the title card should’ve said maybe 3 days later. He starts off flying back from an explosion, he’s hyperventilating, questioning “why are we here?” to his commanding officer.

Now I know Star War’s movie Solo wasn’t perfect. I liked it, I wouldn’t rank it among the best Star Wars movies ever made, but it was a fun ride for. But there is a scene that I hate so much and I find it weird that it’s not mentioned among reviewers.

Solo: A Star Wars Story': Inside the Director Swap, Re-Shoots & More - Variety

Were you asleep in the briefing? Were you just on the crapper during this? Was he hooking up with an Ewok off world during this?

Are you telling me Han learned nothing in boot camp? That he went through 3 years of hanging with the Empire, having the best weapons in the galaxy at his disposal, learning from top military leaders and looks this green? Why would they even deploy him? And the Empire isn’t stupid. They aren’t just going to send in this guy, who doesn’t even know what’s going on, as cannon fodder. I guess the Clones were expendable, they were massed produced, but highly trained. They were also cloned from the greatest bounty hunter in the galaxy. And if the Clone Wars TV gave us was insight to their training and preparation. Some of my favorite episodes were of Clones learning the ropes, being part of a unit, and overcoming an endless robot army.

I think this scene is a good indicator of why the movie was so bad. The opening scene we see Han fresh out of a heist, then shortly after he double crosses the gang he’s with, he hotwires a speeder and hatches a brilliant plan of getting him and his girlfriend off world. Han is calm, confident and most importantly cool. He takes daring risks and totally embodies Harrison Ford. But after that battle scene, Han isn’t the same.

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It almost felt like the rest of the movie was a rewrite. I felt the same way watching the new Mortal Kombat. That opening scene was awesome, the cinematography, lighting and fighting were all perfect. Then the rest of the movie felt clunky and quickly written.

Han embodied too many emotions and barely felt like the same character in consecutive scenes. Alden Ehrenreich did a great job, but it looked like the scenes were vastly filmed out of order and he found a great feel for the character later on in filming and it was too late to redo the previous scenes.

Maybe I’m looking too much into it, but let me know what you guys thought.

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