• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    12 天前

    Cannot believe people are still talking about this 20 years later…

      • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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        12 天前

        My wife asked me when we’re watching Star Wars. I told her “When the story is finished”.

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            10 天前

            All Star Wars suck balls.

            I can’t believe people like it for any other reason than nostalgia.

            There are so many better pieces of media.

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              11 天前

              I feel like people believe this because the next two movies were so awful. I’ve always felt like the force awakening was worse than the prequels. None of the good story telling from a new hope was transferred.

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            12 天前

            The Last Jedi is top 3 out of the Skywalker movies easily.

            In a few short years, you’ll see. The sequels will be redeemed just as the prequels before them. Time is a flat circle.

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              12 天前

              Stunning visuals maybe but damn the story was bad and ruined any internal consistency of the space battles in the entire franchise. Rogue one is the only good Disney SW movie, Solo is fine too

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              12 天前

              nah. the sequels were fun in an initial watch, but have no staying power. they are just bullet point reshoots of the original trilogy. the prequels have issues but at least they are actually original ideas.

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              12 天前

              I can’t say never, but TRoS is a fucking awful movie (not just as Star Wars, but a terrible cinematic experience) and I think it’s really damn hard to redeem a trilogy with that as a bookend.

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                12 天前

                Also the fact that the second and third instalments barely feel like sequels let alone continuations of storylines retroactively made The Force Awakens worse. And it was only kind alright before.

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              12 天前

              I think only the first episode has been “redeemed” in any way. Mostly because the pod race and darth maul.

              The other two are still horrible.

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        10 天前

        Alyx is not HL3, and I don’t get it when people say it is.

        HL2E2 ended and we were left partway through a story that never received an ending.

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          10 天前

          I didn’t say it was HL3. I replied to a post implying the series hasn’t had an update in 20 years.

          It’d be like a Star Wars fan wondering why there’s buzz about the movie coming out next year despite it being 42 years since Return of the Jedi. And the answer is that even if that’s the last one that particular fan personally cared about, there has been Star Wars media since then.

          Also, Alyx did resolve the HL2E2 ending. It didn’t add a whole lot on past that, but the cliffhanger was very much addressed.

    • freeman@feddit.org
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      11 天前

      To be fair we know that a HL Sequel was worked on by Valve several times but always scrapped in various stages of production. So the rumours really came from somewhere reasonable and not just from pure speculation and desperation.