12-15-2017, 12:18 PM
I was done with Star Wars after Rogue One. Say what you want about the Prequels, at least they introduced new ideas and cool new things. Lucas took Star Wars and tried to do something bold and original with it, same as he did with the originals. He failed miserably--but at least he tried.
I can't take anymore of these shitty Disney blockbuster flicks. The marvel films, the star wars films, they're all the ucking same. They all have the same shitty mediocre character archetypes and the same "wink-wink" kind of attitude, where like they know they're all in a retarded fantasy story and are just there to joke around and have a good time.
I love the ability for big blockbusters to both blow people away with sheer excitement but also have real impact on people's emotions and lives. Rogue One was so cringey I actually had to leave the theater halfway throguh, and Episode 7 was about as entertaining or interesting or exciting as a plastic spoon. I've no interest in seeing Episode 8 but assume I probably will have to at some point since it's sort of a huge part of my job to stay current with big movies, and this is kind of the biggest of big movies going around right now. I used to be such a diehard Star Wars fan, and now, sadly, all these big-budget blockbuster films are the damned same. With Disney's acquisition of Fox, we can expect to see only more and more dumbing down of great franchises and movies all across the board.
Disney forgets the reason why the first Star Wars trilogy changed the world was because it was so revolutionary as a film for its time that literally NOBODY wanted to buy it. George Lucas self-funded it entirely with a PRIVATE loan from some of his Fox buddies... and that's why he's the richest filmmaker of all time--because he owned the rights to EVERYTHING, including the merchandising. But he made a successful franchise by being bold and original. Same with Spielberg. When he made Jaws, nobody had made a movie that blended together that kind of visceral jaw-dropping seat-gripping entertainment with the same level of intellectual and philosophical prowess as old Shakesperean plays--all the iconic movies of the past, from Jaws to Star Wars to Blade Runner to The Matrix to the LOTR trilogy and the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and so on and so forth, have blended entertainment with art--but now, in blockbusters, becuase of the Disney monopoly, we *only* have the option of seeing "fun".
It makes me very mad and frustrated very easily, unfortunately, because as a screenwriter, and a huge nerd, it was my dream to make deeply powerful blockbuster movies in the vein of Nolan, Lucas and Spielberg--but Disney's current stranglehold on the market makes it almost impossible for those dreams to ever come to fruition, now.
I can't take anymore of these shitty Disney blockbuster flicks. The marvel films, the star wars films, they're all the ucking same. They all have the same shitty mediocre character archetypes and the same "wink-wink" kind of attitude, where like they know they're all in a retarded fantasy story and are just there to joke around and have a good time.
I love the ability for big blockbusters to both blow people away with sheer excitement but also have real impact on people's emotions and lives. Rogue One was so cringey I actually had to leave the theater halfway throguh, and Episode 7 was about as entertaining or interesting or exciting as a plastic spoon. I've no interest in seeing Episode 8 but assume I probably will have to at some point since it's sort of a huge part of my job to stay current with big movies, and this is kind of the biggest of big movies going around right now. I used to be such a diehard Star Wars fan, and now, sadly, all these big-budget blockbuster films are the damned same. With Disney's acquisition of Fox, we can expect to see only more and more dumbing down of great franchises and movies all across the board.
Disney forgets the reason why the first Star Wars trilogy changed the world was because it was so revolutionary as a film for its time that literally NOBODY wanted to buy it. George Lucas self-funded it entirely with a PRIVATE loan from some of his Fox buddies... and that's why he's the richest filmmaker of all time--because he owned the rights to EVERYTHING, including the merchandising. But he made a successful franchise by being bold and original. Same with Spielberg. When he made Jaws, nobody had made a movie that blended together that kind of visceral jaw-dropping seat-gripping entertainment with the same level of intellectual and philosophical prowess as old Shakesperean plays--all the iconic movies of the past, from Jaws to Star Wars to Blade Runner to The Matrix to the LOTR trilogy and the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and so on and so forth, have blended entertainment with art--but now, in blockbusters, becuase of the Disney monopoly, we *only* have the option of seeing "fun".
It makes me very mad and frustrated very easily, unfortunately, because as a screenwriter, and a huge nerd, it was my dream to make deeply powerful blockbuster movies in the vein of Nolan, Lucas and Spielberg--but Disney's current stranglehold on the market makes it almost impossible for those dreams to ever come to fruition, now.
Like snowfall, you cry a silent storm
Your tears paint rivers on this oaken wall. . .
-- Agalloch, The Mantle
Your tears paint rivers on this oaken wall. . .
-- Agalloch, The Mantle
