Which still leaves the LAST member of the squad to turn up later.
[Movies] Star Wars The Force Awakens SPOILER THREAD!
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Hollywood doesn't do shit to or for "social justice warriors", y'all. They have less money, power, and influence than the people that tweet about White Genocide. Either there's money to be made, maybe the minority gave the best audition and is the best actor/actress. OR EVEN MAYBE they genuinely think it's important for all children to see heroes that look like them once in a while.
Rey had a personality, so the only way she'd fit into an Amidala mold is if Amidala had been cloned on Kamino and then had midichlorians surgically implanted.
How's that?
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I'd argue that Amidala was the weakest of the female leads because of the way that Lucas wrote the last two movies. She went from strong, to weak, to absolutely nothing (my heart is breaking....) even remotely resembling the character we first met. A real pity that Lucas did that to her.
This. Amidala held her one in the first movie - she's one of the best politicians we're shown, only outsmarted by the Chancellor, but so is everyone else. She's determined, stubborn, single minded, willing to die for her people, all that jazz you want in a leader in times of trouble, and she's also somewhat competent with a blaster and unafraid to get her hands dirty. Admittedly, for a large part of the film she's just tagging along, but in TPM she's at least as strong a character as Leia in ANH. Leia spends most of that movie being the damsel in distress (who is stubborn and determined).
Another example of why that petition is so stupid.
Rey is Luke.Those are both idiotic reasons.
All of the other Star Wars movies have had strong female leads (comparatively); Rey pretty much fits in the Leia-Amidala mold as far as I'm concerned. Having her be the main protagonist is a nice change. Had all three suddenly been women, I'd have said it was a strange choice and I might've "gotten" some of the complaints (just as I'd have understood if they'd suddenly gone to three men). As is, I don't see any reason to complain. Skin color wise...Man, I just can't muster the energy to care one way or another what color a character is unless it's important to the story or somehow "abnormal" (as in, black kid from two white parents or vice versa). Heck, aren't we supposed to think Twi'lek are sexy? Brown is definitely not harder to ignore than blue or green
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They're beginning to learn the lesson of Fast Furious Seven, which still has an international gross higher than Star Wars (Not for long, but currently) and ended up being one of the biggest films of last year.
All built on appealing to more than just white guys.
Finn is alternatively Leia and Han. His whole "I just want to get out before this goes bad" thing is Han straight out of A New Hope.
I'd like this to be true, but remember both Fast and Star Wars had very well-established cinema universes to support them. I'd like to see more one-shot movies do the same things. I don't know how many more times they have to prove "appealing to more than white guys" ISN'T a risk. For example, the only two movies still beating TFA are Avatar and Titanic, and it wasn't mainly guys' money putting Titanic there.
..but nearly every guy that went to see Titanic bought two tickets.
Also, F7 had that death of Paul Walker emotional stuff added to it.
the Fast and Furious movies didn't launch into the stratosphere, box office wise, until they became more ensemble movies starting around the 5th and stopped focusing just on Walker/Disesel so heavily. They became the multi-ethnic Avengers before Avengers was... ya know, the white person Avengers.
JASMINE! JASMINE!
If we only had a white knight to ride in here and save these princesses from the patriarchy. Then to comment that a man with a vagina is not an insult.
I knew that, I was trying to imply that I knew of nobody that had that shtick. My favorite Disney princess is Leia.
I thought the character of Ren/Ben was pretty good. Big fish, small pond(only force user). Idolizes something he knows nothing about, believes he is special and entitled to throw a fit and cause a ridiculous amount of damage. Believes he is in too deep to get out at this point in life. I wouldn't be surprised (dissapointed yes) if there was a redemption of some sort in his future.
I thought the character of Ren/Ben was pretty good. Big fish, small pond(only force user). Idolizes something he knows nothing about, believes he is special and entitled to throw a fit and cause a ridiculous amount of damage. Believes he is in too deep to get out at this point in life. I wouldn't be surprised (dissapointed yes) if there was a redemption of some sort in his future.
Star Wars Rebels is completely underrated. If it wasn't stuck on Disney XD (and thus relegated to the back of cable providers, if you get it at all) then I think it would be getting a lot more hype.
Also have to keep in mind that it's now taking place 35 (or so) years in the past, before New Hope. So some don't want to watch because, "We already know what happened then." They're wrong, but they still talk dumb like that.
I love the show, and have really enjoyed the stories they have been telling. I wasn't so sure, at first, about Ashoka coming in as a regular character, but they're keeping the focus on The Ghost and the core group.
Ashoka sort of HAD to come on, as they completely dropped her story with Ventress when Clone Wars ended. I'm just glad we'll get a finish to her story... though I think it'd be cool if she showed up as an old master in the new Star Wars too.
No Rebels is just before the Battle of Yavin. Lando, Vader, Yoda and Leia have all been or will soon be on the show.
I want to know how they are going to write out 3 Jedi from the rebellion.
What he said. I suspect that the events of the finale for Season 3 will coincide with the events of Rogue One, with Season 4 ending at the Battle of Yavin. After that, they'll probably end the show and do something else.
I'm late to this party as I just saw the movie last night.
OMG THEY KILLED OFF HAN!!!
Okay I feel better.
OMG THEY KILLED OFF HAN!!!
Okay I feel better.
Spoiler? In the spoiler thread? Uh...
I think it was just to be silly, not to indicate a request for spoiler tags.