Re: Hot Toys Episode 3 Anakin
It's another prequel, they were bound to love it.
You had to have meant OT fans prefer RO right?
It's another prequel, they were bound to love it.
You had to have meant OT fans prefer RO right?
It's another prequel, they were bound to love it.
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You had to have meant OT fans prefer RO right?
I'm sorry I derailed the thread!
Just to derail and elaborate more, I'm an OT fan all the way and have been since dragged to a drive-in in 1978 as a young child to see the original then getting tons of the figures and seeing the rest in theaters first run. I'm definitely not a young SE/PT person. Like some above, there are parts of the PT that I like (Obi Wan and Anakin's relationship and duel) but most of it is dreck. I prefer the idea of nameless/faceless spies that saved the rebels and got the plans as opposed to the rag tag group of stereotypes and hollow characters. As for spin offs, I'm not really a spin off person and haven't enjoyed them in any medium (TV, comics, movies). If I had to choose a type of spin off, I'd prefer something separate and independent that can stand on its own as opposed to having a crutch on other films. I didn't NEED to see or like Diff'rent Strokes to enjoy/love Facts of Life but to love RO it relies heavily on the OT. Make a Grand Admiral Thrawn film away from the main universe with all new characters and settings. How about an Imperial Academy film with some believing in the Empire and others breaking away. How about a spin off of the ashes of the Empire following ROTJ that doesn't need to try to reinvent/rewrite characters to fit the existing narratives of our real world and create it's own in the SW world.
You? Or did so much fall flat for you that it doesn't matter at this point, lol.
Thank god we don't all have the same opinions as this place would be a dull place. Always fun reading even posts I disagree with, or to the degrees in which they're expressed, as often there are elements even I agree with.
Regardless of our differing opinions on each movie, I think we can all agree that this figure is spectacular. No matter what our opinion of the character may be, or the actor who played him, or the movie it represents, this figure has been executed beautifully.
I'm an OT fan from the original days. I've seen every movie in the theater the year it came out. My favorite movie is and always will be Empire for many reasons but particularly because Lucas didn't direct it or write the screen play.
I think that's what was wrong, IMO, with the PT. Lucas created those stories in a vacuum. It wasn't a collaborative effort as far as story and directing.
I liked elements of those movies, Palpatine, the SITH Lords Maul and Dooku, Obi Wan, but for the most part it was Bantha Poo Doo. Even though I liked them when they first came out. I think George kept us so starved for Star Wars for so long that I , like many others, swallowed whatever he gave us.
I didn't like TFA as much as I'd hoped. For one the sound was too quiet. Every theater I tried to watch it in sounded terrible. And these were good theaters! The blaster fire and explosions were barely above a whisper. It didn't feel like a Star Wars movie or what I'm used to a Star Wars movie sounding like. If George was Executive producer on those he would have pulled them from the theater, remixed the sound, and sent it back out with guns blazing!
The second reason was the rehashed story line. Another Death Star? Really?!!! The actors were great and the moments definitely felt like a Star Wars movie but the material they had to work with was cringe worthy in a lot of spots.
There were some things I did like. I loved the fact that it had the original cast in it. Back together in the big screen. Han and Chewy, the Princess, the Millennium Falcon. Even seeing Luke again.
I thought Rogue One was a better movie than TFA but it was still missing something. Again, another movie with a Death Star in it but I liked how they showed a different point of view of the Death Star this time. Being on the ground when that thing unleashes its power makes it seem a lot more real. The OT moments in that movie, Tarkin, Vader, and Leia, put it over the top.
Sorry for the rant. It wasn't meant to be long winded but... too late.
You like Luke or something?
To me (yes opinion, lest I be attacked) it felt more like a soulless cash in with fan wank winks and nods to really reinforce that yes, this is truly a Star Wars film and not a SyFy Original adaptation of The Dirty Dozen or Seven Samurai in space. I felt the acting was overdone, characters bland and the plot hollow with bad elements (really, a mind reading octopus?) and was nothing more than a cash grab which also has me soured on the idea of other spin offs. To me it felt nothing like a Star Wars film (which was a big selling point and success to others who wanted something "fresh"). The figures look great and are spot on, I just have no interest in them for my collection.
Rogue One was great. So was The Force Awakens. Both captured the essence of Star Wars, in my eyes.
I think the films are good enough that I hope they ignore "some" of the senseless nitpicking and keep simply trying to make even better films.
Not sure why they want to pursue a Rogue Two movie though, but whatever.
Give. Me. Commander Cody.
Whoever sculpted Anakin and the new Tom Holland needs to do all future SW figures.
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