The Rise of Skywalker (Spoilers: Read at Your Own Risk)

[Mecha82]

I used to not like Canto Bight scenes in TLJ but after watching Linkara's review of TLJ comic book adaption I have new perspective on it.

[Yukaphile]

Here ya go, Winter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN8oCvpyQjQ

I know ya love Heir to the Empire, so here ya go!

Another reason I support public domain on Star Wars 100%. Fans with love for the franchise and not merely maximizing the bottom line could do a job a billion times better than those they got now, but they still need to make money, pay bills and eat and sleep and so on in order to actually tell these stories. But that would mean cutting into the profits of those in charge, and they can't have that, so they wanna go out of their way to crush the competition.

[hammerofglass]

It doesn't have to be public domain for that. Games Workshop knowingly allows a whole cottage industry of people to make fan works for a living, and it's only benefited them.

Hell, they boosted the Hellsreach series on company blogs and ended up hiring the crew that made it.

[Yukaphile]

I hear Disney struck a fan film that had followed the rules for having "copyrighted" music. They even specifically went to Lucasfilm to get their approval. Yeah, I don't trust the big corps, thank you. They wanna go out of their way to crush competition rather than encourage it.

[Mecha82]

It doesn't have to be public domain for that. Games Workshop knowingly allows a whole cottage industry of people to make fan works for a living, and it's only benefited them.

Hell, they boosted the Hellsreach series on company blogs and ended up hiring the crew that made it.

GW sells miniatures and rules systems for them so having fan made films based on they IPs benefits them. You are trying to compare hobby company and multimedia company to each other. And no, having SW in public domain isn't solution either unlike Yuka thinks.

[hammerofglass]

It doesn't have to be public domain for that. Games Workshop knowingly allows a whole cottage industry of people to make fan works for a living, and it's only benefited them.

Hell, they boosted the Hellsreach series on company blogs and ended up hiring the crew that made it.

GW sells miniatures and rules systems for them so having fan made films based on they IPs benefits them. You are trying to compare hobby company and multimedia company to each other. And no, having SW in public domain isn't solution either unlike Yuka thinks.

Honestly I think GW makes most of their money on selling Horus Heresy novels at this point.

[PapaPalpatine]

My cousin and his kids insisted on seeing it Friday, so I may as well give my assessment.

The Good: It was as visually impressive as you'd expect from a movie with all those Disney Dollars behind it. Also, I'll admit I got a giggle out of Ol' Palps hamming it up.

The Bad: Narratively it was a rushed mess on par with Gundam F91. It felt less like a movie and more like an outline for 3 to 5 movies or an entire season of a series. The film suffered from trying (valiantly if vainly) to clean up the mess Johnson made in TLJ. Also, plotholes big and numerous enough to fly a fleet of Super Star Destroyers through and still have plenty of room for several Corellian Freighters.

[MrL1992]

Right now. In terms of my Star Wars rankings, right now I have TROS only just above TPM and AOTC. It at least has more plot going on compared to those two movies as well as having visual effects that'll likely age better.

Who knows, maybe it'll go up in my estimation over time once my frustration over its plot developments cools down. I mean, i cannot call it boring, it might be one of the most batshit, off-the-rails sequels I've seen in years.

[Yukaphile]

Yeah, Mecha82 is right. They are not remotely compatible. And because the parent company Lucasfilm belongs to, Disney, is a giant-ass corporation that wants to crush competition, the flaws of modern-day corporatism, well, the odds of this fan project being terminated are pretty good, especially since they already went after other fan projects that were following the rules with the justification "copyright infringement." I hope I genuinely made Winter happy by showing the Thrawn Trilogy that some fan is doing. In the lieu of Lucasfilm doing so, this is pretty much all fans have right up until Disney swoops in and hits him with a copyright strike. As to public domain, we'll still just have to agree to disagree, because I think it would encourage competition, and then they'd have to improve the story quality. But again, what modern-day uber corporation that is slowly building an illegal monopoly wants competition?

[excalibur]

If I were to be fair about this movie. It's the same feelings from the last movie. I felt bored. Never have I've ever been bored of a light saber fight and I've seen a lot of fan videos do better fights.

I'm sure others have made essay length comments here but I'm just going to be simple. I was disappointed with the direction of the new movies. ALL the new Star Wars movies. They tried to please nostalgia and "tried new things" at the same time and it failed. Social politics aside, these weren't even comparable to popcorn movies like the Fast and Furious or Transformers because those movies were designed with bad cliche over the top writing and effects. They were at least entertaining