A new hope was only good to the extent that a mediocre remake of a Kurosawa film is still good. Empire was slightly downhill from that (sad ending =/= good movie). Everything after that struggles to remain watchable.
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"Book of Boba Fett" ruined Boba Fett...
Not really a hot take tbh
Star Wars is a story about toxic masculinity ending up galactically consequential
Ah yes, if only the jedi were more woke and effeminate.
Wasn't that the plot of the Acolyte?
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I'm kind of curious about this take. What do you mean?
Jedi took Anakin as a small boy away from his mother and told him "not to worry" about her (a slave on a hostile planet), because apparently experiencing fear is a slippery slope towards becoming an evil mass murderer (warrior of the Dark Side).
Then, when she was killed, he was not allowed to grieve, either.
Then Anakin got visions of Padmé, his wife, dying in childbirth, all while Jedi restricted any marriages to begin with and essentially have cut him out of any counseling, while Yoda doubled down on "ignore your feelings" line.
The entire story of Anakin on the Light Side is the story of everyone neglecting the absolute base emotions he has experienced and trying to raise him as a "tough man" he never was.
Palpatine has seen all of it unfolding, and he knew very well Anakin wasn't an emotionless robot Jedi wanted to make of him, and all it took was exploiting Anakin's raising wave of anxiety over Padmé's fate along with his desperate escape into careerism to switch him to the Dark Side, where he, as Darth Vader, will end up destroying worlds and commanding an authoritarian dystopia.
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I like the prequels, probably because I grew up with them
I didn't mind Episode 7. It wasn't very original, but it was still entertaining imo. Episode 8 had a good message behind it, and the cinematography was great, but that's about it. Episode 9 had Babu Frik and that's about it.
As for the newer series, I like pretty much all of them, though Obi-Wan and BoBF left something to be desired.
I really enjoyed The Acolyte in spite of its imperfections. I think a second season could have totally given writers a chance to work out some kinks in the story. I also think it would have benefitted greatly from being 10 or more episodes instead of eight.
You asked for hot takes, I've had some unpleasant things said to me for some of these.
Edit: forgot about spinoffs: Rogue One was phenomenal, Solo I didn't like at first but it's grown on me a little bit. Still pissed they never went anywhere on screen with the Maul cameo.
These are all pretty common opinions.
They should have it directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Should have had them directed by Quentin Tarantino.