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There were two articles I read that summed this up. But I'll just go ahead and summarize it.
I'll be honest and say, the film did a lot more right than episode 7. But then there's this unavoidable fact. You aren't given time to actually connect with characters, and you jump around too fast in the plot to spend time on their development. Rogue One was like the "epic summary" of a story fleshed out over decades rather than told in one long but detailed setting. For that reason, it had a shortcoming. That I believe is the greatest reason the film didn't reach it's full potential.
For it's every easter egg and moment of droid humor, you unfortunately weren't given the time to connect like in previous films. That is the most legitimate criticism I believe can be given.
www.polygon.com/2016/12/17/13982672/all-the-ways-that-star-wars-rogue-one-falls-short
Now, aside from cinema concerns, there's this problem.
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Female leads in the last two movies, writing plot or a political agenda? I'm getting tired of people beating around the bush about this.
You also note how nearly the entire rebel strike force consist of white guys, but the main cast is "multicultural"? This isn't a cinema complaint but more or less a social one cause it goes to show the problems with today's Disney and Lucasfilm.
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"The rebels are multicultural. The empire white supremacists." Yeah, I am tired of this ****, but apparently it's the new norm for the people making star wars films to talk about. It's sad to see Lucas's work politicized and twisted like this but it's the times.
The Rebels I don't mind being multicultural in the star wars sense of the word meaning aliens and humans working together, it's not a secret the Empire is a human supremacist group and has a higher human culture standard, however. I don't like how people literally think they are a copy and paste of the Nazi Reich. I mean its so bad now I can replace everything about the Empire with the Nazis from Wolfenstein the New Order right now. Wedge Antillies said that the Rebellion made up of "Pirates, smugglers, Jedi, Royal Princesses and then there's the rest of us" so I understand the need for diversity that is the number one thing that makes the Rebellion different from the Empire as far as who is in the faction wise. The Rebellion takes aliens and humans of all colors and creeds, the Empire only takes humans of all colors and creeds just as long as they are loyal to the Emperor. However I really wish they would stop with race card thing, I have no problem with a strong female protagonist and or antagonist however if its political motivated that's pretty ****** up. She should be in the movie because she is key to the plot not to fit some political agenda which we all know Disney has.
The Empire has recruited aliens who've shown talent. But in the end yes, they are a human supremacist group. That's their MO throughout the franchise.
The way however, that the people involved in the making of these films jump at the chance to politicize it. That's what bothers me, because I can't fully enjoy a film if I feel like this was done with intention of politics being pandered too. That's not star wars to me, that's CNN and MSNBC directing a skit. Trying to once again attack white people, customs, beliefs. It's like this is a fad with big companies now that they believe is essential to success.
I'd like to see what happens if they simply stopped caring about it and focused on making a good plot with the cast to complement it.
Honestly I think you're reading too much into this. Watch out you don't become like those "feminists" who hate every movie with a male protagonist.
I don't give a **** if the main characters are white, black, male, female, gay or straight as long as the movie is good.
Y'all should stop giving too much *****.
Ive played the Lara Croft games and even saw the film they had for it, enjoyed em. If I didn't like female leads in a series I'd have shrieked in horror at even seeing it let alone blowing away days of my time playing it.
The thing is, the people in charge of making these new star wars films are the problem. Because it is fully their intention to politicize it, and that they have if you read into the context of it. I remember a thing about episode 7 a while back where the actor for Fin was "furious" about people not liking a black guy in the lead cast for the film. Apparently off some rumor that white supremacists wanted him out. I keep wondering where such protests were in previous films, odd ain't it?
Did you ever see us bitch about Danny Glover being the lead character in the second Predator movie? Or hate Lando Calrissian in Episode 5 cause he's the charismatic black guy? **** no, we actually cracked jokes about Lando having come into existence once Mace was killed off in episode 3. There can only be ONE black guy in the star wars universe at a time. And it is passed down upon the death of the former holder of the title. That's the humor of the veteran fans out there.
Now we got people acting like star wars was for white supremacists and the patriarchy before Disney got a hold of the franchise, therefore needs "cultural enrichment" to pander to all politics. No ******* idea what they're talking about to the point I'd want to smash their head into a dashboard. Anger aside, star wars has always been a open universe to all. The lore and themes support this.
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