Why Star Wars Fans Are Mad (Special Edition)

[@threemarksat210]

I didn't see your original theatrical release of this one, but was a big fan of your '80s childhood was a psyop' video. Very much looking forward to watching this. And... play.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Omg that was the greatest comment. Thank you!

[@threemarksat210]

@@mysocalledgenxlife There's a tremendous amount of material to cover in a video like this about SW. From the OT and original Lucasfilm content, to old news reels, movie reviews, and newer internet interviews and commentary. The prequels. Obv the Kathleen stuff, and the Disney era, ack. I think your gift is somehow boiling it all down to 36mins. How? Dunno, reminds me of RLM in a bite sized piece. Enjoyed, thank you.

[@VolkXue]

@@mysocalledgenxlife here is the thing.. Name something Star Wars fans didnt complain about in the last 30 years? Doesnt exist.. They complain about everything lol

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

@@VolkXue not at first…but once empire came out the complaints began. And I think that’s because people cared and got emotional.

[@VolkXue]

@@mysocalledgenxlife no, people complained through those films too lol the only thing fans didnt complain about was the first 3 films because you had a different generation of adults back then..

[@MikeSidious]

George Lucas made escapist entertainment. Disney makes entertainment you want to escape from.

[@Tarquin2718]

That is so true. How can you screw up an IP as powerful as Star Wars, it is almost impossible. But leave it to strong waman to be able to do it.

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

💯

[@micejoint132]

George Lucas - "there are hundreds of comics and various novels that im hoping will be adapted into great movies." Kathy - "there is no source material."

[@Chris-o7w6w]

I was born in 1973 and my DAD came home raving about this movie that everybody was talking about. He said to my MOM and I, we are going to see it tonight. Downtown ATLANTA GEORGIA. We waited in line for a long time but we got in. We were close up on the screen but everything was big at my age. This movie blew my mind. I was a creative kid. I got the toys and got the playsets recreated from what I remembered from the movie. I also built my own toys with race track car engines providing the sound and power. To make a long story short, seeing STAR WARS now hurts me to the core. I have seen every movie in the 1st week. And to not support something I love, that changed my mind in 77 is crazy. Disney please sell it. Or let me write for you. Respectfully I have HOPE.

[@Tarquin2718]

As long as KK is in charge Star Wars is dead. But I have hope with you. Because there will be a time when Disney wants to make money again and no KK. Then they can start building Star Wars stories again that are good. Just please with less jedi and less light sabers, it just makes it so dumb

[@Beatnic7]

If you saw Star Wars on opening day in downtown Seattle and a little kid started crying during the trash compactor scene, I'm sorry. I thought Chewbacca was going to get crushed.

[@pinballshawn]

We were all worried about Chewbacca.

[@lukesaber7t7]

I was center front row. Didn't hear any child crying. I was still overwhelmed by the Star Destroyer in the opening.

[@Lyko5]

Far more dramatic than Rey Palpatine blowing up a ship

[@karlfran0404]

Kathleen Kennedy never understood that equality doesn’t mean crushing the group you hate to make your own group rule.

[@NicolasMogensen]

Sucking up to the 2-3% super-woke fanatics at the cost of the 97% ordinary fans who just want terrible things like good movies, decent plots, character archs and actors who aren't picked just because they are women and their skin colour isn't white. I support lgbtq+ right and female equality but I don't want to watch movies that constantly push the message down my throat at the cost of movie quality. Oh,, and btw Disney,, what is it called again when you hire people based on their skin colour?

[@Leo-Galaxy]

​@@NicolasMogensendefine woke

[@mandalorian23]

Star Wars, Empire and Jedi theatrical releases are all I need.

[@razorfett147]

Im far more cynical than most modern anti-Disney fans. SW started circling the toilet bowl for me when Lucas decided back in 97 that his altered SE versions of the originals were now going to be the ONLY versions of those films going forward. It was an awful, unpragmatic decision back then...and it has only reverberated louder as the years have passed on. Then he followed up that wopper by inflicting the awful prequels upon us...which not only failed to match up to the originals in tone, but in continuity as well. After seeing Anakins "fall" to the dark side in RotS amount to little more than him being blackmailed by Palpatine into switching teams at the 11th hour in the final film of the trilogy...my disconnect with SW going forward was complete. The sequels being awful didnt even phase me by that point. SW had been diluted and sullied long before Ep 7 dropped...so my investment in it as a franchise just wasnt strong enough anymore for me to even be upset. Ppl can hate everything SW that Disney has ever produced, but the rot that led to Lucas selling it to them in the first place had set in years before they took the helm. Whatever joy CAN now be salvaged from future SW media projects going forward will suffer a fanbase that is ready to ruin it out of spite regardless of its quality. Just look at the hate Andor received...despite displaying the best writing the franchise has seen since the OT, if ever. At this point, im not sure theres any salvaging it. Even something as drastic as Disney handing 100% control of SW back to Lucas would likely continue to yield divisive content that would struggle to find acceptance by a chunk of the fandom. The only viable solution at this point would be a competent, forward thinking third party taking over...and thats almost certainly never going to happen

[@darrellmarcks6304]

2:06 ooff "The movie is pure escapism, no big social message." Imagine the horror....

[@Simon-xc5oy]

Apart from the good vs evil, rescue a princess from an evil knights castle, self sacrifice to do the right thing and so on....There was a message, but it was traditional story telling. The story of good vs evil is as old as time itself...

[@bobbymauro3721]

I was 6 years old and will never forget how excited I was when my mom brought me to see it in ‘77! It changed my life forever, literally set my childhood imagination ablaze and cemented my love for heroes and adventure! That said, KK shoehorned a disgustingly misandrist agenda into the greatest IP in history and destroyed everything! MTFBWY

[@grorc]

This was incredibly depressing... :( I remember how much I loved Star Wars.

[@StephanieLaerkeAndersen]

You’re not trying to tell a story, Kathleen. You’re actively destroying an entire saga.

[@LunarTikOfficial]

*On purpose for revenge none the less..*

[@colintimp1372]

Imagine if Kathleen Kennedy had spent as much time and effort in focusing on making a good movie rather than WHO was making them. I'm all for "Girl Power," but I don't think Kennedy should be leading that charge. After all, she only got her job because her HUSBAND was friends with Lucas and begged him to hire her as a secretary; even though she had NO SKILLS. She couldn't even type.

[@LunarTikOfficial]

*KK couldn't wait to destroy his legacy. She was always laughed at while she got coffee for them. She was always a joke and a petty vengeful joke at that.*

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Wait til you see the next video I’m making about Indiana Jones. In some ways It’s even worse. 😬

[@waynebrewer1901]

She used house paint on a classic Aston Martin. Soulless and vicious.

[@saltyrivers22]

I didn't watch the OG in the theaters, but my dad gave me tickets as a present to see a Digital Remaster version in the theaters when I was 7. I fell in love for SW so much, that I even loved the 20th Century Fox intro, thinking that every movie that have that studio's skit would be awesome from that moment on. I bought every game, every candy, every single merchandise and toy that I could find and afford with my allowance. But SW died for me the moment I left the theaters after watching The Force Awakens (ep 7). It didn't feel like Star Wars anymore. It was in space, sure, but something else, something definitely not for me.

[@michaelgrey7854]

Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who were my 3 favorite franchises all ruined now. 😢😢

[@BruceStephan]

Jar Jar Abrams deserves just as much blame as Kathleen Kennedy .

[@Tarquin2718]

And Ryann. He could have taken the mystery boxes and build something fantastic out of that leaving Jar Jar in the dust, but he is a hack that can not create or think, so he made crap, they are all horrible human beings

[@YodaOnABender]

@@Tarquin2718that “hack” wrote two of the greatest episodes of breaking bad. You disliked one movie he made and built your entire opinion on him around that. Average Star Wars fan mindset tbh

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

@@Tarquin2718 Sorry but your talking out of that thing you sit on and have no clue...

[@Tarquin2718]

@@Plasmastorm73_n5evv What do you mean. Ryann did SW a horrible thing. really dreadful and so dim

[@martinritchie7576]

Only 50% reason to watch force awakening, seeing how Luke, han and Leia and Chewbacca was doing was 100% of the reason I wanted to see episode 7, but Disney spit and crapped on all that

[@collegeman1988]

Kathleen Kennedy is a Sith Lord, and it’s too bad George Lucas didn’t realize it when he handed the keys to the kingdom of Lucasfilm over to her. As soon as he left the building, anything that made Star Wars special or interesting was thrown into the wastebasket and dumped in landfill.

[@adrianobattaglia4060]

The critics were hard in the past. Now they are corrupt sold out hacks. I liked the prequels. But I get the criticism.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Yeah, I tried to figure out the best way to portray the mixed response to the prequels when they came out, and then the change in perception once the sequels came out. It’s kind of a mess! George helped ruin his own IP.

[@adrianobattaglia4060]

@@mysocalledgenxlife Good Job. Enjoyed your video. Your channel is underrated. God bless you

[@adrianobattaglia4060]

@@mysocalledgenxlife And you're right. Thank's to disney the prequels became masterpieces.

[@syrusterrigan9366]

i enjoyed the prequels, overall. there *were* components that were horribly disappointing, but the bones of the story were solid, and complete. and, yes -- they ALL look *much* better now that Disney $#at the bed three times in a row.

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

@@mysocalledgenxlife I beg to differ, George had already written scripts for the final 3 sequels and Jar Jar Abrams refused to use them and had new scripts written..

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

Remember when Disney liked making money?

[@combatking0]

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@Tarquin2718]

I don't understand. Why would you destroy such an awesome IP, why would you lose all that delicious money, why?

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

Go WOKE go BROKE!!!

[@indigocotton4187]

Andor - Rogue One - New Hope - Empire - they’re the only ones I watch & appreciate.

[@super8sooty]

To Kathleen Kennedy: Are you a Star Wars fan?... Cut to the scene of Obiwan's face lying to Luke!!! Lol

[@N_Loco_Parenthesis]

I remember working at a cinema when the trailer for The Phantom Menace arrived. All the staff came in to see it, eyes bright with hope. How our countenances fell. All of our dreams, to be part of a moment, like with the original trilogy, shattered. Woe woe.

[@Olamchesed]

Star Wars is about the Skywalker Saga. The sequels should have continued with Luke teaching the next Jedi. Instead, they ruined Luke.

[@jedidrummerjake]

K.K. has screwed up Everything Star Wars. Never forgive. Never forget!

[@Yandarval]

Everything Lucasfilm had done.

[@juniorjames7076]

Since my family never had cable or a VCR until 1985, I only got to see Star Wars for the first time on CBS (heavily edited for television, of course- a commercial every 10 seconds!) in 1984. Still, it was amazing! This franchise was such a part of American experience from toys, cereals, tv specials, cartoons, school suppl- I honestly felt I had already seen the movie several times by the time I actually saw it for the first time.

[@MrTheSickOne]

Star Wars was the 1st movie I ever saw in a theater...I was 4 in 1977, I was hooked for life. Star Wars died in 2012. Disney stripped and destroyed the franchise. I don't give a damn if your a woman, what your preference is and all that.....respect the source material, tell enganging stories, write a compelling character instead of checking diversity boxes. Ive pretty much given up

[@dimirockeropoulos6104]

It died with the prequels for me. Utter trash.

[@VulcanLogic]

Half the people in the US under 25 aren't white. The international audience is even more diverse--and they're half the take and sometimes more. The boxes will be ticked. If John Wayne as Ghengis Khan is more your speed, TCM has your back. But you can have a diverse cast and still have content that doesn't suck. It really just boils down to respecting the source material, writing engaging stories, and creating compelling characters. Most importantly, not disrespecting my childhood heroes by giving them humiliating, ignoble deaths. That made me physically angry.

[@CaptainVideo1960]

Oh you poor baby. Ever stop to think that all the kids who saw recent Star Wars when they were kids fell in love with it too. You sad man babies need to get over yourselves, move out of your parents basements and get yourself laid.

[@CaptainVideo1960]

@@VulcanLogicyou people are so sad. The characters in the sequel trilogy are today’s generations heroes. But keep whining. Its hilarious.

[@VulcanLogic]

@@CaptainVideo1960 That is some comedy gold right there.

[@williamwueppelmann5982]

The Star Wars trilogy is a major cultural touchstone of my generation and the first two movies are among the most important in film history. That said, even Return of the Jedi was of uneven quality and repeated plot elements of the first two movies (though parts of it were among the highlights of the trilogy) and everything released since then has depended on the first two movies to make it compelling. None of it really seems to stand on its own. If, in 1977, George Lucas had made The Phantom Menace or The Force Awakens or any other instalment instead of Star Wars, I think it would have gone down as a forgettable sci movie that only film nerds would even remember today, and there would have been no sequels, no toys, and no fandom.

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

Exactly what George said. That's why he started with ep. 4. Because he thought audiences would respond best to it's story.

[@margaretdownie4407]

My dad took my wee sister,two cousins and myself to the opening day in Glasgow. We queued around the odeon cinema, what great memory, my cousin's still talk about it, I was ten 😊💜 Loving your channel.

[@nicolbolas8587]

the big font "Disney ruined it" 😂

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Yes. I’ve discovered It’s quite triggering. Lol.

[@tomtravis3077]

Star Wars was so powerful of a story to me. I was 4 years old when it was released. My parents had seen it on a date. They came home, showed me pictures from a magazine and took me the next day. Even though I fell asleep before the Death Star blew up. I was 4. The entire time, I was overawed. I didn't stop bothering my parents about Star Wars for years. Once, I bothered my father the entire day about Star Wars. He was a good man. He didn't lose his patience until evening. Star Wars characters are EXTREMELY powerful characters. Examine Luke Skywalker. Young. Idealistic. Talented. Very protective of his family. Sense of duty. Morality in the conflict between stay or go. The Skywalker family is a dysfunctional family. Fallible. They are real people despite being space wizards. Disney destroyed that. Disney destroys culture now. You must understand that it is their mission. To destroy the Skywalker family. To destroy the values of the Skywalker family. Ultimately, the love of your children will redeem you. No matter how bad you are. Kathleen was chosen and retained her position specifically because she is an incompetent wokester who would do a great job destroying the franchise. The people in charge of Disney are destroyers. They want to build a New America that has none of its old flavor. They print all the money in the world. So destroying an edifice like Disney is no problem. Destroying Star Wars, a pillar of modern American culture, is no problem. Not content to just destroy it. They want to taint the waters first. So no one remembers it favorably. Despite earlier bodies of work. Honestly, though, the prequels were terrible, too. I could have turned in a better acting performance than Hayden and Natalie. The story was clumsy. I still have all my vintage Star Wars toys. I am only missing 11 of the original figures. Out of 92. Those are hundreds of dollars apiece. So they will stay missing. 😂😂 Rabbit hole for you - look at the paralells between Henry Ford, Detroit, Walt Disney, and what is happening to Disney now.

[@youknowho4439]

Guys, let's bring Star Wars back.

[@t7489]

It’s dead.

[@tomusmc1993]

5 min. In and I was smiling remembering waiting in line at the theater as a 9 year old kid. How amazing it was to see and experience Star Wars, and tgen immediately sad about how far we have fallen, and I am not talking about KK or Star Wars. We the consumer have allowed this to happen. It won't change until we understand our part in this destruction.

[@sem_skywalker]

"There is no moral, no message". This part I do not understand. :P

[@TonyMidyett]

Hot take: The Special Editions killed Star Wars.

[@kevingallagher188]

The sad thing is film makers will never be able to view how impressive it was at the time of the original release before CGI came out to create a movie like Star Wars.

[@jaymanier7286]

"The sand people are coming!" lol

[@wyattmann8157]

Hollyweird has now defiled nearly every franchise I loved as a kid. Buy physical media, folks, while you can still get it.

[@David19749]

This video was worth the wait. You put this together brilliantly, capturing Star Wars when it was released and it's impact and its steady decay up until it's murder by Disney. Great video 👍

[@mellojoe9421]

Kathleen Kennedy is about as much of a Star Wars fan as those people who bought a prefaded captain America shirt from target. So, sure, she’s a fan in the modern sense…

[@billybarnett2846]

I only got to see Empire in the theater, the rest I saw on vhs. All Disney had to do was adopt one of the many of books that had been written over the years.

[@whoami7721]

I was a little young to see Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back in the theater (born in 1975), but Return of the Jedi was one of the most intense experiences in a movie theater in my young life. I'd seen the previous two movies by then, so I was well familiar with Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker and everyone one else. The lightsaber battle at the end between Luke and Vader was a culmination of the first trilogy. The temptation of Luke by the Emperor to join the dark side, then Vader saving his son from Palatine's wrath. It wrapped up everything in a nice way. There didn't need to be anything else. Evil had been defeated. The prequels had their moments, but were ultimately disappointing.

[@lynxoffinland]

Just watching those people, getting hyped for the Return of the Jedi. All that anticipation building up to extreme heights...and to think that they got what they wanted! I know that the movie delivered even over the huge expectations. Do we ever even get that anymore?

[@TheInnerParty]

Economist of about three decades here. "The tickets were about $3.75 each…"😱

[@MenteMaestra91]

I speak spanish. Kathleen Kennedy = K. K. In spanish, KK is pronounced "caca," which translates to "shit."

[@voutsider190]

I saw it in 77 when it released. I was 7 and I saw it with mom. We both loved it. I never thought I would come to hate the franchise. To be fair, it kind of started with the prequels. Disney finished it off

[@TheBlueSnaggletooth]

Star Wars 1977-2012 RIP

[@25meip]

I grew up in the 90s. I watched a Star wars or Indiana Jones film at least once a week for about 20 years. That's roughly over a hundred times for *each* of those films. Plus hundreds more hours spent on books and games. I've watched the sequel movies a combined total of 5 times.

[@jbshore2012]

Remember when the Holiday Special was the worst, cringiest Star Wars product? Maybe Disney should reboot that…

[@palehorse1111]

Mannnn that sucks they took your original down gonna start call them NoFunTube cause thats apparently what they really want to be...

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Yeah it kinda blows. But I made a lot of dumb mistakes with it that got it copyright claimed. I only had like 10 subscribers when I posted it and it was like day 25 of my channel. lol. This one is even better. The extra footage really balances it out.

[@1walicki]

@@mysocalledgenxlifeAlways good to add this in the info description: (may help, jus sayin) 😉 Video Clips and Images contained herein: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

[@miketran4289]

Lucas killed Star Wars thanks to Jar Jar because of his greed for merch toy sales. Disney only helped put the nail in the coffin. R.I.P Star Wars

[@marcusbrothers5221]

Fans are weird. They ask Lucas a simple question and he answers. ...then they applaud because he answered the question. Don't they understand that he's up on stage to answer questions? And Star Wars fans are particularly bizarre because they feel they're owed something

[@chatwithaninja]

Nice editing. You just said a LOT without having to say anything.

[@JDTreadwell]

Oooooffff!! This one hits hard. Obviously grew up with this. Saw ROTJ as a child in the original run. I even liked the prequels mostly. We could talk for hours about JarJar and how bad that character was. But he was a brilliant and poignant commentary on the casual viewer compared to the sequels. I really tried to enjoy them. TFA was basically a repeat of ANH. Ok yeah. Sure. I’ll give y’all that. You gotta set something up. We got like 45 seconds of our hero and had to watch or favorite smuggler fall at the hands of an impetulant child. But we knew we were going to have to move on to new characters. New hero’s. The ones who carry on. So let’s see what happens. TLJ… WTF WAS THAT!!!! That’s all I’ll say. ROSW… Ok this was emergency fan service. They pulled out every possible trick they could show horn into a move. The creators had to have been told, make sure absolutely no one can’t smile at something in this mess… It had its moments. It had some on that was cool scenes. And we just couldn’t help the loss of our princess. But hell, I’d have preferred a time travel plot to go fix all this mess.

[@bigblue2930]

Sw is finished. Time to do other stuff.

[@KKEM641]

The reason the house of mouse f-up Star Wars is they did not care about the story, just how much money they can make. They saw it as the golden goose and will milk it for all it is worth. Disney killed Star Wars in pursuit of making more money.

[@MedalionDS9]

Hi there, fellow Xennial here... Disney ruined Star Wars outside of a couple or so projects (Andor/Rogue One, first 2 seasons of Mandalorian). Not too keen on what has happened to Star Trek post 2005 either.

[@JediSentinel1010]

In 10 years history will likely repeat itself...

[@hostilebogeyinbound]

Nice Video. I am about to watch your 80s psyop video once I get back from crossfit. Leia being ejected from the ship, flying through space and bitch-slapping Poe was the exact moment I went "Oh no, what have they done?" I've never been back. I used to get bullied for my Star Wars fandom as a kid in the 80s and 90s. Apparently there is still an audience, though.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Thanks for watching and for commenting! Oh CrossFit is no joke! Thats some serious dedication right there…

[@johncollins1884]

@mysocalledgenxlife Thanks for the presentation - One aspect which when someone sells the rights to their franchise and all the subsequent rights to a franchise; the new buyer can do what they wish with their "new toy" no matter whether the masses approve of what they're doing or not... Why does no one seem to blame George Lucas? after all, he is the one who sold the rights, and even he doesn't approve of what they've done with and to the franchise. However, he really shouldn't complain because he sold out for the money and retired. However, anyone who had worked as hard as he has, deserves to retire in whatever way he chose.

[@devinjanosov]

I do think it is HILARIOUS that everyone in these comments is somehow acting like Episodes, I, II, and III weren’t nearly universally panned (especially zz

[@lorigoshert6667]

I'm a Gen-X Star Wars fan and I like the Disney shows. Granted, there are many things in most of the shows that could have been done better, and there are shows and movies I like more than others, but there's no Star Wars material that I actively dislike. Andor is a masterpiece. Of all of it, I think I'm bothered most by the Sequel trilogy because how hard is it to get the writers into a room, PLAN a three-movie arc, and make sure the directors follow it? If you read the High Republic books and comics, there are several writers and they are very good at keeping the characters consistent and sticking to the plot. The Sequel trilogy had great characters, great potential, and excellent cinematography, but no plan, so the characters and potential were wasted. There is much that I like about the movies, but why couldn't they start with a good plan?

[@JUVI9596]

Return of the Jedi was nothing but a bunch of Muppets

[@KentKaliber]

I HATED the Prequels when I saw them but I never realized what HATE really was until I saw The Last Jedi. That film was an absolute BETRAYAL of my life as a fan.

[@matthewgaudet4064]

as long as Disney Star Wars is not canon it can be ignored.

[@snackbarqueen]

I was 3 in 1977 so I didn’t see Star Wars until a few years later at my cousins house when I was about 6 years old and I had the BIGGEST crush on Luke Skywalker aka Mark Hamill and I wanted to be Princess Leia ❤

[@michaellively9692]

When that guy said Star wars fans Are the nicest people I laugh my head off

[@TheMightyCookieShow]

I will confess that I was someone who was very disappointed in The Phantom Menace and I know exactly why. I'm Gen X and I was there for the original Star Wars and I had unrealistic expectations and that's on me not George lucas. Now I watch that movie and absolutely love it I see what he was going for and it's a very enjoyable watch so things have definitely changed in my universe concerning the prequels

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Same!

[@t7489]

I’m a millennial who watched the original trilogy on vhs. Then saw the prequels in theaters and my opinion hasn’t shifted an inch since then. The prequels were and always will be dogshit.

[@M1cha3lP]

This video is just an almost random collection of overly used clips that doesn't actually tell us anything we fans don't already know.

[@norman5927]

Fans are mad because disney put a bunch of hacks in-charge of the biggest franchise ever and those hacks changed everything to appeal to 0.001% of people who were already watching it anyway and thus destroyed everything such that no-one except 0.001% is watching anymore.

[@Lynxan]

Loved the originals, prequels are fine, even with the bad acting, The funny thing is it got better when the Clone Wars show fleshed things out more. I didn't hate Awakens, but like many how they did not make a story that had the main 3 together one more time is criminal. Eight was ok but did little to nothing overall... the last... ya, that one was garbage, there is no way around that.

[@raulzavala9061]

I love Star Wars but only the original trilogy and it ends there, sure I saw the prequels and the second trilogy I bought the Blurays I even watched several of the mediocre Disney Plus Star Wars shows but those are not my Star Wars.

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

No moral and no message? Clearly he never watched the movie.

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

The last 3 movies were crappy retellings of the first 3 movies (4, 5, and 6)

[@craigkirsch9699]

Disney didn’t ruin it. As Disney and Star Wars have always been together. I remember watch the wonderful world of Disney on tv 80’s & 90’s and they’d be playing one of the original movies. Kathy ruined it because she neglected the fans and what they loved about it. I’m not saying that the new ones are bad. But she has made claims that we fans don’t know what it’s all about. Which was wrong. I like all of Star Wars books, comics, games, series, movies. I have issues with characters and some scenes which is normal. But she definitely crossed a line there.

[@JENNerationX]

Yeah - this part- Kk f*ck’d up

[@jpofgwynedd3878]

Star Wars fans are mad because people who don't actually care about movies are making movies. Besides, anyone who 'gets it' knows the The Last Starfighter did what Star Wars was supposed to do, only better - except for the vis f/x, but at least Nick Castle dared to push different boundaries, and without BOTH movies, the state of vix f/x wouldn't be what it is today. Yeah. The Last Starfighter is more engaging with less hackneyed characters and is more emotionally engaging. Bite me. The only thing to take away from what Lucas did is how he blind-sided Fox into signing the marketing rights to him. Even Lucas would say he isn't the most emotional of movie makers... what made the Indiana Jones Original Trilogy so entertaining? Spielberg. Now THAT would've been something to see: a Lucas derived and produced Star Wars movie directed by Spielberg...

[@continuallycountingchicken7338]

I have only seen the original movies. I have no interest in the original movies that have been messed with (more advanced whatever it’s called changes). Nope. Only the original as they were. I refuse to call the original 3 the new names. I don’t even know them to be able to use them. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤣 I remember hearing about the fact that there were 3 more movies when I was a kid (elementary age in the 80s). My brother and I couldn’t wait. I haven’t seen the new 3. No interest. 🤷🏻‍♀️ My brother has seen all of them (more than the 6) and believes Disney has ruined Star Wars. 😢

[@Spawnfreak]

Star Wars belongs to Gen X.

[@stevethefishdotnet]

Star Wars has gone downhill ever since Greedo shot first in 1997. The only truly interesting forces in Star Wars are Harmy and Adywan. Only their efforts are that of true fans and not cynical cash grabbers.

[@Elainerulesutube]

😡I hate Disney for the way they have ruined Star Wars. I will never watch another Star Wars movie again!

[@CamReeds]

So these idea come from george or the skeletons at least Soo if it aint the og 3 its not gonna go over well for star wars fans

[@dicksoncider5099]

Member Star Wars? Serious though Disney did

[@jenniferanderson7010]

There are plenty of good female writers she could have poached from video game writing. I know that VG is a different medium vs film, but that's what edits are for. Rhianna Pratchett wrote for video games in the UK and US for years. Mercedes Lackey is a fantasy writer, albeit regular books. Just two bloody examples. Ugh.

[@AltairEgoX]

Wasn't padme the queen of naboo and Anakin's love interest and the mother of Luke and Leia 💖 but...her story isnt it I guess

[@guzylad5]

No moral?

[@KrazyJoe1701]

The indisputable fact is that Disney and Kathleen Kennedy have made more good High Quality Star Wars than George Lucas ever did.

[@SeanRCope]

Look, us real fans, the nine year olds in 77. Everything after Jedi was a nostalgic money grab…. Grow up. It ended in the 80’s everything after is rich kids fan fiction.

[@georgecisneros5281]

💯

[@AnakinTheBetrayer]

Calling ROTS rubbish is absolutely hilarious.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

I agree! He was very hard on it. That’s my favorite prequel movie. But he is right about the lack of the dark turn. It could have been done way better.

[@AnakinTheBetrayer]

@@mysocalledgenxlife oh sure the prequels struggle with execution but the story is so good. I'll never understand why people think the prequels are the worst thing ever. Very dramatic.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

@@AnakinTheBetrayer that particular review was at Cannes, and I think he was a snotty film guy that was mad a Star Wars movie was at that film festival. But he certainly wasn’t the only one to be hard on it. I wanted to include clips that showed the mixed reaction to the prequels.

[@Simon-xc5oy]

@@AnakinTheBetrayer For me what ruins it is Christen and Portman. Wooden with no chemistry is an understatement. They are abysmal performances. If they had cast two competent actors, and tightened the script a bit. And it was a cop out. For me Anakin should have had the Vader suit at the end of the second film. Then have the third one where he is doing what Kenobi tells Luke in the original. Hunting down Jedi who escaped. We were short changed on Vader. And Haden was so damn bad it spoiled it.

[@AnakinTheBetrayer]

@@Simon-xc5oy lmao. So wrong.

[@KrazyJoe1701]

You need to stop putting trolls like Nerd Erotic and Chris Gore in your videos.

[@roberterwine7650]

imho Disney SAVED star wars , I read the now known as EU , the star wars story was so bad by the end and I hated star wars by then ( the vong and death of chewie for example ) -some- people hate 7-9 but I liked it .

[@pcb462]

Star Wars is doing just fine. The only people that are upset are fanboys who didn’t get the movies that they wanted. Star Wars is becoming more diverse, which is not surprising considering it takes place in a galaxy with trillions upon trillions of different aliens. Star Wars has been adding some of the most fantastic content to date. If you don’t like it, however you’re free to stop watching it. Your life will be better and Star Wars fans will be better because we won’t have to listen to you complain endlessly unnecessarily.

[@1walicki]

For any 1 that got butt-hurt about anything in any SW episode or stand alone, whatever… Get over yourself, it’s just a movie, move on with your life! 🤪

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

It’s just so sad that they’ve destroyed something that was such a big deal, such a major defining event of the Gen x childhood.

[@majorramsey3k]

Oh yeah, it's terrible when people get irritated over having what they love constantly shit on.

[@1walicki]

Don’t get me wrong, love originals, like 2nd gen, I’ll even watch 3rds if they on… but whatevs, either way, end of day idc!

[@syrusterrigan9366]

and what is your favorite story of all time? or do you have one? and when was the last time a multi-billion-dollar corporate structure set about intentionally destroying that story, and calling *you* all manner of unkind, untrue horrible labels when you called that company on their BS? it isn't "just a movie", and that's true both in terms of economic footprint *and* cultural impact. granted, some people simply don't care about it, which is totally fine, and in that sense i'm sure that it *is* "just a movie". very well then -- move along. for some of us, though, the hundreds of novels, scores of comics, dozens of video games, and tons of toys that all made it to the market before the Disney acquisition can only serve as a snapshot of how important the mythos is. i will be a diehard fan of the SWEU (Expanded Universe) until the day i die -- *that* is the true canon; not this trash that Disney is selling. before Disney, it was art, and art that enabled people to engage with challenging ideas from multiple perspectives -- until agenda and message became more important than narrative and characterization, that is. tl;dr -- your admonition to "get over yourself" is wholly unwarranted and completely unappreciated. the admonition to "move on with your life" is certainly more fair, but is certainly less than mollifying considering its inevitability.

[@1walicki]

@@syrusterrigan9366 my ego doesn’t get paid by the franchise or the corporation to worry my pretty lil head over it all.. KKL - Kould Kare Lesss 😂😂🤣