Enrico_sw

They kinda did it to Tolkien's work with The Hobbit movies (particularly the third one).

It's not contradictory. Disney hates the traditional fans because it's an audience who's picky and not easy to manipulate. I mean there are people who spend hours analyzing the consistency of every little detail. The videos, the books, the debates on Star Wars are plentiful, some people literally spend their lives reflecting upon SW's mythology. So, it's gotta be hard to content them (but at the same time, it's a challenge, if you manage to make them happy, then it means you're truly talented in the art of storytelling). On the other hand, they thought that people who love identity politics were easier to please. Just add a dash of politics and they'll be happy whatever the quality of the movie (at least that was their reasoning). True, I am mad

Nobody said it's a conspiracy. It is a marketing strategy. Hear people out before judging them, friend. Of course it's about the money, but to make money, you need a marketing strategy. It means that you try to target a certain audience. With TFA and TLJ, they realized that the traditional fans are picky. A good marketing strategy would've been to try to listen to the fans (who mainly ask for quality and consistent scenarios), but Disney is a lazy company. So, they decided to ignore this market segment and to target a new one: people (nujobs ) who love identity politcs. They thought that the market potential was huge (that's particularly true for TLJ, but they tried to play both sides in TROS - though they ended up failing). Also, playing with identity politics pleases the mainstream media, so it's good exposure for them. It's simple really and it's no conspiracy.

The Solution, by Bertolt Brecht (aka Kathleen Kennedy's manual now) "After the uprising of the 17th of June The Secretary of the Writers' Union Had leaflets distributed on the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could only win it back By increased work quotas. Would it not in that case be simpler for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?"

Sure, they hate George Lucas (because talentless people often have resentment towards talented ones ), but the real target is the fans. They hate the fans. They hate us because we think, we speak our mind, we are selective and picky. In other words, we are free. Disney hates that. They want to replace us with more docile crowds. People who don't think. They want NPCs. Remember the poem from Bertolt Brecht, where the dictatorship wants to dissolve the people and elect another one? That's Disney now.

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This guy is a far left professor, he is a "pronoun person" (a he/him kinda guy ) and an antifa. What does he teach? Intolerance.

@Stromboli1 @CandleVixen I remember the first time I saw TFA's trailer... its music is awesome and I was so excited to get a new Star Wars movie. It reminded me of a lot of good memories and it gave my cold heart a couple of chills The voices were mysterious in the trailer, I was excited to see new characters... Rey looked intriguing (and hot), Finn looked cool and nonchalant/concerned at the same time (which I love in movie characters), the bad guy looked bad and tough... I was sure I would spend a great time. I was greatful Disney revived the franchise. Five years later: what a waste. JJ weakened the franchise a little bit, but Rian killed it and Kennedy let the sacrifice happen (in the name of "Social Justice", of course). Sad. BTW, TROS is not that bad compared to TLJ (I can even say I quite enjoyed it, even if I knew that they FUBARed everything)

You're right. The best way to know if you like a movie is to actually watch it. Actually, there aren't many academic papers on this. I've read Morten Bay's paper on TLJ: it's not very rigorous work. Not only is he obsessed by "the scaaaary Russians", but the academic value of his paper is questionable. He was a PhD student when he wrote it, and if I had been his advisor, I would've asked him to be more rigorous, there are lots of tautologies in his work. Anyway, I'm sure there are a couple of trolls out here, but there's also an inflation of the audience scores by Hollywood studios. They use fake accounts to improve the audience score of their movies, that's pretty clear. That's an assumption that the press used in order to defend Captain Marvel, but they are wrong. People loved Alien, Tomb Raider or Red Sonja (all female-led). The problem with these recent movies is that they use "Mary Sues" for identity politcs purposes (which is sexist against women, because they are barred from having flaws) and the scenarios are weak/manichean. Also, Brie Larson had a couple of obnoxious behaviors during interviews

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Nous deux, 7 January 2020

They are not elitists, because they are not elites. They are annuitants who did good things at some point in their carreers, but now they just play it safe, they kiss the deities of their PC shrines and they condescend to the general population. Look at that... It's blatant. Every time a show filled identity politics is reviewed, official critics love it and people with common sense hate it.