Post Skywalker Saga Star Wars Movies

[Seto Kaiba]

4 hours ago, Big s said:

It was having human to robot relations. 

C-3PO always introduces himself with "human-cyborg relations"...

Did Anakin use the brain from a mechanical gigolo?

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

C-3PO always introduces himself with "human-cyborg relations"...

Did Anakin use the brain from a mechanical gigolo?

I get the feeling that C-3PO got around.

[Thom]

11 hours ago, Big s said:

I don’t know, those were those  legs were rather wide apart

 

[jvmacross]

If you have some time to kill....

https://www.starwars.com/star-wars-galaxy-map

[Thom]

15 hours ago, jvmacross said:

If you have some time to kill....

https://www.starwars.com/star-wars-galaxy-map

Looking at that map, I can only hazard to say - that light speed is too slow...

And clearly they did a long and deep deep dive into all things Star Wars. Very cool!

[505thAirborne]

3 hours ago, Thom said:

Looking at that map, I can only hazard to say - that light speed is too slow...

[sh9000]

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-rey-new-jedi-order-movie-delays/

[Thom]

I fully agree with that. Don't rush it and concentrate on getting it right.

[Seto Kaiba]

On 6/24/2025 at 6:51 PM, jvmacross said:

If you have some time to kill....

https://www.starwars.com/star-wars-galaxy-map

Yeah, making hyperdrives "speed of plot" engines really was the only way to go.

[electric indigo]

Time to open up the other thread again:

 

[Duke Togo]

Hell of a cast. And an Oscar-winning cinematographer.

[renegadeleader1]

The cynic in me is saying watch Star Wars Starfighter not be about starfighters and space combat, but be some Bloodsport knockoff fighting tournament set in the Star Wars universe.

[sh9000]

I don't think that info is correct.  Matt Smith will be in it.

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-starfighter-cast

[TangledThorns]

Matt Smith is the obvious villain and while he is a good actor its such a f'ing unoriginal and lazy casting move. 

[Raikkonen]

Mia Goth? She knows this won't be R rated? 

 

[Duke Togo]

On 8/29/2025 at 11:26 AM, TangledThorns said:

Matt Smith is the obvious villain and while he is a good actor its such a f'ing unoriginal and lazy casting move. 

Mia Goth is the villain. Unknown who Matt Smith is playing as of yet.

[Seto Kaiba]

On 8/29/2025 at 11:26 AM, TangledThorns said:

Matt Smith is the obvious villain [...]

Nah, this is a Star Wars project.  The obvious villains are the writers. 😜

Writing is the franchise's Achilles heel.  An all-star cast and stunning visuals are simply a matter of throwing enough money at the project.  You can't simply buy a compelling creative vision or turn that vision into a viable screenplay by just throwing money at it.  It doesn't really matter how good your actors are or how bottomless your VFX budget is if the story you're telling is badly composed or just boring.  Like The Acolyte, The Book of Boba Fett, Solo: a Star Wars Story, etc.

[Big s]

15 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Writing is the franchise's Achilles heel.

I completely agree with you. The stuff I’ve seen has pretty always had a decent or even great group of actors and the visual effects are pretty much at the top as well. Unfortunately the writing is often where the stories fall apart. Sometimes it’s too much of an agenda or sometimes it’s expecting everyone to have watched a cartoon, but most of the time it’s just pure stupidity 

[Bolt]

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Nah, this is a Star Wars project.  The obvious villains are the writers. 😜

I still like to think of KK as the sith behind green lighting what the writers are allowed to produce. She's always pulling the strings from the shadows..

All hating aside. I'm looking forward to another go at it. Hopefully something interesting. Clearly they're steering away from known territory , so as not to invoke overly long negative analyses from fans and haters alike . 

[Seto Kaiba]

22 hours ago, Big s said:

[...] Unfortunately the writing is often where the stories fall apart. Sometimes it’s too much of an agenda or sometimes it’s expecting everyone to have watched a cartoon, but most of the time it’s just pure stupidity 

I'm not sure I'd say the presence of absence of an "agenda" has anything to do with it.  After all, the only agenda I've seen in Star Wars under Disney has been Disney's usual ruthless profit motive... or their release schedule, for a given value of the word "agenda". 😆😜

No, if I had to point to a probable cause for the trouble Star Wars so consistently has in the writer's room I'd say it's a combination of risk-averse development and a very narrow idea of what Star Wars stories can be.  Writing a film for the broadest possible global audience doesn't leave much room to make an artistic statement, and the Disney+ originals rely upon excessive fanservice to avoid stepping outside of the narrative "comfort zone".

 

15 hours ago, Bolt said:

All hating aside. I'm looking forward to another go at it. Hopefully something interesting. Clearly they're steering away from known territory , so as not to invoke overly long negative analyses from fans and haters alike . 

It'll be interesting to see what they make of it.  I'm not sure I'd say they're steering away from known territory, but they're at least attempting to move forward for once instead of just screwing around in the vicinity of the original trilogy... and a Jedi-free story should encourage a bit more depth.

[electric indigo]

This one didn't make it

 

[Big s]

14 minutes ago, electric indigo said:

This one didn't make it

 

Somehow he didn’t survive 

[Roy Focker]

I agree with the logic that this was a dead character and a post death movie of them being alive could break the universe, but they had a good actor an award-winning director wanting to make a movie - you do what it takes to make that work.

[pengbuzz]

17 minutes ago, Roy Focker said:

I agree with the logic that this was a dead character and a post death movie of them being alive could break the universe, but they had a good actor an award-winning director wanting to make a movie - you do what it takes to make that work.

Well, he could always be a clone. That seems to be a thing...

[TangledThorns]

1 hour ago, pengbuzz said:

Well, he could always be a clone. That seems to be a thing...

Clone Solo, lol

 

 

 

[Seto Kaiba]

9 hours ago, electric indigo said:

This one didn't make it

Iger and Bergman 100% made the right call there.

There's no way they were going to be able to sell the audience on more of Ben Solo, after that painfully cheap and forced redemption in the last movie of the sequel trilogy. He was such an ineffective and unintimidating villain that they literally had to bring someone else in to pinch hit for him in the final film of the trilogy.

Lucasfilm might have thought that was a good idea, but their judgment under Dave Filoni is suspect at best.

Let the past die, Adam. Kill it if you have to. It's the only way to become what you were meant to be... the guy they hire when they can't get Keanu Reeves.

Edited 17 hours ago by Seto Kaiba

[Big s]

I actually liked the character as a crazed baddie in the first and maybe even second film, but the third film went so far off the bent rails from the second movie, that there was no way that train wasn’t going off a cliff.

Let the sequels be and move on and please don’t do a prequel type story either

[Bolt]

Let the emo be dead.

[Thom]

Should have left him evil. He should have fired on Leia's ship and he should have been fighting Rey all the way to the end. He turned against Snoke and he should have been fighting against Palpatine for ultimate control, and he should have called himself Darth Caedus...

[Chronocidal]

Honestly.. if we're going with Palpatine surviving, there's no reason Ben didn't.

After all, he just fell over and disappeared.  Not like he was dropped down a hole into a reactor that exploded, or anything.  

[Big s]

57 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

Honestly.. if we're going with Palpatine surviving, there's no reason Ben didn't.

After all, he just fell over and disappeared.  Not like he was dropped down a hole into a reactor that exploded, or anything.  

Or a trash chute

[505thAirborne]

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

Not like he was dropped down a hole into a reactor that exploded, or anything.  

[Froy]

There was a novel telling a history about Palpatine having a some clones around the galaxy and how siths "survived" by passing their essence into other living beings or even objects. 

Sadly Disney ditched all of that. At less they could have a explanation on the Palpatines return on the ROS and the history wouldn't have ended being a huge meme.

[Bolt]

2 hours ago, Thom said:

Should have left him evil. He should have fired on Leia's ship and he should have been fighting Rey all the way to the end. He turned against Snoke and he should have been fighting against Palpatine for ultimate control, and he should have called himself Darth Caedus...

I agree.

 

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

Honestly.. if we're going with Palpatine surviving, there's no reason Ben didn't.

After all, he just fell over and disappeared.  Not like he was dropped down a hole into a reactor that exploded, or anything.  

You're definitely not wrong.

 

26 minutes ago, Big s said:

Or a trash chute

lol yeah 

 

8 minutes ago, Froy said:

There was a novel telling a history about Palpatine having a some clones around the galaxy and how siths "survived" by passing their essence into other living beings or even objects. 

I didn't catch that one. Interesting idea. Goes further than being schooled by a force ghost..

[Chronocidal]