Time_pants posted:

It's weird that Disney have such a bug up their butts about making Star Wars serious and "epic." Star Wars movies have been wearing out their welcome since 1998, and thus far they all have the same look, tone, and feel. It's super loving weird because with their other multi-billion-dollar movie franchise, the MCU, they've shown incredible willingness to release movies that are way different (better) than the serious-as-9/11 superhero drama of Captain America.

The first Iron Man was basically a rom-com, Guardians of the Galaxy was a camp space opera, Doctor Strange was a special effects extravaganza that was so aggressively weird that I'm surprised half the audience didn't walk out after the first hour, Deadpool was R-rated juvenile comedy and ultraviolence, Ant Man was literally just a Paul Rudd comedy with a funny-looking suit, and Thor is... something. I don't know.

Maybe a handful of these movies were any good at all, but they keep getting me to sit down on the couch and commit 2 hours to way, way more movies than I expected because they promise something different and drat if they don't deliver. They're not cinematic masterpieces by any stretch, but the farther they get from the boilerplate superhero movie, the better they tend to be.

The last new Star Wars movie I'll ever watch was The Force Awakens because they made it abundantly clear that their goal was to keep repackaging the exact same movie again and again, and they weren't even really going to put any effort into hiding it anymore.

Movie franchises are bad and they should go away.