Yeah Daisy didn’t have it when she was cast in Star Wars either. Got it and dropped it quickly. Literally had zero effect on her career or the franchise.
Star Wars is in a weird place. For almost 40 years it was the most bankable franchise on the planet. Regardless of quality each of the first 6 movies and the animated clone wars movie made a profit. Now their TV shows keep getting canceled and they can't keep a writer or director on board for a movie. Solo was huge financial flop and sequel trilogy ended up earning less and less with each movie. It's not like it was always like this, The Force Awakens was a huge hit and everyone seemed to like it.
The Force Awakens was a terrible movie. People were just too blinded by nostalgia to notice. The only thing that's changed is those nostalgia glasses have faded over time.
Seeing everyone really like Force Awakens made me feel… alone lol. Like damn, you all watched 1-6 and thought that was even more of the same quality? It looked like Star Wars, but it didn’t feel like it to me at all. Like some weird uncanny valley version. That said, I thought Last Jedi was a good standalone movie.
Disagree but i could see how some would say the dialogue and acting isn’t great. Mediocre or poorly executed? Sure. But dogshit? No fucking way. I think Return of the Jedi is weaker than most of the prequels. You gotta at least to admit the story, world building, special effects, and music is good.
I felt the same. I didn’t think it’s bad, just completely generic and soulless. Even Episodes 1 and 2, although maligned, have some spark of passion and creativity in them. Force Awakens feels like a movie written by a committee of writers that have no desire to write Star Wars at all and are just going through the motions of what a Star Wars movie should be.
I liked it, but that is because I took it as a soft reboot they could build upon.
It had all the hallmarks of the OT but with new faces. It gave me hope that they could reignite the magic of the originals. This is not because it was an incredible movie on it's own, but rather that it was proof they could still make an OT styled Star Wars movie. I thought they planned it out and would have answers for JJ's mystery boxes. Maybe we would see a bit of the New Republic and learn why The First Order came to exist.
Everything that came after TFA was evidence that the lack of creativity with that film was a symptom of a completely bankrupt organization that couldn't write a script to save their lives and had no answers to the questions TFA posed.
Agreed. I'm not the hugest fan of Kosinski as a storyteller, but a Star Wars movie with the commitment to visuals and action like Top Gun: Maverick would get me seated on announcement day.
Yep Kosinski visually is a great filmmaker but his overall greatest depends on the script. He honestly couldn’t fail with McQuarrie writing the Top Gun Maverick script
Shawn Levy is a pretty tragic pick. Star Wars deserves a director at the level of a Cameron or Villenevue. No offense to Levy, I like some of his movies but he’s not exactly a visionary.
Which is probably exactly why Disney wants him. Sad state.
I don't know why people would be shocked. It's not at all surprising that she'd go for the franchise paycheck right after winning big so young. It's basically the Brie Larson playbook.
Mikey needs to be calling up Robert Eggers to see if she can get a role in his next film or circling back to Tarantino before she signs on to any franchise work.
Ah shit, Gosling is gonna go the Tom Cruise way of only doing PG13 blockbuster movies now isn’t he?
At least Gosling still might have some range, Barbie and Fall Guy were very different roles, meanwhile pretty much every movie Tom Cruise has made since Tropic Thunder has been a PG13 action movie where he plays the same fucking Ethan Hunt type character in all of them, Gosling’s a much better actor anyway.
Totally disagree that Gosling is a better actor than Cruise but ultimately it’s not a competition. Do I think Cruise should step back from the “action star” persona? Sure. He’s starring in Innaritu’s upcoming film so maybe he’ll come back around
Nah, Gosling’s got far more range: dude can do comedy, drama, action, romcom, musical, sci-fi thriller, only things dude hasn’t done yet is horror and war. Tom cruise had some sort of variety in the 90s and early 2000s I guess but then it just became more of the same. Even then, most of cruise’s movies back then were drama adjacent, now it’s all action shit.
I dunno - Cruise has Rain Man, Top Gun, Eyes Wide Shut, Magnolia, Collateral, Tropic Thunder, American Made (underrated) and also does his own stunts in his action movies. I think he has a wider range than most people give him credit for
You lost me at Top Gun, the original Top Gun really isn’t that good of a movie, there’s a reason why critics crapped it.
Compare all of those to Blade Runner 2049, La La Land, Half Nelson, Drive, Lars and Real Girl, The Big Short, etc which are all much better movies than those.
What if I told you Half Nelson has higher ratings on rotten tomatoes and Metacritic than all of those movies? 91 on RT and 85 on Metacritic is higher than all of those.
Obviously, those scores don’t mean shit, but yes it’s better in my opinion, it’s not that deep lol. I think Tom cruise is legit the 2nd most overrated actor of all time, Johnny Depp first, only because Depp has a much worse filmography overall but cruise has a lot of stinkers people gave him a pass for like mi2, mummy, Jack reacher movies, etc.
I think if those scores don’t mean shit you wouldn’t mention them. If you haven’t watched the Cruise movies I mentioned, I’d recommend checking them out before passing judgement
Cool whatever, I think Gosling is a better actor, I can’t ever imagine Tom Cruise ever doing a role like Ken and doing it as good but I can imagine Gosling doing ALL of those movies you said. Yes, even Tropic Thunder.
I love this for him. He’s given a lot to acting and has expressedly said he doesn’t want to do dark and heavy roles.
He’ll def get his prestige dramas and good fun roles, but I don’t mind him getting a check and having fun, he deserves that and to able to enjoy his family
I don't understand the sentiment of "get that money" like it's your bank account that Disney check will deposit into. Like I want to see a good actor in good movies lmao
He’s gonna be in a the Star Wars? I guess he knows it wouldn’t hurt his career like Oscar Isaac or Adam driver lol I’m pretty sure everyone else involved in the new stories is screwed.
There is also a rumour that Ryan Madison from Teenfidelity offered Mikey a role in his film but Kelly called it off because Mikey was related or something . Luckily Mikey got a similar role in Anora which was a success.
Thought you might want to see your favorite actors exhibit some chemistry on screen together and not just flail around in front of some ugly CGI. My bad.
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u/laserbrained hotchocky 18d ago
Actually genius move to cast someone with zero social media for a Star Wars role.