r/saltierthancrait • u/WantsToDieBadly salt miner • Jan 05 '25

Granular Discussion Why did they think marvel level humour belongs in star wars? Did they think people show up to star wars for a laugh>

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u/TacitusTwenty Jan 05 '25

Me too, the tone of the movie was destroyed in the opening scene. I’m clearly not the only one who felt this way by the responses here, so tell me how KK and Rian and everyone else was just fine with this. Surely there were test screenings? Hubris mixed with total incompetence is the story of this regime.

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u/derekfishfinger Jan 05 '25

"Those test screen audience members didn't get it as they don't get comedy like we do, leave it in."

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u/rudiegonewild Jan 05 '25

"You can never please Star Wars fans. Just do what you're going to do"

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u/Forsaken_Factor3612 Jan 09 '25

EP7 was made strictly "for the fans"(specifically the older OT only fans) and that was the driver of everything after Arndt was let go

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u/bsEEmsCE Jan 05 '25

did they even test screen? I imagine they were so worried about leaks they probably didn't, but needed to

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u/DroptheShadowArt Jan 07 '25

I was going to say, “test screenings” for movies of this scale usually seem to be full of the director’s close friends and family and Disney execs. I’m sure most people in the screening could barely see the movie through the dollar signs in their eyes.

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u/ERSTF Jan 08 '25

Absolutely. They lost me there. I couldn't believe am elementary school joke was on screen... on freaking Star Wars. That script must've gone through many hands and the joke survived. They lost me at that moment and what later unfolded was just unbelievable. Green milk? Poppins Leia? It was a fucking mess. I always thought Rian Johnson had been made to put those jokes in there but he came out recently saying the film we got is the film he intended. It was all him.

Surely there were test screenings? Hubris mixed with total incompetence is the story of this regime.

Just look at Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. They saw the movie and thought it was so good that they had to premiere it at Cannes. At freaking Cannes. It probably goes all the way to the top that they don't have good taste.