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519 sats \ 51 comments \ @DesertDave 5h movies

What do you think? Other then the first couple movies back in the 70s, star wars is super duper lame right?

@darthcoin and @ObiJuanCoinobi. Will you please help me understand star wars. And who is cooler, Darth or Obi?

Like if there was a contest for coolest star wars character, who would win?

As an adult, I've never thought Star Wars was good. I've enjoyed a couple of entries, but I don't like any of the nine episodes.

I've never heard of @ObiJuanCoinobi, but I doubt he's done anything to rival Darth's guides and commitment to the bit.

65 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4h

IMO, the best Star Wars properties are actually things outside the main 9 movies.

X-Wing, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, were all awesome video games.

More recently, Mandalorian S1 and Andor were great TV shows, though most of the other recent stuff has been pretty meh.

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h

I wasn't even thinking about the games. Some of those are quite fun. I also enjoyed a Han Solo book trilogy when I was kid.

I agree with you about those two shows. The others that I saw were quite bad.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 4h

I enjoyed rogue squadron and shadows of the empire on n64, back in the day. Also there were snes games based on the old trilogy that were super cool platformers. I am old now I suppose

22 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 2h

Andor was based

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 2h

I'm just mad that Andor showed what's possible, then they go and make junk like Acolyte

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave OP 4h

Wow. I don't know there were so many episodes. crazy. I think I have seen 4 of them and then I stopped after the first new one was sooo bad.

I've never heard of @ObiJuanCoinobi

Yeah. He is new here, I guess...

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 4h

Very cool name, but so is Darthcoin.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h

Great names for sure.

38 sats \ 2 replies \ @theonceler 4h

Mandalorian is pretty good IMO

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 3h

I think only the first 2 seasons were good. Third season sucked dick.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 4h

I have heard that. I haven't watched it.

170 sats \ 6 replies \ @anon 4h

I have to go @anon for this.

I used Star Wars as a way to sleep with a girl. We both hadn't seen the 2 trilogies when we were kids. As adults, we agreed to start watching it together. During the first movie, thinking it was boring, we ended up sleeping together for the first time. I offered to watch the next episode a few later or so, with the same consequence. Noticing a pattern, I repeated this approach 4 more times, with the clear intent of never actually finishing any of the episodes. This relationship did not go further after finishing the 2 trilogies.

A friend, a huge Star Wars fan, refused to talk to me for a few months after I told him about this.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 3h

Did you reach out to her again when the new trilogy was released?

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 2h

We actually stayed in touch after this event but went back to simply being friends. We were not at the same place in our lives. It wasn't my proudest moment as a horny guy, looking back.

And when the new trilogy came out, we were no longer living in the same city.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @scatman 4h

So, in a way, Star Wars did "suck" for you...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 2h

Haha!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 2h

Great story. Best told as anon for sure. 😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 2h

For sure. There is a time and place for everything.

22 sats \ 3 replies \ @Skipper 3h

I've never watched it. Does it still hold up to this day?

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h

I like episode 4 the best. That's the only one I like to rewatch.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Skipper 2h

Do i have to watch all of them?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h

No. Not at all. It's a vast universe it seems. The og trilogy from the 70s is probably a good start. But that's just my opinion.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 2h

Empire Strikes Back was my favorite then Star Wars

Return of the Jedi was ok

I didn't watch the others

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 2h

Empire is pretty solid. You never watched episode 4?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 2h

I saw 4, 5 and 6 but skipped the others

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 3h

Hit or miss. I like some of the movies and some of the tv shows but there are a lot of duds too.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h

I can see that. It's hard for me to want to take a chance.

22 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 4h

I wouldn’t say Star Wars sucks! The first trilogy was good, in fact, groundbreaking in the sci-fi movies field. The second trilogy was spotty, I thought two were good and the first one not, so good. I couldn’t finish the last trilogy because of the butchered concepts and Mary Sue. Since then I have only seen the two other films, two prequels that I thought were pretty good. I haven’t watched any of the streaming, animated or TV programs since the second of the third trilogy.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 4h

I didn't realize there was so much star wars stuff out there. I kind of think Disney is evil so maybe I am surely biased against the new stuff.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 4h

Why not be biased against their stuff, they are evil and they are decimating the Star Wars IP. I consider it as dead as a doornail. I won’t bother watching any more than I have now.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @guts 4h

My only canon is StarWars under Lucas and not Disney

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h

The good ol days.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Coinsreporter 4h

I remember I watched anything "Star Wars", it felt so boring that I never tried to watch again.

So, for me all of Star Wars sucks!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h

Most of them feel that way for me. I like the og first move ever quite a bit, episode 4

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln 4h

I never really got into it. I probably should have watched them when they came out.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 2h

Have you watched the old ones at all?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 2h

I tried 4 and 5 later on in life, if I recall well.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satosora 4h

I wish they would have followed some of the books more closely. There was a lot of good material there. Grand Admiral Thrawn and the Katana fleet. The xwing series.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 2h

The tends to be the case, the books are usually better than the movies.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 4h

I’m about to drop the ban hammer on you, Dave.

I have the high ground.

All jokes aside. I’m not a fan of Disney SW but I’m such a cult fan that I will always watch pretty much whatever they publish.

When Bitcoiners are so fucking rich that we can buy Disney, then we can fix the franchise and bring balance back to the force.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave OP 4h

Sounds like a good plan. Disney is evil in my opinion.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 4h

Super fucking evil.

11 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 4h

At worst, it's a well financed substrate for exploring scifi concepts. I think there are some big ideas in it too that are worth thinking about. Like, the unintended consequence of removing one evil ("balancing the force") can sometimes bring more and other evils.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @DesertDave OP 4h

Interesting. 🤔

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 4h

FWIW I've enjoyed most of the movies and shows, but I'm also a huge scifi fan and I'm a sucker for classical story structures (good vs evil, hero journeys, etc).

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave OP 4h

I tend to light hero's journey stories. Sci Fi not so much. Maybe there is more there for me to look into.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @alt 34m

I guess SN hates Star Wars?

The original trilogy is excellent. The prequel trilogy is also great, yes it's cheesy and full of memes but I still love watching it (yes, even The Phantom Menace).

In conclusion, ALL SIX of the main movies are pretty good.

The other media cam be hit and miss but there's some good stuff out there like Rogue One (movie), The Mandalorian (TV show), The Clone Wars (cartoon), and The Force Unleashed (video game).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jimmysong 1h

4 was good. 5 was great. 6 was ok. 1, 2 and 3 sucked in such indescribable ways, especially after waiting over 15 years for them to come out. One of the most satisfying early youtube videos for me was this takedown of episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5919C8DE6F720A2D It's so old that it had to be broken into 10 minute chunks because that was the limit on YouTube back then. There are similar takedowns of 2 and 3 by the same guy.

But then, it got worse and 7, 8 and 9 somehow made 1, 2 and 3 look reasonable, which still amazes me. I haven't watched 8 or 9, but if they can make 1, 2 and 3 look ok, they must be truly dreadful indeed.

But yea, 4 is basically a modern retelling of Kurasawa's classic The Hidden Fortress. Seriously, the plot is very similar, down to the perspective of the two lowest characters, which Lucas admitted he ripped from the movie. 5 was the real gem, in my view.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 2h

Anything based off Kurosawa's work is ok with me.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 2h

Not mostly, totally.

I had never got bored on a cinema until I tried watching one of those. I've never got bored again.

Least entertaining, interesting, or engaging movie I've ever watched.

I like Sci-Fi movies, though.