Thank you, Disney for continually reiterating that having money doesn’t make one smarter, more creative, or more capable. Fucking hilarious shit.
TFW you have no 5-year plan.
To be fair, it’s not like Lucas had extensively mapped out an entire trilogy when he made the first movie either. He, Kasdan and all those other people were just mostly flying by the seat of their pants from movie to movie
And it really shows in ROTJ
True. It’s just having the intellectual property (hate this term so much), you would expect some level of planning.
Yeah but at least RotJ doesn’t spend over half it’s runtime retconing everything interesting that happened in Empire.
It just kind of lazily wraps everything up to get it over with. Anyway, my point was that these big franchise movies aren’t generally planned that tightly unless they’re Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings which were all made at the same time
I do agree that Rise of Skywalker was a laughably bad movie though- I wonder how much it was just due to JJ’s incompetence and how much of it was some ill-advised course correction due to fanboys collectively shitting their pants about TLJ
Absolute champ Patrick H Willems just did a video on third entries in trilogies that touches on this
JJ Abrams is the biggest hack in hollywood, and that is really saying something
Every. Single. Time.
I remember being surprised when I found out Carrie Fisher only got into Hollywood because her mother was Debbie Reynolds. Then, time and time again, I found that famous actors didn’t get their parts because they were great actors, but because they were blood relatives of other Hollywood people. It was my first introduction to the insular world that elites create for themselves, and how they hypocritically preach the opposite of what they practice themselves.
His father: Gerald W. Abrams
His grandfather: Samuel David Abrams (1908–1990). There’s no Wikipedia link.
As a general rule, if I can go on Wikipedia and find out who your grandparents are, it’s a coin toss whether or not you’re a piece of shit. If they have their own Wikipedia page, you definitely are.
on the other hand, if they had done a good job, they might have had even more profit! 🤔
You see, capitalism gives people a strong incentive to put the most competent in charge and make the best decisions. If you do socialism, you might wind up with incompetent leaders and bad decisions.
