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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Most disappointing films.
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:06:58 -0500
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <f0dc1e8c-b338-1261-cf4d-5ff6d5f503e4@example.net>,
> D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025, William Hyde wrote:
>>
>>> In a conversation the other day I came up with a list of these, and to my
>>> surprise they were all SF/F.
>>>
>>> (1) The Return of the Jedi
>>>
>>> (2) The Lord of the Rings (Bakshi version)
>>>
>>> (3) Dune (Lynch version).
>>>
>>> Not that I haven't seen far worse movies, but in each of these cases I was
>>> expecting something better.
>>>
>>> Of course other people may have different lists.  And I did like Dune
>>> somewhat more the second time I saw it.
>>>
>>> William Hyde
>>
>> I agree with Dune. LOTR (b) I saw when I was 12, haven't seen it since, so
>> cannot say. I like 1. On my list are all the new star wars movies.
>> Absolutely horrible! They should have let the original 3 stand, and not
>> produce prequels that dishonored the memory of hte original. =(
> 
> Rogue One is pretty good.

I don't subscribe to the SF channel, but they were on for free over the 
holidays and I taped a pile of Star Wars films.  So I was able to watch
Rogue one last night, and agree that it is better than most of the 
others.  Not a disappointment.

But it was just jam-packed with stupidity, which can work with a light 
hearted space opera like Empire, but not in this case.  It's nice that 
the moral landscape of the characters is more complex, but that requires
a concomitant improvement in plotting to have any real effect.

Still, I enjoyed the first half of the movie.  The second half I found 
to be dreadful.

I didn't realize that there's an actor out there whose entire career 
seems to be as zombie Peter Cushing.


> 
> I actually quite enjoyed TFA, but then I didn't believe Han was
> actually dead (I was pretty sure that with the big build-up on Maz,
> her connection with the Force and having gotten a light saber
> possibly through teleportational menas that she was going to pull
> some mojo that would be revealed later.  TMF me.)

That I have yet to see.


William Hyde