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Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Didn't understand the assignment...
Rian was supposed to create the next Star Wars movie, not destroy the franchise. People wanted Star Wars, not a subversion of expectations. Rian can make a decent movie--I enjoy Knives Out--but Star Wars is bigger than the ego of any one director, so he should have made a film that fit in, rather show his personal take on Star Wars. I, and many other fans of the franchise, do not care about that, so the fanbase was split...
I don't put 100% of the blame on his shoulders, however. Kathleen Kennedy and J. J. Abrams played their role as well, Kathleen with her Agenda and J. J. with his low effort "black box" approach to mysteries. (What's in the black box? Who knows, we'll figure it out later... Who are Rey's Parents? Who is Snoke?). That there were no interesting answers to the "mysteries" J. J. presented made it easy for Rian to trash the setup.
Rogue One is the only Disney Star Wars worthy of the name.
The Mandalorian: Chapter 23: The Spies (2023)
Favreau and Filoni can't save Star Wars
So contrived, so dumb, and so predictable.
I love Giancarlo Esposito, but his dialogue is worse than anything George Lucas has been criticized for.
He sings praises to the Empire, even though there is no known emperor.
Mandalorians are still surviving on the planet that Mandalorians couldn't survive on.
These survivors know exactly where The Great Forge is, but they don't know that there's an active imperial base present, literally steps away. Never noticed a ship coming or going, huh?
One Mandalorian distinguishes himself in the ensuing combat, and I suddenly realized they're going to kill this guy.
People think that Favreau and Filoni are capable of saving Star Wars. Sadly, I think that Star Wars is forever destined to be written by people who don't understand it. Lightning struck for episodes
4, 5, and 6 (and maybe for Rogue One). I no longer believe that we'll see the like ever again.
M.O.D.O.K. (2021)
How do unfunny things get made?
I assume you have to be intelligent to have a show. Patton Oswalt knows how to write a funny joke for standup. When they put the script for a show like this to paper and then read it back to each other and no one laughs, why do they forge ahead? When the director and animators and all the myriad of names listed in the credits put their touch on the product, why does no one ask where the jokes are? Rick & Morty make it look easy. MODOK makes it look real, real hard...
The Mandalorian (2019)
Decent Star Wars Again
I like this. It's not perfect, but it's obvious that it's put together by people who understand what Star Wars is supposed to be (unlike those who gave us The Last Jedi).