Kenobi Movie

Snaketibe said:

I'm glad. Let's just hope they don't make a hash of it. I enjoyed TFA, but found it also very flawed, loved Rogue One (although it seems that film was saved in the reshoots and edit, by all accounts), but hated TLJ with an undying passion that means I will never again watch anything Rian Johnson has come within a thousand miles of. So for me, Kathleen Kennedy's Disney Star Wars film track record is rather patchy. I'm really looking forward to 'Solo' and am hopeful Ron Howard has pulled off a good film, but if that film sucks then Disney may have trouble getting me to watch 'Kenobi'.

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weasel said:

Snaketibe said:

I'm glad. Let's just hope they don't make a hash of it. I enjoyed TFA, but found it also very flawed, loved Rogue One (although it seems that film was saved in the reshoots and edit, by all accounts), but hated TLJ with an undying passion that means I will never again watch anything Rian Johnson has come within a thousand miles of. So for me, Kathleen Kennedy's Disney Star Wars film track record is rather patchy. I'm really looking forward to 'Solo' and am hopeful Ron Howard has pulled off a good film, but if that film sucks then Disney may have trouble getting me to watch 'Kenobi'.

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LMK what you think of Solo if you go and see it. I'm refusing to go after TLJ but the missus says she's gonna go with her brother. So if you think it's good, and it sounds like we have a fairly similar outlook on the films, please LMK.

Oohh and I won't be reading any of the Solo threads so don't tell me it's good in there lol.

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Snaketibe said:

weasel said:

Snaketibe said:

I'm glad. Let's just hope they don't make a hash of it. I enjoyed TFA, but found it also very flawed, loved Rogue One (although it seems that film was saved in the reshoots and edit, by all accounts), but hated TLJ with an undying passion that means I will never again watch anything Rian Johnson has come within a thousand miles of. So for me, Kathleen Kennedy's Disney Star Wars film track record is rather patchy. I'm really looking forward to 'Solo' and am hopeful Ron Howard has pulled off a good film, but if that film sucks then Disney may have trouble getting me to watch 'Kenobi'.

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LMK what you think of Solo if you go and see it. I'm refusing to go after TLJ but the missus says she's gonna go with her brother. So if you think it's good, and it sounds like we have a fairly similar outlook on the films, please LMK.

Oohh and I won't be reading any of the Solo threads so don't tell me it's good in there lol.

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OK, no problem, will do. I'll definitely give 'Solo' a try and will post a spoiler-free reply to you here giving my thoughts

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subzero said:

Gotta be honest I don't really see where they can start with a good story on this, from ROTS to SW he exiled himself on Tatooine for decades, stuck there just rotting in a little hut and unknown by everybody on the planet. Surely we won't be seeing any lightsaber action either because nobody else with a saber knows he's even there, and any kind of adventures Kenobi might have got involved in with other people could have possibly alerted who and where he was to the empire.

The only scenarios I can think of is something to do with him watching over and protecting Luke, but I can't imagine him interacting with him much because we get the impression from A New Hope that they've never spoken before. And maybe a scenario of avoiding the empire on Tatooine in some way, unless he secretly travels to other planets to do some secret **** I can't see what else they'd come up with. :?:

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Snaketibe said:

subzero said:

Gotta be honest I don't really see where they can start with a good story on this, from ROTS to SW he exiled himself on Tatooine for decades, stuck there just rotting in a little hut and unknown by everybody on the planet. Surely we won't be seeing any lightsaber action either because nobody else with a saber knows he's even there, and any kind of adventures Kenobi might have got involved in with other people could have possibly alerted who and where he was to the empire.

The only scenarios I can think of is something to do with him watching over and protecting Luke, but I can't imagine him interacting with him much because we get the impression from A New Hope that they've never spoken before. And maybe a scenario of avoiding the empire on Tatooine in some way, unless he secretly travels to other planets to do some secret **** I can't see what else they'd come up with. :?:

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Where there's a billion dollars to be made at the box office, I'm sure Disney will find a way! ;-)

And besides, Rian Johnson has already shown that Disney are quite happy for established canon to be thrown away with gay abandon, so I guess they could make old Ben do just about anything in his film, lightsaber action and all.

Having said that, I remain cautiously hopeful about 'Kenobi'. I like Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan, and after the fierce backlash (quite rightly, IMHO) leveled at Disney following the utter disgrace of TLJ, despite their official defence of their choices in that film, you can bet your life both Episode 9 and all future Star Wars films will look a damn sight more like the Original Trilogy than TLJ did! It's not even a question backpedaling by Disney over that defence; TLJ didn't make them as much money as it should have done, and they know it. Disney's number one priority with these films is making money, so they'll do whatever they can to ensure they don't piss off half the fan base with future offerings in order to maximise their profits... It's just a shame they had to destroy the episodic franchise in order to realise that rather obvious fact :-(

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Spookedhippie said:

If they base it off the kenobi book they'll do well...it works for the time period and maintains kenobis exile on tatooine...plays like a western

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weasel said:

Snaketibe said:

I'm glad. Let's just hope they don't make a hash of it. I enjoyed TFA, but found it also very flawed, loved Rogue One (although it seems that film was saved in the reshoots and edit, by all accounts), but hated TLJ with an undying passion that means I will never again watch anything Rian Johnson has come within a thousand miles of. So for me, Kathleen Kennedy's Disney Star Wars film track record is rather patchy. I'm really looking forward to 'Solo' and am hopeful Ron Howard has pulled off a good film, but if that film sucks then Disney may have trouble getting me to watch 'Kenobi'.

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LMK what you think of Solo if you go and see it. I'm refusing to go after TLJ but the missus says she's gonna go with her brother. So if you think it's good, and it sounds like we have a fairly similar outlook on the films, please LMK.

Oohh and I won't be reading any of the Solo threads so don't tell me it's good in there lol.

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Snaketibe said:

OK, as promised here are my spoiler-free 'Solo' thoughts. In short, I liked it a lot. It's not perfect and there were a couple of things I didn't really care for, but overall I thought it was great. It was respectful and consistent with established OT (and PT for that matter) canon, had a decent story, interesting and mostly plausible new characters, it looked great, had lots of action, humour that worked but wasn't overused... basically everything the **** sandwich of TLJ wasn't.

I haven't settled on a score out of ten for the new film yet. I will do that after happily going to see it another couple of times over the next few weeks, but as far as your own visit is concerned, I'd say go with confidence. It might not be TESB, but it's certainly no TPM either!

Lastly, it also restores some of my lost faith in Lucasfilm. After shitting the bed so comprehensively with TLJ, I am now more hopeful that Episode 9 and Kenobi will be a return to form.

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