What next for Lando

Well, I'm of course thinking about star wars right now...

was The Last Jedi a good star wars film or just a good regular film that has star wars' name on it.

When I personally think of star wars, I don't think about the movies. I think about the stuff I grew up wondering about beyond the films. Why was the VHS box set having the faces of the characters on it in such an epic style with the troopers and minor characters in the background.

Of course the posters made the movie more epic than they eventually were although once I got to ESB on VHS Star Wars was cemented in my mind as Legendary. But even before popping in that movie, I looked at the box art and just was kinda blown away by the epic stuff going on.

Nothing in the movie matched the epic box art and posters for star wars. Say whatever you want but the true genius beyond the genius of the films themselves was in the marketing. Pouring their soul into great art for the boxes and stuff alone really made star wars look like something waaaaay more than it actually was.

So to my point, this movie feels like one big box art of star wars. It's not a real star wars movie then when you get down to it, but it sure is a damn good work of star wars art. You'd never claim Lucas was the man who painted the Drew Struzian posters but you hold those dear to you just as much as the movies. That's how I view Last Jedi, it's not authentic star wars, nor does it really want to be. I think the director may have been struggling with this concept. Should he make it a star wars tribute or an attempt to mimmick and own the Star Wars brand now divorced/untouched by Lucas himself.

In the end, he was defeated. I feel he could never hope to make it feel like Lucas himself made it, so he settled on making the best star wars tribute film of all time. Indeed it is. It's a tribute to star wars.

I believe it's over. There is no 3rd trilogy anymore. I never was fully in love with force awakens and I honestly don't give two spits about its characters and where their story will go. It means nothing to me. I'm invested in Luke, Leia, Han, Anakin's story, always have been. They tried, disney, wanted us to jump on the new cast's story and ride that one to wherever it goes but I must conclude I don't care. They're not strong enough to carry our attention for 2 hours and it's sad because I like the actors, they just have nothing to work with.

Sad too because if these movies basically function as a big star wars reunion special which is what they are, no one can deny that anymore. Billy Dee Williams is getting serious shade.

Sad sad sad. He's not going to be with us forever and he's just as iconic and meaningful to star wars fans as goddamn nien nub or whoever else they've brought back, goddamn Ackbar. He's still capable of doing the part, and it would have made sense for him to have been a part of this story if he didn't happen to re-appear at some point during Force Awakens.

It is what it is, he wasn't in ANH and that's the play. They're not truly concerned with his character who did indeed come later and wasn't a part of the story from the start, but neither were a lot of the characters they did decide to bring back, so this just looks so insane not to even kinda toss in a line about Lando or something.

That's kinda my personal gripe with the new movies. They have problems, you can list them all day, but the fact that they're ignoring Han's best friend, Rebel hero who destroyed the second death star, wow, huge oversight they HAVE TO fix once we get to Ep 9.

If Billy Dee was gone, yeah it'd make sense they didn't bring his character back, but for the love of God the man's still with us and still has that voice, still doing things, still showing up at conventions and celebrations, people still want him to show up. And he's sure as hell voicing Lando to much satisfaction in the games, so nothing makes sense about him not getting a last hoorah as Lando.

It'd even make sense ya know since Han is gone, he kinda stands in for him, helps out on the Falcon if it needs repairs. That's what Chewie's role is now, falcon repair boy, but it's not the same, chewie never made han's mods, only Lando would understand them. Would be fun if Lando got the Falcon back, Chewie and him argued about the modifications Han made, whatever, it'd be genius. Such a missed opportunity. But oh that Rose and Finn super star wars casino level that's important or something...

What's my thoughts on Ron Howard's movie and will it be better than TLJ. I think it'll be a shit ton better. Now my confidence is boosted. Rian Johnson is a fan of star wars given free reign by disney to make his fanboy film. Fine. Ron Howard is Lucas' fucking apprentice. Wait until you see what this son of a bitch will do...

He's not going to miss anything pivotal like Johnson did. He's going to know the tiniest fanboy shit to stick in the corners of the film to make us fanboys say oh shit this is star wars I love.

I mean yeah this new trilogy is a very big awkward thing now. TFA was a decent if unspectacular star to things. TLJ is a total trashing of TFA and reboot of things. I love the reviews that say TLJ kinda rebooted TFA. It does. It's not a debate. There's a contempt for TFA throughout TLJ. Johnson is no fan of JJ's movie and rightfully so. JJ pulled all his punches, took it too damn easy and wasted what could have been a serious return for star wars, made a prequel level soft film.

when I watch goddamn Lost in Space as a kid, I said to myself yeah this is good, Star wars is better.

When I watched Star trek and shit as a kid, I said yeah this is good but star wars is better.

On and on, every space movie. This is good, star wars is better.

And then TFA... this... it's good.... Star Wars is better. (( OH OH ))

TLJ? This... is... Star Wars!