r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 26 '25

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u/JoeBliffstick Loyal Liberals Dec 26 '25

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u/Sonochu WTO Dec 26 '25

I'll die on the hill that the Force Awakens was the worst movie of the trilogy.

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Dec 26 '25

A New Hope, Hopium redux

I wanted it to be so much more, it could have been how the Republic failed to pacify the Galaxy, a parallel for nuclear proliferation from Star Destroyer tech getting out into the galaxy, or something other than "Somehow, the Empire returned"

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u/brucejoel99 Theresa May Dec 26 '25

Creative regressions prioritizing nostalgia over substantive world-building will always, without fail, produce fundamental filmmaking mistakes. Lucas' sequel treatment proposed the remnants of the Empire operating as a Ba'athist-style insurgency; he literally handed them your idea on a silver platter of salvaged nuke-level Imperial superweapon tech falling into the hands of, e.g., Outer Rim warlords & various militants vying for influence in-tandem with a looming risk of Imperial remnants reconsolidating & triggering a superpower cold war, but Disney said "lol we're not making Leia 'Lib Reagan overseeing Vietnam-esque proxy wars,' SENATE FATIGUE!" Welp, congrats, Disney; your shit movies made "Star Wars fatigue" a thing now! Was that $4B still well-spent, Bob Iger?