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    ^Sure wish those would be reissued or got the revival/reinterpretation treatment by some other company/division... I'm firmly unwilling to track down and pay exorbitant secondary market prices for, essentially, Gashapons.
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    The glaring difference between TGM and DoD is that the former honored the legacy character and introduced new ones without elevating them at his expense in a mostly well structured story, while the latter went out of its way to diminish, humiliate, deconstruct the titular character in order to foist a new, and wholly grating and unlikable, self-insert "protagonist" at the very intentional expense of Indi (the 3rd time Ford willfully participated in the corruption of one of his iconic roles) in a mess of an incoherent patchwork film that clearly went through several reshoots and reedits that attempted to (unsuccessfully) salvage a turd. While respecting the past may not guarantee success, disrespecting it, especially when it comes across as mean spirited and gratuitous, almost always guarantees failure.
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    I wouldn't hold my breath on either score, more likely it'll be more of the same, if not even more so... Star Wars under Disney is almost invariably a lost cause.
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    At least Bandai hasn't taken any money for something they could not deliver in a timely fashion, so the comparison/analogy is flimsy at best, if not totally flawed.
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    Nay!.. Years, years on end.
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    That it exactly what came to mind when she shows up on screen; well, without any of the grace and intimidation factor that made the sisters so memorable.
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    And they wonder why people decide, with zero remorse, to sail the plundering high seas...
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    ^See! Now that's a class act... not some prickly, dishonest and arrogant hack like Indy 5's James Mangold.
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    Season 3 was actually very apropos to the series as a whole; after all, several STDs do burn...
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    A piece of theatrical excrement that most certainly earned its status as one of the, if not THE, biggest money losing bombs of all time. Another feather in the cap of KK's legacy of utter franchise destruction; on the bright side, there is nothing left in Lucasfilm's vault for her to ruin... what's she going to sink her fangs on next... Howard the Duck?
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    "Theirs is not to ask why, theirs is but pipe down and buy." ... Bandai
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    That's fair, and foreboding for the viability of the franchise's popularity and profitability... both have cratered since shortly after (the release of TLJ) Disney took over. The prospects under current (mis)management/"leadership" -- not just Lucasfilm, but everything under the Disney umbrella -- do not engender any optimism for the future.
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    They are; it's called The Acolyte, and it's going to be, by all account, absolutely atrocious.
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    Unfortunately, he has abandoned Favreau's vision for Star Wars and, as the absolute lackey that he is, has fully embraced the direction KK set out for Star Wars. Unless he can prove otherwise (BoBF, Kenobi, Mando season 3, Ahsoka and The Bad Batch certainly weren't it), all roads lead to the sequel trilogy... and forgettable mediocrity that undermines what Lucas created, driving away legacy fans while failing to attract new ones to replace them.
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    Characters are only as smart or interesting as the person writing them. The best description of the Ashoka series' version of Thrawn that I've read is that he is a dumb person's interpretation of a smart person... a 2-dimensional, thinly superficial competence and menace that do not stand up to even the most cursory scrutiny.
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    Worst flop since just about everything cinema in living memory...
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    Wow, wow, wow, wow..... wow! 87% box office drop Friday to Friday, 78% overall for its second weekend outing. One of, if not, the worst flops in the history of superhero films on a cost vs returns basis, perhaps even of all time, regardless of genre; heading to an epic financial loss of (nearly/possibly) half a billion dollars during its theatrical run... now THAT's impressive, and has earned it an ignominious place in the annals of movie making... Well done Disney-Marvel, bravo. Stick a fork in it, this turkey is done.
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    Agreed. It'll be lucky to do The Marvel numbers, as I posited. When it's all said and done, it'll likely do significantly worse than Blue Beetle. All these studios are hellbent on driving every single money-printing franchise/IP, that they acquired because they were popular and profitable, into the ground with their obnoxious ideological BS and atrocious writing/story telling until they are all as worthless as what Disney-Lucasfilm did with Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Then, instead of engaging in healthy introspection and realizing that They Are The Problem causing their failures, they ignore/deny reality and blame the fans.
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    It will do The Marvels numbers, if it's lucky. Sony better not have spent even 1/3 what Disney did on their clambake stinker; that way, at least the financial loss won't be as embarrassingly/hilariously bad.
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    Well, Space Balls is Star Wars adjacent, from a certain point of view; so, close enough?... May the Swartz be with you. It certainly isn't with The Marvels or anything Disney-MCU related since Endgame.
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    Did... did Netflix finally get it right???... Not gonna lie, that looks stunning and very authentic to the cartoon, in a 'the people behind it' get the source material and took it seriously kind of way.
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