The ‘Star Wars’ MRA Cut Is The Regrettable Endpoint Of Fan Entitlement

Written by  on January 17, 2018

If you hoped that vocal “Star Wars” trolls had finally settled down with complaints about “The Last Jedi, we’re not out of the woods yet. It feels like it’ll still be a while before people can, y’know, just casually like or dislike “Star Wars” — or any blockbuster, for that matter. “The Last Jedi: De-Feminized …

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‘Star Wars’ nitpickers, Picasso naysayers: When audiences fail artists

Written by  on January 17, 2018

About midway through Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” every member of the audience who ever failed a work of art — in other words, all of us — should sit up straight and take notice: An English fashion designer played by Daniel Day-Lewis has made an opulent emerald dress for a rich …

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The Star Wars movies are now officially for old people

Written by  on January 17, 2018

In a crushing blow to whatever coolness Star Wars had in the ’70s and to whatever “ownership” nerds claimed to have over the series with their X-Wing bedsheets and collections of mint-condition Boba Fett toys, the AARP has announced that Star Wars is actually for old people. We’re not sure what …

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The Next Star Wars Movie Is Going to Be a Trainwreck, and Disney Knows It

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Listen, I had hopes for Solo, even if it can’t help being the ugly middle child of the new Star Wars franchise. But at this point, the movie has seemed completely doomed for a while now. Consistently good filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller were removed from the project and replaced with occasionally …

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For diehard ‘Star Wars’ fans, a lot not to like about ‘Last Jedi’

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Two camps left the movie theater after seeing “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” over the holiday break. Some, like high school senior Chris Corr, praised the movie, saying, “I loved the special effects and the actions scenes.” On the other hand, many hardcore fans of the series, such as myself, were greatly …

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Star Wars Han Solo trailer DELAYS: Frustrated fans HIT BACK – Top 19 tweets

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Solo: A Star Wars Story was exected to drop the first ever trailer late last week or this Monday. Instead, Disney and Lucasfilm released a rather unsatisfying synopsis which revealed absolutely nothing that fans hadn’t already assumed, simply settting up Han’s meetings with Chewbacca and Lando.

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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ stars blast film’s all-male version

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Australian site Pedestrian reported on Monday that an anonymous person edited “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” to eliminate or minimize the female characters, uploading the resulting cut to Swedish file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. The 46-minute-long cut eliminates Laura Dern’s Admiral Holdo entirely …

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Star Wars Storm Troopers Z Desk – Blue/White – Project 101

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Find product information, ratings and reviews for Star Wars Storm Troopers Z Desk – Blue/White – Project 101 online on Target.com.

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Star Wars 9: ‘Luke’s EXCITING ROLE in Episode IX’ CONFIRMED by director

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Of course, this being Star Wars, Johnson also fudged his declaration, leaving room for another 24 months of speculation and theories. He added: “I don’t know where the next movie is going to go. JJ (Abrams) and Chris Terrio are writing it right now.” Asked if he was confirming Luke would really return, …

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi pulled from China after just two weeks

Written by  on January 17, 2018

After facing a rocky box office in the hard-to-predict Chinese market, The Last Jedi was the first in the new wave of Star Wars films to start being removed from Chinese theaters so early. Now, after only two full weeks playing in the country, reports say that the film has been pulled completely. According to …

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi cast dunks on sexist fan edit that cut out women

Written by  on January 17, 2018

People should know by now that if you do something egregious online, the internet will find a way to dunk on you. Such is the case with a recent attempt to reimagine Star Wars: The Last Jedi without any of the female actors involved. A report from Pedestrian cited a 46-minute version of The Last Jedi, …

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Can The $1.3B-Grossing ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Recover After Bombing In China?

Written by  on January 17, 2018

But while the number is awful (it’ll make less than, for example, Geostorm, Star Trek Beyond and Valerian), it may be irrelevant. There is no law saying that Star Wars must be huge in China just because it’s a glorified religion in North America. The Fast and the Furious franchise has become their top-tier …

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It’s time to start ignoring the Star Wars haters

Written by  on January 17, 2018

The pacing is off, it’s way too long and it throws away — for better or worse — huge swaths of what we expected from this trilogy. It’s a bold movie that takes the Star Wars saga in what feels like an entirely new direction, and it’s natural that some fans are going to feel left behind by these changes in tone …

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Anxiety Check: ‘Solo’

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Did you know that in four months, a new Star Wars movie is coming out? Most theaters will still be sweeping up porg feathers from The Last Jedi when Solo: A Star Wars Story—the Han Solo prequel directed by Ron Howard—arrives on May 25. Yet outside of Howard’s Disney-approved, Earnest Dad …

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi pulled completely from Chinese cinema chain following poor box office …

Written by  on January 17, 2018

While Star Wars: The Last Jedi has been a massive box office success in the UK and US, other countries have been far less receptive. Perhaps the most notable has been China, the second largest movie market behind the US. The eighth main-saga Star Wars instalment took $28.7 million over the first …

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Why Star Wars: The Last Jedi Included That Final Scene

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a unique film in that the story ends not with our heroes, but with complete strangers. But director Rian Johnson says it was very important for the film to end the way it did. As our main characters are all escaping on board the Millennium Falcon, the camera pulls back to create …

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Star Wars: Han Solo spinoff ‘dark and dangerous’

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Plot details for the upcoming Star wars spinoff movie about Han Solo have been released, revealing a “dark and dangerous” world. Lucasfilm has revealed the … “Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story,” the plot release reads. “An all-new adventure …

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Why gamers are still playing 2005’s Star Wars Battlefront II for PC

Written by  on January 17, 2018

The new Star Wars: Battlefront II by EA shares a similar name as the 2005 classic, developed by Pandemic, but both games are totally different. Loot crates, similar gameplay to the 2015 Star Wars: Battlefront and other issues still plague the 2017 release, and fans of the original Battlefront series are still …

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Star Wars 8 The Last Jedi ORIGINAL ending revealed by director Rian Johnson

Written by  on January 17, 2018

The Last Jedi: Behind the scenes of new Star Wars movie with director Rian Johnson, Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and the late Carrie Fisher.

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Star Wars director and cast mock fan who created ‘de-feminized’ edit of The Last Jedi

Written by  on January 17, 2018

A Star Wars fan who created a “De-Feminised Fanedit” of The Last Jedi has been roundly mocked by the film’s stars. An edited version of the film, dubbed “The Chauvinist Cut” by its anonymous creator, appeared on Sunday on the controversial downloads site The Pirate Bay. The altered film removes …

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi cast mock ‘men-only’ fan edit

Written by  on January 17, 2018

John Boyega and Mark Hamill have responded to a fan edit of Star Wars: The Last Jedi which cuts out the film’s female characters. An angry Star Wars fan created a “men-only” version of The Last Jedi, reducing it to just 46 minutes. The film’s cast posted laughing crying emojis in response to “The Last …

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s adorable closing scene was nearly cut

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Rian Johnson has revealed he nearly cut Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s closing scene featuring ‘Broom Boy’. You may or may not remember that at the end of the film, it cuts back to a group of children on Canto Bight after Leia, Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, Chewie, the Porgs and more members of the Resistance …

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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Rian Johnson Explains Why Rey’s Parents Were Who They Were

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Star Wars: The Last Jedi writer/director Rian Johnson sat down with EMPIRE for their Spoiler Special, revealing new details about his writing process. We’ve already written about another part of that podcast in which Johnson explains that the final scene with a force-sensitive kid almost didn’t make it into …

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Twitter Roasts The ‘Men’s Rights’ Fan Edit Of ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Someone who surely possesses a sparkling personality uploaded a 46-minute long bootleg edit of Star Wars: The Last Jedi to Pirate Bay on Sunday, calling it “The Last Jedi: De-Feminized Fanedit (aka The Chauvinist Cut).” Yes, he — let’s go ahead and assume “he” — removed “Girlz Powah and other …

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi pulled from cinemas in China after flopping massively

Written by  on January 17, 2018

Despite Star Wars: The Last Jedi passing the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office, the film has flopped so hard in China – the world’s second-largest film market – that it’s been pulled from cinemas. The Last Jedi’s debut of $28.7 million in China plummeted to just $2.4 million in its second weekend, …

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