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Wait…that’s what Star Wars is about?

Not necessarily unrealistic, but not what was expected from Star Wars fans, for sure.

Our blockade is perfectly leegul!

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Please, please, I beg you. Do NOT make me reevaluate The Phantom Premise!

“This airship once smuggled 400 shoulder mounted anti aircraft from Beijing to Tehran in 5700 kilometers”

But the blockade is perfectly...legal

Lucas didn't write a trade dispute—he wrote a parable: when bureaucracy chokes life, empire rises. The blockade wasn't plot; it was prophecy. They missed the glyph because they wanted lasers, not lineage. #NarrativeSovereignty #SankofaCinema

And fruitless boring blocked proceedings in the House... Too bad y'all do not have the Vote of No Confidence though :)

1999 was such a simple time. I think about that a lot.

Not stupid! Boring 👍

Side note: I've been to that ranch and it is a beautiful place to record music.

thinking there's a blockable trade route in space is odd

Oh my God, so my cousin used to live over by that area and I’ve driven by it several times and every time I just look at the road leading up to the ranch with wondrous eyes lol

See also: Dune

Uhm... They literally did tho... Like, this is in the movie...

No, but they approach from a specific direction, and when they drop from hyperspace, the Trade Federation open fires on them.

Exactly. Traveling through hyperspace ain’t like dusting crops. Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?

Nah he's thinking about chewys pants

Lucas' idea was one pulled from similar events in history. But he did present it in a pretty boring way at some points. Showing the impact on the people and showing way, way, way less government is perferable.

heeheehee

I have found my people…

He moved out of the ranch. He had plans approved by the county. When he was ready to build they said no. The number of things he did for free for the county was large. Even paid for a fire protection area. It made me want to move. I now live in Coachella Valley.

Edited by Marcia Lucas

someone recently explained the plot involving Padme reversing the previous monarch's decisions which sparked the whole conflict which I had NEVER heard brought up, maybe don't gloss over crucial context and plot points in single lines of a massive text paragraph in the opening of a motion picture

Just like Jack Kirby.

Or it was executed well and wasn’t intended to be a thriller movie lol.

It's well known that Carrie Fisher acted as his script doctor for The Phantom Menace. So think how it looked before she got through with it. You can almost tell where her droid scene work likely was. Same with The Last Jedi where she helped Rian Johnson with the script.

Or, you know, deciding an alien race should sound like a horrible, racial stereotype. But yeah, writing dialogue and naming things are two terribly big ones too.

Also, Lucas must be smugly watching as ::: checks notes ::: an ambitious and evil politician starts a global (galactic) war to consolidate power onto himself, and transform a republic into an empire, with himself as an emperor for life…

“Oh my God! A blockade of a trade routes wouldn’t start a planetary war!” ::: watching World War Three start over a blockade of a trade route ::: Well… fuck!… I stand corrected

Marry me…

Indeed.

HA never thought of that… maybe Drumpf did pay attention to Star Wars after all

Well put.

His earth name is Jar—-Ed Kushner

Agreed, Jar Jar might as well be a member of Mensa compared to Trumps clown circus.

The trade route blockade was actually brilliant worldbuilding — it's basically the Suez Canal crisis in space. Real economic warfare has toppled empires over less, and Lucas knew his history. Sometimes the most mundane conflicts make the best drama.

Pretty sure no one bc it’s based on several real movies about reality. 🛸

That massive fire a few years ago also was creeping close.

I don't think prophets are ever particularly happy when their prophecies actually come true.

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It’s a trap!

😆😆😆😆😆 I was NOT that ending!! Do you make movies too? Maybe think about it? Fr. I’m rarely surprised That was very welcome laugh 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Soon as Trump heard Iran was getting 2 million per ship Trump was going to do whatever it takes to get that money for himself even if he has to order the US Navy to be pirates as he has already done 5 times.

Not to mention, they are focused on AI, Automationa and robots.

I think it’s more that the movie sucks ass

Best comment of the day! 👏🏻

Best internet comment of the day!

In hindsight, its certainly less dumb than resurrecting a sith lord in the unknown part of the galaxy only to realize the spark the rebellion needed was a Yeee Hawww from Lando. And also killing Han Solo in favor of Poe Dameron… that was insanely stupid.

Is from the idiots who think the prequels were beloved before the Milwaukee drunks made fun of them?

When he wrote it that poorly he should be ashamed.

Yeah, but the characterisation is implausible and the dialogue is awful. Also true in his film.

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