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Rogue One was the best of all of them. The Force Awakens was pretty good. The rest of them, they're just mailing it in.

Darth Maul was the coolest bad guy in the franchise. Too bad they had to cut him in half.
 
Ocoka said:
Rogue One was the best of all of them. The Force Awakens was pretty good. The rest of them, they're just mailing it in.

Darth Maul was the coolest bad guy in the franchise. Too bad they had to cut him in half.
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Darth maul lived. That's why he had an appearance in Solo.
 
Ocoka said:
No shit. That's some pretty radical surgery.
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Yeah. I haven't watched the animated series personally, but his hate or something kept him alive and he was dropped off at some trash planet. He goes insane and get mechanical legs. You can see the legs in Solo. Later on he gets rescued by his brother and his mother I think eventually returns his sanity... Someone probably has more fidelity on it.

It's all technically canon
 
Ocoka said:
No shit. That's some pretty radical surgery.
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Florida173 said:
Yeah. I haven't watched the animated series personally, but his hate or something kept him alive and he was dropped off at some trash planet. He goes insane and get mechanical legs. You can see the legs in Solo. Later on he gets rescued by his brother and his mother I think eventually returns his sanity... Someone probably has more fidelity on it.

It's all technically canon
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That's the gist of it, his mother heals him with dark magic and Sith mumbo jumbo, Maul comes back better than ever and teams up with his brother to start wrecking people. All the while Maul still hasn't forgotten the whole being cut in half by our boy Obi-Wan and has a huge murder boner for him. Maul eventually kills Obi-Wans former lover Duchess Satine Kryze just out of pure hatred for him (Kenobi).

This causes Mauls master Darth Sidious to feel the ripple in the force and he comes and declares Maul and his brother a rival, Sidious kills Mauls brother then proceeds to torture Maul and then dumps him on a random planet.

That's all I can really remember from the series. I think Obi-Wan eventually does kill Maul though.
 
To add onto what Saint said, the legs he got on the trash planet aren't the legs he has in Solo, they got replaced pretty quickly in The Clone Wars.
 
Ok...me and Son #3 saw Solo today. I didn't think it was that bad. I actually enjoyed it. I especially enjoyed the part where the wannabe pilot ends up in the infantry. Bwaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa...No better laugh than having a "guaranteed aviation" Marine alongside during a firefight..."Hey, weren't you supposed to be up there haaaaaaahaaa
 
Having finally watched The Last Jedi, I'm tapping out of a franchise I've loved since my youth when I saw the original movies in theater. I can see the writers now: "Hey, we have a halfway decent plot. How can we make this thing tank? Dialogue? Let's roll!"

I think the only plus was a purple-haired Laura Dern.
 
Raptor said:
Just rumors at the moment, but apparently an Obi-Wan spin-off was put on hold after Solo bombed.
Found this a bit humorous as it seems to be the one thing I've seen both old and new fans both wanted.
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Eh? Solo wasn't a Blockbuster or anything, but it's ticking at +70MM from Box Office Mojo. Was budgeted at $275MM and they've made $345. Not a bomb, or I suppose we're using nomenclature for things that lose many for things that make you a little bit now?
 
ThunderHorse said:
Eh? Solo wasn't a Blockbuster or anything, but it's ticking at +70MM from Box Office Mojo. Was budgeted at $275MM and they've made $345. Not a bomb, or I suppose we're using nomenclature for things that lose many for things that make you a little bit now?
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Bombed in the eyes of Disney would be a better way to put it. Granted, it could still make more money, but the last Star Wars movie to not break $1bil in the box office was Attack of the Clones. Even the prequels did far better financially after everyone saw what The Phantom Menace was like. Attack of the Clones, for instance, made almost $650mil compared to a $115mil budget. And all the other movies that have come after Disney buying Lucasfilm have broken a billion.
 
Raptor said:
but the last Star Wars movie to not break $1bil in the box office was Attack of the Clones.
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This part was a semi-mistake on my part, Revenge of the Sith only made 848.8 million, but when adjusted for inflation, it breaks a billion.
 
SpitfireV said:
I never ever thought I would want George Lucus back at the helm of Star Wars but here we are.
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Be careful what you wish for....

George Lucas reveals what he would have done with Star Wars episodes 7 to 9

According to the interview, the three movies would have centred on something established during the ill received prequels, midi-chlorians. Established during the Phantom Menace, the microscopic life forms were said to live everywhere and within everyone: yet, Anakin had the highest count of midi-chlorians that Qui-Gon Jinn had ever seen.

“Everyone hated it in Phantom Menace [when] we started to talk about midi-chlorians,” Lucas tells Cameron, who conducts the interview. “There’s a whole aspect to that movie that is about symbiotic relationships. To make you look and see that we aren’t the boss. That there’s an ecosystem.”

And how would that have related to the sequels? “[The next threeStar Wars films] were going to get into a microbiotic world,” he continues. ”But there’s this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the Force.”
 
Raptor said:
Bombed in the eyes of Disney would be a better way to put it. Granted, it could still make more money, but the last Star Wars movie to not break $1bil in the box office was Attack of the Clones. Even the prequels did far better financially after everyone saw what The Phantom Menace was like. Attack of the Clones, for instance, made almost $650mil compared to a $115mil budget. And all the other movies that have come after Disney buying Lucasfilm have broken a billion.
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Disney's ownership in the $1B+ club is pretty impressive (a few on the list surprised me):

The Billion-Dollar Film Club: 34 Movies to Reach $1 Billion Worldwide
 
AWP said:
Having finally watched The Last Jedi, I'm tapping out of a franchise I've loved since my youth when I saw the original movies in theater. I can see the writers now: "Hey, we have a halfway decent plot. How can we make this thing tank? Dialogue? Let's roll!"

I think the only plus was a purple-haired Laura Dern.
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I watched it a second time to see if maybe I was being a bit harsh after my first viewing.

It's even fucking worse the second time.
 

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