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Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Destroying our heroes to built up the new ones?
You know it's so hard to say why people hate what Star Wars has become but there is a guy on YouTube that has summed it up perfectly. His YT account is called "The Critical Drinker" and he has a 7 part series that covers it perfectly. Watch his video titled "Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Destroying Our Heroes". Google it, it is worth the 12 minute watch and he sums it up WAY better than I can here.
That said, if you look at the last 3 Disney Star Wars movies (episode 7,8,9) you will see that instead of taking what George Lucas created and making our heroes from our childhood, older wiser versions of themselves they have chosen to turn them into dead beat losers all to make the "newer" hero (usually played by a female) into a better version of the original. Luke is a alien breast milk drinking hermit hiding on some floating space rock, and Han Solo a dead beat dad that can't remember where his ship is? Great story writing usually shows a hero as a confused younger character that has lots of flaws but their story arc takes them through life and they learn to face these flaws and become better people. Han Solo was a perfect example. He was a space pirate that became an unlikely hero and grew into an adept military hero. Fast forward to Kathleen Kennedy's version of him and he's back to being a lost space pirate? Who's life ever takes that path? In stories after ROTJ Luke supposedly turned into one of the best Jedi's ever but you would never know that by watching the last three train wreck, male hating movies ever written.
As a girl who remembers being ten years old and playing "Luke Skywalker on Hoth" when it would snow outside, I was genuinely so excited when I heard a female Jedi was going to be the hero of the new trilogy. And Daisy Ridley was magnetic as Rey, at least at the start. But then they went and gave her the Captain Marvel treatment, not letting her have any kind of arc or flaw or failure, and as if that didn't suck enough they also had to ruin every character I loved from the original trilogy just to make her look better by comparison (well, the male characters at least--you'll notice Leia is still in the fight and has actually been elevated to a sort of Jedi-adjacent force whiz when that was not, and didn't need to be, her strength before). I wanted to love Rey's character and was so excited for her hero's journey, but Disney is the literal pits and ruins everything it touches. The simple fact is that they and the other woke cultists no longer believe the same things we all do about what makes someone a hero, so they can no longer make great stories about heroes.
If you look at every Star Wars spin-off/reboot/sequel that has stunk they all have one thing in common. They were created/produced/directed by women. I'm not saying women cannot do these things and I'm not saying women can't be heroes (Leia more than proved that in the original trilogy). It is just mind boggling that for some reason these female creators think that by taking the original male heroes they simply think that showing the original male character as a weak broken down version of themselves.
Don't believe me, just look at the Mandalorian. Written, created and directed by a male ... and we got treated to a strong, DOMINATE, Luke Character that we all imagined he would become after Return of the Jedi not that hopeless loss hermit drinking some weird alien milk hiding on a rock after he took his ball and went home.
Okay now to this series ... It appears everything I just said above is happening again. Obi-Wan is now a weak frightened character, not the Jedi that faced Vader in Episode 3 or the the older Alec Guiness that faced him in Episode 4. Again the powers that be have decided that a 10 year old Leia is somehow wiser than a grown man. It's mind numbing. The directing is horrible, the acting very hollow as well. Just to see how bad the directing is what the first episode of Obi-Wan and at the 32 minute mark the third sister is following Fifth brother into an alley. You can see the third sister clearly start from a mark and walk around the corner as "timed". It looked staged and was just horrible directing. Her characters mark should have been set back around the corner so it looked like she was following him not waiting for ACTION to be called. Again poor acting, directing, editing.
At this point Star Wars has just turned into a woke, male hating cash cow for Disney (which doesn't surprise me considering Disney's recent past).
Hard pass.
Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018)
Cute typical Hallmark Christmas movie with a Walton touch
I say it had a Walton touch because the movie is based off of a novel written by the actress, Mary McDonough that played Erin on the Waltons. She also has a part in the movie as well. Curious fact, Kami Cotler who played, Elizabeth Walton has a part as an extra on the street in the movie as well. Kami and Mary are still good friends. What I loved about the Waltons which I grew up watching is that all of the cast were very tight knit and still that way today. In Hollywood that is very rare in the day of look at me egos.
As for this movie like I said it is the typical Hallmark Christmas movie. Where the main character returns to their past brought together in their old home after their parents pass. A male character then enters and the main character has to do the Hallmark thing and make a decision on their future.
This formula is used in almost every Hallmark movie but hey it's Christmas time so what else is there to do?
I watched it with my Walton's tie so I enjoyed it.
Safe Room (2022)
If only the did a movie about a Panic Room before ...
Seriously this is just a horrible rip off of the movie Panic Room and Fear.
I guess since the main character is "diverse" it ticks off the right boxes to be made today but Ugh. Even the name screams wokeness "Safe Space".