Star Wars is not good, for the most part. There are a couple good movies and shows, but the majority of Star Wars is not good at all.
Rian Johnson’s movie didn’t deserve the hate it got! It wasn’t bad.
Rogue One is fantastic. Full stop.
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Don't know about good but Star Wars is not scifi. Most "scifi" movies aren't but SW doesn't even try.
Episode 4,5 and 6 are great. The Prequels were a mess and visually did not fit, story was dreadful and George should have been shoo'd away.
The sequels are some of the worst cinema ever, and I have seen Vampire Trailer Park in full as well as the full, uncut version of Pink Flamingos.
Unpopular SF opinion?
Peter Watts (Blindsight, et. al.) really, really, really needs a hug.
I fully agree with you. 2001 is literally the most disappointing movie I've ever watched. Not exaggerating. I heard so much about it and was excited to finally watch it, only to be extremely let down by how boring it is. Only good thing I got out of it is memes and references. I'd name my Google Home HAL if I could (but literally no major smart device lets you set their name).
One opinion of mine that may be unpopular is that Star Wars has very amateur writing. I say this this mostly in reference to how the villains are so comically evil, yet so incompetent that the galaxy spanning villain is frequently defeated by a band of a couple hundred rebels. There's many parts of Star Wars I really enjoy (I've admittedly seen nearly every TV show and movie), but the big picture writing is pretty much never one of them.
Andor had the best writing among any of the Star Wars movies/shows I've seen, because it frequently showed the villains as terrified themselves. Plus the very first "villain" we encounter isn't actually wrong (he's a security guard investigating the murders of some people and genuinely believes he's trying to stop a murderer).
I really don't get Sunshine. As much as I like Dany Boyle, this one I had a really hard time getting into: The depressed idiots, the "hey, that's the old ship we thought was lost, let's go on board to get that other bomb, and risk getting killed on that unstable wreck", the crazy dude on said ship cliché, I could go on and on...
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OK, seeing how much Trek is in this I think my unpopular opinion is that modern Trek power ratings are, best to worse:
- Strange New Worlds (not unpopular yet)
- Discovery (now we're there)
- Lower Decks (all seasons except 1)
- Kelvin Movies
- Prodigy
- Picard
- Lower Decks season 1
Bonus unpopular opinion is that they're all alright at worst and none of them are outright bad.
The earth is always moving through space so most time travellers should just end up falling off the earth and dying in the cold vaccum of space.
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