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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  People on here can mock the likes of Hivemind and myself for suggesting Disney are purely in it for the money and have no real love for Star Wars but the latest news really does prove us correct.
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I didn't mock Hivemind for suggesting Disney are in it for the money. Pretty much every studio going are in it for the money and the fact that they are franchising it pretty much confirms that. Lucas was in it for the money. Look at the Toy Empire he built on the back of the original trilogy.
I was mocking Hivemind for his TL;DR responses every time someone disagreed with him avout last jedi, to the point he basically stated people who liked the film were drunk and that the new films had basically 'killed star wars'. It just struck me as the same sort of Hyperbole that came out on the back of that ghostbusters Reboot. The end result there wasn't great (though it seems to have built up a fanbase of young girls who seem to love it). Strangely I can rewatch the original without it having been somehow 'murdered in its sleep'.
Even with remakes / reboots and half the unorigional crap being turned out by Holywood it doesn't diminish my appreciation of the original film. My appreciation of A new hope, Empire and Jedi was diminished many years ago when Lucas slathered CGI garbage over every frame and reinserted unnecessary scenes into the films. I'm A-ok with people disliking Last Jedi. It spent a long time building up fan expectations then delivered something very different. I said it in my initial review of the film. The backlash was something disney essentially built itself. However my opinion is as valid as anyone elses and I enjoyed the film like a lot of the audience and critics did. Claiming they were either bought off, drunk or wrong is essentially dismissing and diminishing those opinions. I think Ultimately that was why I responded the way I did.
For the record right now. I do not begrudge Hivemind or his opinion. If it came across that way then I apologise right now. He has his opinions on the film and I have mine and both are quite different it seems.