Can't you get on Rittenhouse when you leave San Tan and hook up to the 202 South around Pecos or GermannRegarding the new 202 Loop, I come from San Tan Valley. I take Ironwood to the 60, 60 to the 10, then the 10 to the 101 North. It's a long trip.
I see now that when I get to the 60, about two miles down is the entrance to the loop 202 South, which seems to skip the congested part of the 60/10 and loop around to the deep avenues.
I haven't taken it yet, but I am interested to know if anybody from my area (East east) has taken the drive?
Will it save some time?
Finally saw The Rise of Skywalker last night. Much better than TLJ. The planet killing star ships and the Emperor's power at the end were over the top like the stupid star killer base from TLJ but other than that, I thought it was pretty good. Much better story and action. Not perfect (why did they have to go by water and not by air to get the Sith thing?) but enjoyable. Still wish they would have used some of the stories from the books where Luke has a son and Leia and Han have several kids for the final 3. That would have left room for future stories but I guess they would have had to start that a long time ago to do it right. Anyway, I'm happy I didn't walk out of the theater hating it like I did TLJ.
Just watched the last episode of The Mandalorian for season one. The show is awesome. Sucks that it's only 8 episodes. Jon Favreau is turning into one of my favorite directors; Swingers, Elf, Iron Man and now The Mandalorian.
Didn't care for TLJ either. Now looking forward to seeing this one.
It's bad fan fiction and surprisingly gutless but it has a few brilliant moments. I would say it has the highest highs and lowest lows of the new trilogy.
Disney is lucky to have the Mandalorian right now. The movies need a nice long break and some original ideas.
I thought Solo was good and somewhat an original idea. Too bad it didn't do well which doesn't bode well for a sequel.
Solo didn't do well because no one wanted to see Han Solo played by anyone but Harrison Ford. Unfortunately they chose the wrong actor...he was good, but he doesn't resemble Harrison Ford, but there was another actor who looks exactly like a young Ford who would have been perfect and I think people would have accepted it better.
I thought Solo was good and somewhat an original idea. Too bad it didn't do well which doesn't bode well for a sequel.
Solo didn't do well because no one wanted to see Han Solo played by anyone but Harrison Ford. Unfortunately they chose the wrong actor...he was good, but he doesn't resemble Harrison Ford, but there was another actor who looks exactly like a young Ford who would have been perfect and I think people would have accepted it better.
The Rise of Skywalker was awful. Terrible. No good. Very bad. J.J. Abrams has certainly cemented his status as a great trailer creator and an absolutely awful filmmaker.
The Mandalorian, on the other hand, is fantastic.
Maybe someone can help me out, there seems to be a wide variety of SW opinions in here
I have yet to see any of the movies released after the prequels. I both like Star Wars but don't like it so much that I care about the extended canon or would read EU content and such.
#1. I hate fanservice. HAAAAAATE it. Particularly if it's done with a wink or it's obvious.
#2. I think that the sequels obviously have to undermine some or even a lot of the original trilogy to even exist at all, makes them uninteresting.
I would have been VERY interested in 2015 if they came out with a Star Wars movie that started a thousand years after the OT. I never had any desire to see old Han and Luke.
Should I stay where I am and continue avoiding them? Or are they worth watching anyway with the above considered?
I love the original 3, liked Rogue One and really liked Solo. The most frustrating part about the whole trilogy is there were tons of books with really good stories they could have cherry picked from to make 3 good movies.
If you "hate fan-service" (I do as well), avoid the Disney Star Wars projects to include The Mandalorian. The episode where he goes to Tattoine almost caused spontaneous combustion...Maybe someone can help me out, there seems to be a wide variety of SW opinions in here
I have yet to see any of the movies released after the prequels. I both like Star Wars but don't like it so much that I care about the extended canon or would read EU content and such.
#1. I hate fanservice. HAAAAAATE it. Particularly if it's done with a wink or it's obvious.
#2. I think that the sequels obviously have to undermine some or even a lot of the original trilogy to even exist at all, makes them uninteresting.
I would have been VERY interested in 2015 if they came out with a Star Wars movie that started a thousand years after the OT. I never had any desire to see old Han and Luke.
Should I stay where I am and continue avoiding them? Or are they worth watching anyway with the above considered?
Maybe someone can help me out, there seems to be a wide variety of SW opinions in here
I have yet to see any of the movies released after the prequels. I both like Star Wars but don't like it so much that I care about the extended canon or would read EU content and such.
#1. I hate fanservice. HAAAAAATE it. Particularly if it's done with a wink or it's obvious.
#2. I think that the sequels obviously have to undermine some or even a lot of the original trilogy to even exist at all, makes them uninteresting.
I would have been VERY interested in 2015 if they came out with a Star Wars movie that started a thousand years after the OT. I never had any desire to see old Han and Luke.
Should I stay where I am and continue avoiding them? Or are they worth watching anyway with the above considered?
Here's the problem with Star Wars as a whole - everything past The Empire Strikes Back ditched story in favor of fan service and establishing a canon - fleshing out a story whose original strength was in the way it piqued the imagination. Return of the Jedi was basically an attempt to fill in plot holes created by a filmmaker who had no idea he was creating a franchise. The prequels were that same filmmaker not understanding that you don't have to explain every last bit of a narrative for it to be enticing. And the last three films have been, respectively, a fan-fiction writer who thought he could tell the original story better and make it look cooler; another guy who thought the first guy's weird, overcomplicated, puzzle-box-driven story needed some spice and deconstruction; and the first guy taking a dump on the second guy and trying to prove he, the first guy, was all that and a bag of chips - all of this aided and abetted by Disney, a company looking to rake in cash like it was dead leaves.
The Star Wars universe is so imaginative and limitless that it is fertile ground for all sorts of stories - so the fact that Lucas and Abrams focused everything around a small group of five or six people and then did everything they could to explain things that didn't need explaining is just head-scratching.