Harvey Weinsteins's former assistant should have learned from his example. It's not okay to make women pregnant by force.

The worse this show gets, the better the Drinker’s review gets.

Has anyone noticed that Kathleen Kennedy destroying star wars and lucasfilm from the inside is exactly what palpatine did to the republic

Once is happenstance Twice is coincidence Three times is enemy action. Bond in Goldfinger

To answer Chris Gore’s question- It’s not about the money. It’s about sending a message.

Reminder that Leslie thought frozen was about a relationship between two incestuous lesbian sisters. That sounds like someone I want doing Star wars. Also her sister doesn't want ANYTHING to do with her... Wonder why?

“Screw the audience! It’s all about ME!” It’s not even sending a message.

The petty spiteful destruction of all these franchises by small-minded, narcissistic, sexist-racist hacks is something I never thought was possible. It makes no business sense, whatsoever.

It's not about the story anymore, but sending The Message™

You know Star Wars has sunk so low that you see Theory appearing here.

All these brilliant Social Justice Warriors who think they know Star Wars fail RIGHT before the logo pops up ... "A long time ago in a galaxy FAR, FAR AWAY"

They (Disney), could, if they wanted, create a brand new IP. An IP with new characters, new plots, new stories, and fill it full of DEI/LGBTQ themes… but instead they hijack an almost 50yr old established canon and wreck it. This is ABSOLUTELY purposeful (I worked for Disney off/on for 38 years). This is in keeping with Disney’s “vision statement”; to interject DEI/LGBTQ into everything they produce. Orwell said it best: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right." 1984

This is not a mistake by Disney. They choose activists by design.

Drinker, I first found your channel 3-4 years ago BECAUSE I noticed. I thought I was just getting old and grumpy when watching every show but then I thought, "I can't be the only person that thinks this". I searched KZfaq and here I am, years later, and boy, has it gotten worse.

I'm exhausted with feeling guilty for being a guy when I haven't done a fkn thing wrong in my entire life to woman or anyone for that matter.

It is Orwell in a fantasy franchise. Prequels are re-writing history (the retcon). From Orwell's description of the Ministry of Truth (which these activists think they belong to): “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

So its ok to cast people based on their race, gender and sexuality as long as its not straight white and male. We can’t just ignore this, it’s not ok

1977: Inspiration, character development, and scrappy graft as a basis for storytelling. 2024: Self-congratulation as a basis for storytelling.

Leslye Headland went to Kennedy with that pitch about Frozen and she decided that this was an idea worth $180 million dollars. F*ck me 🤯

Losing hundreds of millions of dollars, in some of the most money hungry, ruthlessly capitalistic companies on earth? It has to be intentional

They aren't just activists, they're spiteful activists. Everything is written with spite, as the showrunners and actors will often say outright. A video drawing up what makes a show spiteful (the treatment or nonexistence of the group it hates, etc.) might shed a light on this. And even The Boys went from sprinkling it in to full blown spite now for season 4.

The rumors around the Rey movie script is that Rey ALSO has force-baby twins. Magical pregnancy has become a Star Wars thing. "THE FORCE IS SEMEN".

I first encountered Chris on Film Courage (I guess maybe technically I saw him back in the day on G4 but I wasn’t into enough to know all the different people on there). Film Courage has a lot of great interviews and lessons, but one quote that sticks in my mind even after forgetting is from a write or buyer for a studio, and he said one of the biggest issues he sees when reading work from passionate but inexperienced writes is something along the lines of “this should not have come out in your first script, this should’ve come out in therapy.” And by that, he meant these writers were so passionate and blind to the incoherence and incompleteness of their writing because they were essentially just using the genre and setting of the story to just relive baggage from that past that they haven’t really finished processing and healed from. Leslye Headland’s interviews and what I’ve seen so far of The Acolyte reminds me of this. It explains why these people take it so personally when they get criticism and backlash because they see it as a rejection of their emotional exercise and experience aka tHeIr TrUtH. 🙄 They aren’t coming at it from a place of “Here are some ideas I think are cool, I hope you like it”, they feel like this is finally their chance to be heard as people. If they had more experience and/or weren’t having smoke blown up their asses by Kennedy and Fiege, they would have learned to further refine the work and remove themselves or ideally would have worked that stuff out in their work early on before anyone dared give them 10s or 100s of millions to work with.

Hatred isn’t the opposite of love. Indifference is. That’s where we are when it comes to Star Wars at this point. When you hate something that’s happening at least there’s some kind of passionate feeling.

Star Wars Theory seems sooooooooo depressed by this. I wanna give him a hug.

kennedy is bitter because she'll never be more than a glorified coffee fetcher to the people with real talent and vision.

To Chris's point, It really is baffling how they literally just hire nobodies to write / director / act in a (previously) billion dollar franchise. There is intent behind everything they're doing, too. You could make the argument it wasn't up to Last Jedi, but beyond that, its blindingly obvious. They want to rewrite the history of Star Wars, claim it as their own, retcon and ruin the lore and previously established (male) characters, etc. All while consistently alienating their actual fanbase, and then blaming them when they don't like objectively awful media (with the budgets of a God). Its insufferable. I've washed my hands of everything Disney Star Wars. Its not canon, its fanfiction, and it all sucks ass.

I spit my coffee and whiskey everywhere when I heard Leslie say Lucas didn't understand his own lore... WTF

"Going back and retconning the history of these franchises so that, actually, a strong diverse woman did it before them, and we just didn't know about it." If only that was exclusive to entertainment. They've been doing it with history for several years now.

I gave up on Star Wars a long time ago at this point I feel bad for those who are still fans

It’s unfathomable that Star Wars was given to someone so bereft of talent to produce. 1000 monkeys typing on 1000 typewriters may well be better and more cost effective.

She knows where all the bodies are burried. That's why she got $180million. The WALLETS are shut. They were made by the fans, and the fans keep them. The WALLETS ARE SHUT.

I remember when we used to get excited about movies and things coming out. Now these days it's more like "oh boy, what did they screw up this time...?"

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” -JRR Tolkien.

Honestly, Kennedy's tenure as the guiding hand of Disney Star Wars has me questioning just how much involvement she EVER had in her previous producing efforts in the past. She was part of some of the most iconic productions in the past 40 years, but we never saw anywhere close to this level of pure dogshit in those films/tv shows. She was either instrumental in how those previous films showcased, or she wasn't. Unless she has changed to such a degree that she is effectively unrecognizable as a that person? I guess that's possible, but aside from some sort of physical personality alteration (she lost or damaged some part of her brain), there's only really money and power. In that case, I tend to side with Herbert and she was always this way, just managed to hide it until she had amassed enough power to fully reveal her true nature.

When you hire the people that used to bring you the coffee… this usually happens, regardless of gender…

To the activists, if a franchise dies because they ruined it with The Message™️ it's still a win. That just means there's one less franchise *not* spreading the message.

"When You Hire Activists Instead Of Artists" Applies to all of western media right now. Not only movies and shows, but also video games and more.

They, directors and writers, even look like stereotypical bad people…something about their smiles irk TF out of me.

Al Capone would be proud of this tax evasion

Just a reminder on how Hollywood actually works these days. A project is greenlit when funding is secured (does not matter the quality, just the signature), which in turn allows the project to be undertaken and completed. It matters not to most of the people making the project whether it is successful or not, it just matters if they get paid for the work they do. All these current DIE projects are covered by 'guaranteed' funding if they tick some check boxes, so they will always take the money (they get paid) and not care if the project is any good (tick the boxes, get cash, laugh all the way to the bank when negative reviews come in). This is why we see, what we see.... Everyone would take the free money (kinda the point of DIE).

"Everywhere you look, there are more screenwriters and producers eager to take great stories and “make them their own.” It does not seem to matter whether the source material was written by Stan Lee, Charles Dickens, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, or… well, anyone. No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and “improve” on it. “The book is the book, the film is the film,” they will tell you, as if they were saying something profound. Then they make the story their own. They never make it better, though. Nine hundred ninety-nine times out of a thousand, they make it worse." - George RR Martin

I ruthlessly made fun of SW Theory for years but now that he's here with us I feel awful for him. The guy wants really badly to just love star wars but it's irredeemably horrible so he has nowhere else to go to speak honestly

Hiring sexual assault-adjacent survivor/facilitator Hedland for Star Wars seems somewhat akin to tapping actively depressed, mentally afflicted directors Hideaki Anno for Evangelion or Lars van Trier for Antichrist. They should probably be in therapy--not inflicting their trauma and anger upon the rest of us. (NM that they had more talent than her.)

I get the feeling that Leslie's email to get recruited went something like: "Hey Kathy, remember all those girls you sent to Harvey? I do. I remember ALL of them."

When I was young, Disney did storytelling. Now, Disney tells you what to think.

I get far more pleasure watching older films these days.

I agree with Theory's point on Bryce Dallas Howard. The thing with her is that she's an actually talented and accomplished director so doesn't need to fall back on "I'm a woman!" Her works stands on its own.

Should of hired her to do Lego star wars she has the block head for it

Their plan is to replace every main male hero in Star Wars by a female and making their story meaningless. You can already see that with them making Anakin not that special anymore and Rey already replacing Luke Skywalker in the sequels…

Great commentary! I really like that SW Theory is on your chats. He brings great SW insight to these discussions.

Leslie went from feeding young actresses into Harvey's backroom to feeding narrative dribble into Starwars... Quite a career change.

"The Artivist, despite having art in its name, isn't an artist at all due to their inability to create art on their own. Instead, they rely on their activism & the IP's owned by others to survive. However, like all parasites, they eventually kill the host & leave only an empty husk behind." David Attenborough, National Geographic's Wild Hollywood.

You can tell from their resume that they are activists and not artists. They usually have very few solid director or writing credits but they have listed a ton of activist groups and intersectionality groups. Look how many were hired with no large budget film experience

I grew up in the 80s surrounded by amazing music, i lived to see music become what it is today and i remember the golden age of television in the late 2000s and mid 2010s with the Wire, Breaking Bad, GOT etc etc etc when tv was so good people were critiquing excellent things. I lived to see today when tv is like toddlers drawing on great works with crayons. The important thing is to avoid what happened to music, the corpos made it so garbage sells, the tv companies must not be allowed to turn a profit selling garbage, they MUST lose money.

I think what upsets them the most is that people are being more entertained by the critics of their shows than the shows themselves.

No one gives a shit anymore KZfaq gives us more entertainment

This is why I refer to the trend as neo-Maoism. In Maoism, all of history and entertainment was revised to eliminate any contradicting ideas. The people were supposed to be raised in a society where nobody could think different thoughts because they were never exposed to them and couldn't even imagine other thoughts existed. And this is what we are seeing in our culture now: every single story and even history itself has to be changed to that a bl-ck l-sbian was the source of all goodness and a wh-te m-le stole everything greedily for himself. Nobody is allowed to think anything different at any time.

I’m here for the hilarity of these DisneyShows. Keep making them! 😂😂😂

I checked out after seeing Luke Skywalker, milking a f-ing alien cow.

I once read in a business/sales book that no company should ever let a founder or superstar pick their successors.. They will never choose someone that’s going to outshine their accomplishments.. Much more likely , they’ll choose someone that’s going to bring about nostalgia for the ‘good ole days’.. well played Mr. Lucas.

You know what pisses me off?! Disney, Netflix, Amazon all these big fucking studios are willing to give some new comer some activist hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars but are unwilling to give someone like David fincher a big budget to make mindhuner season 3. Fuck this shit. Fuck Hollywood.

Don't forget Captain America: The Not So First Avenger and that stupid retcon.

If you've ever had a sister you know they can operate on pure spite. This is pure spite to get men from a Lesbian. They think they have no need for men, they think they are better than men, they want to piss off men. This is what it's all about. Pure spite.

This is what I have a issue with. These folks are a joke, activists ruins everything and get all praise and don't even have a second thought to think before it's too late.

Thank goodness for having hard copies of the original version of movies and shows.

Great to see SW theory expressing his opinion…he has been quiet and respectful until now… I respect his opinion this above others so much and I can see how pissed he is…he speaks for all SW FANS!

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."

It's amazing that proud titans like Starwars, Marvel, and Dr.Who have less views than some V-tubers.

With your title i couldn't have said it better myself, cheers to you mate.

in order to vilify the Jedi, she had to make them the establishment. And they were not. The operated on their own schedule and recognizance (pre- prequels) but within the confines of a social order. They were not the police. they were not the state. And they were RARE.

Quality projects: Made by a competent creative team that everyone will love for years to come. Pointless vanity projects: Made by shills that please no one and is quickly forgotten. 🎉

Changing behaviors is what we do at Blackrock. ~Fink

I need to cold call Bob Iger and tell him I can save Star Wars. Maybe they'll hire me.

Ironic how the girls that bullied nerds in school for liking star wars are now shoe horning their way in to claim it only when it became popular enough

I think Headland using the story as an allegory about the real world push for laws like the one Disney went against in Florida. After hearing about law against the witches teaching the force, good and evil is a point of view, and the way the Jedi are portrayed it started to make sense.

she loved "The love between two sisters, as a queer person", okay.

Critical Drinker getting into the mainstream hell yeah! Love the fact you are getting invited on shows like Piers Morgan. That is awesome, congrats! I have been watching your content for several years now and love it. Good reviews and your Scottish sense of humour is great. I am part Scottish and wear a Kilt sometimes when my band plays. A few of us are Scottish or Irish so it fits well within the band. We even wrote a song called "When the wind blew up my kilt".

Terry Gilliam was once asked if the commercial failure of big-budget movies was a barrier to being able to make more and he said no, because you were still demonstrating that you could turn out a big movie. I suppose that was a long time ago, though.

Drinker is CORRECT. It's ALL a Troll. They're in their private rooms thinking, "oh Yas, this will piss them off". Kathleen RESENTED working under those "Terrible Men"...even though she was a Producer herself amongst them.

You think this Leslie woman dislikes men because she was a personal assistant for Harvey? She probably arranged the towels for when Harvey interviewed new employees.

It doesn't matter if they want to re-write SW lore/cannon/whatever.. if the rest of us don't bother watching it and they don't get our money.. they will inevitably go bust.. if the future we will just re-watch the SW movies we like and ignore the rest.. LET THEM GO BROKE

I think there's a lot of iconoclasty in this movement: KK wants to deliberately destroy the monuments and icons that she feels represent the worldview she despises

*Me to Disney* Don't you get it, we don't need you anymore.

she must have compromising pictures of Spielberg. That's the only answer.

It took Star Wars Theory 8 years to finally get it

Good to see Star wars theory he is going to need friends in this difficult time of his career

"Dave Filoni is the savior of Star Wars" 🤣🤣🤣

And what's sad, is Disney CAN make good Star Wars. They just choose not to. A perfect example of that is Rogue One. 100% Star Wars, with a female lead, and NO ONE thought it was some personal agenda or "strong female character" BS.

Do not have theory as a guest anymore. He still protects the brand to a degree because he's protecting his money...

Me and my siblings went to see Phantom Menace when they rereleased it, and as SOON as the credits ended, we all stood up at the same time and walked out right when the Acolyte trailer started playing 😁 We felt sorry for all the sad saps who stayed in their seats for that shit lol

I felt The "Watchmen" tv series did the same thing - it retconned the identity of hooded justice, made Rorschach a white supremacist icon, changed dr manhattans chosen skin tone all while giving us a new diverse heroine that is so much betterer than anyone that came before her. Perhaps the punctuation and spelling were wrong, maybe it should have been - "WATCH! Men"

Wow what a great callout in the beginning about the pattern

I am so sick of the “representation” conversation. Seriously, does anyone not see the inclusion hypocrisy of having melanin accountants and ideology tabulators as hiring gatekeepers to exclude certain people and have this weighted above talent or merit? Have show producers lost all imagination, or their minds? Do they think audiences have lost their ability to relate to anyone that doesn’t look or think like they do? When I was a kid I used to love watching Kung Fu theater on Saturday mornings. Not one time ever did I think, “where are the people that look like me”, or “maybe I shouldn’t pretend like I can do kung fu because I’m not a monk”. I can think of 100 other great shows or movies that didn’t have anyone in it that were my exact “representative” match. As for Star Wars, how much more diverse could they get with a universe of aliens? Did they really need to expand the volume of actors just to meet quotas? No wonder the budget for the Acolyte rivals that of Dune! It’s gotten beyond ridiculous. Just write a good show and hire the best people for the job. No one cares what their skin looks like or their bedroom preferences. Can you imagine how odd it would be if George Lucas was interviewed after Star Wars came out and he mentioned 4 times during the interview he was heterosexual? Weird, right? Can you imagine if the NBA suddenly came up with a quota for short white guys that can’t dunk, and then labeled everyone who disagreed as an __ist or __phobe - that would be epically stupid! Unless it’s illegal, like PDiddler or Epstein and his island, I couldn’t care less what actors and show creators do in their own time. I see zero relevance to forced “representation” and tokenism, and find it even weirder to focus marketing on these non-product related elements.

Poor, sweet Theory. You don't think Headland got any sexual benefit from being a layer around Harvey? Her wife is an actress, how do you think they met?

10:35 "(celebrities) say what needs to be said to keep working." - Chris Gore nails it.

There are thinkers and there are worriers. I think the goal is somewhere in between. It feels like a race to see who gets more attention, regardless of the lies.

As the Joker said: "It's not about the money. It's about sending a message. Everything burns."

What drinker is referring to here is the practice of historical revisionism being applied to entertainment. This is something straight out of the communist playbook.

Leslye Headland has a face only 2 mothers could love......