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Star Wars Acolyte: How did they mess up so bad?! - Nerd Legion Ep. 32
Star Wars is back with The Acolyte and the franchise may have finally hit rock bottom. The new show on Disney+ is a nonsensical mess that backfires in its thematic choices and leaves viewers bored and with virtually no characters or plotlines to care about. Monte and DoA break down this televised catastrophe and wonder how Disney managed to collect such a unique combination of terrible writers, actors, and producers to waste $180 million.
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Editing by Adanion
Art by Atantalas
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0:00:00 - Intro and the fundamental issues with The Acolyte
0:07:15 - Lee Jung-Jae as the best part of this show and the other actors
0:17:25 - The show's horrible structure, pacing, and dialogue
0:25:35 - The Acolyte can't develop characters or create interesting scenarios for them
0:32:41 - The nonsensical garbage in this show
0:41:10 - The suspense is nothing but fake drama that wastes the viewer's time
0:51:21- Is Episode 3 the worst Star Wars content ever made?
1:04:14 - How the show's anti-Jedi message backfires and final thoughts
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КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Cashmoneez
    @Cashmoneez 20 годин тому

    Easily one of my favorite Christmas movies the end scene when she saves the baby is so beautiful it literally made me tear up

  • @nftsasha
    @nftsasha 22 години тому

    The "best" part of this movie was the villain explaining why she's called the Scargiver by pointing to his scar. I was DED when I saw this. After the movie violated most rules of thumbs for storytelling, this was the fkn cherry on top haha. Wow. What a pile of trash.

  • @nftsasha
    @nftsasha 22 години тому

    BES was excellent indeed.

  • @King_Gullah
    @King_Gullah День тому

    Nonsensical. Yet everybody can breathe oxygen or whatever they breathe. Fight with lightsabers that defy logic, travel warpspeed through space without time dilation. Who cares. It's fucking fake. Don't watch it.

  • @user-yf9gb5gm4s
    @user-yf9gb5gm4s День тому

    I feel like it's just become "cool" to hate on and pick apart ANYTHING new, Star Wars. It's actually getting old..

    • @click9914
      @click9914 День тому

      Maybe it's all shite and the majority of people have come around to realizing it

    • @PlastikGUbilationz
      @PlastikGUbilationz День тому

      I feel like the corporate laziness has actually worked to convert tasteless wojack human beings as audiences such as yourself. sad

    • @harrylockheed79
      @harrylockheed79 День тому

      If the shows were good, it wouldn’t be “cool” to take a turd on them.

    • @Alteringcollectibles
      @Alteringcollectibles День тому

      ​@@harrylockheed79 I mean its been going on since like episode 6 so I just think nerds are just hyper fixated on everything being perfect.

  • @reysolo3672
    @reysolo3672 День тому

    ua-cam.com/video/I-GpS5PCcLc/v-deo.htmlsi=ZcyRTOqwWA0NuBdl

  • @Carnage59666
    @Carnage59666 День тому

    Im not disagreeing but its 180 budget TOTAL. That includes marketing and thats usually like half

  • @Kyl094
    @Kyl094 День тому

    This show has gotta be the biggest shit cherry on the shit sundae that has ever been shat

  • @Romei1010
    @Romei1010 День тому

    This is why we can't enjoy anything anymore. Podcasts CONSTANTLY criticizing and critiquing everything to the point where you n don't even wanna watch or listen to anything anymore 🙃

    • @reysolo3672
      @reysolo3672 День тому

      You enjoy Twilight?

    • @ManOfroges
      @ManOfroges День тому

      Or hear me out this might get a little crazy but maybe just maybe the show might just possibly be A TOTALLY DOGSHIT PIECE OF GARBAGE

    • @dshdhjsjddhdhsjs7816
      @dshdhjsjddhdhsjs7816 День тому

      @romei1010 are you stupid ?

    • @BichieRichie
      @BichieRichie День тому

      Nah this show deserves every bit of hate it gets it’s really bad

    • @Lad98477
      @Lad98477 День тому

      the show just sucks. if it was good it would be worth watching, which it’s not.

  • @mikelam2372
    @mikelam2372 День тому

    Morph can approximate the powers of people with physical mutations only. He is unable to gain the powers of any other mutant he turns into, nor are his naturally shifted weapons as strong as synthetic material (i.e. if he turns into Wolverine his claws are made out of human matter and as such not as strong as Wolverines adamantium claws).

  • @gamegeeck30
    @gamegeeck30 День тому

    Nice

  • @brunomakimoto2365
    @brunomakimoto2365 День тому

    Thanks

  • @darkstalkerknight63
    @darkstalkerknight63 2 дні тому

    How is that lazy. Do you think she would be able to fix a ship that's about to impact. If she did, you would have called her a mary sue. She did the exact things you should do, first try to get off the ship. If you can't, brace for impact.

  • @GodLovesComics
    @GodLovesComics 2 дні тому

    Monte can often and quite frequently be a dick, but when sticking to his guns that these child actors are abysmal, that's when it comes in handy. It looks like diversity was more important than talent.

  • @oddkast
    @oddkast 2 дні тому

    910 should learn english and act too

  • @Nykryian
    @Nykryian 2 дні тому

    They're gonna kill KOTOR and I'm gonna be sad

  • @KhaoticKaos
    @KhaoticKaos 2 дні тому

    LFN culture is the best thing to come from esports.

  • @sinistra7450
    @sinistra7450 2 дні тому

    Yeah, you had to add the last sentence for sure. It was necessary. 🙄

  • @cowboyevan
    @cowboyevan 2 дні тому

    I think you guys should do an episode on Andor season one before season two comes out. It would be a great change of pace to see you guys being positive

  • @AM2K2
    @AM2K2 2 дні тому

    Would love a hacking arc, could you cover the film 'hackers'?! What a soundtrack

  • @CJPerron61493
    @CJPerron61493 2 дні тому

    talking about KOTOR and the twist made me curious if you had considered doing some reviews like this for game stories. Not for current stuff but old classics younger viewers may be unaware of like KOTOR and Chrono Trigger

    • @LastFreeNationCulture
      @LastFreeNationCulture 2 дні тому

      Yes! We want to do general gaming and DoA and I have discussed making content on both KOTOR and Chrono Trigger

  • @tqrules01
    @tqrules01 2 дні тому

    All this woke shit is just so irritating, most people who like Star wars or star trek already have a liberal ideology about the future, so your basically insulting an entire fanbase. We already believe in freedom and equality for all, last thing we need is to be told that x is bad and y is good. It's just lazy story writing and often they break canon just to cross off their own talking points, even though they are millionaires who don't even know how the rest of us live.

  • @lvovichi
    @lvovichi 2 дні тому

    just a terrible murder of canon.

  • @NoradNoxtus
    @NoradNoxtus 2 дні тому

    thorin cooked on this one, big time :o

  • @Vash.Baldeus
    @Vash.Baldeus 2 дні тому

    Way too many people hired probably and most definitely laundering money.

  • @largearch7727
    @largearch7727 2 дні тому

    this is because of the volume, you can only shoot it from 1 angle or it will look like shit

  • @InaSeaofRabbits
    @InaSeaofRabbits 2 дні тому

    I want to see the receipts.

  • @John-xz7rg
    @John-xz7rg 2 дні тому

    It is shit. Do not watch

  • @american_document2626
    @american_document2626 2 дні тому

    "Good story"

  • @kurukq
    @kurukq 2 дні тому

    Jeffrey Combs not only looking, but also acting like a mix of Bruce Campbell and Jim Carrey. I love it.

  • @mikeromo5008
    @mikeromo5008 3 дні тому

    This show is no more hilarious and stupid than the prequels. 🤷

  • @BrendanLoughran-ip2nv
    @BrendanLoughran-ip2nv 3 дні тому

    So glad I didn’t waist my time and watch it!!

  • @oenomous4050
    @oenomous4050 3 дні тому

    Disney was 4 y ago dead to me

  • @youtubesucksbutts
    @youtubesucksbutts 3 дні тому

    Bruh, One Piece was 18m per episode and that looked pretty great.

  • @nucleartoaster.mp4
    @nucleartoaster.mp4 3 дні тому

    I'm not really in to the shows I'm in too the classic's cause all the show are not as cannon as the clone wars

  • @shrodokahn-6443
    @shrodokahn-6443 3 дні тому

    Saying "ex" (x) makes you sounds 1000 "ex" less professional.

  • @josharcher4418
    @josharcher4418 3 дні тому

    Fire Kathleen Kennedy

  • @josharcher4418
    @josharcher4418 3 дні тому

    It is shit, sounds like the same woke garbage as the rings of power which cost way more. P.S both those shows suck equally

  • @elijahmartin4440
    @elijahmartin4440 3 дні тому

    The laundering is crazy

    • @HDQuakelive
      @HDQuakelive 3 дні тому

      Yeah I get the impression alot of these shows are money laundering or something illegal haha. Like they cut costs at every corner and over work everyone with low payrates, produce dogshit and still cost more hundreds of millions, something fishy is going on there

  • @2failepic
    @2failepic 3 дні тому

    I would love to see you have a arch on Korean Cinema/ Japanese Cinema four play. My picks would be Old Boy, the Wailling, Mother and Snowpiercer for the Korean Arch for example.

  • @Starkiller0066
    @Starkiller0066 3 дні тому

    the show is trash.

  • @AM2K2
    @AM2K2 3 дні тому

    Nah not having it - Casino Royale was great!

  • @georgeide2337
    @georgeide2337 3 дні тому

    Why does it seem like DOA secretly loves this series and is battling cognitive dissonance rn😂

  • @leeford6112
    @leeford6112 3 дні тому

    A women wrote it lmao

  • @leeford6112
    @leeford6112 3 дні тому

    I think a season of the jedi rules would have been better than the acolyte

  • @ShizzleManizzleDizzl
    @ShizzleManizzleDizzl 3 дні тому

    It

  • @quelos7546
    @quelos7546 3 дні тому

    The only thing i think about when talking about movies like this -> was i entertained / was it worth to go to the cinema. And i liked it so im happy.

  • @pharotman2311
    @pharotman2311 4 дні тому

    The Acolyte represents every single thing I hate about modern Star Wars.

  • @chadkmc808
    @chadkmc808 4 дні тому

    I got Jackie Brown vibes from this film and I think QT took from this movie.

  • @deanlabarbera2506
    @deanlabarbera2506 4 дні тому

    I thought this episode was going to be a slog, but I was very wrong. I love the banter on this show