Aspiring artist Coretta Nicholas has been trying unsuccessfully for ten years to get her paintings displayed in Manhattan. Fed up with the cut-throat competition and an uninspiring retail job, she decides to open up her own art gallery…in Italy. Leaving behind her longtime boyfriend and apartment in Greenwich Village, she builds a new life for herself in fashionable Milan. Reconnecting with an old college friend, renowned sculptor Lorenzo Fiatti, Coretta basks in romance in sun-kissed northern Italy. As her career and love life are flourishing, she hosts a champagne reception at her new gallery. When a blackout strikes, several of her paintings are stolen, while the burgeoning artist is kidnapped and held for ransom. In CHAMPAGNE DECEPTION, a sip of the bubbly leads to a nightmare of terrifying proportions…
As far as I can tell, all but the last two sentences are unnecessary backstory.
“Leaving behind her longtime boyfriend and apartment in Greenwich Village, she builds a new life for herself in fashionable Milan. Reconnecting with an old college friend, renowned sculptor Lorenzo Fiatti, Coretta basks in romance in sun-kissed northern Italy”
Thanks, I hate it.
LOL, that was my first thought. UGH, your basic Mary Sue Romance fantasy–‘cuz, sure, Milan’s art district and culture is SO MUCH LESS cutthroat than NYC’s, right? Ask anyone who’s been in fashion just how many “opportunities” abound in Milan. (Patently written by someone who has no idea…)
As bad as it is, it still doesn’t beat the peak Mary-Sue levels of The Last Jedi. God, that movie was such garbage.
OMG, yes. So Woke it Broke. Listen, I’m all for magical powers, and all that crap, but you take some teenager–and I don’t care about the gender–and suddenly, she goes from seeing a lightsaber on one day, to being able to kick a vastly more-experienced fighter, with it, the next. SO annoying.
Some of the characters were great–the cantina owner was terrific–but man, what a letdown.
“Get woke, go broke”
Damn straight. I don’t even wanna get started on how they butchered Luke Skywalker and made Rose’s character feel so freaking forced.
Oh and by the way, Rian Johnson (the director) is such a f0cking crybaby.
For ep. IX, so many of us have high hopes but low expectations. There’s a mountain of fixing and redemption for JJ and his team to climb, and I’m not sure they’re up to it. My fear is that the only joy it’ll bring is in the concluding soundtrack album from John Williams.
Man it’s not just the movie people were disappointed with, Lucasfilm handled criticism towards it very poorly. They basically attacked Star Wars fans left and right on social media platforms, often resorting to calling them entitled bigots for not being “progressive”, whatever the hell that means anymore.
Lucasfilm also has a recent history of silencing critics through different means of censorship, such as the all-too-broken DMCA system on YouTube. They’ve even gone so far as to claim revenue from fan-made Star Wars films.
We can hope all we want, but I think the damage has been done. It’s too late.