except don't all these new characters die? that's kind of a cop-out
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
disney are making a valuable contribution to society by showing that people of all races, creeds and colours die imo
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
We can only hope.
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
An Old Hope.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:28 (seven years ago) link
I heard they had a whole army of space folks consulting to ensure they represented space traditions as respectfully and accurately as possible.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:32 (seven years ago) link
Well that's the real trick, innit; we are all gunna die, just as long as our (onscreen) deaths have purpose or meaning and contribute to the Greater Good. Everybody rebel dies in a hail of blaster fire; not every rebel truly lives.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Well that's the real trick, innit
I see what you did
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
Well, I'm as human as the next man.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure this is canonically answered somewhere: did they ever get a refund?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:31 (seven years ago) link
On what? The deposit for the space station?
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/star-wars-politics-violence.html
And that’s the heart of the problem in using Star Wars as a political metaphor: If you’re flying an X-wing, everything looks like a Death Star.
That’s why Star Wars has been used time and again to frame causes both Democratic (MoveOn.org co-opted “Save the Republic” from Revenge of the Sith in 2005) and Republican (Reagan first called the U.S.S.R. an “evil empire” in 1983, the same year Return of the Jedi was released).
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
If you’re flying an X-wing, everything looks like a Death Star.
koan
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
you ppl see this while a Warren Beatty film about Earth dies at the box office
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
I'm not seeing either of those turds fwiw
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
Rules Don't Apply is about Earth?! ... Makes sense.
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
ah yes, the other reason to always never 51 Morbius
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Just wish he could keep his accent. Boba Fett's a Kiwi now, why can't we have Imperial Australians?― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, October 14, 2016...Jeeze. Come on mate. You'd prefer another target, a military target? In your own time.Dantooine? Yeah, nah. Boys, when you're ready, have a lash.― MatthewK, Friday, October 14, 2016
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, October 14, 2016
...
Jeeze. Come on mate. You'd prefer another target, a military target? In your own time.Dantooine? Yeah, nah. Boys, when you're ready, have a lash.
― MatthewK, Friday, October 14, 2016
this still cracks me up btw
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:34 (seven years ago) link
Wow, Warren Beatty Hollywood biopic not breaking out of the mid/high 50s on RT/MC responses.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiqPmsBYieA
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
Lol Morbs you are just parodying yourself now
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 December 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/764025941051842560
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzpEZJEXEAEvAI7.jpg
― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
just back from seeing this - it is basically the most expensive fan-film ever made, but it hits almost all the right notes.
it's way more of a war movie than i was expecting. in fact, there are some rebel soldiers in straight-up vietnam-era combat gear, which kinda makes the climactic battle (which lasts for basically the whole third act!) feel a little bit too much like a kid smashing his toys together, paying no attention that some army men got mixed up with the x-wings. it's... distracting.
it manages to achieve one thing i thought was now next to impossible in one scene tho - it makes darth vader scary again. not for long, but for long enough to count.
my wife really liked it too, but as an orchestral perscussionist she was horrified by the timpani playing on the score - her old timpani teacher kurt played on the scores for the original trilogy and she says he'd be disgusted by the tinny sound on the new soundtrack. so be warned if you're a percussion nerd i guess?
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
is Jake in it
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
that is an awesomely nerdy complaint xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 15 December 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
of all the inevitable star wars nerd complaints about this movie i think that might be the most uniquely nerdy, yeah. she's a special lady alright
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
Enjoyed this more than Force Awakens, actually. Despite having an endpoint it has to reach, it felt less constrained plot-wise than TFA, which held so close to the plot of Star Wars. Vader was scary. The almost entirely non-Anglo crew of heroes were a delight to watch, and pretty charming. Liked the robot. Couldn't work out what anybody's names were, but that barely mattered. Some lovely visuals. Didn't notice the timpani. Mendelsohn occasionally sounded Australian, and the rest of the time as though he had a moth full of saliva he was just waiting to propel into somebody's face.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
MOUTH full of saliva, the effects weren't THAT special.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
since disney are committed to cranking out star wars side-movies i'd like to request that wen jiang and donnie yen get their own, please, cuz they were a total fuckin' treat
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
^^^^
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
couldn't believe how good the fx were of (SPOILER?) you know what and you know who. i mean legit could not get my head round it.
kinda ho hum for some of it but the final half hour; peak Star Wars, as good as the series has ever been IMO. and the final few scenes.. holy shit did i love that stuff.
coulda lived without punn-y Darth ("don't choke now" or whatever he said) but that's just nitpicking.
are we not bothering with a spoiler-y thread for this film?
― piscesx, Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
wait you mean they DO blow up the death star?!?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 December 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
spoiler alert: they do not blow up the death star
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 December 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
however they do obtain individual building meter data from the campus
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 December 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
I was worried
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 December 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
the you know who effects were disastrous I thought
sank every scene with him in it
― Number None, Friday, 16 December 2016 00:47 (seven years ago) link
I thought they were pretty good in and off themselves, but still slightly distracting/uncanny valley in context.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 16 December 2016 00:55 (seven years ago) link
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara),
Bravo!
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 16 December 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
I guess I appreciated what a bummer this was (it might be the most downbeat blockbuster ever) but I didn't really enjoy myself at any point. Maybe the final moments. Up until the final final moment that is
― Number None, Friday, 16 December 2016 01:00 (seven years ago) link
i'm stunned by this 'bad CGI' talk maybe my eyesight is fucked because i was wowed. i couldn't even tell it was cgi straight up.
'Star Wars On The Beach' was a good idea too.
― piscesx, Friday, 16 December 2016 02:14 (seven years ago) link
downbeat-ness of (spoilzz) killing off characters one by one reminded me of The Dirty Dozen
― piscesx, Friday, 16 December 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
shocking just how much from trailer 1 hit the cutting room floor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg
reshoots eh.
― piscesx, Friday, 16 December 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
If this is a war movie, do they smoke cigarettes? I'm about to find out so shut up
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 December 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
i thought the cgi was noticeable, and i didn't know about it going in --- everyone else i saw it with had no clue
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 16 December 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
They left Fantastic Beasts in the projector. This crowd is never going to let them live it down.
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 December 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
Not perfect but lots of fun and definitely the best looking SW film by far. But the music --- yeesh. This needed Williams or someone who didn't just know "generic fanfare styles" composing. Liked it far more than FA.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 16 December 2016 06:10 (seven years ago) link
Giacchino trying to be different didn't help, I agree. When he'd work in an echo of Schifrin or Morricone, it was pretty neat, but otherwise not great. It didn't matter much though!
The CG puppets of Spoiler and Young Spoiler were distracting. The first moreso than if they'd just gotten another actor, I think, and the second just completely unnecessary imo. Felt like putting that superfluous button on all the preceding action actually diminished things. Let the little people have their moment!
I loved it, of course.
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 December 2016 06:44 (seven years ago) link
The guy who played Vader did a great job
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 December 2016 06:45 (seven years ago) link
The "Leaders" also definitely didn't need to put in more than one appearance each - we all got it the first time, thank you!
I kinda hope the guys driving the hammerhead corvette made it out alive, though it seems unlikely. Should've given that crew southern accents IMHO.
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Friday, 16 December 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
xxpost Bad music / too much music def distracts me just as much as bad editing or acting. There was so much great stuff to take in here, though, that I managed to block it out. Once the final act took off I realized the scoring was infinitely better! I have to This is so packed with badass visuals and moments and feels so completely weighty and lived-in that I almost wish all future spin-off films and Episodes stick to this one as their template.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 16 December 2016 07:52 (seven years ago) link