Star Wars Anthology shit talk (Rogue One, Young Solo, TBD)

never doubted you for a minutre

damn Eric how old is that ILX nickname of yours

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, December 14, 2016

I quit this court!

re: "silver lining" of H'wood G'lization, I also agree that it is good when capitalism accidentally does something that makes the world better.

except don't all these new characters die? that's kind of a cop-out

disney are making a valuable contribution to society by showing that people of all races, creeds and colours die imo

We can only hope.

An Old Hope.

I heard they had a whole army of space folks consulting to ensure they represented space traditions as respectfully and accurately as possible.

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.

Well that's the real trick, innit

I see what you did

I see what you did

Well, I'm as human as the next man.

I'm sure this is canonically answered somewhere: did they ever get a refund?

On what? The deposit for the space station?

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).

If you’re flying an X-wing, everything looks like a Death Star.

koan

you ppl see this while a Warren Beatty film about Earth dies at the box office

I'm not seeing either of those turds fwiw

Rules Don't Apply is about Earth?! ... Makes sense.

ah yes, the other reason to always never 51 Morbius

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

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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

Wow, Warren Beatty Hollywood biopic not breaking out of the mid/high 50s on RT/MC responses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiqPmsBYieA

Lol Morbs you are just parodying yourself now

https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/764025941051842560

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzpEZJEXEAEvAI7.jpg

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?

is Jake in it

that is an awesomely nerdy complaint xp

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

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.

MOUTH full of saliva, the effects weren't THAT special.

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

^^^^

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?

wait you mean they DO blow up the death star?!?

spoiler alert: they do not blow up the death star

however they do obtain individual building meter data from the campus

I was worried

the you know who effects were disastrous I thought

sank every scene with him in it

I thought they were pretty good in and off themselves, but still slightly distracting/uncanny valley in context.

however they do obtain individual building meter data from the campus

― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara),

Bravo!

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

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.

downbeat-ness of (spoilzz) killing off characters one by one reminded me of The Dirty Dozen

shocking just how much from trailer 1 hit the cutting room floor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wji-BZ0oCwg

reshoots eh.

If this is a war movie, do they smoke cigarettes? I'm about to find out so shut up

i thought the cgi was noticeable, and i didn't know about it going in --- everyone else i saw it with had no clue

They left Fantastic Beasts in the projector. This crowd is never going to let them live it down.

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.