Star Wars 7 shit talk

I really only kinda want to see this early-ish because, yes, spoilers. Otherwise, I'm realizing that I'm about as excited to see it as I generally am about seeing movies directed by J.J. Abrams.

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5:58 AM - 15 Dec 2015

absolutely zero reason to even write/print a review for a movie everyone's already decided to see/not see!

Counterpoint: a lot of people would be interested in seeing this provided it's not a TPM-level shitshow.

We've got a ticket for 7 on Thursday - pm so we miss the costumed lines, but early enough - I might remove bookmark for a bit.

http://io9.com/the-first-spoiler-free-impressions-of-the-force-awakens-1748095494

Can't trust ass-kissing/covering celebs, and certainly don't trust anyone saying this has Best Picture potential (whatever that really means), but between these and the aforementioned "eh, it's OK," at least its seems to be solid. So that's good.

I'm just remembering that infamous first online review of TPM (on the Stereo Review site or something) where the guy absolutely panned it and it set the tone for everything that came after. So anything north of that is a positive sign.

Well, if Rob Liefeld and Josh Gad love it...

My expecations are still tempered, but it sounds more positive than not.

if Elizabeth Banks loved it...

Love how the bar has been set so low that all it has to be is not bad to be considered a success.

Soto, you were just in Disney, right? Is there any Star Wars presence? Just last year I was really surprised by the conspicuous absence of Star Wars, Marvel and even Pixar, and a mad hustle to take advantage of Frozen (like a Frozen gift shop with fake snow on the floor). And yet there's Avatar-land construction ...

(I mean, there is the modest Star Wars experience ride or whatever, but for a franchise that all but invented promo toys and swag there wasn't much to even buy.)

do you ppl want to start a post-opening thread? for informed shit talk?

Soto, you were just in Disney, right? Is there any Star Wars presence?

An understatement. I even saw goddamn R2 ear muffs.

They're supposedly beefing up the Marvel presence and there's an entire Star Wars land in development. But I agree that it's strange how unprepared they sometimes are to ride a wave of their own creation (my own example: I was last in WDW the spring after Frozen became huge and there was pretty much ZERO merchandise for the movie).

That was a huge problem for Frozen in general. They didn't really have much merch until the summer after it came out.

oh Disney has compensated: a Frozen ride will replace Norway's Malestrom.

Frozen is getting its own ride in Epcot soon. Avatar-land is still a head-scratcher to me, but I guess it'd be pretty easy (if radical) to expand/rebrand Tomorrowland into Star Wars stuff (a la the recent expansion of Fantasyland).

Jinx!

Yeah, I know about the Maelstrom travesty. One of my favorite rides...

In related news, Spielberg went as himself to the premiere, and Kate Capshaw went as Steampunk Annie Hall. A bold cosplay choice!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/15/06/2F63040700000578-0-image-a-35_1450162566275.jpg

Motherfuckers. I made my parents take me on that like five times in a row. First 20000 leagues, now this.

Ok I googled and 20,000 leagues was apparently closed over 20 years ago but still.

replacing all these old rides and somehow the It's a Small World travesty still exists

"it can't be that bad," i thought. "it'll be funny to mock, this ridiculous ride"

think i made it about thirty seconds before hoping for swift death

Just looked at this and surprised at how few of them are anywhere near new rides:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/juliapugachevsky/a-definitive-ranking-of-all-the-rides-at-disney-world#.kbGa6eVMO

Anyway, enough with the derail I guess.

It's A Small World gets a "thrill factor" of 2.

the It's a Small World travesty still exists

you're dead to me, It's a Small World is awesome

possibly the best designed ride in the park

(I'm talking about the Disneyland version, idk anything about Disneyworld)

Yeah, I dig me some Mary Blair.

Small World is great, fuckups all the haterz. Does every ride need to be a thrill ride?

Fuckups? Weird phone....

to me, it's a thousand creepy dolls singing a really sing-songy tale of friendship that really grates after the first couple times you've heard it. and you float past them all in the dark, as they look on with dead eyes.

I liked Mr. Toad's Wild Ride which was boring as heck, ride-wise

it is not dark

maybe you would prefer a thousand creepy yodas and storm troopers

It's a world of Bothans
A world of Siths

no thanks! just not my thing, you guys can have it and i will continue to joke about it

a few thousand diverse ewoks singing ewoks songs sounds possibly worse

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

Speaking of Ewoks singing, any mention of a musical number in this new movie?

a few thousand diverse ewoks singing ewoks songs sounds possibly worse

― μpright mammal (mh),

thank you for introducing me to tonight's nightmare

I hear Chewie has a dance number called the Wookiewaken

xp

i figure this new movie can't be too bad if you keep expectations low. i just re-watched the "original trilogy' for the first time in > 25 years so my expectations are suitably diminished. (that isn't a dig. i like the first one especially. but they are certainly not deathless masterpieces. the production design and effects are consistently stunning, though. i want to visit bespin.)

10 minutes of Yub Nub wouldn't be so bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ebjptd6Kgo

i don't think 'empire' is the best film (depends on by what standard you're judging of course) but it certainly is the handsomest. the filmmaking isn't too flashy but the compositions are consistently more graphically engaging than in the other two films. (that said there are a few moments of interesting depth staging/rack focus in the first one that show some of things lucas is good at--other than world-building, of course.)

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Thread delivers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ROyNyRukQ

I just remembered that there's a Star Wars character who's actually named Droopy McCool.

looking forward to dling this as soon as it leaks.

The screening was an hour ago. I missed it b/c work and food poisoning (I didn't want to underestimate the dark side of the Force).