Star Wars 7 shit talk

oh man, I LOVED him in What Lies Beneath

what lies beneath is woeful tho

weird to think that it's a zemeckis joint

"everything" in the last Indy was not "terrible." at its best the series is EXCELLENT CRAP.

"Should've mailed it to the Marx. Bros."
"Nazis, I hate these guys."

for me it's a classic big budget b-movie. so many great lines in it.

Indiana Jones: [of Indy's new lover] How did you know she was a Nazi?
Professor Henry Jones: She talks in her sleep.

i never got this joke tho

raiders is a classic movie, temple of doom and last crusade are not at that level but are excellent in their own right. crystal skull might as well have been made by len wiseman.

Crystal Skull's greatest strength was the foley work. It had the best punching sounds I've ever heard.

i never got this joke tho

this exchange is how indy learns that alisom doody had previously been sleeping w/his dad

I think Adam meant that he didn't get it when younger

Crystal Skull's greatest strength was the foley work. It had the best punching sounds I've ever heard.

They used the finest side of aged kobe beef to get that sound.

a backhanded compliment to Ford if I've ever heard one

Adam is also making a joke about the non-existence of the Crystal Skull?

lol oh yes i forgot about Crystal Skull. was that Snoke at the end of that? pretty cool of them to tease the new Star Wars villain that early.

Paul Dano is...Han Solo

So this was better than I thought possible. Cool.

Colin Trevorrow:

"We're going to make sure that that answer is deeply and profoundly satisfying," Trevorrow said. "Rey is a character that is important in this universe, not just in the context of The Force Awakens, but in the entire galaxy. She deserves it. We'll make sure that that answer is something that feels like it was something that happened a long time ago, far away, and we're just telling you what happened."

enjoy it while it lasts I guess

We're going to make sure that that answer is deeply and profoundly satisfying

drama circa 2016. hyped for the profundity!

hyped for the ultimate motive of the first order being merely "chaos". the first disorder if you will.

It's all adding up. Lindelof will pen the final installment, Rey will be Space Jesus.

Can we just officially make 'Lindelof' a pejorative already? "I hate to say it, Phil, but you really Lindelofed the Jenkins account."

Lindelled off imo

And if you're older, wiser and just stand by and let someone Lindelof can we say you totally Cused out?

Frantic has a solid twenty minutes, the rest is Saturday afternoon fare.

I still read complaints that Ford is shrill in The Mosquito Coast but it works for the character (and, yeah, River Phoenix is beautiful and scary-good).

love Mosquito Coast

Is it just me, or does Adam Driver look a lot like Harpo Marx?

I get more Chico with curly hair

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Adam-Driver/195914353873554

That made Kelly & Michael this morning. (I was at the dentist)

I was disappointed they didn't follow up with the dog that looks like Harrison Ford

cat does not look like a Marine to me

https://www.instagram.com/p/3IH_EhI1hI/

http://youtu.be/GQQMLE4FuIQ

is it time to start the " " " " 8 shit talk thread

Benicio Del Toro, Laura Dern and Kelly Marie Tran now onboard for XIII

xp yes

amazing

http://i.imgur.com/MHclyZh.jpg

episode vii vs. iv shot by shot "echo" comp:
https://vimeo.com/160263943

I always wondered why a lone AT-AT would've been stuck out in the desert

I figured it was just global warming.

https://www.outerplaces.com/images/user_upload/jakku%20junk%20walkers.jpg

I like this concept art showing decaying, still-standing AT-ATs on a waterlogged Jakku. Pity they didn't recreate this in the film.

i finally saw this. was entertained a fair amount of the time, bored a fair amount of the time -- more of the latter after the halfway mark, at which point i started to get eager for it to end.

abrams isn't exactly a 'stylist' but i was surprised and impressed by how assured the editing and camerawork was. abrams has a way with action cutting, to my surprise, and he does good stuff with focus (selective focus, rack focus) and camera movement. nothing that reinvents the wheel, of course, but purposeful, precise, and handsome. most of the time.

as for the narrative, yeesh. i know that a million tons of virtual (and real) ink have been spilled about this by now, but it really did rehash so many of the narrative beats of the original film (and to a lesser extent of ESB and RotJ). to an astonishing degree, i'd say. in fact i think it'd be easier to name the major plot beats that /didn't/ strongly evoke, if not outright copy, the 1977 film. that meant there was very little surprise here. the many fan-service quips ("how about a ... trash compactor") were truly groan worthy, but not as dispiriting as the narrative recycling.

i guess for many folks this was just what the doctor ordered, though, huh.

some nice sound design at times, too. got the strong feeling of a ton of talented people working at top form on a story that was little better than ambitious fanfic.

somehow the way that abrams imitates the minutae of the original trilogy's visual style--down to using roughly the same lens lengths for certain types of shots--is impressive to me, in a "that's neat" kind of way, but the narrative recycling is just depressing.

in the spirit of jar-jar-free edits of the prequels, i'd kinda like to see a cut of this that purges all the really really on the nose jokey references like the trash compactor line. it would be pointless in that the entire thing is a recycle job and the thematic echoes are all over everything, but that was the stuff that really, really took me out of the movie. i enjoyed it overall but i feel like those things are only gonna wear worse on repeat viewings and i wonder how fondly i'll think of this film in future years. like will i mostly remember it as the exciting story with a couple of living breathing new characters that i like a lot, or as this hokey in-jokey fanfic thing?

in the theater i laughed aloud at the revelation of the new death planet, like okay, you're going all the way on this, my hat is off to you sirs. but mannnn would it be a better movie if it were not saddled with cutting away to the tension-free and no-character-stakes CGI bombing run with pilot guy plus schmoes. they actually don't need the death planet at all for the main story that's going on about our heroes, and it sort of screws up our sense of how powerful or well-developed this new villain organization is. the other worst element is the CGI supreme chancellor snoke, which i think we're all tolerating only because we assume it'll eventually turn out that it's a wizard-of-oz thing and he doesn't actually look like a CGI school graduating project for a Generic Monster Guy. if that turns out not to be the case the movie's gonna start to feel kinda thin and empty and video-game-ish.

and yet, i'm still weirdly tempted to go see it again while it's still clinging to a couple of theater time slots. huh.

And with all that agreed, it looked and felt like star wars,which is enough

Also it was funny and exciting and wore its updates well - the original story of Star Wars wasn't exactly a mould-breaker.

congrats amateurist on successfully rehashing the most boring criticisms of this movie for our reading pleasure

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