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

Eh, there is no way to see Forest Whitaker and not think of "Battlefield Earth" unless you have not seen "Battlefield Earth." (Directed by second unit Star Wars director!)

I must be brainwashed by the new sjw media because someone mentioned "another movie with a female lead? is this a thing now?" and I was like "idk I guess?" like it seemed weirder that the jedi council had so many dudes in the Lucas films

I have never seen Battlefield Earth! My first thought with Forest Whitaker is nearly always Ghost Dog

The only person who reminds me of battlefield earth is Barry Pepper

https://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/forest-whitaker-battlefield-earth.jpeg?w=700

there they go pandering to half the human population again.

pandering has no place in this sequel to a prequel to a genre exercise.

They are pandering to robots.

But yeah, totally, this so-called pandering is only conspicuous due to the equally if not more conspicuous total lack of diversity in the earlier films and for that matter virtually all films.

can't believe they didn't hire a white guy as lando. SJWs!

Social Justice Wars why not call it

EPISODE V
THE EMPIRE STRIKES CUCK

It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Donald has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from Twitter and pursued them across the internet.

Evading the dreaded Imperial Eggfleet, a group of SJWs led by Luke Cagefan has established a new secret base on the remote social media platform of Medium.

The evil lord Breitbarth Vader, obsessed with finding young Cagefan, has dispatched thousands of remote trolls into the far reaches of cyberspace...

lol

I have never seen Battlefield Earth! My first thought with Forest Whitaker is nearly always Ghost Dog

^^^^ THIS!!

i always think of Panic Room and the Crying Game

I think of all sorts of stuff he's popped up in, from Fast Times to the Shield to Species, if I'm being honest, for the scene where he's playing a psychic whe sees like a train car covered in blood and mumbles "something bad happened here." Or the Key and Peele bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxwMTAy1gP0

But sci-fi Forest is Battlefield Earth, all the way.

he was in fast times? I didn't realize he'd been acting for quite that long

that day you realize forest whitaker has been in every single movie

I always think of this when I think of him because I saw this scene again after years and years and was like "oh shit that's forest whitaker". I had no idea he had been in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYV5f0Aqo4w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSeovXwmOR0

I love that the director's summary of the movie is the same thing I've been using to describe it to people who aren't sure when this film takes place.

"So, that opening text at the beginning of A New Hope, this is that movie"

eee it looks so good

i am excite

WOAH. i am excite too!

lol @ "So, that opening text at the beginning of A New Hope, this is that movie"

i want to say why didn't Lucas sell Star Wars 30 years ago. but the tech was not there, no way you could have had anything, even the side-movies, look this good.

It's a movie about the text crawl drifting through space.

this and the new ATCQ could not come at a more necessary time

Emilia Clarke has been cast in the Han Solo movie :|

saw that. Kinda hoping she's an alien of some sort.

I wonder if they're being to branch out with all these Star Wars Gaiden to something like what the Marvel movies do, where you start blending genre together and start telling other kinds of story inside your ostensible superhero film, for example.

Might as well, it's not like they're ever going to stop making these things

they've been describing Rogue One as a heist movie quite a bit

I expect Lord & Miller will bring a different sensibility to the Solo movie too

I think Marvel probably has more freedom than Star Wars because of the basis in comics. Star Wars movies can only really be legitimized in terms of previous Star Wars movies, so things like visual style and music are going to stay pretty constant. That probably constrains the kinds of stories that are possible too. A heist movie is not a big departure in a franchise where smugglers play a big role.

You can tell all kinds of stories in the SW milieu

Star Wars, Clone Wars, Rebels, Oh My

I gave vague memories of seeing a book? Comic? That even did han solo and chewbacca in a zombie siege story

oh certainly, there's a bunch of things you can do with the SW universe(everything from Dead Trooper to Kotor 2, for example), but in terms of 90-120 min yearly franchise blockbuster releases, how much can they do before it starts getting away from the mythic space opera? Thinking about this more, I wonder if they're locked into certain tropes or aesthetics because otherwise, Star Wars turns into something more like Star Trek/Mass Effect/Firefly/Battlestar.

Then again, fuggit; some of the shots of battle footage in Rogue One has street-level urban fighting, shot with handhelds in a way that folks even on here were comparing to Battle of Algiers, which is a galaxy far, far away from space fighterjock samurai wizards. Maybe the mold should be broken.

Dead troopers, that was it

Yeah, the zombie novel was Death Troopers, by Joe Schreiber.

imagine if they did a movie that didn't have the Death Star in it, would be pretty crazy!

I keep thinking how awesome some of the characters in the trailer seem and kind of hope they're not super fleshed out, leaving a little mystery? I just keep thinking, who are these guys?! Is that guy blind? That other guy just took out a whole squad of stormtroopers!

Digging through the credits on imdb again really made me remember that not everyone has a publicist team sculpting their imdb profile because Wen Jiang has this profile picture (sorry for imdb links, I'm not going to dig around to beat their image link-busting today)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422638/mediaviewer/rm886348544
and I'm thinking hmm, seems like a cool regular guy

and then there's this picture
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422638/mediaviewer/rm1330189568

whoa badass!!!

btw I am five

no crawl!

http://www.nme.com/news/film/star-wars-producer-explains-rogue-one-wont-iconic-opening-crawl-1871135

whaaaaat

Would look kinda silly beginning with "Episode III.ix" anyways

It's not like Caravan Of Courage had a crawl. Or did it?

The Clone Wars animated film didn't either. It had that newsreel-type thing at the beginning.

Same with the CW series. Rebels doesn't do a crawl or a "newsreel" IIRC.

Yeah I think that's fine. Save the crawl for the proper 'episodes'.

apparently no Star Wars main theme either?

i don't get it. movies are 2 1/2 hours nowadays anyways, a crawl is like a 2-minute freebie.

It's an artistic choice, I think, to reinforce the spin off movies being tangential to the main narrative.

it's all a spin-off. the "main narrative" has been changing with every additional movie.

otherwise the first film's crawl would've been all about Anakin Skywalker and the fall of the Jedi

Can you not see how they'd want to differentiate stylistically between the more mythical main sequence and the (presumably) more idiosyncratic secondary films?

I'm not trying to be a Disney Corp stan, just explaining how the decision makes perfect sense to me.