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

these were all nobody characters but you got their motivations, you got who they are, how they interact together, you even saw them change and adapt to the situation. all these new characters that only have minutes of screen time apiece. it's really efficient scripting.

yeah, fuck ILX hivemind this movie was good

yeah i think i liked this more than the force awakens or last jedi tbh

Definitely better than last jedi

nah

better than TFA I'll grant

I love Rogue One. Can rewatch it anytime. I can't say that for TFA and probably won't for TLJ as well.

It's also a beautifully designed and shot film ( score sucks, though, which has been the case with all these post-Prequel SW flicks).

I think I’ll be able to say that about TLJ and RO in a few years. Have already figured out that I’d rather rewatch almost any Marvel movie over TFA when I’m in the mood for some junk viewing (tbf I don’t consider any of the Captain America ones to be junk, I take take that shit very seriously)

I will never watch TFA again unless some notional kid of mine is into it but I'm hella ready for TLJ & RO rescreens

^^^^

Christmas in the Stars yo

TFA is the one I most enjoy rewatching

lately, anyway

The now yearly barrage of release hype boots out any consideration or perspective of the current or previous year’s film, so I feel like it’s going to take a good 5 years of time away before these things even approach the possibility of being fairly ranked.

smart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnN-k2Beo4E

Freely admit, the sheer lack of ANYTHING from the Solo movie still is getting a little weird. (Saying this because Marvel just dropped the Ant-Man and the Wasp trailer and that comes out two months after the Solo film, and since they're both Disney properties and all...)

The one rumor I heard is that they're planning some sort of big publicity blitz with the Super Bowl, which I can see.

so you find their lack of footage disturbing?

maybe they're still panicking about how to integrate the stuff lord and miller shot with the ron howard reshoots / new scenes

kinda feel like this is gonna be a real piece of shit tbh

What makes you feel that, besides it being a young Han Solo movie?

well yeah the premise seems kinda pointless right from the off, but look at this production timeline:

June 20th, 2017: Lord & Miller depart their Han Solo spin-off film (then known only as Young Han Solo) for Disney, mere weeks from wrapping principal photography.

June 22nd, 2017: Ron Howard settles into the director's chair, replacing Lord & Miller.

October 17th, 2017: Production wraps on Howard's film, and it officially receives the title Solo: A Star Wars Story.

October 31st, 2017: Reports surface suggesting that Howard re-shot upwards of 80% of Solo, and that the majority of Lord & Miller's footage - including Michael K. Williams - is either cut or replaced (in the case of Williams, with Paul Bettany).

December 20th, 2017: Howard states that his Solo will be a "gangster movie".

reshooting that much of a movie so close to release date seems insane to me, and choosing ron howard to direct seems to suggest disney want the most anodyne, marker-hitting take on the story cuz that's what he's good at

So this has in common with Ant-Man and the Wasp that it won’t even be as good as Ant-Man, already a pretty low bar?

that timeline also puts such a crunch on post-production that i sort of assume that most or all of the effects sequences were locked in and whatever howard did had to work around them, which doesn't exactly promise a seamlessly unfolding, well-paced narrative.

it makes absolutely no sense to rush this out for May

it does if you're a disney shareholder i guess

Exactly. Christmas make more sense anyway now they've had 3 in a row.

I thought everyone assumed it's going to be pushed back to December anyway

Rumor flurry of a trailer on Monday's GMA, but the initial listing showing that has been revised.

they've decided to sack the Solo film and instead are giving us a Hutt trilogy featuring Robert Deniro as Jabba

He's gonna gain 400lbs for the role.

a Hutt trilogy

Hutt One, etc

ol dirty bobby live and uncut

(ew)

haha

This is gonna come out in December.

Harf harf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80T59B2RVOo

I have no idea whether that is meant to be ironic or not, but based on that freezeframe no way in hell am I watching

It's Red Letter Media, so good call.

It's meant to be parody of nerd-culture youtube enthusiasts, which is a good idea and needs more making fun of, but I'm increasingly tired of RLM's faux-cynicism (in the end most shit gets a positive review except they hate on forced diversity or whatever).

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/023/397/C-658VsXoAo3ovC.jpg

that spider-man pic is the gift that keeps on giving

my mind's eye has been replaced by a series of image macros. as soon as I saw "Red Letter Media" and "parody of nerd-culture youtube enthusiasts" in quick succession the spider-men appeared

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/f4/f4e38495f84a62cd0aa43ae4e1eda3c9c1e6261f157e179c18a2776939c2944f.jpg

I don't think it's accurate to say most of the movies they cover get positive reviews. In fact, RLM has this MST3000 "forced to watch bad movies" vibe to most of their reviews, and lately the highest praise they give to, say, superhero movies (which is 90% of all theatrical releases) is that they are competent and entertaining, which they pretty much always are. But by and large they seem pretty critical of everything they review, unless they are genuinely surprised. I do sometimes wish they would expand beyond what's in the multiplex, but other times I think that might be the best fit for them.

Actually, re: RLM, I'm shocked at how many blind spots they have, particularly Mike, who seems like this genre guy who went to film school (right?) and might be more or less my age, but then reveals he's never seen, for example, "Escape from New York" or "Blade Runner" or something like that.

which is 90% of all theatrical releases

I was going to take issue with this, but upon reflection, I'm going to go with it

Feels like it!

I'm willing to include jedi, super-spies, and fantastical creatures in the "superhero" genre

Not sure about Paddington Bear, but a talking bear... we could make an argument

Paddington was like a superhero movie antidote.

Tbf, I know it's awards season, but all 8 movies at my local theater right now are pretty solid and/or original, save Jumanjier. In fact, I was so used to there being just two movies there (since Star Wars or whatever sucked up half the screens) that I was pleasantly surprised to see so many options!

paddington bear: infinity war

can we get a horrible Ready Player One type of movie but instead of teen/adult nostalgia it's Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh and friends, Mr. Toad, etc?

never mind, I think that was actually one of the later League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics

(please don't link the 80s "animated characters tell you not to use drugs" garbage)