Star Wars 8 shit talk

The only fanservice that made me roll my eyes was that tiny like 17 frame shot of a tubby ginger pilot getting blown up almost right away, so pointless.

Gleeson was good in Ex Machina playing someone he thinks is the protagonist but isn't, and isn't aware of that until too late. Not that anyone in the movie is genre-savvy, but that he continually misunderstands his role in the proceedings.

reading Bloodline now....p interesting so far!

Gleeson was good in Ex Machina playing someone he thinks is the protagonist but isn't, and isn't aware of that until too late. Not that anyone in the movie is genre-savvy, but that he continually misunderstands his role in the proceedings.

yeah domnhall’s v v good

just gonna brag for a second that i went out for a beer w LG and a pre-fame domnhall one time, in new york, after a play he'd been in. it was an "irish" pub in hell's kitchen iirc, deathly quiet, bad beer. nice guy! i think he came with us to watch the nets play another night but i can't remember now.

cool story bro

so it's true, the Irish really do all know each other

Wonder what Daniel Day Lewis as Hux would have been like.

i saw this film this weekend, it was pretty good

I implore Disney to put your blurb on the front of the Blu-ray case.

"dece" - rushomancy, ILX

I thought this was a great movie, but also a super bummer what with almost the entire known resistance being killed. I think that may have been a bigger unconscious factor in the backlash than disappointment in Luke's characterization or the antics of reactionary trolls. Not even the ending of ESB felt this bleak; the last scene with the orphan kid as a result just rings so false, this attempt to put a feel-good cap at the end of 2+ hours of desperation. IDK, maybe that's just me.

i think the movie came off unexpectedly bleaker than intended due to carrie fisher's death.

I implore Disney to put your blurb on the front of the Blu-ray case.

― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch)

they can if they want, but only if they don't fuck around with what i wrote by capitalizing it

Nominated for 4 Oscars including score. Did John Williams do anything original with it?

The score was the least interesting thing about it! Just rehashes of the typical Star Wars motifs, some other generic bits, and we only hear the best/most distinctive new music from TFA (Rey's theme), like, once.

he wove the classic Star Wars themes we all know and love into new pieces that evoke the gentle majesty of space

I do give them credit, one of the best parts of the score was woven into the trailers, which isn't something we get very often these days

I kind of wish the Rogue One trailer music, which was SW classic homage music, made it to a release

Music from the hearts of space? xp

i hate john williams and hope his ears and fingers fall off

well, he's 85, so you never know

I discovered while searching a minute ago that apparently he did music for The Post as well. 2018 must be his resurgence

It's his 51st Oscar nomination. (Seriously.) He gets one with every airkiss.

The New Yorker made a nice case for Williams' score in this article about leifmotifs--basically, mh otm

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-field-guide-to-the-musical-leitmotifs-of-star-wars

I was hoping for my long-awaited Cantina Band pt. 2 with the Canto Bight music. Not there yet, but it's growing on me

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

I'm by no means a MST3K devotee but reading the title of that clip brought back memories

I did love hearing the music from the original movie's TIE fighter/Millennium Falcon dogfight scene used again when Chewie and Rey are dogfighting over Crait. That's one of my favorite cues from any of the movies, along with "The Asteroid Chase" from ESB.

This guy likes it too:

https://youtu.be/EH5oRJKTWuc?t=5

There’s a whole thread of these, ymmv

Rely & Kylo Ren fighting the Praetorian Guards to "Africa" by Toto pic.twitter.com/bTnC8aiWew

— you’re not alone in everything✨ Saw TLJ x4 (@rachlikesbands) January 23, 2018

I'm ready to see a Last Jedi morning matinee now, and it's barely playing anywhere in NYC. Two months later! Attention-deficit culture.

two months is awhile for a movie to stay in cinemas morbius c'mon!

Star Wars was in theaters for a year

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekly&id=starwars4.htm

Oh sorry I misread the chart. 8 months in 1977.

lmao that was before VCRs

which don’t even exist any more

force awakens was in theaters for six months

It's NOT! Flop movies last a week, blockbuster juggernauts last 5. Ludicrous. xxxxp

Yep, I saw Jaws in my local sinny 10 months after it opened. Runs of more than a year for hits were commonplace.

Yes, rogermexico, when things were geared toward adults with multiple priorities in a week.

i note that last jedi does in fact appear to still be in nyc cinemas, if i'm reading your post correctly...

like seeing BP for the second time in 3 days

ugh xpost

VCRs and Blockbuster existed when Jurassic Park was in theaters for 10 months in its first run.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekly&id=jurassicpark.htm

I blame capitalism for this rather than consumer taste. Release-weekend-driven marketing etc.

p sure Jurassic Park was released under capitalism

Well yes

not pre-noon for $8, tracer. I mean, i've seen Adam Driver's tits before.

I get it tho, fast food goes through faster than ever.

before we conclude it's just that today's audiences have shorter attention spans, i think we'd have to dig into the structure of the agreements between exhibitors, distributors and studios (who makes money when?), the sheer number of films competing for the same blockbuster niche (how many screenings was TLJ getting before Black Panther came out? how many other action-effects spectacles were trying to dethrone Jaws or even JP?) and the particular economics of urban cinemas (i note tlj survives in some of the multi-multi-screen affairs which are rarer in NYC - and at the 24-screen regal i grew up near in suburban ATL). (also i'm not sure it's even properly begun it's "second run" as it were -did it play at cobble hill for example? would not surprise me if after a dry-looking weekend or two it limps along for another month or two on smaller screens.)

obviously i prefer the model of long, slow runs and word-of-mouth building a hit but the way things are structured now everything has to be a huge hit week one since the studio makes less of the money later in the run, so the studios have every incentive to massively hype something and then start massively hyping something else as soon as they think the audience is ready to hear about it. maybe that reflects poorly on the audience's attention span in some collective sense but individually i'm not sure. anyway the theaters obviously are going to swap out screenings as soon as they can even if the film is still selling tickets - better to have a sold-out room than one that's 2/3rds full.

well said, Dr C

When I was a kid, my mom's test for the quality of a movie was the length of the window between its theatrical and VHS releases. Not very scientific, I suppose, but it had a certain logic: blockbusters stayed in theatres for months, while indie/foreign hits opened slowly across theatres, motivated by word-of-mouth. Meanwhile, teen sex comedies, horror flicks, B-grade action movies and the like, spent little time in theatres because the business model was for them to turn a quick profit in a short theatrical run before going on to make whatever they could in video stores.

Alternately, my mom was probably just trying to get out of taking me to see bad movies.

yeah the incredibly short turnover to streaming now also has to play a huuuuge part in this. chicken and egg maybe. rogue one, a big big hit movie, came out in december and was on *netflix* in july. not even digital rental, just part of your ten bucks a month subscription (tho i'm sure they paid a pretty penny for it). crazy.

Yeah, we are a long way from E.T. taking like 8 years to come out on VHS (which I remember being a huge deal at the time).