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

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my mind's eye has been replaced by a series of image macros.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)

long overdue for a McGruff the Crime Dog movie

hard-drinking, borderline-suicidal cop mcgruff is forced to partner with morally upright, by-the-book park ranger smokey t. bear to solve a series of grisly killings at yellowstone national park

with sexy results

that's just Watchmen

oic u expect innovation from your mcgruff/smokey crossover movie

xxxp I believe that comic also had the Golliwog so be careful what u wish for

hard-drinking, borderline-suicidal cop mcgruff is forced to partner with morally upright, by-the-book park ranger smokey t. bear to solve a series of grisly killings at yellowstone national park

― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, February 2, 2018 10:43 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is a comic series in publication right now called Spencer & Locke which is basically "What if Calvin & Hobbes but a gritty detective story?"

1000 Movies/TV Shows that need completely unnecessary "dark and gritty" remakes

im entirely uninterested in this movie. TLJ showed they have zero new ideas about what to do with Star Wars, it is just going to be fetishizing the original trilogy from here on out.

are you sure you didn't rewatch The Force Awakens or Rogue One instead of The Last Jedi

xpost yep, cos clearly the one overwhelming concern TLJ-haters shared was that it was that it was too beholden to the ideas of the original series

you used to be able to shit on SW movies, even ones you like. i used to complain about ROTJ as a kid. if you say something bad now you are labelled a hater. were Jar Jar defenders accusing people of being haters back in the day?

the way i remember it was "if you're complaining about jar jar you may have forgotten these movies are for children"

I think TLJ doesn't skew far from the Star Wars mold but it seems like a weird argument to make that _that one_ is the straw that broke the camel's back

it's like saying the problem with the original Star Wars movie was too much Darth Vader

you used to be able to shit on SW movies, even ones you like. i used to complain about ROTJ as a kid. if you say something bad now you are labelled a hater. were Jar Jar defenders accusing people of being haters back in the day?

Before mass adoption of the internet? Who knows.

But even before nerdshit/genre entertainment culture took over all major culture, “geek identity” was definitely a thing where personal consumption choices formed the self-concept for a lot of people. Anything not perceived as unqualified praise for some intellectual property was automatically now a personal attack and calling for massive defensive response. This happens in music, too, obv.

Hell, somebody wrote some ungodly long essay defending the Prequels against the original Plinkett vids many years back.

Picard is no Captain Kirk, I'll tell you what

the two multiplexes nearest me are showing I Tonya and Call Me By Your Name and The Post and The Shape Of Water and Padmaavat and Lady Bird and Mary And The Witch's Flower and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and Till The End Of The World as well as Star Wars and The Greatest Showman and 2manji

(also in walking distance: the revival house is showing Groundhog Day and Grand Budapest Hotel, the arthouse is showing a montage of Russian dashboard cams)

the arthouse is showing a montage of Russian dashboard cams)

lol what

rlm types stay in their shallow pool on purpose imo, not cuz they think it's actually deep but cuz they wanna feel tall

i more or less loved tlj tho.

surely Groundhog Day is about a man with the super power to turn back time one day

nerve-wracking dashboard cam movie trailer: https://www.traileraddict.com/the-road-movie/trailer

or, in a more thrilling twist, it's the groundhog who is the manipulator of time, super-powered animal, definitely a genre flick

Hero monologue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDQd5r_L-_c

tbh my initial thought was "90%? fucking come on, man!" but then I looked at the list of movies and decided to roll with the hyperbole