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

I understand that current technology makes it easier than ever to do a bunch of takes and play around in editing, but it's reminiscent of a few conversations I've seen online and had myself lately about directors who have done that historically. You could chalk it up to experimentation or Lord and Miller having less experience, but in the past there's been praise for directors (*cough* Kubrick) who pounded the performance they wanted out of the actors.

I guess my take would be that if you have to abuse your actors or work them until they're broken, then maybe you should hone your ability to direct humans and learn to communicate what you want them to do. To paraphrase that anecdotal Olivier quote: Have you considered directing?

I like more Lord & Miller films from the last nine years than Ron Howard films from the last 33 years, I don't think inexperience is an issue

fair

i suspect it's a bit of both - there was genuine disagreement on the tone, and also their methods for making 21 Jump Street did not smoothly integrate into a Star Wars picture

like you can't do 30 takes on a Star Wars movie, every minute is expensive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66FvPTj2Yw

unless you are Irvin Kershner and Harrison Ford

ha point taken

lol @ "I love you" / "I love you too"

The Last Jedi didn't super slightly disappoint box office wise because of the film, i think it was because the marketing was pretty uninspired. for one, i recognize they wanted to differentiate between TFA and the new one, but considering it was 75% space battles it was weird how heavily they leaned on the salt flats battle in the posters and early ads.

Easy -- hell of a visual.

it occurred to me today how much DEATH and DYING of major characters there is in star wars. empire, which is supposed to be the "dark" and grown up one, is the only one where nobody important dies! (i think?) anyway can we please just have a fun one with nobody dying? thx

it's not called STAR FUNS, come on

How dare you? Luke's tauntaun was very important! Plus, nearly all the most experienced imperial starship admirals bit it too. You think those ships can just be run by a skeleton crew?

xp

our good friend Righty, Luke's hand

Ice Cave Monster RIP

Dude just wanted a snack

Luke's good friend Righty, for that matter.

Who will weep for the noble imperial probe droid that Han and Chewie so callously destroyed?

Trash compactor monster: dead or alive?

wars impact people on levels beyond dying/not dying. there is mutilation (Luke's hand cut off), there is torture (Han being tortured offscreen), the way we witness people expressing concern for others , emoting pain at the thought of the suffering of others. Empire is full of this stuff. Rogue One is probably the closest they got to that. nobody suffers, cares or mourns in TLJ, deaths are there for character motivation & plot devices (Rose at the beginning and at the end). death is glorious and individual lives are secondary to the abstracted eternal war.

Lobot's head thing looked pretty uncomfortable.

Trash compactor monster: dead or alive?

nobody suffers, cares or mourns in TLJ

You didn't watch the film, did you.

I’ll admit that detail may have slipped past me

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Anyway, FWIW

Maybe don’t believe everything you read

— Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) March 27, 2018

You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve?

“[Lord and Miller] used whole sets. But Ron is just using parts from those sets. I guess they’re not shooting wide angle. Maybe to save money.”

chairs + green screen what could go wrong

Let's look back

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-director-of-rogue-ones-mythic-reshoots-speaks-out-f-1825019244

oof

what’s gareth reynolds up to nowadays anyway?

stand-up comedy and a patreon-supported podcast

hee

dammit i knew that looked wrong but i posted anyway

Okay, new trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEYpryMp2s

Looks dope

Plus

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--I-7Le50U--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fmqo2dzoyisnrmccczjz.jpg

MALLA??????!?!?!!?!? pic.twitter.com/XvVEI9kGDQ

— lindsey romain (@lindseyromain) April 9, 2018

if SOLO canonizes the holiday special i will take back all of those mean things i said.

— lindsey romain (@lindseyromain) April 9, 2018

Impossible, it's already canon

In that case roll on the Bea Arthur-in-spirit led live action TV series at the cantina.

Would def watch. I would like it even better if they completely dispatched with any plot and made it an ongoing Star Wars variety show.

This looks dumb as sand and I am here for it

Also lol @ “I’ve got a good feeling about this”

they're really not keen on showing much of Ehrenreich's performance are they?

It would seem unfair in that we’d all just be watching it to see if he nailed a Harrison Ford impression and then be all “nah, thanks, bye”. Presumably if he does a good job you’d want to see the whole thing to allow his take to settle in and grow on you.

Scene by scene breakdown if desired

https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-the-hints-and-details-we-uncovered-in-the-new-solo-1825092510

God trailer imo. I don't think the Disney machine is going to allow this to be less than very entertaining, but it may be blander than desired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Cyofu6hLE

Donald is really his normal screen-normalized self here but I'd kill for a Lando movie and him doing the tour as Lando

I posted this on the "Arrested Development" thread also, but it's funny either way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6XERmXsP-U

That makes me imagine an alternate universe where Ron Howard played Luke and I can see it sort of working.

henry winkler would have been a helluva han solo

tom bosley as obi-wan, obv

Scott Baio as Chewbacca.

Pat Morita as Yoda