lol @ "I love you" / "I love you too"
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 26 March 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Monday, 26 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
Easy -- hell of a visual.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 March 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 March 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
it's not called STAR FUNS, come on
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 26 March 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
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
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 26 March 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
our good friend Righty, Luke's hand
― mh, Monday, 26 March 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
Ice Cave Monster RIP
Dude just wanted a snack
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 26 March 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Luke's good friend Righty, for that matter.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 26 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
Who will weep for the noble imperial probe droid that Han and Chewie so callously destroyed?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 26 March 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
Trash compactor monster: dead or alive?
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 26 March 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
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.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
Lobot's head thing looked pretty uncomfortable.
― to eat a little "snack", to have an snack (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
nobody suffers, cares or mourns in TLJ
You didn't watch the film, did you.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
I’ll admit that detail may have slipped past me
xpost
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
Anyway, FWIW
Maybe don’t believe everything you read— Chris Miller (@chrizmillr) March 27, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve?
― how's life, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 08:09 (six years ago) link
“[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
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
Let's look back
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-director-of-rogue-ones-mythic-reshoots-speaks-out-f-1825019244
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 April 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
oofwhat’s gareth reynolds up to nowadays anyway?
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 5 April 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
stand-up comedy and a patreon-supported podcast
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 5 April 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
hee
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
dammit i knew that looked wrong but i posted anyway
― star wars ep viii: the bay of porgs (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 6 April 2018 06:46 (five years ago) link
Okay, new trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEYpryMp2s
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2018 00:59 (five years ago) link
Looks dope
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 9 April 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
Plus
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--I-7Le50U--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/fmqo2dzoyisnrmccczjz.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
Impossible, it's already canon
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 9 April 2018 01:23 (five years ago) link
In that case roll on the Bea Arthur-in-spirit led live action TV series at the cantina.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 9 April 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
This looks dumb as sand and I am here for it
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 9 April 2018 01:44 (five years ago) link
Also lol @ “I’ve got a good feeling about this”
they're really not keen on showing much of Ehrenreich's performance are they?
― Number None, Monday, 9 April 2018 06:30 (five years ago) link
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.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 9 April 2018 07:12 (five years ago) link
Scene by scene breakdown if desired
https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-the-hints-and-details-we-uncovered-in-the-new-solo-1825092510
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 April 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
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.
― chap, Monday, 9 April 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:33 (five years ago) link
I posted this on the "Arrested Development" thread also, but it's funny either way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6XERmXsP-U
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 May 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
That makes me imagine an alternate universe where Ron Howard played Luke and I can see it sort of working.
― joygoat, Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
henry winkler would have been a helluva han solo
tom bosley as obi-wan, obv
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
Scott Baio as Chewbacca.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
Pat Morita as Yoda
― Scape: Goat-fired like a dog! (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
Tickets on sale.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 May 2018 04:53 (five years ago) link
D Glover is cute and all, but jeez, no Billy Dee Williams.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 May 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/solo-a-star-wars-story/54630/solo-a-star-wars-story-ron-howard-reshot-70-of-the-movie
...it’s now being estimated that Howard reshot around 70% of Lord and Miller’s footage, as part of his overhaul of the movie.The reason? According to a source, “Ron wanted to go back to the spirit of the original trilogy, while Phil and Chris were looking forward to something new, more like Guardians Of The Galaxy”. Lucasfilm preferred Howard’s approach, it seems clear.
The reason? According to a source, “Ron wanted to go back to the spirit of the original trilogy, while Phil and Chris were looking forward to something new, more like Guardians Of The Galaxy”. Lucasfilm preferred Howard’s approach, it seems clear.
― groovypanda, Friday, 11 May 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
The opening crawl for Solo has leaked. Ugh. I’m sick of Disney pandering to SJWs: pic.twitter.com/BivdNLjFS4— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat) May 14, 2018
― Westworld more like Worstworld right? (Phil D.), Monday, 14 May 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
Walter Chaw:
What's most painful is Donald Glover, the artist of the moment, literally days removed from his withering statement as alter ego Childish Gambino on the role of African-Americans in American popular culture, "This is America," being asked to do a Billy Dee Williams impersonation as the single biggest piece of shit in the galaxy. The script is so ossified it's clear he's meant to be something like a heavy from The Sting: a smooth sharpie with a literal card up his sleeve who tricks Han out of a pile of money, but tricks himself into an ill-fated mission to the mining planet of Kessel. There, something something happens, something something, and that "Kessel Run" line from Star Wars way back when is checked off the list of fan-pleasing references. It says something that later, when Han wins the Millennium Falcon from Lando in another card game (something spoiled by The Empire Strikes Back some 38 years ago), that even with shots of Lando's empty sleeve and obvious dismay, even after a clear insert where Han hugs Lando to obtain said card, Solo still thinks it necessary for Han to throw said cheat onto the table as an explanation as to why Lando isn't able to cheat again. (Han verbally explains it, too.) This is the way you write a scene when you have absolute faith that your audience is full of idiots. Given some of the reaction to The Last Jedi, that's admittedly not a reach. Lando is also a coward, unfaithful to his word, and apparently was in the process of figuring out how to fuck his robot. Glover is exceptional, mind--it's the writing that lets him down. The timing of "This is America" doesn't seem so random after all.
― incel elgort (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
Damn.
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
AO Scott in NY Times: "in effect a filmed Wikipedia page"
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link