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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3240 on: May 26, 2018, 01:37:05 PM »
It was actually a pretty fun movie

:yeshrug
So Disney isn't even hiding the fact that it wants Star Wars to be like a Marvel movie? Nothing but winking at the audience with one joke after the next?

Not surprising.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3241 on: May 26, 2018, 01:49:25 PM »
lol, apparently
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They brought him back in the shows already.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3242 on: May 26, 2018, 02:17:00 PM »
It was actually a pretty fun movie

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So Disney isn't even hiding the fact that it wants Star Wars to be like a Marvel movie? Nothing but winking at the audience with one joke after the next?

Not surprising.

Excuse me, LUCASFILM.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3243 on: May 26, 2018, 02:22:01 PM »
The Solo name origin is one of the most unnecessary "here's how you got this" shit I've ever heard of tbh. It's an entire galaxy of dumb names, you don't need to explain it.

What about that time they made an entire mediocre movie to explain that one sentence in the first Star Wars about where the death star plans are from?

Kara

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3244 on: May 27, 2018, 02:34:29 AM »
If Rogue One kept it real about what it takes to stage an armed rebellion Solo keeps it real about what it takes to power and maintain an economy dependent on extractive industries and that was a pleasant surprise (along with the first third being Starship Troopers), especially coming from the buzz saw that is Ron Howard. Thankfully no one actually talks about it in dialog so we can be spared an encore of The Last Jedi class war hot takes.

The last third is a fumbling didactic Western with uneven pacing but that's fun in an ironic way because those movies are actually fumbling and uneven but everyone pretends they're great filmmaking, sort of like Star Wars. #meta

Aside from the Ron Howard shite (which, thank god, was minimal) I guess my only real complaint was that the plot took a hard detour at the end and made these capers about the Rebellion but at least that gave them an excuse to stick in a Two Tubes cameo.

The highlight of the movie was being rewarded for knowing the names of all the bounty hunters sent to hunt Han Solo in Empire Strikes Back with a mild joke.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3245 on: May 27, 2018, 03:29:12 AM »
Solo totally didn't need to be made and felt completely superfluous and in many ways detracts from the original mythos.

But I still enjoyed it more than Rogue One or The Last Jedi. It was by no means a great movie, but it was more cohesive than TLJ and the characters were less shitty than R1.

It also had one of the randomest Star Wars lore pulls possible which had to have been a Miller/Lord thing.

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Let that be a lesson to folks: Never cast Emilia Clarke in your movie.

She's on track to be the new Summer Glau.
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3246 on: May 27, 2018, 03:51:02 AM »
 :lol I can't believe that's canon now.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3247 on: May 27, 2018, 10:35:39 AM »
Thought this was 20x better than R1. What’s with the RT fan scores? What’re nerds mad about now other than it being mostly unnecessary?

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3248 on: May 27, 2018, 12:42:36 PM »
each new star wars flick is an entertaining enough trip to the cinema that piece by piece dismantles the strength of the whole.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3249 on: May 27, 2018, 01:03:19 PM »
The Solo name origin is one of the most unnecessary "here's how you got this" shit I've ever heard of tbh. It's an entire galaxy of dumb names, you don't need to explain it.

Oh no.
Did Han get his jacket, blaster, name, space chess board and starship in a very active afternoon, like Indiana Jones ?
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3250 on: May 27, 2018, 01:29:54 PM »
not that star wars was ever 'smart' but everything with the 'nu cinematic' output is just zzz inducing or dumb. TFA was aight as a meta wink nudge nudge to the audience that the slate was being cleared (even so far as to use production's REAL SETS in the marketing!) and being returned to the foggy memories of what we think SW should be, too bad RO was boring fan wank, and TLJ was so aggressive in undercutting everything that took place in TFA (while also having some extremely Ted Danson writing and plot devices) that I got the feeling they were just winging it and rolling with the tide of the cultural zeitgeist vs fleshing out a proper 3 movie arc...

then I come to find they more or less are actually winging it. welp. and now we have another nostalgia mining attempt that nobody really wanted given it doesn't move anything forward in the universe. at least marvel's 100-movie-long edging session had clear overarching plot, and now has finally let the audiences spurt a little, even if they pinched the tip before letting us completely clear the pipes.
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3251 on: May 27, 2018, 01:30:51 PM »
plus emilia clarke is trash #BLAMEWOMEN  >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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Kara

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3252 on: May 27, 2018, 02:08:13 PM »
The Solo name origin is one of the most unnecessary "here's how you got this" shit I've ever heard of tbh. It's an entire galaxy of dumb names, you don't need to explain it.

Oh no.
Did Han get his jacket, blaster, name, space chess board and starship in a very active afternoon, like Indiana Jones ?

Nah, that's spread out over around 2 years.

His name origin is amusing in that he gets it in a moment of peak individuality* but helpless dependency that he later undercuts in a Ron Howard "I'm on the wrong side of middle age" dad porn scene.

*His assertion that he has no name and no people could also be interpreted as internalized dehumanization or a coping mechanism (it comes immediately after experiencing personal loss), to be fair. I feel my reading is the one most consistent with his character over all the movies.

Kara

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3253 on: May 28, 2018, 02:49:14 PM »
Sith Zabraks on Dathomir is Clone Wars (Lucas) canon.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3254 on: May 28, 2018, 04:12:23 PM »
The Cartoon Network CG show eventually had Darth Maul?  It was so... not good at the beginning, especially that "movie," aka give a pilot a theatrical release because.  I gave up on it well before that.

Well, it never gets good (ditto for Rebels), but the movies depend on their contents to be coherent more than they should.

There are explicit reasons why he becomes a crime lord. I suspect he's still one in Solo because gangs have a practical use for the Empire and Palpatine likes having a devil he knows there. (There's a Clone Wars episode where they fight and Maul loses but is spared because Palpatine sees him as an asset.)

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3255 on: May 28, 2018, 07:31:50 PM »
He conveniently left this out of the marketing for Expanded Universe books, but George's stance on them was that he could alter or change anything in their contents for use in his own works, and not necessarily for the better.

The Witches are Zabraks now too.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3256 on: May 28, 2018, 09:21:16 PM »
last night a friend of mine thought tarantino was working on Star Wars instead of trek. My first thought was how weird it would be to watch an alien call mace windu the n word

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3257 on: May 28, 2018, 09:42:06 PM »
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3258 on: May 29, 2018, 08:52:21 AM »
Sad to see this is bombing

Still have to go myself

Think its just too much Star Wars in close proximity

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3259 on: May 29, 2018, 09:00:37 AM »
Sad to see this is bombing

Still have to go myself

Think its just too much Star Wars in close proximity
Nothing to do with volume, everything to do with quality.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3260 on: May 29, 2018, 09:02:17 AM »
Im still excited to see it though  8)

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3261 on: May 29, 2018, 09:07:14 AM »
I'm going to watch it tomorrow only so i can be in my star wars fan buddy's ear all week after about how bad it was  8)

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3262 on: May 29, 2018, 09:09:17 AM »
Disney/Lucasfilm/Cookie Monster hitting that big dumb reset button and trying to create a fresh expanded universe was such a dumb move.

It's been nothing but "OK, SEE, ACTUALLY, OK, REMEMBER THAT GUY, OK, WELL, SEE..."
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3263 on: May 29, 2018, 09:12:28 AM »
What’s Bobby ‘s take on this? Are there babies buckling up?
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3264 on: May 29, 2018, 09:46:48 AM »
There is a large piece of me that hopes that Disney whores the franchise out to such a degree that it will turn all fans off to SW. I gave up on being a fan after AOTC and thought everyone else should have too.

But I know that will never actually happen, because fandom has no bottom to it when males base part of their identity off of your entertainment product. (See: WWE, Final Fantasy, Cleveland Browns Football, DC movies)

The more you shit down their throats the stronger it makes their resolve to keep chugging.


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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3265 on: May 29, 2018, 09:51:04 AM »
As someone that has a SW tattoo I feel slightly insulted

Im not even a hardcore fan, just like it a lot

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3266 on: May 29, 2018, 09:57:17 AM »

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3267 on: May 30, 2018, 11:27:22 PM »
The Solo name origin is one of the most unnecessary "here's how you got this" shit I've ever heard of tbh. It's an entire galaxy of dumb names, you don't need to explain it.

Shut up.

I am still holding out for the glorious explanation for Mon Calamari

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3268 on: May 30, 2018, 11:28:03 PM »
That piss joke was just...  :heh

Why

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« Reply #3269 on: May 31, 2018, 01:49:03 PM »

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3270 on: May 31, 2018, 02:43:47 PM »
climate change denier-tier logic up in that article name

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3271 on: May 31, 2018, 02:46:01 PM »
That es jay double yoo robot was the worst, they gave her wide hips and everythinf

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3272 on: May 31, 2018, 03:26:11 PM »
Ron Howard makes a Star Wars movie that bombs, providing incontrovertible proof that he's a hack, and it gets swept up in der Kulturkampf bullshit. All I taste is ash. All I feel is emptiness.


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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3274 on: June 06, 2018, 09:45:52 PM »
oh god, that's too good :lol

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3275 on: June 06, 2018, 09:57:09 PM »
Speaking of Star Wars edits and Britney Spears

https://twitter.com/rachlikesbands/status/955869025778765826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Edit- Ugh she deleted it wtf.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3276 on: June 07, 2018, 08:44:32 AM »
"Last Jedi" started burying the thought by Luke Skywalker himself in just a few minutes to start. As soon as revealed, Luke was exhausted and closed his mind. But was there really a need to let Luke throw away the light saver? The depiction of this kind should have been the work of a robot chicken that is a parody. If you show that you want to refuse, you should have just returned it to Ray or just drop it. The abandoned Saber was coincidentally found on the ground, but there is a possibility that it could not be recovered by falling into the sea as it was. The slippery comedy sense only invites disillusionment. It is the thought of long-running fans that makes light saber shine.

And the new Star Wars Force will abandon its dignity and abandon its dignity. Searching for how to destroy the shield with 'Force of Force' When Fins mouths with 'Let's use the force', Han solo warned that "Force is not like that." However, suddenly in the "last Jedi", depictions that doubt that "Force is not such a thing" will appear dramatically and often. Leia thrown into outer space flies like Krypton star and survives and Rei and Cairo Len make Skype calls through the Force. Luke's alter ego suggests that the future Star Wars "is already there". Like the strange Pogue which nests without permission inside the Millennium Falcon that should be the place of remembrance, "the last Jedi" enters the sanctuary with shoes.

Snook eventually was not revealed to anyone but died shabbly without being given dignity.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3277 on: June 07, 2018, 08:48:01 AM »
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Rei and Cairo Len

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3279 on: June 08, 2018, 01:20:54 AM »
https://vimeo.com/224132896

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The unsung hero of the original Star Wars trilogy. (Seriously, she won an Oscar for editing, and if you look at the original cut of the trench run you can see why.)

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3280 on: June 08, 2018, 02:25:49 AM »
And then George paid a bajillion dollars to have the building with her name bulldozed at USC and replaced with a bigger building with his name on it.
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3281 on: June 20, 2018, 03:33:12 PM »

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3282 on: June 20, 2018, 03:41:42 PM »
I hope (keyword: hope)  Disney rethinks their strategy and only releases a star wars film once every 5 to 7 years.  :doge

Quality > Quantity

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3283 on: June 20, 2018, 03:44:26 PM »
I hope (keyword: hope)  Disney rethinks their strategy and only releases a star wars film once every 5 to 7 years.  :doge

Quality > Quantity
TFA and TLJ were barely quality so maybe just skip altogether.
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3284 on: June 20, 2018, 03:50:31 PM »
I hope (keyword: hope)  Disney rethinks their strategy and only releases a star wars film once every 5 to 7 years.  :doge

Quality > Quantity

In theory I was OK with them alternating Episodes and Star Wars Stories every year, but they lost me with RO, TLJ and Solo all in a row. TLJ in particular -- I don't care about Ep 9 and it would take a hell of a hook to get me interested in Eps 10-12, or any of the movies Rian Johnson and the GoT guys do.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3285 on: June 20, 2018, 04:02:28 PM »
I would be ok with a bunch of star wars movies if they weren't directly tied to the legacy content.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3286 on: June 20, 2018, 09:59:07 PM »
My gf” I can’t believe your gunna make me watch Star Wars, there’s like 10 of them”

Me “there’s only 3”
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3287 on: June 20, 2018, 10:27:48 PM »
I actually liked Solo 🤷‍♂️

Thought Last Jedi was complete shit though so that probably makes me worse than Hitler in the eyes of Ree. I probably won’t be getting a Christmas gift from Bobbity this year 😥

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3288 on: June 21, 2018, 02:23:48 AM »
Why would you want to watch star wars if you dont like tie fighters and shit?

75% of me loving star wars as a kid was rewatching the battles

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3289 on: June 21, 2018, 02:50:21 AM »


That was actually quite awful.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3292 on: June 27, 2018, 01:35:47 PM »
:nope Being a Star Wars fan

:ohyeah Just enjoying Star Wars movies
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3294 on: June 28, 2018, 06:27:09 PM »
People who don't like the Last Jedi are prejudiced against anime
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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3295 on: June 28, 2018, 08:39:25 PM »
People who don't like the Last Jedi are prejudiced against anime

The fuck you just say to me?

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3296 on: June 28, 2018, 08:40:17 PM »
Also, it's great Rian loves his own movie. Good for him. I was really worried there for a second that he secretly hated it and all his engaging of trolls on Twitter was an elaborate ruse.

As long as he likes it, I guess that's all that matters!


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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3297 on: June 28, 2018, 08:55:09 PM »
TLJ wasn't great but I truly don't get the backlash against the Luke Skywalker arc.

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3298 on: June 28, 2018, 09:10:58 PM »
Watching this franchise burn to the ground like :phil

Now only if Marvel was next   :rejoice

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Re: How bout that Star War huh?
« Reply #3299 on: June 28, 2018, 09:24:38 PM »
The worst part of this fucking franchise (right now at least) is if you're even mildly negative on a movie, you're on the same "side" as the garbo alt-right bitches and the jamokes that are ponying up their own cash to remake a movie they don't own the rights to.

Like, sometimes it's OK for some people to not like a movie that much.