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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5160 on: May 24, 2020, 05:27:04 PM »
Indeed.


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« Reply #5161 on: May 24, 2020, 05:42:30 PM »

Imagine creating something so technologically advanced and at the same have everyone hate it.  :lucas
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5162 on: May 24, 2020, 07:04:14 PM »
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5163 on: May 24, 2020, 07:20:11 PM »
i wanted some chill sf to read the other day so i started reading the thrawn trilogy. so far it's hitting all the right notes. i like the way they're depicting the empire being relegated to the far reaches of republic space and being predominantly staffed by scrubs with power fantasies being dominated by one dude that need an ex jedi to boost the virgin masses confidence and ability to coordinate effectively.
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5164 on: June 07, 2020, 01:44:02 PM »
Watched Rise of Skywalker at home for the first time. 

Not much more insight to add than when I watched it at the theater. It's a super messy movie, that wastes a good cast and is poorly written.

It feels like those school papers you stay up the night before they are due and write and think you are doing great work but the next day you read it and none of it makes sense.

It also oddly feels poorly edited but I realize that is mainly due to things not being explained as it lurches around. 

The first two and last two episodes of the Mandalorian S1 make for a much better Star Wars experience.

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5165 on: June 07, 2020, 01:56:14 PM »
The only way to make Rise better is to either cut 50 minutes or add 45 minutes

I agree with you. Either you need to make it a breezy fun short romp like it wants to be but isn't or actually do the work and setup stuff, explain shit and connect tissue. It still probably wouldn't be a great movie or anything but it would make more sense than what it is currently.

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« Reply #5166 on: June 07, 2020, 02:19:56 PM »
Simply adding 40 of those 45 minutes to the *start* of the movie and setting Palpy and the Final Order up (+ properly explaining shit with Kylo and Snoke and maybe even Knights of Ren and Luke's Temple flashbacks) would elevate it from like D- to B all on its own.

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5167 on: June 08, 2020, 04:49:34 AM »
They’d be better off making a new film and pretending it never happened :trumps
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5168 on: June 08, 2020, 07:33:15 AM »
They’d be better off making a new film and pretending it never happened :trumps

They already tried that once. :lol
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5169 on: June 08, 2020, 07:44:49 AM »
Simply adding 40 of those 45 minutes to the *start* of the movie and setting Palpy and the Final Order up (+ properly explaining shit with Kylo and Snoke and maybe even Knights of Ren and Luke's Temple flashbacks) would elevate it from like D- to B all on its own.

Or... and this is a radical idea, I'm pretty sure... let Star Wars die/rest in peace.



Star Wars... had a hard life.

It honestly should've died once Lucas' interest in the IP waned (and I'd argue during the 00's, with the prequels). But if you really want to be argumentative:

I don't even have the urge to watch The Mandalorian, the world is just so small and not interesting that I don't have that false sense of wonder.

Like for every KotOR 1/2 and Mandalorian, there's 20 Expanded Universe drek that is not worth the time nor makes the series interesting enough to want to explore the rest of the EU. You could say that's on the writers part, and yes that's true. BUT the world design itself is just "meh." There's only so many desert, water, forest -themed planets you can do before they all run together in Star Wars.

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« Reply #5170 on: June 08, 2020, 09:49:28 AM »
One of the problems with the planets is that they film "on location," to cut costs (which is totally fine, I get why the business wants that). But they keep going to that one Desert to film for Tatooine and other desert planets.

I think Corescant is the only "planet"/city that they have to CGI? It's Disney (and Lucas at the time), they have the money. The issue is they won't put that money into green-screens in the sense that they probably feel it'd be too obvious, or because fanlings had a backlash toward the CGI Lucas DID do (Jar Jar) to where they don't try to spruce up and make interesting planets.

It's in goddamn space, make your imagination go wild with how planets look?

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« Reply #5171 on: June 08, 2020, 10:29:33 AM »
One of the problems with the planets is that they film "on location," to cut costs (which is totally fine, I get why the business wants that). But they keep going to that one Desert to film for Tatooine and other desert planets.

I think Corescant is the only "planet"/city that they have to CGI? It's Disney (and Lucas at the time), they have the money. The issue is they won't put that money into green-screens in the sense that they probably feel it'd be too obvious, or because fanlings had a backlash toward the CGI Lucas DID do (Jar Jar) to where they don't try to spruce up and make interesting planets.

It's in goddamn space, make your imagination go wild with how planets look?

They need to somehow get Luc Besson to be in charge of production design for the next Star Wars movie, and then a good director to direct it.
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« Reply #5172 on: June 08, 2020, 11:05:54 AM »
One of the problems with the planets is that they film "on location," to cut costs (which is totally fine, I get why the business wants that). But they keep going to that one Desert to film for Tatooine and other desert planets.

I think Corescant is the only "planet"/city that they have to CGI? It's Disney (and Lucas at the time), they have the money. The issue is they won't put that money into green-screens in the sense that they probably feel it'd be too obvious, or because fanlings had a backlash toward the CGI Lucas DID do (Jar Jar) to where they don't try to spruce up and make interesting planets.

It's in goddamn space, make your imagination go wild with how planets look?

And like 11 years ago they were already going to do a way more CG intensive show before Disney bought them out.


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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5173 on: June 08, 2020, 11:28:50 AM »
They’d be better off making a new film and pretending it never happened :trumps

They already tried that once. :lol

I'd argue twice. In the same trilogy. Which also decided that none of the OG trilogy really mattered. Quite the achievement.

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« Reply #5174 on: June 08, 2020, 07:17:35 PM »
If you haven’t already, you guys should look into how they are filming The Mandalorian. The camera matching, where the lighting is actually coming from, everything.  It will blow your mind.

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« Reply #5175 on: June 27, 2020, 09:29:21 PM »
I'm re-watching SOLO, and realized if you want to experience a Han Solo heist adventure, just read SCOUNDRELS. The audiobook is pretty fantastic as well.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Scoundrels

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5176 on: July 24, 2020, 03:27:00 PM »
https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-ship-from-colin-trevorrows-star-wars-episode-ix-i-1844487637

Anyone find it kinda weird that less than 8 months after the theatrical release Disney are testing reactions on the original version they never made since people seem to like it more than the actual movie they released?

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« Reply #5177 on: July 24, 2020, 03:37:17 PM »
https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-new-ship-from-colin-trevorrows-star-wars-episode-ix-i-1844487637

Anyone find it kinda weird that less than 8 months after the theatrical release Disney are testing reactions on the original version they never made since people seem to like it more than the actual movie they released?
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5179 on: November 13, 2020, 07:31:08 PM »


Leia :lol :lol :lol

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« Reply #5180 on: November 13, 2020, 07:38:59 PM »
That's a "holy shit this coke is stroooooooooooooooooooong :jeb " face

"May the coke be with you" :jawalrus

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5181 on: November 13, 2020, 08:54:33 PM »
Which movie did she have her coke nail in :dead

Empire. :lol

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5182 on: November 13, 2020, 08:56:21 PM »






She was also a big fan of Studio 54, and who could blame her. The one thing I regret being born too late to experience. :heartbeat

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« Reply #5183 on: November 14, 2020, 02:20:11 AM »
coke whore slut  :drool
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5184 on: November 14, 2020, 04:51:30 AM »
So everyone else waiting for the season to finish before they pirate watch the Mandawhorian?
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« Reply #5185 on: November 14, 2020, 07:28:03 AM »
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Leia :lol :lol :lol




So everyone else waiting for the season to finish before they pirate watch the Mandawhorian?

GL avoiding spoilers I guess

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5186 on: November 14, 2020, 12:19:24 PM »
https://twitter.com/freyasolo/status/1211473761750462465

I missed this. Boyega going "They've had them since the Clone Wars..." had me absolutely dying. :lol :lol The fuck, JJ.

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« Reply #5187 on: November 18, 2020, 10:14:44 PM »
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« Reply #5189 on: November 19, 2020, 04:10:56 PM »
:rofl Goddamn.

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« Reply #5190 on: November 19, 2020, 05:25:59 PM »
It really is amazing how virtually every actor in the sequel trilogy came out of it hating Star Wars and hating Disney.
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5191 on: November 19, 2020, 06:27:34 PM »
And many of the fans! I really enjoyed episode VIII, but IX was just so frustrating. Kind of like Star Wars less less as a whole now.

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« Reply #5192 on: November 19, 2020, 11:47:21 PM »
I still haven't seen the last one. viii was the dopest mic drop, but also not incredible just like, a half decent movie that did a great job pissing off nerds. I'm done w Disney Star War. god jj just makes the blandest shit. MI3 kinda rules though.
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5193 on: November 20, 2020, 01:38:12 AM »
M:I 3 is JJ’s best film.

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« Reply #5194 on: November 22, 2020, 12:33:29 AM »
babbie yoder is 50 and can't talk or understand any language  :doge it's one thing to age slow, it's another to be an idiot baby forever  :lol
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5195 on: November 22, 2020, 05:12:03 AM »
He just doesn't want to talk to Mando.

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« Reply #5197 on: December 05, 2020, 03:18:19 PM »
M:I 3 is JJ’s best film.
And still the second worse MI.  :thinking

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5198 on: December 06, 2020, 11:07:16 AM »
Mando is going full Star Wars porn after being pretty restrained in s1. Not sure if I like it or not, but the pace has been good and the plot has been generally interesting (if still more serialized than I expected.)

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« Reply #5199 on: December 06, 2020, 04:16:37 PM »
Mando is going full Star Wars porn after being pretty restrained in s1. Not sure if I like it or not, but the pace has been good and the plot has been generally interesting (if still more serialized than I expected.)

I was going to say season 2 is mostly a series of shameless callbacks. But I think Star Wars porn is probably a better way to describe it.

The second season seems creatively bankrupt. The first season wasn't brilliant, but it had its charms.

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5200 on: December 06, 2020, 04:56:01 PM »
Ehhhhhhh I think it's got a good balance of callbacks to the cartoons and new stuff going on. Could do without trying to make the sequel trilogy more coherent and make sense tho, just... just let that thing lie. It's done with.

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« Reply #5201 on: December 10, 2020, 07:43:44 PM »


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« Reply #5202 on: December 10, 2020, 08:15:41 PM »
Will more than 10% actually be good?
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« Reply #5203 on: December 10, 2020, 08:19:33 PM »
Will more than 10% actually be good?

The only ones that will almost surely be good* are Rangers of the New Republic and Ahsoka, Favreau and Filoni are doing those. Rogue Squadron is a movie directed by Patty Jenkins of Wonder Woman fame. Bad Batch is a cartoon, Andor is a series about Diego Luna's Rogue One character, Visions is a bunch of short animated stuff, Obi Wan has been in development heck (not quite hell) and no one really knows anything about Acolyte, Droid Story, or Lando. If I had to guess I'd say about half will be from ok to pretty good.

*good depending on if you like The Mandalorian or not. I understand some of you hate good things so I guess you won't enjoy any of this.
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« Reply #5204 on: December 10, 2020, 08:24:49 PM »
Visions is actually anime shorts. Could be interesting to see how those are handled.
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« Reply #5205 on: December 10, 2020, 08:42:36 PM »
Disney got cold feet after Solo bombed and the main trilogy sputtered out, but then Mando blew up so they're all in on Star Wars series on Disney+.
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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5206 on: December 10, 2020, 08:57:03 PM »
Which is honestly better.  Movie format is bad for space operas.

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« Reply #5207 on: December 10, 2020, 08:58:52 PM »
Yeah as much as I love Rosario I'm out after Mando s2.

Finally done with SW :jeb

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Re: It's 20XX and people are mad online about Star War!
« Reply #5208 on: December 10, 2020, 09:53:56 PM »
I can only speak for myself but I definitely feel like it's a better way to be.

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« Reply #5209 on: December 10, 2020, 10:09:20 PM »
You star war nerds with your boba fetts and infant yodas, I liked it better when Final Fantasy did it.


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« Reply #5210 on: December 10, 2020, 10:12:34 PM »
I don't understand these references, it feels good. No more nonsense in my head.


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« Reply #5212 on: December 10, 2020, 10:38:50 PM »
Good or bad. I just am not interested. As I've gotten older I've been less and less interested in "universes". Like as a kid I never really wanted Star Wars to be expanded on, I wasn't interested in the universe of it. I was into the story of these three friends fighting against this cool sounding silly looking dude. Same thing with so many other franchisees. I don't need Matrix side movies. I don't need Murphy, the Robocop prequel. Gurren Lagann's story is over so let it stay that way.

What I'm saying is I've never been into these things that feel like you have to know all the lore to understand exactly whats going on. I'm not into lore. I'm into stories. I don't want things that exist to expand or explain lore. I don't give a real fuck about how the Star Wars universe works.

I'm not going to join this prequel revisionist history and say they are good. They are still awful movies. The sequels weren't awful, but they weren't anything. They did'nt take the story into any real exciting directions, instead playing a safe status quo redux, but this time without any actual direction.

Like all of these announcements do nothing for me. I'm sure some will be good. Maybe some will even take chances despite being under the thumb of Disney, but with the "Skywalker" mythos done I want new Star Wars. I want a new story that maybe has a few vestiges of what came before, but is uniquely it's own thing. Not tied to Empires vs Rebels or Sith vs Jedi. A want something that takes those themes and maybe some the visual identity and mythos and crafts a new fantasy sci-fi adventure.

I know we won't get that and so I'm just not going to care about Star Wars. Which is fine. I'm not hurt. Star Wars is'nt hurting me and it's not like I don't have plenty of other media to enjoy. I'd say Star Wars has kind of been irrelevant to me since Revenge of the Sith. But I do hope sometime soon a creator creates something new that captures the imagination like SW did, be it a Star Wars or something else.

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« Reply #5214 on: December 11, 2020, 01:10:38 AM »
Disney got cold feet after Solo bombed and the main trilogy sputtered out, but then Mando blew up so they're all in on Star Wars series on Disney+.

Obviously they understand that the reason that people liked Mando Season 1 was because the decent writing and production values... right right?

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« Reply #5215 on: December 11, 2020, 02:39:37 AM »
Why a series.. oh well could be good I guess
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« Reply #5216 on: December 11, 2020, 02:55:47 AM »
Disney got cold feet after Solo bombed and the main trilogy sputtered out, but then Mando blew up so they're all in on Star Wars series on Disney+.

Obviously they understand that the reason that people liked Mando Season 1 was because the decent writing and production values... right right?

I'm quite certain that they don't.
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« Reply #5217 on: December 11, 2020, 03:38:30 AM »
Lando?

No

We dont need Lando

fuck off Disney

We need KOTOR 3 and Thrawn Trilogy
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« Reply #5218 on: December 11, 2020, 04:46:01 AM »
Star War is a content farm now :aweshum
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« Reply #5219 on: December 11, 2020, 06:53:49 AM »
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