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Almost Blue posted:I'm baffled by the idea that anyone thinks the 70s had a "sense of innocence" which is missing now. Like, I'm pretty sure the original Star Wars did, but it was considered an aberration at the time. The corniness and sincerity are important parts of the brand, but people keep threating them as something to be fixed. Almost Blue posted:e: "the new movies aren’t like that. They’re not nostalgic. They don’t long for the past" 
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thrawn527 posted:That doesn't work, though, because Luke had way different hair and beard length during the burning of the Jedi Academy. This is old man Luke.  Guess not
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May 22, 2019 21:01
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Is the lightsaber rainstorm thing happening on the roof of the falcon?
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Vinylshadow posted:
Or Disney saw they had a spoiler in the article because someone on set was too loose lipped and jumped on them, making them issue a correction.
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feedmyleg posted:It's almost as if they should have started them at the actual inciting incident! Luke has the same failures that Obi-Wan did with his apprentice, and I wish they had even brought that up or something in the two prior films. It’s just jarring for me when they go from Luke in Jedi to a totally defeated Luke in TLJ. I just wish we had more in between there besides some short flashbacks.
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May 22, 2019 21:37
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Yoda did bring up that being a Jedi Master was all about failing.
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May 22, 2019 21:45
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Darko posted:Yoda did bring up that being a Jedi Master was all about failing. Yoda having a very meta moment of “We had not landed on exactly how we might do that, but yes, it was always..."
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I think the maximum stupidity here would be if Luke seems to be old Luke but not a force ghost in these images is not because it's a flashback but.......because Luke didn't actually die, like they show where he keeled over at the end of TLJ and he just wakes up from having passed out or whatever, Rise of the Skywalker. But also, IIRC didn't they kinda sorta almost get to the point of filming Luke like fighting the Knights of Ren or something for TLJ but this got scrapped as stuff with the story changed? There's probably an infinite amount of unused/filler/etc. test shots and stuff of Luke/etc. from the past two movies we'll be seeing as promotional stuff.
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Trump posted:Lmao. I on the other hand, gaureentee he didn't. quote:Mark Hamill had the foresight to sign onto the film in exchange for one-fourth of one percent of the film’s future earnings. 
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pospysyl posted:Did Luke ever find out that C3PO was his and Leia's brother? TLJ establishes that he's watched the Prequels, so yes.
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Mortanis posted:https://www.gobankingrates.com/net-worth/celebrities/star-wars-force-awakens-cast-net-worth/ Its been two years we should all know that Trump is loving stupid at this point.
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Neo Rasa posted:But also, IIRC didn't they kinda sorta almost get to the point of filming Luke like fighting the Knights of Ren or something for TLJ but this got scrapped as stuff with the story changed? If you treat every rumor as fact, sure. But this never passed the rumor stage of the early days of TLJ speculation. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 03:44 on May 23, 2019 |
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feedmyleg posted:It's almost as if they should have started them at the actual inciting incident! Almost as if it had followed the series previous structure and serial inspiration? Nah, doesnt subvert expectations
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Darko posted:Yoda did bring up that being a Jedi Master was all about failing. Yoda refuses to accept he's a total fuckup at everything, decides instead his failings are universal.
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May 23, 2019 05:09
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May 23, 2019 07:45
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Stunning lack of Paul Saltines in those new photos.
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Kerri Russel's BHer looks straight out of the prequels, I dig the blasters
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That shot with Chewie, Lando and Isaac is great. Seriously, the attitude oozes from the screen. The shots with Fin however suggest to me that they're going to send him on an errand again.  Fin is great guys, just let him play with the big guys.FlamingLiberal posted:I don’t have a problem with the timeskip. I feel like they had no choice since TLJ ends with the entire Resistance force being wiped out and the survivors only on the Falcon. They'll just reveal that Palpatine is pulling an M Bison. He made Rey as his female clone. Darko posted:Yoda did bring up that being a Jedi Master was all about failing.  quote:[The Rise of Skywalker] felt slightly more renegade; it felt slightly more like, you know, gently caress it, I’m going to do the thing that feels right because it does, not because it adheres to something.  None of this fills me with hope. quote:“On the other hand, though, I think that Disney is very respectful of what this is, and right from the beginning we talked about the fragility of this form of storytelling. Because it’s something that means so much to fans that you can’t turn this into some kind of factory approach. You can’t even do what Marvel does, necessarily, where you pick characters and build new franchises around those characters. This needs to evolve differently.” Just introduce some new and interesting characters and allow them to grow and develop and keep in the mysterie. Don't explain where someone's name came from.  quote:We know things, as a people and as an audience, that we didn’t know back then. For example: back then it felt sort of O.K. to like Darth Vader, because even though he was evil he was also incredibly cool, and the kind of fascism he represented felt like a bogeyman from the distant past. But now fascism is rising again, which makes the whole First Order subplot look super-prescient, but it also reminds us that fascism is not even slightly cool in real life. “Evil needs to feel and look very real,” Kennedy says, “and what that means today may not be as black-and-white as it might have been in 1977, coming off a kind of World War II sensibility.”
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mastershakeman posted:I like how that entire vanity Fair article only mentions rose twice, both in past tense from TLJ Who gives a poo poo rose is a garbage noncharacter
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May 23, 2019 10:51
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She had more character development in TLJ than Rey did
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May 23, 2019 12:17
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Oh right. "Heres my magic necklace" and "I love finn for *reasons*" amazing character development
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"The only way we're going to win is if we let all our friends die."
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Rose "Actually child slavery is fine with me" Nobodyknowsmylastname
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banned from Starbucks posted:Oh right. "Heres my magic necklace" and "I love finn for *reasons*" amazing character development I can’t really tell you anything about Rey other than she is an orphan that used to be a scrapper.
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Darth TNT posted:What father? How is the new generation dealing with anything the old generation did? You mostly ignored ROTJ ever happened! i can kinda see what's being getting at here. one of the pretty consistent throughlines of TLJ is intergenerational conflict among people who are supposed to be allies. luke and rey, luke and ben, snoke and ben, holdo and poe, all these relationships have someone keeping critical information from the other and things go badly as a result of it. rey and ben in particular constantly have it reiterated to them that the other one is the enemy and must be destroyed but once they're given the opportunity to just like, talk to each other without being able to ruin it by resorting to violence they end up having a connection and find ways to relate to each other. it all feels very UC gundam, just with force skype substituting for newtype connections of course once the throne fight scene is over you can practically feel the movie forcibly shove itself away from any kind of nuance described above and go back to 'blue lightsaber good, red lightsaber evil'
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Brother Entropy posted:of course once the throne fight scene is over you can practically feel the movie forcibly shove itself away from any kind of nuance described above and go back to 'blue lightsaber good, red lightsaber evil' To me the themes of the movie don’t really work if you have a bunch of characters saying that we need to let the past die/we need to move on, but then the back part of the film just makes everything a straight good vs evil conflict.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Rey literally states her motivation. This thread is full of the worst of the worst star wars fans. Just like mos eisley.
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Rose is a good character that fits extremely well within the narrative and thematics that Rian Johnson crafted. Thank you and I will show myself out.
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I feel Rose is a good character in an unintentional way, insofar as her pablum perfectly reflects the essential hollowness of the resistance in the context of the films and disney wars in the context of reality
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I just haven’t been that impressed with any of the new characters that much. Feels like they just check some character boxes and not much else.
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No Mods No Masters posted:I feel Rose is a good character in an unintentional way, insofar as her pablum perfectly reflects the essential hollowness of the resistance in the context of the films and disney wars in the context of reality the resistance is inherently contradictory in that anyone that hopelessly liberal would just be posting about it, not fighting
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The biggest problem with the ST is that Abrams and Johnson and everyone else involved at that level is a basic bitch, like the type of people who would wonder why LOTR included an appendix when it's already so long.
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Preston Waters posted:This thread is full of the worst of the worst star wars fans. Just like mos eisley. What Star Wars fans live in MOs eisley?
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Johnson had a shot but lol if you think he was going to be able to crush it with Disney breathing down his neck. That's why the crap like Hoth part II happened
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Gonna scheme for 60 years to rule an entire galaxy of rocky desert wasteland shitholes and Hoth.
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Neo Rasa posted:Gonna scheme for 60 years to rule an entire galaxy of rocky desert wasteland shitholes and Hoth. Meh, compared to our galaxy it's a cornucopia.
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Neo Rasa posted:Gonna scheme for 60 years to rule an entire galaxy of rocky desert wasteland shitholes and Hoth. Yea this is unfortunately how habitable planets will likely be throughout the universe, unfortunately. There have been multiple planets like Earth in the SW films though
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SMG/Jivjov wars notwithstanding (RIP) I guess coruscant's still around, a basically modern society with trillions of people presumably  at the clusterfuck in the surrounding space wild west
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