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New take: If y'all think you hated cheesy jokes in Star Wars before you are gonna hate what Taika Waititi comes up with for the new one.
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taika waititi to direct 'elan sleazebaggano: a star wars story'. you'll want to go home and rethink your life after this one
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May 16, 2020 06:56
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How are the death sticks though?
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May 16, 2020 07:10
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mind the walrus posted:New take: If y'all think you hated cheesy jokes in Star Wars before you are gonna hate what Taika Waititi comes up with for the new one.
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May 16, 2020 11:36
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/steps in poo poo Ugh! Ickey ickey goo! /laughtrack plays for 10 minutes
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May 16, 2020 13:21
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The greatest trick Sheev Palpatine ever pulled was convincing large numbers of movie viewers that genocide was, in fact, cool and good.
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May 20, 2020 03:45
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mind the walrus posted:TLJ mostly ruled and the salt over it is delicious. It's got some major execution flaws, but the script is rock solid and it's a better actual "movie" than every other Star Wars flick save 1977. Luke was perfect. The Rey and Kylo stuff was really well-done. The only absolute mistake it made was doubling-down on putting the audience off-balance with the Holdo plot, and it needed a few more beats to establish Finn's ambivalence of fully embracing the Resistance. There was a scene that very, very clearly established Finn's position as "fully left the First Order, but hasn't joined the Resistance"...and it got deleted. this too! For some loving reason! imo, that movie's biggest mistake was splitting up Finn and Poe. I will defend a lot of stuff Rian Johnson did in TLJ because I honestly think his heart was in the right place for almost everything else in the movie but he tragically misunderstood Finn. The fact that he wrote a scene where Finn had to learn from another character that war is bad and war negatively affects children, you know, Finn, the child soldier was wack as gently caress. And yeah the Holdo stuff was super clunky and I don't understand why but at least the hyperspace kamikaze ruled. Also my Star Wars hot take is that Mandalorian was good. I liked Mandalorian. MJeff fucked around with this message at 09:55 on May 20, 2020 |
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May 20, 2020 09:53
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MJeff posted:There was a scene that very, very clearly established Finn's position as "fully left the First Order, but hasn't joined the Resistance"...and it got deleted. this too! For some loving reason! quote:imo, that movie's biggest mistake was splitting up Finn and Poe. I will defend a lot of stuff Rian Johnson did in TLJ because I honestly think his heart was in the right place for almost everything else in the movie but he tragically misunderstood Finn. The fact that he wrote a scene where Finn had to learn from another character that war is bad and war negatively affects children, you know, Finn, the child soldier was wack as gently caress. The execution was horrible. It would have been trite, but more effective to show like, Finn trying to integrate himself into the Casino Planet and "move on" from the war and use a simple visual motif like his ID tattoo on himself and the kids and/or have some snooty rich people act classist toward him. You know, just connect the dot a bit harder. quote:And yeah the Holdo stuff was super clunky and I don't understand why but at least the hyperspace kamikaze ruled. The most key stuff-- Luke, Kylo, Rey, Leia/Poe--works, but the rest really doesn't. Swing big, miss big, I guess. I can respect that a lot more than Rise of Skywalker. And Luke was absolutely perfectly done. I get not liking where Luke ended up I don't think you were supposed to  but I never bought that it was a betrayal of his character or unbelievable.
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May 20, 2020 10:31
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To complete the baseball analogy, TFA is three solid doubles, TLJ is three massive swings that get you an ugly strikeout, a flyout and a home run into the next county and TRoS is somehow striking out on a bunt leading into a triple play.
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May 20, 2020 10:40
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MJeff posted:To complete the baseball analogy, TFA is three solid doubles, TLJ is three massive swings that get you an ugly strikeout, a flyout and a home run into the next county and TRoS is somehow striking out on a bunt leading into a triple play. This is all I know about baseball and its rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyghaQMO5HQ
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May 20, 2020 12:04
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Mooey Cow posted:This is all I know about baseball and its rules  
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Butternubs posted:The story in star wars should basically be a vehicle for space battles and lightsabre fights they've never been that cerebral, It's an action movie for kids. Every movie would be better if it was made a la john wick; absolute bare minimum story and 90% ILM special effects, John Williams music and sword fights. That's the problem I have with TLJ. The story's bland and doesn't make sense and it doesn't even pay off. I guess the hyperspace kamikaze was cool but that's about all I remember. 2/10 Zane fucked around with this message at 07:24 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 07:20
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If Lucas didn't come up with it, it isn't canon
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May 21, 2020 13:28
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nah posted:If Lucas didn't come up with it, it isn't canon What's the boundaries for this? Cuz sounds like Episodes I-IV are canon, and V onwards are not
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May 21, 2020 13:46
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That's right 
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nah posted:That's right 
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May 21, 2020 15:39
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Darth Vader grandson should have worn a big Darth Vader mask over his strange tits and gut which looked like a giant sad face
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May 25, 2020 20:08
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Technically any time an imperial calls a rebel a name such as traitor or terrorist, et. al. they aren’t wrong.
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May 26, 2020 22:08
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the stormtrooper armor isn't supposed to be effective, it's simply supposed to give the wearer a sense of security so they'll happily run into blaster fire
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indigi posted:the stormtrooper armor isn't supposed to be effective, it's simply supposed to give the wearer a sense of security so they'll happily run into blaster fire those bastards wear it just walking around on tattooine, it's got to breath incredibly well.
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May 27, 2020 05:17
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The movie's title is "Star Wars", not "A New Hope" or "Episode 4".
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May 27, 2020 15:28
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They should stop making Star Wars stuff. It’s over, go home.
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May 28, 2020 17:35
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docbeard posted:The movie's title is "Star Wars", not "A New Hope" or "Episode 4". This isn't even opinion, it's just a straight-up fact. I'm not sure it dawns on most folks anymore but all 9 movies actually have pretty specific titles that they go by on a pretty strict basis for super-official-no-cute-marketing-bullshit stuff like national film registries and such. I believe the exact titles for each movie in the series are:
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May 29, 2020 04:26
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MJeff posted:There was a scene that very, very clearly established Finn's position as "fully left the First Order, but hasn't joined the Resistance"...and it got deleted. this too! For some loving reason! Kylo being a raging school shooter kid cosplaying at fascist, and Phasma the quintessential stormtrooper turning out to be a sniveling coward who's all aesthetics, would both be good twists and true to real life fascists. In better movies.
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The only Star Wars canon I recognize is that one part of the Kinect game where you challenge everybody to a dance off
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The prequels should have been the first half-hour of RotS, that's it. And I don't even like TLJ that much, but the series should have ended on it, the whole "spreading the force to everyone or whatever" is a great open ending that was probably better than Rise of Skywalker which I didn't even bother to see.
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Jun 17, 2020 06:29
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Midichlorians are an interesting idea that people should have let Lucas develop.
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Sheev is both a clever and insanely lazy first name for Palpatine. "Shee" is the celtic pronunciation of the word Sith, so his name is literally just Sith Palpatine.
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Robot Style posted:Sheev is both a clever and insanely lazy first name for Palpatine. "Shee" is the celtic pronunciation of the word Sith, so his name is literally just Sith Palpatine. Extremely in keeping with a series where the main character is "Dark Daddy."
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In my head-cannon, "Vader" is short for "Invader," as Anakin invaded the Jedi High Council through Palpatine's actions.
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Robot Style posted:Sheev is both a clever and insanely lazy first name for Palpatine. "Shee" is the celtic pronunciation of the word Sith, so his name is literally just Sith Palpatine.  
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Tulip posted:Extremely in keeping with a series where the main character is "Dark Daddy."
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docbeard posted:The movie's title is "Star Wars", not "A New Hope" or "Episode 4". Absolutely. Opinion: Putting Jabba on Tatooine in ROTJ makes Han and Greedo retroactively dumber. Reasoning: If Jabba is based on come other planet it gives the movie a chance to show an new environment. It also means that when Han is hiding out, he's doing what any smart smuggler is doing by hiding on some unimportant hole in the wall planet until he can get the money to pay off Jabba. ("If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from.") It also means that Greedo was pretty smart (and therefore dangerous) because he tracked Han to this small bar in Nowheresville. BUT.... Since both are Tatooine, that means that Han is hiding down the street from Jabba. Think about it, if you owed a gangster in Philadelphia a huge debt that could get you killed would you hide down the street or would you find some podunk town in Arizona to hide until you had the money? Conversely, Greedo is less of a dangerous killer and more the fall guy. Jabba takes Greedo aside and says "Greedo my boy, I want you go get my money from Han. He's down the street, there." (points) Greedo has the job handed to him on a plate and screws it up.
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There is that scene from the Special Edition where Han literally talks with Jabba. I think it's just bad writing all around.
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Jun 18, 2020 01:54
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IIRC the one thing you learn in the Han-Jabba scene that wasn’t in the Greedo scene is that Jabba still liked Han a lot and didn’t really want him dead, he just hired a chump like Greedo to send a message. This tells us Han really does have a legitimate shot at solving his problems if he just takes the reward money and runs instead of throwing in with the rebellion at the end of the movie, which is an addition I like. It's just too bad that about 80% of the dialogue there is redundant with the Greedo scene
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Jun 18, 2020 01:59
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The Han / Jabba scene was written first and George apparently realized it wasn't working so he rewrote it as Han / Greedo which is why there is so much repeated. The scene with Greedo had more going for it. It helped establish Han as a rouge who wasn't afraid to kill. It was an example of how dangerous that universe was and how much trouble Han was in. The Jabba scene in the Special edition was just one more bloated, unnecessary bit of business infesting that version..
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Jun 18, 2020 04:18
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The Special Editions really should have clued us in for what was to come with the prequels. I watched all of them in the theater as they were released and everything added was both incredibly distracting and incredibly superfluous.
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Jun 18, 2020 08:30
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I like Star Wars.
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Jun 18, 2020 08:32
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Resting Lich Face posted:I like Star Wars.
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Resting Lich Face posted:I like Star Wars. Queuing ban + 30
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