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CzarChasm posted:My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done. He mouths off to Darth Vader, who is, like, the epitome of Disappointed Space Dad. You just know Fett should be sent to his room without dinner, but he's not!
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He's the same reason The Plague are awesome in Hobo With a Shotgun - blank slate mysterious/masked bounty hunters who have awesome armor and batman gadgets. The details that you do find out about the Plague are loving hilarious, though.
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Jan 5, 2015 17:10
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I always liked Boba Fett because he's this peripheral character who walks in to this universe. Like, he doesn't really get an introduction, he's just sort of there. And it hints at this bigger world outside.
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Jan 5, 2015 19:54
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I would go so far as to say the one of the main reasons the EU exists is that there are a ton of interesting looking characters just hanging around in Star Wars not doing anything, like IG-88. He looks cool enough that you wonder "what's that guy's deal?"
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Jan 5, 2015 19:57
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As well as everything else mentioned, Boba Fett used to have a cool voice, before Lucas changed it for no reason.
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Jan 5, 2015 19:58
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I would go so far as to say the one of the main reasons the EU exists is that there are a ton of interesting looking characters just hanging around in Star Wars not doing anything, like IG-88. He looks cool enough that you wonder "what's that guy's deal?" Apparently the answer is "to get uploaded into the second Death Star".
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Jan 5, 2015 20:00
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There's a lot of history behind the action figure and character which I think explains the reason why he was so popular. http://www.retrojunk.com/article/show/2002/star-wars-figures-a-history Also the aforementioned cool design and jet pack.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:03
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Since I have no cell phone (for a couple more days), no transportation, and three straight off days starting tonight, I'm going to watch Ken Burns' Civil War, La Commune (Paris 1871), and A Grin Without a Cat. This oughta be interesting.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:05
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Criminal Minded posted:Since I have no cell phone (for a couple more days), no transportation, and three straight off days starting tonight, I'm going to watch Ken Burns' Civil War, La Commune (Paris 1871), and A Grin Without a Cat. This oughta be interesting. There are days when I'll call The Civil War the greatest film ever made.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:16
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penismightier posted:There are days when I'll call The Civil War the greatest film ever made. It's really inexcusable for me to not have seen any Burns at this point in time, especially given my vague fascination (which is to say I've never really tackled the subject with any seriousness) with the Civil War. So I'm pretty loving hype.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:20
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penismightier posted:There are days when I'll call The Civil War the greatest film ever made. Yeah. It's pretty perfect.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:21
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penismightier posted:There are days when I'll call The Civil War the greatest film ever made. It's the only TV show I've ever bothered to rate on Criticker because I'm comfortable labeling it a 'movie.' And yeah it's soooooo loving good. Sometimes I'll just go back and watch the first 20 or so minutes because it's been too long since a movie gave me chills.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:22
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Criminal Minded posted:Since I have no cell phone (for a couple more days), no transportation, and three straight off days starting tonight, I'm going to watch Ken Burns' Civil War, La Commune (Paris 1871), and A Grin Without a Cat. This oughta be interesting. Peter Watkins is a really good filmmaker. I tell myself that one of these days I'm going to sit down and watch The Journey over a week or something but then I just think about it and it seems so intimidating
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Jan 5, 2015 20:28
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penismightier posted:There are days when I'll call The Civil War the greatest film ever made. I like his Jack Johnson movie better.
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Jan 5, 2015 20:49
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Slate Action posted:It's the only TV show I've ever bothered to rate on Criticker because I'm comfortable labeling it a 'movie.' I remember I did some internet thing once about "best opening lines in cinema" and I chose "By the summer of 1861, Wilmer McLean had had enough."
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Jan 5, 2015 20:50
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Civil War breezes by really quick for something so long and dry. I blew through it in like two days
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Criminal Minded posted:Since I have no cell phone (for a couple more days), no transportation, and three straight off days starting tonight, I'm going to watch Ken Burns' Civil War, La Commune (Paris 1871), and A Grin Without a Cat. This oughta be interesting. That's a hell of a lineup. That's three one hundreds on Criticker!
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Jan 5, 2015 21:30
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That's a hell of a lineup. That's three one hundreds on Criticker! You're most of the reason I'm watching La Commune.
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Jan 5, 2015 22:15
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CzarChasm posted:We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Good posture, confident and no-nonsense direct voice, bonus cape et al. He's like a nonchalant Darth Vader.
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Jan 6, 2015 01:48
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Criminal Minded posted:You're most of the reason I'm watching La Commune. I'm proud of that, then.
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Jan 6, 2015 02:36
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CzarChasm posted:My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done. Mouthing off to Vader was already covered. In addition to that, Vader has to tell Fett specifically out of all the bounty hunters there, not to be his usual destructive self. This is coming from a guy who has spent the previous two movies killing or threatening admirals and generals.
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Jan 6, 2015 06:34
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CzarChasm posted:My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done. The same reason most people fawn over any character that didn't do that much in Star Wars: they looked cool.
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Jan 6, 2015 07:06
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penismightier posted:I remember I did some internet thing once about "best opening lines in cinema" and I chose "By the summer of 1861, Wilmer McLean had had enough." God Damm if that's not my favorite civil war story to boot. David McCullough should have won something for his narration. It's loving perfect.
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Jan 6, 2015 19:25
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In The Godfather, when Kay comes to the house and tries to give Tom a letter to send to Michael, there's a wrecked car and she asks, "What's that?" Tom replies, "That's an accident, but no one was hurt." What is the point of this moment? They wouldn't have gone to the trouble of setting up a wrecked car for just a throwaway line.
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Jan 7, 2015 06:50
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:In The Godfather, when Kay comes to the house and tries to give Tom a letter to send to Michael, there's a wrecked car and she asks, "What's that?" Tom replies, "That's an accident, but no one was hurt." I assume that the "accident" was mob-related and it's to demonstrate that Kay is shut out of and oblivious to that world
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Jan 7, 2015 06:54
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:In The Godfather, when Kay comes to the house and tries to give Tom a letter to send to Michael, there's a wrecked car and she asks, "What's that?" Tom replies, "That's an accident, but no one was hurt." Also to show that the war is going on.
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Jan 7, 2015 07:33
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CzarChasm posted:My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done. He's also the only bounty hunter smart enough to know about the sneaky trick Han pulled by stapling the Falcon to the back of an ISD and releasing with the trash. So he demonstrates his skills pretty quickly.
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Jan 8, 2015 00:09
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:In The Godfather, when Kay comes to the house and tries to give Tom a letter to send to Michael, there's a wrecked car and she asks, "What's that?" Tom replies, "That's an accident, but no one was hurt." It has a very specific callback of sorts. When Michael is asking Tom about Kay and his son, Tom tells him he bought his son a little car he could drive around for Christmas, and then tells Michael that Kay "had an accident".
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I was listening to the We Hate Movies episode about Mystery Men and they mentioned that there's a fairly long-standing rumor that Mystery Men was originally directed by Tim Burton but at some point he was unsatisfied and left the project and the movie was finished by and credited to Kinka Usher who was originally working on the movie in a smaller capacity. I'm usually skeptical of rumors like that but in his biography Tom Waits also says that Burton worked on the movie, is this a commonly-accepted thing?
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:In The Godfather, when Kay comes to the house and tries to give Tom a letter to send to Michael, there's a wrecked car and she asks, "What's that?" Tom replies, "That's an accident, but no one was hurt." The script says it was a bomb. CTRL F "bomb" http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Godfather.html
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Sleeveless posted:I was listening to the We Hate Movies episode about Mystery Men and they mentioned that there's a fairly long-standing rumor that Mystery Men was originally directed by Tim Burton but at some point he was unsatisfied and left the project and the movie was finished by and credited to Kinka Usher who was originally working on the movie in a smaller capacity. I'm usually skeptical of rumors like that but in his biography Tom Waits also says that Burton worked on the movie, is this a commonly-accepted thing? It's more likely that it was ghost-directed by Burton. Sometimes when an unproven director is on set they'll have the more accomplished one as a standby. When John Woo was directing Hard Target Sam Raimi was on the set everyday just as an insurance thing. It's certainly not something he walked away from unsatisfied, but the way I understood it it's that it was a Poltergeist situation, with Burton being present and approving shots.
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DrVenkman posted:It's more likely that it was ghost-directed by Burton. Sometimes when an unproven director is on set they'll have the more accomplished one as a standby. When John Woo was directing Hard Target Sam Raimi was on the set everyday just as an insurance thing. It's certainly not something he walked away from unsatisfied, but the way I understood it it's that it was a Poltergeist situation, with Burton being present and approving shots. Yay! I wanted more bad movies to be made! Add another chapter to the What Could Have Been Great book by GL! The North Tower fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Jan 8, 2015 |
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Jan 8, 2015 09:54
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DrVenkman posted:When John Woo was directing Hard Target Sam Raimi was on the set everyday just as an insurance thing. That... that actually explains a lot about Hard Target. Especially Ted's bizarre cameo.
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DrVenkman posted:It's more likely that it was ghost-directed by Burton. Sometimes when an unproven director is on set they'll have the more accomplished one as a standby. When John Woo was directing Hard Target Sam Raimi was on the set everyday just as an insurance thing. It's certainly not something he walked away from unsatisfied, but the way I understood it it's that it was a Poltergeist situation, with Burton being present and approving shots. Nah, Waits' biographer apparently just got fooled by a spoof.
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CzarChasm posted:My wife and I were having a discussion the other day, and neither of us could come up with an answer. We were wondering why Boba Fett was seen as such a cool character in the movies? Ok, yeah, there's all the 'cool' stuff he does in the EU books, but he doesn't do a drat thing in the movies that anybody else could have done. Because Darth Vader points at him specifically and says "No disintegrations!"
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Jan 8, 2015 18:34
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Trying to watch Cast Away since I remember loving it but, my god these pre-crash scenes are just unwatchable.
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marktheando posted:As well as everything else mentioned, Boba Fett used to have a cool voice, before Lucas changed it for no reason. I remember laughing out loud when I first heard the redub. Oh George.
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penismightier posted:Trying to watch Cast Away since I remember loving it but, my god these pre-crash scenes are just unwatchable. Why are they unwatchable? I like Cast Away, but it's been a long time since I've watched it and genuinely want to hear your opinion.
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poonchasta posted:Why are they unwatchable? I like Cast Away, but it's been a long time since I've watched it and genuinely want to hear your opinion. It's just so screwball schmaltzy, and the Fed Ex product placement is pretty exhausting now. Plane just crashed though, things are picking up. I think part of it is that Cast Away was the first film of its type in about 30 years, and now that we have Cast Away we also have a dozen or so ones like it, which means the 30 minutes of preamble before the crash feels a little luxurious.
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To be fair it's been a rumour since the movie came out. It would certainly explain how an unknown director suddenly got to make that movie before vanishing again. I think it's most likely just that Burton was on set and he oversaw production as insurance. It's not that uncommon (Paul Thomas Anderson worked on Robert Altman's latter movies in the same capacity, mainly because Altman was very ill at the time).
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