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People have already made their Christmas purchases by now so they had to get the stuff on the shelf.
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Calico Heart posted:There's something I've really really disliked about the advertising for this movie, and maybe it's just me, but... But everyone in the prequels were unlikeable shitheads and that didn't stop any toy sales.
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Oh yeah, I'm not saying it's bad their selling the toys, but that I think it sucks the advertising hasn't focused on what kind of people these characters are at all.Mahoning posted:But everyone in the prequels were unlikeable shitheads and that didn't stop any toy sales. Come to think of it... Did those trailers make the characters look more fun than they were? If so then loving kudos to whoever managed that feat.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:38
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I think we'll start seeing toys with proper bios and the like not long after the movie. I mean they didn't exactly put Queen Amidala's entire story on the Pizza Hut boxes she used to adorn, right?
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Dec 15, 2015 16:40
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Calico Heart posted:There's something I've really really disliked about the advertising for this movie, and maybe it's just me, but... This is the basis of Star Wars merchandising to begin with.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:45
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Lol if you think SW merchandise is anything more than a cash grab. Artistic integrity has no place here.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:46
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:This is the basis of Star Wars merchandising to begin with. Baby me owned an action figure of the conehead Jedi. I don't remember a loving thing we're told about him in the actual movies.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:48
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weekly font posted:Baby me owned an action figure of the conehead Jedi. I don't remember a loving thing we're told about him in the actual movies.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:55
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I remember that Andy Dick dressed up as him one MTV Movie Awards.
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Dec 15, 2015 16:57
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Cat Machine posted:That's because you aren't told anything about him Yeah exactly. Star Wars has always been pretty smart with their marketing of every character ever. A kid who plays with action figures can buy the entire Cantina cast and do whatever their imagination allows because they are blank slates. And hypernerds can get every minute detail of their "canon" backstories from terrible novels.
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Like that is the entire concept behind Boba Fett. What does he even "do" other than have a badass toy?
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Dec 15, 2015 17:00
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weekly font posted:Baby me owned an action figure of the conehead Jedi. I don't remember a loving thing we're told about him in the actual movies. Yeah I totally had that weird curvy-headed brown alien as a toy for no reason other than he was a cool Alien.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:02
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Like that is the entire concept behind Boba Fett. What does he even "do" other than have a badass toy? Have a scene with true badasses Bossk, Dengar and IG88.
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GonSmithe posted:Yeah I totally had that weird curvy-headed brown alien as a toy for no reason other than he was a cool Alien. My favorite was the random dude from empire running around in the background with an ice cream maker. They gave him a big backstory and made him an unknown hero for escaping with Cloud City's
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Like that is the entire concept behind Boba Fett. What does he even "do" other than have a badass toy? he hangs out at jabbas parties
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Dec 15, 2015 17:05
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korusan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k057-AmLL4 Your country's head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, not Justin Trudeau. Position-wise, he's be more like Chancellor Valorum.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:05
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Everyone wanted to be in the prequels including William Shakespeare.
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Big K of Justice posted:My favorite was the random dude from empire running around in the background with an ice cream maker. This loving rules. also: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Elan_Sel%27Sabagno I love that they had to change his Lucas-given name for dumb EU stuff because it was just one step too far. weekly font fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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This guy looks like he should be a way cooler character than he is.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Like that is the entire concept behind Boba Fett. What does he even "do" other than have a badass toy? He's at his coolest in the Holiday Special cartoon. Otherwise he does catch on to what Han is doing to avoid the Empire, that was kinda neat I guess since he outthought one of the heroes. And he flits with women at Jabba's place. A smart guy who is good with the ladies, how could you think he wouldn't be popular with the modal Star Wars fan?
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Big K of Justice posted:My favorite was the random dude from empire running around in the background with an ice cream maker. 
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That guys name is never mentioned in the movie, but i knew his name because of toys and the tie-in books. I was watching TPM the other night and was like "oh hey, its Sio Bibble" and then immediately hated myself for remembering that poo poo.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:That guys name is never mentioned in the movie, but i knew his name because of toys and the tie-in books. I was watching TPM the other night and was like "oh hey, its Sio Bibble" and then immediately hated myself for remembering that poo poo. I felt worse because I remembered Daultay Dofine.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:11
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I played as Plo Koon and Adi Gallia the most in Jedi Power Battles. For some reason I can't remember most of the guys from Episode 1 Pod Racer though. e: Also, Kit Fisto forever and ever. A hundred years Kit Fisto.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:13
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My favourite podracer was always Gasgano.
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feedmyleg posted:The only person whose reaction isn't totally glowing so far is Devin Faraci's, who thought the plot was dumb. So don't get ahead of yourselves, y'all, you're not guaranteed to dig it. I didn't see him say the plot was dumb, he said it was doing the JJ Star Trek thing of referencing the prior movies in every scene instead of adding anything completely unexpected/different, which made it just "ok" for him.
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Antifreeze Head posted:Your country's head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, not Justin Trudeau. You are correct. I guess I meant "guy who calls the shots". If we're using Star Wars analogies though does this make Mulcair Chewbacca?
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Dec 15, 2015 17:25
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Slightly irrelevant now, as our eyes turn to TFA, but I watched the "non-cheesy" cuts of Ep I & II that someone posted. Clones isn't changed that much but it really helps TPM to be tightened up. The Neimodians speak in deeper alien voices and are subtitled with much more devious and evil dialogue. Jar Jar is introduced (and subtitled) but never really speaks again (hooray!). The trip to Otoh Gungah is skipped, and half an hour in to the movie we are on Tatooine. The pod race is quite visceral without the stupid commentary, and there's much less terrible Anakin child acting. The end battle plays out much the same, just without the Keystone Cops stuff with Jar Jar. Ending is great as we end on Qui Gon's funeral and the question of whether Maul was the Sith master or apprentice. No parade or big shiny ball. The movie is a little dialogue light, and therefore exposition light, but it rattles along at a much more enjoyable pace.
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I dabbled down the fan edits rabbit hole and every one of them is universally terrible except one called the Blackened Mantle. It replaces the entire audio track with the Japanese one and uses subtitles to entirely re-write the dialogue. While it is not fantastic by any stretch it gets points for being ambitious and having the tone/pacing/editing of a samurai film and not just because of the language. The editor was clearly inspired by them in a way similar to Lucas with the old serials.
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Guys, I'm seeing the new Star War on Monday so please be kind!!!
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Any fan cut that chops up the score is tossed aside out of hand due to not understanding film.
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Darko posted:Any fan cut that chops up the score is tossed aside out of hand due to not understanding film. I don't think it would be possible to work around this? Remember these brave chroniclers of the true Star Wars vision of the fans are working with what they've got, after all. e: I want someone to re-edit the prequels into making Jar Jar the most important character.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:47
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korusan posted:You are correct. I guess I meant "guy who calls the shots". Back in May he tweeted out that he fancies himself a Jedi with an orange lightsabre.  Both in look an in function within the current government, he would be closest to Count Dooku. Elizabeth May is on the fringe of everything and not all that relevant while saying important things, so she's C-3P0.
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weekly font posted:I don't think it would be possible to work around this? Remember these brave chroniclers of the true Star Wars vision of the fans are working with what they've got, after all. One of the Terminator 3 worked around this, and I have no idea how.
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El-P hated it, so I guess it's bad
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GonSmithe posted:Yeah I totally had that weird curvy-headed brown alien as a toy for no reason other than he was a cool Alien. I had the same action figure. He was named "Hammerhead" but I've just learned that the name turned out to be a speciest??/racist term for Ithorians. quote:Ithorians were a mammalian herbivorous sentient species from the planet Ithor. They were commonly called "Hammerheads" by less sensitive beings because of their long, curving neck and T-shaped head. They found this nickname offensive 
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:I had the same action figure. He was named "Hammerhead" but I've just learned that the name turned out to be a speciest??/racist term for Ithorians. Thank God it was probably a different guy who did the box art for Lando.
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morestuff posted:El-P hated it, so I guess it's bad
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:poo poo, did he say that? I thought he just said "I'm not getting into it." or something along those lines last night because of the embargo.  I guess it's up for interpretation.
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