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Mr.Pibbleton posted:All Sith are circumcised for some reason. By lightsabers.
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for all the talk of how stupid spinning in lightsaber fights in the prequels is, i'm watching the despecialised edition of an new hope and maybe episode v because a friend wants me to go see episode 7 tomorrow evening and even in a new hope during the fight with vader obi wan does a spinny move
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Dec 16, 2015 11:02
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TK-42-1 posted:This doesn't surprise me at loving all. the best thing is that even if you point out things like george literally having typos become major plot points (that are then promptly ignored) in CD, people will insist the prequels are Good and All Planned That Way
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Dec 16, 2015 11:09
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willus posted:for all the talk of how stupid spinning in lightsaber fights in the prequels is, i'm watching the despecialised edition of an new hope and maybe episode v because a friend wants me to go see episode 7 tomorrow evening and even in a new hope during the fight with vader obi wan does a spinny move Spinny flourishes should be a garnish, not the main course, IMO.
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Dec 16, 2015 11:15
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I'm pretty sure Luke does it in ROTJ, too. I'm pretty sure actually spinning around is a terrible idea in a fight because you're exposing your back to your opponent who can just cut you while you're doing it.
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Dec 16, 2015 15:49
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Now I just want to see a Dark Souls Star Wars game where a fat Jedi rolls around everywhere.
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Dec 16, 2015 16:02
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No, I was sure it happened, I just can't wrap my head around the idea of describing Pinochet as "benign". What... how... do they just not agree with me on what that word means? Maybe  would have been the better choice.e: Never mind, that whole article has to be a troll because The Weekly loving Standard posted:Captain Piett is quickly promoted to admiral when his predecessor falls down on the job. That is some funny poo poo. Randumb Thots fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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Dec 16, 2015 16:37
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On the subject of fools choked the gently caress out by Vader, what is EU fate of the one guy who doesn't get choked out by him (despite the hyper drive sabotage failing at the end of ESB). I mean Julian Glover's guy had some eu stuff I figure this guy must have too. Also what's the EU explanation for Imperials having a British accent?* *which don't get me wrong is one of the things I love implemented in ESB.
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Dec 16, 2015 16:48
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gfanikf posted:On the subject of fools choked the gently caress out by Vader, what is EU fate of the one guy who doesn't get choked out by him (despite the hyper drive sabotage failing at the end of ESB). I mean Julian Glover's guy had some eu stuff I figure this guy must have too. Courscant and a lot of the Imperial core worlds have the accent occurring naturally.
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Dec 16, 2015 16:50
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gfanikf posted:On the subject of fools choked the gently caress out by Vader, what is EU fate of the one guy who doesn't get choked out by him (despite the hyper drive sabotage failing at the end of ESB). I mean Julian Glover's guy had some eu stuff I figure this guy must have too. Didn't that guy's family get hosed over. I remember one choked out guy's brother being stuck in some orbital solar power facility which is garbage punishment duty.
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Dec 16, 2015 17:07
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William Bear posted:Apparently Ackbar has a first name: "Gial". Better than Firmus, I guess. gotta tie it in with other Disney properties for max profit 
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Dec 16, 2015 17:09
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gfanikf posted:On the subject of fools choked the gently caress out by Vader, what is EU fate of the one guy who doesn't get choked out by him (despite the hyper drive sabotage failing at the end of ESB). I mean Julian Glover's guy had some eu stuff I figure this guy must have too. Commander Comm'a Mander was from a race of people whose history valued pomp and pomposity and every single person on the world spoke the Queens English (The Queens name was Qwe-Eeen) Comm'a discovered he was force sensitive at an early age and trained in secret. During a comms meeting with the famous Sith Lord Darth Vader he subtly used the force to dissuade the Sith from choking him but knew that his secret was now out and had to flee the Empire (So he didn't blow up on the Death Star) Comm'a went on to buy a ship called the Slave 2 and became a badass bounty hunter and changed his name to Garreth Winding in the book "After The Empire" by Gareth Winding.
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Dec 16, 2015 17:11
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Lord of Pie posted:gotta tie it in with other
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gfanikf posted:On the subject of fools choked the gently caress out by Vader, what is EU fate of the one guy who doesn't get choked out by him (despite the hyper drive sabotage failing at the end of ESB). I mean Julian Glover's guy had some eu stuff I figure this guy must have too. This was in Lost Stars and nothing really happened to him. Ciena, the Imperial main character, was involved in that sabotage mission (not as a saboteur but like one of the junior officers involved in planning the sabotage or something like that) and she was all terrified that Vader was going to kill them all but he just stood there angrily for a bit and silently stormed off to come up with a new plan.
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Dec 16, 2015 19:27
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Randumb Thots posted:No, I was sure it happened, I just can't wrap my head around the idea of describing Pinochet as "benign". What... how... do they just not agree with me on what that word means? Maybe If you believe free markets are the be-all and end-all of freedom and goodness, then it follows. What's a little torture and "disappearances" matter if it allows you to dismantle the oppressive social safety net?
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Dec 16, 2015 20:17
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merchandising! we put the picture's name on everything star wars the corns  star wars the fois gras 
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Dec 17, 2015 02:59
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gfanikf posted:On the subject of fools choked the gently caress out by Vader, what is EU fate of the one guy who doesn't get choked out by him (despite the hyper drive sabotage failing at the end of ESB). I mean Julian Glover's guy had some eu stuff I figure this guy must have too. He shows up in ROTJ still in charge of the Executor, and is the guy screaming about intensifying forward firepower
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Dec 17, 2015 03:03
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Otisburg posted:merchandising! I have 3 cans of corn left but I could use some more....
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Dec 17, 2015 04:24
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Huh. So in a galaxy far far away, there is SQUAWK too. Good to know.
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Dec 17, 2015 06:18
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Where is Star Wars beer
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Dec 18, 2015 03:35
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asdgfashsgadfdshagdasfhasdgfhdgfasdhf I liked it.
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Dec 18, 2015 04:22
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Movie was pretty good
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Dec 18, 2015 04:27
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willus posted:for all the talk of how stupid spinning in lightsaber fights in the prequels is, i'm watching the despecialised edition of an new hope and maybe episode v because a friend wants me to go see episode 7 tomorrow evening and even in a new hope during the fight with vader obi wan does a spinny move that comparison really only works if obi wan does like three midair somersaults then stands in front of vader twirling the lightsaber. i'm very confused how a star wars movie released in my lifetime is good. kinda hard to process to be honest.
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Dec 18, 2015 04:34
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Gammatron 64 posted:Movie was pretty good  Obv no actual storyline spoilers for at least a day or 2, but spoilered if you're trying to avoid even a spoiler-free review on it: Really good, definitely kept the pacing and sense of humor of the original. Not perfect, a couple things felt rushed and the whole "this is a trilogy that follows the original trilogy in spirit" thing went a tiiiiiny bit too far, but really, really excellent.
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Dec 18, 2015 04:37
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drunk asian neighbor posted:
It was pretty funny and had a lot of heart. I was smiling from ear to ear throughout most of it. Definitely the best Star Wars since '83, even though that isn't saying all that much. The new cast is good and Harrison Ford does a great job still. It isn't perfect though as it doesn't have a lot of originality (at all) and leaves a lot of questions totally unanswered and saved for the sequel. That said, it's fun and you'll enjoy it. Right now though I just want to know what the hell happened between 6 and 7 and what's the deal with a couple characters. Who the gently caress is Snoke really? Where did he come from? Is he human? Does he have anything to do with the Sith? Who are the Knights of Ren? What's their deal? It's heavily implied they Rey is Luke's daughter but not stated outright. Wouldn't people recognize her? Shouldn't she know who her dad is? How are they gonna break the news in Episode VIII if Luke doesn't say anything at the end? In the opening crawl? Offscreen? That's awkward. Is the New Republic still around? They blew up like 5 of their planets and I'm guessing one was their capital. Did the First Order really topple their government in a single blow? Also they sure dug a really big hole in that planet to build the Starkiller weapon. Kylo Ren is also a LOT like Anakin... in the prequels. Even though he's a real patricidal son of a bitch, he comes off as way less threatening than Vader and Rey whoops his rear end even without any proper training. If there's someone we gotta be worrying about, it's Rey, because she's a hell of a lot more powerful. Kylo Ren is an inferior Darth Vader wannabe and I'm pretty sure that's 100% intentional.
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Dec 18, 2015 04:42
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my biggest disappointment with the movie was with snoke i thought he was actually a giant and was super bummed that it was a hologram
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Dec 18, 2015 04:45
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Gammatron 64 posted:It was pretty funny and had a lot of heart. I was smiling from ear to ear throughout most of it. Definitely the best Star Wars since '83, even though that isn't saying all that much. The new cast is good and Harrison Ford does a great job still. It isn't perfect though as it doesn't have a lot of originality (at all) and leaves a lot of questions totally unanswered and saved for the sequel. No clue about Snoke, but I'm guessing/hoping he's a new character and not like "oh Sheev survived lol" or something. He's something something dark side but also told Ren to stfu and let Hux use Starkiller, so who knows. I liked how his hologram was giant, but he really reminded me too much of Gollum. My guess is the Knights of Ren were the original batch of Jedi trainees and Kylo turned them all bad. My comedy batshit-crazy guess for posterity is: Snoke is Revan from KOTOR. Orchestrated everything from the prequels onward. Waited for Luke to round up his group of the last remaining force-sensitives in the galaxy, then turned Kylo to the dark side, who then turned the rest of the students in turn. Knights of Ren = Knights of Revan. The "final part of his training" or whatever that Snoke mentions at the end will be Kylo vs the rest of the Knights. If Kylo wins, he's not only killed the rest of the force-sensitives left, but has also cemented his position as ultimate-distillation-of-Sith-philosophy apprentice to Snoke: killed a bunch of Jedi/his fellow Sith to fulfill the Rule of Two, descended from basically the greatest Sith Lord ever in new canon history, etc. The biggest flaw I see there is that Kylo got his rear end whooped like a little bitch a bunch of times (getting shot, barely beating Finn and then losing to Rey in spectacular fashion) so I dunno how he's gonna beat a bunch of his fellow ex-Jedi students. And the more I think about it the more I feel like it raises a major question: how big of a badass can Snoke really be if he bets so much on yet another superweapon-with-a-weak-point on one hand, and what is clearly an unstable mess of a wannabe-Sith on the other? We all know the whole trilogy is planned out and everything is deliberate, so I feel like if Kylo suddenly becomes a super-badass Sith lord it'll really go against some serious character development they built up for him.
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Dec 18, 2015 05:00
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Groovelord Neato posted:my biggest disappointment with the movie was with snoke i thought he was actually a giant and was super bummed that it was a hologram Agreed, but there's still the possibility that he's actually that big in person
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Dec 18, 2015 05:31
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SirPhoebos posted:Agreed, but there's still the possibility that he's actually that big in person [spoiler]Big or not he looked and sounded way too much like Gollum and it was one of the few things I didn't really care for. I get it's Andy Serkis but we've all seen him do way different mocap characters before (play Enslaved: Odyssey to the West if you need proof) and I'm not sure why they took him in the direction they did.
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Dec 18, 2015 05:53
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All I'll say is that my brothers and I, excited to watch this, all left the movie without much to say. Not excitement or disappointment. Just apathy.
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Dec 18, 2015 07:29
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This was a great movie before Harrison Ford showed up, at which point it was demoted to pretty good. It was probably at its worst in any scene he had with Carrie Fisher. They just weren't believable. Also, the entire script was "Episode IV but slightly out of order and with slight plot twists." As someone said, it's a little too faithful. Show me something new. Several of the spoilers I've accidentally read turned out to be completely wrong, by the way.
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Dec 18, 2015 10:59
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Harrison Ford's trademark Han Solo acting style works great when he's a smuggler for hire but not when he's supposed to be -blah blah spoiler- and his scenes with Fisher reflect that. Add that to a scene that's on par with the Anakin murders sand people rant and it just doesn't work.
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Movie was entertaining but not memorable. It was fun to watch but didn't really do anything to get me excited for more Star Wars stuff. Also it was obvious that the entire production didn't have the courage to be it's own movie, it felt the need to crib on the OT every 5 minutes max.
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I think they did some really cool visual stuff with Jakku but I am ready for Star Wars to never visit a desert planet ever again. I realize that a lot of the series' soul is locked up in wind-scoured wastes full of brigands, con-men, and various goblins, but enough is enough. At times it was all familiar to the point of absurdity. Death Stars have now become routine. I expect they are setting up for a less familiar second and third act, though. Thinking back on it I am very pleased we didn't get any obligatory force lightning.
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Dec 18, 2015 19:19
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If they bring anything back from the EU, I kinda hope we get to see a movie on Nar Shadda. An Atlantic City to Courscant's New York
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Dec 18, 2015 19:23
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:At times it was all familiar to the point of absurdity. I think this is my single biggest criticism of the film. They just had no courage to make the product stand on it's own. At all times it had to harken back and clutch to the OT.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I think they did some really cool visual stuff with Jakku but I am ready for Star Wars to never visit a desert planet ever again. I realize that a lot of the series' soul is locked up in wind-scoured wastes full of brigands, con-men, and various goblins, but enough is enough. I agree. Also, I didn't like that we only ever saw a tiny outpost on Jakku. A larger city like Mos Eisley would have been nice. Booblord Zagats posted:If they bring anything back from the EU, I kinda hope we get to see a movie on Nar Shadda. An Atlantic City to Courscant's New York This. Not necessarily Nar Shadda, but some kind of lowlife town that isn't on a desert planet would be perfect for Star Wars.
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A mountainous planet where there's a jedi temple on top of the tallest mountain that spaceships can't get to ~cuz reasons~ would be rad. Also this would have a group of jedi look like shaolin monks which would be cool.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Who the gently caress is Snoke really? Where did he come from? Is he human? Does he have anything to do with the Sith? Who are the Knights of Ren? What's their deal? It's heavily implied they Rey is Luke's daughter but not stated outright. Wouldn't people recognize her? Shouldn't she know who her dad is? How are they gonna break the news in Episode VIII if Luke doesn't say anything at the end? In the opening crawl? Offscreen? That's awkward. I left the theater thinking it was plagueis It seems like the perfect thing to grab from the prequels to me.
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Darth Plague is, another good name.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!