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Zaphod42 posted:I guess so. I sure don't remember advertisements for Darth Maul action figures before seeing Episode I or anything like that, but I was also a teenager and maybe I just missed the ads, I dunno. I remember a ton of poo poo for Darth Maul in particular. He even had like Darth Maul Mountain Dew and Darth Maul Taco Bell Cups. And then the movie came out and he had like 2 lines and 4 total minutes of screen time so lol I guess.
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I remember going to Walmart the morning of the premiere of the 1998 Godzilla film & seeing the monster toy was accidentally out. I was so  at its appearance I knew the movie was going to be rubbish. And I was right!
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Aphrodite posted:I don't think the merchandising not spoiling anything was just luck. What was it? Kylo Ren without his helmet on?
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Probably Poe, I guess? You're supposed to think he dies in the Jakku crash, but if there's a toy of him in a flight suit then you'd know he's coming back. Much like the special black/orange X-wing which isn't the one from the intro scene and is called Poe's X-wing or something. There was a Lego set for that.
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Amoeba102 posted:Probably Poe, I guess? You're supposed to think he dies in the Jakku crash, but if there's a toy of him in a flight suit then you'd know he's coming back. Much like the special black/orange X-wing which isn't the one from the intro scene and is called Poe's X-wing or something. There was a Lego set for that. Actually It was a Rey action figure in a specific outfit towards the end, however the box art had Rey holding the lightsaber.
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I suppose there's that too.
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Depressio111117 posted:I don't think that was the case - the plot hinges on the grandma trying to track her down. Oh yeah, I must've missed that-- I thought the whole thing was that people kept trying to track the grandma down and tell her they were Anastasia, and she just kept turning them away. This is what happens when you watch movies while seven, I guess.
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Zaphod42 posted:I guess so. I sure don't remember advertisements for Darth Maul action figures before seeing Episode I or anything like that, but I was also a teenager and maybe I just missed the ads, I dunno. I remember being excited on principal that a new star wars was coming out. I saw all the trailers. Lightsabers. That guy looks mean. Ships flying around. They cut those trailers so tight to make us think we were getting what we wanted. Jar jar was not in a trailer. Not at all. And I walked into wal*mart several months before opening weekend and blocking the entrance is a star wars display and right down low in front it's.. a jar jar coloring book. I couldn't help but open it. Jar jar falls in some poodoo. color it whatever color you think alien poop is. What the gently caress am I looking at? What the gently caress is a jar jar? Did they make a cartoon for babies when I wasn't paying attention? This isn't in the movie, is it? It seemed so loving dumb, it was like it had nothing to do with me. I instantly put it and the other warning signs out of my mind and went back to being overly optimistic. Then I put it down and picked up the sound track and skimmed the titles "duel of the fates" cool sounds ominous "qui gon's noble end" oh okay thanks I'll be sure not to give a gently caress about that character once I figure out who he is.
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Heh Check out how adult I am: Back when the ep1 hype was ramping up, I watched the original trilogy and was like welp, these are children's movies and so I stopped caring and I think my life is better for it.
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I really liked Ep7 and think JJ got it right. My one IIMM: Han and Chewie have been best buds like forever and in all sorts of scrapes and crazy adventures and Han has never fired Chewie's bowcaster?
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My IIMM about Ep7 was that there were WAY too many long scenes of people staring at each other. It was like watching a spanish soap opera and playing the "who farted?" game. I mean, I loved the movie, I saw it twice, but god drat you could have brought in some of the characters they cut with the 5-10 mins of  they have going on.Also, the think that was the biggest spoiler merchandise wise for Episode 1 wasn't even a toy, it was the soundtrack. It had a track called something like "The death of Qui Gonn" or "Funeral for Qui Gonn" as a title. Man that pissed off a lot of people.
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Trent posted:I really liked Ep7 and think JJ got it right. Not only that, he fired it when chewie got shot. Then he asks twenty minutes later like "oh this thing I just shot, I wonder what it's like to shoot it. Wow. I got to cross that off my bucket list before dementia takes me completely. What were we doing? Say chewie how about you let me shoot that bowcaster I've always wanted to try that"
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:My IIMM about Ep7 was that there were WAY too many long scenes of people staring at each other. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYakwEUNZTk
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Trent posted:I really liked Ep7 and think JJ got it right. That was odd. Mine is that I never go watch movies in the theater and the huge bass fx on every single impact freaks me out. Chewie's hairy foot hits the walkway *BOOM* Someone gets knocked down in the snow covered forest *BOOM* X-Wing missile hits the thingie, same *BOOM* I guess tbf I saw the original trilogy on VHS on an old crt tv but drat audio mixer guy needs to dial it back a bit. 
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Trent posted:I really liked Ep7 and think JJ got it right. Maybe not quite the same, but my oldest friend and I have known each other 15 years at this point, and I have never driven his car and he has never driven mine. It's just never really come up. Han has always had his blaster and Chewie has always had his bowcaster and it's just never come up, you know? 
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At least all the dialogue was audible, gently caress you very much Christopher Nolan for Interstellar's audio mixing. gently caress you
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syscall girl posted:That was odd. The sound mixing in your cinema was poo poo, sorry. I never noticed any intrusiveness to the sound when I saw it, it was all at appropriate levels and only enhanced the experience. Lots of people are going to have differing experiences with sound, I don't think there's the proper THX accreditation process anymore for cinema sound engineers.
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Trent posted:I really liked Ep7 and think JJ got it right. I think it's just joking about how Chewie carried it around for 3 movies and only actually fires it like 1 time.
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I hate that Chewie's bow caster shoots a red bolt but in all the video games it is larger and green.
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My IMM of The Force Awakens is how jagged the blaster bolts are. When Ken force stops a blaster shot it's really apparent.
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Android Bicyclist posted:My IMM of The Force Awakens is how jagged the blaster bolts are. When Ken force stops a blaster shot it's really apparent. They normally look smooth because of motion blur. And before you start: there's no movies where it's more appropriate to try and convince someone of something by handwaving than Star Wars.
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I enjoyed The Force Awakens but when I watched it at my local cinema one of the speakers to my left drat near exploded at the first beat of the opening theme. The rest of the film continued with sometimes normal sound and sometimes a series of hisses and pops from my immediate left everything time an action scene occurred. I could have ignored it that much easier if I didn't feel like I needed to make sure a fire hadn't broken out every 5 minutes it was so bad. Still better than an errant child running endlessly between the rows the last time I went though.
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My IIMM with The Force Awakens is I'm from Ireland and we have a lot of scenery and ruins like Skellig Michael so I couldn't buy it as a different world. I mean you can say that about any planet in the series but this one I am very familiar with and also it has no futuristic stuff on it like all the others e.g. Jakku has all the ruins of Empire machinery and Starkiller base is Starkiller base. I think the helicopter shot is mostly to blame as it makes it look like a tourism video and also I have been in those particular ruins.
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EmmyOk posted:My IIMM with The Force Awakens is I'm from Ireland and we have a lot of scenery and ruins like Skellig Michael so I couldn't buy it as a different world. I mean you can say that about any planet in the series but this one I am very familiar with and also it has no futuristic stuff on it like all the others e.g. Jakku has all the ruins of Empire machinery and Starkiller base is Starkiller base. I think the helicopter shot is mostly to blame as it makes it look like a tourism video and also I have been in those particular ruins. That is really II, because the alternative is either: a. a real environment cluttered up with a bunch of CGI poo poo to make it look spacey, like Lucas did with the Special Editions. b. a totally fake environment that's purely CGI which looks like an awful video game cut scene and doesn't allow you to forget for even an instant that you're looking at something which doesn't exist.
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Phanatic posted:That is really II, because the alternative is either: Yeah, s/he said that. These aren't 'here is my logical reason for disliking a thing' its the irrationally irritating movie moments thread. S/He's pretty familiar with the area so it took him out of the movie, s/he realizes its irrational but it still bothered them.
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My irrationally irritating Star Wars moment is I just found out a part of me cares deeply that they axed nearly all the expanded universe poo poo. My canon  I loved every aspect of the movie though.
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Captain Monkey posted:Yeah, s/he said that. These aren't 'here is my logical reason for disliking a thing' its the irrationally irritating movie moments thread. S/He's pretty familiar with the area so it took him out of the movie, s/he realizes its irrational but it still bothered them. Perfectly said! Though I will maintain the helicopter shot was a weird choice regardless of locale.
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Star Wars IIMMs Chewie walking right past Leia after Han's death. What the gently caress, dude? Don't leave some random girl you barely know to comfort your friend. Should have ended 5 minutes sooner. Perfect last shot would have been Leia watching the Millennium Falcon take off and fly away. I know they wanted to have Luke in there, but it was just an awkward ending point. No Wedge. I'm especially irritated having found out that the actor was offered to return but turned it down. Dickhead, you were my hipster favorite character. 
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Is it me or is it implied Nein Numb died at the battle at the Starkiller base?
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rydiafan posted:Should have ended 5 minutes sooner. Perfect last shot would have been Leia watching the Millennium Falcon take off and fly away. I know they wanted to have Luke in there, but it was just an awkward ending point. Nah, it should have ended after the first shot of Luke with his hood off. It was a fantastic cliffhanger, just dragged on too long.
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Vulpes posted:Nah, it should have ended after the first shot of Luke with his hood off. It was a fantastic cliffhanger, just dragged on too long. 
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My IMM moment for Star Wars is Ren's face. It looks so off to me. It also seems really "soft" feature-wise, which makes it hard for me to accept him as a villainous killer.
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I realize that Adam Driver reminds me too much of Marilyn Manson, which totally makes it worse.
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Leavemywife posted:My IMM moment for Star Wars is Ren's face. It looks so off to me. It also seems really "soft" feature-wise, which makes it hard for me to accept him as a villainous killer. That's the point.
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Leavemywife posted:My IMM moment for Star Wars is Ren's face. It looks so off to me. It also seems really "soft" feature-wise, which makes it hard for me to accept him as a villainous killer. Mine is how does he keep that 70s hair all volumized under a hood and mask all day?
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Zaphod42 posted:the way they like pre-marketed the toys was odd. It would have worked much better IMO to wait until just after the film's release to start with the toys, once we know who the toys loving are. What are you, some kind of communist? TFA IIMM: There's a Resistance, a Republic, and a First Order, and their respective roles are never explained. Basically, why is there a Resistance before the Republic is blowed up all at once? Wouldn't the Rebels have joined the Republic after winning at the end of Jedi? It's like if George Washington and Ben Franklin kept leading the Continental Army and Congress after they won the Revolutionary War, and those things continued to exist as entities separate from the newly formed United States. It makes no goddamn sense, and will never be explained because now the Republic is gone and things are back to the way they were in the Original Trilogy. I wouldn't have thought that this was irrational, but no one else I've talked to about it seems to care or find it the least bit irritating.
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That's actually all explained in the title crawl. Did you come in late?
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Aphrodite posted:That's actually all explained in the title crawl. Did you come in late?
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