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Unambiguously the best thing to ever come out of the prequel trilogy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qH2IaSjEU
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BrianWilly posted:The real question is why wouldn't there be a diner in Star Wars? well you see because diners are a specific american thing due to the following economic circumstanc--*long fart noise*
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Jan 7, 2016 12:40
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You know it always amazes me that they gave that hat and beard to Watto and no one in Lucasarts looked at it and said 'This could really really be taken wrong.'
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Jan 7, 2016 12:50
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Neurolimal posted:
Nah; the plot of KotOR II is just like any other video game. The plot was C-canon, certain game mechanics and gameplay conveniences are not.
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Jan 7, 2016 13:14
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Phylodox posted:Unambiguously the best thing to ever come out of the prequel trilogy: I like Dance 66 better but they don't have a separate video for it, just the song with background. You gotta watch episode III to catch it.
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Jan 7, 2016 13:47
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Lord Hydronium posted:
The RLM videos are very good for what they are - an average fan talking about bad films that we all had high expectations for, filled with funny and bizarre jokes/subplots about an old serial killer. Good insight on films is hard to come by, because the average film critic online or working for a newspaper ranges from autistic to tone deaf, and the best critic we had recently died. RLM shines at pointing out stuff like why the Watto/Qui-Gon bet was retarded as hell as a plot device, but the most it gets into actual film critique is explaining antagonist vs. protagonist, and it even makes a joke out of that. It probably does less in the way of explaining why it's a bad film, but more why it's not a film Star Wars fans enjoyed or wanted. The end of the review of Revenge of the Sith does do a really neat job of creating a little sequence of clips with all of the film crew giving sideway/second-guessing looks to George's comments. If you watch Half in the Bag (and I sometimes do), that shows what they are: a couple of guys sitting around with beer making nerdy jokes about movies, and each having different or similar opinions about why they did or didn't like it.
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Jan 7, 2016 15:25
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Between this and the Obi-Wan thing, the more I read about the RLM videos, the more the decision not to watch them seems like a good idea.
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Jan 7, 2016 15:39
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I liked a lot of the background music RLM used. Anyone have a list of the tracks?
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Jan 7, 2016 15:42
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Gorelab posted:You know it always amazes me that they gave that hat and beard to Watto and no one in Lucasarts looked at it and said 'This could really really be taken wrong.' I like the prequels quite a bit, and while I'm not on the racism train for Jar Jar or the Neimoidians, I really think they should have gone in a different direction for Watto.
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Jan 7, 2016 15:42
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Gorelab posted:You know it always amazes me that they gave that hat and beard to Watto and no one in Lucasarts looked at it and said 'This could really really be taken wrong.' It's the same thing as calling Episode II "Jar Jar's Big Adventure" during production.
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Jan 7, 2016 15:43
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Jokes on you, they already had a book. They're just making a cameo on TFA. It's mindblowing to me that this isn't a photoshop.
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Jan 7, 2016 15:47
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Wattos characterisation is too obvious not to be deliberate
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Jan 7, 2016 15:53
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corn in the fridge posted:Wattos characterisation is too obvious not to be deliberate Well, Lucas had some pretty rough experiences with getting the OT financed. Maybe that was his way of Striking Back.
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Jan 7, 2016 15:54
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Nessus posted:I want to get back to diner-chat. An Obi-Wan procedural crime drama would've given Lucas so many more opportunities to stick in clever mid-century references and stereotypical accents. Obi-Wan in a fedora!
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Jan 7, 2016 15:55
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Red posted:Well, Lucas had some pretty rough experiences with getting the OT financed. Maybe that was his way of Striking Back. One of the producers would only finance the film if he was given a cameo appearance 
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Jan 7, 2016 16:00
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I hope Ben was like "I need a bad rear end name that acknowledges yet spits on both of my families' legacies" and gets Kylo from mashing Skywalker and Solo together but taking out the letters he didn't like.
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Jan 7, 2016 16:01
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Krispy Kareem posted:An Obi-Wan procedural crime drama would've given Lucas so many more opportunities to stick in clever mid-century references and stereotypical accents. I'm not sure. I don't think lightsabers would make Poirot more exciting.
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Jan 7, 2016 16:03
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Jokes on you, they already had a book. They're just making a cameo on TFA. This looks awesome. Of all these little tie-in books this one seems to be the most interesting.
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Jan 7, 2016 16:04
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corn in the fridge posted:Wattos characterisation is too obvious not to be deliberate Too obvious as what? A bug alien?
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Jan 7, 2016 16:09
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berserker posted:This is just yet another of the stupid loving additions that George never really quite thought out the consequences of. Before this revelation, we all got to enjoy the idea that anyone who is a good person at heart and force sensitive well get to live on in a kind of afterlife, as a part of the force. But no, turns out that for tens of thousands of years all of the Jedi who ever died went to oblivion forever and it was just Qui Gonn who happened to figure out this SUPER IMPORTANT key thing, just in time for Obi Wan to be able to learn it so he can help out Luke 30 years later! Nope, everyone, whether they're strong in the Force or not, does become one with the Force when they die. That's why Yoda tells Anakin not to mourn Padme, because she'll be becoming one with the Force. What makes Qui Gon, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Anakin is special is simply that they're capable of retaining their consciousness after death. Considering Vader was formerly a Jedi but he still seemed mystified by Obi-Wan's disappearance in the first movie, it was always suggestive of the idea that it was something special. Honestly, it works better that way, as the product of Jedi who reach some form of enlightenment in the Force, rather than just something that anyone strong in the Force can do. It'd raise a lot of questions about why there's not an army of Jedi and Sith ghosts giving council to the living ones, for a start.
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Jan 7, 2016 16:18
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Is Greg Gruenberg supposed to be a Porkins callback? He's the son of Porkins?
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Jan 7, 2016 16:28
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Jack Gladney posted:Is Greg Gruenberg supposed to be a Porkins callback? He's the son of Porkins? He's Porkins but with a plain old dumb name (rather than a funny dumb name): Snap Wexley.
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Jan 7, 2016 16:30
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euphronius posted:Too obvious as what? A bug alien? Lol it appears I was mistaken http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=122
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Jan 7, 2016 16:31
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Jack Gladney posted:Is Greg Gruenberg supposed to be a Porkins callback? He's the son of Porkins? He definitely is. I was just waiting for him to go down so i could whisper to myself "NOO PORKINS!!" corn in the fridge posted:I got two minutes into the first rlm review and that was about as much as i could take Even if you don't like RLM you should watch the video where they take the piss out of lovely expanded universe autism over Vader's suit. It's good. hemale in pain fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Jan 7, 2016 |
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Jan 7, 2016 16:34
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RLM are good, funny, guys. Just like most internet critics they're amateurs, but with a bit more knowledge and background from film school. They're not right or wrong about everything but generally are pretty likable and funny. Their Sandler takedowns and Best of the Worst are my favorite in particular, and I love all their Star Wars clickbait videos.
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Jan 7, 2016 16:52
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Phylodox posted:Unambiguously the best thing to ever come out of the prequel trilogy: word
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Jan 7, 2016 17:08
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I've never heard of Auralnauts and I'm watching Ep 1 Jedi Party. Holy poo poo this is hilarious.
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Jan 7, 2016 17:32
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I've never heard of Auralnauts and I'm watching Ep 1 Jedi Party. Holy poo poo this is hilarious. Keep going, watch them all. There's 3 more. Everybody needs a Zima.
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Jan 7, 2016 17:38
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Another interesting thing I just thought about on Jakku vs Tattooine. On Tattooine everybody has a blaster. On Jakku nobody does, except for Lor San Tekka's 'peaceful' settlement. All the junk salvagers have only melee weapons at best, thugs sent after Rey aren't armed at all, Finn can't find a blaster in a tent full of junk when everywhere else in the galaxy they seem ubiquitous. Not even the presumably boss of the place has a blaster to defend his property.
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Jan 7, 2016 17:54
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hemale in pain posted:Even if you don't like RLM you should watch the video where they take the piss out of lovely expanded universe autism over Vader's suit. It's good. Maybe if he did his reviews in a normal voice and skipped over the insanely funny ex-wife jokes it would be worth listening to, but at that point he'd probably just sound like some sad nerd sperging about star wars
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Jan 7, 2016 18:07
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greatn posted:Another interesting thing I just thought about on Jakku vs Tattooine. This is on purpose. Remember that Jakku is a graveyard for the Galactic Civil War - everyone's already "dead". The Falcon was put to rest there, and tons of Imperial crap is just rusting away. No one has the ability to kill, as this would be redundant. Rey was left for dead
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Jan 7, 2016 18:21
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hemale in pain posted:He definitely is. I was just waiting for him to go down so i could whisper to myself "NOO PORKINS!!" Instead we lost Ello "Born to Ill" Asty to a lame death. 
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Jan 7, 2016 18:30
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For me, the '50s diner was silly because it seemed like instead of creating a weird alien analogue for the "detective getting info from an informant in a sleazy diner" scene, they literally just did the stereotypical scene, but replaced the characters with a Jedi and an alien guy. It was more like The Fifth Element, where it's actually supposed to be an alien-ized version of Earth. I can't objectively say that's a flaw of the film, I just didn't like it, for that reason.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:36
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Obi-Wans first thoughts on Anakin. 'why do I get the feeling we have picked up another pathetic life form?'
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Jan 7, 2016 18:39
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People forget that pathetic means "arousing pity or sadness" and not "you are stupid because of how dumb you are" If a child slave isn't pathetic, I don't know what is.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:43
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Sir Lemming posted:For me, the '50s diner was silly because it seemed like instead of creating a weird alien analogue for the "detective getting info from an informant in a sleazy diner" scene, they literally just did the stereotypical scene, but replaced the characters with a Jedi and an alien guy. It was more like The Fifth Element, where it's actually supposed to be an alien-ized version of Earth. Coruscant is an alien-ized version of Earth. They have cars driving around on streets, crappy franchise sports bars, and Cirque Du Soleil.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:44
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:"From my point of view the Jedi are evil!"
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Jan 7, 2016 18:50
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:People forget that pathetic means "arousing pity or sadness" and not "you are stupid because of how dumb you are" That doesn't mean
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Jan 7, 2016 18:51
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the trump tutelage posted:This line wouldn't have been so hokey if the films were more on the nose about how inept the jedi were. It's hard to be more on the nose.
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computer parts posted:It's hard to be more on the nose. Lucas could have done more than work the tension between the Jedi's stated ideals and their reality into the script, or have someone other than whiny fuckboy Anakin point it out. It was too coy if it was intentional at all.
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