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Josh Lyman posted:But is it better than Empire? nah If it had stronger characters it might be close. But it's held back by having some really boring and pointless characters taking too much screentime.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Rogue One is a prequel. ecks dee
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the original trilogy are all just prequels to TFA which just happened to come out before it makes u think
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I reckon Star Wars will start messing with time travel, either in E8 or E9.
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kylo ren will go back in time and warn darth vadar of the impending attack on the death star, bringing the iron empire to the present galaxy
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Pretty average. I'm less inclined to watch the movie now. Yeah my first thought was "why do we need to see this happen?" how does the dramatic arc of anakin skywalker over 6 films benefit from this scene?
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Josh Lyman posted:But is it better than Empire? Only seen it once but not even close to Empire. Feels very designed by committee. Like it's a good movie, I'm gonna go see it again this evening, the space combat is probably the best in all of Star Wars besides the dreamscape first Death Star run, the characters are all likeable, they did a fantastic job making it feel desperate and epic but it's no Empire. Actually that's probably the biggest compliment I can give it, that it feels epic. These characters are all irrelevances in the grand scheme of Star Wars, gonna be forgotten by history, but they are absolutely heroes in this story and the movie sells that.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Pretty average. I'm less inclined to watch the movie now. lmao, did you decide there weren't enough possible red lines you could draw on the screen grabs?
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They add some very welcome depth to the Rebellion and the different paths people take to fight the Empire, which I liked a lot.
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Just saw it, I thought the latter half was very strong with the first half feeling off and choppy. The characters didn't really get time to be fleshed out, which is awkward when your new villain is objectively the most developed one and you'd rather just go back to his scenes. I thought it was alright?? It didn't really feel like a Star Wars movie and I enjoyed that, I hope they do more like this.
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I said come in! posted:lmao, did you decide there weren't enough possible red lines you could draw on the screen grabs? why are you so insecure about whether or not this movie is good that you're making fun of someone's taste in a scene?
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Waffles Inc. posted:why are you so insecure about whether or not this movie is good that you're making fun of someone's taste in a scene? 
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cool emoji??? i don't get it
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Waffles Inc. posted:cool emoji??? i don't get it Of course you don't.
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I said come in! posted:Of course you don't. wouldn't it be better/easier/more fun/whatever to explain your position rather than being cryptic and weird? edit: i mean there's a forum now for movie shitposting right? Waffles Inc. fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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Waffles Inc. posted:wouldn't it be better/easier/more fun/whatever to explain your position rather than being cryptic and weird? Not really?
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I said come in! posted:Not really? oh cool posting about star wars "i said come in!"
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People getting upset and defensive about other people not liking what they like, or even not hating what they hate, is my second favourite internet thing.
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sassassin posted:People getting upset and defensive about other people not liking what they like, or even not hating what they hate, is my second favourite internet thing. The first being?
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The pornography.
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sassassin posted:The pornography.
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Slugworth posted:I just wish you hated the porn that I hate. Some people are just into hatewatching. Don't kinkshame.
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I'm starting to wonder if it's impossible to talk about Star Wars movies without coming across as a gigantic rear end in a top hat. 
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Waffles Inc. posted:Yeah my first thought was "why do we need to see this happen?" Who cares
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I wont be able to see till tomorrow night, but without spoilering actual details, were you guys satisfied with voicing and content for Tarkin and Vader
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MrBigglesworth posted:I wont be able to see till tomorrow night, but without spoilering actual details, were you guys satisfied with voicing and content for Tarkin and Vader I was very pleased, especially with the latter. The former was a bit off at first but I felt it became better the more we got of him.
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Super Fan posted:Who cares The poster who you quoted, obviously.
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Saw it, liked it, thought it ended about 2 minutes too late. The final shot of the movie should be the wave approaching them and it turning to white. The added scene of Vader tearing up the place and a loving TERRIBLE Princess Leia were not needed at all, neither was the fifteenth utterence of the movie's tagline. I felt oddly unmoved by a lot of the death scenes. I guess part of it is that you know it's coming, and part of it is that the focus is so scattered that people don't really register that much. I mean Donnie Yen and his buddy is great, but they kind of don't do a lot after their introduction. Forrest Whittaker is utterly pointless in his role, as is Mads Mikkelson. I get that it's a payday for them, but I struggle really to see what the point in either character actually was. Hell, DR STRANGE used Mads better, and he was barely in that.
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I liked Rogue One as a movie, but not as a Star Wars movie, if that made sense. Quite topical though.
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Schneider Heim posted:I liked Rogue One as a movie, but not as a Star Wars movie, if that made sense. I think that worked to its benefit. There were a cute couple of cameos in there, but like THE FORCE AWAKENS, I disliked it more whenever they shoehorned something in there.
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DrVenkman posted:Saw it, liked it, thought it ended about 2 minutes too late.
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Saw this at the midnight screening, and enjoyed it for the most part. It was nice that all the war movie speculation did in fact come true; it really does stand apart from the other SW movies, tonally. After TFA I applaud any efforts to strike out and do something relatively new. A quick note about pacing though: what was with the first 15 minutes, wherein every scene took place on a new planet? It just came across as jumpy and rushed, as though they forgot to film a proper opening to the film, so ended up having to add that stuff in with reshoots. Thankfully, it does settle down. Of the actors, while Felicity Jones was good (albeit not Daisy Ridley good) and Mads Mikkelsen effective if underutilised, Ben Mendelsohn was predictable fantastic throughout; utterly steals the film, and a very worthy villain. Compare these performances to the irredeemably bad Forrest Whitaker: was anyone else totally thrown by the straight-up bizarre vocal style he used? It wasn't quite Bane-levels of jarring, but it was terrible nonetheless. The characters of Chirrut and Baze had me scratching my head. Do their fighting styles fit in this universe? Do their characters not seem entirely out of place somehow? It all felt so random, though their concluding scenes were considerably better than the early ones. Likewise, K-2SO: a comedic note in an otherwise pretty dour film, what started out like JarJar inhabiting the body of C3PO was ultimately redeemed by consistently funny dialogue and clever delivery. The interplay between it and Jyn was an absolute joy. That said... Vader's first scene veers between being okay and kinda bad (James Earl Jones' delivery is off throughout), until it ultimately falls off a cliff with that awful pun about not choking on his aspiration. Tarkin improved as he went on, but still felt a little fan-servicey. Another general could have worked just fine, without the need to resort to shoddy CGI. Although even then, Tarkin has nothing on the AWFUL Carrie Fisher, which absolutely destroys any sense of immersion and, in fact, the entire ending of the film. It's bad even now, upon release, so gently caress knows how badly it will age Otherwise, I agree with DrVenkman about the ending, or at least some variation on that. I thought the bit with Vader going apeshit on the rebel troops was great though, and feel like it should have gone something like Vader scene -> Wave approaching scene -> Opening scene from A New Hope. As it was, it felt kinda randomly sequenced, and ends on an absolute stone-cold bomb of a scene. Awful. Excursus fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Dec 15, 2016 |
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Guessing this movie is terrible? My opinions have been validated lol.
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Arglebargle III posted:Guessing this movie is terrible? My opinions have been validated lol. Sounds like it's pretty decent so far besides bad cgi.
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RBA Starblade posted:Sounds like it's pretty decent so far besides bad cgi. The CGI is good
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Disclosure: I adored it. It's interesting reading criticism of the movie and thinking hmm yeah I guess that's true. And yet not minding. Perhaps that's the trick, William Potter.
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Lampsacus posted:Disclosure: I adored it. It's the best Star Wars film. But also the opening 15 minutes are disorienting as hell, some of the characterisation is pretty weak, and there's some cheesy fan-service. It just all works
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Lampsacus posted:Disclosure: I adored it. The trick is to enjoy mediocrity.
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Arglebargle III posted:The trick is to enjoy mediocrity. The real truth is almost every regular poster in this thread can sit down and enjoy even a mediocre Star Wars movie just fine. There's always hope that there will be a truly great one on the horizon though.
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