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MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
Luke will lead the Jedi counter-reformation, training Jeduits, while Rey will eventually lead a true Jedi Reformation.

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porfiria
Dec 10, 2008

by Modern Video Games
Going by S+ Canon Palpatine is clearly way beyond loving he gets off on Pure Power.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.
We can all agree that Sheev is the best Star Wars character.

CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

Yeah.

Milkfred E. Moore
Aug 27, 2006

'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'
'The Senate' definitely fucks.

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Milky Moor posted:

'The Senate' definitely fucks.

The Senate is made of them, but whether or not it actually gives them is up for debate and probably varies depending on the topic brought before them

Gonz
Dec 22, 2009

"Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/917811510461718528

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

Clearly what Hamill should do is direct his own Star Wars movie. That will show Shatner!

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
I hope the Porg gets a lot of screen time, it looks cute.

Jerkface
May 21, 2001

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE DEAD, MOTHERFUCKER?

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

I hope the Porg gets a lot of screen time, it looks cute.

chewie got a therapy porg to deal with the loss of han solo

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

MonsieurChoc posted:

We can all agree that Sheev is the best Star Wars character.

Without any doubt.

UmOk
Aug 3, 2003

Mechafunkzilla posted:

Nobody in Star Wars fucks. That's why they need clones.

e: on second thought, Jabba fucks

Think you need to do a rewatch. R2 fucks in almost every movie.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

MonsieurChoc posted:

We can all agree that Sheev is the best Star Wars character.

Yes

R2 is pretty cool too

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

This dress is probably my favorite costume in all of the movies.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Tfa felt rushed because that's just how Abrams does his movies imho . They are frantic . I didn't notice any lack of production quality which you may get when a movie is actually rushed .

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

I like sand, personally.

UmOk
Aug 3, 2003

aBagorn posted:

This dress is probably my favorite costume in all of the movies.

Aotc has good costumes but I think Phantom Menace has the best costume design in all the movies. Everything Amidala wears in it is so weird and awesome. Especially the first time we see her on Naboo.

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



UmOk posted:

Aotc has good costumes but I think Phantom Menace has the best costume design in all the movies. Everything Amidala wears in it is so weird and awesome. Especially the first time we see her on Naboo.

I like Jango Fett's armor. The blue and steel is just an awesome combination.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

UmOk posted:

Aotc has good costumes but I think Phantom Menace has the best costume design in all the movies. Everything Amidala wears in it is so weird and awesome. Especially the first time we see her on Naboo.

Phantom Menace definitely takes the nod overall, but I just love the simplicity of this lake dress and the ombre dyed fabric

Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/918498392418013184


https://twitter.com/rianjohnson/status/918506056401108992

Serf
May 5, 2011


aBagorn posted:

This dress is probably my favorite costume in all of the movies.

Natalie Portman's costuming was always on-point. Its like she has some elaborate, dope outfit for every scene, to the point where it becomes funny.

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!
I really want to know what was going through Padmé's mind when she picked out the dominatrix outfit for her private dinner with the hot young Jedi.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Zoran posted:

I really want to know what was going through Padmé's mind when she picked out the dominatrix outfit for her private dinner with the hot young Jedi.

“Prima nocte still works for elected monarchy, right?”

thrawn527
Mar 27, 2004

Thrawn/Pellaeon
Studying the art of terrorists
To keep you safe


Rian Johnson owns.

Zoran posted:

I really want to know what was going through Padmé's mind when she picked out the dominatrix outfit for her private dinner with the hot young Jedi.

"I can't believe George designed this thing himself."

SimonCat
Aug 12, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
College Slice

Serf posted:

Natalie Portman's costuming was always on-point. Its like she has some elaborate, dope outfit for every scene, to the point where it becomes funny.

Obi Wan even mentions the Queen's wardrobe as the only thing valuable enough to sell for parts on Tattoine.

UmOk
Aug 3, 2003

Zoran posted:

I really want to know what was going through Padmé's mind when she picked out the dominatrix outfit for her private dinner with the hot young Jedi.

You really don't know? Did your parents give you "the talk" yet?

504
Feb 2, 2016

by R. Guyovich
Yeah but it was about midicloroans.

Ammanas
Jul 17, 2005

Voltes V: "Laser swooooooooord!"

euphronius posted:

Tfa felt rushed because that's just how Abrams does his movies imho . They are frantic . I didn't notice any lack of production quality which you may get when a movie is actually rushed .

Tfa doesn't feel rushed. It's a profoundly boring movie, especially on rewatch.

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Jerkface posted:

chewie got a therapy porg to deal with the loss of han solo

thread title

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

Zeris posted:

thread title

"Everyone needs a therapy Porg"

viral spiral
Sep 19, 2017

by R. Guyovich

RBA Starblade posted:

I like sand, personally.

Yeah, sand in my eyes is easier on the cornea than watching Attack of the Clones.

Brother Entropy
Dec 27, 2009

Ammanas posted:

Tfa doesn't feel rushed. It's a profoundly boring movie, especially on rewatch.

it's boring because it's rushed, it's far more interested in speeding along to the next epic setpiece or OT callback than slowing down to provide a larger context for why anything is happening or characterizing any of its new cast(except kylo ren)

Mechafunkzilla
Sep 11, 2006

If you want a vision of the future...

UmOk posted:

Think you need to do a rewatch. R2 fucks in almost every movie.

It's been well-established that droids aren't people and R2 is just engaging in a hideous mechanical pantomime of loving

Fhate
Feb 15, 2007

"Appended to its own quotation is false" appended to its own quotation is false.

viral spiral posted:

Yeah, sand in my eyes is easier on the cornea than watching Attack of the Clones.

I don't see why you deem it necessary to keep telling us you hate that movie.

We know.

Re: Porgs

They're like a seal/penguin/cat, and kid me would have wanted a stuffed one the instant I saw them on screen. They kind of look like the lovechild of Gizmo from Gramlins and chinstrap penguin.

Lord Hydronium
Sep 25, 2007

Non, je ne regrette rien


Brother Entropy posted:

it's boring because it's rushed, it's far more interested in speeding along to the next epic setpiece or OT callback than slowing down to provide a larger context for why anything is happening or characterizing any of its new cast(except kylo ren)
Yeah, the worst case of that for me is in Maz's castle, where the movie stops even bothering to wait for a scene to end before jumping to the next one. Finn leaves, Rey hears about it, and you'd think this would be a nice point for a good conversation and character moment, but NOPE -- she takes like two steps and gets her vision, and then it's on to the whole lightsaber scene and then she runs away and Ren attacks immediately after and on and on. Everything just happens all at once, plot point after plot point, with no breathing room or sense of pacing.

Look at something like the Death Star segment of ANH for comparison. There's parts with nonstop action - everything from entering the detention level to leaving the garbage compactor is one big setpiece, for example - but there's also lots of moments in between where everything can pause for some nice little character building conversations and to ease the tension before it builds up again. Luke snapping at Han in the control room, Han making fun of Chewie after the trash compactor, Leia making fun of the Falcon. Obi-Wan has a pretty quiet and uneventful trip to the tractor beam, which both lets the tension build in his subplot and contrasts with everyone else making a ruckus all over the Death Star. For the characters being trapped in the enemy's home base, it's surprisingly slow, but it works because of that.

TFA has a couple of those moments (the little montage of Rey's life stands out in particular), but they're few and far between after the first act.

E: Now that I think about it, Star Trek 09 had this same issue in its second act, so it seems to be a general problem Abrams has.

Lord Hydronium fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Oct 13, 2017

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!
I watched The Phantom Menace again today.

It was really good.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

Zoran posted:

I really want to know what was going through Padmé's mind when she picked out the dominatrix outfit for her private dinner with the hot young Jedi.

You know drat well.

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

Lord Hydronium posted:

Yeah, the worst case of that for me is in Maz's castle, where the movie stops even bothering to wait for a scene to end before jumping to the next one. Finn leaves, Rey hears about it, and you'd think this would be a nice point for a good conversation and character moment, but NOPE -- she takes like two steps and gets her vision, and then it's on to the whole lightsaber scene and then she runs away and Ren attacks immediately after and on and on. Everything just happens all at once, plot point after plot point, with no breathing room or sense of pacing.

I think everything with Maz was specifically called out as something that Abrams was re-editing and re-arranging up until a few weeks before release (to the point that Nyong'o was constantly re-recording her dialogue for like two months, because it was being rewritten all the time).

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E: Now that I think about it, Star Trek 09 had this same issue in its second act, so it seems to be a general problem Abrams has.

Star Trek at least has the excuse of the writers' strike.

UmOk
Aug 3, 2003

Zoran posted:

I watched The Phantom Menace again today.

It was really good.

I watched it the other day. I wish I had the capability to screen shot stuff as I am watching it because there is so much poo poo in there that just looks fantastic. Every frame in the Naboo capital or whatever looks like a painting.

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Lily Catts
Oct 17, 2012

Show me the way to you
(Heavy Metal)
The Phantom Menace is better than the other prequels because Anakin was a cute sassy kid instead of some creepy teen. The romance subplot in Attack of the Clones was cringeworthy.

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