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UmOk posted:Do we think Disney will mitigate this disaster? All we can do is pray, Um0k
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The MSJ posted:http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-trump-feminism-1202748535/ 
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Brother Entropy posted:disney is the disaster I hardly think three great films and a 4-season TV show is a disaster.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Since there's no objective measure it would be based on the honor system That's tricky. I can attest from an incident over in Rowdy Ringsports where a guy offered to suck his own dick if a fight between Eddie Alvarez and Gilbert Melendez wasn't awesome. The fight was...fine but not great, and there was great debate. Luckily, the dude was still happy to suck his own dick.
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jivjov posted:I hardly think three great films and a 4-season TV show is a disaster. rian johnson's trilogy hasn't come out yet though 
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ungulateman posted:rian johnson's trilogy hasn't come out yet though Episode VII, Rogue One, and Episode VIII are the ones I'm referring to
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chiasaur11 posted:Look at the patterns. This is true, for me at least. I saw all other SW films at least 3 times in theatres. I just finally watched TLJ for the second time (and on dvd too) the other day. It was worse than I remembered. And I'm certainly not going to see anymore of the SW films in theaters unless they get amazingly good reviews. It's just a redbox dvd thing from now on.
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jivjov posted:Episode VII, Rogue One, and Episode VIII are the ones I'm referring to
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A Disney exec looks mournfully at the $1 billion profit from Episode 8, a stack of $100 bills rising 63 miles high. "What a loving failure" Basebf555 posted:Batman and Robin is a good example of knowing when to cut bait. Its not like it didn't make money, it made about 240 million. But other factors indicated that audiences were done with Batman and so they rightfully ended it. Yeah they actually started to make a 5th one with Nick Cage as Scarecrow and the early work that got done was so bad that whoever owned the rights was like "No, you can't ruin Batman. We're pulling the plug before you wreck our IP." PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Apr 12, 2018 |
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Apr 12, 2018 06:26
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Teek posted:Contextually updated and adjusted for modern numbers. ESB is clearly a box failure and disappointment when compared to ANH. Fitting, as ESB is the worse movie compared to ANH.  Edit: Of course I rank ANH #1 and ESB #2 of the Star Wars movies.
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Meh.com is selling a remote controlled BB-8 today and the last poll option at the bottom of the page is very much this thread.
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Yesterday, I went to a VFX panel for The Last Jedi, where they discussed the technical challenges of creating Snoke, the Vulptexes, the Dreadnought, etc. For the Dreadnought, they showed how ships and vehicles from the original films were kitbashed together and how they tried to recreate that experience digitally by recreating thousands of greeblies for the ship's design. I was hoping they would talk about the hyperspace kamikaze attack (my favorite scene), but it was still pretty rad.
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thrawn527 posted:Conversely, no, it's not disastrous by Disney's standards. It made over a billion dollars worldwide, and currently only 3 movies of Disney's have made more, TFA, Avengers, and Avengers 2. (Though, to be fair, Black Panther will probably pass it at this point.) Black Panther is at 1.3 billion worldwide now. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel2017b.htm
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I said come in! posted:Black Panther is at 1.3 billion worldwide now. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel2017b.htm Right, it's at $1.301 billion vs. $1.332 billion for TLJ, which is why I said Black Panther will probably pass it. The point still stands if the number I mentioned is 4 Disney movies ahead of it instead of 3.
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You'd think after 20 years of self-assuredly predicting that this was going to be the year the superhero movie fad finally died forever and being wrong every single time people would at least have an ounce of humility in continuing to speak authoritatively about the impending failure of whatever incredibly popular and successful thing it's cool to hate online is next.
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Guy Mann posted:You'd think after 20 years of self-assuredly predicting that this was going to be the year the superhero movie fad finally died forever and being wrong every single time people would at least have an ounce of humility in continuing to speak authoritatively about the impending failure of whatever incredibly popular and successful thing it's cool to hate online is next. The point is that these films have already failed. These are dead movies. People just can't articulate why they no longer enjoy Star Wars and Marvel novelty, except through an elaborate financial metaphor.
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Hot take: I'd rather watch a movie all about Donald Glover's Lando than a Han Solo prequel no matter who is playing Han If nothing else, Lando's a way less-explored character than Han (at least in the movies--I'm sure there are like a dozen Lando books in the Legends stuff), but it helps that Glover's probably going to be a lot of fun as the character too.
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Harrow posted:Hot take: I'd rather watch a movie all about Donald Glover's Lando than a Han Solo prequel no matter who is playing Han That's not a hot take, that's just obviously correct.
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hiddenriverninja posted:Yesterday, I went to a VFX panel for The Last Jedi, where they discussed the technical challenges of creating Snoke, the Vulptexes, the Dreadnought, etc. That sounds cool was it recorded by any chance.
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I just want a decent land battle in the new ones. I thought we'd get one at the end of TLJ but I was hoodwinked.
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It's not called Land Wars
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Lord Hydronium posted:It's not called Land Wars It is called Star Wars yet there's only been one
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Fistfight Wars
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yeah LANDO would have been way more interesting than SOLO but it seems like when they came up with these couple of spinoffs they were playing it super safe bc they didn't know if spinoffs would work? I dunno All of these spinoffs have pretty much been glorified appendices to literally a single film made in 1977. Like in the back end of the LOTR books you get somewhat detailed stories about stuff that happened before or between the stuff you actually care about. For all of the chatter about how "it's a wide open galaxy for all kinds of stories" they haven't really demonstrated it yet
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Guy Mann posted:You'd think after 20 years of self-assuredly predicting that this was going to be the year the superhero movie fad finally died forever and being wrong every single time people would at least have an ounce of humility in continuing to speak authoritatively about the impending failure of whatever incredibly popular and successful thing it's cool to hate online is next. It's really funny that everyone started saying this right as Marvel ripped off a string of undeniable hits.
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Ingmar terdman posted:For all of the chatter about how "it's a wide open galaxy for all kinds of stories" they haven't really demonstrated it yet Disney wants to double its 4 billion investment before they even consider taking a risk. And they probably won't even then because its too profitable to repeat a formula, i.e. Marvel.
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Thinking about it, I really would have preferred if the Solo movie had been about winning a BIG RACE called the Kessel Run instead of a heist movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEwWzMz99A
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Next Poe Dameon comic has a scene set right after the Battle of Crait. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/8brnz4/the_next_poe_dameron_comics_has_reyfinnpoe_scene/
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Gonz posted:Next Poe Dameon comic has a scene set right after the Battle of Crait. That's a fun little scene, thanks.
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Gonz posted:Next Poe Dameon comic has a scene set right after the Battle of Crait. Did Joss Whedon write that?
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Gonz posted:Next Poe Dameon comic has a scene set right after the Battle of Crait. 
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MonsieurChoc posted:Thinking about it, I really would have preferred if the Solo movie had been about winning a BIG RACE called the Kessel Run instead of a heist movie. Especially since Rogue One already was kind of a heist movie. What is it about John Boyega that provokes terrible likenesses?   
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Snowman_McK posted:What is it about John Boyega that provokes terrible likenesses? You can’t duplicate a perfect face like his 
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Ingmar terdman posted:yeah LANDO would have been way more interesting than SOLO but it seems like when they came up with these couple of spinoffs they were playing it super safe bc they didn't know if spinoffs would work? I dunno A Solo backstory was a movie Lucas was planning to make all along (it was material that he told the EU writers they weren't allowed to touch because he wanted it for himself). I think those of us who want to see more Star Wars movies can be thankful that better directors were given the opportunity to make it, whatever the final result is.
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Better than Lucas, who, uh, conceived and created the character and directed the actor in four out of his five appearances? What is there that you even like about Han Solo in that case?
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tadashi posted:I think those of us who want to see more Star Wars movies can be thankful that better directors were given the opportunity to make it, whatever the final result is. ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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josh04 posted:Better than Lucas, who, uh, conceived and created the character and directed the actor in four out of his five appearances? What is there that you even like about Han Solo in that case? Not to mention who also directed the six best Star Wars movies so far. Edit: "directed," I know, okay, four and a half.
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tadashi posted:A Solo backstory was a movie Lucas was planning to make all along (it was material that he told the EU writers they weren't allowed to touch because he wanted it for himself). I think those of us who want to see more Star Wars movies can be thankful that better directors were given the opportunity to make it, whatever the final result is. There was a three book trilogy that was Han's backstory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Han_Solo_Trilogy
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Davros1 posted:There was a three book trilogy that was Han's backstory. There's also the Brian Daley novels set before ANH, among the first EU books ever. They're good and recommended. And being early EU, they're not concerned with continuity at all, just telling fun little adventures, for people who balk at that aspect of the EU (I like Crispin's trilogy too, but it's big on tying together all the previous material about Han's history, so YMMV).
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I believe Crispin wanted to write a Leia trilogy to accompany her Han novels, but was told she couldn't because Lucas (or someone) wanted to explore Leia's backstory in a mooted prequel TV series, Young Indiana Jones style.
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