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Alexeythegreat posted:You nerds We have recurring Gilbert & Sullivan chat and you’re just now coming to this realization
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feedmegin posted:To be fair there are TIE Bombers in Empire Strikes Back who drop gravity bombs on that asteroid the Millennium Falcon hides in. It is v v dumb but that movie didnt start it. Y-wings also drop gravity bombs. The problem with that TLJ scene is that the bomber is ridiculously slow and the tactics were lol bad. Bad sequels are better than bad prequels. That’s my position.
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Oct 23, 2018 00:54
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The prequels would have 100% been better if Lucas was allowed to stick with the evil Jar Jar plan instead of having to abandon it after episode 1. He was intended to be the evil yoda from the getgo but was set aside after horrific fan reception.
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Oct 23, 2018 01:27
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Mr. Nice! posted:The prequels would have 100% been better if Lucas was allowed to stick with the evil Jar Jar plan instead of having to abandon it after episode 1. He was intended to be the evil yoda from the getgo but was set aside after horrific fan reception. Is this real? I would think a Jar Jar heel turn would have improved fan opinion. Jar Jar was objectively terrible from the beginning though.
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Oct 23, 2018 01:30
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Considering they’ve mastered faster than light travel, energy generation capable of destroying planets, and plasma containment fields to make swords, their cannon/blaster/missile targeting systems are pretty garbage. Luke uses the Force to pretend to be on a different planet and makes his Force hologram draw fire from an entire assault division, then duels Kylo Ren without anyone realizing it was a fake for a solid half hour or more Everyone on both sides in the entire galaxy: *has intelligence agencies and spies and sends people out to get information in person, because reasons*
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Oct 23, 2018 01:31
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Adam driver doing the sideways stomp when he draws his lightsaber is the coolest thing of the new movies and was created entirely by him because he wanted to set himself apart from the totally standard normal way He's absolutely carrying the franchise and if they'd had any balls the last movie would have ended with rey considering his completely reasonable offer
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Look Sir Droids posted:Is this real? I would think a Jar Jar heel turn would have improved fan opinion. I can't find the original video that first pointed it out 5 or 6 years ago, but since them both George Lucas and the actor who played Jar Jar have basically confirmed that it was the plan. Jar Jar was supposed to be the dark side Yoda. Lucas loves his "rhyming" themes. If you watch episode 1, Jar Jar demonstrates cunning athletic ability, complete disregard for jedi and their powers, and is somehow completely and utterly feared by every other gungan. There are even a number of scenes where Jar Jar seems to be using force control abilities to make people say things he wants. Since Jar Jar was universally despised, they scrapped the idea and basically wrote him out of the remaining two movies as much as possible. That's why Count Dooku just comes out of nowhere plot wise. It was supposed to be a yoda v jar jar battle instead.
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Look - I know this has probably been posted 100 times, but it's new to me and it rules - so I thought I'd share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWdP5DMdsM
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Sab0921 posted:Look - I know this has probably been posted 100 times, but it's new to me and it rules - so I thought I'd share. I've seen this so many times and will happily rewatch it again.
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Oct 23, 2018 05:41
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Mr. Nice! posted:I can't find the original video that first pointed it out 5 or 6 years ago, but since them both George Lucas and the actor who played Jar Jar have basically confirmed that it was the plan. Jar Jar was supposed to be the dark side Yoda. Lucas loves his "rhyming" themes. If you watch episode 1, Jar Jar demonstrates cunning athletic ability, complete disregard for jedi and their powers, and is somehow completely and utterly feared by every other gungan. There are even a number of scenes where Jar Jar seems to be using force control abilities to make people say things he wants. I know this thread enjoys hazing as much as any other thread full of misanthropic recluses, but trying to trick people into re-watching Episode 1 is beyond the pale...
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disjoe posted:We have recurring Gilbert & Sullivan chat and you’re just now coming to this realization Unlike Gilbert & Sullivan, Star Wars I can parse
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disjoe posted:Yeah it was fine. I probably liked Rogue One better but I’m the only person in my circle of friends who preferred Last Jedi to Force Awakens so I’m not exactly a bellwether. Rogue One > The Force Awakens > The Last Jedi to be honest. Rogue One was surprisingly not starwars-y, and had the greatest ending of a SW movie (possibly). TFA had a lot of promise, and while I wasn't too happy with what was basically a new hope remix, it at least set up a lot of good interesting plot points for the next move. The Last Jedi was an insult. Stupid, cashgrabby, annoying, inconsistent, illogical and boring. Did nothing with any of the plot lines from TFR (guess that was unexpected and innovative somehow, not that either quality necessarily means a good movie), completely hosed up the Luke Skywalker storyline while spitting on the memory of one of the most beloved and iconic characters from the franchise, had stupid bullshit like the lightspeed ram which EwokEntourage posted:None of the space fighting makes any sense when you could just hyper drive asteroids thru star destroys or death stars or into planets Yeah, in any proper sci fi setting civilizations would just use relativistic weaponry and that would be it. Maybe a MAD-doctrine solution galaxywide or something but we don't have any indication that this is the case. The Force Awakens was not bad as a reboot, the Last Jedi just utterly killed the new movies for me. Couldn't care less any more. loving blue walrus milk drinking pieces of poo poo Mr. Nice! posted:I can't find the original video that first pointed it out 5 or 6 years ago, but since them both George Lucas and the actor who played Jar Jar have basically confirmed that it was the plan. Jar Jar was supposed to be the dark side Yoda. Lucas loves his "rhyming" themes. If you watch episode 1, Jar Jar demonstrates cunning athletic ability, complete disregard for jedi and their powers, and is somehow completely and utterly feared by every other gungan. There are even a number of scenes where Jar Jar seems to be using force control abilities to make people say things he wants. Would have made the prequels so much better. mastershakeman posted:Adam driver doing the sideways stomp when he draws his lightsaber is the coolest thing of the new movies and was created entirely by him because he wanted to set himself apart from the totally standard normal way Agreed. Adam Driver is fantastic and is totally carrying it all at this point. What else is left? CERTAINLY NOT LUKE SKYWALKER yeah I'm gonna stop right there before I actually get mad about space fantasy opera.
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Oct 23, 2018 07:56
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I wanted to see Luke suck the green milk straight from the space walrus teat. That’s the Jedi Way.
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Oct 23, 2018 10:42
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I like how this thread is in a state of meltdown over Star Wars, of all things
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Oct 23, 2018 12:08
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Oh please. Like you're above getting irrationally upset over some nerdy poo poo. In fact I bet I could easily get you  over either chess (lol Серге́й Каря́кин) or maybe the russian 2018 winter olympics results?Anyway, thank Christ at least it isn't anime.
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Alexeythegreat posted:I like how this thread is in a state of meltdown over Star Wars, of all things Calmer than you
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Oct 23, 2018 12:35
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Everything would be fine if they had the balls to take at least some things directly from the EU, instead of the sequels being derivative as they are instead of this weird "legends" bullshit or what's it called
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I actually tried watching solo and was shocked at how muddy and ugly and hard to see the characters were in the beginning. Thought maybe it was my tv? And switched to fury road which still looks amazing and said nope, this is Ron Howard's fault It's ok if you don't understand why last Jedi is much better than rogue one and the excrementable force awakens, but let's all at least admit the last great blockbuster was fury road To be fair, a lot of rogue ones problems was the studio flipping out over space Iraq, deleting most of the two lead characters personalities and then throwing in a meaningless fanservice space battle at the end to cover up for the butchering of the first 2/3rds of the movie . So it wasn't a giant directorial fuckuo like force awakens was where Abrams said you know how you make a good movie, is you only make half of one and say come back next time! mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Oct 23, 2018 |
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Nice piece of fish posted:(lol Серге́й Каря́кин) What did the minister of defence do now?
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I wanted to see Luke suck the green milk straight from the space walrus teat. That’s the Jedi Way. luke drink the space cum
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algebra testes posted:What did the minister of defence do now? Lost at chess.
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sullat posted:I know this thread enjoys hazing as much as any other thread full of misanthropic recluses, but trying to trick people into re-watching Episode 1 is beyond the pale... Here’s the post. I thought it was a video like loose change. Ignore the dumb snoke prediction at the end. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user/
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Mr. Nice! posted:Here’s the post. I thought it was a video like loose change. Ignore the dumb snoke prediction at the end. this is 2451 words long
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Oct 23, 2018 14:16
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Why didn't the loving eagles just fly the ring to Mount Doom? loving hack author.
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SlyFrog posted:Why didn't the loving eagles just fly the ring to Mount Doom? Cause they would be seduced by the ring if they took it themselves.
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Oct 23, 2018 14:21
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Mr. Nice! posted:I can't find the original video that first pointed it out 5 or 6 years ago, but since them both George Lucas and the actor who played Jar Jar have basically confirmed that it was the plan. Jar Jar was supposed to be the dark side Yoda. Lucas loves his "rhyming" themes. If you watch episode 1, Jar Jar demonstrates cunning athletic ability, complete disregard for jedi and their powers, and is somehow completely and utterly feared by every other gungan. There are even a number of scenes where Jar Jar seems to be using force control abilities to make people say things he wants. this is essentially a fan conspiracy theory btw. Lucas has never confirmed, and the voice actor who played Jar Jar has said "uhhhh maybe! Who knows! Could be!" You are conflating Star Wars "ring theory" and "evil Jar Jar" theory, which are conspiracy theories designed to make people think Lucas has secret talent, and isn't a bumbling hack who was making it up as he went along to sell toys
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Old Story posted:this is essentially a fan conspiracy theory btw. Lucas has never confirmed, and the voice actor who played Jar Jar has said "uhhhh maybe! Who knows! Could be!" It also assumes Lucas can handle subtext and subtlety. Which he can't. He named bad guys "Darth Maul" and "Darth Tyraneous" and a drug addict "Sleaze Baggano" for Christ's sake.
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Doesn’t Darth Vader literally mean Dark Father? Either way, I still believe in Sith Lord Binks.
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Oct 23, 2018 14:44
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I liked the 50s diner in the prequel movie, pure George Lucas. It’s like poetry, everything rhymes. Also the money grubbing flying alien with the Hebrew accent and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion facial features
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Oct 23, 2018 15:04
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I would do anything to see the secret experimental films that Lucas says he spends his time making in his garage now
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Old Story posted:I would do anything to see the secret experimental films that Lucas says he spends his time making in his garage now Anything, you say?
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Oct 23, 2018 15:14
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That some monkey’s paw level poo poo, ending with you snuffing a genetically engineered Ewok on camera.
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Alexeythegreat posted:Anything, you say? well, excepting going to law school
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mastershakeman posted:I actually tried watching solo and was shocked at how muddy and ugly and hard to see the characters were in the beginning. Thought maybe it was my tv? And switched to fury road which still looks amazing and said nope, this is Ron Howard's fault Is Fury Road out on Netflix yet?
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sullat posted:Is Fury Road out on Netflix yet? Netflix doesn't have movies it's just a premium cable channel at this point If you want movies you get a networked hard drive and a $35 raspberry pi 3, throw xbmc on it and use that for a decade and counting
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mastershakeman posted:Netflix doesn't have movies it's just a premium cable channel at this point yeah this is shockingly true, i cannot recall the last time i thought "i would like to see this movie" and found it on netflix, or saw a movie on netflix that i was interested in seeing
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