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Starfuel Wars: OPEC Strikes Back
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Apr 23, 2019 05:21
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I am Oo-day Namoonien from the Fuel Processing Consortium, and I hereby declare our organization's intention to separate from the Galactic Republic.
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Apr 23, 2019 05:24
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Peak space oil
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Apr 23, 2019 05:25
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:it's funny because 1. people who would call themselves left preaching blind obedience based on nothing but someone's rank This really shouldn't surprise anyone, look at the unquestioning reverence many currently have for the intelligence services, but if the same tactics were used on a person with a (D) by their name instead of an (R) it'd be an outrage. Dogmatism is the blinding factor, and that's not limited to one particular ideology.
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Apr 23, 2019 05:33
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i was definitely drunk when i was forced to watch solo and all i really remember was being jealous thandie newton got to blow herself up and out of the movie
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Apr 23, 2019 05:33
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:It's baffling how much more sense everyone's behavior would make if the original assumption for how they were being followed through hyperspace was a spy on board, to the point I feel like this had to be in an original version and was cut out in subsequent drafts in favor of adding the stupid tracker and the casino planet sidequest The whole thing where being tracked through hyperspace went from being “impossible” to “theoretically possible” to “I used to mop the room where the active tracking device is kept” in the space of a single conversation pissed me off so much I almost walked out then and there.
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Apr 23, 2019 05:33
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Solo was infinitely more watchable imo. I tried to hit up Last Jedi on Netflix and couldn't get past the loving chase scene.
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Apr 23, 2019 05:36
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Colonel Cancer posted:Solo was infinitely more watchable imo. I tried to hit up Last Jedi on Netflix and couldn't get past the loving chase scene. I liked Solo better than TLJ the first time I saw it but it doesn’t hold up to subsequent viewings. I appreciated the puppet worm in the beginning tho.
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Apr 23, 2019 05:43
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Colonel Cancer posted:Solo was infinitely more watchable imo. I tried to hit up Last Jedi on Netflix and couldn't get past the loving chase scene. the chase scene was going on for 1.5 hrs tho
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Apr 23, 2019 05:45
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Vim Fuego posted:the chase scene was going on for 1.5 hrs tho Probably why he couldn’t get past it
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Apr 23, 2019 05:47
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i can’t fathom watching any of these movies more than once
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Apr 23, 2019 05:48
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WatermelonGun posted:i can’t fathom watching any of these movies more than once Not even Empire Strikes Back? I watched that VHS so many times the hinges on the clamshell case wore out.
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Apr 23, 2019 05:55
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WatermelonGun posted:i can’t fathom watching any of these movies more than once I saw the prequels in the theater and by the time "revenge" came out I sort of went out of obligation although I wasn't excited for it. Learned my lesson tho. When I slogged through the second hobbit movie I was like "nope, not doing this again" and still haven't seen the third one.
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Apr 23, 2019 05:55
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KillerJunglist posted:I saw the prequels in the theater and by the time "revenge" came out I sort of went out of obligation although I wasn't excited for it. Good for you. For me I skipped the middle one and watched the end one so I can tell you it was terrible.
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Apr 23, 2019 05:56
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Communist Walrus posted:Pretty stoked about the upcoming EU book where it's revealed that thing is actually a sith lord who uses his tantalizing evil milk to keep Luke in a miasma so he doesn't have the clarity of mind to leave the island and save the galaxy And that things name: jar jar binks that's what gungans look like when they grow old
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Apr 23, 2019 06:01
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Applewhite posted:Not even Empire Strikes Back? Same but I was 10 at the time
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Apr 23, 2019 06:03
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Applewhite posted:Good for you. The second one has an Ed Sheeran song playing during the credits. My wife and I looked at each other and were literally: 
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Apr 23, 2019 06:07
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QuarkJets posted:Same but I was 10 at the time The part where Luke was hanging from the antenna was really scary and each time I watched it I was never sure they would rescue him this time.
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Apr 23, 2019 06:21
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piratepilates posted:take the fleet to a random salt moon while suffering terrible attrition, keep all of the real plan in the dark, hope no one mutinies because it looks like a slow death spiral, and then hope that the imperials don't do anything like "look at the ships in plain sight with a big magnifying glass like they did", or "check that empty moon to make sure there's no base there", and hope that your distress signal will reach anyone who gives a poo poo Bogus Adventure posted:It's a poorly thought-out conflict, certainly complicated by the poor setup that JJ Abrams gave in Episode VII. For some reason, a small extremist group manages to create a super planet killer as well as a massive fleet with the financial backing to maintain it. The Resistance, although run by the victors of in the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire, has zero support despite dealing a pretty big blow to the First Order in blowing up their planet killer. However, allowing ships and people to get blown up while running away from the First Order fleet to a stationary planetary base is considered a good use of the Resistance's scarce resources. Applewhite posted:The whole thing where being tracked through hyperspace went from being “impossible” to “theoretically possible” to “I used to mop the room where the active tracking device is kept” in the space of a single conversation pissed me off so much I almost walked out then and there. reading these words giving me ptsd, film is monumentally stupid Applewhite posted:I liked Solo better than TLJ the first time I saw it but it doesn’t hold up to subsequent viewings. I appreciated the puppet worm in the beginning tho. I don't think Solo is better, per say, but it feels like it captures more actual humor and sweeping romance from genuine actor chemistry like the OT did, which is pretty much all SW ever had going for it besides flashing lights. The PT and ST have no chemistry, no legitimate romance, tepid humor, no urgency, and basically a glut of boring effects that are now standard trashmob poo poo in the industry If they want to live up to being 'Space Opera' then they might as well at least try to depict convincing emotional interactions to go along with the laser show BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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Apr 23, 2019 07:01
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TLJ had a lot of stupid poo poo in it but then I'm reminded that The Phantom Menace had a pair of heroic jedi rolling up into a town with literal slaves and the jedi were just like "yeah this is all fine, the real crime is the trade federation imposing an embargo on Space Venice" galactic heroes of the free market i guess
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Apr 23, 2019 07:32
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QuarkJets posted:TLJ had a lot of stupid poo poo in it but then I'm reminded that The Phantom Menace had a pair of heroic jedi rolling up into a town with literal slaves and the jedi were just like "yeah this is all fine, the real crime is the trade federation imposing an embargo on Space Venice" Now now, they did cheat at gambling for the purposes of separating a child from his mother.
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Apr 23, 2019 07:48
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I wore out two separate VHS sets of the original trilogy as a kid
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Apr 23, 2019 07:52
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Applewhite posted:Maybe she should have taken two seconds to explain her plan instead of keeping it a secret. Throughout the movie there's two big underlying mysteries: a) how is the 1st Order tracking the rebels through hyperspace, and b) why isn't Holdo telling people the plan? Both of these questions can be elegantly explained by there being a spy within the rebel fleet, and Holdo knows about this so she's keeping people in the dark. But of course the actual answers are a) the 1st Order just invented some thing that lets them track the rebels through hyperspace, and b) ??? My expectations were so loving subverted!
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Apr 23, 2019 08:54
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:
Yeah this is why both Rogue One and Solo worked for me; while they weren't perfect they at least had the look and feel of the original trilogy and kept things simple story-wise. They weren't trying to "subvert" anything or pretending that at the end of the day it isn't fun to just see some weird aliens and shooty space guns.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:02
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Also lol that Holdo is from Planet Granola Aunt and turns out to be a massive authoritarian scold. Almost as if hippies are just as fascist as anyone else. 
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Apr 23, 2019 09:05
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TLJ gets even better once you realize the First Order could easily see that the Resistance ships are running straight towards that planet and could just intercept them, but choose not to, because they are equally dumb. Kind of like that one Snoke guard that has two knives but when Rey puts him in an arm lock he throws the other one away to avoid easily winning and dies instead.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:06
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Mooey Cow posted:TLJ gets even better once you realize the First Order could easily see that the Resistance ships are running straight towards that planet and could just intercept them, but choose not to, because they are equally dumb. And they must have jumped out of hyperspace inside that planet’s solar system anyway because much of the chase happens at sublight speed so unless the chase went on for literal years they were actually extremely close to the planet the whole time. Also I wonder if they ditched the idea that there was a spy/tracking device in the resistance fleet because otherwise it would just be a total ripoff of the BSG episode “33.”
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Apr 23, 2019 09:14
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I think I could have forgiven the Casino Planet plot if the Casino mission had actually taken weeks or months but Finn and whatsername’s absence wasn’t missed because the resistance fleet was traveling at 90% lightspeed so to them Finn was gone for all of five minutes.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:21
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I guess one of the big reasons why (aside from lack of actor chemistry) the 'space opera' feeling no longer delivers is because the quality of the editing and the accompanying score feel so incredibly generic and half assed. Like, I'm not going to argue that the PT delivers on shot composition and editing, but in the final work at least William's score felt outsized and provocative.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:25
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Mooey Cow posted:
He doesn't even throw it away, I think they just edited it out digitally or something. It just disappears. It's really bad.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:27
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:He doesn't even throw it away, I think they just edited it out digitally or something. It just disappears. It's really bad. That whole throne room fight scene looked like something from a fan film. Not so much the effects, but how clumsy and stuttering it was. When you have viewers noticing people literally standing still for a second or more to get their timing right, or intentionally swinging to miss, you've really hosed up the choreography.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:32
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Applewhite posted:Also I wonder if they ditched the idea that there was a spy/tracking device in the resistance fleet because otherwise it would just be a total ripoff of the BSG episode “33.”
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Apr 23, 2019 09:34
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Blistex posted:That whole throne room fight scene looked like something from a fan film. Not so much the effects, but how clumsy and stuttering it was. When you have viewers noticing people literally standing still for a second or more to get their timing right, or intentionally swinging to miss, you've really hosed up the choreography. I'll do you one better: the editing in that scene is bad enough that I think fan-edits could actually do it better There was some weird Thor looking superfan on youtube who went through the motions of editing the throne room fight scene in TLJ so that it flowed better visually and harmonized better with the score, and he added in several notable pieces for his score, including a version of Ren's theme from TFA and an alternate version of Duel of the Fates from TPM...instead of the kind of manic temp-music almost nothing score from The Last Jedi proper...and the positive effect is kind of remarkable and really emotionally satisfying. The scene goes from clumsy whip-pan-zoom anticlimax to a sort of balletic and propulsive surge. He's not the most articulate dude but he does talk about his thought process behind each change and he comes across as genuine and excited about the emotions trying to be conveyed through the violence of the scene. It's kind of too bad that he has to chop it up into microfragments in order for it to not be taken down.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:39
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Bistromatic posted:On the other hand 33 was the best space chase i've seen so far and i was thinking they should have ripped it off the whole time. They might as well have. The comparison was inevitable anyway.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:40
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The worst crime of Last Jedi was Luke spear fishing. Jedi's are strict vegetarians.
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Apr 23, 2019 09:55
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Automatic Slim posted:The worst crime of Last Jedi was Luke spear fishing. Jedi's are strict vegetarians. Why did Yoda eat that loving hotdog then, hmmmmmmmmm?????!!!!!
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Apr 23, 2019 10:05
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Space tofu.
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Apr 23, 2019 10:05
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Since the last good star warred movie was made in the 80s I'm just here to see the washing and gnailing of teeth plus resultant arguments & defenders when the latest movie in a series of poo poo movies by the mouse, turns out to be poo poo. I mean who could possibly predict that outcome?
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Apr 23, 2019 10:09
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DancingShade posted:Since the last good star warred movie was made in the 80s I'm just here to see the washing and gnailing of teeth plus resultant arguments & defenders when the latest movie in a series of poo poo movies by the mouse, turns out to be poo poo. It’s gonna suck but I’ll admit I’m probably gonna see it because it’s almost as much fun to trash talk the movie MST3K style with my wife as it is to watch a good movie. I still have fond memories of Battleship because my friends and I got drunk and shouted insults at the screen through the whole movie.
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Apr 23, 2019 10:13
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Applewhite posted:It’s gonna suck I mean it's your money, you do you. We float in an ocean of poo poo movies though. Have you considered trawling the bargain clearance bins for your fill in the meantime and picking up a copy of the latest space mouse movie from there once they're trying to get the things off the shelves? Wait let me give you a starting recommendation: Rupture. I guarantee you'll think it's poo poo. Good main lead but it doesn't save a garbage movie. Will definitely be cheap if you're hunting down a copy. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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Apr 23, 2019 10:18
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