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Big Beef City posted:"Shut them down R2, shut them ALL down!" BEHOLD, THE SINGULARITY ENGINE!
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why are yall trying to read into these movies so much they're transparent cash in nostalgia scams meant to do nothing more than exploit the prestige of the original three movies and provide a convenient excuse to fire up the star wars toy factories again
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Jun 9, 2019 09:21
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Can't argue with that. I guess it's because so many people have spent so long thinking about how they'd do a star wars story from the time they were kids, so it's an excuse to talk that over. Nostalgia works for a reason.
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Jun 9, 2019 09:36
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Lando wakes up to find an Ewok’s head in his bed.
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Jun 9, 2019 14:38
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jimmyjams posted:why are yall trying to read into these movies so much So are star trek movies. So are Lego movies. So are X-Men movies. So are Batman movies. So are toystory movies. So are Pokemon movies. So is Lord of the rings movies. So is every loving thing ever made that ties into any popular thing people are aware of, enjoy, and talk about. People do this specifically because there's enough material out there that is popular enough to discuss with others. Sometimes that material sucks rear end and sometimes people who liked other parts of it ask 'what if'. I know that's hard to imagine, given your perfect tastes in all things that are both 100% logical and 100% enjoyable, but it can and does happen that people talk to others about things.
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Jun 9, 2019 14:49
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poisonpill posted:Lando wakes up to find he's getting head from an Ewok.
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Jun 9, 2019 15:12
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Alright, which one of you assholes bought me this Therm Scissorpunch commemorative avatar? It's dumb and terrible, just like my posting. I love it.
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Jun 9, 2019 16:19
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Scissor me dinners, laddies! It's the soup course for ye! lol I wish I could take credit for that, that's a good as heck av that no one will get unfortunately.
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Jun 9, 2019 17:07
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sebmojo posted:As long as i can remember, I've wanted to be a robot *IG-88 stabs the poo poo out of a Bothan lying in a landspeeder trunk* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y22tIJ6toPY "To me, being a robot was better than being the Emperor of the galaxy."
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Jun 9, 2019 18:03
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jimmyjams posted:why are yall trying to read into these movies so much
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Jun 9, 2019 22:08
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jimmyjams posted:why are yall trying to read into these movies so much Too bad the top Google result for "Star Wars toy profits" is a Forbes article saying sales are down.
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Jun 9, 2019 23:41
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Alan G posted:Some Like It Hoth  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hoth Coincidentally produced by Disney and JJ Abrams, with a schizophrenic plot that didn't make much sense.
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Jun 10, 2019 02:57
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super sweet best pal posted:Too bad the top Google result for "Star Wars toy profits" is a Forbes article saying sales are down. Good
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Jun 10, 2019 04:47
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Big Beef City posted:Scissor me dinners, laddies! It's the soup course for ye! I kinda love that I've been committed to remembering who this dumb Star Wars character is, just so I can explain my bizarre avatar of a badass-looking lobster dude if anyone asks. super sweet best pal posted:Too bad the top Google result for "Star Wars toy profits" is a Forbes article saying sales are down. Truly amazing that kids aren't interested in "TIE Fighter but in black this time", "C3PO with red arm", "wiener villain (masked)/wiener villain (no mask)" or "pink-haired admiral" toys. I'm assuming the manbaby market for those is still holding up. Except the Holdo toys, obv.
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Jun 10, 2019 22:34
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:Honestly half of TLJ owns and the other half has big eyed children in casinos. actually, i think you'll find the whole movie was irredeemable garbage from start to finish
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Jun 10, 2019 23:00
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The entire series since the moment before RotJ came out, in fact
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Jun 10, 2019 23:13
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Voting Floater posted:Truly amazing that kids aren't interested in "TIE Fighter but in black this time", "C3PO with red arm", "wiener villain (masked)/wiener villain (no mask)" or "pink-haired admiral" toys. so did the movie though
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Jun 10, 2019 23:45
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QuarkJets posted:The entire series since the moment before RotJ came out, in fact Was ROTJ that bad? I can still enjoy it, and even handwave the Ewok portions. Compared to the new trilogy it's Citizen Kane.
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Jun 10, 2019 23:50
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I genuinely liked the Ewoks as a kid.
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Jun 10, 2019 23:51
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Neither the Ewoks nor the Jabba plot would be bad on its own, but both in one movie is too much. Pretty much everything apart from those two things is great, but once you’ve discounted those two things you’ve only got like a third of the movie left.
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Jun 10, 2019 23:59
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Cheesemaster200 posted:
Also, speaking of, I realize I'm a few pages too late for the musicals derail but really did nobody take the low hanging Phantom Menace of the Opera fruit?
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Jun 11, 2019 00:01
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Blistex posted:Was ROTJ that bad? I can still enjoy it, and even handwave the Ewok portions. Compared to the new trilogy it's Citizen Kane. ROTJ was always my favorite. The space battle and the throne room are so good that they overwhelm any so-called flaws in the rest of it. I think Jabba's palace and the rescue could have been a whole movie episode 5.5, and that may have been a remnant of the supposedly 12-movie plan that got cut down because George got burned out.
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Jun 11, 2019 00:06
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Even if the Ewoks were toy-bait, they actually mattered to the plot. TLJs toy-bait cute creatures existed ENTIRELY to sell toys and removing all scenes with them wouldn’t affect the plot in the slightest.
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Jun 11, 2019 00:33
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super sweet best pal posted:Too bad the top Google result for "Star Wars toy profits" is a Forbes article saying sales are down. Was a delight going to the store yesterday and seeing the bargain bins overflowing with hundreds of unsold Rei figurines. Also Captain Marvel. I’m not happy to see them not being sold because they’re women, understand, but because they’re Disney toys.
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Jun 11, 2019 01:58
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RaySmuckles posted:actually, i think you'll find the whole movie was irredeemable garbage from start to finish
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Jun 11, 2019 01:59
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Blistex posted:Was ROTJ that bad? I can still enjoy it, and even handwave the Ewok portions. Compared to the new trilogy it's Citizen Kane. ROTJ was my favorite when I was a 10 year-old kid who really liked the space battles and lightsaber fights But it's hands-down the worst movie of the original trilogy, and if you pay attention it has a lot of details that are precursors to all of the things that are wrong with the prequel trilogy. It's kind of a mess.
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Jun 11, 2019 07:42
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Ive said this a dozen times, RotJ is half a really bad movie and half the best thing in Star Wars and the only reason that Star Wars has had the staying power it has is that the ending is what was good
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Jun 11, 2019 08:20
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what rotj really needed was more singing and dancing in the jabba scene, like i really wish we could just spend a few minutes focusing on a song and dance number, it's needed for the world building you see not because dancing cgi aliens are the only thing that can still get me hard (well, that and cgi aliens serving as racist caricatures)
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Jun 11, 2019 09:03
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Gutcruncher posted:Even if the Ewoks were toy-bait, they actually mattered to the plot. TLJs toy-bait cute creatures existed ENTIRELY to sell toys and removing all scenes with them wouldn’t affect the plot in the slightest. QuarkJets posted:ROTJ was my favorite when I was a 10 year-old kid who really liked the space battles and lightsaber fights 
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Jun 11, 2019 09:51
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RotJ has the best 30 seconds and traveling shot of any Star War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1MnMA0TzGI&t=236s Also the ending owns, with the party and the whole galaxy is like "woo gently caress the empire", and it's cool that Disney had to retcon it and really the whole movie because they're just that creatively bankrupt.
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Jun 11, 2019 10:49
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mind the walrus posted:The little ice fox things were crucial to the characters finding a way out of the cave. You could rewrite that part easily, but I mean, come on. Honestly the Ewoks were the worst, only surpassed by the explicitly racist aliens from the prequels. I don't know who likes them, but I don't want to know them. They mean the porgs.
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Jun 11, 2019 11:12
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Chucat posted:They mean the porgs™.
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Jun 11, 2019 11:19
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nah they meant the blue milk titty aliens, toys for which are still selling like gangbusters
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Jun 11, 2019 11:23
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Uhh, they're 'miniatures' or 'collectables' actually. God, mom.
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Jun 11, 2019 11:28
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Gutcruncher posted:Even if the Ewoks were toy-bait, they actually mattered to the plot. TLJs toy-bait cute creatures existed ENTIRELY to sell toys and removing all scenes with them wouldn’t affect the plot in the slightest. Mods? Pretty racist to refer to Finn and Rose as "creatures" just because they are not white!
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Jun 11, 2019 15:43
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Chucat posted:They mean the porgs.
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Jun 11, 2019 16:40
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Chewie should have eaten that porg.
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Jun 11, 2019 16:45
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How do you think Chewie killed that porg? His bowcaster probably would have obliterated it, so he must have used something else. Did he set a trap? Did he just grab one because they haven't learn to fear humanoids yet? Maybe he showed it the picture of Porg Couple and it died on the spot out of shame. Or perhaps he challenged it to a game of holo-chess, lost, and tore it's wing out of it's socket.
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Jun 11, 2019 16:48
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Chomp8645 posted:Chewie should have eaten that porg. At that point Chewie tossing it away is just a waste of meat, which is even more offensive
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I can forgive the porgs because they needed something to paste over the puffins that were everywhere on that island.
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