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piratepilates posted:For some bizarre reason they can't find much to do with Finn It's almost amazing how completely they've expunged any interest or tension from every possible relationship in the movie. Watching Finn fight Phasma was one of the emptiest, most sterile spectacles I could imagine.
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skasion posted:Benicio Del Toro got a paycheck for TLJ lmfao He did do that odd scene where he exposes the star war industrial complex "hey look, here is George Lucas's worldview, but enough about that- maybe we should edit this out? i dunno".
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Oct 30, 2019 18:00
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Cosmik Slop posted:It's almost amazing how completely they've expunged any interest or tension from every possible relationship in the movie. Watching Finn fight Phasma was one of the emptiest, most sterile spectacles I could imagine. Phasma is such a weird character. I think she's a joke about boba fett getting owned easily by han solo but it's bizarre to carry that through in to 2 new star wars movies.
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Oct 30, 2019 18:03
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hemale in pain posted:Phasma is such a weird character. I think she's a joke about boba fett getting owned easily by han solo but it's bizarre to carry that through in to 2 new star wars movies. she exists so they can sell chrome storm trooper toys
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Oct 30, 2019 18:03
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Blistex posted:The Sentinelese are a stone-age tribe living off the coast of India who have had virtually no contact with the modern, outside world. . . they have put more thought into the writing of Star Wars than anyone Disney is paying to actually write Star Wars. i'm feeling another sequel to 'the gods must be crazy' here...
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Oct 30, 2019 18:04
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Cosmik Slop posted:It's almost amazing how completely they've expunged any interest or tension from every possible relationship in the movie. Watching Finn fight Phasma was one of the emptiest, most sterile spectacles I could imagine. Seeing her come back in TLJ was hilarious. Her role in TFA was clearly edited down to be near non existent, but then to have this character that does nothing come back to fight "a dude" in he sequel and have it end up the exact same way. I'm going to assume Rian Johnson did that on purpose and I love it.
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Oct 30, 2019 18:07
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Rutibex posted:she exists so they can sell chrome storm trooper toys That's every character though and that's fine because star wars has never been anything else. I just find how both films have handled her to be really weird.
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Oct 30, 2019 18:11
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Phasma doesn't do anything because the studio was worried people would accuse a female villain of being a negative portrayal of women if she actually did something bad.
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Oct 30, 2019 18:17
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It's pretty funny that when you take out external factors like "scary shiny armor" and "played by Brienne" the only thing Phasma actually does before getting clowned twice is get on Finn's case about uniform regulations
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Oct 30, 2019 18:18
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Finn should have stayed with the troopers and been an inside mole. Or possibly Unionize the storm troopers. also I want to see a Quentin Tarantino Star Wars. Or maybe a Darren aronofsky
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Oct 30, 2019 18:20
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Boba Fett was a minimal character, but even his few lines with Vader managed to sketch out a personality, a sense of where they stood with each other. Phasma gets *nothing*. I would be fine if a superior once said something like, "Dammit, Phasma, you can't let the defection of one lousy stormtrooper interfere with your duties like this". I could get something from that. Just anything.
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Oct 30, 2019 18:21
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Yaldabaoth posted:Phasma doesn't do anything because the studio was worried people would accuse a female villain of being a negative portrayal of women if she actually did something bad. It's a much better look having one of the female characters never show their face and have any scene where they do accomplish anything cut down to nothing. The only thing she ever does in the movies is to serve as a can for one of the male characters to kick.
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Oct 30, 2019 18:24
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Cosmik Slop posted:Boba Fett was a minimal character, but even his few lines with Vader managed to sketch out a personality, a sense of where they stood with each other. Phasma gets *nothing*. I would be fine if a superior once said something like, "Dammit, Phasma, you can't let the defection of one lousy stormtrooper interfere with your duties like this". I could get something from that. Just anything. *Throws u down garbage chute*
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Oct 30, 2019 18:26
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I hope that's not the case because Cersei was wrecking her chump enemies with extreme prejudice for eight years and we loved her for it
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Oct 30, 2019 18:27
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It's ok phasma will be back in the rise... And the tv series... And the videogames
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piratepilates posted:For some bizarre reason they can't find much to do with Finn One huge dropped thread is that everyone he merrily blasts is a potential Finn. Tens or hundreds of thousands of fellow slaves he should have some interest in saving. Finn running an underground railroad deprogramming former stormtroopers would be a legitimately cool angle they seem to have zero interest in exploring.
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Oct 30, 2019 18:33
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Star Wars: And The Phantabulous Emancipation of One Captain Phasma
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Kazak posted:I hope that's not the case because Cersei was wrecking her chump enemies with extreme prejudice for eight years and we loved her for it A reminder that Game of Thrones thinks it's better to have a male ruler even if he's a crippled gimp because female rulers will go nuts for no reason and try to kill everyone.
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Oct 30, 2019 18:36
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Yaldabaoth posted:A reminder that Game of Thrones thinks it's better to have a male ruler even if he's a crippled gimp because female rulers will go nuts for no reason and try to kill everyone. In defter hands having a queen ruling Pyke and a Queen in the North would feel like a counterbalance to that, but everything was so rushed and hamfisted that it carries no weight. It's like the long running beloved D&D campaign you had in college didn't have enough time to finish playing out and the DM sent a 3 paragraph email to everyone explaining the rest of the plot he had planned.
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Yaldabaoth posted:A reminder that Game of Thrones thinks it's better to have a male ruler even if he's a crippled gimp because female rulers will go nuts for no reason and try to kill everyone. What's wrong with being crippled hmm?
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Oct 30, 2019 18:46
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season 4 of The Expanse airs on december 13
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Poe: Oh no it's like the first order is tracking us somehow general! Leia: They must have some kind of new hyperspace tracking technology Finn: I just woke up where's Rey? Leia: She hosed off to find my brother but don't worry, she'll come back, I'm wearing this tracking device so she can find me wherever we go
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Yaldabaoth posted:A reminder that Game of Thrones thinks it's better to have a male ruler even if he's a crippled gimp because female rulers will go nuts for no reason and try to kill everyone. It actually ended with him being king of the south and Sansa becoming queen of an independent north so that’s your interpretation out the window
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Oct 30, 2019 18:52
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Horizon Burning posted:Jyn was going to be more of a radical terrorist type (hence why in the trailers she is in handcuffs when she's taken to the Rebel leaders) but it seems like Disney didn't think that was a good idea. While this totally happens with every massive iconic billion dollar movie franchise in existence, it's really stupid that all of the Disney Star Wars movies have suffered heavily from executive meddling. Especially Rogue One, where Disney top brass was supposedly extremely unhappy with Gareth Edwards and how the film turned out and ordered extensive reshoots and edits. Which is why Rogue One, while a very solid, highly entertaining movie, feels bizarrely disjointed sometimes. Shockingly, you can't just bring in someone else to reshoot and edit your movie that late in production and somehow hope it works out.
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Edit: nvm, don't want to start a GOT debate in a Star Wars thread.
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Poe: Omg Finn, you're making me harder than a Khyber crystal Finn: Is that a rathtar in your pocket, flyboy? Or are you just happy to see me? Poe: I'm gonna use my death star battering ram to bust open that bunker of yours. Finn: Now *this* is podracing!
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a peck of pickled peckers posted:Poe: Omg Finn, you're making me harder than a Khyber crystal Poe: I'll try spinning! That's a good trick! *meatspin.gif*
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Poe: Oh no it's like the first order is tracking us somehow general! This was one of the weirdest and most incongruous parts of a movie defined by its weird incongruity. I swear it's gotta be vestigial poo poo from a "spy aboard" plot overwritten for Wild Casino Hijinx. Like the inexplicable refusal to cooperate with one another that Poe and Holdo display throughout would make a million times more sense if the tracking is thought to be happening from something like Leia's device and the two of them are harboring mutual suspicion, because idk why you'd even introduce the loving Rey tracker otherwise. It's not even required as a plot contrivance. She has a psychic connection to Kylo, she could just ask him for directions
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i hope the dune movie turns out good
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 they already made a bunch of Dune movies. when are they going to make a Foundation movie. i want to see a real Galactic Empire, put these star wars jokers to shame
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:This was one of the weirdest and most incongruous parts of a movie defined by its weird incongruity. I swear it's gotta be vestigial poo poo from a "spy aboard" plot overwritten for Wild Casino Hijinx. Like the inexplicable refusal to cooperate with one another that Poe and Holdo display throughout would make a million times more sense if the tracking is thought to be happening from something like Leia's device and the two of them are harboring mutual suspicion, because idk why you'd even introduce the loving Rey tracker otherwise. It's not even required as a plot contrivance. She has a psychic connection to Kylo, she could just ask him for directions the camera lingers on the tracking device too. i'm pretty sure it must of originally been written that way but was removed for some dumbass reason.
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olives black posted:i hope the dune movie turns out good It will be I hope
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Consider Phlebas movie imo
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Colonel Cancer posted:Consider Phlebas movie imo Is Amazon still adapting The Culture novels? As such things go it seems like one of the more difficult series to commit to the screen. Hell Excession felt like it was 50% just spaceships shitposting at eachother.
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I've been getting into later books and imo I think they get harder to adapt the further you go. Consider Phlebas (Heist/action movie with scifi background) and Player of Games (Yugioh but more autistic) would be so easy to adapt!
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i know this is nit-picky, but one of the most jarring scenes for me in the last jedi was finn and rose's execution. the blade is falling on their necks, phasma right next to them with a couple dozen storm troopers and then the explosion happens. next thing you know there's hardly anyone around them and phasma is on the other side of the hanger doing just fine and coming at them with more storm troopers. it's just such a unbelievable changing of the space and conditions. like two distantly related versions of the same concept but from different iterations. must have been a reshoot thing
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RaySmuckles posted:i know this is nit-picky, but one of the most jarring scenes for me in the last jedi was finn and rose's execution. the blade is falling on their necks, phasma right next to them with a couple dozen storm troopers and then the explosion happens. next thing you know there's hardly anyone around them and phasma is on the other side of the hanger doing just fine and coming at them with more storm troopers. it's just such a unbelievable changing of the space and conditions. like two distantly related versions of the same concept but from different iterations. must have been a reshoot thing Indeed there is a deleted scene where it plays out differently, they are on a raised platform with a handful of Stormtroopers and Finn outs Phasma's self-preserving cowardace in the previous film, staying the troopers from shooting him and ready to turn on her.
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Rutibex posted:
Apple TV is apparently in the process of developing it after HBO passed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(TV_series) I have no idea how you would make it watchable, or longer than 3 episodes a book (assuming they even stayed semi-close to the source materials). Honestly, if you were even half-considering doing an adaptation of the trilogy (or all 9 Asimov novels) you'd have to make a pretty important decision. 1. We're staying 100% true to the source materials. -We're making 3-5 hours of content per novel -10% of our audience will continue to watch after the third episode 2. We're going the "HBO-Route" -We're sticking to about 40-60% of the source materials, but lots of deviations/additions -10,000X more sex and violence -Now with inter-character drama! -Somehow spend an entire episode on the "Naked Asian planet". -Real fans are somewhat pissed, but still watch, much more mass appeal. 3. We're going the iRobot Route -Aw hell naw! -Fans are pissed it's only 2-3% based on the source materials. -Doesn't really appeal to anyone.
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Blistex posted:Apple TV is apparently in the process of developing it after HBO passed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(TV_series) its not impossible to do a show with different sets and actors in each episode. if Black Mirror can pull its off then Foundation is possible!
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Rutibex posted:its not impossible to do a show with different sets and actors in each episode. if Black Mirror can pull its off then Foundation is possible! I've never watched it, but does black mirror have one central theme/story that is present, or is it like The Outer Limits/Twilight Zone with lots of one-offs?
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