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i dont like the main politician aliens in the prequels  they were boring and looked dumb
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If they had some imagination they'd have force users challenging each other to duels across the galaxy by astral projecting and pissing on their opponent's leg.
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Dec 31, 2019 17:33
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bring back old gbs posted:i dont like the main politician aliens in the prequels looking boring and dumb is an advantage for a politician alien. 50 million years of galactic civilization has had some weird effects on evolution
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Dec 31, 2019 17:45
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explain bothans then 
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Dec 31, 2019 17:46
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Newt Gunray
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Dec 31, 2019 17:47
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TK-42-1 posted:explain bothans then everyone loves dogs. tell me you wouldn't vote for this 
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Dec 31, 2019 17:52
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TK-42-1 posted:Luke Fingerblaster
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Dec 31, 2019 18:01
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Need the prequel where Sheev is recovering from his injuries from RotJ and needs a speech therapist to help him overcome his stutter. The Emperor's Speech <boos>
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Dec 31, 2019 18:21
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Son of Rodney posted:adam driver being concidered hot is something I had never concidered. Like, really? My girlfriend really likes him and so do plenty of other women. He has very unique facial features.
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Dec 31, 2019 18:51
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On a scale, he's a really hot ugly looking guy. Kind of like how uma thurman is a really beautiful ugly woman.
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Dec 31, 2019 18:59
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Son of Rodney posted:
You know, I kind of see the resemblance.
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Dec 31, 2019 19:14
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Owlbear Camus posted:Now that the entire Sequel Trilogy is on the books to reflect on as a contiguous story, I've come around to agree with the people who defend the prequels as better by contrast. They are ugly, leaden, and ineptly told-- but taken together they tell a more narratively and thematically coherent story than the ST. Prequels had a great story but poor execution. This new trilogy has a bad story but the execution was good. Mr. Plinkett said, back in 2009 when he was reviewing/trashing the prequel trilogy, that he would have liked to have seen JJ Abrams direct a Star Wars movie. But he clarifies today that he meant he would have liked to see him direct, not write a star wars movie. They probably should have used George Lucas's ideas for the story, someone else (Kasdan?) should have written the screenplay based on that story, and then Abrams could have directed it. George Lucas may not be a great director or script writer, but he's got a knack for coming up with good stories. https://youtu.be/5pAsss_nTlk
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Dec 31, 2019 19:25
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Glenn Quebec posted:On a scale, he's a really hot ugly looking guy. Kind of like how uma thurman is a really beautiful ugly woman. Thurman is just beautiful in an unusual way. Ever seen Baron Munchausen? Jesus Christ Driver is kind of weird looking, but he’s also tall, thick, muscular, and his kind-of-weird-lookingness of plays into the character’s sex appeal as a tormented outsider. In that context it would be weirder if he looked like a completely conventional Hollywood hunk. The grandpa pants are pure comedy though. I think they were going for the look of a samurai midriff wrap but it does not work.
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Dec 31, 2019 19:40
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Gianthogweed posted:You know, I kind of see the resemblance. hahahahaha
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Dec 31, 2019 20:04
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skasion posted:Thurman is just beautiful in an unusual way. Ever seen Baron Munchausen? Jesus Christ Yeah I said she's a beautiful ugly woman, I agree
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Dec 31, 2019 20:12
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At the beginning of this movie they were talking about spies so I was really hoping we'd get to see what a Bothan looked like. But instead we got the weird guy with a green head.
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Dec 31, 2019 20:14
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Glenn Quebec posted:Yeah I said she's a beautiful ugly woman, I agree your dumb
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Dec 31, 2019 20:49
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The Walrus posted:The Dead Speak! tbh that's probably a fine callback to the old serials that Star Wars originally drew a lot of inspiration from Rutibex posted:everyone loves dogs. tell me you wouldn't vote for this that's such a good dog. wow. i'll vote for that dog
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Dec 31, 2019 21:23
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:tbh that's probably a fine callback to the old serials that Star Wars originally drew a lot of inspiration from The crawl was more or less fine. Bringing back Palpy to undo the superior original trilogy for this muddled mess and then making the actual menacing broadcast a loving Fortnite tie-in that never happens in the movie, less so.
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Dec 31, 2019 21:26
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The Walrus posted:The Dead Speak! The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute!
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Dec 31, 2019 21:29
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Owlbear Camus posted:The crawl was more or less fine. Bringing back Palpy to undo the superior original trilogy for this muddled mess and then making the actual menacing broadcast a loving Fortnite tie-in that never happens in the movie, less so. oh yeah that is incredible dogshit, yeah I was talking about "The Dead Speak!" as part of the crawl is there a youtube video of this loving tie-in
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Dec 31, 2019 21:29
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:oh yeah that is incredible dogshit, yeah I was talking about "The Dead Speak!" as part of the crawl Gonna disagree with you on that one. That and "WAR!" are perfectly fine for the ray gun space opera aesthetic. One thing whats her head pointed out in the 2 hour video is usually the crawl gives us a little more world building exposition dump; who's winning, who's losing, what the factions and stakes are. Especially given the sequel trilogies allergy to any kind of world building throwaway lines that let us know what a resistance or first order is or why the republic's capital is on a system we never heard of or any of that poo poo, you really should at least give us that in the crawl.
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Dec 31, 2019 21:36
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:oh yeah that is incredible dogshit, yeah I was talking about "The Dead Speak!" as part of the crawl ---- Owlbear Camus posted:Gonna disagree with you on that one. That and "WAR!" are perfectly fine for the ray gun space opera aesthetic. the more you put in the crawl is less stuff that is in the tie-in material
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Dec 31, 2019 21:39
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:tbh that's probably a fine callback to the old serials that Star Wars originally drew a lot of inspiration from If anything it's a callback to old newspaper headlines like War! in episode 3 and it was bad in episode 3 too.
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Dec 31, 2019 21:45
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The Walrus posted:If anything it's a callback to old newspaper headlines like War! in episode 3 and it was bad in episode 3 too. It's fine actually.
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Dec 31, 2019 22:44
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bring back old gbs posted:i dont like the main politician aliens in the prequels Remember in Attack of the Clones when Rune Haako was going through his steroid phase and his voice got all deep?
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Dec 31, 2019 23:00
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Gianthogweed posted:Remember in Attack of the Clones when Rune Haako was going through his steroid phase and his voice got all deep? Remember when they dropped all of the over the top racist accents from all the aliens after ep1?
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Dec 31, 2019 23:03
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TK-42-1 posted:Remember when they dropped all of the over the top racist accents from all the aliens after ep1? Meesa Jar Jar Binks
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Dec 31, 2019 23:09
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I went and saw Rise of Skywalka a second time and the plot did make a little bit more sense this go-round. Clever move by JJ Abrams to require a second viewing to understand what's happening. Observations: (1) While I still found no direct mention of the Emperor's pirate broadcast one-man radio show outside of the text crawl, it's a bit clearer that there was an intelligence effort to confirm the Emperor's continued existence, so they'd known about it one way or the other. (2) Luke looks kind of like Sam Kinison in this one. (3) I noticed that the big crowd of Sith-related peoples present for the Emperor's overhead spaceship destruction derby spectacular all perform the same type of chanting you hear in the background in many of Darth Maul's scenes in Episode I. (4) They did a good job overall inserting unused footage of Carrie Fisher into the movie but there were a couple of times you could tell the focus, film grain, and/or color timing didn't quite match and she looked like a hologram or something.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:10
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Here's the fortnite thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u0ejXC7kFs It's only the first minute. After that it shows some of the RoS stuff put into Battlefront 2, and four seconds of a Fortnite lightsaber fight.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:16
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skasion posted:
Kathleen Kennedy has made a lot of mistakes but handpicking Adam Driver for the role makes up for some of them.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:26
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Observations: (5) Easily the single weirdest thing about this entire movie is how it never bothers to establish just to what extent the Emperor has his own organizational and military forces. During my first watch I figured the DS-SD Cruisers (that's Death Star - Star Destroyer, I coined that one thanks) had to be mostly running on automation because you'd think if there were a bunch of people in them at some point you'd get to see them, but no. The few times we do see inside these they're already inhabited by First Order goons. It helped for me to remember I heard somewhere that the red storm troopers are the "Sith" troopers (this is never pointed out in-movie as far as I can tell) so I imagine all the DS-SD Cruisers are inhabited by these guys (I'd guess they're all clones). Normally I'd chalk this kind of thing up to typical JJ Abrams mystery box bullshit but it doesn't feel like that. I'm thinking he either just took on faith that OF COURSE if there are spaceships running there are people inside (nevermind they just burst from the ground as if they'd been buried for a long time), aww does poor baby need to be shown there's an army to know one's there, etc., or something got changed during editing/re-shoots and they didn't quite have the material to fully present the exposition. The inherent oddity aside, it helps compound an audience member's (that is, my) confusion when they also might miss hastily spoken one-line exposition about the galactic popular uprising currently underway as well as mistaking two classes of extremely similar-looking spaceships for one another: during my first watch I thought it was the DS-SD cruisers that were falling from the sky in the various other planets, and it got me wondering if they were falling because whatever had been controlling them was now destroyed (remember I was under the assumption most of them were unmanned), or if they were manned after all and this was actually a multi-stellar battle that we regrettably didn't get to witness, but then what were these DS-SD cruisers doing away from Hell planet I thought that's where they all were, etc. etc. poo poo was hosed.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:37
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:tbh that's probably a fine callback to the old serials that Star Wars originally drew a lot of inspiration from poo poo, if it weren't for the fact it'd sound too much like a zombie flick, I'd vouch for The Dead Speak to be the drat TITLE of the movie.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:41
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I have no issue with the dead speak. I dont like the dead speak!
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Dec 31, 2019 23:45
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Let the dead speak, it's discrimination if you don't.
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Dec 31, 2019 23:59
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Owlbear Camus posted:Gonna disagree with you on that one. That and "WAR!" are perfectly fine for the ray gun space opera aesthetic. no, we agree, "The Dead Speak!" does fit in with that aesthetic what i meant is that "Bringing back Palpy to undo the superior original trilogy for this muddled mess and then making the actual menacing broadcast a loving Fortnite tie-in that never happens in the movie" is incredible dogshit
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i dont like the dead speak...it's rough, and coarse, and it gets everywhere
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Observations: (6) One "I'm not sure what happened exactly" moment that's actually intentional and effective this time is the ambiguity behind the Han Solo appearance. The movie does everything it can to indicate Leia is intentionally responsible for this vision Kylo perceives (going so far to play the Han/Leia theme (the MVP of Star Wars themes) as she sets her plan in motion) but it's totally up in the air what she does or what this "memory" we're seeing even is exactly: a projection from Leia (thought she'd already apparently died at this point)? Simply Kylo going mad? One amusing thought I had was maybe it was ghost Leia in disguise, as weird and convoluted a plan as that'd be. The first time around I didn't know what to think because the movie always goes by so fast that I was never sure if I was supposed to be confused or if I just missed something. Second watch, though, I found it genuinely intriguing and I like that in a series where the Force was threatening to become just an assortment of superpowers, this was something that made it seem mysterious, spiritual, and otherworldly again. (7) Related to the above, this time it hit me that Leia's body doesn't disappear until Kylo's own dead body does at the climax. Insert cynical musings about how it was a reshoot insert shot because they forgot that's supposed to happen, but I think it adds some interesting implications (and does that mean she wasn't dead-dead?). (8) Somehow they got Harrison Ford's hair to look more Han Solo-ish than they did in all of TFA, so props to Harrison Ford's hair dresser.
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I'm a wanted man. I've laid pipe in twelve systems.
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So apparently most of the answers are in the Star Wars visual dictionary which, in addition to calling three-time terrorist Chewbacca "apolitical", also explains who the hooded people hanging out in the Palpatomb are. They're the rea Sith or whatever. They descendants of the old Sith Empire that formed a cult that was working behind the scenes throughout all of history and somehow became loyal to Palpatine personally. So canonically they've been building that fleet since before the Phantom Menace which is really dumb imo
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