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McCloud posted:CP feel the same way about RJ I do about Zack Snyder. I do not agree with him, but I gotta respect his dedication Something I learned from reading the comments of that post: quote:In November 2015, Ron Howard confirmed that he, Robert Zemeckis, and Steven Spielberg were approached by Lucas to direct The Phantom Menace. All three approached directors told Lucas that he should direct the film, as they each found the project "too daunting. 
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Something I learned from reading the comments of that post:
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Timeless Appeal posted:...I mean, there's only one option in that list that is actually better than Lucas. You're not excited to think of what Ron Howard could have done with a Star Wars film? Hang on, I'm getting a message...Oh I see, a Solo film? How bad could it have been? Very bad is the information I'm receiving.
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Feb 16, 2020 23:46
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To be fair, some of Solo is a Ron Howard film
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Feb 16, 2020 23:53
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Howard’s instruction from Disney seemed to be “as quickly as you can, reshoot this comedy with all of the jokes removed”, which seems like a rather thankless task.
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Feb 17, 2020 00:04
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We already got a Howard-Lucas collabo via Willow. Conclude from that what you will.
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Feb 17, 2020 00:23
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As much as I love Spielberg's sappy style, I can't see it working with a mainline Star Wars.
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Feb 17, 2020 00:37
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Spielberg doing a story starting off from the end of VIII with the broom kid would be good. He could also do some Bridge Of Starwars espionage stuff. I don’t think he could do space battle bombast and laser sword fights. Zemeckis probably would’ve followed pattern and made his movie a comedy western that no one really wanted.
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Feb 17, 2020 01:07
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I hope Waititi gets to do something really out there with the franchise, like a sports drama or something.
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Feb 17, 2020 01:55
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Imagine if he did another mockumebtary, set in the cantina or a droid pit crew. I want to hear him take on the droid racism as the dude is 100% a hero on that topic.
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Feb 17, 2020 02:00
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BizarroAzrael posted:I hope Waititi gets to do something really out there with the franchise, like a sports drama or something. he'll do whatever dumbass focus grouped trash the managers at disney tell him to do
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Feb 17, 2020 03:33
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General Dog posted:Howard’s instruction from Disney seemed to be “as quickly as you can, reshoot this comedy with all of the jokes removed”, which seems like a rather thankless task. And there are still weird bits like Beckett hurting his thumbs in the final film.
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Feb 17, 2020 03:52
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I'm 99% sure the original point of breaking into the impound lot was going to be that Lando was also bullshitting about having a ship and when they were in there he just pointed at one that was maybe a type he knew how to fly and said "yeah uh that's mine"
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Feb 17, 2020 04:00
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BizarroAzrael posted:I hope Waititi gets to do something really out there with the franchise, like a sports drama or something. He's busy with Time Bandits.
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Feb 17, 2020 04:24
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BizarroAzrael posted:I hope Waititi gets to do something really out there with the franchise, like a sports drama or something. The Podracing movie we always wanted.
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Feb 17, 2020 06:05
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2house2fly posted:They seem like they should be much more heavily armoured than they are, based on how slow they are and how big the payload is on even one of them. Something like visible droideka shields might be neat. Also in a universe with proton torpedoes and all that, being able to launch bombs in one direction seems incredibly niche. But then presumably the point of them is that they're insanely crappy but the Resistance has to make do with what it can get. I mean, the people making the film could have used Y-wings I think the idea is that they are so armed to the loving teeth with massive bombs, they're also tinderboxes. Also, remember droidekas couldn't even stand up to the laser blasts from a Naboo fighter, which was more style over substance.
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Feb 17, 2020 15:48
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The problem with the bombers is their story purpose. from what we see of then they are a) super easy to blow up, b) carry enough of a payload that any one reaching the target will succeed in destroying it and c) need to be directly above the target. This implies that they are expendable and the goal is to send a lot in the hopes of one getting through, which is exactly what happens. Then they chew out Po for doing exactly that. I mean yes ultimately it's in service to the "don't be a martyr, live to resist" message, but it's weird in the film to think about how the setup happens. It's not clear why Leia says no when Po says yes, it didn't seem like she had any information he lacks.
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Feb 17, 2020 16:11
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The Little Death posted:The problem with the bombers is their story purpose. from what we see of then they are a) super easy to blow up, b) carry enough of a payload that any one reaching the target will succeed in destroying it and c) need to be directly above the target. This implies that they are expendable and the goal is to send a lot in the hopes of one getting through, which is exactly what happens. Then they chew out Po for doing exactly that. I mean yes ultimately it's in service to the "don't be a martyr, live to resist" message, but it's weird in the film to think about how the setup happens. It's not clear why Leia says no when Po says yes, it didn't seem like she had any information he lacks. I think Poe's mission was to distract the First Order long enough for the shuttles to get away. If that meant sending in the bombers so the First Order had to focus on them, so be it. But the shuttles were away, so Poe's mission was done, it was time to retreat. Then Poe said, "gently caress it, I've got a new mission now" and proceeded to try and take down the...big rear end Destroyer (I forget what it was called). At which point Leia got pissed because that's not what they were there to do, they needed to get the gently caress out like the original mission said, and Poe was disobeying a direct order. It's sloppy, and I feel like Leia should have been able to just order everyone else to retreat herself, but the bones of it work enough for me.
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Feb 17, 2020 16:32
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well why not posted:Spielberg doing a story starting off from the end of VIII with the broom kid would be good. He could also do some Bridge Of Starwars espionage stuff. I don’t think he could do space battle bombast and laser sword fights. Zemeckis probably would’ve followed pattern and made his movie a comedy western that no one really wanted. Spielberg's current action style is a bit too non-grounded for mainline Star Wars and he likes camera movement wayyyy too much. Tintin is an example of how he *wants* to do action, freed of constraints (and RP1 gets into that style as well). Even Minority Report touched on that style in the car factory fight. Also, framing everything by people's reactions in closeups of their faces would look really weird in Star Wars.
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Feb 17, 2020 17:15
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thrawn527 posted:I think Poe's mission was to distract the First Order long enough for the shuttles to get away. If that meant sending in the bombers so the First Order had to focus on them, so be it. But the shuttles were away, so Poe's mission was done, it was time to retreat. Then Poe said, "gently caress it, I've got a new mission now" and proceeded to try and take down the...big rear end Destroyer (I forget what it was called). At which point Leia got pissed because that's not what they were there to do, they needed to get the gently caress out like the original mission said, and Poe was disobeying a direct order. Leia sent in Poe to clear a path for the bombers. Poe did that, and the mission was a success, although it came at a heavy cost. Leia was mad because apparently she expected all of the literal WW2 bombers to come home safely. This doesn't make any sense because the TIE fighters are already way faster than the bombers, so if the bombers were in range of the Dreadnought, then they were presumably also already in range of the TIE fighters and they were 100% guaranteed to die even if they had tried to turn around and get home anyway. This is all terrible because it's a very poorly written scene.
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Feb 17, 2020 18:23
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revwinnebago posted:Leia sent in Poe to clear a path for the bombers. Poe did that, and the mission was a success, although it came at a heavy cost. Leia was mad because apparently she expected all of the literal WW2 bombers to come home safely. I'm not a huge fan of tlj but you either don't remember the scene or are deliberately misreading it. Leia tells Poe to pull out once the last shuttle takes flight. Poe argues that "they have a chance to take out a dreadnaught." Leia gives him a direct order to disengage, and in response Poe switches off the radio connection to leia and orders the bombers to attack.
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MonsieurChoc posted:The Podracing movie we always wanted. Ford v Ferrari with podracers Lets do it
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Feb 17, 2020 19:00
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Let Tom Hooper direct the next Star Wars movie. Make it a musical with half of the cast unable to sing comfortably in the song range, and make a quarter of the movie focus directly on the face of the actor.
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What is going to be remembered as Rey's legacy in the war between the First Order and the Resistance? In the history books, how many times does her name show up in those chapters. Her war contributions are as follows: -Was rescued during the Resitance's successful attack on Starkiller Base -Was present when Kylo Ren assassinated Supreme Leader Snoke (unconfirmed) -Facilited the escape of Resitance leadership from Crait by lifting some rocks blocking a cave tunnel and ferrying them off planet -Was present on the surface of Exogol while the war's decisive battle was fought miles above (unconfirmed) Really only the third one is especially noteworthy
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Feb 18, 2020 05:32
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I wonder if her legacy will be ruined when it's revealed that she's Emperor Palpatine's granddaughter.
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Feb 18, 2020 05:50
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"That strange old wizard that lives at the old lars house? She kissed the grandson of space hitler who also another more recent space hitler. Her grandfather is satan"
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Feb 18, 2020 05:59
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Ingmar terdman posted:"That strange old wizard that lives at the old lars house? She kissed the grandson of space hitler who also another more recent space hitler. Her grandfather is satan"  that is kinda what kids would say
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Feb 18, 2020 06:38
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The story of the original devs and test pilots of the X-Wing, going on the run from the Empire, joining the Rebellion and setting up secret factories.
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Feb 18, 2020 06:52
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MonsieurChoc posted:The story of the original devs and test pilots of the X-Wing, going on the run from the Empire, joining the Rebellion and setting up secret factories. Not sure it's as positive as that, I think Incom are just Anaheim Electronics from Gundam, selling to both sides.
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Feb 18, 2020 11:18
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BizarroAzrael posted:Not sure it's as positive as that, I think Incom are just Anaheim Electronics from Gundam, selling to both sides. Well that's the old version of the story. They might have become Anaheim in the new Canon.
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Feb 18, 2020 16:27
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Ingmar terdman posted:"That strange old wizard that lives at the old lars house? She kissed the grandson of space hitler who also another more recent space hitler. Her grandfather is satan" That would be a cool thing to start the next trilogy with.
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Feb 18, 2020 16:48
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Ingmar terdman posted:"That strange old wizard that lives at the old lars house? She kissed the grandson of space hitler who also another more recent space hitler. Her grandfather is satan" This reads like Dark Souls NPC dialog.
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Schwarzwald posted:This reads like Dark Souls NPC dialog. "That strange old wizard that lives at the old lars house? She kissed the grandson of space hitler who also another more recent space hitler. Her grandfather is satan. neyh heh heh heh hehhh" Yeah that's about right
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have you guys ever played dark souls
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piratepilates posted:🤔 I'm not sure I've heard that one before, what is it like in a sentence? I see it a lot in context of sports, like someone will say eg Lebron James is the prototypical point forward and they mean he’s the best possible example of that archetype, not that he was an early version of the phenomenon
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Feb 18, 2020 23:17
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To give a counter example if someone said that Michael Jordan is a prototypical shooting guard they may mean exactly what they said, as later players like Kobe explicitly patterned their game after Jordan.
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DeimosRising posted:I see it a lot in context of sports, like someone will say eg Lebron James is the prototypical point forward and they mean he’s the best possible example of that archetype, not that he was an early version of the phenomenon Ah I see what you mean.
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Schwarzwald posted:This reads like Dark Souls NPC dialog. More like E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The StarFortress, after the B-17 Flying Fortress (the main US bomber in WW2). Which is a damned shame that the Flying Fortress was honored by those paper thin space bombers. For a movie series whose most iconic scene was based on WWII dam busting bombers. Insane ordinance, slow as bricks, and vulnerable to snub fighters. Instead we got a those things.
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Polo-Rican posted:I'm not a huge fan of tlj but you either don't remember the scene or are deliberately misreading it. Leia tells Poe to pull out once the last shuttle takes flight. Poe argues that "they have a chance to take out a dreadnaught." Leia gives him a direct order to disengage, and in response Poe switches off the radio connection to leia and orders the bombers to attack. If Poe hadn't taken out the dreadnaught, the "fleet killer," then it would have destroyed the Rebel capital ship 10 minutes later when the long "run them out of gas" situation happened. It had the big guns, and they would have reached. Poe saved them all, and got slapped, demoted, and then ridiculed for it.
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