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Amoeba102
Jan 22, 2010

theflyingorc posted:

Understanding characters and their motivations is the basic requirement for making a relatable, compelling story. I have no idea why half of the cast is even there when the big battle starts

They are there ro die, which we can all relate to, eventually.

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The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames
Rogue One had one good thing going for it and that was Forrest Whitaker's hilarious accent.

Also, Darth Vader's Lava Fortress of Dad Jokes.

Resting Lich Face
Feb 21, 2019


This case of an intraperitoneal zucchini is unusual, and does raise questions as to how hard one has to push a blunt vegetable to perforate the rectum.

DontMockMySmock posted:

On its merits as a movie by itself, independent of the franchise, it's a really bad movie

So explain why the biggest critics of the film aren't actual film critics.

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

DontMockMySmock posted:

fuckin' :same:

It had some good nostalgia bits but then it also had lovely animated Tarkin so it's a bit of a mixed bag on that front. On its merits as a movie by itself, independent of the franchise, it's a really bad movie with characters that you don't grow or give you any reason to give a poo poo about them, and a meaningless and uninteresting plot.

Also while I'm bitching they set up this whole thing where the pilot guy was going to be mind scanned by this monster, which would destroy his sanity!!!!

I waited the whole movie for him to do something anything related to being insane but i guess they hung the gun over there mantle for no reason there????

Dragonstoned
Jan 15, 2006

MR. DOG WITH BEES IN HIS MOUTH AND WHEN HE BARKS HE SHOOTS BEES AT YOU
by Roger Hargreaves

theflyingorc posted:

Also while I'm bitching they set up this whole thing where the pilot guy was going to be mind scanned by this monster, which would destroy his sanity!!!!

I waited the whole movie for him to do something anything related to being insane but i guess they hung the gun over there mantle for no reason there????

I was under the impression that thing was for for getting the truth out of folks and while it'd leave you hosed up for a bit, it wouldn't flat out drive you insane.

What good would it have done to drive him insane when you're just trying to find out the truth (that he's there to help) and not a tricksy spy for the empire?

(It has been a while since I've seen the film though, so I could be remembering it wrong)

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Yestermoment
Jul 27, 2007


Ok. This is ridiculous and definitely my thing.

DontMockMySmock
Aug 9, 2008

I got this title for the dumbest fucking possible take on sea shanties. Specifically, I derailed the meme thread because sailors in the 18th century weren't woke enough for me, and you shouldn't sing sea shanties. In fact, don't have any fun ever.

Resting Lich Face posted:

So explain why the biggest critics of the film aren't actual film critics.

How about you explain what you think instead of asking me to explain the opinions of some third party?

theflyingorc posted:

Also while I'm bitching they set up this whole thing where the pilot guy was going to be mind scanned by this monster, which would destroy his sanity!!!!

I waited the whole movie for him to do something anything related to being insane but i guess they hung the gun over there mantle for no reason there????

Everything with Forest Whitaker's character and his gang was pointless as poo poo.

I know this ain't CD but complaining about star wars is DEFINITELY a meme.

Also, in honor of the upcoming "holiday":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZRsf9sneQ

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Rogue One had Chirrut Imwe who fucken owns and is the first person since the original trilogy who seems to actually understand the force

AI memes are good

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Bespoke memes and designer keyholders

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Oh and Ea-Nasir memes are the very apex of human culture, absolutely beyond reproach

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Klyo Ren: Grandfather, I will finish what you started.
*Anakin appears as a force ghost* No, please don't do that. I'm a good guy now.
Kylo Ren: Oh.

THE END

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

It sort of feels like the new star wars movies were made by an AI

Pozload Escobar
Aug 21, 2016

by Reene

Lmao

Yeet
Nov 18, 2005

- WE.IGE -
Not sure if its posted before but ImgFlip has a pretty hilarious meme generator









Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


Did someone already post this? https://youtu.be/j4Ph02gzqmY

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Hihohe posted:

Did someone already post this? https://youtu.be/j4Ph02gzqmY

Uhhh why was the final line of the subtitles in zalgo text



if those subtitles are autogenerated I am going to lose it

Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


Data Graham posted:

Uhhh why was the final line of the subtitles in zalgo text

Randomly generated!

dialhforhero
Apr 3, 2008
Am I 🧑‍🏫 out of touch🤔? No🧐, it's the children👶 who are wrong🤷🏼‍♂️

:five:

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

theflyingorc posted:

Rogue one had lovely characters except the robot and i don't understand all the people who love it

You get to watch all of them die!

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



I liked how Rogue One was like "oh so ANH was based on The Hidden Fortress and western gunfighter tropes huh? I know let's put Zatoichi in this one"

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

The robot was good and the Kung-Fu-Force man could have been good if he was in the movie for more than 3 minutes

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

The future is
AUTOMATED
and you are
OBSOLETE

Illegal Hen

Fartbox posted:

It sort of feels like the new star wars movies were made by committee.

Memes:


Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004


All watched over by the :cumpolice:.

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



alexandriao
Jul 20, 2019



Mood

Also I would sacrifice all star wars memes if it meant people would stop saying the same things over and over about star wars. If not having star wars memes meant I never had to see another person bitching about star wars, regardless of whether they are saying good things or bad, I would happily burn them all.

Krowley
Feb 15, 2008

Star wars has always been really loving stupid

thepopmonster
Feb 18, 2014


alexandriao posted:

Mood

Also I would sacrifice all star wars memes if it meant people would stop saying the same things over and over about star wars. If not having star wars memes meant I never had to see another person bitching about star wars, regardless of whether they are saying good things or bad, I would happily burn them all.

I got Moon Moon Binks.

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Let me tell you about the Skywalkers Luke, and his clone Luuke

burexas.irom
Oct 29, 2007

I disapprove of what you say, and I will defend your death because you have no right to say it!

Hihohe posted:

Did someone already post this? https://youtu.be/j4Ph02gzqmY

Was that guy something else before becoming a pickle? If so, funniest poo poo I ever seen.

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


PittTheElder posted:

Let me tell you about the Skywalkers Luke, and his clone Luuke

im partial to Bigger Luke

http://biggerluke.wikidot.com/

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
dudes will go "read another book :smuggo:" whenever anyone makes even the smallest reference to Harry Potter but roughly 1600 movies came out in North America in the time between The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker and it's still all they want to talk about online





OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Heath posted:

You gotta wonder about peoples' mental state and what humor means if you can literally just rearrange discrete elements of things that made you laugh before, with no human intention of thought put behind them whatsoever, literally soulless, and find them not only funny but devote a not insignificant amount of time to consuming them simply because you can push a button and get another one like some kind of dipshit pigeon

I, too, cannot understand cloudwatching.


On the subject of things that are funny even when you can't tell whether they have any human intent behind them: German compound words.

I don't believe the american (foreign exchange student? out-schooler?) would ask anything about the Flaschenwiederverwertungsssystem. (bottle something system??)

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slowm
Sep 5, 2013

live slow, die whenevs

Heath posted:

baby brain poo poo right here

The person who made this is now dead. Happy?

dialhforhero
Apr 3, 2008
Am I 🧑‍🏫 out of touch🤔? No🧐, it's the children👶 who are wrong🤷🏼‍♂️

OwlFancier posted:

I, too, cannot understand cloudwatching.


On the subject of things that are funny even when you can't tell whether they have any human intent behind them: German compound words.

I don't believe the american (foreign exchange student? out-schooler?) would ask anything about the Flaschenwiederverwertungsssystem. (bottle something system??)

Bottle recycling system.

Germany recycles every. thing.

And when you recycle you get a deposit back. Usually at least a Euro.

It is common for some people to go through trash to find bottles to take to the drink market to recycle as a civic duty to buy more booze.

Americans are bad at recycling so this giant conveyor machine in the wall where you shove bottles to recycle based on color may be confusing.

Also the word is large and amusing.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Oh we used to do that in the UK but stopped in most places decades ago. I think you might be able to do it if you live next to the bottling plant.

Fleta Mcgurn
Oct 5, 2003

Porpoise noise continues.
The best Star Wars is the Holiday Special because you watch Chewie's dad watch human porn with Diahann Carroll!

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

and carrie fisher's coke nail

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Wednesday is a celebration and not something to be feared. Thanks to dudefrog

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Fleta Mcgurn posted:

The best Star Wars is the Holiday Special because you watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoU_5CuMxNA

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teethgrinder
Oct 9, 2002

PittTheElder posted:

Let me tell you about the Skywalkers Luke, and his clone Luuke
I thought had completely purged this from my mind. And this is why Disney was right to throw out the extended universe.

But probably they should have just thrown out Kevin J. Anderson.

edit: someone made a point about how Rogue One was the only 'adult' Star Wars that fans believed the original series to be. I guess most of the novels after had set that kind of tone, and maybe is why some people take the Star Wars universe more seriously. Some of those books were really good! (Timothy Zahn's especially are generally pretty lauded.) And yeah, the atmosphere was pretty sombre.

Maybe on hindsight I should forgive Kevin J. Anderson's poo poo books because ... they were probably truer to the movies.

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