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Jewmanji posted:Also, unlike Star Wars, it’s pathologically afraid of sentiment or earnestness. Every emotional moment is undercut by a fourth wall breaking joke. Tell me again which joke undercuts "We Are Groot"?
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The United States posted:Even Iron "directed by Jon Favreau" Man is infinitely more sincere than the latter MCU films. When did they really make the turn? Iron Man 2? Avengers? I'd say Avenger and Joss Whedon's script is when the "quipping" became an expected feature. First Avenger and Thor aren't super hard on being jokey movies.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Tell me again which joke undercuts "We Are Groot"? Maybe not a joke but still extremely undercut, like Chewie "dying" in RoS.
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Sep 3, 2021 09:56
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That groot that Rocket knew for however long died. Baby/teen groot is an entirely new seedling thing.
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I guess that's fair. Just from what we're given in the first movie his return just felt kinda tacked on as a "don't worry, there were no real consequences" kinda thing
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Maxwell Lord posted:Tell me again which joke undercuts "We Are Groot"? I mean, the whole character and the line itself.
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Guardians of the galaxy was very earnest . It starts with a kid watching his mom die from cancer or I guess it was space cancer. The second movie was a mess I don’t cite it on purpose.
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euphronius posted:Guardians of the galaxy was very earnest . It starts with a kid watching his mom die from cancer or I guess it was space cancer. The second one had "He may have been your father..." and that whole scene is more emotional than anything in the ST.
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euphronius posted:Guardians of the galaxy was very earnest . It starts with a kid watching his mom die from cancer or I guess it was space cancer. The second one is better than the first, and has way more of Gunn’s insane charm and emotional core including the scene mentioned above. Although Luke’s stuff imo in TLJ is way more emotional to me. Both films meant a lot to me that year on a deeply emotional basis
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GotG is a very impressive movie, because it's 2 hours of wall to wall jokes but somehow not a single one is funny.
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I'm glad I'm at just the right intelligence level to have laughed and or chuckled occasionally during and enjoyed my time watching both GotG1 and 2.
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Mymla posted:GotG is a very impressive movie, because it's 2 hours of wall to wall jokes but somehow not a single one is funny.
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The United States posted:Even Iron "directed by Jon Favreau" Man is infinitely more sincere than the latter MCU films. When did they really make the turn? Iron Man 2? Avengers? Thor: The Dark World was a little bit too sincere, and every movie after that represents a dramatic course correction from that movie being too serious.
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The only thing I remember about Thor 2 was the sidekick referring to Mjolnir as "Mew mew." I don't remember anything insincere about Iron Man 2, it's just weird because Vanko is very clearly the hero and he loses.
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Thor 2 is impressive in the sense it's one of the few movies I can actively say I forget every single thing that happened in the film the second the credits hit.
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Thor 2 really feels like a filler movie. I've heard from people who worked on it that Marvel decided to just use raw lighting renders for some shots rather than spend time and money actually compositing them. Also, to bring it back around to the thread topic, Thor 2 stole a scene from a trailer for The Old Republic.
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Figures that now they've remade the movies they're on to remaking the video games lol
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Jewmanji posted:Figures that now they've remade the movies they're on to remaking the video games lol The top comment to this on Reddit says it's their favorite story in any media, which means that (per this poster) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is better than the Bible, Citizen Kane, the Iliad, and Police Academy 3.
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porfiria posted:The top comment to this on Reddit says it's their favorite story in any media, which means that (per this poster) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is better than the Bible, Citizen Kane, the Iliad, and Police Academy 3. I mean my favorite story in any media is the Lucas films, which is only marginally less stupid. I read plenty of lit fic all the time and love it for what it is, but... here I am continuing to post in this thread on a nearly daily basis. We're all morons, to varying degrees.
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porfiria posted:Bible, Citizen Kane, the Iliad, and Police Academy 3. Havent seen police academy but the rest suck rear end
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The Prima official strategy guide to the Windows PC game “George Lucas’ LucasArts presents Star Wars, Jedi Knight II: Mysteries of the Sith” is the greatest work of literature I’ve ever read
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I loved me some KOTOR back in the day, but I honestly don't see the appeal in a remake. The original still exists, and is mostly fondly remembered for 'Western RPG in the star wars universe', 'freedom of choice' and 'interesting twist and turns' at a time where videogames didn't have much of those. I mean, fine, I'm curious how it turns out, but it won't make me feel like I did when I was 15 anymore. I'd rather see them try to make a new Star Wars RPG. Hell who am I kidding? it's Star Wars! It's entire brand for the past 15 or so years has been to pander to nostalgia.
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I'd rather see them remake KotOR 2 (or Jade Empire, remake Jade Empire) since they have more unrealised potential than KotOR 1.
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The best possible option would be that the remake, just when you think it's over, BAM it suddenly turns into the sequel with your Revan's story choices and gender carrying over and affecting what everyone tells you about what happened and everything. Of course this will not be happening. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Sep 10, 2021 |
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What’s interesting here if you’re a helpless nerd like me is that KotOR (and 2) are irrevocably part of Legends. There is no way you could fit them into nucanon. I wonder if they’re testing the waters to start making Legends stuff again. Not to “Bring back” but just to allow them to make sequels to popular Legends properties without having to worry about confusing the audience about “canon” questions.
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I haven't stayed plugged in at all to SW stuff are they even going to continue the movie 'canon' after the trainwreck of the sequel trilogy?
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:I haven't stayed plugged in at all to SW stuff are they even going to continue the movie 'canon' after the trainwreck of the sequel trilogy? I keep hearing vague rumors of them making X, XI and XII years down the road, but who the hell knows. They're done with the Palpatines and Skywalkers, I think. I'd much rather see them go in another direction.
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galagazombie posted:What’s interesting here if you’re a helpless nerd like me is that KotOR (and 2) are irrevocably part of Legends. There is no way you could fit them into nucanon. In my opinion the events of kotor have happened as many times as those in star wars
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galagazombie posted:What’s interesting here if you’re a helpless nerd like me is that KotOR (and 2) are irrevocably part of Legends. There is no way you could fit them into nucanon.
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KOTOR was fine as a diet Baldur's Gate (and honestly maybe the better game for being diet) but I'll always laugh that rather than go back to the original Jedi vs Sith conflict, the story takes place just after the Sith were wiped out and instead the antagonists are basically Sith pretenders. With complete narrative freedom the game just recreates the prequel conflict.
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The star forge is very different than the death Star It's a factory that makes guns, instead of just being a big gun
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:I haven't stayed plugged in at all to SW stuff are they even going to continue the movie 'canon' after the trainwreck of the sequel trilogy? Been super quiet on anything related to the sequels after the Lego Holiday Special. Nothing from the shows directly references them.
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Blood Boils posted:The star forge is very different than the death Star Can't wait to see the Death Star Forge, a Jupiter sized Death Star that makes regular sized Death Stars.
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:I haven't stayed plugged in at all to SW stuff are they even going to continue the movie 'canon' after the trainwreck of the sequel trilogy? I think it’s likely for there to be a post sequel trilogy TV show centered around Finn. Supposedly Boyega has made nice with Disney and rumors are that the staff/assets they were putting in place for the cancelled Gina Carano show (Rangers of New Republic) could be repurposed for this. As for movies, we should be getting a Rogue Squadron movie in another year or so by the Wonder Woman director. No idea what time period it’s set in or characters involved. There was also a plan to start having the mainline movies shift 400 years in the past to an era Disney is calling the High Republic. A bunch of books and comics have recently launched that era and Disney was expected to do a Marvel Cinematic type universe of movies in that era. But then Covid hit and who knows if it will ever happen. I think they’re more concerned with cranking out TV shows at the moment cause it’s cheaper. Big expensive movies are too dicey to make with Covid and movie theaters shuttered.
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Cartoon Man posted:I think it’s likely for there to be a post sequel trilogy TV show centered around Finn. Supposedly Boyega has made nice with Disney and rumors are that the staff/assets they were putting in place for the cancelled Gina Carano show (Rangers of New Republic) could be repurposed for this. well I hope that's true for Boyega because he really got screwed but also lol, More Finn, the super compelling character relegated to second banana halfway through the first movie
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CelticPredator posted:That groot that Rocket knew for however long died. Baby/teen groot is an entirely new seedling thing. They should have had Groot get killed in every movie he appears in but grow back which is why the character only gets to the point of learning like one or two words
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Cartoon Man posted:There was also a plan to start having the mainline movies shift 400 years in the past to an era Disney is calling the High Republic. A bunch of books and comics have recently launched that era and Disney was expected to do a Marvel Cinematic type universe of movies in that era. But then Covid hit and who knows if it will ever happen. I think they’re more concerned with cranking out TV shows at the moment cause it’s cheaper. Big expensive movies are too dicey to make with Covid and movie theaters shuttered. Is High Republic worth investing some time into? I haven't heard anything about it, good or bad. I just see the books overpopulated on the shelf whenever I go to Barnes and Noble or Books-a-Million.
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