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BlindSite posted:Honestly? No I remember them really well. I did a rewatch a couple weeks ago. I remember star wars nerds being angry all the time about EU stuff before the prequels came out, then they were mad about the prequels and EU stuff. Now they are mad about the sequels and have the internet to megaphone. The sequels are worse than the prequels but people were progressively more grumpy with each prequel.
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https://twitter.com/Anna_Giaritelli/status/1532081283915988992
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It’s not 2A so who gives a gently caress right?
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1532008425860866049?t=qTIBYJkhgwYVCz9PT9pvXg&s=19 Netflix's venture capitalist days of spend spend spend are over lol I barely even watch it now. Pretty much most of my streaming time is spent on Hulu and HBO.
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Spoeank posted:Half of Book of Boba Fett kicks rear end. The half that was just The Mandalorian Yhe half that kicked rear end was the mandalorian. The rest was rear end.
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Star Wars biggest sin was trying to incorporate the original trilogy into everything, including dragging out the corpses of fisher, Hamil, and ford, cgi’ing the characters who’s actors were too decomposed, and making loving EVERYTHING come back to Obviously Star Wars was always just a money printing machine and the choice was a shameless ploy to boomer nostalgia but it locked them into a trajectory they’re unable to pull out of. Writers and producers will always tell money they have good ideas instead of pointing out that we don’t need every single character to have interacted at every moment of their life before and after they met at what was supposed to be the worst bar on the most remote, worthless planet in the galaxy. the prequels made similar mistakes but poo poo they at least did something new. Prequels > every movie since FizFashizzle fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Jun 2, 2022 |
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Just have the journalists bring a gun, the police won’t do anything to stop them.
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Garland has completely abdicated his duties during his tenure at the head of the DOJ but breaking up this department and scattering it to the wind seems like a political/human decency no brainer
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If you need a new album, the new album by Johan Lenox is very enjoyable.
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FizFashizzle posted:Star Wars biggest sin was trying to incorporate the original trilogy into everything, including dragging out the corpses of fisher, Hamil, and ford, cgi’ing the characters who’s actors were too decomposed, and making loving EVERYTHING come back to If Lucas could’ve handed the reigns to someone competent, I think the prequels would’ve been decent movies instead of god awful. Rewrite or edit out some bad scenes, cut down on the CGI, and get rid of R2 and C-3PO. That and extract maybe some better acting performances and they’re at least watchable. The new trilogy had the opposite problem. No one was in control, so the stories are all over the place, and it ends up being just a big nostalgia bait.
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Hey you need a coherent vision to pull off a multi movie story arc wild I know
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FizFashizzle posted:Star Wars biggest sin was trying to incorporate the original trilogy into everything, including dragging out the corpses of fisher, Hamil, and ford, cgi’ing the characters who’s actors were too decomposed, and making loving EVERYTHING come back to I still like Rogue One precisely because it's not tying together with every single original trilogy character up until, like, the last moment. And it's a solid war film in the meantime. But Star Trek and Star Wars both occupy the same spot in my mind of, "Vast stretches of this are just not going to be canon for me and I'm going to ignore their existence," when I didn't used to be that way for either franchise. Just too little quality control, too little attention paid towards the operating ethos of the original property, too much lovely fanfiction and shoutouts that add nothing to the overall narrative.
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Rogue one was a joyless slog that admittedly got butchered at the last second due to political concerns, and I would have enjoyed it more if they just made a space fighting movie. Like every space movie does t need to be Star Wars. Just make a good movie. Star Wars was one of the biggest movie franchises in the eighties and some coked up lunatic was still like “gently caress IT an arcade game is recruiting humans to be Star fighters!” Plus they pulled the bullshit with cgi’ing tarkin instead of just recasting him. I suspect that was a last second decision as well because it’s very easy to see Ben Mendehlson playing that character. Or Mikkelsen having an actual role. If this is confirmed or denied in an interview somewhere I don’t care.
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I don’t really touch Star Wars anymore outside of the original trilogy. There’s just nothing new or interesting and the prequels were rancid butt. I think I was done when in Last Jedi they couldn’t do anything more original than “we dragged a Death Star laser into the desert to shoot this base.” Even ignoring the newer trilogy’s obvious problems that one got a huge groan from me. And that’s ignoring too that they used a quasi Death Star in Force Awakens too. Just painfully uninspired. FizFashizzle posted:Rogue one was a joyless slog that admittedly got butchered at the last second due to political concerns, and I would have enjoyed it more if they just made a space fighting movie. Wait what’s the story here? I loved Rogue One but I definitely agree it’s a joyless slog. I haven’t revisited it for that reason. It was the best post-trilogy movie by a mile.
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LeeMajors posted:
Apparently what’s her name was more explicitly a terrorist and they chickened out in post production. Like they had to remove most of forest Whitaker’s role.
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FizFashizzle posted:Apparently what’s her name was more explicitly a terrorist and they chickened out in post production. Ohhhh. Yeah I could see that. That’s dumb as hell. Just let them make movies. Fifty Three posted:What the hell Rogue One was great Oh i loved it. It was bleak as hell though. It’s not pejorative coming from me but it is a heavy watch.
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I hear that the 3D Star Wars cartoons are good (Clone Wars and Rebels) but I haven't touched them. Too much drat TV these days and I'm at the stage in my life where I don't really want or need to get emotionally invested in Star Wars. seiferguy posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1532008425860866049?t=qTIBYJkhgwYVCz9PT9pvXg&s=19 We've had Netflix on at the house a bunch over the last couple of weeks, because it has a bunch of Thai TV shows and my in-laws are apparently OK just sitting around the house watching TV while they visit. More power to em.
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If they don’t green light expensive vanity projects then what else am I going to choose to not watch? I get Netflix with my T-Mobile contract but no way I would pay for it otherwise. It is the same as I get motortrend with my classic car insurance and would never pay for the 1 or two shows worth having on in the background check while doom scrolling.
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Netflix hasn’t been great for awhile although sadly it has the best UI of any steaming service I’ve tried. How’s the back catalog of movies on HBO?
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The original trilogy is also pretty loving bad. It just hits all the nostalgia grooves for people.
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LeeMajors posted:
Grim. You’re getting HBO for the shows. I’m midway through season 2 of sopranos. I’d forgotten insanely Italian Furio was. Also how much of an over the top badass.
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No Butt Stuff posted:The original trilogy is also pretty loving bad. It just hits all the nostalgia grooves for people. Empire strikes back is legitimately a great film and arguably genre defining, whatever genre exactly you want to say it is. ANH is a fine movie that was revolutionary in a lot of ways and was carried by performances and just how loving new it was. ROTJ is complete trash and a similar film that wasn't the end cap to that trilogy would never have made it out of preproduction.
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Of course nostalgia plays into it. ROTJ is the Temple of Doom of Star Wars. Empire is incredible though.
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LeeMajors posted:Netflix hasn’t been great for awhile although sadly it has the best UI of any steaming service I’ve tried. TCM is on there, so there's old movies to select. There's Warner Bros and DC on there, too I guess.
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I mean the school shooting lawsuits are gonna bankrupt them anyways, what are a couple 1A suits gonna do? Might as well go for broke.
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If anyone bothered to read the article the school district called the police to ask them to get the media off their property.
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FizFashizzle posted:Empire strikes back is legitimately a great film and arguably genre defining, whatever genre exactly you want to say it is. ANH is a transformative Western movie that encouraged other films to play with setting Empire is probably the bravest and best of the entire filmography Return was fine but didn't capture the magic of either original runs The prequels tried to be political dramas but the political setting was drab and boring. I think JJ Abrams is a hack and the sequel trilogy didn't disprove that.
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Forrest on Fire posted:ANH is a transformative Western movie that encouraged other films to play with setting Oh so that's what we're gonna do today? We're gonna fight about Star Wars?
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Star Wars movies gave us Jedi knight video games and kotor and that Nintendo 64 pod racing game. Oh and that N64 DASH RENDARR Star Wars game
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Braksgirl posted:I mean, basic topping? Pepperoni. We have a local pizza chain mostly catered towards the late night bar crowd here, and their thing is extravagant pizzas, like Gyro pizzas, Thanksgiving pizzas, loaded baked potato pizzas, etc. I usually get a slice of whatever looks interesting but I always get a pepperoni because nothing beats a classic ‘roni slice if you ask me
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Star Wars movies gave us Jedi knight video games and kotor and that Nintendo 64 pod racing game. Holy poo poo that pod racing game. It’s working! It’s woooorkiiiiing!
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Oh so that's what we're gonna do today? We're gonna fight about Star Wars? I'm fighting? I thought I was agreeing with the crux of Fiz's opinion there. Also that's about as milquetoast an argument about star wars as you'll find. Someone else can give a much more interesting opinion
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pmchem posted:Rogue One was the best Star Wars movie Yeah this barely qualifies as an opinion. It's practically fact. It's really the only good Star Wars movie.
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Sooooo my company is offering to move me to Copenhagen to start a new team there. Huuuuge opportunity and it has my stomach in knots. I don’t know anything about Copenhagen either.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Sooooo my company is offering to move me to Copenhagen to start a new team there. Beautiful. Fantastic quality of life. Very expensive. Sweden and Germany within a 45 minute drive. Surprisingly cosmopolitan, until you realize what a centrally located port it is. I'm jealous.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Sooooo my company is offering to move me to Copenhagen to start a new team there. You're from the south so the casual racism of that part of europe won't be a surprise. Sounds like a great opportunity.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Sooooo my company is offering to move me to Copenhagen to start a new team there. Do it Do it Dooooo itttt
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