Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Let's Go Brandon The Broken

Crusader posted:

redneck nazgul posted:

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

i just remember my partner and i going to the bathroom at the same time about halfway through ROS and were both like "this is really bad isn't it? like truly awful?" and agreeing and laughing

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

the last hour or so was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen in a theater

I remember actually guffawing at the part where Rey holds up the ancient Sith dagger to the crashed death star in order to find the hidden treasure!

drat horror queefs posted:

I was so bored by the second half of ros I started passing the time by counting the seconds between cuts. It mostly never goes past 1.5 Mississippis

Producer: The kids like it when the movies go more faster

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

which would only work if she was standing at that exact spot/angle lmao

DynamicSloth posted:

I haven't been back inside a theater since, ruined the entire concept of cinema.

loquacius posted:

They made a Star Wars sequel, and were only able to do it by retroactively undoing everything that was accomplished in the original movies and making them completely pointless

The real issue here is that they need to recognize when a story is done, when a narrative is complete and needs no more telling, but that would mean ceasing to monetize a valuable IP, so they're just kind of throwing poo poo at the wall

Nichael posted:

what the gently caress

Xaris posted:

hollywood went through this weird period through the 80s-90s where you had a whole new generation like tom hanks ot tom cruise or bradd pitt or w/e playing actual 20 year old homeowners and stuff when they were actually 20-something, then they just stuck with them forever so 3 decades later you still have tom hanks playing a supposed 20-year old but he looks like 60. it really skews your perspective of age a lot when you're young and you grew up watching 50-60 year olds playing 30 year olds

at least there's been a revolving door the past several years with actual actors playing something age-similar, like florence pugh is now a thing.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

The Death Star loving blew up! I saw it blow up into a billion bajillion pieces! There was no loving shell coming crashing down afterwards, that poo poo was loving GONE

drat horror queefs posted:

I was so bored by the second half of ros I started passing the time by counting the seconds between cuts. It mostly never goes past 1.5 Mississippis

Producer: The kids like it when the movies go more faster

Crain posted:

I'm more commenting on the fact that NO ONE loving RETIRES anymore. Forget "oh the studios just want XYZ actors", the actors themselves never retire. Hell, no one retires. Even people who fully could retire, who have and either full complete careers, or multiple careers, just keep working well into and through their 70's and 80's.

I was talking with my dad about this because of the Terry Bradshaw cancer "drama" that happened recently. The man is 74 years old. He has had a full football career, and been a broadcast commentator 37 years. His Football career was only 13 years. And he's still going. Same with the rest of the main crop of football studio/color commentators. Same with business and politics. NO ONE loving RETIRES ANYMORE.

In the 90s the Greatest Generation, by the time they hit 50, was done and tired and they were gonna grill and watch some loving tv goddammit. Now the boomers have blown past that by two decades and are trying to go full cyborg to keep grinding away for some god forsaken reason.

Xaris posted:

oh yea. why would you retire and want to spend time with your bitch wife and kids??? work ftw

Xaris posted:

oh yea. why would you retire and want to spend time with your bitch wife and kids??? work ftw

Crain posted:

I'm more commenting on the fact that NO ONE loving RETIRES anymore. Forget "oh the studios just want XYZ actors", the actors themselves never retire. Hell, no one retires. Even people who fully could retire, who have and either full complete careers, or multiple careers, just keep working well into and through their 70's and 80's.

I was talking with my dad about this because of the Terry Bradshaw cancer "drama" that happened recently. The man is 74 years old. He has had a full football career, and been a broadcast commentator 37 years. His Football career was only 13 years. And he's still going. Same with the rest of the main crop of football studio/color commentators. Same with business and politics. NO ONE loving RETIRES ANYMORE.

In the 90s the Greatest Generation, by the time they hit 50, was done and tired and they were gonna grill and watch some loving tv goddammit. Now the boomers have blown past that by two decades and are trying to go full cyborg to keep grinding away for some god forsaken reason.

Crain posted:

Tom Brady spent 3 months with his kids and supermodel wife and decided "gently caress this I'll die on the field".

War and Pieces posted:

millennials don't have families so we're going to check out ASAP to grill and stream TV

Xaris posted:

oh yea. why would you retire and want to spend time with your bitch wife and kids??? work ftw

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I think there probably is a desire to retire even among people that wealthy, but when you get offered a ridiculous amount of money to like portray a character you made famous for a 30 second super bowl spot or do two days of acting on a green screen set over a weekend, how can you say no to it? Like even if it were DIFFICULT work, imagine someone offering you $6 million to do your old job one last time after you retire. That's a lot of money to turn down! Lot's of financial security and extra christmas presents for the grandkids.

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Daniel Day Lewis and John Carpenter are the only showbiz people I can think of that actually retired and they both were like "gently caress you I'mma go play Xbox"

I guess Elton John says he's retiring from touring after this one so... musicians sometimes do to I guess.

drat horror queefs posted:

Musicians make music in their spare time anyway, for fun. It's not shocking they would have the capacity to release albums until they die of old age.

It's the real, no-poo poo psychos with literally nothing else in their lives that they value who want to work 70 hours a week as the VP of HR until they're forced out at the age of 84

galagazombie posted:

Thrones at least (in the good seasons and books) is all about how the aristocracy is a bunch of entitled petulant children who make the world worse by existing. Downton is just straight up class war propaganda about how much nicer things are when the undeserving peasants know their place and are properly slavish working 18 hour days 7 days a week, and the aristocracy makes the world better just by existing, and really the Irish were in the wrong rebelling don’t you know.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

People generally want to do stuff, and they've spent literally decades being told "doing stuff" means working a job. Like, they hear the thing about people's mental faculties starting to deteriorate the moment they retire and come to the conclusion that they shouldn't, rather than find a hobby that will keep them mentally challenged.

C-Euro posted:

Also being told that your worth as a human being is tied to your productivity.

A Buttery Pastry posted:

Those psychos boss people around in their spare time anyway, for fun. It's not shocking that they stay in those jobs.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

The Death Star loving blew up! I saw it blow up into a billion bajillion pieces! There was no loving shell coming crashing down afterwards, that poo poo was loving GONE

DynamicSloth posted:

I haven't been back inside a theater since, ruined the entire concept of cinema.

Justin Tyme posted:

also the celestial object the wreckage was on was not the forest moon of Endor, which the death star was orbiting when it was destroyed (is Endor the forest moon or the main planet? the forested moon of the Endor system? idk), it was just some other place

e: apparently it crashed on the ocean moon of Endor, probably because the wreckage was deflected by an anti-intellectual property forcefield which the rebels could not afford to penetrate with cash-based weapons

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

I wish they'd made the Ewok Holocaust theory canon

Justin Tyme posted:

they'd have to pay a million per on-screen ewok and 10 million up front for even mentioning ewoks exist to the Lucas estate!!!