loquacius posted:

Grint too. That motherfucker is a Ron if I've ever seen one

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When Alfonso Cuarón signed on to direct “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” he had an unusual assignment for his young stars. The director charged each one with writing an essay on their character: Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger.

As the story goes, Watson, in true Hermione fashion, turned in 16 pages. Radcliffe turned in a solid one-page composition. And Grint, well, he didn’t do his.

To clear things up, The Huffington Post asked the redheaded actor if there was any truth to the story.

“Yeah. That is true, yeah,” Grint said, laughing.

skooma512 posted:

No, the same emperor, again with no explanation. Luke, and it'll always be OT people because nobody else in the whole galaxy does anything, will enter the chamber and be confronted by another set of the Tampon Guard and find Palpatine is once again alive and building death stars. There's always Skywalker, there's always Palpatine, there's always a lighthouse. Constants and variables

Farm Frenzy posted:

its always 'they owe so much to rowling how dare he!!' as if he wasn't cast when he was 9

DoombatINC posted:

indigi posted:

lightsabers are one of the coolest things about Star Wars and there should be more of them without worrying about Jedi/Sith nonsense. the one animated short about the person hunting saber users was awesome, sword fights are cool, laser swords are cool, the force adds a whole other dimension to fight choreography, get some good combat actors and just go to town

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Owns, also the art direction in the first two was never matched by the rest of the series

Nix Panicus posted:

I vaguely recall Alan Rickman desperately wanting to exit the series after the first few movies because the latter ones turned to crap, and only reluctantly getting talked into it by having his role in the ending spoiled for him by Rowling. Or something like that, I think.

Xaris posted:

my fiance was watching that School for Good and Evil show on netflix that they kept advertising. good god, is every netflix show just absolutely dogshit only bouyed by marginally decent cast?

KomradeX posted:

Watching The Midnight Club and thats pretty good

Bro Dad posted:

damnit andor really is good

also very socialist, our hero is a deadbeat loser living in an abandoned car on the run from fascist mallcops

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

https://twitter.com/Hectorisfunny/status/1587718672172187649

Nichael posted:

again, not to change the subject from the star war, but I'm kind of surprised this isn't talked about more. I knew this show existed, but I didn't know it's blatantly an ad for his presidential campaign.

https://twitter.com/EW/status/1508889254201643016?s=20&t=qMfyDLbkYNJMEyPYzCoDgg

he's doing a zelensky, and just like zelensky, he's basically got no real policies except generic platitudes and toe the line neoliberalism.


edit: I just had a premonition. he frasier reboot season will be a dueling ad for kelsey grammer's own dumb presidential campaign, and they will attack each other through bad sitcoms.

Tankbuster posted:

this show is dedicated to the brave mujahideen of afghanistan.

Atrocious Joe posted:

President Johnson is going to get the US into a nuclear exchange with China

A Buttery Pastry posted:

the next trilogy is gonna have an even worse emperor, and all the rebel leaders spend the entire time talking about how they need to work together with reasonable imperial leaders like the original emperor to defeat him

i say swears online posted:

all of you will come around in time and embrace it, and i will have been correct from the first episode

however i'll call it anti-imperialist, not socialist. until i read nemik's manifesto

The Unnamed One posted:

John Cena must primary him

Bro Dad posted:

i mean it splits the difference by actually showing how the empire works in function which is literal, actual corporate feudalism. then there's the whole thing about all the people in scraptown becoming radicalized at the end of episode 3 thanks to the empire's stupid no-knock raid

casting for the mallcops was great btw, a bunch of square-shaped gammons and weird-looking losers who think they're special forces badasses

Bro Dad posted:

i mean it splits the difference by actually showing how the empire works in function which is literal, actual corporate feudalism. then there's the whole thing about all the people in scraptown becoming radicalized at the end of episode 3 thanks to the empire's stupid no-knock raid

casting for the mallcops was great btw, a bunch of square-shaped gammons and weird-looking losers who think they're special forces badasses

babypolis posted:

i loved the bootlicking sergeant that was in the first few episodes so much. i kept thinking he was going to be an important character because its such a fully realized character but no hes just some random rear end in a top hat

Nix Panicus posted:

In fiction theres all kinds of dumb reasons why only force people use lightsabers, like talking to the rocks inside them or some stupid poo poo. The only one that ever made sense to me was that you needed magic space powers to not fumble the massless, inertia-less sword that effortlessly cleaves flesh and accidently cut your own head off. I could see having a pocket saber that only comes out two or three inches though, that would be cool.

In general though, Star Wars either needs to fully embrace the wizard monk angle or ditch it entirely to be good. Everything in between those extremes sucks.

The sequels would have been so much better if it had been Boyega as just 'really good with a lightsaber' versus the Empire. It would have been a story about a child soldier redeeming themselves, taking vengeance on their oppressors, and not needing space magic to save the day. Ridley could have filled the Han Solo slot. Poe would be Chewbacca.

Bro Dad posted:

i mean it splits the difference by actually showing how the empire works in function which is literal, actual corporate feudalism. then there's the whole thing about all the people in scraptown becoming radicalized at the end of episode 3 thanks to the empire's stupid no-knock raid

casting for the mallcops was great btw, a bunch of square-shaped gammons and weird-looking losers who think they're special forces badasses

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Han literally used the lightsaber to cut open the animal corpse just fine, the whole 'literally only Jedi can use lightsabers' thing was always stupid and not canon

Xaris posted:

oh yeah??? then why couldn't i use a lightsaber in star wars the old republic until i foudn the lucky datacube that upgraded my class from trader to jedi

Grey Fox posted:

wasn't that galaxies?

Grey Fox posted:

old republic had solid snake as the male jedi and you get your saber at lvl 10 i think

A Buttery Pastry posted:

I already included the original emperor with no explanation. That said, perhaps the twist could be that the new evil emperor is also Palpatine. Actually, that does make a lot of sense as commentary on US politics if it's literally the same guy being lauded as a responsible and sensible elder statesmen and also an abhorrent madman - by the same people.

Bro Dad posted:

damnit andor really is good

also very socialist, our hero is a deadbeat loser living in an abandoned car on the run from fascist mallcops

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

A small-time director named George Lucas already had the idea of putting a Palpatine on both sides of the conflict. He made a whole trilogy out of it

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

A small-time director named George Lucas already had the idea of putting a Palpatine on both sides of the conflict. He made a whole trilogy out of it

1stGear posted:

I laugh every time I watch Andor and see these rebels living in lovely tents in constant terror of discovery and I remember that in a few years some dickhead farmboy with a laser sword is gonna swoop in and steal all their glory.

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As a writer-director, Gilroy specializes in movies like Michael Clayton and The Bourne Legacy: morally ambiguous dramas aimed at adults, but with a thriller’s economy and pace.

The show’s credits are, in fact, a who’s who of modern prestige and the cynical bent that comes with it: the writers include Beau Willimon of House of Cards and Stephen Schiff of The Americans, who was originally set to serve as showrunner before Gilroy stepped in; the score was composed by Nicholas Britell, who won an Emmy for his work on HBO’s Succession.

For Andor, Gilroy hired production designer Luke Hull, who he described as “non-Star Wars in every way,” and otherwise urged his collaborators not to “change their attitude.” Gilroy wanted them to bend Star Wars to their own talents, rather than adapt to fit their preconceived notion of Star Wars.