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Dandywalken
Feb 11, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

poisonpill posted:

In honor of Rey getting her own trilogy, what’s the most baffling wtf part of the sequels?

I’m going with Finn and Rose’s plan in The Last Jedi. They guess that only the lead ship is tracking them for some reason (“tracking” being an incredibly important plot point that literally never gets resolved, or discovered how it’s happening), so they then decide that they must sneak on board to disable the tracking, which can only be done by one guy in the galaxy. That guy is at the craps table on casino planet wearing a gilded flower. So they go there (in the middle of a chase, mind you) and find him but get zapped because they parked on the lawn. Then in prison they meet another guy who says he can do it for them, so they hire him, instead.

It’s all very boring to watch and none of it ultimately matters anyway (thanks to the “brilliant plan” that they wouldn’t tell our main characters)

Imo when they ask "They fly now?" and the part where somehow, Palpatine has returned

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Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Sankara posted:

I still haven't seen the last one. Not sure I ever will.

There’s an honest to god calvary charge on the outer hull of a Star destroyer. So y’know, there’s that.

Outpost22
Oct 11, 2012

RIP Screamy You were too good for this world.
Who is Baby Frick?

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


counterfeitsaint posted:

Also Leia surviving in such a stupid way in the second movie, only to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the series and then disappear under a blanket. They knew drat well the actress was dead, they could have just let the character die and nothing about the story would change.

Another studio decision, apparently. Since Fisher had died shortly after filming, Johnson wanted to come up with a good end for Leia in TLJ but Kathleen Kennedy demanded that they keep Leia alive. But yeah, imagine how much better the "Holdo maneuver" scene would have been if Leia had been the one on the ship, doing the navigation/positioning for the jump directly into all the First Order ships, and there are a million alarms going off (maybe even have Poe or someone say "is she trying to jump into them? That's impossible! There are a thousand navigation controls on the ship and every single one would have to be over-ridden!"), then Leia uses the force, all the alarms stop, and then the coolest scene in the entire movie is also an amazing send-off to a beloved character.

EDIT: Looking at this post, I realize how dumb it is to re-litigate plot points and try to improve movies that have come out over half a decade ago. One thing I really appreciated about this Re:View was when Rich was about to launch into a "they should have..." and then stopped himself. Easily the worst trap youtube film critics fall into is the "this is how it should have been done (aka: how I would have done it)". Mike can be really bad about this at times, but at least Rich is starting to come around on the topic.

LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jan 28, 2024

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
Mike wasting the last 10 minutes of ReView rewriting the script while doing stupid character voices while he does so is easily my least favorite RLM bit

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

you seem to know an awful lot about the behind the scenes goings on of star wars lancehunter. care to share anything with the class

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
The evil space chimpanzee in a welding mask.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

counterfeitsaint posted:

Everything that happens in previous movies is completely invalidated every time. Everyone who fought and died to beat the empire, and succeeded only for there to be a new, identical empire to fight now. It made the whole thing feel like a Saturday morning cartoon where the reset button has to get pressed between episodes. Doesn't matter how many times you win, how many progressively bigger and bigger ships you blow up, at the start the next movie you're still going to be the hopelessly outnumbered plucky rebels fighting the big overwhelmingly powerful empire.

Also Leia surviving in such a stupid way in the second movie, only to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the series and then disappear under a blanket. They knew drat well the actress was dead, they could have just let the character die and nothing about the story would change.

The evil sith knife. Chewie death fake out. God, just everything.

Immediately invalidating plot points seconds after they were made was particularly weird, like the aforementioned Chewie death fakeout, the C3P0 memorywipe fakeout and others that i forgot.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

poisonpill posted:

In honor of Rey getting her own trilogy, what’s the most baffling wtf part of the sequels?

I'm shocked nobody's said "a major plot point that the movie makes no sense without was revealed in the Fortnite tie-in". Because that's so spectacularly stupid I can't believe it's actually real.

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

poisonpill posted:

In honor of Rey getting her own trilogy, what’s the most baffling wtf part of the sequels?

Hux blowing up a shitload of planets and being the resistance spy.

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
I sure hope they go to the yoda planet in the new movies. Just endless yodas as far as the eye can see. Maybe even have Rey run a couple yodas over in her speeder bike on the way to the meeting with yoda-leadership (Jack Black and Lizzo)

Frank Frank fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Jan 28, 2024

ro5s
Dec 27, 2012

A happy little mouse!

poisonpill posted:

In honor of Rey getting her own trilogy, what’s the most baffling wtf part of the sequels?

9 repeatedly makes a point of saying the stormtroopers are all kidnapped and brainwashed children. Nothing is ever done with this and the heroes slaughter them by the dozen.

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004

Frank Frank posted:

endless yoda booty dances as far as the eye can see

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
who da man?

yodas man

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

poisonpill posted:

In honor of Rey getting her own trilogy, what’s the most baffling wtf part of the sequels?

Empty Sandwich
Apr 22, 2008

goatse mugs

Gyro Zeppeli posted:

I'm shocked nobody's said "a major plot point that the movie makes no sense without was revealed in the Fortnite tie-in". Because that's so spectacularly stupid I can't believe it's actually real.

oh I haven't heard this dumb thing. what is it?

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

Empty Sandwich posted:

oh I haven't heard this dumb thing. what is it?

let's all take a trip down memory lane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u0ejXC7kFs

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Arc Hammer posted:

The evil space chimpanzee in a welding mask.

He wasn't evil he was just a craftsman plying his trade

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

Arc Hammer posted:

The evil space chimpanzee in a welding mask.

babu's heart is pure as driven snow

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Gratuitous alien milking scene

Nigmaetcetera
Nov 17, 2004

borkborkborkmorkmorkmork-gabbalooins
I bet if you squeezed babu frik as hard as you could toothpaste would come out.

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

that's not toothpaste :wiggle:

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
I feel like the Star Wars universe should address the eventuality that if you put enough sentient unrelated species in crowded bar settings, sooner or later someone is going to eat someone else

shoeberto
Jun 13, 2020

which way to the MACHINES?

Frank Frank posted:

I feel like the Star Wars universe should address the eventuality that if you put enough sentient unrelated species in crowded bar settings, sooner or later someone is going to eat someone else

This post did not end the way I expected

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

shoeberto posted:

This post did not end the way I expected

Have a few shots of bourbon death sticks while that monkey/frog thing at the end of the bar keeps cackling and mouthing off. Somewhere deep down your lizard brain will say, “you know, I bet I could eat that thing and no one would care”. You MIGHT not be wrong either.

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?

Good soup! posted:

lol you loving freak

Lister=mean

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


You'd just need to toss a coin to the barman and he will totally do the cleanup no questions asked

God han is an rear end in a top hat

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?

CaptainBeefart posted:

More like Listerine. Or Listermean.

YOU FUCKER

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

Mods need to change that posters name to Rimmer stat

kdrudy
Sep 19, 2009

Frank Frank posted:

I feel like the Star Wars universe should address the eventuality that if you put enough sentient unrelated species in crowded bar settings, sooner or later someone is going to eat someone else

Star Vores

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

kdrudy posted:

Star Vores

excellent Stellar!

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Kingo Ligma posted:

Mods need to change that posters name to Rimmer stat

With an H on the forehead

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Since The Flash movie introduced the idea that all Batmans are real and exist, just in different timelines, but the Flash can cross timelines and bring a Batman with him, so, can one timeline's Batman defeat another timeline's Batman?

sure okay
Apr 7, 2006





The strongest batman is the one who tests the best with the 18-40 male demo

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


Adam West batman has to be the best Batman

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
Into the spiderverse only with Batmen who spend two hours sitting around drinking and flicking the nipples on Clooney’s bat suit

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


I'd pay to watch that

WoodrowSkillson
Feb 24, 2005

*Gestures at 60 years of Lions history*

Oops

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

Frank Frank posted:

Into the spiderverse only with Batmen who spend two hours sitting around drinking and flicking the nipples on Clooney’s bat suit

I feel like that was a Brave and the Bold episode

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Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

In my quest to watch all the Best Picture nominees (I'm at 9 out of 10 now and seeing the last one on Tuesday), I just watched Maestro, and let me tell you: that poo poo sucked rear end. It was pure Oscar bait that had nothing going for it. The cinematography was probably the best part of the whole thing, but even that wasn't great. Bradley Cooper wears a fake nose in order to play a Jewish person and I really just wish he would stop acting. And directing, too. I don't think I've liked anything he's done in the last decade. Well, I liked 10 Cloverfield Lane, but not because of him.

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