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Reminder that the Gen Z kids love the prequels because that's what they grew up with, think the new sequels are the crap movies that lost the way, and look at the original trilogy the same way they do Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. We are no longer the tastemakers
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May 6, 2022 17:27
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yeah but theyre wrong!!!!
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May 6, 2022 17:30
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Star wars came out 12 years before I was even born and I'm no spring chicken. I'm so tired of all this old media. Please make something new I'm begging you 
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May 6, 2022 17:30
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Sagebrush posted:the new sequels are the crap movies that lost the way I mean,
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May 6, 2022 17:34
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Sagebrush posted:Reminder that the Gen Z kids love the prequels because that's what they grew up with, think the new sequels are the crap movies that lost the way, and look at the original trilogy the same way they do Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. whatever your opinions on the execution of the prequels at least there is a clear thematic and technical unity between the films that makes them feel like part of the same story, and within the individual chapters they have a clear narrative voice that makes them coherent, if poorly executed. they also have a kind of ineffable charm at times, some iconic imagery, Phantom Menace has a great soundtrack, and poo poo like “my young padawan” pretty quickly became part of general pop culture slang I don’t think any of that can be said about the sequels
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May 6, 2022 17:46
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I'm sure it exists but i probably wouldn't mind an edit of the prequels down to one feature length film, i think?indigi posted:I don’t think any of that can be said about the sequels i really liked the audio in some parts of the sequels, and enjoyed the hypercompressed slightly vocoded effect on kylo ren's mask voice. also that part in one of the films where they had to put warning signs up saying AT A CERTAIN POINT IN THIS FILM, THE AUDIO CUTS AND THE SCREEN GOES BLACK. THIS IS NOT A TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION. PLEASE DO NOT GET UP AND LEAVE is pretty funny
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May 6, 2022 17:47
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Edit all the movies into 1 90 minute supercut
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May 6, 2022 17:49
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The big musical themes from each of the three prequels (Duel of the Fates, the Across The Stars love theme, and the final battle music from №3) are all excellent. I can't remember a single piece of music from the three sequels.
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May 6, 2022 17:49
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Sagebrush posted:Reminder that the Gen Z kids love the prequels because that's what they grew up with, think the new sequels are the crap movies that lost the way, and look at the original trilogy the same way they do Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. Literally nobody loves the prequels where on earth did you get that idea?
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May 6, 2022 17:51
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idk, duel of the fates is probably the high point of the three and I’m not sure you can put that forty minutes and then have an hour and a half of movie left I think a large scale rewrite that puts Qui Gonn’s death somewhere in Revenge of the Sith would work narratively but I’m not sure you can cut that story together with the existing films
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May 6, 2022 17:51
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Mr. Crow posted:Literally nobody loves the prequels where on earth did you get that idea? you are out of touch if you honestly believe this
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May 6, 2022 17:52
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Mr. Crow posted:Literally nobody loves the prequels where on earth did you get that idea? When was the last time you talked to someone under the age of 25? Like I said, we are not the tastemakers anymore. There is a new generation currently defining pop culture. They were 5 to 10 years old when the prequels came out, the exact target market, so they have fond memories of those movies. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 17:54 on May 6, 2022 |
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May 6, 2022 17:52
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Sagebrush posted:When was the last time you talked to someone under the age of 25 Today
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May 6, 2022 17:52
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PokeJoe posted:I'm no spring chicken. 
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May 6, 2022 17:54
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This is some genx version of 'all millenials love avacado toast' projection I've never heard anybody under the age of 30 say they love the prequels and I know some insane star wars fans lmao
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May 6, 2022 17:56
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Rude 
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May 6, 2022 17:57
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Mr. Crow posted:Today Well, go and talk to some more. They're out there.
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Mr. Crow posted:This is some genx version of 'all millenials love avacado toast' projection ok boomer
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May 6, 2022 17:58
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The sequels are a great example of Disneys stratgey backfiring since the first one was a very generic story with a million different threads that could be ignored or pulled on and then they handed it to someone who went "ok cool, so I can do whatever I want?" and the proceeded to burn down all the storylines he wasn't using then they canned treverrow and his mostly completed plot and got carrie fischer readdicted to coke and we ended up with "somehow, the emperor is alive again" and now dave filoni is in charge and boy does he ever love the prequels
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May 6, 2022 18:02
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Mr. Crow posted:This is some genx version of 'all millenials love avacado toast' projection I've never heard anybody under the age of 30 say they love the prequels and I know some insane star wars fans lmao The insane Star Wars fans are not the ones who like the prequels. I'm talking about the regular people who saw them in theaters a couple of times, got the Star Wars Lego sets in 2001 when they were seven, dressed up as Darth Maul for Halloween, and fondly remember that part of their childhood. Insane Star Wars fans don't like anything.
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May 6, 2022 18:03
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PokeJoe posted:Star wars came out 12 years before I was even born and I'm no spring chicken. I'm so tired of all this old media. Please make something new I'm begging you always relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiqPmsBYieA
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May 6, 2022 18:05
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I love the prequels because I hate sand and they introduces my fantasy boyfriend Jar Jar Binks
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May 6, 2022 18:05
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Sagebrush posted:Insane Star Wars fans don't like anything. this is a great point. their favorite movies are the second half of ANH and Empire
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May 6, 2022 18:06
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Ellie Trashcakes posted:they introduces this mf said they introduces
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indigi posted:this mf said they introduces this mom humper can't type worth poo poo and she don't give a poo poo
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May 6, 2022 18:12
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Sagebrush posted:Well, go and talk to some more. They're out there. 
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May 6, 2022 18:20
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Look I think we can all agree Ewan McGregors best work was Long Way Round
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May 6, 2022 18:24
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the prequels are not good films, but most of the problems in them are things that kids either won't notice or won't care about wooden acting: expected on kid's shows clumsy love story with zero chemistry between the leads: standard on (slightly older) kid's shows anakin's hamfistededly rapid turn to evil: probably noticed by older kids but not a big deal entire plots being obvious setups for big action sequences: zoom, woosh, pow kinda racist minor characters: going over their heads unless an adult makes a stink about it senate politics: boring, but iirc mostly told in a lot of short cuts, not interminable scenes jedi council scenes: genuinely interminable and boring midochlorians: only matter to people who are thinking way too much plot holes: come on now
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May 6, 2022 19:26
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rjmccall posted:kinda racist minor characters 
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May 6, 2022 19:29
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What's racist about the cheating garbage dealer slave owner with a big nose and scraggly beard and a little hat who is immune to the good guys' spiritual powers because of his race?
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May 6, 2022 19:47
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i'll take a prequel over any of the new ones (except maybe rian johnson's) any day
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which landed with a bigger thud: game of thrones season 8 or the rise of skywalker?
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one underrated symptom of how lovely movies have become is the titles. "the empire strikes back" is great, very memorable. even "attack of the clones" has a cheesy charm. i know that one of the new ones is called "the rise of skywalker" but couldn't tell you which one.
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the lucas titles were all inspired by old bombastic pulp titles. the disney ones don't really have that going for them
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ngl "The Rise of Skywalker" is a pretty cool name. I'll give them that at least. I don't really follow a star war but by the sounds of it the problem is as follows: Disney bought the IP rights to this vast and amazing universe that captures peoples' imaginations and takes them far away from the lovely real world into a cool medieval sci fi fantasy hybrid landscape and ... then they proceeded to narrow all of their stories down to the same 20 people who might as well all live on the same street as each other. Everything has to have a Skywalker in it, everything has to have Darth Vader or equivalent in it. It's like Notch buying that gigantic party house in LA and then proceeding to sit in the basement in his underwear all alone fuming about how much he hates women.
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yeah I read somewhere (probably itt) that it's actually a condition of the sale enforced by lucas that everything still has to be about the skywalker family literally the "everyone should be saying where's poochie" bit from the simpsons
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haveblue posted:yeah I read somewhere (probably itt) that it's actually a condition of the sale enforced by lucas that everything still has to be about the skywalker family Rogue One, Solo, Mando, and Boba Fett make that seem like an urban legend
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May 6, 2022 21:02
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Jonny 290 posted:i think anh is clunky and the pacing is off (though i can forgive it)
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Kenny Logins posted:iirc the first act of anh is clunky (esp anything with jawas) but acts 2+3 are actually really well paced. like i was shocked on rewatch ~5 years ago how well it moves. but gently caress jawas star wars (along with jaws and close encounters) marked the end of the american new wave era and the rise of the blockbuster, and im always amused at how that shift is present in the structure of the movie itself * probably more spaghetti western than revisionist western, now that i think about it FMguru fucked around with this message at 22:37 on May 6, 2022 |
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FMguru posted:the first third of anh plays like a revisionist western (long slow tracking shots across empty desert, very little dialogue for stretches) of the sort that came out of the american new wave late 60s-early70s era
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