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I've had not considered taking recommendations for good movies by scanning the novelty t-shirt section of my local Target. Thank you for the suggestion.
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Tezzor I asked you a straight forward question. Which you eschewed
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May 13, 2017 02:26
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Tezzora posted:prequel fans are fairly vocal and act like they matter, but then you go to target and see that maybe 1 out of 300 star wars brand products has any relation to the prequels and it's usually darth maul And Maul only because he's been in a current TV show for two seasons.
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May 13, 2017 02:27
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Jewmanji posted:I've had not considered taking recommendations for good movies by scanning the novelty t-shirt section of my local Target. Thank you for the suggestion. well you might consider it because there's usually a lot of fun popular genre entertainment shirts there and very few of phantom menace or pluto nash Tezzora fucked around with this message at 02:30 on May 13, 2017 |
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May 13, 2017 02:28
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im sorryeuphronius posted:Tezzor did you like malicks the new world ? I think that movie may have bothered you for some reason. i havent seen it
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Tezzora posted:im sorry 
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On second thought don't watch it .
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May 13, 2017 02:35
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Jack Fisk's production design on The New World is excruciating in its authenticity. It is absolutely flawless. But still not quite as good as the level of craft that went into 1999's The Phantom Menace
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May 13, 2017 02:40
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Jewmanji posted:Jack Fisk's production design on The New World is excruciating in its authenticity. It is absolutely flawless. But still not quite as good as the level of craft that went into 1999's The Phantom Menace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkN226PToig
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May 13, 2017 02:56
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euphronius posted:Physics could just be different in that universe It's a hyperspace weapon, which somehow extends to its targets. I figured this out while wondering why the explosions were visible at interstellar distances while watching the movie, and it turns out this is also the official explanation.
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May 13, 2017 03:09
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Tezzora posted:the pod race is probably the best part of the phantom menace, but the chase through the city was the best part of godzilla 2000. neither of them are sufficient to make the films good. the pod race has some good directing, some good editing, some very good sound design. it's still a contrived 80s movie premise about winning the big ski race to save the youth center, involving an 8 year old darth vader whittled out of wood, who can't die or lose, gritting his teeth for 20 minutes starting with a camel fart as he defeats market-driven terrible-looking videogame characters until the one who has the villain moustache yells "poodoo" and the futurama announcer does the ikky shuffle, except more baffling than that sounds The pod race is ripped directly from Ben Hur. Of course it's good.
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May 13, 2017 03:36
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I used to think The Godfather was pretty good. But then I went to Walmart and they didn't have any Godfather toys. Godfather is a bad movie now. Edit: There's no Ben-Hur toys at Target. Bad movie.
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UmOk posted:I used to think The Godfather was pretty good. But then I went to Walmart and they didn't have any Godfather toys. Godfather is a bad movie now. When someone says a negative thing about the prequels how long do you cry? On average?
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May 13, 2017 03:44
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Yaws posted:When someone says a negative thing about the prequels how long do you cry? On average? You're taking this a hell of a lot more personally than anyone else. Except Tezzor, I guess.
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May 13, 2017 03:46
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Yaws posted:When someone says a negative thing about the prequels how long do you cry? On average? We are linked by destiny; I shed one tear for each which you shed when someone says a positive thing about the prequels.
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UmOk posted:I used to think The Godfather was pretty good. But then I went to Walmart and they didn't have any Godfather toys. Godfather is a bad movie now. i actually see roughly the amount of Godfather merchandise at Target as i do Attack of the Clones merchandise, probably slightly moreso, despite the fact that one is a serious movie from the 1970s about capitalism and hubris, and the other is an action blockbuster from the 2000s about selling merchandise
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May 13, 2017 03:51
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Tezzora posted:i actually see roughly the amount of Godfather merchandise at Target as i do Attack of the Clones merchandise, probably slightly moreso, despite the fact that one is a serious movie from the 1970s about capitalism and hubris, and the other is an action blockbuster from the 2000s about selling merchandise So Attack of the Clones and The Godfather are equally good?
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to be clear, the fact that there is no prequel merchandise to be found in the normie store does not inherently mean that the prequels are bad, nor does the amount of merchandise speak to a film's quality in general. it does however mean that this lie you are telling yourself about how the films are popular and marketable and you are not alone in the woods yelling about the depth of the robot's rights story that lucas was secretly trying to tell us is just that, a lie. however, i freely admit that there may be a slight renaissance in prequel merch when disney realizes they can sell tshirts with screengrabs of r/prequelmemes content and other such quasi-ironic stuff on them
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May 13, 2017 03:55
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Postulating some relationship between merchandise on display and box office returns, or critical acclaim, has indeed been one of the weirdest goddamn memes in movie discussion over the past year.
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Halloween Jack posted:Postulating some relationship between merchandise on display and box office returns, or critical acclaim, has indeed been one of the weirdest goddamn memes in movie discussion over the past year. for my money i thought it was how you all continue to allow supermechagodzilla to post without beating him half to death with towels full of soap every time he tries to argue that Get Out is about illegal immigration or whatever the gently caress
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Tezzora posted:to be clear, the fact that there is no prequel merchandise to be found in the normie store does not inherently mean that the prequels are bad, nor does the amount of merchandise speak to a film's quality in general. it does however mean that this lie you are telling yourself about how the films are popular and marketable and you are not alone in the woods yelling about the depth of the robot's rights story that lucas was secretly trying to tell us is just that, a lie. however, i freely admit that there may be a slight renaissance in prequel merch when disney realizes they can sell tshirts with screengrabs of r/prequelmemes content and other such quasi-ironic stuff on them in the end, we are all alone, yelling into the woods "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law" I scream. An owl tilts its head in curiosity, then suddenly bursts into action. It seizes and devours a squirrel.
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May 13, 2017 04:01
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I'm ready for Star Wars: Kylo's Counter-Attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9LQhyBYSeg
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MonsieurChoc posted:I'm ready for Star Wars: Kylo's Counter-Attack.
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Tezzora posted:to be clear, the fact that there is no prequel merchandise to be found in the normie store does not inherently mean that the prequels are bad, nor does the amount of merchandise speak to a film's quality in general. it does however mean that this lie you are telling yourself about how the films are popular and marketable and you are not alone in the woods yelling about the depth of the robot's rights story that lucas was secretly trying to tell us is just that, a lie. however, i freely admit that there may be a slight renaissance in prequel merch when disney realizes they can sell tshirts with screengrabs of r/prequelmemes content and other such quasi-ironic stuff on them New lines of prequel merchandise are factually being created and sold in normie stores. Here's an Obi-wan and Commander Cody 2-pack with a frankly bizarre looking toy gun. There's also a Anakin and Yoda 2-pack, with the same toy gun. You are correct that the amount of merchandise does not speak to a film's quality, but that it can speak to how popular and marketable they are. Given that they are still producing childrens toys of the films some 15 years on, they are evidently quite popular and marketable.
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May 13, 2017 04:06
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You think a movie being unpopular is gonna make me stop defending it? You don't know me very well.
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Schwarzwald posted:New lines of prequel merchandise are factually being created and sold in normie stores. oh cool they are producing two toys in the prequel line that's meaningful *uses my bb8 left handed hypoallergenic scissors to open a boba fett brand heavy flow medicated tampon and stuff it up myself*
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Tezzora posted:oh cool they are producing two toys in the prequel line that's meaningful *uses my bb8 left handed hypoallergenic scissors to open a boba fett brand heavy flow medicated tampon and stuff it up myself* That's what I found in maybe five minutes of searching the Hasbro website. But yeah, it's really something that they are still selling toys of a fifteen year old movie.
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Schwarzwald posted:That's what I found in maybe five minutes of searching the Hasbro website. All it demonstrates its that there is a niche market of weird obsessives, which was never in doubt
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I think that the fight between Obi-Wan and Jango on Kamino may be a Kurosawa riff. A climax of sorts, but another one that blurs the conflict between two pawns in a larger and futile struggle.
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Tezzora posted:All it demonstrates its that there is a niche market of weird obsessives, which was never in doubt
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homullus posted:I think that the fight between Obi-Wan and Jango on Kamino may be a Kurosawa riff. A climax of sorts, but another one that blurs the conflict between two pawns in a larger and futile struggle. Personally I think it's some Bullshit where obi wan mostly forgets his powers except when convenient such as when turning into a cartoon and executing a flying Liu Kang kick Tezzora fucked around with this message at 04:31 on May 13, 2017 |
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May 13, 2017 04:28
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The Obi-Wan and Jango fight has cool similarities to the huge battle later on. Both take place in circular "arenas" and have clones swoop in with gunships. Edit: Jar-Jar toys are still being sold. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Star-Wars-Hero-Mashers-Episode-I-Jar-Jar-Binks/46620227
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May 13, 2017 04:29
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The battle is also a part of Obi Wan's detective story. It's the part where the gumshoe gets beaten up because he's sniffing too close. The movie is also showing the Jedi as more fallible and vulnerable- Jango kills one just by shooting him a bunch. It fits with the arc of deconstruction.
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May 13, 2017 04:35
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They make toys for loving everything nowadays. Who cares? You see the garbage they put in those lootcrate things?
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May 13, 2017 04:37
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Yeah but it's kind of hosed up that they make toys of robot slaves.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0G-G24ZFm8
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Jewmanji posted:Yeah but it's kind of hosed up that they make toys of robot slaves. Here's the thing.. ...robots aren't people so they can't be slaves 
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May 13, 2017 04:51
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On the contrary, it's their personhood that makes them uniquely suited for chattel life. They are too useful. They were made to suffer. It's their lot in life. Do you think Lucas included a slave auction in the first fifteen minutes of the movie because it would be cute and funny? Jewmanji fucked around with this message at 04:56 on May 13, 2017 |
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May 13, 2017 04:54
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star wars robots are a lot like slaves but with two key differences: slaves exist and matter
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I think people would have liked AotC better if Anakin and Padmes wedding was Steampunk themed.
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