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ungulateman posted:All the ads for Gilette ('a father passes knowledge down to his son!'
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:In the old thread I was one of the PT naysayers but thanks to the discussions we had I went out and bought the 3 pack PT DVD set today and will watch them this week with an open heart and mind. - The Phantom Menace's opening 30 minutes are loving atrocious and feel kinda racist. The overall flow of the film is really weird - it cuts to new scenes with no natural 'end' point for the current scene and jumps from planet to planet with no introduction. The CGI has not aged well at all, but Naboo / Gungan City are beautiful. Everything with Anakin in it is really off-putting. The pod race is still kinda awesome and holds up well. The duel is great, but the space battle lacks any kind of stakes. I couldn't stop laughing at the part where Padme and her team rappel up the side of the palace. It's so lame. - Attack of the Clones is just irredeemable. The acting is at its absolute worst, the CGI sucks and stands out like a sore thumb. The colosseum scene with all the Jedi is a monument to all of George's sins as far as the prequels go. The romance stuff is unwatchable. - Revenge of the Sith's opening 30 is this kinda tantalizing glimpse at what a *good* prequel trilogy might have looked liked. There's still hokey acting, but the action is well done and still looks great today, along with some genuinely fun banter between Obi Wan and Anakin. I can't help but think General Grievous is kinda a fun villain and I kinda wish they'd used him and Maul as a duo through all three prequels. Anakin's downfall is actually quite close to being well-executed, but that "What have I DONE!" line just kills any hope of drama. The lightsaber duels in this one are all really poorly choreographed, the worst offender being the Mace/Palpatine duel where Mace just kinda walks past Palpatine scot-free. The childbirth scene is atrocious and embarrassing.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He was telling me that the favourite characters for people his age are usually Qui Gon or Mace Windu because he had that cool purple lightsabre and I just nodded at him.
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weekly font posted:Baby me owned an action figure of the conehead Jedi. I don't remember a loving thing we're told about him in the actual movies.
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starry skies above posted:That's a damning criticism.
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So, has anyone taken a swing at a timeline for the 30-year gap between ROTJ and TFA? I guess some of the new books will expound, but I would assume, using conjecture and stuff from the film: - Galactic Civil War continues for at least one year after the Death Star II blows up - Battle of Jakku happens, Civil War formally ends - The Rebel Alliance takes control of the Imperial seat of power around this time (presumably still Coruscant) - Galactic Senate is restored, Republic reformed but isn't quite as great as the Rebellion hoped - A period of relative peace while the Empire's remnant reorganises (maybe around 10, 15 years?) - Leia in some kind of governmental role within the Republic but none too happy about it - In this period of time, Snoke is a known quantity to the Republic (Leia speaks about him as if she knew him) - Ben Solo born - Rey sent to Jakku around the time the First Order materializes to protect her from their hunt. Pretty sure Max von Syndow's character is in a Obi Wan-like protector role. - Luke investigates the Jedi Order and tries to train people to become Jedi - Ben exhibits force-sensitivity, has some training - Things don't go so well, Ben leads some kind of revolt against Luke's teaching alongside other students (would explain Kylo Ren having a squad with him and the dead bodies in the Force-back), probably after Palpatine-like manipulation by Snoke - I would peg this around 2 or 3 years before TFA? - Luke goes into self-imposed exile to get his poo poo together - Han and Leia have their breakup - Events of this movie??? -???
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Bucswabe posted:Also, people have been commenting on Rey being completely inexperienced with force powers / Jedi combat. But I am guessing that we will find out that Rey was actually being trained as a Jedi when she was very young (particularly if she's Luke's daughter) and simply forgot all of it when she had to be abandoned.
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Dec 18, 2015 16:57
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Neurolimal posted:Unfortunately no, that would have been pretty cool though. These were the designs before they realized time was running too thin to make another expressive puppet that could handle Maz's scenes, the finished design plays up her role of observation and advice:
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corn in the fridge posted:Han's fascination with Chewie's bowcaster was really strange for me too. I was always under the impression that it was an overly heavy and unwieldy weapon requiring great strength to use ( do blasters have recoil??) so it really weirded me out when Han just picked or up and started blasting fools.
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I feel like the third act and finale would have flowed a whole lot better if Starkiller Base had been replaced with a battle on the planet where Luke was - the film's biggest failing is that the "Find Luke" motivator gets waylaid for quite a while. Have the third act play out like: - Movie proceeds as-is until the Resistance returns to their base - BB-8 returns the Luke Map and pieces it with R2's map - Kylo is able to get the Luke Map out of Rey's mind, but the scene still plays out with Rey eventually resisting - Have the First Order and Resistance race to Luke's planet to try and track him down, with a battle breaking out on the surface - Replace the trench run X-Wing stuff with a space battle between Resistance and FO fleets - The Kylo/Han stuff can still happen, just on the planet instead of the base - The Resistance eventually beats back the First Order - Rey goes to see Luke
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Jan 18, 2016 17:49
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MonsieurChoc posted:They both ended up making stories about fighting Space Fascism in the late 70s (Gundam came out in 79, Star Wars in 77), and both had beam/light sabers and psychic teenagers and were critical of imperialism (George of the Vietnam War, Tomino of the old Imperial Japan).
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Jan 25, 2016 18:04
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It makes a lot of sense that Han and Leia would be lovely parents, imo. Characterizing them as such in TFA shows due respect+understanding of the OT.
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Waffles Inc. posted:Clones: This is tougher...maybe the droid factory?
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Waffles Inc. posted:Yeah honestly Hayden Christensen's life post-Star Wars reads more like the life of a dude who got gently caress you money and decided to live it how he wanted
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A Deacon posted:Tarkin. I couldn't tell the difference between CGI Tarkin and the real one. I thought it was really well done.
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Halloween Jack posted:Also, why is ESB considered the best? I like ESB, but that it's the best just seems to go unquestioned. I suspect it's often hailed as the best because it suits certain prejudices--like, those of us who first saw Star Wars when we were toddlers could still point to ESB as the "dark, gritty" one when we put kids' stuff aside for serious movies. - tightest story - best performances combined with the least cumbersome dialogue - most memorable score - probably has the highest density of 'iconic' star wars moments - most impressive VFX
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Mark Hamill has had some really bad ideas for Luke over the years so Rian doing the exact opposite of what he thinks is right is a good sign
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May 26, 2017 15:49
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i'm really excited to see how badly this film turns out
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Timby posted:In addition to Han Solo, Obi-Wan and Boba Fett, Variety says that a standalone movie about Jabba is in development, as well.
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Aug 21, 2017 11:05
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e: i'm dumb and dont get jokes
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Aug 21, 2017 16:10
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I'm fairly cynical about Star Wars these days but daaaaamn I can't help but feel a lil excited by this
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JazzFlight posted:Well, there were a few canon additions to the lore in Rogue One.
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El Burbo posted:I liked it when he said "The POWAH we are dealing with is immeasurable" What are the odds Luke never talks about ending the Jedi in TLJ
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Thanks for these, they're surprisingly good and have a lot of interesting scenes that aren't in the film (particularly with Tarkin) - were they devised for the drama or based off old drafts of the script?
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Is it really that likely to sell out on the very first day tickets become available? Theatres know this is going to be huge and will be planning accordingly, I imagine. I booked midnight tickets for Force Awakens the night-of and that was arguably a more hyped and anticipated film than TLJ is.
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