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I’ve been watching the prequels again for the first time in years, and they’re honestly quite good. Jar-Jar and the Anakin/Padme romance aren’t very good but aside from that they’re enjoyable. Episode I obviously has the Darth Maul fight as its highlight, but the whole Obi-Wan investigation storyline in Episode II is such a delight, and the speeder chase on Coruscant is one of the best action sequences in Star Wars.
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I just did the same and I'd have to agree.
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viral spiral posted:The Phantom Menace did not even have a main protagonist. It's clear Lucas did not have anyone proofread the first draft for him. "The scripts are incoherent" and "I don't like the lack of a clear protagonist" are different statements. You should try to be more consistent in your criticism.
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Dec 10, 2017 22:10
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Milky Moor posted:spoilers wrong thread my friend
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Dec 12, 2017 01:35
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Tenzarin posted:So with Carrie Fisher being deceased in real life, why did they make her such a huge part in this movie? They have her have force powers beyond belief, blow down a door to stun pilot guy, and still at the end of the movie shes alive going on to help lead the Rebellion! When will they let her rest? You might not have realised but all of those scenes were filmed while she was still alive.
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Dec 16, 2017 05:33
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CelticPredator posted:And it was very disliked among the audience. Not by everyone, but it was not a cherished film. Does this actually hold true among general audiences? That movie review site that asks people leaving the cinema what they thought has it as well liked as Episode 7, and it has an 8/10 user score on IMDb. It's just the Rotten Tomatoes user score that's really been bombed, which makes me think that people who review films on Rotten Tomatoes are just wildly unrepresentative of film-going audiences. EDIT: It's been bombed on Metacritic as well. Maybe the connective tissue is weirdos who for some reason use review aggregators to look at user scores. cargohills fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Objection! Nobody likes the Ughnaughts. Nobody dislikes them either.
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Dec 18, 2017 02:42
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CelticPredator posted:Same except the girl next to me scoffed and muttered how dumb it is to clap in the movie to her friend every single time. I'm sorry but she's right. (Clapping at films is either an American thing or a midnight screening thing. Possibly both. I have been to see Disney's Star Wars films 5 times in cinemas, among many other films. and I have never heard clapping. I also never go to midnight screenings so that might be it.)
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Dec 18, 2017 02:50
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Bongo Bill posted:I go to movies on opening night when I want to see them soon. It's still rude to make noise over a movie. I agree with this.
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Dec 18, 2017 03:06
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UmOk posted:You Amerikkkans are so loving dumb. When something exciting happens in a movie we foreigners just incline our head slightly and give the tiniest of smiles. You Yankee fucks probably have the audacity to laugh at funny things. Laughing is an involuntary action, my friend. You can enjoy things without clapping, and this is what the cinema experience is like in different cultures.
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Dec 18, 2017 03:09
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trash person posted:This is such an old man ‘Dang kids get off my lawn!!’ thought. Why not just enjoy the movie yourself? I go to the cinema to see a movie when it comes out on a big screen, not to partake in a "shared experience". (This is doubly weird because nobody I have ever asked in person has experienced clapping in a film before the end credits. It's a very sharp cultural divide that results in Americans talking about something that they think is universal only for other people to be baffled by it.)
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Dec 18, 2017 03:12
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My theatre was mostly silent aside from laughs and quiet talking (e.g. when Snoke died) and I heard mostly positive things on my way out. I didn't really stop to listen because it was late and it was cold. And that's my Star Wars theatre-going story.
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Dec 18, 2017 03:26
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I hope they get at least a quick cameo with Lando in Episode IX. They've brought back Admiral Ackbar and Nein Nunb and apparently they asked Wedge to come back too. If he's mobile enough to get to the studio to voice his lines for Rebels and Battlefront 2 and go to interviews then I'm sure he's mobile enough to stand/sit in front of a green screen for about 5 minutes. Maybe he could be one of the Resistance's allies in the Outer Rim that they try to contact.
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Dec 18, 2017 03:37
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Lord Hydronium posted:First impressions of the score are that while Williams unfortunately didn't do anything new (that I noticed, there may have been some minor themes), it uses the TFA themes and other existing material to good effect. Rey's theme, Kylo's theme, and the March of the Resistance are used well throughout, Leia's theme and the Jedi Steps get some nice moments, and the biggest surprise was Luke and Leia's theme. I'm listening to it by itself now, so we'll see how it stacks up. I quite like what I think is Rose’s theme, which shows up on ’Fun With Finn and Rose’, ‘Canto Bight’ and ‘The Fathiers’. Overall I think the soundtrack this time round was a pretty big improvement.
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Dec 18, 2017 04:20
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hiddenriverninja posted:Question: Am I mistaken, or was there footage of Rey running with a lightsaber on salt planet that wasn't in the film? You must have been because the lightsaber got destroyed before the Crait battle.
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Dec 18, 2017 04:50
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hiddenriverninja posted:I wonder if Mark Hamill was inoculating himself from fan boy rage by stating in interviews that he very much disagreed with Johnson's treatment of Luke in the script I think he was just trying to big up how they were going somewhere with the character that wasn't immediately obvious.
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Dec 18, 2017 18:22
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Cnut the Great posted:To say that the Jedi should end is to say that Star Wars should end, which is an odd stance for the continuing Star Wars series to take. I don't think this is what the movie is saying. Luke Skywalker is not the last Jedi, after all.
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Cnut the Great posted:It seems to be what a lot of people are taking away from the movie and what they want, though. If anything, I think the saga will end with Rey proclaiming herself to have transcended the dogmatic strictures of the old way and to be walking a new, more enlightened path which accepts the realities of both the dark and the light and maintains a healthy balance between them...even though that's exactly what the Jedi are and what Luke accomplished in bringing them back in ROTJ. I think we'll have to wait and see what Episode IX does with it until we can actually know for sure what interpretation to take.
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mandalorians are just poo poo klingons, and klingons are already poo poo
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Dec 22, 2017 19:21
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Who cares?
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Jan 9, 2018 19:24
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Everyone seems to miss this about the space chase, but the plan was to let the First Order think they had destroyed the Resistance while actually almost everyone gets away on the transports. That’s why Holdo is continuing on course - so the baddies don’t realise something is up. If all the previous ships had tried (and failed) to lightspeed ram then they’d know that they were really mostly empty.
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Jan 10, 2018 12:53
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hiddenriverninja posted:edit: the only canonical series in the Kelvin Timeline is Enterprise. But also old Spock is from the Prime Timeline, as is Eric Bana. And the Kelvin Timeline wouldn't exist without those people from the Prime Timeline.
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Feb 7, 2018 23:50
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I think it looks nice. It is somewhat amusing that the Falcon changed more in 10 years than X-Wings, TIE Fighters and Star Destroyers changed in 30, but that's more down to boring design work in the sequels rather than going too far here.
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Feb 9, 2018 23:08
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it is unacceptable for a company to make more than one game of the same genre imo which is why I havent played a game for 20 years
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Feb 14, 2018 21:09
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Not this again.
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Feb 27, 2018 18:49
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chiasaur11 posted:It's not just that Last Jedi made less money (less than Black Panther, too, which nobody would believe if you said it a year ago). wow, i can't believe that star wars made less money than [checks notes] the most successful superhero movie of all time
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Apr 11, 2018 12:10
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Decius posted:You get what you pay for. And if you pay for the Hot Toys Finn I don't think there's reason to complain: thats one hot toy
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Ammanas posted:This clearly is not the case, or the cruiser in The Last Jedi would not have passed through the First Order fleet. There is absolutely an element of acceleration (and deceleration) to hyperspace. You can see this visually in the Original films as ships seem to decelerate out of hyperspace. euphronius posted:She engaged the warp drive not the regular space drive that they used to outrun the first order fleet Whichever one of these is actually true in the context of the fake science of Star Wars doesn't matter. What does matter is that the narrative effect of the jump to hyperspace is more like jumping in a hole than running fast. Basically any ship can jump into the hole. The Millenium Falcon being fast when it's in the hole would be utterly meaningless because at that point they can't be chased anymore.
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What crystal?
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May 25, 2018 18:38
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They all sounded perfectly normal to me.
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May 26, 2018 12:21
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jesus christ jivjov please stop doing this every single time
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May 31, 2018 16:02
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jivjov posted:Sorry I actually paid attention to The Force Awakens. whether or not it is actually a death star you make a massive fool of yourself every time this happens
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May 31, 2018 16:15
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jivjov posted:Accurately recalling something from a film is "making a massive fool of myself"? I think its much more foolish to insist that something false is in fact true. Though I guess if it works for the President of the United States it can work for a forums poster too... please stop digging my friend
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May 31, 2018 16:51
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The only "lore" thing I can see being addressed in Episode IX is who the Knights of Ren are, but that's just because they might show up to round out the villains a bit now that Snoke and Phasma are gone.
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I think it's probably a combination of increased game budgets, a move away from AAA single-player games, a reluctance from EA to be experimental and brand consistency enforced by Lucasfilm.
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Jul 2, 2018 15:03
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Really love how the characters look with their Episode 3 designs.
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Jul 19, 2018 20:56
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My favourite thing about this latest thread argument is that "Tatooine is Jakku" is possibly the most straightforward and easy to understand thing that SMG has ever posted.
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Jul 28, 2018 16:51
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Star Wars fans aren't the people who make Star Wars movies successful (financially, critically, or artistically).
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Aug 1, 2018 00:59
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Now we've decided we're never going to get a scientific measurement of how good a movie is can we stop having this stupid loving argument?
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I'd just like to say: please never leave us again Cnut. We need your posts.
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