Star Wars: 4000 posts later we are no closer to consensus

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I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

I'm so emotional right now.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2017 03:04

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 14:25

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

oddium posted:

the gorilla arm at-ats rule

Right? Those things are badass.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2017 03:21

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Loved this movie so much. Seeing it for a second time later today. Very glad that none of the fan theories turned out to be true because they were all stupid. It seems like the reason why people are so critical of this film is that they spent two years building up this idea in their head of exactly how they thought the movie would play out. Because it was nothing like that, they instantly hate the Last Jedi.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2017 18:42

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Nah, giving Snokes motivation would have been completely pointless. His motivation was to end the Jedi once and for all and to train an apprentice, nothing more. This is the story of Kylo Ren and Rey, it was that story from the very start. I completely disagree that this movie veered off course from the Force Awakens.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2017 18:56

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Just got back from my 2nd viewing. Even better then the first. I think the best way to summarize the Last Jedi is that Rian Johnson destroys Star Wars, and in doing so he creates the best Star Wars movie.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2017 03:02

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

The Last Jedi is a pretty amazing movie. Sorry dorks.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2017 14:53

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

fridge corn posted:

Episode 8 is really good

# ¿ Dec 17, 2017 20:12

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Vintersorg posted:

That's pretty much what is happening here and people are being serious about it. It's really loving gross and a childish dismissal of others opinions on the movie.

Like, you're (not you ABC) so loving cool for "getting" and "enjoying" TLJ. Grow up.

lmao a post about how liking a movie means needing to grow up. Amazing.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2017 22:25

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

AndyElusive posted:

Chill out, it's just a Star Wars movie, enjoy yourself.

This. The whole premise of Star Wars is absurd. Rian Johnson takes that and runs with it and it's glorious.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2017 22:44

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Loved the trailer. Really excited for this movie and excited that it's coming out in May. I like that Solo might not be as charismatic in this one. This is suppose to be a Solo that is inexperienced and arrogant. He is much younger then in the original trilogy.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2018 18:15

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

K. Waste posted:

Of course not, Valerian is way better than GotG.

yikes...

# ¿ Feb 5, 2018 20:58

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

As much as I love the new movies, I am hoping Star Wars is given a breather after Episode IX. Lets be honest though, that is not going to happen.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2018 21:08

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Colonel Whitey posted:

It�s amazing how much Jack Reynor looks like Chris Pratt. I bet he would have been a good choice for Solo. Sing Street is great, watch it if you haven�t yet.

I would go for Chris Pratt being Han Solo.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2018 21:25

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

galagazombie posted:

I maintain to this day that Crimson Skies for the Original Xbox is the best Star Wars game of all time.

That game just recently became available for Xbox One. It has a native 4K option for Xbox One X too.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2018 17:57

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

I know its fashionable right now to pretend the new Star Wars movies are all horrible nonredeemable garbage, but i'm going to be the voice of reason here and say the new Han Solo trailer was great and I am very excited for this movie.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2018 02:13

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Better would be if Han Solo legit dies and then someone comes along, take Chewie with them and takes Han Solo's name and it becomes canon that Han Solo this entire time was an imposter.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2018 04:29

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

thrawn527 posted:

Conversely, no, it's not disastrous by Disney's standards. It made over a billion dollars worldwide, and currently only 3 movies of Disney's have made more, TFA, Avengers, and Avengers 2. (Though, to be fair, Black Panther will probably pass it at this point.)

Picking out it's 2nd weekend drop doesn't really mean anything in the overall picture. It made a ton of money, and Disney wants him to make his own trilogy. There is zero reason to believe Disney is planning any course correction due to this extremely successful movie, and plenty of evidence to say they are quite happy.

Black Panther is at 1.3 billion worldwide now. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=marvel2017b.htm

# ¿ Apr 12, 2018 15:14

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Blood Boils posted:

I've said it before, but the ST broke cnut. I don't hold them in very high regard either, but I was disappointed he refused to approach them with the same level of criticism he applied to the OT and PT.

To be fair we've had years to break down the prequel and original trilogy, and read about other peoples analysis. The sequel trilogy has not been out long enough and still has one more movie. No one bothered to really get into why the prequels were terrible movies until years after that trilogy finished in 2005.

I said come in! fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Sep 15, 2018

# ¿ Sep 15, 2018 17:40

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

All stories throughout history originated from a handful of animes.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2018 17:54

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

General Dog posted:

This is Kylo Ren, isn't it

His grandfather is still Darth Vader in this reality

This is who Kylo Ren wishes he was.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2018 19:40

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

He eats up that nerd persona because it nets him a massive amount of positive attention and money.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 18:48

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Detective No. 27 posted:

It's been a while since I posted in this thread.

So Palpatine's officially confirmed to be Anakin's baby daddy.
https://screenrant.com/star-wars-anakin-father-emperor/

I'm just going to go ahead and pretend this doesn't exist. It's already heavily implied in Episode III and is way better left completely open to interpretation.

# ¿ Dec 21, 2018 19:10

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Grendels Dad posted:

He might have contributed significantly to getting the main characters where they needed to be, but his contribution to the final battle is beyond insignificant. He manages to destroy a tank and avoids getting captured for a bit, and that's it. I guess you could take this as drawing out the battle and thus keeping the battle droids out of the city, allowing the other characters to proceed with their parts of the plan. But that'd be a stupid take, it's not like the droids would teleport back into the city if they had defeated the Gungangs in half the time. Once the Gungans had lured the droids outside the city, their part of the plan was done with.

All the viewer knows is that it's vital that the droids leave the city to engage the Gungans, which they do in the middle of nowhere. The movie does nothing to establish a necessity to draw out the battle, that's why much of it feels so pointless.

I think the Naboo intentionally wanted Gungans to get slaughtered. They did admit this would probably be the outcome.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2018 20:25

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

sassassin posted:

"His family/the estate owned the slaves, not him!" is a shameful technicality to fall back on.

Jewmanji posted:

Luke clearly isn�t interested in a life that involves policing chattel droids. The first things we see him do are remove a restraining bolt, give a droid a bath, and reject the title of �master�.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2018 18:13

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Nebalebadingdong posted:

watto is not a slave trader

This is true, we see zero indication that he is a slave trader, unless he considers people to be junk. :v:

He has bought Shmi and Anakin, but that's about it that we are aware of. Not sure if he owned people before that.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2018 18:26

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

I Before E posted:

Good news, Red Tails exists

But it's a horrible movie that makes the prequels look good in comparison. :/

Lucas hasn't done anything else since then. He hinted at doing some small movies that he has no intention of the public seeing. Which pretty much means he is making home grown porn. He is also busy building low income housing in wealthy parts of California, for the under privileged and to piss off the wealthy elite.

# ¿ Dec 30, 2018 06:29

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

ruddiger posted:

I wonder if Ridley Scott liked the prequels.

https://imgur.com/a/VLD9Kih

I really like the Prometheus soundtrack.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2018 21:37

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Captain Jesus posted:

People used to think they were poo poo until it was discovered they were actually good.

It happened in the previous incarnation of this thread some years ago. I watched it happen. People were shocked. They thought mr. Plinkett settled the question but then other people disagreed. Heresy! How can it be? I actually don�t know.

Some people still can�t get over the fact that the canon has changed and prequels are good now. Prequel haters are nothing but a shameful minority now.

A couple people posted screen grabs of the prequels with lines on them made in photoshop, and said "THIS MAKES A GREAT MOVIE!" over and over again until everyone started agreeing with them just to get them to shut the gently caress up.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 20:39

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

The only good thing about Samuel L. Jackson being in Star Wars was the friendship bond that happened with John Boyega. They are both really good people.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 21:03

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

It's cool that Jackson was in Star Wars, but disappointing that his strengths as an actor weren't utilized at all and he was barely in the three movies.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 21:16

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

RIP Christopher Lee, my favorite evil grandpa.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 22:33

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

That discription is nice and all but we don't see that on screen from Jackson at any point.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2019 22:45

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

A part of me still wishes A New Hope was made and released in 1977 and then Star Wars disappeared from pop culture after and was never seen again. Other than a small cult following today that still enjoyed the original movie.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 16:03

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Colostomy Bag posted:

Yeah, would have been nice if Vader adopted Luke out of kindness.

He did try to do this multiple times, which is odd considering Vader is his biological father.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 17:08

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Colostomy Bag posted:

Well I guess if my biological dad slashed my arm off...

Or the tunnel scene in ROTJ?

Woulda been so much eaiser if Vader brought up the father bit before lightsabers started being swung around. He has some anger issues that affect his family and work life.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 17:36

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Schwarzwald posted:

Luke�s the aggressor throughout most the confrontation. He�s the one who pulls out his saber, and he�s the one who advances on Vader. Vader, for his part, spends most of that fight backing off and trying to wear Luke out without cutting him in half.

This is a good point. I'm now picturing Luke being all NO DAD YOU SHUT THE gently caress UP and then attacking first and it's funny to me.

To be fair though Luke had credible information to suggest Vader was extremely hostile and dangerous to him. Vader's intention was to turn Luke, but Luke did not know that at the time.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 18:19

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Colostomy Bag posted:

What was Vader's work life? Is there anything in the EU where he sits down on the couch and pops open a beer.

We see him murder multiple co-workers throughout the Empire Strikes Back is what I mean

As far as we know, Vader only likes to meditate after a hard day of working for the emporer. We see this is Empire Strikes Back, and Rogue One so it's only twice really.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 18:27

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

AndyElusive posted:

Luke was also coming in real hot after getting a force vision of his friends in pain and then being shot at by Bubba Fatt when he arrived at Cloud City.

Exactly, and he saw his friends being kidnapped, Leia was yelling at him that it was a trap.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 19:24

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Davros1 posted:

I wonder what it would have been like if the first ever Star Wars film hadn't come out until this year. Can you imagine the internet's reaction?

I imagine it being only a small indie film that gets lot of talk and hype in nerd circles on the internet but doesn�t go anywhere after its theater run. And I say this as A New Hope coming out today exactly as it did in 1977.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2019 20:43

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 14:25

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

Grendels Dad posted:

Have you tried stepping on a video game, though? It's not really the same.

What about licking a Nintendo Switch cartridge?

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 08:35

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