galagazombie posted:

Even people who have never seen Star Wars can describe an X-Wing to you, but they won't be able to remember anything from the Sequels.

Basebf555 posted:

It's like "Palpatine has a huge fleet that's gonna wipe everything out and we only have X days to stop him!!" I guess the idea is that Palpatine basically was broadcasting his plans to the whole galaxy? Who the gently caress knows.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Rogue One Vader is fighting to kill Leia in the past, and thereby prevent Episodes 8 and 9 from being made. I’ll leave it at that.

LionArcher posted:

The Jedi often look like stilted actors with no sword training.

2house2fly posted:

I assume it's directors who people think are evil because of memes- the idea that Lucas tried to cheat his ex-wife out of royalties, that Zack Snyder is right wing, etc

Horizon Burning posted:

are any of those new series in the sequel trilogy-era?

George H.W. oval office posted:

Spinoffs and series' for ... Moana ...? Who is asking for this poo poo

Asgerd posted:

Ghost Leviathan posted:

The interesting part of bringing Maul back seems to be entirely acknowledging that his actual role had long past, and he was discarded, left for dead and replaced by Palpatine without a second thought. And that left him with almost nothing, since he was pretty much at his martial peak and having been kidnapped as a baby and trained his whole life by Palpatine, the Dark Side was all he knew. (and yes, seems something of a counterpoint to the Jedi practice of taking infants to raise as their own)

To reach an understanding with your enemy and realise you wasted your life in the final moments of it seems to be a pretty samurai movie thing.

well why not posted:

I love to read Adult Novels particularly when it’s specified that they are Adult Novels.

Ingmar terdman posted:

The rebellion is assembled from displaced and disaffected people. They're literally flying han solo's old ship around.

Horizon Burning posted:

Edit: lol nah what was here is just mean-spirited bragging about my own writing career

Alchenar posted:

A little in isolation, but as an homage/reference to the Vader Rogue One scene it's great.

People tending to forget just how much of all Star Wars is homages to other things.

e: and if it was a pointless callback that would be bad, but the whole point of that sequence is to telegraph how powerful Luke is, so mirroring the same sequence that Vader had just adds a little something to something that could have been random.

Darko posted:

I did that my first time seeing RoS, but Episode 9 is just too transparently corporate decision making while being completely incoherent at any form of storytelling.

Movies that are so bad they're funny come from a Tommy Wiseau or a Coleman Francis where a director is pouring his soul out on screen and what you see is a window to a person that is unrecognizable as a human being to the point of fascination. Not from corporate marketing just ruining a product.

The United States posted:

cuntman.net posted:

i hope every porg dies

FunkyAl posted:

Threepio should have been interrogated by one of the bad guys at some point, and produced no useful information. Imagine Hux or Kylo or any of the suits doing this. Threepio is just a head on a table and he's trying to be helpful and informative but he just isn't. They try jedi mind tricks but it doesn't work. It almost writes itself.

Boxman posted:

Detective Obi-Wan is really good, but imo its sorta ruined by the fact that the revelations just sorta float out. There's no drama to it, and even the characters barely react. I'm quoting myself here:

Obi-Wan finding the army is presented in this very matter-of-fact way that belies the fact that there is some profoundly bad poo poo going on. He finds out someone is using a dead Jedi's name to amass an unauthorized army and the reaction of 3 Jedi masters is "hm, that's not good, we'll keep an eye on that." Even when the clone army joins the fight, it's all played for spectacle until Yoda takes a moment to say "war were declared."

Atrocious Joe posted:

Someone do a double bill of Attack of the Clones and the Big Lebowski.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

The imagery of Padme drawing Anakin towards the fire-place ought to be pretty obvious, but Lucas also designed the dress’ tight collar to foreshadow her death.

This isn’t just a poetic device, but characterization: in (however playfully) accepting this dominatrix role, Padme has unconsciously set the stage for her own destruction. And, with her gone, there’s nothing between Anakin and the flames.

This imagery has been pretty consistently dismissed by fans, like Lucas just got too horny and accidentally made innocent Padme into a closet sadist.

Jewmanji posted:

Eh. Jyn Erso is by far the worst lead character in the films. Utterly without charm or charisma.

2house2fly posted:

No matter where they're from, I think we can all agree the caliber of both actors is molto bene

Crackbone posted:

Way to poo poo the bed on your cushy acting gig with the biggest media empire in the world.

Please welcome our newest Fox News correspondent...

Larryb posted:

He is but I don't believe he has quite as prominent a role (the little ball droid BB-8 kind of took his place).

Jewmanji posted:

BB-8 doesn’t “belong” to anyone. He’s not a slave. I’m not sure why it matters who he is spending time with anymore than it does matter who the human characters are spending time with

Vinylshadow posted:

What if (some) droids actually liked their lot in life

Not every droid had a restraining bolt, and many seemed to evolve far beyond their programming and were in fact essentially human

If you think droids are slaves, go give the comic where Artoo solos a Star Destroyer to save Threepio in Marvel Star Wars #36 (2017) a read

Szmitten posted:

You're all speaking as if the droid's roles and ownership in the prequel trilogy weren't equally minimal and chaotic.

Admiral Goodenough posted:

K2SO is treated like a person in Rogue One, as in like his free will is respected. Cassian treats him like a friend, and the rest of the rogue crew treat him as someone with their own agency. Jynn doesn’t trust him but it’s based on him being a former imperial droid. I think he talks about being reprogrammed like it’s something that liberated him, even if he isn’t necessarily grateful for it.

There’s a moment when they’re infiltrating the Scarif base where they meet a lot of other robots of his model and there’s a really stark, obvious difference between his almost human behavior and their machine like indifference to their surroundings. It’s very much Empire = enslavers, rebels = liberators

Glottis posted:

yeah but then if you watch ROS you wonder what all the characters introduced in TLJ are doing there, saying hi for 10 seconds and disappearing into only reaction shots