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Modulo16 posted:If you want space wars with cohesive plot lines and scientifically accurate science go watch: The Expanse. nobody ever asked for that.
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I think the people who dislike Rey a lot are kind of ignoring the fact that she is pretty hot. That used to matter and I think it should still matter.
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Oct 15, 2023 23:09
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Chewie doesn't get a medal, Chewie doesn't get a hug
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Oct 15, 2023 23:21
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redshirt posted:And who the hell would make a map to Luke Skywalker? This was a time before google maps remember. You want to go visit your friend for dinner or what ever you need a map. Everyone just had maps to where all there friends lived. It was just what you did.
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temple posted:nobody ever asked for that. It was just a recommendation. I know no one asked. I just like it. 
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Oct 15, 2023 23:41
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Nelson Mandingo posted:I never understood this notion when Leia, Ahsoka, and many other examples exist that somehow don't receive backlash. It's almost like it's just bad writing and bad actors are deflecting. It's both, OP. Those people were out in force for Mad Max: Fury Road. Even here, right on this very forum. There was a lot of hang-wringing about the spirit of the older films, and a lot of nitpicking at every little detail (because, no, no, I'm not mad at the feminism, I'm mad at the PLOT HOLES!!!). But, see, Mad Max: Fury Road was a really good movie and nobody listened. Just like how Barbie is a really good movie, so nobody is listening to Ben Shapiro, or to that one youtube sword guy who does movie reviews now (the one who loves rapists and boob armor). Star Wars really can't survive that sort of close scrutiny because Star Wars was never that solid. The new ones aren't great. They aren't worse than the prequels. There's people trying to make that argument all the time now (about how the prequels were sooo much better), and those people are either pushing an agenda or goddamn insane.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:Star Wars really can't survive that sort of close scrutiny because Star Wars was never that solid. The new ones aren't great. They aren't worse than the prequels. There's people trying to make that argument all the time now (about how the prequels were sooo much better), and those people are either pushing an agenda or goddamn insane. Yeah, I don't get this "the prequels were okay actually revisionism." The new films are mostly just bland Hollywood fair, with the typical pointless, fairly nonsense story lines that come with that. The prequels were actively terrible. Like just horribly made on every level. The only two good things I can think about them is the first one had some great music, and the actor who played the emperor enjoyably hammed it up.
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Blurry Gray Thing posted:Star Wars really can't survive that sort of close scrutiny because Star Wars was never that solid. The new ones aren't great. They aren't worse than the prequels. There's people trying to make that argument all the time now (about how the prequels were sooo much better), and those people are either pushing an agenda or goddamn insane. I would say you're absolutely right, the prequels were a tremendously hot mess and I'm not gonna join that revisionism. But I also say the prequels had their own style that was very similar but also different from the original star wars. The issue being the good stuff that George Lucas wrote "This is how democracy dies" is a hilariously significant minority to the consistently bad "I don't like sand..." I think the sequel trilogy is significantly worse, because as was pointed out in this very thread- there was no plan or end point. It was just mystery boxes and dumb fan fic level writing that was using established characters to tell a completely different story. That and frankly I don't find "Beloved character is a washed up failure" is any bit of good writing and simply exists for bad writers to attempt to make their new characters they insert seem good by comparison. Which is a shame they did that to literally every returning Star Wars character at all. And you see it in a lot of modern stuff, which is a shame. It's painfully lazy.
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Oct 16, 2023 00:15
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If they want me back in the theater, paying full price for a ticket, they’ve gotta deliver an on-screen Hutt Jedi. Full acrobatics, pinballing around like Yoda, Force Belly Flop, the whole bit.
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istewart posted:If they want me back in the theater, paying full price for a ticket, they’ve gotta deliver an on-screen Hutt Jedi. Full acrobatics, pinballing around like Yoda, Force Belly Flop, the whole bit. Hutts don't need to have lightsabers, their thick layer of blubber makes them immune to blaster shots. They also can see in UV which they use to cheat at cards.
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Oct 16, 2023 00:20
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This is scary because this is how I legitimately want to go.
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Wow, it looks like he has a family around him when he dies. Lucky dude. So anyways, the Prequels are CLEARLY superior to the Sequels in every regard.
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Oct 16, 2023 00:24
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I like watching people get sabered
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redshirt posted:So anyways, the Prequels are CLEARLY superior to the Sequels in every regard. A few regards, ok but every? No way
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Oct 16, 2023 00:49
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Look I just want the next Star Wars to be 90 minutes of continuous violence; just a single, uncut shot of stormtroopers and rebels dying en-masse on a battlefield that makes Verdun look like the Emu War Then they can follow it up with Star Peace
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Oct 16, 2023 01:38
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ChickenHeart posted:...that makes Verdun look like the Emu War Very few Emus actually died during the emu war! You know just the ones that died from chocking on all the Aussies they had viciously consumed. Aussies are legally a chocking hazard apparently.
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Oct 16, 2023 02:00
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Bad film referenced good film. You must like one if you like the other.
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ChickenHeart posted:Look I just want the next Star Wars to be 90 minutes of continuous violence; just a single, uncut shot of stormtroopers and rebels dying en-masse on a battlefield that makes Verdun look like the Emu War I just want my Starcrash reboot. Pretty sure they could bring back The Hoff for it. As for whether the prequels are better than Disney’s sequels… all things being equal, which is worse: a movie made by an out of touch weirdo technical director surrounded by yes-men encouraging him, or a movie made by a cynical studio appropriating whatever trends and focus groups tell them are a good idea in the moment, even if it makes for a disposable pile of poo poo? Whatever I can say about the prequels, they’re George Lucas’s fault, and at least a bit more interesting for that reason. I never even got around to seeing TLJ because of the fanboy screeching… Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Oct 16, 2023 |
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Oct 16, 2023 02:53
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Give me a claymation star war starring Keanu Reeves as Rosco Stellarcloud an intergalactic pimp who gets in trouble with local droid mob bosses who rule the mud planet he’s crash landed on placing him smack in the middle of a gang war
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Oct 16, 2023 03:06
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It’s official cannon that jar-jar binks & anakin open mouth kiss at least once
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Tunicate posted:Hutts don't need to have lightsabers, Who said anything about "need"
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I don't see how during the clone wars for instance, that we didn't see star destroyers or any kind of capital ships just bombarding a planet to cinders. The mass troop rush battles must have been few and far between, when lots of places just got Ion cannoned from orbit. Mandalore got blowed up real good that way I think?
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Oct 16, 2023 03:49
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Dying and TWO boners!!!?! Sign me up!
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star wars is popular not because it is good, but because nerds say "but what if it were good" star wars sucks rear end, always has, rogue one was the only okay one because it's not space kardashian bullshit. also it has alan tudyk
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Rogue One sucks on principle because they only gave Donnie Yen one fight scene.
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ChickenHeart posted:Look I just want the next Star Wars to be 90 minutes of continuous violence; just a single, uncut shot of stormtroopers and rebels dying en-masse on a battlefield that makes Verdun look like the Emu War The end of Rogue One with Darth Vader loving poo poo up, but that's the entire movie
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I like the Mandolinian.
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numberoneposter posted:I like the Mandolinian. baby yofa lol!~!!!!!!!!!
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Bip Roberts posted:Dying and TWO boners!!!?! no, those are testicles. learn basic anatomy moron. idiot.
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have you ever read any of those star wars extended universe books? I tried to as a kid but I was too illiterate I think (still am) so I don't remember poo poo about them other than "what the gently caress is this Star Wars I don't see the word ewok anywhere this sucks"
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Private Cumshoe posted:have you ever read any of those star wars extended universe books? I tried to as a kid but I was too illiterate I think (still am) so I don't remember poo poo about them other than "what the gently caress is this Star Wars I don't see the word ewok anywhere this sucks" 
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I burned through all of those books multiple times. Stopped when they killed Chewbacca by dropping a moon on him. Even 14-year old me could tell that was jumping the shark. Some of them were pretty good, I think? There were some neat short story collections and I liked how Leia had some cool adventures on her own. Luke got a strong female character wife and while that was a big thing back then, the depiction probably hasn't aged well.
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Modulo16 posted:If you want space wars with cohesive plot lines and scientifically accurate science go watch: The Expanse. I'm going to be real with you, that sounds boring as gently caress.
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The funniest thing in the extended universe is Han Solo being a deadbeat dad, while Leia is literally the president of the galaxy. Eventually they send the kids off to jedi boarding school.
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My dad told me this story about how when the first movie came out, he thought for weeks that it was a movie called “Star Horse.” The first friend to tell him about it was his flamboyantly gay coworker from NYC who pronounced “wars” in a way that sounded like “horse.” So he thought the movie was called “Star Horse” for weeks until he finally saw a poster. Now whenever a new SW thing comes out, I take the time to ask my dad if he’s seen the latest Star Horse. It always gets a chuckle. Anyway, that’s my Star Wars nonsense.
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Private Cumshoe posted:have you ever read any of those star wars extended universe books? I tried to as a kid but I was too illiterate I think (still am) so I don't remember poo poo about them other than "what the gently caress is this Star Wars I don't see the word ewok anywhere this sucks" I have! Quite a few. My favorites are "Darth Plagueius" and "Cloak of Deception", both of which are lead ins to The Phantom Menace. Also, the novelization of Revenge of the Sith is far, far better than the movie. Finally, I am a nerd. Thank you.
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I think the first 20 seconds or so of Sith is the best thing in all of Star Wars— you see this massive proto-star destroyer from above, inverting the shot from original Star Wars, over the Republic the sun is literally setting on, then suddenly the camera flips and everything above it looks just like original Star Wars for the first time. Just this effortless sense of conveying the imminence of what’s coming, wordlessly and quickly, as part of an action sequence that is still cool and exciting. Unfortunately, then people start to speak
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vegetables posted:I think the first 20 seconds or so of Sith is the best thing in all of Star Wars— you see this massive proto-star destroyer from above, inverting the shot from original Star Wars, over the Republic the sun is literally setting on, then suddenly the camera flips and everything above it looks just like original Star Wars for the first time. Just this effortless sense of conveying the imminence of what’s coming, wordlessly and quickly, as part of an action sequence that is still cool and exciting. Unfortunately, then people start to speak Those war drums too.
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