Star Wars Thread...The Spoiler Edition
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I bought a ticket finally, 10:45PM on Friday night.
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Episode 6 of The Mandalorian was really fun but
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And I have now reached the limits of my cynicism. May you all FUCK OFF and I’ll see you in a little bit.
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I’ve been waiting for baby yoda to do something and you now what this worked.
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I just watched Revenge of the Sith. I'm sure I watched it long ago, but didn't remember much. It's definitely the best of the three prequels. And yet, it's still bad. Such bad dialog. It's amazing that George Lucas ever created the original Star Wars.
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The only way to watch the first three is to fast forward any time anakin and Palme are alone.
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Emailing his frère
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Same but now from blogs and articles
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Rotten Tomatoes is at 57% with 140 reviews. Phantom Menace was 53%.
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Yeah, but maybe the Men's Rights Activists will approve since it appears it's just fan service.Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:23 pm Rotten Tomatoes is at 57% with 140 reviews. Phantom Menace was 53%.
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Wasn't Phantom Menace widely praised for the first few days/weeks after release?Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:23 pm Rotten Tomatoes is at 57% with 140 reviews. Phantom Menace was 53%.
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Not that I remember, at least not by critics.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:41 pmWasn't Phantom Menace widely praised for the first few days/weeks after release?Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:23 pm Rotten Tomatoes is at 57% with 140 reviews. Phantom Menace was 53%.
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For the uninitiated...whole skit is funny but can skip ahead to 5:55
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The Mandalorian episode 7: the best Star Wars episode VII ever?
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Yeah, I don't think so. Although I think Ebert liked it, believe it or not.brian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:51 pmNot that I remember, at least not by critics.Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 2:41 pmWasn't Phantom Menace widely praised for the first few days/weeks after release?Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2019 12:23 pm Rotten Tomatoes is at 57% with 140 reviews. Phantom Menace was 53%.
But I think there's a 0% chance that this movie will be anywhere near as bad as The Phantom Menace. Or probably any of the prequels.
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I have my hopes set very low.
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Due to being deployed to Saudi Arabia, I got to see this movie yesterday.
Disney hooked up AAFES and being at a bare base location, we got to it early. The movie was a great retreat from the hustle and bustle of the day, but...
Soooooo... Definitely not complaining about seeing the movie. It was kinda cool Disney hooked us up. Though they could've tightened up a few things.
ETA:
Oh my. The Reddit thread has some harsh criticism. And, yes, those comments are definitely valid.
ETA 2:
No spoiler. I just think this is amazing.
Disney hooked up AAFES and being at a bare base location, we got to it early. The movie was a great retreat from the hustle and bustle of the day, but...
Soooooo... Definitely not complaining about seeing the movie. It was kinda cool Disney hooked us up. Though they could've tightened up a few things.
ETA:
Oh my. The Reddit thread has some harsh criticism. And, yes, those comments are definitely valid.
ETA 2:
No spoiler. I just think this is amazing.
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Re-read this thread in prep for tonight.
I still agree with this. Might be the moment where it was most clear that JJ was more interested in telling his story than telling a SW story.
From before TLJ:
Still great.
After the forst tROS trailer. Yeah...
I still agree with this. Might be the moment where it was most clear that JJ was more interested in telling his story than telling a SW story.
rass wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2015 6:23 pm And you know what moment, now almost three days later, is bugging me the most, the one moment I think they just completely mishandled?
There is no fucking way Chewie doesn't go right to Leia for a hug after returning from the mission that saw his best friend in the entire galaxy (and her (ex?)husband) die. No. Way.
From before TLJ:
Still great.
After the forst tROS trailer. Yeah...
rass wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:27 pmI like JJ but had some major issues with TFA.
I liked TLJ but had minor issue with it.
I think most of my issues with TLJ can be traced to TFA.
I’m worried TSR might too much a response to the backlash to TLJ, and too much a direct sequel to TFA.
I’m worried there wasn’t one vision for the overall story here and it might not end up working,
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I'm not even getting to see it until sunday!
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Absolutely clear this is the case. In fact, the problem with this set of 3 movies is that it immediately pales in comparison to the overall story-telling narrative arc that so clearly defined the 23 Marvel movies that built to Endgame. A well thought out story for all three movies- that might have been a way to go before they started filming.I’m worried there wasn’t one vision for the overall story here and it might not end up working
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Can’t believe the creator of Lost and Alias let things peter out like this
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ha
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I'd love to know if the issue is a lack of a plan, or if JJ and Lucasfilm had a plan and Johnson was somehow allowed to stray that far from whatever it was, and then in that latter case whether this final film is a course-correction by JJ back to what he intended or just a total overreaction to what a chunk of SW fandom loudly complained about in TLJ.
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I think both of these are true. Which is too bad, because TLJ was much better than TFArass wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:42 pmha
Sydney Bristow wrote:(:`(
I'd love to know if the issue is a lack of a plan, or if JJ and Lucasfilm had a plan and Johnson was somehow allowed to stray that far from whatever it was, and then in that latter case whether this final film is a course-correction by JJ back to what he intended or just a total overreaction to what a chunk of SW fandom loudly complained about in TLJ.
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I think I've made this point before, but I am older now than I used to be and repeating myself comes with the territory it appears...
There was such a natural re-set to this - the original trilogy and the prequels treated Jedi and Sith as if the audience knew their origins etc - and the stakes felt appropriately high (good v evil and later father v. son w/ redemptive arcs) that there didn't need to be any larger narrative arc and it didn't matter that we had no idea how long the struggle or how high the relative stakes of that battle.
But this time around? To help raise the stakes (or at least define them)? Some sort of table setter at the outset of 7 that rooted this in the origins of the ancient split between Jedi and Sith and giving a through line to the Daisy character was right there for them. Right there. Wouldn't have needed forever to do it either, a tight 10 or 15 to set the stage at the start of 7 would be have been perfect. Here I am thinking of the initial 10 minutes of Fellowship of the Ring with the Galadrial voiceover to orient watchers to the stakes of a LONG struggle and help cement buy-in. For non-readers, you absolutely knew that the ONE RING mattered after that and why, even if you had never dealt with the story before. Not only did it have narrative benefits, it was cool as hell at setting mood for the three films. Added thought to this - I liked the initial Star Trek re-boot from Abrams - and the first 12 minutes of that which set the stage for understanding why things were different (yet similar) with characters was fucking gripping. Abrams had already successfully done this once, is my point, no idea why he didn't push for that kind of table setter here.
So, yeah, someone with some ability to tell a fucking story and think this shit out would have been nice.***
***Full disclosure, I didn't mind the ending of Lost - and if you hated it you have more issues with Lineloff than Abrams - as that was Lindeloff's show by then. But I also totally am there for any project from Lindeloff, and re-watching Lost a year ago with my son binge style smoothed over a LOT of the frustrating edges as it ended up being very compelling viewed that way rather than waiting week to week or season to season.
There was such a natural re-set to this - the original trilogy and the prequels treated Jedi and Sith as if the audience knew their origins etc - and the stakes felt appropriately high (good v evil and later father v. son w/ redemptive arcs) that there didn't need to be any larger narrative arc and it didn't matter that we had no idea how long the struggle or how high the relative stakes of that battle.
But this time around? To help raise the stakes (or at least define them)? Some sort of table setter at the outset of 7 that rooted this in the origins of the ancient split between Jedi and Sith and giving a through line to the Daisy character was right there for them. Right there. Wouldn't have needed forever to do it either, a tight 10 or 15 to set the stage at the start of 7 would be have been perfect. Here I am thinking of the initial 10 minutes of Fellowship of the Ring with the Galadrial voiceover to orient watchers to the stakes of a LONG struggle and help cement buy-in. For non-readers, you absolutely knew that the ONE RING mattered after that and why, even if you had never dealt with the story before. Not only did it have narrative benefits, it was cool as hell at setting mood for the three films. Added thought to this - I liked the initial Star Trek re-boot from Abrams - and the first 12 minutes of that which set the stage for understanding why things were different (yet similar) with characters was fucking gripping. Abrams had already successfully done this once, is my point, no idea why he didn't push for that kind of table setter here.
So, yeah, someone with some ability to tell a fucking story and think this shit out would have been nice.***
***Full disclosure, I didn't mind the ending of Lost - and if you hated it you have more issues with Lineloff than Abrams - as that was Lindeloff's show by then. But I also totally am there for any project from Lindeloff, and re-watching Lost a year ago with my son binge style smoothed over a LOT of the frustrating edges as it ended up being very compelling viewed that way rather than waiting week to week or season to season.
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My reaction, after seeing it last night:
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I’m still stewing things over to see where i land but
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