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General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 296

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I’d rather you didn’t, they might give me gout.

“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”

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Tobar said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

One of these days, just as a neat little experiment, I’ll make pan and scan Force Awakens and Rogue One tapes, and then marathon them with my Faces OT set.


It was actually those images that first put the idea in my head. Those and this one:

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Is it possible that the design of PZ-4CO from TFA was at least in part inspired by Titanosaurus from the old Showa-era Godzilla films?


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I just watched Episode 2 for the first time - after seeing it in the Cinema back when it came out.
oh my god… that movie is so bad it made me Angry… what a mess.

Anakin is the creepiest rapfaced psychopath since this guy:
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more or less every decision (made from the Characters… or the director’s chair) in the movie is plain stupid…
They gave Yoda a f-ing Lightsaber
The Romance Part is forced as hell…
everything looks like an videogame…
ahhh I could go on for ever…

I know most of us are here to forget thoise movies… and thankfuly Disney helps with that… but wow… I completly forgot what a shitshow it was… and I KNEW it was bad.

sorry for interrupting

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detola said:

I just watched Episode 2 for the first time - after seeing it in the Cinema back when it came out.
oh my god… that movie is so bad it made me Angry… what a mess.

Anakin is the creepiest rapfaced psychopath since this guy:
alt text
more or less every decision (made from the Characters… or the director’s chair) in the movie is plain stupid…
The Romance Part is forced as hell…
everything looks like an videogame…
ahhh I could go on for ever…

I know most of us are here to forget thoise movies… and thankfuly Disney helps with that… but wow… I completly forgot what a shitshow it was… and I KNEW it was bad.

sorry for interrupting

You need to watch Frink’s edit to recover your sanity. 😉

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Where were you in '77?

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I hereby suggest that we designate the Star Wars films and spinoffs released since 2015 as Disney Wars (DW).

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generalfrevious said:

TV’s Frink said:

Nah.

I’m still calling it Disney Wars to differentiate it from the OT.

Why not just use “ST” (“sequel trilogy”) like most people here do?

The anthologies still need a designation though.

Star Wars is Surrealism, not Science Fiction (essay)
Original Trilogy Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Beyond the OT Documentaries/Making-Ofs (YouTube, Vimeo, etc. finds)
Amazon link to my novel; Dawn of the Karabu.

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MalàStrana said:

generalfrevious said:

TV’s Frink said:

Nah.

I’m still calling it Disney Wars to differentiate it from the OT.

I’m calling it (SW stories, sequel trilogy) the “body snatchers era”: looks like SW, feels like SW, but it’s not SW.

In other words, Disney Wars.

Remember, this is the same company behind the 1976 & 1998 copyright acts. Their goal now is to make money with as many IPs as possible, not tell good stories.

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Story Films?

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Where were you in '77?

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EU Films. Or NewEU/NuEU if you prefer, but personally I think of the EU as a massive collection of take-it-or-leave-it stories, which is why I have a hybrid personal canon. I accept Rogue One, may or may not accept the Han Solo movie, etc.

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Rule of thumb to be a hardcore SW fan: hate everything made after ESB.

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Yet that doesn’t keep you from running around like Chicken Little with her head cut off.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

Yet that doesn’t keep you from running around like Chicken Little with her head cut off.

I’m not too happy with Disney turning the franchise into the cinematic equivalent of Sonic the Hedgehog. Churning out a film every year is never a good idea, because you end up with a rushed product. At least in the prequel era we only had to endure one bad movie once every three years.

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Though truly great ones will only come once in a while. Episode VIII seems like it’s shaping up to be one of those.

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Lord Haseo said:

Though truly great ones will only come once in a while. Episode VIII seems like it’s shaping up to be one of those.

Which will be cancelled out by Episode IX (exhibit A: Jurassic World). Rey will be running around in stilettos.