Bingowings

you meen like Benedict Cumberbatch isnt karn… ?

Booman said:

We just got another pic of Vader in Rouge One!

http://makingstarwars.net/2016/10/darth-vader-from-rogue-one-a-star-wars-story/

Maybe there are two Vaders. Anakin and …

Dramatic reconstruction :
Bingowings said : “American Horror Story is a bit rubbish this year.”

I could have let it lie but I felt compelled to write how a bit rubbish American Horror Story is this year.

Anchorhead said:

I’m becoming concerned that this isn’t going to be as stand-alone as I’ve been hoping. Star Wars, under and because of Lucas, has long since become a convoluted, shrunken universe, incestuous mess. That’s what turned me away from the film/Lucas franchise and into the Daley and Zahn EU. New characters, new storylines, new worlds.

I understand Rogue One can’t be completely free of 1983-2005, but it now looks to be shaping up as some sort of Kumbaya for all the fractured fan bases.

It looks like it’s becoming the new episode 3. In that the resolution is mentioned in the crawl of episode IV and it seems to belong more to the world of the OT without totally dismissing the prequels. So yes. Not stand alone at all. To be honest I’m okay with having three other films I can pretend are THE prequel trilogy. So an Obi-Wan in exile film or an Admiral Akbar movie wouldn’t hurt if they were good films. Television novels and comics are better for expanding universes in my opinion.

Most scared more like

emanswfan said:

I always thought the big issues with ROTJ weren’t till later in the movie, like the lack of tension during the third act. In other words, unless the opening is getting radical changes, there would be absolutely no reason to have to change the crawl. The crawl only sets up the movie, nothing else.

Yeah but the first two start with Galactic epicness and ROTJ starts like a daytime soap.

Just a tad disappointed by the text of the ROTJ crawl staying the same but it’s not my show.

For me ROTJ is almost as screwy as the PT so I was really looking forward to major changes, starting with the crawl which is dull compared to the tone of the first two.
But it looks nicer.

Depression, obsession, anxiety, malaise, elation, detachment, mania they are natural human behaviours.
At the present you have an illness that makes you linger on one or the other longer than is perhaps healthy. In time you will find a way to mix them up more. Enjoy a balanced diet of emotional responses. Just be patient with yourself, it will be alright.

Either you accept the official canon or you do not.
If you do it’s all in.
If you don’t it’s up to you.

Late Phases and It Follows both 2014. Both films have a late seventies early eighties vibe to them. The first one has elements of Stephen King, The Howling, a few visual mods to The Company of Wolves, even a small hint of Bubba Ho-Tep. The second takes it’s queues from The Entity, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street. The first deals with aging and the later coming of age. Both had great character performances, great photography, and at least one scene that let them down and keeps them just shy of greatness. Still well worth watching. -45778877888777 n-forms.

Just finished binge watching Stranger Things 70000987 chocolate puddings.

It’s probably not a good idea to install Street Fighter V onto a PC for wee while.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter_v/

Mike O said:

I’ve still barely watched any of my stuff on the DVR. I haven’t watch any of the videos since Monday though, so that’s good.

It is good. Think back to when you first started posting on this topic. It would have seemed unthinkable that you could be doing that much. Sorry to Labour the physical illness angle but if you had heart disease or cancer you wouldn’t be thinking yourself a failure or a coward. You are unwell with an illness which has a lot of unjustified stigma attached to it. Not only are you actively seeking help, you are openly talking about it. You are the counter opposite of a coward. You are a competent and courageous person coping with an unpleasant and difficult to treat disease that most people don’t understand. Persevere and you will get better.

Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness… If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless - I spare it.

Will there be Jedi Scroll comparison porn later?.. Please

No! I tell you no! I won’t have you bringing some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap,
erotic fashion of young men with cheap, erotic minds!

Ouch

moviefreakedmind said:

This is not the thread for altered images of webzone avatars.

There is no Dana only Zuul

SilverWook said:

Bingowings said:

Ghostbusters (1984)
I haven’t watched this for a while and it was surprising how little I enjoyed it this time. The characters (Egon, Janine and Tully would have been a better focus for me) are rather bland. The effects go from brilliant (like the devil dog puppets) and the awful (like the devil dog stop motion). The dialogue is the best bit. The few sight gags are beautifully mounted by wit.
Sigourney is so much more fun as Zuul then Dana where she just delivers her default Sigourney performance.
When I was a kid Peter Venkman seemed cool. Now he seems kind of creepy. The most impressive thing about the film for me is how despite wasting much of the movie with shots of religious stereotypes excitedly jumping up and down and celebrity journalist cameos they get some interesting world building in there. I’m tempted to watch Ghostbusters 2 now just to see if it’s anywhere near as bad as I remember.
37 Balls.

You’re knocking some of the FX because they’re thirty years old? I don’t know of any other way they could have made the Terror Dogs run convincingly back then.

The tv and radio personalities helped root the movie in the real world. (As do the magazine and newspapers.) Larry King is secretly a immortal supernatural being, and would have figured prominently in GB 2, but his agent wanted more money. 😉

I hated the stop motion devil dogs when I was 14. The vintage isn’t the issue. The quality is. Willis O’Brien’s work still looks interesting, Ray Harryhausen rarely had a bad shot. This is a year after the last great stop motion gig in Hollywood (Jedi used go-motion but it’s basically stop motion). The problem is mostly the compositing. The rod puppet in Alien 3 is let down to similar effect. While it’s kind of cool to have the voice of Shaggy in a goofy ghost comedy it does reduce a large chunk of the film to a clip show. I never noticed how creepy Bill Murray is in this film. Predatory, the sort of person who brings large doses of sedative to a date. Sure he resists temptation when Zuul is in Dana but it’s still weird. As is Tully and Dana being raped by demons inside each others bodies. I guess I’m really getting old to notice these things. As for my use of the balls system any long term reader of my reviews on here will note I rarely state what the score is out of, the balls are often replaced by even more bizarre counters, it’s just a number it’s not meant to make sense.

Wazzles said:

Piett19bby said:

Where can I download this version of The Empire Strikes Back?

I wouldn’t if I were you. There are much better options available today.

Harmy’s versions are more accurate to the original experience but I still love this version. The colours may be different but they lend a freshness to the image. The reverse effect to uniform cyan tint on the 2004SE or the magenta fade in the GOUT. It plays perfectly well on my by modern standards small telly. It’s still the one I watch most because my stupid media player would constantly go out of sync playing Harmy’s disc images.Something I can’t fix in the settings. So I’ve only seen his versions a couple of times on my even smaller computer monitor.

you assume too much

Being taught by him probably helped.

Ghostbusters (1984)
I haven’t watched this for a while and it was surprising how little I enjoyed it this time. The characters (Egon, Janine and Tully would have been a better focus for me) are rather bland. The effects go from brilliant (like the devil dog puppets) and the awful (like the devil dog stop motion). The dialogue is the best bit. The few sight gags are beautifully mounted by wit.
Sigourney is so much more fun as Zuul then Dana where she just delivers her default Sigourney performance.
When I was a kid Peter Venkman seemed cool. Now he seems kind of creepy. The most impressive thing about the film for me is how despite wasting much of the movie with shots of religious stereotypes excitedly jumping up and down and celebrity journalist cameos they get some interesting world building in there. I’m tempted to watch Ghostbusters 2 now just to see if it’s anywhere near as bad as I remember.
37 Balls.

“Wait. Oh my! What have you done. I’m backwards. You flea-bitten furball! Only an overgrown mop-head like you would be stupid enough to…”

Sport in general leaves me bored and Olympic Games particularly so (even the paraOlympics) but this story is tangentially on topic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/37387678
Han shot his dad.