Collipso

Yeah, but I think that that’s exactly what some fans don’t want. I became a Star Wars fan around 2007, and one of the things I always thought was special about Star Wars was that it was over. 6 movies and that’s it. The Clone Wars TV series and the EU were a treat, but the big thing was done. And I thought it was gorgeous, from AotC to TESB. And I loved the fact that it was over, and it was going to be there forever as a complete story. Much like The Beatles broke up and that was it. The Anthology albuns and documentary are treats. But the big thing is done. It ended in 1969 much like SW ended in 2005 (or so I thought).

So I for example am not fond at all of the idea of MCUing or 007ing the SWU.

Phil Collins - “In The Air Tonight”

This is very interesting kk, but I do recall the yellow tint in the theater, so I’m sticking with the original color grade 😛

thebluefrog said:

I wonder if any of the TLJ video games have any useful audio and dialogue that could be used?

You mean the LEGO one?

paja said:

1984

This is a great book.

Handman said:

Sims 3 didn’t have DLC, it had Expansions 😛 . Sims 4 is a travesty. The original is more fun to play, and in some aspects isn’t as limited as 4 (crazy, right?). I spent a lot of time with the second and third games, I couldn’t tell you which one I’ve spent more time on (probably 2).

Yeah, well, I thought that by DLC you meant Expansion Packs and those Object Collections. The only thing I didn’t get for 3 during the time I played it was the crazy Katy Perry pink/candy world thing. What the heck was that. And I probably played 3 more than 2, but not by much. 2 was so much fun though.

These days I can’t even play 3. It’s just so unoptimized it’s painful to run, and it was never as much fun as the second game anyway. People criticize the fourth game for removing the open world, but I never really saw much use for that in a Sims game anyway, most of it was empty space that ate up valuable resources.

I remember playing a lot of The Sims 2 and then 3 when that one came out. I ended up getting most of the DLCs that were released up till june/2011 for 3, too. Never played 4 or 1 though.

to be fair I was thinking more about the drug thread than about fanediting

ChainsawAsh said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

So, under the proposed bill, would our arguing the merits of decriminalizing certain illegal drugs constitute “promoting” criminal acts, and thus make this site guilty of a crime?

Maybe. The drug ranking thread in itself is probably riskier than a discussion about whether decriminalization/legalization is a good idea or not.

And then there’s the whole question of whether the nature of this site as it stands (fan edits and preservations) could be construed as promoting the criminal act of copyright infringement and/or piracy…

so what you’re saying is that we’re all criminals

I read through 3 pages worth of threads today to catch up and I couldn’t find the reason why Warb left. Granted, I didn’t read the politics thread because oh god no, so I guess that whatever happened happened in there, but yeah.

I like your new avatar Ash. I also like coffee’s new avatar.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Am I the only one that thinks this is disturbing

DominicCobb said:

Jay said:

DominicCobb said:

Ha, citing the RT audience score unironically, that’s funny.

I’m guessing you have “valid” data that supports your take on things.

Do you? In general I wouldn’t trust an audience score on a site like that. Which is to say nothing about the reports of concentrated bot reviews. Even if you think there’s no way that could have been the case (because it’s so unbelievable) there was still a campaign to lower its score. Plus the simple fact that hardcore fans that got mad are way more likely to rate the movie on RT than the casual fans who vastly outnumber them. When you consider the high cinema score, it’s starts to paint a different picture.

Even if you’re skeptical of these things, it’s not hard to see how the RT score might be slightly biased in one direction. That considered, it’s weird to use it as proof that a majority of fans disliked the film when that score is basically right in the middle, even with that negative volunteer bias.

So yeah, I think it’s pretty silly to take any stock in the RT audience score, and you doing so did legitimately give me a laugh.

http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2017/12/rotten-tomatoes-the-last-jedi-low-audience-score & https://www.cbr.com/last-jedi-rotten-tomatoes-score-defense/

Found these 2 doing a quick Google search. They were among the top results.

To say that the low audience score for TLJ in RT was hacked by some sort of alt-right group or that it isn’t legit is the same as saying that Disney has payed most critics to give their movies high scores, which isn’t something I believe in, therefore I call both ideas BS.

No need to go full denial mode about most people not liking a movie you like. It just so happens people have different opinions.

And interestingly enough I think that RT is so easily accesible to the casual movie goer that it ends up being one of the most reliable sources for audiences’ scores imo.

PS: I’ve been reading what I wrote over and over before posting and I don’t know how to phrase it better but it just isn’t making any sense to me and I don’t know how to improve it. If anything’s incohesive or incoherent, I’m sorry.

ChainsawAsh said:

Also, Skywalker wasn’t even the name until the movie started filming in 1976. It’s still Starkiller in the shooting script.

They actually shot some scenes with it. “I’m Luke Starkiller and I’m here to rescue you!”

yhwx said:

MacBook Pro

I’m so sorry.

Red Sparrow no

On second thought, probably the lyrics of “Help!”, by The Beatles, when I was 8.

I don’t remember. I was 4 or 5 when I learned how to read in Portuguese, but not sure about when I started reading English. I suppose I must’ve been around 12 or 13. I was 14 the first time I watched something in English with no subtitles or any other form of “help”. That I remember - it was Batman: The Animated Series’ “Christmas with The Joker”.

Not sure if I said this already but I loved Ragnarok. Liked it a lot, more than Black Panther. For some reason it made me feel like a kid (lol) and I was rooting for the heroes all throughout, and I enjoyed the slapstick. Infinitely better than the 2 other Thor movies imo.

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

The Phantom Menace.

I’m beginning to understand Frink’s pain.

Drink well from it, my friend.

Wait I don’t want to be the source of any sort of pain to anyone.

Am I doing something wrong?

That’s so awesome dahmage! I’m actually very happy for you. And I think we’ll be seeing more from you in the overnight thread from now on 😃

The Phantom Menace.

I haven’t been very active but I miss this place a lot.

TV’s Frink said:

^He looks like he could use a nap.

lol

I’d be interested as well.

DominicCobb said:

Collipso said:

I still don’t know why that makes TLJ better than RotJ in any way. Luke and Vader were the only characters that still had something worthwhile to do character wise because Han and Leia’s character arcs were done and they decided to take the safety route with them while going very risky with Vader and the Emperor. Apparently you think that that makes TLJ superior to RotJ. Ok, good. Am I correct? Is there more to it?

The problem was that they apparently decided Han an Leia’s stories were done already, which is silly, they easily could’ve given them more interesting things to do. I also fail to see what is risky about the Vader/Emperor plot, though I also don’t exactly understand using the word risky in relation to quality.

I think turning the world’s greatest villain at the time into a sympathetic character that obeys the new world’s greatest villain but ends up betraying him anyway is pretty risky - and worked pretty well, making that section of RotJ wonderful.

No relation to quality either, just showing that because they decided to go risky with the Skywalker plot, they ended up going safe with the other characters - which inevitably made their stories somewhat boring.

Anyway, yes, across the board characterization in TLJ is better than ROTJ, which in turn makes the film itself better.

Fair enough.