DominicCobb

darthrush said:

DominicCobb said:

darthrush said:

DominicCobb said:

I think there are a lot more than just the three options you pose. Kylo’s a complicated character, and depending on what happens in IX, his conclusion could be pretty complicated too.

That’s if JJ wants to get that complicated.

Well, didn’t he create the character to begin with?

JJ creates amazing startpoints and isn’t the best at sticking the landing in my opinion.

I tend to disagree. We’ll see I guess.

darthrush said:

DominicCobb said:

I think there are a lot more than just the three options you pose. Kylo’s a complicated character, and depending on what happens in IX, his conclusion could be pretty complicated too.

That’s if JJ wants to get that complicated.

Well, didn’t he create the character to begin with?

Dek Rollins said:

DominicCobb said:

Dek Rollins said:

DominicCobb said:

Dek Rollins said:

He’ll watch (some) youtube clips of TV shows, but anything made for the internet is beneath him. I wonder if he ever watched Siskel & Ebert back in the day.

Please don’t compare RLM to Siskel and Ebert.

Outside of a few obvious differences in format and content, Half in the Bag is pretty much a modern Siskel & Ebert.

I’m not talking about the medium. I don’t give a shit about the medium. Siskel and Ebert are two of the all time greatest film critics. Please don’t pretend the RLM guys are anything close to that.

I would say they are pretty close. Siskel and Ebert may be the best, but that doesn’t make RLM low. They’re intelligent and they explain their opinions well, along with critique of the objective and technical aspects.

Please. Close? Come on.

Because I’m fair and okay with being wrong about this, as my knowledge of RLM is limited, I’d be interested to see an example of some actually thoughtful criticism from those guys to see if is anything near any given Ebert writing.

And don’t forget that Siskel and Ebert were never perfect either.

Define perfect?

moviefreakedmind said:

“Sometimes.” It’s two guys explaining why a movie is good or bad and why everyone who likes the “bad” movies are morons.

This is considered the height of film criticism in 2018.

Dek Rollins said:

DominicCobb said:

Dek Rollins said:

He’ll watch (some) youtube clips of TV shows, but anything made for the internet is beneath him. I wonder if he ever watched Siskel & Ebert back in the day.

Please don’t compare RLM to Siskel and Ebert.

Outside of a few obvious differences in format and content, Half in the Bag is pretty much a modern Siskel & Ebert.

I’m not talking about the medium. I don’t give a shit about the medium. Siskel and Ebert are two of the all time greatest film critics. Please don’t pretend the RLM guys are anything close to that.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

You mean the scene with the pear? It’s been awhile.

No, sorry to remind you

DuracellEnergizer said:

DominicCobb said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

SilverWook said:

Vuffi Ra would have been a nice nod to the Lando novels though.

Nah. Why recanonize elements people might actually care about?

Huh, I thought I was the only one who didn’t care about Thrawn.

Alright, so that’s one major element fanboys are in love with that was reinstated. Essentially everything else has been pointless minutiae.

There seems to be a conscious decision to not bring in characters. Characters carry the baggage of their past stories. Background minutiae is just that.

I do hope that in the future they’ll feel free to add in older characters. But then you’ll still get bitching. If this new droid was called Vuffi Ra, people would complain the he’s not supposed to be a she, and he’s supposed to have tentacles, etc. On the other hand they could have had Vuffi Ra in the film be just like in the books, but then your tying the hands of the filmmakers who wanted to create their own character, which was the whole point of the reboot anyway to avoid that.

I think there are a lot more than just the three options you pose. Kylo’s a complicated character, and depending on what happens in IX, his conclusion could be pretty complicated too.

Tyrphanax said:

Also it’s pretty clear to me (at least) that the Story Group isn’t really vetting stuff and is just signing off on broad strokes, so it’s literally just the old EU rubber stamp strategy applied to what is mostly garbage again. Sure, we had some good stuff, but for every Thrawn Trilogy, there was a Children of the Jedi and a New Jedi Order and a Courtship of Princess Leia. Yuck. I felt like they were saying they’d be really closely looking at stuff to ensure it all jived and made sense and that would mean there would be a quality control element and we’d have a new EU that was mostly good with some bad, but I suppose not.

Is Last Shot bad though? This just seems like a really nitpicky complaint to me. Doing a quick Google search, it seems like the reviews for the book are largely positive.

I haven’t read a bad book or comic from the new canon that I thought was bad. Well, I guess Heir to the Jedi was forgettable, and Shattered Empire and the Leia miniseries felt rushed. But on the whole I think it’s been pretty good. Even with the one or two goofy aspects, the Vader series was great. The Aftermath books were really good too and actually better than most of the old EU books I’ve read. I don’t know. Seems like the complaints are a little off base. The story group seems to give the creatives a lot of independence and freedom, and only step in when they need to or the creatives want them too.

I’ve seen that going around but there’s basically no way that’d be what hairless Chewbacca would look like.

darthrush said:

The Force Awakens humor has a few misses here and there but overall, it lets serious moments breathe. Hands down, the most annoying aspect of the Last Jedi to me is the out of place humor. The horse chase scene is terrible but you can take a bathroom break. The humor on the other hand punctures other scenes throughout the rest of the movie.

The way people talk about the humor in TLJ, you’d think Luke made a fart during his death scene, or Rey slipped on a banana when they revealed her parentage.

dahmage said:

Tickets will go on sale May 4th?

This seems to be what Google is telling me, but I wonder if anyone has better info.

Sorry, believe it or not I don’t actually work for Disney.

Shocked no one has mentioned objectively the worst scene in Star Wars history: the fireplace chat in AOTC. Featuring some of the worst dialogue in any film ever, making it truly painful to sit through.

Most embarrassing either goes to the scenes where 3PO and a battle droid swap heads, or Jedi Rocks.

moviefreakedmind said:

The worst one of those was when Mace Windu, Yoda, and Kenobi are all standing in the Jedi Temple atrium in AOTC. That one looked particularly bad.

Yup, I was thinking the same.

I also think LuckyGungan brings up a good point in that taking a still image of a fast-paced CG action scene isn’t a fair assessment of how it actually looks in motion. That still of Kashyyyk looked awful a few posts up, but it definitely isn’t that noticeably horrible in the film, even if it does still look fake.

Well it’s a give and take when in motion. Yeah for sure the pic I posted is unrepresentative and goes by fast. But I’d say, by and large, seeing it in motion is worse. I’m thinking of things like the pic Neverar posted, where when you see it in motion the compositing becomes very obvious and characters slide across the floor.

Dek Rollins said:

He’ll watch (some) youtube clips of TV shows, but anything made for the internet is beneath him. I wonder if he ever watched Siskel & Ebert back in the day.

Please don’t compare RLM to Siskel and Ebert.

fmalover said:

TFA had its fair share of idiotic humour (the cringe worthy rathtars) and nobody batted an eyelash, in fact some even praised it “OMG SW now has comedy in it LOL”, and Johnson has decided to continue with Abrams brand of humour but now everyone is like “WTF Johnson is ruining SW with his comedy”. Seriously why? I don’t get it.

People think that “darker middle chapter” means no more fun.

DuracellEnergizer said:

SilverWook said:

Vuffi Ra would have been a nice nod to the Lando novels though.

Nah. Why recanonize elements people might actually care about?

Huh, I thought I was the only one who didn’t care about Thrawn.

Besides a few shots, I don’t even think the opening battle is that bad. Not much worse than your typical CG space battle. In my mind the worst parts of the movie(s) are when actors are just walking around too obviously comp’ed into the environment.

Haha there’s no way (if they even were to include her) that they’d reveal her name in a casting call.

DominicCobb said:

but kashyyyk… looks gorgeous to me, given that it’s a 2005 film.

Actual movie still:

Fixed.

Mocata said:

DominicCobb said:

Wait what? I have to upgrade to do 3rd party hosting? Guess that’s the end of photobucket for me.

Oh yeah it’s been dead a few months. Imgur or bust.

I guess I don’t use it that often. It was a picture I uploaded a while ago.

Wait what? I have to upgrade to do 3rd party hosting? Guess that’s the end of photobucket for me.

TV’s Frink said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood is not cool.

I agree he is not cool anymore, but there was a period of time where he was both cool and old.

Collipso said:

i honestly don’t think the cgi looks bad in rots. sure, you have the scene neverar posted,

I wish I could say that was the only bad looking scene.

but kashyyyk… looks gorgeous to me, given that it’s a 2005 film.

Actual movie still:

Ryan-SWI said:

Is it just me or have most of the Disney era Star Wars posters had a very… Commercial (?) feel to them?

I think the theatrical TLJ poster was alright, but a number of other ones strike me more as promotional posters you buy in stores from the prequel era. Kind of like these: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a9-IKSKOlpw/maxresdefault.jpg

Commercial might not be the right word but they have a very slapped-together feel, especially some of the Solo ones and for Rogue One.

Maybe it’s just the heavy use of photoshop, I’m not sure.

Wish they would have stuck with the more classic style of poster art instead of the generic blockbuster treatment.

I agree on some, but not all. Don’t think I ever found a TLJ poster I didn’t like, and most of the Solo ones have been excellent thus far. Plus Rogue One had a couple really good ones too. TFA was rough though.

I don’t think that’s really a teal and orange look, and I do think it looks like film, whether it was done photochemically or not. The richer orange and greens seem very film-esque to me, and look almost exactly how I remember the film when I saw it projected (though yes, of course that isn’t a perfect barometer).