Poe called off the attack specifically because the ram was charging up. It’s pretty obvious it was too late.
The problem with people criticizing the movie, is they just keep saying the same stuff over and over again.
No jokes in Star Wars! If people make jokes therefore the film is wrong! If people aren’t boring how is this movie in any way realistic? Who would ever quip in a war?
0/10 Rian Johnson fucked my childhood
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Don’t Join
Yes, but I still don’t get it. He doesn’t like the Resistance or the First Order… so his nickname is “Don’t Join”?
No, don’t join is his motto, DJ is his nickname.
This thread is stupid.
Haha, I don’t know why this came to be now and not earlier, but I just realized why DJ is called DJ.
Dunkirk is one of the most purely cinematic films made in recent memory. The sheer tension and emotion Nolan squeezes out of fairly basic story with fairly basic characters is incredibly impressive. A true experience film, and easily one of the best of the year (currently my second favorite, and unlikely to budge).
Nice to hear your thoughts! I have noticed that there are a few people I’ve talked to who fall on both ends of the spectrum for liking the movie or not. I guess it just didn’t click with me the first time I saw it. I will try to watch it a second time with a closer eye and get back to ya on it.
If you’re expecting traditional character an plot development, I can see why you’d be disappointed. The idea is more to drop you into this intense situation and have you experience it from their points of view (with the blank slate nature of the characters helping that).
I found the silent film edit of Dunkirk extremely effective.
I haven’t seen that yet, but it doesn’t surprise me that it would be. Dunkirk basically works as a silent film already.
Incorrect yotsuya. If I didn’t like a movie it means the creators hate me. This is simple stuff, don’t get why it’s so hard for you to understand.
But seriously, why are we actually discussing Oprah being elected? Why is anyone anywhere discussing it?
She made a big and inspiring speech.
meh.
Pfft. Good grief.
I just didn’t think it was that great or that moving. On a side note, I think I’d rather have someone just say thank you to whomever they feel need to be thanked when winning an award like a Golden Globe or an Oscar, instead of making a political speech. But that is just me.
It was a lifetime achievement award.
and not a victory speech after winning election to public office.
Have you even seen the speech?
yes.
Well you have a very interesting interpretation of it.
I’m not sure if you have to get liberals riled up for a particular candidate. You just have to get them to be really anti-Trump. Isn’t that what the Republicans did during Obama’s tenure?
A lot liberals have sticks in their asses about who they believe to be Acceptable Candidates.
You could argue that the moderates are more open to having someone that just isn’t Trump.
I’ve been in this situation also, but it ended up with me and Dom getting married.
Which just goes to prove that moving on and cutting them out of your life really is the best for all involved.
In all serious, stay as way for as long as it takes for those feelings to subside. It’s a shit situation, I think we’ve all been there at some point or another. But there is more out there.
The Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Another excellent Errol Flynn swashbuckler. He reforms his ways, slightly.
That’s a fun one. I’ve been slowly making my way through his films for the past five years or so. Still nothing tops Robin Hood.
Dunkirk is one of the most purely cinematic films made in recent memory. The sheer tension and emotion Nolan squeezes out of fairly basic story with fairly basic characters is incredibly impressive. A true experience film, and easily one of the best of the year (currently my second favorite, and unlikely to budge).
Which one do you guys consider to be Luke’s theme more:
- The one that plays when we first see him and Aunt Beru calls his name (the main theme, or a variation)
or
- Binary Sunset (aka force theme)?
Neither, and both. In the OT, for the most part, the former is definitely his, while the latter is more generally for the Force itself. But with the PT and the ST, the former has become a much more general “hero” theme, while the latter has cemented its status as belonging to the Force and Force users (rather than simply Obi-wan, who it was originally written for). So in the context of the whole saga, neither are “Luke’s theme” entirely, while both still are tied directly to him (being a primary hero and Force user in the series).
Star Wars movie is like other Star Wars movie in superficial ways… tricky RJ thought he could get away with it, but he was sorely mistaken! True Fans know that the only way to judge a movie is on a scale of perceived originality.
But seriously, why are we actually discussing Oprah being elected? Why is anyone anywhere discussing it?
She made a big and inspiring speech.
meh.
Pfft. Good grief.
I just didn’t think it was that great or that moving. On a side note, I think I’d rather have someone just say thank you to whomever they feel need to be thanked when winning an award like a Golden Globe or an Oscar, instead of making a political speech. But that is just me.
It was a lifetime achievement award.
and not a victory speech after winning election to public office.
Have you even seen the speech?
But seriously, why are we actually discussing Oprah being elected? Why is anyone anywhere discussing it?
She made a big and inspiring speech.
meh.
Pfft. Good grief.
I just didn’t think it was that great or that moving. On a side note, I think I’d rather have someone just say thank you to whomever they feel need to be thanked when winning an award like a Golden Globe or an Oscar, instead of making a political speech. But that is just me.
It was a lifetime achievement award.
What is the point of debating if you can’t tell people they’re wrong?
I seriously doubt that any new Star Wars movie will threaten TFA/RO at the box office.
TFA sure, be a long time till anything touches that, but RO? Really?
I’m putting them in different categories. Obviously Episodic releases have a better chance of outperforming spinoffs.
That makes sense.
I seriously doubt that any new Star Wars movie will threaten TFA/RO at the box office.
TFA sure, be a long time till anything touches that, but RO? Really?
I think that’s not that bad, not far from what I ended up doing before. I also desaturated the colors somewhat because at night that information isn’t really observable. During at least one shot the gradient around them makes them appear to be angels.
Which might be fitting? lol
Yeah, it’s got some work to do.
I can certainly try desaturating it some, it is verging a bit into Mad Max territory.
The superstructure chase in ROTJ would be the one other time.
Do you guys think Solo is going to outperform Episode IX?
I’m not sure why anyone in their right mind would think that.
Is there a rundown somewhere of all the different audio changes in the various OT releases (SW especially)?
Because either Rey’s parents were on that departing ship or they’re dead and buried on Jakku. It can’t be both.
And Kylo can’t be trusted.I already asked this, but are we really sure we see Rey’s parents leave in that ship? Maybe it was just a random ship and Rey imagined her parents were in there, because that would make it easier for her.
Given Rey’s response to Ben, it’s clear that Rey has maintained a myth about her parents in her mind. Why can’t she have manufactured a memory? Not that unrealistic. Indeed, there are still Star Wars fans who maintain that Luke’s first go at the grappling hook missed when SW first hit theaters.
But doesn’t the vision show things that actually happened? I mean, besides Rey being at Cloud City and elsewhere, and besides Kylo Ren having his mask on during the forest battle, and besides Rey’s parents ship flying into the Starkiller Base sucking up the sun.
I know you’re not being totally serious, but the ship flying away and Rey crying could be real. It might have been a real ship and Rey cried because she really believed her parents were on it. Maybe that was the point where she started to invent these memories.
I do believe that moment was real, actually. But I think it’s open to interpretation.
When I talk to my 14yo nephew about the Star Wars movies, he’s not really that big a fan and has a hard time remembering which Episode number goes by which subtitle. At one point, he asked me why I don’t just call them by their episode numbers, and I said that it wasn’t until the prequels came out that their numbers even were on the box or that Star Wars was marketed as A New Hope.
Then I showed him images of OT posters and VHS boxes to prove my point.
God those were awful posters.
We haven’t gotten anything better since for an official release.
Almost every official theatrical poster since has been better.
I was referring to those films specifically. The DVD covers were so much worse, and the Blu-rays either had Jake Lloyd or were really lazy.
Oh, in that case I very definitely agree.
