Wicket vs. Plif the Hoojib - who wins (assuming they both have Jedi powers plus upgraded Mandalorian jetpacks and also obviously double bladed lightsabers with extra cross guards)?
Also keep in mind they’re fighting in the trench of the Death Star II. Yes, you heard that right.
Make your calculations. I’m waiting.
I will admit that I’ve only been absolutely destroyed by how devastatingly bad a picture is a handful of times. One was CR 2006. One was Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. One was TFA. And then there was what happened to poor Speed.
After watching the trailer, my brother and I looked at each other and knew that this wasn’t going to be a return to the used-universe aesthetic of the originals, no matter what JJ had promised.
I assume you were pleasantly surprised in this regard when you saw the film.
I vote in favor of using the old New Thread Thread thread instead of this new New Thread Thread thread.
Yes, get this Galaxy of Heroes nonsense out of here.
Also, what is this Galaxy of Heroes nonsense?
It’s a fair speculation, though I’m a bit skeptical.
Wait Lord Tobias, do you even like Star Wars?
The DNC superdelegate argument is tough because Hillary still won the popular vote.
But Obama beat Romney by 5 million. The greater the difference in the popular vote, the less likely we’ll see flukes in the electoral vote. Hillary appealed to the wrong areas. Sanders had more universal appeal and seems like he would have likely garnered more electoral votes.
I actually meant that she won the popular vote against Sanders in the primaries.
The Sanders what if is a tough question. On the one hand it does seem like he was more liked in the places Clinton ultimately lost. But we have no idea what the discourse would have been like. Hard to imagine a self proclaimed socialist having more universal appeal in the US.
The DNC superdelegate argument is tough because Hillary still won the popular vote.
It definitely flows better with normal speed but that odd reaction shot is still kinda killing it, for me at least.
“Who is Luke Skywalker? It’s better for the mystery if the audience never finds out, really.”
What is this even supposed to mean.
I think it means that Robert Patrick should have directed Episode IX.
Heh!
Abrams’ answer to Kathleen Kennedy’s question “who is Luke Skywalker” is supposedly what got him the gig to direct TFA in the first place. Unless his answer was “a mystery box,”
I think we have our answer.
Snark aside, why not? The movie is a quest to find Luke, so I’m guessing the pitch was something along the lines of ‘Luke means different things to different people, as his legend has grown. It’s not my job to give you the definitive version of the Jedi Returned.’
I can almost admire that.
Yeah. If the sequel trilogy is to be the story of the new generation rather than the old (which is what it should be), than the question of “who is Luke Skywalker?” literally is far less pertinent than the question of “who is Luke Skywalker to these new character?”
I actually seem to remember the conversation with Kennedy and Abrams being the other way around. Kennedy used the question to convince Abrams to take on the project. He was fascinated by the idea of a character asking who Luke Skywalker was (Rey - this line of course evolving with the script to become “Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth.”).
This thread is, like, so gonna die!
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I seem to remember an interview (maybe the Nerdist podcast?) in which Abrams said he had next to no creative involvement in Lost beyond the first episode. JJ directed the pilot (which, fine, yes, was a 2-parter, so 2 episodes), but the show was always Lindelof’s baby.
I’ve heard that as well. Also, don’t forget Carlton Cuse.
The one awkward thing there that stands out for me is the re-editing of the Kor Sella scene. Any particular reason for that?
The original editing of the scene had Kor Sella smiling in reaction to Leia’s line ‘Not all the senators think I’m insane’. While that may be a humorous exaggeration, it doesn’t seem like a joke. After her reaction, Leia then says ‘…or maybe they do. I don’t care.’. This seems like the punchline to me, which is why I put her reaction here. It also gives the scene some room to breathe, otherwise it would cut too fast back to Finn and Poe. Of course, this change meant that I had to find some other reaction shot of Kor Sella to place between Leia’s lines, so I took the only moment where she wasn’t talking and slowed it down as much as I dared.
Okay, I get that, but I respectfully think it works much better unaltered. While I like the idea of giving the scene more breathing room, the best way that would have been done would have been to add more dialogue, though obviously that’s not a possibility. As is, extending the pace of the scene just feels artificial and awkward. Also, Sella’s first reaction shot is strange, and the second is obviously slowed down.
I get what you mean about the laughing reaction, but I don’t think there’s anything weird about Sella laughing at “not all the Senators think I’m insane” (I did anyway). And you’re right, “I don’t care” is the punchline, but that’s exactly why the scene should end with it. Putting Sella’s reaction after that just feels unnecessary.
My two cents at least.
I highly doubt it was a hacker. If so, they would have done something more obvious than liking a video.
It was either a staffer or the man himself. And yes, warb. Staffers use politicians accounts all the time, in general more often than the actual politicians do.
Let’s start with Lost. When you create a series as intriguing as that, you really need a clear idea of where you are going. So regardless of how long Abrams was involved, the lack of an ending falls on his shoulders.
No. What the fuck, that literally makes no sense. TV shows are created all the time with no idea of what an ending might be. Abrams has nothing at all to do with whether you like the end of Lost or not. That’s just so fucking stupid.
The one awkward thing there that stands out for me is the re-editing of the Kor Sella scene. Any particular reason for that?
Yes, I know that The Last Crusade is very much a rehash of Raiders, with so many of the same secondary characters, the same evil Nazis, a Judeo-Christian McGuffin, a vehicular chase in the desert, and so forth. Nevertheless, I feel it is both unique enough and pulls off its familiar elements well enough that I can’t help but enjoy it.
I wonder if all the TFA-hating-rehasists among us are consistent enough to also hate TLC.
Considering they aren’t consistent enough to hate ROTJ, I’d say no.
Temple of Doom is probably the only movie that ever scared me. The heart scene quite freaked me out when I saw it (must have been 6 or 7 at the time), and even though I enjoyed the rest of the movie I kinda avoided it for the next couple of years.
I saw IT in a drive-in.
I don’t watch many horror movies, so I’m sure other people would have issues with the spastic scares, but I thought it was quite good, and played more like a well-made drama than a horror movie.
I would talk about that movie, but I can’t based on thread rules.
Instead I’ll say I saw Atomic Blonde, a film that is basically the definition of “all style, no substance.”
I need to use the quote button more. Now I look like the silly one instead of you.
Kate Capshaw is in Batman?
Honestly, that’s near close to seamless. Only thing that feels missing is BB-8 foley. I will say 3PO’s line still sounds a bit like “we’re doomed” to my ears, but I think either word works.
Now you just have to put the other clips on Vimeo so I can give more of this kind of perfect, stellar feedback.
I too like the idea of bringing Short Round back, but does Jonathan Ke Quan even act anymore? I suppose they could always recast. Might be interesting to go back to Asia, either way, although not sure if it’s a good idea to touch Vietnam or not.
Otherwise, given the timeframe, I could see something involving Berlin or Germany in general. I’ve been saying for awhile it might be fun to do a bit of Nazi zombies but I don’t know if they’ll want to reign it in after the alien backlash.
The one thing that blows my mind is that it will have been 12 years since KOTCS. That’s only 7 less years than the gap between that and TLC. It’s a real shame they didn’t make at least one in the 90s. That way it wouldn’t quite feel like there’s so much time we’ve missed (and we’d get to see Indy in the 40s).
I honestly don’t hate Quantum. It’s not amazing, but I’ve never really understood the unmitigated hate for it. It suffered a lot from the writer’s strike though. And it works best if you see it as an epilogue to CR than as its own film (though that isn’t exactly praise for the film). The opera scene is fucking great though and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
The opera scene is okay, but (like a lot of the movie) is kinda ruined by the editing. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation did it better anyway.
SPECTRE, on the other hand, was offensively boring and a waste of a great actor (Waltz) on what should have been a great character (Blofeld). I’m actually hoping he comes back for the next one so he might get a chance to redeem the character.
Spectre I thought was massively underrated. The final third legitimately sucks but the rest is really pretty good. Much better than Quantum (one of the bottom five Bonds for me).
I’ve had a few people recommend the new Power Rangers movie to me. I’m allergic to that franchise (and the trailer for that made it look pretty bad), but I will admit I’m starting to become a little curious.
Speaking of recent remakes, the 2014 Robocop was surprisingly okay.