DominicCobb

SilverWook said:

Does anyone besides internet geeks put that much stock in Rotten Tomatoes though? Comcast owns RT as well as Universal, so I’d take reviews there with a grain of salt. That is, if I gave a crap about RT. 😉

BOH will probably break even once it hits home video, streaming and cable. I’m sure Rifftrax is going to take a crack at it.

I would say studios care about RT scores, as well as audiences (they’ve become common in advertising). Not that I care all that much, but it is what it is: a review aggregator. And the general consensus was that Jurassic World was okay fun, and Book of Henry was just plain not fun at all.

Also the idea that Comcast is buying reviews there is pretty ridiculous. Who do you think made Book of Henry, after all?

SilverWook said:

I didn’t exactly hear glowing reviews for Jurassic World either. Universal was crying all the way to the bank. 😉

Rotten Tomatoes has an almost 50% difference in rating between those two films, so I don’t think there’s really much comparison.

JW was crowd pleasing, which helped it make money (Book of Henry wasn’t pleasing in any way, which helped it make almost no money). That plus I bet Frank Marshall gave Trevorrow glowing reviews (sounds like he’s a pretty nice guy) was probably what got him the job in the first place.

Bomb or not, it was pretty bad. And quality is a lot more important in regard to a director’s ability than financial success.

TV’s Frink said:

Holy shit this thread.

If they canned him because Book of Henry was bad, they would have done it when they saw the finished film last year. If they did it because Book of Henry had a poor reception, they would have canned him when the movie came out in June.

Book of Henry didn’t help, but odds are that his script just wasn’t up to snuff, and it wasn’t likely that he’d be able to sufficiently improve it.

A few years ago, Spielberg would have been my first choice. Now, I’m not so sure. I don’t think it’d be right to go from two films directed by fans of Star Wars since childhood, to literally George Lucas’s best friend. Also he’d never do it.

The obvious choices would be JJ Abrams, Gareth Edwards, or (especially) Rian Johnson. However, I don’t know about any of them. Abrams most likely wants to move on to something different, and I don’t think Edwards would be that much a step up from Trevorrow directing wise. Johnson honestly seems like the safest bet, but I do think there is real value to having a different director for each film. Maybe he could write it though…

My first suggestion would be Brad Bird, though he’s busy with the Incredibles. I could potentially seeing them wanting Favreau but he’s got the Lion King. Del Toro or Jackson would be interesting choices, but I don’t know, they don’t feel right for Star Wars to me, for some reason.

If I had to make a wild guess I’d say Ava Duvernay. Would be a good choice at least.

The mistake wasn’t firing him, it was hiring him in the first place.

There is not a single good reason to end DACA. What a bunch of fucking assholes.

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Ex Machina definitely has some of the most purposeful nudity I’ve seen.

And I’d also say that Hux being bland was part of the point. Usually these sci-fi stories are about bland white guys, and it seems like that’s the case, at first, but ultimately it’s really Ava’s story.

I also saw the twist coming, but I usually don’t care about that, as long as it makes sense to the story and they’re aren’t overly patting themselves on the back for what they thought would be a “surprise.”

There is a Luke book coming out in the next couple months, though I imagine it’s in the same small-scale vein as the new Leia book.

Possessed said:

Amazing how banning a few people started the ball rolling on making this place fun again. Now I can practically tolerate some of you!

Wrong thread.

I don’t know why you’d add troll threads before legit ones. Those should be the at the bottom of the queue.

ray_afraid said:

I’d like to see the original song return, but instead of stopping to watch a musical number, it’s just in the background like the band in the bar in Star Wars.

That’s basically how it is in the theatrical. It’s really only the SE that makes it a distracting musical number.

^That’s pretty sweet actually. I remember when that was your avatar, never knew what it was from.

This is still my favorite Duracell one

Smart choice in forgoing the prequels. You don’t need that impossible burden to weigh over you for however long it would take.

I’ll definitely have some thoughts about edit ideas. One question, if you’re adding female pilots to the battle, does that mean finally giving a female voice to the one already there? Also, are we to assume including deleted scenes are out of the equation?

https://www.facebook.com/u2/videos/10155989836631686/

ESB was my favorite as a kid, now it’s the original. ROTJ was never my favorite.

Saw the trailer for American Assassin recently. Why hire two actors who look alike (Dylan O’Brien, Taylor Kitsch) to play characters who aren’t related? Though of course that seems like the least of the movie’s problems.

You could have let it go so easily…

There’s really only one answer:
http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/NEW-NEW-REPUBLIC-RP-PROBOARD/topic/11507/

Principal scoring sessions have already been completed for TLJ. Right now they’re mixing and doing finishing touches (they had a really comfy schedule).

Tyrphanax said:

I’ve always felt that, the moment you make something “sacred” and “unquestionable” you immediately corrupt it.

It’s definitely an impossible ask at least, especially when it’s an element of a democratic establishment (as opposed to say a religious object). If America stands for freedom, its people have the freedom to decide what the flag means to them, and in this case the flag represents a failure in that mission for freedom. In this way, people getting mad at those kneeling during the anthem are kinda helping prove their point.

Respect is something that is earned. For a lot of people, our country has not earned their respect. Not everyone is as fortunate as you or I. But they’re football players! you say. They are fortunate, sure, but they’re not kneeling for themselves, they’re kneeling for others.

Jeebus said:

The people protesting the national anthem are more patriotic than those offended by it.

100% agree.