I know that my first in the theater was Toy Story, but only because my mom told me years later. Too young to remember that, not really sure what was the first I remember (or the first I watched at home), but that’s a hazy concept anyway.
It was no personal attack. I was pointing out that you cannot refute two solid arguments with just one person’s experience.
This post doesn’t have to do with personal experience?
I don’t buy the idea that female action figures are a rare sight or unpopular. My best buddies daughter has TONS of 'em and they never had to look hard to find em at the toy shops.
I also don’t think having the lead in TFA be female was a “risky move”. Maybe if they made the movie right after ROTJ, but not now. Movies, comic books, cartoons, ect. have been putting strong females in the lead for a long time now. (though it does seem that the scale is just recently tipping towards even)
I’m also not surprised that an action figure of the lead character in a Star Wars movie sold well. Who would be?
Seems like the reporting of someone who is very much out of touch.
There are plenty of articles out there about this subject. It was a widely reported phenomenon when TFA came out that there weren’t enough Rey toys on store shelves to meet demand. I don’t see how it’s so hard to believe. It’s not like they’re saying that female figures are like needles in haystacks. There just aren’t nearly as many of them as male figures which I think is a fairly obvious fact.
Was having the lead in TFA be female a “risky move”? Fuck no. I think that’s pretty clear. I guess the question is though if studio execs and toy companies still misguidedly think that it might be.
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Last time I saw Pablo comment, he said this:
As far as I know, there’s only one person who could make this happen and he hasn’t seemed all that interested.
He’s apparently shifting this onto Lucas. Which doesn’t make sense if Fox and Disney are meeting with Verta on his restoration. But if they had one of their own, they wouldn’t be meeting with Verta saying “we have one, thanks.” I guess we’ll find out at Celebration.
I don’t think the assumption that this refers to to Lucas is accurate.
I wonder then who the “he” in Pablo’s tweet is referring to.
Probably someone in charge of home video distribution?
Last time I saw Pablo comment, he said this:
As far as I know, there’s only one person who could make this happen and he hasn’t seemed all that interested.
He’s apparently shifting this onto Lucas. Which doesn’t make sense if Fox and Disney are meeting with Verta on his restoration. But if they had one of their own, they wouldn’t be meeting with Verta saying “we have one, thanks.” I guess we’ll find out at Celebration.
I don’t think the assumption that this refers to to Lucas is accurate.
I’m sorry you can’t accept the plain fact that ROTJ is worse than ESB but you don’t have to come up with elaborate rationalizations to prove otherwise to yourself.
Lucas thought ESB should have been made worse for less money. He got his way the next time around.
Go to Amazon and search Return of The Jedi. This is what I saw…
Can someone with twitter tweet this to Pablo Hidalgo?
Come on guys, he’s not going to have anything to say about this. What do you all think he does anyway?
Right. If anything, he’d want to downplay any of these rumors even if it is happening. I’m still curious what he’ll say though.
Real or not, he’d probably just laugh at it. That’s what I’d do anyway.
No.
Go to Amazon and search Return of The Jedi. This is what I saw…
Can someone with twitter tweet this to Pablo Hidalgo?
Come on guys, he’s not going to have anything to say about this. What do you all think he does anyway?
I mean, I’m not getting any hopes up at all (I’m seriously, we’re talking about a fucking Amazon listing), but it does seem like such an oddly specific mistake to make (and an update to the listing, at that). So who knows.
Any chance it might just end up being a streaming GOUT?
fortunately the 97SE is dog shit so no one really cares anyway.
Like your posts.
So you’re not denying that you like dog shit versions then?
fortunately the 97SE is dog shit so no one really cares anyway.
My wife had a hell of a time finding Rey characters for our girls, I’ll have to tell her that it was supposedly to avoid spoilers. Not sure if I buy that.
Well, apparently they start making toys way before film comes out, so I don’t know maybe they didn’t realize she’d be so popular and just assumed because it’s a female toy it wouldn’t sell.
I think the spoiler thing has more to do with lightsaber stuff, so kinda an excuse but barely.
Cool article.
Those are just regular oranges. I don’t see why it has star wars branding.
Perhaps there are smaller, half oranges attached to the top?
Oh sure Frink, you can try to excuse the Disney Rehash ™ but you will never out run the truth.
Han Solo in TFA is still exactly where we last saw him. Which is insane. I mean, seriously how long can you sit around an Ewok campfire smiling?
Ah, remember the days when obesity was the biggest issue in America? Not too long ago. Did we stop getting fat or did we just say fuck it?
And Zootopia winning seems really dumb - even though I haven’t seen it.
Pixar usually dominates the category, but hasn’t been doing much besides sequels lately.
As you have kids, that’s kind of a surprise you haven’t seen it.
I’ve seen more kids movies this year than I would have preferred (including Secret Life of Pets, Trolls, and Storks) but I somehow dodged (or missed out on?) Zootopia, Moana, and Two Strings. My wife took my girls to see the first two and I don’t think any of us saw the third.
You pretty much saw all the wrong ones Frink. Well done, I don’t think you could have messed that up more.
Storks sucked. The other two weren’t as terrible as I was expecting (although Trolls was still pretty bad).
When you’re married with kids, you count yourself lucky if you don’t have to go to every kids movie. Seeing the wrong ones is an unfortunate and sometimes unknowable side-effect of not having to see all of them.
All I see here are excuses.
I think Price Waterhouse is in a lot of trouble for that Oscar screwup. Maybe the Academy could give the La La Land people a consolation prize? 😉
When I first saw the commontion, I thought there might’ve been a tie (having noticed Beatty’s hesistance). That’d’ve been cool.
And Zootopia winning seems really dumb - even though I haven’t seen it.
Pixar usually dominates the category, but hasn’t been doing much besides sequels lately.
As you have kids, that’s kind of a surprise you haven’t seen it.
I’ve seen more kids movies this year than I would have preferred (including Secret Life of Pets, Trolls, and Storks) but I somehow dodged (or missed out on?) Zootopia, Moana, and Two Strings. My wife took my girls to see the first two and I don’t think any of us saw the third.
You pretty much saw all the wrong ones Frink. Well done, I don’t think you could have messed that up more.
Zootopia was a decent film but Moana was the better of their two films. That said, of them all, Kubo and the Two Strings should have won this year. Instead it’s just another year and another disappointment from the Academy voters.
I too preferred Moana (and still need to see Kubo), but I don’t think Zootopia was completely undeserving.
Kurtz was fired because of Lucas’s ego, and the budget issues on ESB were just an excuse. Lucas could not stand someone else making a better SW movie than him, one that put story first and merchandising second. If Kurtz worked on Jedi it would have blown Empire out of the water.
The ending would have been way better but as it pertains to the totality of ROTJ it is uncertain. Surely things like Luke skipping the end of his training and the Ewoks being so focal wouldn’t have been written into the script but Kurtz’s version of ROTJ would need to do more than fixing the mistakes of the original ROTJ to be legitimately better.
The ending would have been the same. In ESB, Kurtz was not even involved in story creation to begin with. As Kasdan stated about the draft Lucas written “The structure of the story was all there”. If Lucas wanted it to end that way, Kurtz could do absolutely nothing about it.
From what I heard Kurtz’s ending was bittersweet with Luke going into exile and Han dying. Though the latter could have reportedly happened earlier in the film.
It is completely irrelevant since he had no control over the story.
Well clearly because it didn’t go his way, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have input.
It does not mean he had any either.
Let’s not be silly now.
The OJ doc winning was really dumb - even though I really liked it.
Technically it had a theatrical run. I do think it’s a bit of a cheat, but it’s still an incredible work.
I agree, it’s an incredible work. But they gave it a theatrical run just to make it eligible and that is dumb. Is it fair to other movies that it could be eight hours long?
Long movies have been nominated and awarded in the past. My issue is more that the majority of people saw this on ESPN or Hulu as a five part series. That doesn’t seem right.
And Zootopia winning seems really dumb - even though I haven’t seen it.
Well then why call it dumb?
Just a assumption, honestly. Wouldn’t be surprised if I’m wrong.
I’ll just say Zootopia is definitely not a “dumb” film.
Kurtz was fired because of Lucas’s ego, and the budget issues on ESB were just an excuse. Lucas could not stand someone else making a better SW movie than him, one that put story first and merchandising second. If Kurtz worked on Jedi it would have blown Empire out of the water.
The ending would have been way better but as it pertains to the totality of ROTJ it is uncertain. Surely things like Luke skipping the end of his training and the Ewoks being so focal wouldn’t have been written into the script but Kurtz’s version of ROTJ would need to do more than fixing the mistakes of the original ROTJ to be legitimately better.
The ending would have been the same. In ESB, Kurtz was not even involved in story creation to begin with. As Kasdan stated about the draft Lucas written “The structure of the story was all there”. If Lucas wanted it to end that way, Kurtz could do absolutely nothing about it.
From what I heard Kurtz’s ending was bittersweet with Luke going into exile and Han dying. Though the latter could have reportedly happened earlier in the film.
It is completely irrelevant since he had no control over the story.
Well clearly because it didn’t go his way, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have input.
I don’t begrudge anyone liking the Disney movies, even if they do suck. It’s their preference. But it does suck to see the same three people, Hasbro, Fink, and DominicanBob policing every thread on the forum in their neverending, tens of thousands of posts crusade to stamp out negative sentiment and criticism of a couple of **** movies. Especially on an OOT forum.
I mostly just try to stop the neverending bullshit from trolls like you. But you’re right, I feed into it too much.
