No, it is the premise of the OT in simply the vaguest of definitions.
your problem is basically that there are AT-ATs in the movie.
But the snow didn’t melt on Hoth.
My point is that $300 headphones won’t necessarily sound better than $100 headphones, if you have a crappy soundcard. Instead of spending all that money just on headphones, you will get more out of it, if you buy a soundcard for $100 and headphones for $150.
EDIT: Or just buy $100 headphones, that’s also fine. Just be aware that other components also affect the sound quality and don’t overspend on headphones that you can’t fully appreciate.
As soon as the gliders start their attack, the planet isn’t entirely white anymore, the red dust makes it look completely different from Hoth, so your problem is basically that there are AT-ATs in the movie.
an AT-AT battle on a white planet
No, it is the premise of the OT in simply the vaguest of definitions.
So you’re nitpicking visual similarities now? But then, the planet isn’t really white, it’s red, with a white cover and when the salt is blown away, the visual similarities start to vanish.
I’m very happy with the Beyerdynamic DT 770. They aren’t the prettiest headphones you can find, but the sound is great, they are super comfortable and they are built to last. I have the 250 ohm version and my current laptop can power them without problems (but I’m using an external soundcard anyways), my phone and mp3 player both are a little quiet.
Since they are far below your budget of $330, you should also get a soundcard with headphone amplifier, if you don’t already have one, as you will notice the difference to cheap onboard cards (even more so if you spend all of the $330 on even better headphones) and the headphone amp will definitely power the 250 ohm (or possibly even higher impedance of more expensive headphones).
If you want more mobility, you can also get a version with 80 ohm. (There are also versions with 32 and 16 ohm, but generally, you’d want to go as high as possible and 80 ohm should be fine, even for phones, if you don’t plan to listen at extreme volumes.) In that case you’d still want a dedicated soundcard for your PC, even if you don’t need it for the volume.
One fault of ROTS is that it basically tells us “nothing interesting happened for 20 years after this movie” and you suggest they should have done the same for episode 7? No thanks.
They skipped 30 years because George took a break after ROTJ and here is no way to go back to that period, now.
Why should Kylo be telling the truth? He’s misled Rey once already.
I don’t think he’s lying. Before he reveals who Rey’s parents are, he says she should know it and then he’s surprised that she doesn’t. Maybe Snoke manipulated his vision of Rey’s parents, as he established the connection between Rey and Kylo in the first place, but personally, I like the idea of Rey Random too much to believe that.
I thought there was a good point about villains in this article:
“Our current reality is a complicated one, colored in shades of gray, and we’re well past the fairy-tale idea that in this world there is good and there is evil just because. Movie villains that are simply cackling wrongdoers in this day and age register as false.”
Maybe this is one reason why people have so much of a problem with paltry and secondhand Snoke character elements lifted from the Emperor - the Emperor was a villain from a more morally polarized age.
I call bullshit on that. Star Wars was meant to be a fairytale amidst all the morally gray films we were getting in the 70s. It was never meant to parallel reality. Why should it?
That’s not exactly correct, the goal was more so to bring back fun into cinemas, while all the other films were dreary and depressing.
Nowadays, things are different. In the multiplexes you’ve got plenty of Star Wars-esque fun entertainment. Which means it’s time for SW itself to upgrade past unambiguously evil villains (the kind which have taken a toll on stuff like the MCU for years).
I thought about posting something similar, but couldn’t find the right words at that moment.
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.
Do we really see her parents take off? Or is it just Rey’s wishful thinking?
There’s no wrong way to watch Star Wars.
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A Dutch satirical magazin proposes this order: 1-1-3-2-1-3-4-3-8-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-5-7-6-1
Now, who of the staff is lurking here?
My DVDs aren’t really sorted at all, I just put them in the shelf however I like it, but for my BluRays, I started to sort them chronologically, with sequels and movies by the same director grouped together. For example, Blade Runner comes after Alien and only then comes Blues Brothers. I don’t have that many BluRays, though.
I don’t recall Luke choking anyone in ROTJ
I thought he was using a Jedi mind trick there.
I agree with Warb. We know what it looks like if someone is choking and that wasn’t what happened in that scene. I have always read the scene as Luke convincing the GGs to go back to their posts and sleep, their hands on their chests in a restrained or passive position.
Really? Even with the guards grabbing their throats and making choking noises? He was obviously force choking.
Pig sounds and hands on chests. Also clear they are not pushed.
It looks nothing like the Stormtrooper who gets force-tricked by Obi-Wan, he was acting completely normal. The guards do not act normal.
Kylo.
I don’t recall Luke choking anyone in ROTJ
I thought he was using a Jedi mind trick there.
I agree with Warb. We know what it looks like if someone is choking and that wasn’t what happened in that scene. I have always read the scene as Luke convincing the GGs to go back to their posts and sleep, their hands on their chests in a restrained or passive position.
They seem to be pushed back, not just walking back, so it’s definitely more than just a mind trick.
This:
was totally unnecessary and was only added to sell toys.
So was this, if you remember. 😉
True, but at least the Ewoks were put to better use. All that thing did in TLJ was hang around and look cute.
In my opinion, that makes the Ewoks even worse. the Porgs have only a minute of screentime, while the Ewoks play a much bigger role. If you don’t like the Porgs, you can easily ignore them or remove them in a fan-edit. That doesn’t work with the Ewoks.
And the ships that ran out of fuel and got destroyed… was any effort made to transfer their crews to the bigger ship via shuttles or something?
Yes.
I was annoyed by many things about the movie. Funny enough I enjoyed the movie, but I didn’t think it was a good ‘star wars’ movie. So much of this movie ignored everything that came before it.
One minor thing the annoyed me was the cheap joke C3PO made in the mines “The odds of finding an exit are 14285 to 1” The only way 3PO can make a calculation like this is if he knew how many exits there are and how many tunnels/branches there are. The only way he would have the data points to calculate the odds is if he had a map - and if he had a map…
So why have the logic based robot make a joke based on completely nothing???
Ahem.
Yes. If Kylo would have lied to her, he wouldn’t have said that she already knows it and then be surprised that she didn’t.
Just because something in the PT doesn’t directly contradict the OT doesn’t mean it isn’t a bad idea. Being basically a bunch of idots, the main characters aren’t really compelling, so it doesn’t make for a very enjoyable movie.
Genuine isn’t the same as unbiased. Genuine means that the review was written by a real person, not that reviews are adjusted to represent the complete audience.
As the article and the part that I quoted say, the exit polls are adjusted to better represent the complete audience, while RT scores and Youtube upvotes come from a very specific group of mostly young males, so they are not representative of the whole audience.
Do you have stats to back that up? (mostly young males?). It seems funny that people are claiming TLJ is riddled with a feminism agenda driven by Kathleen Kennedy and now RT and YouTube scores are mostly from young males?
Literally the first thing that shows up on google:
https://digiday.com/media/demographics-youtube-5-charts/
“YouTube is still fairly male dominated. Men spend 44 percent more time on the site per month, and of 51 categories of YouTube content measured by OpenSlate, men make up the majority of viewers in 90 percent of them.”
“Beyond gender, YouTube has an age divide. Now a decade old, it is mainstream enough to have a broad demographic reach. Even the olds watch video, although not to the degree of millennials.”
Also:
https://fortunelords.com/youtube-statistics/
Female users are 38% and male users are 62%
User Percentage by Age:
18-24 – 11%
25-34 – 23%
35-44 – 26%
45-54 – 16%
50-64 – 8%
65+ – 3%
unknown age – 14%
I’m referring specifically to the exit polls, as you might have seen by me quoting them.
Ok, so you do. But the entire article is based on calling into question the legitimacy of RTs audience score which I assumed was the point you were trying to remind everyone about. Sorry if I assumed wrongly.
Frank your Majesty said:
Like upvots on a Youtube review of a movie, reviews on RT are only written by people who have very strong feelings about the movie, being it either very positive or very negative.What is wrong with this and how does it invalidate the RT score? And are all movie goers forced to take exit polls? Also these results can similarly be called into question since they only capture the immediate reaction. My immediate reaction was of disappointment and conflicted feelings but overall I would have said the movie was “ok” and maybe given it 2.5/5 stars. Upon reflection days later, I found that I hate the movie and would give it 0.5/5 at most for at least getting the aesthetic and sound of SW right and I’m not going to watch IX or Solo at the cinemas. This is a marked difference. I’m not going to base whether I see the future movies on how I felt straight after (the point of exit polls) but how I end up feeling in the long run. So the exit poll is flawed as well.
As the article and the part that I quoted say, the exit polls are adjusted to better represent the complete audience, while RT scores and Youtube upvotes come from a very specific group of mostly young males, so they are not representative of the whole audience.
Of course the exit poll isn’t 100% accurate, but there are different levels of reliability and the exit polls are definitly higher up than RT or YT. I don’t want to get too political in here, but it’s like saying all media is biased, so CNN and Breitbart are equally (un)trustworthy, completely ignoring that one outlet is much more biased than the other.
