Who didn’t grow up with VHS versions of any movie unless you’ve been born in the 2000s? Seems a bit weird question to ask, should we just abandon all 4K releases? 😄
The Batman is the moviest movie I’ve seen onscreen for awhile. After a couple of minutes the movie sucks you in and it has you right to the end in its own world. Man, I’ve missed that feeling since I was a kid. The world of The Batman is awesome. It is also a rare movie that I even think about after I saw it. The last one like that was BR 2049 which I also enjoy. The Batman himself is also really good. I thought Affleck was pretty good as Bruce Wayne and certainly the best part of the last DC films but that Batman was just crap all the way to his CGI cape and car, ugh.
While I really enjoyed this film, there are a couple of parts that I thought could’ve been handled better. First, I really didn’t like Bruce Wayne’s look who looked like a 16yo emo kid. I honestly don’t know how old he is supposed to be but his look just threw me off almost everytime I saw him, at times he felt like a kid and at times he acted like an old dude.
Secondly, The Riddler is for some reason one of my favorite villains as an idea. But his duct tape costume was ridicilous along with the weird question marks. Also I have a problem with many films where there should be this crazy villain or something, and then their handwriting, messages etc. look like they are made by an underground marketing department. Like The Riddler really would write his letters and question marks with different font types and sizes for no reason just for one guy to see. This may sound like a weird complaint but I’m a logo and font enthusiast you might say.
But my biggest complaint is the running time. I thought that the first half went on like a train and I was completely on board. But then there was probably 30min or more of just talking where they went back and forth and the plot was a bit mess, and then it for no reason ended with an overelaborated bomb plan that took way too long and didn’t even really seem to matter or bring anything new. I’d rewrite the whole ending to make it more tight as I was already rolling my eyes at that point.
But I don’t want to end in a downer, so I have to say that I haven’t had that much fun in the theatre when Batman was chasing Penguin through the streets, damn that was fun to watch. It’s also interesting that this is the first time since Batman (1966) to have The Riddler, Catwoman, Penguin and Joker in the same movie.
It is also weird Luke referring to Ben as Obi-Wan for the first time in ROTJ. I wonder if that is a writing error as well, or is it something that happened production-wise. For the past 2 movies and 30 years of Luke’s life he’s always been Ben to him, and then a couple of years after his death and when he has seen Ben for only 2 times after that, he starts to call him Obi-Wan? It just doesn’t fit into the story.
I don’t see this as an error. Yoda says as Luke is leaving Dagobah the first time - “Yes, yes to Obi-Wan you listen” - when they’re trying to warn him to not go to his friends. Anakin/Vader also calls him Obi-Wan to Luke. Luke naturally picked up on considering him as Obi-Wan instead of Ben Kenobi, his alas, from exile. He does though still call him Ben when they’re sitting together and having their more personal heart to heart. “I can’t do it, Ben.” I can count only three times when he refers to him by the name Obi-Wan. Once when he isn’t sure if who he knows as Ben is one of the same as Obi-Wan, with Leia on the Death Star, and the last time you talk about is when he says “Obi-Wan” before thet instance where they sit down and talk things out. You can see his slight irritation before they do. It makes sense within each context. Plus keep in mind Luke is only twenty three in Return of the Jedi.
I do. Also it’s the only time Luke calls Ben Obi-Wan in ROTJ so you have counted wrong.
It is also weird Luke referring to Ben as Obi-Wan for the first time in ROTJ. I wonder if that is a writing error as well, or is it something that happened production-wise. For the past 2 movies and 30 years of Luke’s life he’s always been Ben to him, and then a couple of years after his death and when he has seen Ben for only 2 times after that, he starts to call him Obi-Wan? It just doesn’t fit into the story.
Luke saying robots in SW as which has to be a writing error for sure.
I’ve said this in many topics but I haven’t watched the PT after 2007. It is possible I once saw TPM on VHS after that for some reason, to check the condition or something. I don’t remember anymore. Anyways, I still remember what happened in them and I can play them in my head if I wanted to (but I don’t), mostly TPM. ROTS I’ve luckily almost forgotton except a few scenes but I would have hard time to explain what happens in what order.
The point is, I love the original trilogy and I remember the time before TPM like it was a full life even though I saw the OT in 1996 for the first time. It was great time all around. After the PT I had lost this feeling. There still were the same movies I loved but with them came this other thing that wasn’t anything like it. So I made the decision, which wasn’t really hard at all, that I wanted that same feeling back where I didn’t know what happened before as that was way interesting that the PT ever delivered. I haven’t looked back since. From a nostalgic point of view it could be interesting to watch them again but I know for a fact that after seeing them the feeling isn’t one bit better than it was before, there no reason for me to disappoint myself as there are much better movies to watch instead.
Now, after saying that, I have to honestly say that after the dust has settled with the ST, I have to agree with some people that the PT felt more SW than the ST. For the ST I didn’t have to make a decision to not watch them, but I don’t even care to watch them. I haven’t seen TROS after cinema, and outside of the sequels, I don’t even remember if I’ve watched Solo at home or not. They’re just like 99% of new movies, you just don’t pick them up from a shelf to watch. Just boring and irrelevant. And for a movie being boring is worse than being bad.
If you take the Duel of the Fates “EPIC version” out from the trailer, there is nothing interesting or cool about the trailer. I rolled my eyes at least 3 times watching it.
This famous danish orchestra chooses Yup Nub
This is probably the first time I’ve seen Ewok Celebration played live. Very cool.
Hello! Anyone have the “recaps” clips? Which episodes have the recaps? Thanks!
I have but only on VHS and not in English. All episodes have recaps except the first episodes of each story.
For me that actually is probably the best SE change. That’s coming from a person who hates the SEs and all changes and haven’t watched them at all for years, but for me the scene works better with music. But of course all changes are changes, and I’d rather have the original.
Wow, alot of salty comments about Star Wars in general in this thread 😬
End of the day its a good time to be a Star Wars fan if your able to embrace the new.“We are what they grow beyond” - Yoda 😉
It’s a problem if the new isn’t good.
Interesting topic and I agree with the OP and other posters as well. Mostly it comes from writing and how all the trilogies have been written in different eras. In the 70s and 80s if you left your hometown without a map you really were lost, and the world was a big place just behind a corner. Now when you have Google Maps, GPS and you can track anyone around the world, this place has gotten a lot smaller. And it shows as the writers are living in this world, everything is a click away so that is how they also write, unintentionally.
The same could be said about many aspects regarding 70s vs. now. Many people for example had military background or at least grew up with people who did. It showed on screen, people respected each other, standed correctly and silent, made no extra remarks or stupid facial expressions, had formal announcements (Death Star, rebel hangar, in combat). Contrast to now when everyone acts like they’re on YouTube, as it’s written.
And only recently I’ve thought that in SW, Vader answers to Tarkin, In ESB, EVERYONE answers to Vader, and in Jedi, Vader answers to the Emperor. Just something that crossed my mind.
I think the comparison isn’t completely fair between the films. In SW Tarkin and Vader seem to be friends who respect each other but Tarkin is the military boss who is in charge of the station. Also Vader doesn’t have much to do really on his own.
That’s obviously the current retconned explanation. But when Leia meets Tarkin for the first time, she says that he is the one “holding Vader’s leash,” heavily implying that Tarkin was actually supposed to be Vader’s superior before ESB retconned it. It’s not too much of a contradiction though.
Not really. I don’t even follow any current retcons. I think it’s more about Leia just wanting to insult Vader. She also says that Tarkin smells right after so I wouldn’t take her wordings as gospel.
The blasters most likely have different settings. With smaller power they just make a burning hole, but with bigger power the actually fry the victim.
And only recently I’ve thought that in SW, Vader answers to Tarkin, In ESB, EVERYONE answers to Vader, and in Jedi, Vader answers to the Emperor. Just something that crossed my mind.
I think the comparison isn’t completely fair between the films. In SW Tarkin and Vader seem to be friends who respect each other but Tarkin is the military boss who is in charge of the station. Also Vader doesn’t have much to do really on his own.
In TESB we see Vader only in his own SSD that is in charge of the relatively small fleet. Even then, the admiral of the fleet is in charge of the fleet, but sure, they act on Vader’s orders which is to find Luke and the rebels. So he had is own quest to complete by any means necessary. I think after the small group of rebels destroyed the Death Star, the Emperor realized the danger and Vader got a bit of a promotion. Before that Vader had served his duty by killing the Jedi already.
The way I see it, Lucasfilm Games has been created as way to circumvent the exclusivity deal with EA, because it seems like Disney has realized it was a mistake with EA releasing a grand total of three games, of which only one (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order) is truly good.
It also reinforces what I’ve been saying for years, that closing LucasArts was a mistake.
Long are those times when they made SIX new SW games in a single year. 😦 Of course the quality varied but at least there was something new to play.
Speaking of Bond, I like how Octopussy’s credits are the who’s who of Star Wars.
The only one I recognize is Jeremy Bulloch.
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Boa is Rieekan, Le Parmentier is Motti and Crowley is Madine. Those at least.
So am I calculating this correct, these box sets have all the same discs/extras as the saga box did?
So the movie premiered on HBO last night, and I tuned in and cranked up the colour saturation to its maximum, and even though it’s just a minor detail, the viewing experience was a much improved one for me.
Seriously, this movie looks waaaaayyy better with boosted colours.
Yeah, the extremely desaturated dead-looking color grading is probably one of my biggest problems with the movie (along with the pointless spaceship montages). I don’t get why “real is brown” has become such a big thing with sci-fi and fantasy: pretty much the only modern show of that genre that actually looks alive is The Expanse (and even then it only looks half-alive).
Has it? BR 2049 is pretty colorful, depending where they are of course. But yeah, color grading is one thing that can really put me off even though a movie was good. If I see even a glimpse of a movie/TV show with teal/orange thing going on, not going to watch it.
Star Wars.
I thought you meant another kind of hypnotic where the film itself feels like something totally different. For example 2001 fits that description. Others that come to mind are Apocalypse. Now and The Neon Demon, which I don’t really like as movies but they feel like some hypnotic fever dream. They don’t fit to the OP’s descripition of wanting to know what happens next for me but just because they’re just made in some special way.
Stop with the cancel culture, thank you.
The only way I can see someone being fine with Quantic Dream getting this opportunity is if you don’t care about workplace exploitation, harassment, and homophobia.
Cool. Please stay on Twitter, this topic was about the game and not anything you’ve been posting.
Stop with the cancel culture, thank you.
On topic, having watched the trailer… what the hell was that?
Great artwork. Who’s the artist on these?
I think I’m going to make a movie called The Monster.
