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LuckyGungan2001

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#1164556
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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joefavs said:

I am reminded of a frequent point they used to make on the Cracked Podcast about suspension of disbelief. In The Dark Knight Rises, there’s a chase scene where Batman goes into a tunnel in broad daylight and exits at night.

Except that it was clearly dusk when he went in. You could tell the sun was setting. Everyone acts like it was bright and sunny when he went in, but it isn’t that much of a stretch to say that the sun finished setting when he was in the tunnel.

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#1162238
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Let’s talk about Star Wars fans
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DominicCobb said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

lovelikewinter said:

As bad as Star Wars fans are, they are not Harry Potter fans. Thank god for small favors.

Or emo music fans. Anytime I listen to some My Chemical Romance on YouTube I have to deal with the terrible fan base in the comments

HerekittykittyX said:

LuckyGungan2001 said:

lovelikewinter said:

As bad as Star Wars fans are, they are not Harry Potter fans. Thank god for small favors.

Or emo music fans. Anytime I listen to some My Chemical Romance on YouTube I have to deal with the terrible fan base in the comments

outside of Star Wars Jake Paul has the worst fan base

I think perhaps the idea here is “what’s something that’s good that has bad fans.” There are plenty of terrible things that have far worse fans than Star Wars.

Yeah, My Chemical Romance is really good. Can’t say the same for Jake Paul though.

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#1160357
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Last comic read
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suspiciouscoffee said:


Star Wars: The Original Marvel Years vol. 2
What a wonderful era of Star Wars this was. Back when there was only the original film and writers and artists were free to run around the galaxy however they pleased.

Eh, I dunno. I tried reading those comics a while back and they were just really lame. I reckon the Dark Horse comics absolutely blew these old Marvel comics out of the water, and the new line of Marvel comics are also way better. Those old comics don’t feel like Star Wars and just aren’t my thing.

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#1159813
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Awesome Star Wars art (pic heavy!!)
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ZkinandBonez said:

ray_afraid said:

Those Tsuyoshi Nagano’s are really great. Thanks for posting, ZkinandBonez.
They make me wanna read those books. And I might!

Well, I’m about halfway through the second book in the New Jedi Order series now, and I’ve been enjoying them quite a lot so far. The Yuuzhan Vong are pretty interesting, I think, as long as you put yourself in the mind-set that these aren’t classical SW stories.

Yeah I’ve almost finished the last book (taken me a year to finally get through this huge series), and it’s definitely not the same tone as the films, which is why I love it.

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#1159092
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Your favorite movies
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I decided a few months ago that my favourite movie is The Evil Dead from 1981. It’s not the greatest film I’ve ever seen based on quality but it is basically criticism proof in my eyes. Every time I try to think of something bad I realise I wouldn’t like the movie as much without those things. Like sure, it has pretty bad acting, effects, storyline and dialogue, but without those things I wouldn’t like it.

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#1158371
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Awesome Star Wars art (pic heavy!!)
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ZkinandBonez said:

*Tsuyoshi Nagano book cover art ranging from 1997 - 2004.

(This is by no means all of them, just some of my favourites.)

New Republic books source
New Jedi Order books source
PT books source

(Images removed due to space)

Oh yeah I love these. They make me wish the American covers were better, but instead we got stuff like this:

or this:

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#1157578
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Michael Ward said:

Mrebo said:

Remind me of the 3PO moments?

Seems like one was about the time that he was saying mutiny was against his programming, but I don’t remember the line. They’re were a couple of others. One might have been when Finn and Poe and Rose were discussing their plan. They were not hilarious, but mildly amusing and not cringe worthy like most. The audience laughed out loud at them which I think made me enjoy them more than if I’d been by myself. Most of the other jokes landed with a thud with the audience when I saw it.

Funny how everyone who dislikes the movie seems to have gone to a showing where the jokes weren’t laughed at. All the jokes (even the dumb ones) were huge hits with the audience both times I saw it.

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#1157209
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Tobar said:

Just finished my rewatch of Iron Man (2008).

It’s been a long while since I last revisited the film that started it all. The break was a good one, this is a solid film that still holds up today. It’s funny to realize how much has happened in the last 10 years. The state of cellphone technology, dated social media network references, the scale of fight scenes. The big end battle was such a revelation at the time but is quite a small engagement by today’s standards. The earlier anti-terrorist fights however are still brilliant.

Yeah I found that some parts of the movie are quite dated, like the “Don’t put this on your MySpace page” line. If it featured a kid like the third movie I’m sure he would have looked like this:

or this: