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Interesting, as I have no faith in a movie released today being as good as that.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone rank TLC that low, never mind two of you in a row. What’s the problem, the re-hashed elements or all the ‘here’s where the whip came from’ stuff?

LOL it’s still awful. I wonder why they kept it looking like a TV broadcast with the frame rate, is that more authentic?

UK Royal Mint to issue new coins for ROTJ Anniversary. Make your own jokes about Lucasfilm printing their own money I guess.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg3yyyzev5o

Oddly images used are clearly not from the right movie, possibly TFA? With a little Tatooine twin suns thing on the top from SW?

Edit: it is TFA as the background of this promo video shows https://youtu.be/eQx4h-CaAFQ Weird.

timdiggerm said:

I’ve still never seen Temple of Doom. Maybe someday.

People have two main complaints about it, but even considering those I think it’s a spectacular action film in terms of set pieces and gags and weird fantasy stuff.

Anyway it goes:
Raiders 5/5
Temple of Doom 4/5
Last Crusade 4/5

Skull 2/5

The latter parts of the original trilogy are interchangeable in general quality for me, and are still amongst the greatest movie experiences. But I think Crusade while having some all time laughs in it has odd pacing problems in the first act. There’s also some weird moments in the finale like the ‘kneel before God’ thing. It’s clearly kneel and roll or lose your shins! Or that leap of faith which uhh… somehow never collected any dirt until Indy throws some on it.

Crystal Skull… eh. It’s toothless and dull. Even with fan edits. The effects are awful despite the occasional moments of old magic. They should have leaned into mythology and ancient art more when portraying the aliens. They should have fed someone into that tree cutter. They should have used Short-Round instead of introducing this other ‘son’. It should be the last good Speilberg movie but it’s the start of the end.

As for the new one, I will catch it later on streaming. If I want to see an action movie on the big screen with the kind of thrills the franchise offered back in the day there’s not much out here beyond the M:I series.

‘Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.’
‘Consume you it will, as it did Obi-wan’s apprentice.’

The only problem is there was no dark path, not really. Anakin killed a lot of Tuskens but it didn’t lead down a path of more bloodshed. He didn’t become more brutal and start executing separatist leaders or winning battles through darkside rage powers. They darkside barely consumed him at all, and his personality is basically the same once Hayden took the role. Where’s the twisted and evil stuff? He just does what Palpy tells him, but even this loyalty seems to come out of nowhere. Which is why his murder of children seems so out of place, he just seems to do it on whim. It’s more of a path to being a more of a dumbass.

He got billions of dollars and is now more revered than he ever was before. Selling out only cemented his status as the creator of the real Star Wars. Soon he will open a museum celebrating this kind of false narrative. I don’t think a karmic blacklash is heading his way any time soon.

Huh I really need to catch up with Ringo Lam especially Wild Search. Are you on letterboxd?

Channel72 said:

Emre1601 said:

Channel72 said:

Or… why even do the trench run at all? Just align an X-wing at a 90 degree angle to the Death Star surface and fly directly towards the exhaust port. Then fire torpedoes in a straight line into the port. Fire multiple proton torpedoes in case some are intercepted by laser turret fire, or first target the laser turrets themselves. You could fire the torpedoes from a great distance away. A computer-guided torpedo could hit the small exhaust port without a human pilot having to fly anywhere near the Death Star.

There is a line of dialogue about it being “heavily shielded” or “ray-shielded” in the rebel briefing? I took that as the reason why they couldn’t fire at it from distance or closer distances with “line of sight”, though I could be wrong on that, or misinterpreting it? I’ll have to watch go watch it, the whole film, again! 😃

I think they say that the ray shields are the reason they need to use proton torpedoes (as opposed to, I guess, just regular laser fire?). Maybe the idea is that ray shields only protect against energy weapons, but wouldn’t protect against a physical object like a torpedo.

Yes that is the idea. However… ray shields since the prequels are now ‘made of rays’ instead of protecting ‘against rays’ because they’re shown trapping people.

The sequel delves into Rey’s courageous endeavor to restore the Jedi Order, where she assumes the role of a mentor to two promising young students—a girl and a boy. As their training progresses, it becomes evident that the girl possesses an extraordinary abilities, destined to emerge as the future leader.

Yeah this sounds like bait.

Sideburns of BoShek said:

Nice images! What on earth has happened to Lucasfilm’s once revered QA?

Yeah, that is also good reminder that many fans may not have likely heard of the Despecialized Edits or the TN1 4K projects, have the know how to acquire them and burn to disc, or to play them through a media center/server setup. That’s easy to forget for us more “online” and supposed tech-savvy fans.

These days everyone knows how to use a memory stick though, things are more accessible than ever. Hopefully the word gets around but ultimately most people are just going to watch what they are given on streaming.

As for the question at hand I’d still love an official release. But will it be marred by things like pink sabers, glitches, detail problems? Probably.

First I’ve heard about it. Is this a real outrage or just a clickbait one? At this stage I find do it odd after a few Assassin’s games in this vein that you can’t choose male or female. Even just for replay value. But ultimately it’s a non-issue.

Not according to The Mandalorian S2. Which means… something. Maybe the best ever Jedi is the one that doesn’t want that stuff. I can see Filoni taking that angle with his precious.

This looks very good. But I’m done with games that are just a big open space filled with fetch quests. Hope to be proven wrong but otherwise done after the likes of Horizon and Tsushima burned me out on the genre. Then again I could be lured in when it actually gets here…

I wish he’d made the sequels so that all this current hubbub was consistent instead of being full of retroactive appreciation.

Okay so speaking of the event itself… from what I can remember I only saw ‘ANH’ at the time and it was cool. There was so much merch but the Dorito’s Tazo collection and all the Galoob stuff is what I remember the most. But back then I had the 1995 videos and so did others (cropped), or the 1992 ‘Fox Videos’ version with white borders (widescreen). That was still Star Wars for a while. Nobody could have suspected that LFL was slowly and surely drawing its plans against us…

I just came across the Pentex and Patterson edit of this show which changes it into 2 movies (one flashbacks and one present) has anyone seen this? Will report back later.

Superweapon VII said:

of_Kaiburr_and_Whills said:

philraid said:

Also, The Last Command I thought they kind of dropped the ball with the story. The whole Luke having an evil clone plot point (and that they got the DNA from his severed hand) I thought was pretty stupid. Especially the fact they named him Luuke. That was dumb.

Ah… the weirdness of 90’s EU.

Doesn’t hold a candle to the weirdness of '80s EU.

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Jeez

Well… they’re dumb. Like real people. Which means that this is all a very clever comment on bureaucracy and government oversight within the military industrial complex.

Unless they are dumb they have to (a) make it 10x lower price and (b) actually make it look like a SW location…

Thanks Harmy!

This seems like a nothing rumour but here it is anyway, no idea what kinda rep this site has tbh
https://twitter.com/GFRobot/status/1661051351584108545

Mark Hamill and Hayden Christensen will return as Luke and Anakin in the upcoming new Star Wars movie.

I think it goes back to the real problem that the 90s CGI effects weren’t there to improve things. Old elements that could have been improved or cleaned up were left because they didn’t intend to. It was just a way to do some proof of concept ideas (and money raising) for The Phantom Menace. Plus the marketing angle of course after the brand had become more associated with games and novels. 25 years of this crap just for a better box office in 1999.

Superweapon VII said:

I never understood all the praise Arrival got.

His style was a perfect fit for Blade Runner 2049, though.

This but reversed.

Spartacus01 said:

I want a complete version of the 6 SW movies without music. It would be interesting to watch, because in the real world there’s no music in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9WVDvVd0E