pretty sure when Kathleen Kennedy wears a t-shirt that says “The Force is Female”… lol
PR stunts are not the same as a billion dollar movie machine actually caring about the issue.
Cinemasins is a blight on the internet.
Did we hate Midichlorians because it threatened the patriarchy?
Hahaha!
Star Wars is catering for girls… it’s called Forces of Destiny. The zero budget flash animation/doll commercial. Everything else is pure lip service. They cast a wider net with the most recent stuff and the casting is done differently, sure. But broadening the demographic is different from when they actually try and please a particular group directly. See also: the 90s toyline that featured female characters wearing cloth outfits. Low effort, low return, same old. Girls have always liked SW obviously, but that’s not the same thing. Mega-corporations cater to what will sell and what sells rarely changes.
Here’s an excellent article on The Last Jedi and why it has elicited such a backlash from fans.
Hmm
Insightful look on the film and its response (I guess I should say I don’t agree with everything said, but it’s worth reading):
http://observer.com/2018/07/film-crit-hulk-the-beautiful-ugly-and-possessive-hearts-of-star-wars/
Many quality, insightful and also challenging articles can be found at the Guardian & Observer (it’s Sunday sister paper) - pleasing to see them get some a mention and some love on here too 😃
I don’t think that site is related to those papers though.
Spoilers for the TLJ Remake
https://twitter.com/OnePerfectShot/status/1013975593761767424
But I’ve already seen it.
So have I.
Damn and I was so close to see what that . in the gif thread was.
I just realised that Danny the Dealer from Withnail is the same actor who played Ric Olié.
Also I only remember this random TPM character because of this forum. What a time to be alive.
“Don’t get uptight with me young man. Cos if you do, I’ll have to give you a dose of medicine. And if I spike you, you’ll know you’ve been spoken to.”
I feel myself warming to the idea of picking this up at a later date, but then I skim read and see the above comment about Darth Maul and I don’t like the idea as much.
Personally Leia should have been more powerful, and maybe dragged back in Ackbar and some other people before closing up the hole. Then she could have the nap.
Now I understand what they mean by cursed image.
That’s more horrifying than the Predator Blu-Ray!
Augh don’t remind me…
From Naci Caba:-
Nice. I like the old novelization style.
Yeah you caught me editing the typo. I’ve heard this general rule plenty of times when it comes to blockbusters, I think it’s safe to presume.
Then again, I’d be nervous if any film I produced had a six-figure loss.
It’s not a loss though. It just didn’t meet projections. Maybe they needed to rethink their projections.
If they spent 500 million on it then that is a loss.
I don’t understand why so many people here are so eager to paint Solo as if it isn’t a box office failure. It’s not like any of you have a personal stake in it.
There are?
A box office failure is usually when a film doesn’t make it’s money back, yes? Well, we don’t know what the film cost, do we? (do we?) I don’t know where the ‘$500m’ figure comes from I see bandied around - a guess? (someone replicated the cost of Rogue One and added extra on for the re-shoots, maybe?)
Solo has certainly under-performed - in context it could be said it has flopped in comparison to the other recent releases - yet did anyone expect it get near the ST figures - or even R1? I imagine the big-wigs will be looking into it and trying to address it, should they feel the need?
Personally, I don’t care too much - it’s not like Disney is going to pull the plug on future Star Wars films after 1 under-performing film (despite many articles stating it would) after the 4 released so far - so we’ll still be very likely getting more SW content in the future (which is something I’d like to see).
Solo has flopped, there’s nothing more to be said. A film needs to make double its budget just to break even, then they can start counting profits. Roughly speaking if Solo cost 400 mil and only made 300, then that’s a 500 mil loss. Aka a box office bomb. You can still like it.
I’m guessing this is the playlist you’re looking for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVyWk42W_Lw&list=PLnj5NobreY4uaDcX1U87vAsLfxhRkEGIu&index=52
Does he mean microscopic or macrobiotic??
Oh jeez, so it just is more midichlorians.
The paint strokes are very broad and its guts seem to be made of molten fire so I think it’s fine.
That TLJ piece is pretty good, but maybe a bit too oversaturated.
So presumably it’s just a makeshift version to be holstered in the non action scenes then, rather than one that operates or the kind Harrison is using in all the publicity photos.
Is that a real prop?
I read somewhere that Ron Howard was hired specifically to meet the previously agreed May release date.
I can’t tell if you’re kidding or not. Almost all of these are ‘because it’s a movie’. You just have to use your powers of inference.
Do people still use the word ‘flame’ on the internet these days? That’s a word I haven’t heard in a long time…
I found it half laughable half disgusting but it wasn’t painfully out of place like Leias return from space death scene
When I saw that scene my first thought was that she was force pulling herself to the ship. Why any SW fan would think it was something else is beyond me.
Agreed. Plus the classic theme was a nice touch.
This is the best.
It’s the pan pipes version they’re thinking of unfortunately.