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A lot of good ideas here (real good and funny good)

But! Spoiler Warning for Solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QJd5kpk8DM

moviefreakedmind said:

It’s a really unfair barometer. I don’t remember the score for Alien off the top of my head but I’d never just assume that it’s bad because I don’t remember it. I could say the same about most of the movies I’ve seen, honestly.

Memorable and motivational are not the same thing. The music in Star Wars really gets you pumped. The music in Alien is a mixture of different atmospheres, both relaxed and disturbing. They’re supposed to be complimentary. A swashbuckling adventure and a tale of unknown dread. That bit where the A L I … appears is amazing. The fanfare as the fighters go into the trench run is amazing. But it’s a different amazing. Did Solo have either of those moments? I don’t remember any.

It’s only silly now in retrospect when the PT tells us Obi-wan is such a dummy that he’s basically saying “…only a master of evil, Lord”

The Autistic Asexual said:

Rogue One is NOT a movie about individual characters anyway it’s way more about the collective sacrifice.

But suicide mission plots exist elsewhere, they’ve been done. With characters. Or are you saying that ensemble cast movies don’t need characters? What are you saying?

I would have preferred they showed us anything with Han at the academy.

Ryan-SWI said:

nmr1723 said:

And Emilia Clarke…oh goodness is she amazing.

I’m gonna have to disagree with this. She isn’t bad but I don’t think to date I’ve ever seen a good performance out of her. She’s just always… Kinda there

Agreed. That joke where she has to move out of the co-pilot chair to let Chewbacca do his thing felt particularly bad, like something from the first cut before the acting coaches arrived.

Yeah the old Lego Star Wars OT was fun enough. Before they started going overboard with those games and filling them with gimmicks like the LOTR one. That being said the Force Awakens is good, except for the split screen which is that horrible dynamic kind that swirls around when you’re both at a certain distance.

I don’t own any actual Lego sets though, its really over priced and I’d probably collect other kinds of merch given the chance.

Okay real ranking. Let’s be honest, none of these films are 0/10 unless you haven’t seen many other movies. Even if you truly hate them, there’s a wealth of awful stuff out there.

Star Wars: 9/10
Empire: 9/10
Jedi: 8/10
TLJ: 7/10
TFA: 6/10
SOLO: 5/10
ROGUE ONE: 4/10
Others: 2/10

http://www.darkhorizons.com/disney-exec-reflects-on-solo-opening/

Why did he not have a surname? He talks about his dad later…

Clint Howard’s Gonk Wars was a thing that exists in this movie.

The new Galatic Empire album

It’s just feels sort of empty despite the running time. They skip over Corellia, then they skip over the war - these should have been half the movie where the deepest cuts are made. Beckett’s original crew all die before we get to know them. Then Lando’s robot dies. Who else was there? Qi’ra is there I guess. Apparently Chewbacca eats people. At the end there’s a dramatic reveal about Enfys Nest (?) but I didn’t know her before so there’s no impact.

This movie was all just bland grey filler. It was watchable. Fans of Rogue One will like it. I’m not sure why they go to the trouble of showing Han being someone who lives in the worst slum, then gets thrown into the worst war zone, only for him to still just be a guy who helps out that tribe at the end. Needed to be a hardened cynic by the end. There are major structural problems that sap the dramatic pacing and they should have put the two heists into one finale to allow more characterisation in the first half. Darth Maul is pointless studio think tank material. Overall - Eh.

Sure but it’s not enough that they go through the motions and call each other liar/betrayer etc. I have no idea why Anakin believes what he does beyond the fact the story needs him to be in a robot suit after 130 minutes. Especially when some of the promises Palpatine fed him were so vague and outlandish.

The Thanos problem, yeah it’s similar. In some ways. But he at least does thing A to get macguffin B, and I see how that works. I don’t have to get over so many logic hurdles.

we know what everyone wants and is trying to do.

Wait is he talking about the prequels still here??

If it doesn’t break even by the end of this weekend I’d suspect the studio will be worried though.

Fair enough, with two review threads I’d have thought this was redundant and verging on wummery before anyone posted.

On topic though TLJ… was pretty good.

Boba Fett… uh he fell into a hole an died? What an icon.

Mangold though, sounds like a case of creative differences waiting to happen.

Okay so… the whole thing goes

1. Star Wars
2. Empire
3. Jedi

4. TLJ / TFA

fmalover said:

Yeah, but for every positive comment made there are about 50 negative ones.

Go back and count each one again, I think you’ll be surprised. Remember to sift the review thread and the spoiler thread and report back to us.

This is a pretty wild and overly long debate over a robot that is just yet another lug headed out spoken comic relief character. These archetypes exist in genre movies, big deal. People like that exist. They’re not mentally damaged or anything. They’re usually not very funny either. Real life isn’t Star Wars.

I don’t remember Vader or Luke single-handledly winning a war.

Neither do I. So we’re in agreement? These comics look pretty embarrassing.

Conceived =/= perceived 😉

snooker said:
I hate Reddit.

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