do you ever have selfish, irresponsible, anti-intellectual family that makes you want to die of covid, because that’s the only thing it will take for them to finally understand your sheer anger and frustration with their awful shitty decisions
My hot take is that the sequel trilogy are the least political Star Wars movies that exist.
¯\(ツ)/¯
EDIT: also counting ewok adventures
Plinkett (Mike) went to film school & knows what he’s talking about. Yeah, his reviews are entertaining, but they’re also full of solid points &, yeah, a little nitpicking, which he always points out.
NosalgiaCritic & CinemaSins on the other hand… garbage.
I agree with Broom Kid. Film making itself is an attempt to trick you. Sometimes it works, some times it don’t.
Operative phrasing being he went to film school. People should have let Plinkett’s schtick be his schtick. He created a character/voice for the reviews - a unique (at the time) vessel for his own opinions and analyses.
But that’s not how you analyze film. That part of it was comedy.
YouTube film criticism has become mostly insufferable because a lot of people thought looking for the joke or scathing take a.l.a Plinkett was film criticism or analysis. It’s not like the kid in the video isn’t discussing something interesting to point out, it’s not like a lot of YouTubers don’t have a point sometimes - but their smug emulation of that style is unnecessary and has fostered a terrible mainstream moviegoing culture.
The problem is that the doable to worth it ratio for Rey as Luke’s daughter isn’t very high. It’s not an idea that’s universally good enough to devote the amount of time and labor needed to pull it off. So why pursue it when there’s a better option that is 10x more possible with broader points of contribution?
Anyone can make a personal edit on that level and share it, but the vague idea alone isn’t strong or neccesssary enough to crowdsource the specifics of how to pull it off, where to start, and the talented people to do all of that labor.
For the hands-on stuff you describe, it’s really just about making good impressions, being around others in the industry. Networking, basically. Film school and PA training is mostly useful for putting you in that environment. So as long as you make friends (that you keep in touch with) and keep a strong work ethic, it shouldn’t be too hard to get below-the-line experience and become employable (union) in that sense. You don’t even have to finish college if that’s all you’re aiming for. Depending on where you live, there will be FB groups, festivals, or other general meet-ups where you can socialize with the people that can get you in.
You’ll probably start as a PA, but then it’s up to you to get in good with a department you want to work in - sets, wardrobe, electric, grip, etc. College can give you more specific internship opportunities at studios, a lot of which can range from office stuff to equipment management.
That being said, it’s definitely a hustle, and the ideal “getting a job out of school” thing won’t mean the same thing as it does in other industries. Film/TV is seasonal work, and you’ll have to be looking for the next gig and the next and the next* until you’ve established yourself within the local industry and built relationships that will get you called, maybe to even those more important, higher up jobs. Upward mobility isn’t really a thing without relationships with the right people.
Pre/post-production work and other above-the-line stuff is less easy to get, and a lot of luck. But it’s a little more traditional. I think there’s more initiative to do things yourself here - write scripts, direct your own shorts, compile a portfolio, etc. And then submitting those to agents, post-houses, festivals, studios, production companies, etc. College learning is more useful here; that’s where you’ll learn technical craft and industry standard practices - but even that can be learned at home. The degree/certification itself won’t be more important than what you can show, but if the program is good or you did work hard throughout, you should come out with a portfolio. Just remember, that’s still not a guarantee of employment.
*(depending on your path, working at a studio has a little more permanence than crew-work but it’s not necessarily production work)
Even if you believe Star Wars is just supposed to be about the Skywalkers, there’s nothing wrong with having the last trilogy be about the influence of that family and their story. That’s still ostensibly about them.
Rey Nobody, a girl who becomes a hero from being inspired by their legend, is a meaningful way to cap off their legacy. It’s a lot better than a daughter inheriting her father’s responsibility and just seeing it through. (also why Kylo/Ben not seeing his through was interesting!)
Huh, you’re right. I must be remembering an older version or something.
^I’m pretty sure in Hal’s it’s after he talks to Palpatine, before the council meeting rejecting Anakin’s appointment.
Also, man I love that Palpatine/Anakin scene. It’s great to see it this usable.
Not because the work itself is bad, but it just reminds me of fart. Like, cartoon skunk gas. Very striking visually, but one of those things I can’t unsee once I started thinking it.
i don’t think it’ll be as useful as you think
I have encyclopedic knowledge of every line Hayden Christensen has ever said in a movie after 2002 if anyone needs something specific.
We just need Boss Nass peaking over a bush somewhere and it’ll be perfect!
Seriously though, snooker, you absolutely rule.
make the flying ducks the same ones from Howard the Duck, if you can
Oops. Episode 17, The Core Problem.
I, uh, definitely pirate the show so the numbering for the episodes on my files must have had the premiere as one episode or something.
We also shouldn’t forget, Adam Driver is quite hot. Who wouldn’t fall for him?
I definitely think Palpatine’s return was a bad idea, but to be fair to the ST, there was “peace” for 30 years. That’s longer than the Empire even existed. The First Order’s reign of less than a year is just a blip - relatively - with the OT victory still being the larger, more important one. Especially when the new generation owes so much of its success in quashing TFO before it really got going, to the previous victors, anyway.
Palpatine stayed gone for a long time, and his contingency mostly failed.
So just for fun, I edited the first 22 minutes of this into an episode of The Clone Wars:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Nm4JAjyjGJQhY4t1k9nbBUtkgz2MY98/view?usp=sharing
I just very roughly frankenstein’d audio for the “recap” and it’s super compressed for the storage limit, but it’s not a serious thing anyway. Just a fun preview for the rest of the edit. It’ll be interesting if we could watch this seamlessly in between season 7 episode 9 and 10 when they come out.
I also have a new, experimental color graded vers available. PM for a link to that if you don’t have already have a link to the GDrive folder. (which I realized too late was a much more efficient way of storing the edit; about a dozen of you don’t have it)
It always amuses me knowing that Hinton was a teenage girl when she wrote the Outsiders. It’s 100% just her fanfiction about boys.
Loyal, caring, bromance in a group of angsty greaser prettyboys. Bad boys with hearts of gold. It’s great.
krausfadr said:
Unless it excites you so much that Sheev fucks
This is the only good thing about the movie and they took it from us.
this is so wizard
What makes it worse is that it’s not bad in the way that makes fanediting it fun.
If you’re in college, Adobe CC is free right now until May due to COVID.
…That probably isn’t relevant to most of us, but just thought people should know. It’s sorta related.
I’ll be honest, I really really don’t care for Reylo, but it is undeniably really hot. We should lean into that.
Instead of Samuel Kim’s piece or even Across the Stars, I say we use Lapti Nek
I wonder if we can make “Palpatine just sort of forgets” a full on plot point. He’s old, he should be pretty senile now, right? His memory isnt what it used to be and he can’t quite recall what it is he wants to do. Which is why he starts quoting himself, why his plans for Rey are so inconsistent and can explain away whatever inconsistencies arise from editing to our preferences. I started this post as a joke but now I kind of want to do it.
Dementia Palpatine is the edit we deserve
I mean, either way, I think her never talking to Anakin again from then until Malachor works better for both her story and Anakin’s. I know Filoni came up with their reunion pre-ROTS/Mandalore way back then as well, but that just adds to my gripe with his storytelling. Did he not realize how much more sense it makes for Anakin to still be carrying his hurt about her into ROTS? Or how Ashoka sustaining guilt for leaving works for the drama of finding out he’s Vader?
I guess I meant to say, he didn’t have to adhere to that unfinished/unrealized story arc, especially after TCW got cancelled. It worked just fine, better even, without it. That said, I’m a dumb dumb baby boy who is also very excited about finally seeing it completed. I do love Ashoka and will watch the arc and love it. I just kinda disagree with it. In my eyes, it should have been Siege of Mandalore, but Ashoka dies in Order 66 and Malachor never happens. Or don’t do it and Malachor is Ashoka’s end.
Filoni’s just doing the revisionist Lucas thing, saying “The Clone Wars was always a show about Ashoka and Rex,” and making them super important characters to the main story of the series. And even The Mandalorian now, apparently.