A deleted scene from Solo:-
https://www.facebook.com/USATODAYlife/videos/237078820316829/
^ 'A young Han Solo and Qi’ra are on the run (and getting wet) in this deleted scene from ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story.’
More video may likely appear at https://www.facebook.com/starwarsmovies/ too…
You know I love a good young Indiana Jones reference.
I also wonder if this alleged “adult in the room” is simply trying to appease anti-Trump republicans so that they are still comfortable voting republican, on the basis that republicans are saving the day in the white house so don’t worry about Trump. The timing would make it seem that way. Until some republican comes out and make their opposition to Trump clear, as McCain did, it’s hard for me to see it as anything but republican self-aggrandizement without actual substance.
Interesting that both the right and left sides of the media are looking a bit askance at this statement.
It’s certainly hard to view the writer as some sort of hero, on either side.
I’ve been trying to come up with a good reason for Luke to be in exile, and realized that it could have to do with the fact that he’s basically the rightful Emperor. Anyone who managed to kill him would be heir by way of conquest in the same way that Vader was Emperor after he killed Palpatine.
The Empire is no more.
To preserve galactic peace,
Luke Skywalker, heir to the
Imperial throne, is in hiding.
Yet under the leadership
of an ambitious warlord,
an Imperial remnant known
as the FIRST ORDER has
regrouped in the unknown
regions of space with a
weapon to return them to
power even without the
royal Skywalker’s blood.
Desperate for the return
of their greatest hero,
the New Republic forms
a covert RESISTANCE led
by General Leia Organa,
and has sent their most
daring pilot on a mission
deep into enemy space…
This could also explain (in a non-novel form) why Leia isn’t a part of the Republic, and in fact, why the Republic and the secret Resistance are different - all Skywalkers are heirs to the throne, and as such must remain in hiding.
Finally, it could make for a more compelling reason for Kylo to turn evil. Faced with the choice of remaining in hiding his entire life or leading a galactic Empire, it’s hard to blame him really.
It looks really good! I especially like the skin tones.
The bright blue tones suffer, however. For example, the hologram of the ship from R2 is almost devoid of color.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
Even for the Trumpster fire, this is big.
Eh, not really. They seem to be perfectly okay with what he does, and just not like him personally. Their “whispers” don’t mean shit because they didn’t do anything.
Due to the word ‘Lodestar’ in the op-ed, the speculation is that the author is either Pence or someone who wishes to have us think it is him.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If Trump’s supporters support what he does, wouldn’t they be angered that most of the administration is attempting to thwart what he is doing?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
Even for the Trumpster fire, this is big.
Due to the word ‘Lodestar’ in the op-ed, the speculation is that the author is either Pence or someone who wishes to have us think it is him.
I hope you keep all of these images together somewhere Snooker. It’s really creative stuff.
Reading through some of the older threads, even ones from just a few years ago, reminded me that this used to be a more positive forum. Not that negativity didn’t exist of course, just that people seemed more agreeable.
Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba
This wanted duo might have outrun the Galactic police, but Owen will cook their goose with one hand tied behind his back. Evazan’s features look to have already run afoul of the Lars Family Recipe, and Ponda’s paw can’t compare with a liver shot to the breadbasket.
“Take these two over to the garage - I want them cleaned up for dinner.” 
I don’t really understand much of what you describe, but it sounds just sciencey enough to be plausible.
Needs more diagrams and equations though.
I’m sure that there are force fields in place so that people don’t just fall out of them with every sharp turn or light bump on a sand dune.
Now that’s an interesting concept. I like how it looks like it was buried in the forest somewhere, it fits the Endor location.
What if you did a version of ANH that looked like it has been sandblasted, and a version of ESB that has been frozen and/or gone moldy in a swamp?
I’m referring more to the OT in this regard, and yes, TFA really started the trend - ‘Who talks first’ and the joke about Daniel Craig dropping his weapon probably counts here - but overall the characters take the situations seriously and it goes a long way to legitimizing even the more absurd moments of the movie.
In comparison, Boyega has pretty much patented a look of baffled skepticism with regards to TLJ’s dumber moments:
When your co-lead looks embarrassed with the BS, you’ve got a problem.
You mention Space Leia, Rose, and Canto Bight as being very earnestly implemented and I agree. Rian seems quite interested in being serious in the parts of the story that he likes, while treating the bits he doesn’t like as punchlines. Just little things like Anakin’s lightsaber, Snoke, Maz, Hux…
Duracell.
Plinkett’s Last Jedi review has inspired me to re-evaluate what makes Star Wars work so well, and it lead me to realize that Star Wars '77 has, in many more ways than a normal movie, the form and function of a dream.
Consider that Star Wars perfectly captured a moment in the American zeitgeist of the hippy counterculture rebelling against the establishment machine, using visual references drawn from sources that lingered in the subconscious of that generation. Metropolis, Flash Gordon, WWII propaganda film - all these things were at least a generation out of date when Star Wars premiered, ensuring that while the references would be felt, they would not draw undue attention to themselves.
Consider also the simple and efficient plot populated with archetypal characters that resonate with people of any time. Any specificity in the film is a reference to an unknown, alien technology or knowledge structure, anchoring the film in a timeless void where everything is approachable and everything is endlessly immersive.
Finally and most importantly, consider that the characters and the director construct the myriad conceits of the movie in complete earnest. Nowhere is there a wink to the audience to let them know that they are in a movie, never is a threat taken lightly. When Leia begins to treat her oppressors with mocking disdain, they are quick to destroy her entire planet.
These things all conspire to immerse the audience in what can only be described as a movie equivalent of a dream.
Now compare this to The Last Jedi, which although it goes some way in grounding itself in the visual references of the past, has no interest in generating or sustaining immersion in the audience. This fact above all else is, I believe, why so many in the audience failed to connect with it - The Last Jedi finally awakened them from the seven film dream.
My complaint is we never see any of the characters taking a shit in TFA, yet none of them display the symptoms of constipation in TLJ. Rian was totally undermining JJ the whole way.
Then I must have really misinterpreted this scene:
SHUT UP ABOUT PLOT HOLES
a video by Patrick (H) Willems
I enjoyed that video, because the illogical parts simply added to its humanity.
Moreover, I think we should be thankful for these ‘inconsistencies’, because they make it possible for those truly great movie moments. Moments that tugged on the heartstrings and transcended mere logic to enter into the sublime.
Luke being reluctant is fine and I was okay with the hermit in exile thing, but never to completely give up hope and go off to die alone on an island. TFA felt like it was pointing in a definite direction, and TLJ felt like it was acknowledging that direction and purposefully going the other way (Johnson says as much in pretty much every interview about it: “subverting expectations”) while staring you dead in the eye like a cat pushing a priceless Ming vase off of a high shelf.
I legitimately don’t know how you can think that TFA was “pushing Luke in a definite direction” that somehow excluded his interpretation in TLJ. Genuinely curious to hear thoughts on this, as I truly can’t think of anything in TFA that contradicts his portrayal in TLJ or suggests it would have been something else.
As for “subverting expectations,” I think people read to much into that to mean Johnson was trying to annoy fans at every turn or something. I think what he actually means is more in the minutiae of the telling of his film itself, feinting one way and going another - not to annoy fans but to thrill them with a story that keeps you guessing.
My impression of Luke’s mindset from watching only TFA was that he became discouraged with his effectiveness as a teacher and went in search of something that would make him better able to pass on what he had learned. Since he was the last of the Jedi, the only thing remaining would apparently be these texts on a half-mystical island. Keep in mind that he gave the coordinates to R2 before he left, so it’s not like he went there to hide, at least not in the beginning. There’s also the fact that JJ wanted Luke to be practicing Force techniques when Rey found him.
So the idea of Luke in TFA was that of Rocky having lost a fight and needing to train harder for the next one.
Luke in TLJ has lost all hope.
It’s a not insignificant difference.
Good luck changing Han’s dialogue though.
‘Star Wars: The Last Plinkett Review’ - Mr. Plinkett examines Star Wars Episode 8 The Last Jedi.
Sorry, I have to address one of the small points in this review.
The First Order was so quick to find the Resistance base because they’d already found it in TFA and for some reason didn’t immediately send a Star Destroyer there in that movie.
Get it right you hack frauds.
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I do agree with a lot of the rest though. That the movie seems to be more of a comedy than other Star Wars movies is a good point.
I don’t know. I haven’t seen it in so long but the scene where Anakin is alone in the council chamber and Padme is at their apartment and they stare out of their windows is probably the best scene of the whole PT. I know that in a lot of ways that’s a low bar, but I think it’s great and I’m being serious when I say that that scene is as well done as anything in the OT.
It’s actually better than most of the OT. How often can you say that anything in Star Wars even approaches ‘haunting’ as an apt descriptor?
I mean, other than Force Ghosts.
Connix is the ST’s Wedge (I can’t remember if I’ve said so here before, so sorry if I made this exact same post three months ago).
But who is the Ric Olie of the ST? 😛
A pilot who almost exclusively remarks on things that the audience already knows?
Search your feelings.
The only thing that bothers me is Kylo’s inclusion in TLJ. I assume Finn will be on the cover of Episode 9, but what happens if JJ makes Finn/Rey/Poe a clear mirror of Luke/Leia/Han?