SilverWook

You guys know Rifftrax has done the HS, right? The most painless way to watch it.

DominicCobb said:

SilverWook said:

Reminds me of how he directed a small scene in Empire, and did quite a few takes.

To be clear, Lucas didn’t direct the scene in Solo, he just gave a direction.

Oh, well, that’s very different!

DuracellEnergizer said:

Handman said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

SilverWook said:

Wow, just wow. I can see where some people would have issues with the movie, but it’s a product of it’s time, only a few years past the super campy era of Batman.

Yeah, but I’m not a fan of Batman '66, either.

:’-(

What’s truly sad is that I loved the show when I was a kid. It and B:TAS were how I was first exposed to the character.

It’s possible to love both. Each is based on a certain era of the comics. And both have Adam West. 😃

DominicCobb said:

Superman II is better.

Which version? 😉

Reminds me of how he directed a small scene in Empire, and did quite a few takes.

Maybe with the burden of running Lucasfilm off his back, he could have fun making a movie again? I’d like to see the George who made THX 1138, American Graffiti and Star Wars '77 reappear.

It’s the trial by fire all true fans must undergo. And some of us have seen far worse 70’s variety specials. 😉

Wow, just wow. I can see where some people would have issues with the movie, but it’s a product of it’s time, only a few years past the super campy era of Batman. And I’ve seen a tv version of the 70’s Broadway musical Superman that makes the SW Holiday Special a breeze! It really stinks.
Even if I found fault with the movie today, I wouldn’t trade the memories of seeing this with my Mom back in 1978 for anything.

TV’s Frink said:

2/10? Now 4/10?

Lol.

I mean I don’t even care about Superman but that’s still ridiculous.

The Mask sounds about right. I really liked it when I first saw it but it’s not really that good.

A surprising amount of The Mask seems totally lifted from an obscure 1991 horror flick called The Runestone. Peter Riegert even plays a similar character to his role in The Mask! Sadly, this movie still seems to not be on DVD in the U.S. It’s actually pretty good.

That already came in handy, and those cantina knock off scenes will too eventually. 😃

Heard a racket behind my house and stuck my head out the door just in time to see some neighborhood kids chasing a cat under a parked car. One started throwing rocks when they couldn’t get at it. They got so far under the vehicle I was hoping they’d get stuck. Little bastards.

Trek 6, I think?

NeverarGreat said:

ZkinandBonez said:

I think we just have to get used to the fact that movie-franchises are made differently now. They are part of larger continuities, and SW in particular now has a commitment to a larger expanded universe. Lucas may not have cared (though even the PT had EU connections), now however, the EU and the movies are strongly connected. RO tried a milder version of it with Saw, and now Solo has fully committed to it. I think Lucasfilm knows that they can’t do exactly what the MCU does (e.g. making three or so movies a year), so they’ve committed to EU connections instead.

And if this whole Maul thing bugs too many people they can always “fix” it by making him a larger part of a future anthology films. Yes there’s no official plans for it right now, but they’ve opened that door now. I don’t see this becoming a huge problem, especially with younger audiences (it’s easy to forget that the post PT generation(s) actually likes Maul), but if it does they can still “salvage” it in many different ways. Like Silverwook said; Thanos wasn’t know by everyone watching the Avengers (or GOTG, etc.), yet it eventually paid off and those who hadn’t read the comics accepted it. Lucasfilm can still do a similar thing.

I was 13 when TPM was released, and liked Maul plenty. The problem is the retconned survival for the purposes of character recognition. Since Maul was killed (for real?) in Rebels yet again at the hand of Obi-wan, there was no reason to bring him back at all.

Now we are told to care about a character retconned back into existence by a children’s TV show who is destined to die in a pointless attempt at vengeance in another children’s TV show. It may come across that I’m annoyed by this decision by Disney, but that would imply some sort of emotional investment in Maul’s story.

People keep comparing this to Marvel and comics in general, when Star Wars isn’t the same sort of story. At its most pulpy it’s a serialized space adventure, but the original film has more in common with Kurosawa than with Stan Lee.

Don’t forget the Flash Gordon serials. Ming the Merciless came back from certain death more than once.

The sad part is it’s a potentially good whoa reveal, like Thanos at the end of the first Avengers. I knew who Thanos was even though I haven’t touched a superhero book in decades, but Avengers doesn’t over explain it for the benefit of people who don’t either.
Maul whipping out the lightsaber is what spoils it and betrays a lack of trust in the audience to figure it out.

On the flip side of the coin, you do see his robotic lower half in the hologram, therefore people who only recall Maul doing the torso splitz in TPM ought to be able to figure it out? Anakin survived catching fire, and Grevious was little more than a brain in a jar, so it’s not that improbable by Star Wars standards.

Then again, I’m the one who thinks Mace survived that fall and lost his memory. 😉

Mocata said:

You know, I always forget there are Ewok movies. For all the problems in the PT I was never able to sit through Caravan of Courage.

They were definitely aimed at kids. Unlike the spin offs today, they was never branded as a Star Wars film. I still say Battle For Endor is darker than Alien 3. 😛

moviefreakedmind said:

Yeah, you can, and should, be able to wear anything you want to school.

There are limits. 😉

And schools have drawn lines on certain types of clothing, baggy pants, really torn jeans, obvious gang attire.

IIRC, at the height of Simpsons mania some humorless educators tried to ban this Bart Simpson shirt.

MalàStrana said:

SilverWook said:

I’m rather surprised they didn’t have a Boba Fett cameo somewhere.

Mandalorian outfits all over the vilain’s lair ain’t enough ? 😉

Boba will be in Solo 2, probably hired by Maul to find Han. Or something like that.

Speaking of which, we never actually saw the dead stuffed Ewok glimpsed in that leaked BTS footage.

Of course, they may have ditched it on the re-shoot.

Mocata said:

There was such a mind boggling onslaught of TPM merchasdise, I’m surprised there wasn’t one. Jar Jar made it into bathroom accessories, but I guess nobody wanted a sith lord toothbrush holder or soap dispenser?
Unless crime syndicates are secretly giving the Empire a cut to keep out of their affairs, I can’t see Vader having anything to do with them.

Oh sure in 1999, I just mean like now. Today there are still new Vader and R2D2 things going strong. Household names that people know when they might not have seen a single movie.

As for the cameo I mean I guess it doesn’t have to make sense. Qi’ra can just be the new secret apprentice. Or the new Emporer’s Hand. Or something else dumb.

Disney has park exclusive stuff where they have Mickey and the gang as SW characters which is more recent.

And there’s these…

There was such a mind boggling onslaught of TPM merchasdise, I’m surprised there wasn’t one. Jar Jar made it into bathroom accessories, but I guess nobody wanted a sith lord toothbrush holder or soap dispenser?

Unless crime syndicates are secretly giving the Empire a cut to keep out of their affairs, I can’t see Vader having anything to do with them.
I’m rather surprised they didn’t have a Boba Fett cameo somewhere.

They will have to allow shirts expressing other opinions and the faculty is pretty much screwed either way.

Seems like wearing a shirt like that in public is an open invitation to getting your ass kicked when you least expect it anyway.

I remember a kid back when I lived in New Jersey wearing a shirt that said A little radiation never hurt anyone! in the wake of Three Mile Island. Neighborhood parents were not amused. We were living about 75 miles from Harrisburg.

Prequel characters still populate the Hasbro action figure lines. (Characters still appear in Disney theme parks.) Haven’t seen any prequel vehicles lately. Maul was popular with the toy collectors from day one. I wonder if George mentally kicked himself when he saw how Maul figures were flying off the shelves back in '99?

Well, that’s certainly a different take on the Cantina scene! 😃

There’s even a Seeker ball hovering around, straight out of Ralph McQuarrie’s concept painting. The original concept being they that seek out those sentenced to death by the Empire and execute them.

I triple dog dare someone to replace Maul with Jar Jar. 😛

Casual viewers are like Maul who? It really should have been this guy, who’s better remembered for the wrong reasons. 😉

I do think the lightsaber was gratuitous. It would be like Boba Fett firing up his jetpack for no reason.