SilverWook

People can lose accents if they live in another country long enough. Or gain them.

What about Ronn Lucas? I know he had a show in the UK for a while. And one of his characters, Scorch the dragon, had a short lived sitcom here in the early 90’s. I love Scorch!

Another fellow, David Strassman, has a lot of fun playing off the evil demonic dummy trope. I have no idea why either of these guys don’t get the following Jeff Dunham does.

Ditching your family name as part of escaping your past is nothing new.

Yeah, even Joel Schumacher doesn’t get this kind of abuse. 😉

Bad projection is nothing new. I saw some pretty horrible presentations growing up. Not every projectionist was a master of their craft. I’d be amazed if any multiplex today even has a dedicated guy who doesn’t have to divide his time with the snack bar.
Kubrick used to have spies check up on how his films were being projected in various cities. From what I’ve been hearing about the 50th anniversary 2001 re-release, he wouldn’t be too happy today. I recall Spielberg saying in an old interview once how some print runs in the 80’s were tweaked for theater chains they knew had issues. I doubt you can tweak a DCP for bad theaters.

Maybe we should start a thread elsewhere for our movie theater horror stories? 😉

This might be a factor in why some think the movie is drab looking?
http://www.indiewire.com/2018/05/solo-star-a-wars-story-theatre-projection-problems-bradford-young-1201969989/

And yet, creative studio accounting can claim that even a successful film has yet to turn a profit. Ask anyone not named Jack Nicholson who wanted some of that sweet Batman money.
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-21/entertainment/ca-796_1_net-profit
And lest we forget, there were four sequels made to this bomb. 😛

Did Solo open at the same time in Europe? I’ve never heard of a movie disappearing after only a week. Even Howard the Duck played for a few weeks here. That studios place so much emphasis on China’s fickle market these days is their problem. Star Wars doesn’t have any historical prestige there.

People don’t grasp the concept of a box office bomb anymore, if they ever did at all. And we seldom ever hear about home video grosses, which ought to count towards whether a movie is considered profitable or not. (It was Austin Powers’ popularity on home video that helped greenlight a sequel, or so I’ve heard.) In this day and age a video rental ought to count as much as a movie ticket.

That bunch of crazy kids working out of a warehouse in Van Nuys pioneering the FX tech that will rule the next two decades on impossible deadlines were only human. 😃
Artoo’s panels were black because the blue ones would have been transparent in front of the blue screen.

In the absence of official confirmation, tongues were going to wag.

Collipso said:

trump is an idiot. the protectionist tariffs on steel and aluminum are a terrible idea. trade war incoming

And the price of beer could go up! If that doesn’t trigger massive riots, nothing will.

Glad they at least gave him an audition. Would have been silly not to even screen test him.

And yet, we’ve seen poop in Star Wars. 😉

Interesting! I never get political ads, at least not this year.

IIRC, Chewie’s family is canon, whether the events of the HS are is another matter.

Going by Malla in the SWHS, I’d say no.

Fur can fall out from stress. The spice mines of Kessel aren’t the healthiest place to working in to begin with.

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

The kiss Han’s mentor got. Why? Seemed strangely intimate, but also casual and forced.

What.

It was weird in Star Wars. I don’t expect people to just casually French kiss.

Well after the hardcore sex scene in TLJ, this is hardly worth mentioning.

Dammit! I knew I shouldn’t have gone to the restroom during the movie!

Which in the age of the internet is nigh impossible. Even in the original making of ESB paperback you can read about tensions and problems on the set. Every production has them. Nuts to this happy ship illusion they’re peddling.

Handman said:

This was as lazy as I thought it would be.

So, this takes place before Star Wars, which was heavily influenced by World War II, right? Uhh… what came before WWII? World War One!
But at least they executed it well.

I liked how they incorporated the way Lando pronounces Han’s name.

I breathed a sigh of relief when the comic relief characters died. The rest of the humor from everybody else was dreadful.

Darth Maul is pointless. Also Crimson Dawn, get it, cause Darth Maul is red.

The kiss Han’s mentor got. Why? Seemed strangely intimate, but also casual and forced.

Everything that made Han, Han, happened in a couple months. How he got his name, his gun, were really stupid. But Han doesn’t really act like the Han we know in the OT. We’re expected to believe he’s the same guy by the end of the movie?

Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover were good, not great. When following after Ford and Billy Dee’s iconic portrayals, that’s enough to make it work I guess.

I just feel completely indifferent to it. I didn’t expect anything, and I received nothing. So, mission accomplished?

It was way better than young Indy getting his hat, whip, scar, and fear of snakes all in a few hours! 😛

I did like the visual nod to Kubrick’s Paths of Glory.

Why are 75% of the youtube ads I see these days for Vimeo?

Those checked boxes are a hell of lot more entertaining than the checked boxes in the prequels. 😃

I don’t know why Lucasfilm seemingly has no interest in such things. They must know we’d buy it. And this isn’t an OOT situation.

I always did wonder if the rest of the Family Matters cast resented the way Urkel took over the show. Not the actor’s fault of course.

Is Justice League the new Heaven’s Gate/Howard The Duck/Ishtar now?

They could potentially clean up on home video if we get to see the original footage. Assemble it into an alternate cut ala Superman II.

Fox should demand cash, all in $2 bills. 😛