SilverWook

Dammit! I missed it!

Andy Serkis speculates…
http://www.slashfilm.com/snoke-episode-9/

TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

https://youtu.be/HrzEB5_UcWo?t=31

Reminds me of those live video storyboards ILM would make. 😉

DuracellEnergizer said:

Handman said:

Valley of the Gwangi – Harryhausen’s effects stand up, and I was able to enjoy the story even though it was pretty standard fare.

The one and only time I watched that movie, I kinda hated it. Loved the effects, but both the humans and the titular Gwangi were such hateful creatures I couldn’t enjoy it.

Heavy Metal – Lots of naked animated ladies.

Sometimes I think Heavy Metal would’ve been better if it had been nothing but naked animated ladies and dropped all pretense of having a plot.

The stories from the magazine the movie is based do have plots, and naked ladies. It’s travesty we’ve never had a proper sequel, or at least a full blown Den movie. Heavy Metal 2000 doesn’t count. 😉

ray_afraid said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

ray_afraid said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

But Han is a ~ main character ~

Doesn’t matter. Lando did the right thing and could have saved Han if the other heroes woulda’ let him.
Even if Han died, Lando did the right thing.
If we get to Jedi and Han is complaining “Lando! You risked my life to save hundreds of others! HOW COULD YOU!?” Han would no longer a character I care for at all. Fortunately, that’s not the case.

I know. I was being facetious.

Well, you are one a the good ones!
But it really is a pet peeve. And most people do seem to think Lando did the wrong thing and should have been punished in some way. Such a shallow reading of what was going on.

https://youtu.be/VMJNQT2w7yc
https://youtu.be/dvXwu8oZuM0

https://youtu.be/5hGFWbu0eyE

Why are there four NFL threads?

Discuss here. : )

I wasn’t writing them off, I was trying to say the traditional movie critic who had a journalistic background or came out of the movie industry seems a rare breed these days.

There were plenty of critics I couldn’t stand back in the day. There was at least one who seemed to enjoy trashing Star Wars regularly. Probably pulling their hair out now if they’re still around. 😉

While we wait for the Super Bowl spot, some new non-LEGO toy image leaks. Definitely some spoilers, so you’ve been warned!
https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2018/02/new-solo-a-star-wars-story-toys-give-us-a-first-look-at-the-kessel-guards-and-more.html

Matt.F said:

Mrebo, it’s a false equivalency.

There are those online who have declared The Last Jedi a box office turkey, and yes it has performed significantly worse than The Force Awakens did.

However - this false equivalency fails to note that The Force Awakens was the 3rd highest grossing movie of all time. The Last Jedi has in fact already earned a staggering $1.3 billion and is one of the top ten most successful movies of all time.

There are those who have declared that The Last Jedi is a bad SW movie, nowhere near as good as Empire Strikes Back.

However - this false equivalency fails to note that Empire Strikes Back was recently voted the best movie of all time by Empire magazine. Naturally, comparing any movie to the best movie of all time is always going to result in it appearing second rate.

Compare like for like. Compare The Last Jedi (2017) to the other films released for family audiences in 2017. That’s fair, that’s sensible, that’s equivalent. It doesn’t ‘skew’ the results to create a false narrative. It gives a genuine picture of the quality when measured against its peers (which are exactly the like of Pirates Of The Carribean, Justice League, and Transformers The Last Knight).

This is one of the reasons why we still need professional critics. People who can be trusted, unlike youtubers, to have seen a lot of films and possess an understanding of where the benchmark line is set.

Who are the prominent movie critics today? The rise of internet guy with blog and opinions seems to have eroded the power critics once had. It was pretty much Siskel & Ebert for me when I was younger, plus a local reviewer or two on tv.
The blurbs that adorn ads and video boxes these days tend to be people I’ve never heard of.

The letterboxed one is probably from a trailer, which often ran with movies of a different aspect ratio. I used to see the projectionist physically flip the projector lens if a movie was a different aspect ratio from the trailers in the old days. Weird things would happen if they didn’t!
I’ve got some of those mounted frames, and a couple loose ones from a 70mm theatrical print, (which was turning red/pink) but I can’t recall if the soundtrack is visible on any of them. Will have to dig them out and see.
Interesting no frames from the Rogue One IMAX prints have turned up.

A nice gallery of scanned frames is here:
http://www.jedi1.net/

DuracellEnergizer said:

I tried watching a feature length hardcore porn once; I got bored within ten minutes.

Scrambled adult cable channels were pretty hard on the eyes back in the 80’s. 😉

LuckyGungan2001 said:

Who buys porn on physical media? Who buys porn at all?

Fry’s Electronics has an entire aisle for adult DVD’s and Blu Ray’s. Probably the only retail chain that carries such things. The disc racks are covered so you’d have to pull them out to see the titles. I seldom see anyone looking at them, and none wearing dark sunglasses and a raincoat.

paja said:

Did you know VHS and BluRay won because porn wasn’t on Beta and HD-DVD.

A new spin on an old myth. There was plenty of porn on Betamax. Where the major studios were very nervous about releasing their films on videotape in the early days, the adult film industry saw a new revenue stream.
Apparently there were adult HD DVD’s made, but you weren’t likely to see them sold in stores. I doubt porn sales alone would have kept HD DVD afloat in the mid 2000’s anyway. The internet is for porn!

The one video format that never allowed adult film releases was RCA’s CED Videodisc. The company had complete control over the plants making the discs, which wasn’t always the case with Pioneer and Laserdiscs.

LOL!

This hideous beast could have been the unsung hero of the galaxy. 😛

I kind of doubt the bombers are designed to operate too far from a mother ship. Are they even hyperspace capable? Being in the ball turret during a jump would be terrifying.

Hervé Villechaize?

This has long been my Exhibit A for how not to replace/recreate an actor in a movie. 😉

Yes, it’s a cut out photo of Bruce Lee optically pasted on a double. It looks even worse in motion.

NeverarGreat said:

SilverWook said:

Yes, that rumor surfaced early last year. Amazing they’ve kept it under wraps this long if it’s true. Might even set the stage for the Hutts to play a role in Episode IX.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a trilogy without a Hutt?

That’s like saying wouldn’t it be nice if there were no Wookiees? Jabba wasn’t in the prequels much. 😉
Doesn’t it make sense that crime families like the Hutts would profit greatly from the current turmoil in the galaxy? The Empire didn’t seem to care much about the criminal element so long as it didn’t interfere with their plans.

Yes, that rumor surfaced early last year. Amazing they’ve kept it under wraps this long if it’s true. Might even set the stage for the Hutts to play a role in Episode IX.

I think Jabba gets a new translator droid as often as he gets new slave girls. Probably every few weeks.