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SilverWook

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#1148897
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Merry Christmas! (2017)
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one69chev said:

SilverWook said:

Merry Christmas you guys!

And yes, that’s my very own major award. 😉

Niiiice! Make sure to keep the hound dogs off of your turkey😀

My neighbors seem to be stockpiling pets recently. One has a very noisy parrot and just got another smaller bird. My other neighbor with dogs suddenly has a guinea pig now, although that may be a holiday visitor. Third neighbor now has a cat that keeps trying to get me to play with them whey they’re outside and attempts to get inside my house. I’m surrounded!

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#1148718
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Valheru_84 said:

one69chev said:

Projected 68% percent drop in movie ticket sales this weekend; that is Batman vs Superman territory. TFA dropped 39% from its first weekend to its second. We can speculate over the ‘real’ review numbers, but box office numbers will generally indicate how the movie going public really feels about a movie; case in point, The Justice League which will most likely finish its box office run with less than $700 million worldwide.

I heard via the SC Reviews channel that it was actually a 77% drop in ticket sales for the second week. Also despite the narrative claiming the low user score on Rotten Tom. is manufactured by some person that posted about it on Facebook, I have seen a pretty consistent ratio in likes vs dislikes for nearly every YouTube video I’ve watched that is either a review, analysis or opinion video that is openly criticising TLJ and they’re all around 70-90% likes vs the dislikes. I very much am getting the feeling that despite the positive image many articles are pushing, the visible and audible crowd of people who don’t like TLJ is growing larger buy the day and while not likely the majority, I estimate they are a significant percentage.

In regards to the prospects for episode IX, I agree with this guy - it’s in big trouble and JJ has a hell of a job before him!

https://youtu.be/snfJJ1RHFIA

.Val

How much of that is sincere criticism, and how much is people jumping on the Bash Star Wars bandwagon?

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#1148717
Topic
The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Mocata said:

Why is that scene a sticking point at all though? A Jedi can do all kinds of wacky things, and this falls under ‘knowledge and defence’ last time I checked. Jumping out of a trap or grabbing an object is fine but woah holding your breath and reaching for the nearest airlock is craazy. The only dumb part is that she didn’t pull inside the other bridge officers and seal the hole behind them.

They may have been too far away, and already dead. It’s not like she does this everyday.

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#1148560
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Shopping Maul said:

SilverWook said:

I wonder if the Leia space scene could have been inspired by Marvel Star Wars #52, in which Imperial Officers fed up with Vader choking their fellows, try to assassinate him?
http://bullyscomics.blogspot.com/2015/09/365-days-of-star-wars-comics-day-252.html

Immediately after seeing TLJ, I was sitting with my wife and we were discussing the movie. I was explaining why I didn’t like the Poppins Leia scene, and I told her about this amazing moment in the old comics where disgruntled officers were trying to assassinate Vader by opening an airlock behind him. I was saying how awesome it was that he used the Force to steady himself against the airflow, then marched step by step back into the ship - how this would’ve been a better way to handle it than the floating through space/doorknock thing.

And here it is! Nice one!

I’m seeing that Mary Poppins thing all over the darn internet. I don’t recall Julie Andrews being violently blown out into space and almost dying. Did Walt cut that after the test screeings?
Or is this some clever viral marketing for the MP sequel? 😉