As Lando is in the movie, I would think it’s at least a couple years before the OT. I got the impression from ESB that Han and Lando had not seen each other in several years.
Me either. Do Tolkien fans crap on The Hobbit? The novel I mean.
Unkar Plutt.
Although I have nothing against Simon Pegg, this uninspired ass-ugly alien blob makes Dexter Jettster look good in comparison.
Hey, you said he was a Watto rehash this morning, make up your mind.
Dexter is meant to be a sympathetic character. Plutt is there to be ugly, unpleasant and a factor in Rey’s miserable day to day existence. What her parents were thinking leaving her with him I have no idea.
Plutt is also not very smart. You steal the most famous hunk of junk ship in the galaxy and then discover you can’t take it anywhere because it’s too “hot”.
Meanwhile there are entire bootlegged films on youtube that never get flagged at all. They’re not even reversed or distorted to avoid flagging.
This is the same company that remained silent about the OOT on the freaking 40th anniversary. They either won’t say anything about the behind the scenes turmoil at all, or spin doctor it so hard we’ll get dizzy watching the extras.
By writing a trilogy with action, adventure, and heart, characters I actually give a damn about, and no poop or fart jokes?
I thought youtube didn’t put silly limits on length anymore?
I remember when HBO used to have all sorts of short films between movies. Probably to fill out the timeslot of feature films that ran longer than two hours. That’s how I first saw Hardware Wars. There was a lot of Film Board Of Canada stuff too.
Temporarily forgetting Perry King did a fine Solo in the radio dramas.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/han-solo-star-wars-film-clint-howard-cameo-is-happening-1026150
Hope he gets to play an alien, even if it’s typecasting at this point. 😉
I saw Dunkirk in 70mm IMAX (which is equivalent to something like 11-15K I think) in Rhode Island. What does that mean?
The screen was the size of Rhode Island. Not that the screen is so big, just that Rhode Island is so small.
I didn’t know Conjuring was so well thought of. I liked it though.
Pretty much this. I thought it was fine, not great, but certainly better than shitty trash horror movies like NOES, Friday the 13th, and the like. It was an actual movie with actors, story, and so on.
I know they ran it into the ground with the sequels, but the original NOES is pretty damn terrifying. Whatever happened to that Johnny Depp kid anyway? 😉
My money is on one of the late night talk shows having someome recite that poem tonight.
I wonder if Emma Lazarus has any living descendants around today? I’d be a little pissed if I was them.
And in six degrees of Star Wars, Carrie Fisher played Emma in a tv movie about the statue in 1986.
*sigh*
After some soul searching and thinking about it . . . I have decided to get Jodie Whittaker a chance. I will watch her first episode and then we will see.
Good for you, Warb!
I am not understanding why this series seems to be so controversial and the Nazi show is not.
There are a LOT of people who, rightly or wrongly, consider the south/confederates to have been the good guys, and are no doubt worried that that they will be portrayed negatively. Virtually nobody thinks the Nazis were good, so there’s nobody around to worry about them being portrayed in a negative light.
I did read a few years ago about a documentary on Civil War reenactors, who get in uniform and recreate battles. Some of those interviewed felt they were wrongly portrayed as pro Confederacy.
I thought Dolphin sexuality had been well documented by now. The ones I saw in Vegas many years ago would drag pool toys around with their redacted. You never saw so many parents trying to avert their kid’s gaze.
I so wanted a Captain Nog series.
It is kind of hilarious they cast a beefy guy that looked nothing like Wil Wheaton. Wonder if he’s done any cons?
They should have digitally inserted an older Wil into that scene while they were remastering the episode. 😉
Does being Q zapped into an adult mean you can skip Starfleet Academy? I bet if Wesley had checked certain parts of his anatomy, he wouldn’t want to have been changed back. 😉
Whereas it should be ripped based on what it ended up being.
Terry Rakolta, is that you? 😉
It was almost more popular in the UK than it was here. I did a double take when I once came across the Spanish remake, shot on the same set.
Personally I think the outrage is pretty premature. But the best I can tell there is at least one legitimate criticism of the concept (rather than the nonexistent execution). Essentially, the idea being that showing an alternate history where things are worse to some extent absolves the problems of the present (as opposed to a future story where things are worse, which would be a cautionary tale). Basically it’s a thing where you can point to it and say “look how much worse race relations could be, so don’t complain!”
The same criticism applies to the Man in High Castle though not sure why the outrage wasn’t there (probably a combination of a lot of different reasons).
Nobody wants to wait to for a show to actually be made to get outraged anymore. If Married With Children was made today, it would be ripped on twitter based on a synopsis.
It seems that there are alot of complaints about HBO’s planned new tv show about what things would be like if the Confederacy had won. Could someone tell me why this is not acceptable but a show about what things would be like if the Nazi’s had won, was acceptable? Is there a difference that I am not seeing?
The Civil War remains controversial in the U.S. while Nazis do not. Everybody hates Nazis. The Civil War is more complicated. That’s my best guess.
Alternative history, (not to be confused with alternative facts) has been a genre for decades. And I pretty sure there have been novels about where the Confederacy didn’t fall. I remember this comic book at least, although I’ve never read it.
I saw at least one person on twitter who said they’ve never watched this HBO series, which would be amazing if they did as it’s not even in production yet.
No, it is not on HBO. But the show does exist and and as far as know, there are no complaints.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series)
HBO did make a movie based on the 1992 novel Fatherland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatherland_(1994_film)
I seem to recall my dad reading the book.
The Boy Scout Jamboree saga continues.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/boy-scouts-disputes-leadership-praised-trump-speech-greatest-article-1.3376061
Scripts get rewrites all the time. The usual suspects will read far more into this of course.
