Superweapon VII

JadedSkywalker said:

We don’t know if the order is destroyed. Since the films had nothing to say about the other surviving Jedi Rey isn’t alone or the Last Jedi. Although they sort of were saying she was going to be the one who brought it back, and hinting at Finn having force sensitivity. The possibility of him being her apprentice.

Ahsoka might not think she is a Jedi anymore but i doubt she is dead, and Ezra is probably somewhere and they can’t be the only Jedi in a very big Star Wars GFFA.

Point is Luke should’ve been the one to restore the Jedi Order. Not some overpowered, underwritten mystery box entity.

Vampires combusting in sunlight’s one of my least favourite tropes in vampire lore. I don’t begrudge Nosferatu for introducing it, but it’s become grossly overused in the decades since.

Also dislike the common “patchwork corpse” approach towards Frankenstein’s Monster. Shelley never actually describes how the creature was made in her novel; there’s evidence he may’ve been closer to a homunculus than a scientific zombie. That’s all beside the point, though. The physical description of the monster in the book is striking in-and-of itself and would translate well to screen; it’s criminal how few filmmakers have even made a cursory attempt.

CloakedDragon97 said:

JadedSkywalker said:

The Hobbit trilogy was one of the most disappointing film trilogies ever. I think Martin Freeman was a great choice for Bilbo but the overreliance on greenscreen and cgi and not shooting on film, rushed production destroyed those movies. I sort of grudgingly enjoy the first two the third was a disaster. They are up there with the Star Wars prequels and sequels as depressingly disappointing when they could have been amazing.

I don’t see this as an unpopular opinion.

This.

Spuffure said:

If the worst movie ever made really exists, it’s most likely a comedy. Why? Because most bad serious dramas and horror movies can be so bad they’re funny. A bad comedy, on the other hand, are more so bad it’s unfunny, therefore having pretty much no enjoyment value.

Pretty sure Coleman Francis never intended to make a comedy.

Troll 2 can be my only answer.

I love Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The movies, not as much. Their humour works best for me in the half-hour format, I suppose.

I think the Starfleet uniforms in TOS look like ass. My initial thought was they bought primary-coloured sweaters in bulk, slapped patches on the breasts, and called it a day; that’s how cheap they look to me.

Servii said:

If Ed Wood had been a multi-millionaire with access to early 21st century VFX, he would’ve made movies of exactly the same quality.

That’s part of the charm of the prequels for me, honestly. The fact that they’re so unapologetically George’s movies, with all the good and bad that that entails. It’s preferable to movies that feel like they were made by a board room.

I wish more prequel fans thought this way, really. I can understand loving the prequels, warts and all. What I can’t fathom is the mentality that insists there are no warts.

I was 11, 14, and 17 when TPM, AOTC, & ROTS came out, the “right” age to enjoy them. I have absolutely zero nostalgia for any of them. I can’t think of a more grossly overrated set of movies if I tried. If Ed Wood had been a multi-millionaire with access to early 21st century VFX, he would’ve made movies of exactly the same quality.

“Home? I have no home. Hunted. Despised. Living like an animal. The jungle is my home! And I will show the world that I can be its master! I will perfect my own race of people. A race of atomic supermen which will conquer the world!”

“Y’know, all my life I’ve been careful to stay in my own corner looking out for Number 1, no complications. Now suddenly I’m responsible for the entire fucking world! And everybody in this mother is trying to kill me, if — if — my head doesn’t blow up first.”

“Maybe it’s not just about you anymore.”

“Listen. You listen to me. You see that city over there? That’s where I’m supposed to be. Not down here with the dogs and the garbage and the fuckin’ last month’s newspapers blowing back and forth! I’ve had it with them! I’ve had it with you! I’ve had it with all this!”

“I want room service! I want the club sandwich! I want the cold Mexican beer! I want a $10,000-a-night hooker!”

“I want my shirts laundered … like they do at the Imperial Hotel … in Tokyo.”

JackNapier said:

Superweapon VII said:

Spuffure said:

Oh BTW that avatar is magnificent.

Felt appropriate to give such a crappy character such a crappy hairstyle.

1,000% disagree. Anakin is a great character and his story is an incredibly tragic one.

The only thing I found tragic was Lucas’ filmmaking. But different strokes and all that jazz.

Spuffure said:

Oh BTW that avatar is magnificent.

Felt appropriate to give such a crappy character such a crappy hairstyle.

Everything becomes fanfiction if it’s popular enough. No exceptions.

It’s time for the Internet to end.

The Northman didn’t do much for me. The whole while the movie was playing, all I could think of was this quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vYOqoBj_Wc

The protagonist being an unrepentant murderous slaver didn’t help any, either.

Servii said:

It may not have been handled well or built up well as a twist, but Luke and Leia’s relationship works better as a fraternal one than a romantic one.

Which reminds me.

The decision to all but gut the Luke-Leia-Han love triangle from TESB was a mistake. It’s made it easier for Lucas to shoehorn that terrible sister retcon in when he made ROTJ.

Servii said:

I’ve realized that Finn had every right to leave on that escape pod in TLJ. He’d been forced to be a soldier his whole life, and he didn’t owe the Resistance anything. He deserved a chance to live a normal life.

Conscription’s only bad when it’s the side wearing black.

darklordoftech said:

Dave Dorman’s art

Yes.

NeverarGreat said:

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Sadly, this one falls in my estimation every time I see it. The middle drags so much that it can hardly be enjoyed like the campy awful brilliance of the rest of the film. Ah well, at least the ending always makes me laugh.

Never understood this movie’s cult following. It’s just a bad movie. Not so-bad-it’s-good, not even Coleman Francis-level so-bad-it’s-horrible. Just average bad.

Jaster Mereel killed that snot-nosed clone brat and stole his identity.

Vladius said:

Superweapon VII said:

Frickin’ blacks, feminists, and queers. They all need to go back to Africa, the kitchen, and the closet. Tolkien is for the white, super-straight ubermensch. Cleanse Hollywood of degenerate art. Deus vult.

what a glorious strawman

I have zero patience for anti-SJWs. You can have legitimate grievances with Hollywood “progressivism” and express yourself accordingly. But if you start dropping “woke” pejoratively, spouting conservative rhetoric with no nuance, I’m taking the kid gloves off.

I still don’t have a personal canon. But if I did, it would include everything released 1976-1998, starting with the publication of the SW novelization, ending with the Hand of Thrawn duology. No prequels, no Yuuzhan Vong, no Darth Caedus or Krayt, and no Disney. Only Star Wars at its most organic and varied (though no less commercialized or messy).