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Justified (2010- )

This show caught my interest when it first started to air. I caught the first couple of episodes but then was distracted and never got around to picking it up again. I finally did and have been watching an episode a day for a while now.

The first two seasons were strong but then season three hit and I thought the show had jumped the shark. The parallels between the lives of Raylan and Boyd had reached comical levels. I kept with it though and season four quickly redeemed the series and it's been running strong ever since.

The promo I've linked above is also the best I've ever seen for obvious reasons. =P

Don't forget to give us a full report once you've shown them ESB!

Harmy said:

I hope so too. But to be honest I'm not thrilled by the possibility of them mixing up with the Avengers - I like this as a separate story.

 They'll be getting at least one sequel before they supposedly team up in Avengers 3.

The post-Avengers sequels have kept each character's story contained and based on their previous solo film. There might be a reference to the Avengers but it's kept to a minimum. The only exception to that was Tony's PTSD becoming a big story element in IM3.

So I don't think there's too much to worry about if/when they do crossover.

walking_carpet said:

OTOH, In the SE, you get Obi-Wans Krayt scream that now sounds like someone pretending he is Tom when his tail is set on fire by Jerry.

 You know, you might be on to something...

If anything it might have a light 2001 vibe.

A whole slew of new TV spots were just released:

Star Wars Rebels - "Tough Guy" TV Spot

Star Wars Rebels - "Tyranny of the Empire" TV Spot

Star Wars Rebels - "Something Big" TV Spot

Updated Automata with a better copy of the trailer.

Gotta say, before this trailer came out I was most looking forward to Interstellar for the rest of the year. But now Automata has definitely taken its place.

I'm with Crow and pitt, that was infinitely better than JJ Trek.

I do believe they have and disregarded it. *nods*

imperialscum said:

DominicCobb said:

People are really stretching the term "competing." 

Well the term itself is stretched in this particular case. There really isn't any kind of actual direct competition between films. Except maybe for the annual film awards. And hypothetically one stealing the profit of the other, but that doesn't really apply since it doesn't take a fortune to just see both. Both of which would then limit the entire thing to films released in the same year.

I assumed it meant a competition in terms of popularity in a given genre among the film fans.

 The accepted term for the subject of this thread appears to be "dueling movies" as pointed out by DominicCobb. Which is a very specific phenomena. 

This could make for a decent mobile game. Stinks it's iOS only though. =/

Key Largo (1948)

Eh, wasn't half bad.

New Trailer:

Automata

What are you talking about, Frink watches them because he's a fan.

Looks like Frink has something new to look forward to...

RicOlie_2 said:

For me, the biggest problem I have with it is the forced and awkward romance. 

 What I find interesting about that is I've seen a couple fan edits that reincorporate deleted scenes that flesh out Padme's side of the romance and the film is a lot better for it.

Oh and this might come in handy. Tons of awesome B-roll type footage.

Ruh Roh....

As part of last week's barrage of Episode VII rumors, we saw reports that mentioned the use of flashbacks to drive certain elements or plot points of the film. Being that flashbacks have never been used in any of the six Star Wars theatrical films, one could brush off the mention of them being incorporated into Episode VII and simply move along.

However, after video of the A New Dawn SDCC panel hit the interwebs yesterday, Lucasfilm's Pablo Hidalgo took to Facebook to make sure fans were all on the same page with what he said when he mentioned the use of flashbacks at the panel:

Looks like the Del Rey SDCC panel is up on Youtube. I will, as usual, stay the heck away from the comments, but I understand my quote about flashbacks has really fueled a lot of discussion about projects outside the subject matter of this panel. So at 4:20 mark (heh heh), what I said was, "But one of the conventions, as far as Star Wars storytelling goes, AT LEAST AS REBELS, is we don't do flashbacks." So there you go. Continue to debate endlessly.

So does this comment by Pablo leave open the possibility of flashbacks being utilized in some form in Episode VII or any other future Star Wars film? Sure appears that way to me.

Original Article

The original link worked just fine for me today.

I thought overall it was great but I do agree that the Williams Oscar clip doesn't feel very affective. His work was relatively unaffected compared to most of the other departments that won that year.

So as a potential skeptical viewer who might be watching this it does nothing to make me sympathetic to the project or the plight of the OUT.

Keeping in mind that the narrative script is finalized, there's a couple of ways I think that segment could be improved.

The first would be to replace Williams with the Oscar acceptance for Visual Effects. The quality of the clip isn't that great but their work was the most hard hit by the SE.

The second would be to create a quick montage of all of their wins. Which could go something like this:

"And the winner is...[quickly cut between the different presenters saying "Star Wars"]

Or:

And the winner for: [cut in quick succession to the award name (Film Editing, Sound, etc.] is...STAR WARS. *APPLAUSE*

That would help emphasis what an impact the film made on the industry.

Anyway, that's just my two cents. =)

Don't worry I got that covered:

Well I'm impressed...

Obi-Wan: I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi. I thought that I could instruct him just as well as Yoda. I was wrong.

Other examples:

Volcano and Dante's Peak

The Prestige and The Illusionist

White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen

It's not that new. I got the same response from almost everyone I tried to discuss it with back at Celebration IV in 2007. Same occurred at a Clone Wars screening I attended in 2010.

Just another in a long line of inconsistencies between the prequels and the OT. They hand wave it away by saying that Master Yoda personally instructs every young padawan before they're paired off with a master.