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Dek Rollins said:

The reboot is much worse. At least I’m able to enjoy II, despite how dumb it is.

Hard agree on all points.

DominicCobb said:

“Everything” is a little hyperbolic

Not really. The script was horrible. The story was a jumbled mess and the characters are hollow shells of their original novel counterparts. The dialog is some of the worst I’ve heard in years. The performances were near universally awful. The only decent one was by Chris Pine and he’s barely in the film. The special effects are terrible, the designs are cartoonish and the compositing is some of the worst I’ve ever seen in a major motion picture. The costumes were laughably bad, they and this film look like a TV special.

I have never walked out on a film before but I almost did halfway through this. The only reason I didn’t was that my theater won’t refund you if you’ve watched more than a half hour.

Added trailers for:
Star Wars: Solo
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Given the recent proliferation of Scifi television series I’ve added a new section dedicated to it.

Annihilation (2018)

Beautiful and unsettling. Great Science Fiction, it’s a shame how this film was dumped by the studio.

A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

Awful and confounding. It’s amazing that this had a 100 million dollar budget. It doesn’t look it at all. Everything about this film was a misfire.

Yeah, I can’t stand four point ratings. With five points, it can be broken down as:

1. Hated
2. Disliked
3. Liked/Decent
4. Really liked
5. Loved

With four points there’s no middle ground and so I can’t parse them properly.

Has the Darth Vader series reverted to a Dark Times setting? If so I might give that a go. The first Darth Vader run made me quit the entire modern Marvel line completely:

It’s been three years now and I’m just barely dipping my toes back in after that. So far I’m just sticking to the main ongoing series and have been pleasantly surprised with how well that’s course corrected after the awful start that line had as well.

What drew me back in though was the Poe Dameron series. What I’ve seen of that has been pretty solid.

ZkinandBonez said:

So in the last few weeks I’ve been watching the Clone Wars series somewhat out of order. I’ve pretty much just watched the “essential” episodes (Mortis, Maul, Ashoka’s trial, etc.), and I’m currently just watching the rest in whatever order I feel like at the moment.

Is it possible to do this with Rebels?

No. Rebels is structured linearly and as such for a first time viewing should be watched in order and in full.

You guys are silly. Season 2 ended with a shot of her entering the doorway we see here standing in front of at the end of A World Between Worlds. Not only that, she went back through the same portal she was pulled out of which was set to Malachor at the time of season 2.

That was the answer to the mystery of her fate at the end of Season 2. She was pulled out of time but then returned shortly after.

What she did in the time since then is the actual mystery. I would guess studying on Malachor and elsewhere.

Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Emmy-nominated producer and actor Jon Favreau has signed on to executive produce and write a live-action Star Wars series for Disney’s new direct-to-consumer platform. Favreau is no stranger to the Star Wars galaxy having played roles in both the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series and in the upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story.

“I couldn’t be more excited about Jon coming on board to produce and write for the new direct-to-consumer platform,” says Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. “Jon brings the perfect mix of producing and writing talent, combined with a fluency in the Star Wars universe. This series will allow Jon the chance to work with a diverse group of writers and directors and give Lucasfilm the opportunity to build a robust talent base.”

Favreau is thrilled to be returning to the Star Wars galaxy: “If you told me at 11 years old that I would be getting to tell stories in the Star Wars universe, I wouldn’t have believed you. I can’t wait to embark upon this exciting adventure.”

Disney’s collaborations with Favreau extend back a decade, when he helped launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe as director of Iron Man and Iron Man 2 and as an executive producer of the Iron Man and Avengers films for Marvel Studios. For Disney, he directed and produced the massively successful The Jungle Book, which won an Academy Award for its groundbreaking visual effects. He is currently in production on Disney’s highly anticipated reimagining of The Lion King, set for release in 2019.

The untitled Star Wars live-action series does not yet have a release date.

Source

I’d really love a Rogue Squadron series.

DominicCobb said:

It seems likely that the new show will be about [redacted]. At first I was pretty disappointed by this, mainly because I want the new show to be about all new characters (and one of these existing ones I don’t care much for). But then I had the thought, what if this isn’t going to be the only new show? I’d be pretty okay with this concept if we had an additional animated show running alongside it.

We do. It’s called The Freemaker Adventures. =P

ChainsawAsh said:

I thought the convention when it came to Doctor Who was that everything pre-1989 was “season” and everything post-2005 was “series?”

Yes.

ray_afraid said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I only saw one film released in 2017.

Same. I watched the new Cloverfield.

But that came out last month and we’re in 2018…

moviefreakedmind said:

It was better than any movie I’ve seen in theaters in the last four years. Granted, all I’ve seen have been a couple Marvel movies and a couple Star Wars movies, and I hated all of them.

Have you thought about trying other films outside of the biggest tentpole blockbusters? Here’s just a small selection of the films I enjoyed last year in theaters:
Dunkirk
Brigsby Bear
Wind River
Logan Lucky
American Made
Blade Runner 2049
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Coco
Hostiles

Questionable source or not, they provide the full quotes as well as link back to the full translation in that tumblr blog. She did say those things if the translation is accurate.

Whether what she recounts is accurate or not, she’s going to be in trouble for this one:
Star Wars 8: Rian Johnson THREW OUT JJ Abrams entire Last Jedi outline says Daisy Ridley

RU.08 said:

That sounds like a PITA!

No, no…it’s poita.

moviefreakedmind said:

I’m shocked that anyone has watched Nacho Libre since it was in theaters. I didn’t realize anyone remembered it.

Speaking as a Latino, I and many of my friends and family find it hilarious. Same goes for Casa de mi Padre.

Dek Rollins said:

Nacho Libre (2006) – 4/4

I recommend Gentlemen Broncos if you haven’t seen it yet. I consider it the capper of the great Hess trilogy:

• Napoleon Dynamite
• Nacho Libre
• Gentlemen Broncos

Star Trek: Discovery (Season 1)
Well, I finally finished it. It felt like someone commandeered the series in the last third and did a major course correct. Had the entire season been as solid as the last third, the major departures in design might have been more forgivable. They nailed the execution of the Vulcans, Andorians, Orions, even the Tellarites! But they just had to royally screw up the Klingons.

As it stands, the last third just cannot make up for the rest of the season. And while I’m interested to see where they go from here, it’s still not a series I can recommend. But it is nice that it finally found its moral center and adopted Starfleet’s ideals in the end.

One of Cantwell’s original designs is being used in Solo!

I hope those turn out to be the “local bulk cruisers” Han refers to in SW. It’s always bugged me that we’ve never seen one.

For anyone that would like to learn more about Colin Cantwell.