Tobar

YES, YES, YES!!!

Another forum member (sorry, I forgot who!) has created a mirror of the site here.

Smithers said:

I wish they finished Star Wars: 1313
It looked like it was going to be the same quality as The Last of Us but set in the Star Wars universe and stars a young boba fett that wasn’t a Jango clone!

That game was about to turn into a mess. The stuff we saw of the game was what they’d managed to finish before George stepped in and had them trash it all.

Originally the game was going to star an original character and follow his rise in the underworld of 1313. That’s who you see in that game footage.

Then George stepped in and “suggested” using Boba Fett instead. Which meant scrapping most of what they’d done as there was a standing policy of “DO WHATEVER GEORGE SAYS”. It wasn’t George’s fault mind you, he just wanted to come in and make suggestions not commands.

But his handler put that policy in place which ended up killing a number of projects. As George would regularly role in every six months or so with radical suggestions that usually meant scrapping everything you’d done and starting over until his next appearance and then rinse and repeat.

Which is why we had such a long dry spell before the Disney sale.

imperialscum said:

Well there doesn’t seem to be any serious story-focused SW games coming out any time soon. The last proper one was original SWTOR in 2011. I am really not interested in any other kind.

Which is still being updated! There’s a huge ongoing story arc that they set in motion recently and it’s pretty epic in scope.

Check it out.

And here are the devs discussing their storytelling goals for it.

P.S. the epic backstory cinematic trailer

pittrek said:

• new characters are not developed properly, basically they’re not developed at all. I think they made a huge mistake that they didn’t do solo movies for Spiderman and Black Panther before this movie.

Everyone knows Spider-man and his origins. He really doesn’t need another origin story. I thought Black Panther was handled expertly. Everyone I know going in were indifferent to the character but by the time the movie was over they were instant fans and wanted more of him.

• Spiderman. Not sure how anybody can like him. I am a huge fan of the character and the Raimi movies, and I hated Spiderman in this movie. He was almost as annoying as Jar Jar Binks. You are watching something which should be an emotional battle between close friends and the tone gets suddenly interrupted by Spiderman acting nervous, clumsy, or throwing some funny one liners. For the first (and maybe second) time it was quite funny, but as he kept on continuing I was seriously like “Shut the f up!”

Spider-man and Ant-man were much needed brevity to lighten up this otherwise very down and dour story. If it wasn’t for the flashes of levity we’d probably have another BvS on our hands.

• Captain America was portrait as a complete asshole in this movie. I liked him in the previous movies, Chris Evans has portrayed the most charismatic superhero since Chris Reeves’s Superman, but in this movie he basically abandons all his friends, and his government to basically help a serial killer who used to be his friend decades ago. The real Captain America as developed in the previous movies would try to arrest him and trust the system. The new captain just fights his friends without any good reason. Even in the trailer Tony says with an confused voice “So was I …” when Cap says “He’s my friend”.

Captain America has seen just how flawed “the system” is throughout these movies. First the World Security Council ordered the nuking of New York City which almost cost the life of Iron Man to stop. Then SHIELD decided to develop a weapon system to wipe out would be terrorists before they could act. Followed by the revelation that SHIELD and a lot of the government had been infiltrated at the top levels by HYDRA. The system is corrupt.

Also, Bucky wasn’t just some friend of Captain America. Bucky was Steve Rogers best friend. He’d always been there for him when they were growing up, he was there for him when both of his parents died. They’re both dedicated to protecting the other “to the end of the line.” Don’t forget that throughout this film the UN had a strict kill order on him.

• the villain. Oh yes, there’s a villain in this movie. Why? I don’t know. He’s the most pointless villain I have ever seen in a movie (ANY movie, not just MCU movies), this is the first time when I think that cutting out the villain out of the movie would actually improve the movie.

Zemo was a brilliant villain. All throughout the film he was a master manipulator pulling the strings that would tear the Avengers apart. He was an interesting departure from the verbose charismatic villain from your typical super hero film and far better than Lex Luthor ever was.

I wouldn’t mind a Temple of Doom Han Solo, out to seek fortune and glory.

Smithers said:

This. If I do a fanedit, I’m definitely cutting the opening action sequence, I could not for the life of me tell what the hell was going on on screen, it was almost as bad as Taken 3 IMO.

Um, you’d cut out the inciting incident that sets off the rest of the movie?

Yeah, Bond was a poor example as he was a literary character originally. That’d be the same as comparing all of the Jack Ryans:

(soon to be added: Jim from The Office)

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Very rarely do I consider a film worth repeat viewings but this is definitely one of them. LOVED it.

Eh…I’m willing to give him a shot but I’m not immediately impressed. Still think Ingruber was the way to go.

Civil War is almost upon us here in North America. If you aren’t doing a marathon, I highly recommend you give this a viewing in preparation.

GREEDO SPEAKS

"Of course, in it said it all in the original script, we played in the scene in English and at the end of the scene, it reads, ‘Han shoots the alien.’ " Blake told the Daily News. “It’s all it says and that’s what happened. It was very painful.”

Besides, having Greedo fire first and miss from across a table, as has been the case after the original release, is sort of embarrassing.

“He was a bit inept wasn’t he?” quips Blake. "He’s a worse shot than a Stormtrooper. I don’t think Jabba had him under a pension plan let’s put it that way.

“It would be lovely to see them go back to the original version, I much preferred it, I must say. And it does give it Greedo a little more glory if he’s just blown away.”

suspiciouscoffee said:

^Lando could have died, we don’t really know yet. Schrödinger’s Lando, as I believe I called it in another thread.

Lando appears in one of the LEGO short films which are considered canon minus the LEGOy bits.

DUN DUN DUNNNNNN

With all of President Ellis’ appearances as of late it got me wondering how long he’s been around. It felt like he’s been a thing for some time now. So I decided to look it up, his first appearance was only three years ago!

In other news, the Russo’s have been on a tear in the press junket. I’ve been seeing them pop up all over the place lately. Just today they revealed the Infinity War films are going to be retitled:

“The movies are two very different movies,” said Joe Russo, adding, “The intention is we will change it, we just haven’t come up with the titles yet. But, yes, we will change it. And, yes, that is a scoop: we will retitle them.”

WHIH Breaking News: Attack in Lagos

For anyone feeling nostalgic, GOG just released Shadows of the Empire. This is probably the first time it’s been for sale in over two decades.

WHIH Newsfront Exclusive: President Ellis Discusses the Avengers

This thread feels a bit redundant. One dedicated to the DCEU and the wide spectrum of DC shows would have probably fit the bill better.

That said, I’ll also have to go with Fleischer’s Superman for the Man of Steel.

Gonna go with the 1967 Spider-man as the definitive on-screen portrayal.

Well you’re off the Christmas Card list.

Lord Haseo said:

From what I’ve seen of Mr. Bean he’s like Jar Jar in human flesh.

That is one of the most offensive things I’ve ever read.

Er…you know this thread is for all of that right? (Except DC =P)

Speaking of which:

The Punisher is back. Locked and loaded. https://t.co/nGKCa2taEV

With Marvel confirming the news via press release, Jeph Loeb had the following to say about the series.

We want to thank the fans who are clamoring for more of Jon’s stunning and powerful performance as Frank Castle from Marvel’s Daredevil. Now combined with Showrunner Steve Lightfoot’s compelling writing, we’re thrilled to bring Marvel’s The Punisher to Netflix.

The other half of this announcement comes via Netflix and here is what Netflix Vice President of Original Content’s Cindy Holland had to say about what made them green light the series.

Jon hooked our global audience with his performance as Frank Castle from the moment he stepped on screen in Marvel’s Daredevil, and we are looking forward to seeing more of him in this role under the vision of Steve Lightfoot.

As for the new showrunner attached to the series, here is what Steve Lightfoot had to say about joining the project.

For me, the complexity and unpredictability of Frank Castle make him an incredibly compelling character and I couldn’t be more excited to dive into his world. After watching Jon’s performance in Marvel’s Daredevil I could not be more excited to be working with him to further develop and progress the story of this anti-hero in a show of his own.

Source

I’ll take Emmerich over Bay anyday.

WHIH Newsfront: The Avengers and The White House