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#940854
Topic
General Star Wars <strong>Random Thoughts</strong> Thread
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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

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#940356
Topic
The Marvel Cinematic Universe
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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.

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#939070
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&quot;Lucasfilm currently has no plans to release the original versions of Star Wars&quot;
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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.”

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#938571
Topic
The Marvel Cinematic Universe
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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.”

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#936323
Topic
The Marvel Cinematic Universe
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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.


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