Tyrphanax

DominicCobb said:

Tyrphanax said:

I’m annoyed that I have to hold off on listening to my Christmas radio station until my self-imposed date of “After Thanksgiving.”

I love getting into the spirit, but I don’t wanna do it too early.

Too much Christmas music too soon at a young age has probably turned me off to Christmas music forever. Be careful, after Thanksgiving sounds about right.

Man, I dunno. Maybe we were just low-key enough that it never felt overdone, but I freaking love this time of year.

I’ve never heard of Tevies Frink.

I’m annoyed that I have to hold off on listening to my Christmas radio station until my self-imposed date of “After Thanksgiving.”

I love getting into the spirit, but I don’t wanna do it too early.

Hang in there, Mike.

I’ve never heard of Tevie Nicks.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Tyrphanax said:

Gotta say I agree with Adywan.

Me too, except I give ROTJ a slight edge over TFA.

Yeah, they’re really close to being perfectly even for me, so I understand both sides.

Me.

Guy who?

Gotta say I agree with Adywan.

People complain if it’s too similar to another movie, people complain if it’s too dissimilar. You can’t win.

That’s the most frustrating thing I’ve ever seen.

Jeez, no wonder kids grow up deranged. Overbearing parents are crazy.

DominicCobb said:

As I said, this should be a movie set in the Star Wars universe, not a Star Wars movie. There’s the Star Wars style and the Star Wars universe. They are two separate things. Comic books and video games are invariably trying to give you the experience of reading or playing a Star Wars movie. The crawl helps to further that aesthetic to bring them closer to the Star Wars style (despite not being the medium the style belongs to). Notice games like Republic Commando, which try to replicate the Star Wars universe but not style, are devoid of crawls.

Rogue One’s goals are completely different. The aesthetics that are important there are the in universe ones. A crawl is a presentational aesthetic, not an inherent part of the Star Wars universe. If Rogue One is going to break from the Star Wars style in so many ways (if it’s not totally chronological, if it’s devoid of swashbuckling, if the music has a different tone, etc.), then it doesn’t make any sense to keep a key element of that style, the crawl.

I will say, and I’ve said it before, I do think it’d be a mistake to ditch the “A long time ago…” card. Less an element of the Star Wars style and more a signpost that tells you you’re about to enter the Star Wars universe. So it’d make sense to keep that consistent.

Again, totally agree.

I embrace this change. I think it’s cool that we might get Star Wars movies with different feels and different styles. The crawl doesn’t make a movie “Star Wars” to me, so I’m not worried about it being there or not.

Crazy.

DominicCobb said:

I’d be disappointed if they didn’t drop the crawl. This is less a Star Wars movie and more a movie set in the Star Wars universe. The crawl (and wipes) are part of the serial vibe that the saga films are going for. If the anthology pictures are supposed to go for different vibes, it makes little sense to include a crawl. How many war movies have crawls?

Exactly.

The fuck is this Spongebob shit.

I don’t really care either way.

It’s a decent way to separate the main series from the Anthologies. I get that maybe it drops the “serial” feel, but the Anthologies aren’t part of the main serial.

Just hang in there, man. Good luck.

Fuck yeah Cubs. Incredible game, incredible baseball. Cleveland should be proud of the game they played.

They’ll make a movie of this one.

Old Ben was a Force Git.

MalàStrana said:

Darth Id said:

Awkward Force Git

Ah ok, so is it how it’s called in english, “Force git” ? Anyway, I’m winning this game so far (we should retitle it “Malà’s Lurkers Name suggestions”, I’m so good at it 😃). I see you forgot “Nazi-Frink” (which is basically “real-Frink”).

I’d call it a “Force Pull” in English. As in he’s pulling the lightsaber to him by way of the Force.

SO HEY

ROGUE ONE LOOKS COOL RIGHT FOLKS

DID EVERYONE SEE THAT SECOND TRAILER YET?

That’s high praise from me!

It is a pretty decent carving though.

Been saying this for years.

Mac hasn’t really truly innovated since the iPhone. Hopefully now that Microsoft is competing, we’ll see Apple start to wake up and there can be a competition again.