dahmage

Gaffer Tape said:

Honestly, I feel TFA did resolve the whole parents issue. “They’re never coming back.” Bam. Done. Endgame. Nothing else needs be said. TFA never plays up their identities as a mystery. They’re nothing more than a plot device used to hold Rey back, to keep her from “accepting the call.” They’re an anchor around her neck, pulling her back to Jakku, and causing her to push away the actual family she is cultivating: Finn, Han, Chewie. So I honestly have no idea why fans obsessed over this for two years. I just rolled my eyes and crossed my fingers that no one would be stupid enough to ruin all of that and make them Luke Skywalker or some other such nonsense.

Obviously TLJ does tease the audience with this, with the expectations the fans have. And I’m okay with it here since it ultimately just serves as the perfect “pulling the rug out” moment, both for Rey and for the fans who pointlessly obsessed over something they could never hope to be right about. TFA didn’t create this obsession over who Rey’s parents are. The fans did.

Yeah

Noticed recently:

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I think C3PX put me onto those.
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looks like:

Anchorhead said:

I think C3PX put me onto those.

JEDIT: this isn’t quite the issue i thought it was… i wish users couldn’t edit posted text however…

Anchorhead said:

This is where I got mine. https://highbridgeaudio.com/starwars.html.

Man, Gaffer, now I want to give it a listen again. 😉 I haven’t listened in about a year. I think C3PX put me onto those. At the time, I hadn’t heard them since their original airing. It was like I was hearing them for the first time. Still my favorite way to experience the original story. I ripped mine into iTunes several years ago so it’s on my work machine. Good way to start the year.

Ack, I think I just decided how to use that Amazon gift card…

^good one! Manifold.

In piles. Sometimes with leftover food on/ between them.

Some stacked on the player, some stacked on top of the neat row on the shelf.

Some in the corner gathering dust.

Most of them are in cases. And most of those are in the correct cases.

Sometimes I write short limericks on post-it notes and put those in the cases instead of the disc. Mostly as a joke to the people who borrow my movies. They love it.

Oh, and I keep tv series separate of course, I am a bit of a neat freak after all.

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

yhwx said:

What was the point of the chase anyway? Seems like it would be the first thing to be cut out in editing.

to catch them.

I like your angle on this.

56°?

take it to the compliments thread and or glass thread

yhwx said:

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

Stop being a bunch of glasses.

blow me

JEDIT: it’s a glass joke

This is a family friendly site, dahmage.

I need a moral compass

TV’s Frink said:

Miserabilia Discussion and Burying/Sailing/Day Trading

lol

yhwx said:

What was the point of the chase anyway? Seems like it would be the first thing to be cut out in editing.

to catch them.

TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

yhwx said:

Some additional thoughts on the movie:

• I’ve heard this view that Kylo Ren is using typical abuser tactics to try to lure Rey into his reach. He tells her that nobody else cares about her but him; that her parents were poor nobodies who threw her on Jakku without care for her. The truth actually lies somewhere in between. Yes, Rey’s parents were nobody special, but they were paupers unable to retrieve her after, say, a kidnapping.

• This movie really harps on the “true from a certain point of view” Ben says in ROTJ. Both Ren and Rey are right about each other, but only from a certain point of view. Luke’s and Ren’s interpretations of Kylo’s turn were both right from a certain point of view, but it is only at the end that we get the full truth. You can even see the theme again in the point I described above.

• People complain about how much TLJ subverted TFA, but they fail to realize that’s the point of a middle movie; a sequel. The best sequels turn the previous movie on its head and leaves it spinning. Let’s use Empire, the rare sequel that’s better than its predecessor, as a case for this theory. Star Wars starts on a desert planet; Empire starts on an ice planet. Luke is ascendent at the end of SW; he’s despondent at the end of Empire. Ben lied about Luke’s parents. ESB’s full of subversion. That’s what makes it a great movie.

• I think one of the reasons I really liked this film is that it introduced new ideas and interpretations on a great many things, something I don’t think TFA really did. TLJ’s flat-out creativity and boldness made me love it. It chose not to play it safe. I can’t wait to re-watch it soon. As one person said earlier in the thread, it is truly a film that has balls.

• Also, the horse race was totally prequel-esque and completely unnecessary.

Turning the herd loose to create confusion and escape the bad guys is a movie western trope as old as the hills. You can’t pin that one on the prequels. 😉

Yeah but riding a poorly rendered CGI herd around a racetrack?

Is the rendering your only issue?

NeverarGreat said:

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Glad to see you are joining in the Geometry jokes!

yhwx said:

dahmage said:

YODA said:

THIS ISN’T THE GEOMEDO, OR DO NOT THREAD

Stop trying to be acute, dahmage.

Put a Euclid on it.

DominicCobb said:

dahmage said:

THIS ISN’T THE GEOMETRY THREAD

Co-sign

Advanced Maths Detected, Tangents now allowed.

TV’s Frink said:

Stop being a bunch of glasses.

blow me

JEDIT: it’s a glass joke

SilverWook said:

chyron8472 said:

SilverWook said:

Zak fett said:

Mrebo said:

I liked the Leia scene and I read it as intended: Leia instinctually acted to save her life with the latent powers we know her to have. Maybe the moment was too contrived or the execution a little funny, but it worked for me.

It was a bit out of place, she probably would of died in the explosion and would of exploded in space but who cares it was a way they could keep her alive.

People don’t explode in a vacuum. That’s a movie cliché that has no basis in reality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q26aM-ZJFO8

tl;dw: It is theorized that the human body can be subject to the vacuum of space for up to 3 minutes before the subject dies. The sticking point with the film is that the skin and organs should swell a lot. Not 1990’s Total Recall levels of swelling, but still a highly significant amount (like 2x normal size).

AFAIK, it was Outland (1981) that started this human water balloon nonsense. A pity as I like that movie.

Kubrick got it right in 2001

and even gasp Moonraker got it right!

i see they also used redscreen tech. Coincidence?

YODA said:

THIS ISN’T THE GEOMEDO, OR DO NOT THREAD

THIS ISN’T THE GEOMETRY THREAD

yhwx said:

As always, I’m perfectly right.

 
 

Right angle, that is.

such a square

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

A bullet. I just thought it would be fun to make someone wonder what I saw at first.

I was right.

hang

No, it’s not a hang, it’s a bullet.

now you’re just being obtuse

Approximately 137 degrees, so yes.

you think you’re hot stuff eh?

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

A bullet. I just thought it would be fun to make someone wonder what I saw at first.

I was right.

hang

No, it’s not a hang, it’s a bullet.

now you’re just being obtuse

TV’s Frink said:

A bullet. I just thought it would be fun to make someone wonder what I saw at first.

I was right.

hang

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

TV’s Frink said:

That’s a crime waiting to happen.

Yep, doubt that bullet’s 21 years old.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh, that’s a bullet.

wait, what did you think it was?

Yep, and it would have been cooler if you used a time machine. just saying.

Zak fett said:

SilverWook said:

Zak fett said:

Mrebo said:

I liked the Leia scene and I read it as intended: Leia instinctually acted to save her life with the latent powers we know her to have. Maybe the moment was too contrived or the execution a little funny, but it worked for me.

It was a bit out of place, she probably would of died in the explosion and would of exploded in space but who cares it was a way they could keep her alive.

People don’t explode in a vacuum. That’s a movie cliché that has no basis in reality.

Actually she would of ballooned twice her size but not explode

https://www.cnet.com/news/what-happens-to-the-unprotected-human-body-in-space/