Was finally able to gather my thoughts and post this on Instagram. My heart still hurts š¦
https://www.instagram.com/p/BOir_rVgLib/?taken-by=cjlenti
[Tyrphanax said:]
It does suck. Some of the stuff she was into leaves indelible, permanent scars, though. Not sure it was so much a ābounce backā as it was a cumulative effect over time. Plus when you throw age in, all bets are off.
And the weight loss/gain. Seems like that canāt help matters.
[Tyrphanax said:]
Haseo was saying āthereās no logical reason such a thing should happen to someone like herā and I felt like her drug abuse was a pretty logical reason.
My response was dripping with sarcasm. Sorry if that wasnāt clear.
Well, in the case of my father, who had āthe widowmakerā, they waited a week to do surgery.
But was he in ICU after a heart attack? I meanā¦we donāt even know if sheās awake. Sheās on a ventilator.
If she had surgery, ICU and breathing assistance is common for 24 hours. Oxygen for 2 days, especially if emergency surgery. I had a Family member go through this. They want the heart to not have to work as hard as it recovers. Plus, worry of infections.
But thereās no indication she had surgery. Iām thinking they would have mentioned if she had.
I mean thereās the heavy heavy drug abuse in her past.
Really? noooooooooooooo
Sheās the only one of the 3 that Iāve never metā¦and the one I want to meet the most. š¦
My main question, after finally seeing the film twice is: did anyone catch a āWilhelm screamā hidden in the sound mix?
Someone said it was when Jyn grabbed the troopers gun and he fell off the platform. Iāve seen it 3 times and never heard it.
Telling them the story of SW and ESB progresses the plot in no way.
Are you so busy ranting that youāve forgotten how to read? You just got your explanation. It absolutely does.
Damn, dude. Please tell me you donāt really think thatās what Haseo is saying, right?
Thatās exactly what he said. How should I take it any differently?
And just like that Iām sad. Thanks for that.
TFA wasnāt perfect but neither is RO. Iād argue the problems with RO are more glaring than TFA. And some, like this, you have to think about a little more.
That type of thinking can enable me to poke a million hopes in the OT as it suffers from that type of writing too. Even if those films didnāt have shit like that in them youāre overthinking it. Itās a chaotic encounter in a narrow, dark hallway. Vader was probably fixated on blast deflection and just trying to kill everyone instead of devoting useful mental resources to think about one Rebel.
Soā¦he was just trying to kill everyone? Not get the plans? And thatās why he stares at the Tantive IV as it takes off? Because he didnāt get to kill more people?
Riiiiiiight.
And just like that Iām sad. Thanks for that.
TFA wasnāt perfect but neither is RO. Iād argue the problems with RO are more glaring than TFA. And some, like this, you have to think about a little more.
And, btw, I know EVERYONE is loving the Vader scene (as did I) but Iāll be the guy to throw a huge monkey wrench in the Vader-orgy going on:
With one force pull, he grabbed 5-6 blasters. Couldnāt he have done the exact same thing with the plans that the soldier was holding? One force pull and heās got them. Done.Continueā¦
Itās unclear if he even realizes that guy has the plans.
Riiiiiihgt. So the dark lord of the Sith needs someone to point an arrow at them and say āthese are the plans youāre looking for?ā He could use the force, read their minds and find the trooper thatās the MOST frantic. Or, hell, the one whoās thinking āIām holding the plans in my hand.ā Heās the one with the plans. Done.
I donāt want to derail this but taste is subjective. To me, TFA is an incredibly well done movie but an incredibly soulless one. Itās the marketing directorās sweet dream come true. Repeated viewings have made it worse each time. Whenever people say they couldnāt connect to ROs characters but praise TFA, I canāt help but roll my eyes. If the TFA characters werenāt connected to the original cast, I am pretty certain things wouldnāt have been the same. And I give them that they acted well enough.
This statement is as inane and simplistic as it gets. Thatās like saying "if it werenāt Star Wars, you wouldnāt care at all.
Well, duh. No shit.
If it were Star Trek, I would barely care. If it were The Walking Dead, I wouldnāt care at all. But, in the end, itās Star Wars and thatās the primary reason why ANY of us care.
And, btw, I know EVERYONE is loving the Vader scene (as did I) but Iāll be the guy to throw a huge monkey wrench in the Vader-orgy going on:
With one force pull, he grabbed 5-6 blasters. Couldnāt he have done the exact same thing with the plans that the soldier was holding? One force pull and heās got them. Done.
Continueā¦
Give me the heart of Eps 4-7 on the regular and Iāll be very, very happy.
What the hell does āheartā even mean, anyway? Post a vague, eye-of-the-beholder rationale for liking or disliking a movie?
If you donāt know, I canāt help you understand.
Watching TFA last year and RO this year have made the PT even more irrelevant in my mind because theyāve hammered home how poorly executed the PT is.
RO also renders TFA irrelevant. The reality for the fan base hasnāt fully burned in yet, but RO has grabbed the reins of the SW franchise and jammed it back on track. Itās a coup. In the end, Disney is going to have to rethink the direction of episodes 8 and 9 based on the sensational execution of RO.
Yeah ok. Good luck with that. RO will make a percentage of what TFA did, which was all because of repeat business and the OT actors. If the movie sucked people wouldnāt have come back to it. And, btw, reviews for TFA are better than RO. Thereās MUCH more āheartā in TFA than there is in RO and you care a helluva lot more about the characters.
Thatās not a slam against RO, which I loved, but my excitement about it has been tempered by subsequent viewings.Personally what I take away from it is that Episode eight will be aimed at 5 - 10 year olds and the Anthologies hopefully will be aiming at higher age ranges teens to adults.
I donāt feel the sequel trilogy is really aimed at adults or at least that is my current perception unless they make the sequel trilogy more mature.
Personally, the whole reason why I got into Star Wars is because of its tremendous heart and soul, which the OT had in abundance. Even Empire, which is the darkest of them all, has an over-abundance of it.
RO is great for a stand-alone but several of these and Iād no longer be a Star Wars fan. Give me the heart of Eps 4-7 on the regular and Iāll be very, very happy.
Watching TFA last year and RO this year have made the PT even more irrelevant in my mind because theyāve hammered home how poorly executed the PT is.
RO also renders TFA irrelevant. The reality for the fan base hasnāt fully burned in yet, but RO has grabbed the reins of the SW franchise and jammed it back on track. Itās a coup. In the end, Disney is going to have to rethink the direction of episodes 8 and 9 based on the sensational execution of RO.
Yeah ok. Good luck with that. RO will make a percentage of what TFA did, which was all because of repeat business and the OT actors. If the movie sucked people wouldnāt have come back to it. And, btw, reviews for TFA are better than RO. Thereās MUCH more āheartā in TFA than there is in RO and you care a helluva lot more about the characters.
Thatās not a slam against RO, which I loved, but my excitement about it has been tempered by subsequent viewings.
I actually think this should have been two films. I think all the exposition they tried to cram in to get you backstory in the first 45 minutes should have been in a separate film, allowing us to jump off with the rescue mission of Erso and the trip to Jedha. Jynās childhood just didnāt fit in the film and I think it made it seem like they couldnāt find a better way to tell you how the Ersoās got to this point.
Geeā¦I wonder how they could have gotten that exposition done. What would have been a better way to tell you the backstory you needed to know before a Star Wars movie started? š
I dunno how it looks in motion, but Leia looks alright hereā¦
And itās so quick, I donāt see how anyone can criticize it all that much. She says one word āHopeā and thatās it.
Is this the first Star Wars soundtrack without the Star Wars theme on it??? Jeezā¦ š¦
Ok, just pointing out one handed Vader has a precedent. š
Amazing some footage has leaked. I would have thought people going into the premiere were body searched for cell phones. Of course, some one at a theater could have already run the DCP just for calibration purposes.
There are subtitles. Not sure what language but something asian. So it didnāt happen in the states.
Hereās a list of clips that werenāt in the movie.
Granted, thatās just one list. Iām SURE there are more.
The guy from TCW is credited on IMDB.
Then maybe it is him? I dunno. I never watched it.
Really? I thought they had a good Cushing sound alike when Tarkin appeared on TCW. I donāt know whoās voicing him on Rebels.
I would assume they used whatever actor whose face was replaced as the voice here. He rolls the Rās correctly but he just doesnāt sound right. However, itās not distracting. Itās just not perfect. Iād say the score and the lack of crawl are far bigger issues.
