The spin doesn’t bother me at all.
OK, just finished bingeing the show.
Frankly I don’t feel any particular way about it in general, although I did appreciate specific parts, such as when Boba Fett and the Tuskens assault the spice train, which obviously borrowed from Westerns and Lawrence of Arabia, the Night of a thousand tears in Mandalore which was reminiscent of the Terminator movies. The episode I enjoyed the most was the fifth one, because as I posted earlier, I’m a sucker for Mandalorian lore.
Bringing Grogu back so soon felt so forced, and I felt total indifference towards Luke. All this constant regurgitation of established SW stuff has rendered me numb, and I really wish Filoni took some creative chances and stopped appealing to nostalgia and callbacks.
The series summed up:
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Now that you guys are touching upon it, that is one thing that has been bothering me for the past two decades, the characterisation of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the PT.
In TESB, Yoda says he won’t train Luke because he’s too impatient and reckless, at which point Obi-Wan retorts “Was I any different?”. Lucas contradicted this when making the PT, as throughout the PT Obi-Wan is portrayed as a very observant, by-the-book Jedi who never questions the will of the Council, and I suspect that Lucas got the roles mixed up, as Qui-Gon is the one with the rebellious streak Yoda spoke of. When Obi-Wan insisted on training Anakin because of his promise to Qui-Gon, Yoda says he senses Qui-Gon’s defiance in him. Really?
I remember watching an interview with Douglas Trumbull where he was asked why he didn’t work on Star Wars, and his reply was that he found the movie far too fantastical for his taste, and so George Lucas approached Trumbull’s father instead who happily obliged. The interviewer then asked him if he had any regrets on passing up the chance to work on Star Wars considering how big it got, and he said not at all because he prefers working on more cerebral movies.
The Xbox 360 controller is perhaps the most ergonomic gaming controller ever made. It was so successful that subsequent generations of the Xbox have changed very little about the controller.
Rian Johnson’s trilogy not happening would be a real tragedy, because unlike other writers/directors working at Lucasfilm, he’s not interested in appealing to fan nostalgia and actually wants to explore new concepts.
Oh there are tons of idiots on Twitter. Hopefully you manage to stay away from them.
There’s a very simple and effective way to deal with idiots on social media: don’t engage.
Douglas Trumbull, visual effects pioneer.
The only social media platform I use is Twitter, and it’s mostly to follow accounts and topics related to art, history, photography, and of course a few news outlets.
New poster for the series. Reminds me of one we got towards the end of Mando season 2, although I like this one more.
Good to see Luke finally showing up in some marketing.
They perfectly captured the look and feel of a Western movie poster from the 1960s.
Maybe not, but it’s still important to preserve the original colour timing of these movies. People have a right to know what movies looked like originally.
Fable II has the distinction of perhaps being the only game that remained exclusive to the Xbox 360 throughout its entire run. There was never a version for PC, unlike other Microsoft IP such as Gears of War and Halo.
They could have side stepped this entire problem if they just kept him as a bounty hunter who is now working for the new republic, bringing in the galaxy’s worst criminals. That way he can be a likeable protagonist who is also a morally grey badass.
I love this idea. Boba Fett would essentially be doing the New Republic’s dirty work, venturing into places deemed too dangerous for Republic patrols.
I gotta say: I’m really starting to hate the spice arc in the boba show. It rips off dune, for starters (which starwars already does too much as is). Also it makes Tattooine more important than it should be. What made Tattooine cool before is that it was a backwater world. The biggest thing tho is that why would boba, a crime lord, want to stop CRIME?
Arrakis may be a barren desert planet, but it’s made explicitly clear why it’s so important to the Imperium from the get-go. Tatooine on the other hand, has absolutely nothing of importance yet the people in charge of the storytelling are weirdly fixated on Tatooine.
A few online articles have been popping up criticising the writers’ insistence on revisiting Tatooine, as it makes SW very small despite its setting being an entire galaxy.
I’ve seen the screenshots of Luke’s appearance in TBoBF, and one thing that bothers me is that they made him look younger than in RotJ, even though it takes place a few years after the Battle of Endor.
I think Dave Filoni’s work on Clone Wars, Rebels and Mandalorian season 1 is generally great. Either Jon Favreau or massive fan expectations or both have been a bad influence on him.
I find The Clone Wars to be the sort of series one watches to pass the time, nowhere near the TV masterpiece everyone is making it to be, and I absolutely despise Rebels.
Seriously, I don’t get why Filoni is so highly regarded.
Just finished watching for the very first time the 1968 classic Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston.
I know, I know. I’m 54 years late, but as the saying goes, better late than never. Damn good movie.
TLJ marked the first SW movie in which the word “ass” is uttered, and we almost got the first ever utterance of the word “shit” in Solo.
Where was “ass” said in TLJ? I remember it in TRoS, but not TLJ.
When they are awaiting the FO assault on Crait, Poe says “let’s pray that big-ass door holds…”.
TLJ marked the first SW movie in which the word “ass” is uttered, and we almost got the first ever utterance of the word “shit” in Solo.
Yesterday I read an article in The Guardian in which the author criticised the fact that the Star Wars franchise under Disney is nothing but callback after callback.
The movie’s soundtrack is an underrated gem of late 1990s music.
I actually haven’t seen the movie yet but I’ve heard the opening credits theme, and I think it’s simply amazing. David Arnold did a fantastic job.
Just a heads-up. I wasn’t talking about David Arnold’s score, but the soundtrack which includes tracks from Foo Fighters, Silverchair and Ben Folds Five. Just making sure there’s no confusion.
I like the Tim Burton Batman movies more than The Dark Knight Trilogy.
On that note, I never liked Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne even as a little kid, but somehow he checks out in Batman Returns.
The movie Children of Men is praised as a masterpiece of the 21st century, but I’ve watched and rewatched the movie several times and it frankly does nothing for me. I am as apathetic towards the movie as Clive Owen’s character is to the world around him in the early parts of the movie.
Seriously, the reverence for this movie still eludes me after fifteen years.
I actually enjoyed the 1998 Godzilla despite all of its flaws.
Same here. I still enjoy the movie whenever I catch it on TV and even feel the hate it gets is blown out of proportion. The movie’s soundtrack is an underrated gem of late 1990s music.
I suspect they made a mistake by titling the movie “Godzilla”. Had it been called something else it would have fared better.
