About the whole “leftist agenda”. Just gonna leave this right here.
https://www.cracked.com/blog/why-corporations-love-making-movies-about-evil-corporations
Jurassic Park. That’s the one that marked the start of my love for movies.
I just watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind for the first time. Better practical effects than the original Star Wars trilogy. There I said it.
Douglas Trumbull was the special effects supervisor. Of course the practical effects would look great! He was the master of practical effects.
Wait, did I miss something? Is this project no longer being done?
It is wrong to assume that your digital movies will be preserved by the studios, who recently cancelled films as tax write-offs and deleted films from digital collections. The only way to legally own a film is through physical media.
Disney erased Willow tv series from their service. Its never going to be officially on Blu-Ray either, they’ve only encouraged piracy.
It’s weird that sometimes piracy becomes the most effective means of preservation.
What I’m about to say might sound like a joke, but I’m serious.
If they will ever make an official “What if” animated episode (or movie) where Anakin doesn’t fall to the Dark Side and manages to live a happy life with Padmé, THAT will become the Canon version in my head. I will ignore Revenge of the Sith and subsequent works forever. Period.
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion though…
You’re proposing a scenario in which Anakin goes through with Padme’s proposal of running off to live a quiet life away from all the Galaxy’s conflicts raising a family.
Yeah Andor is about actual rebels and the difficulties of starting a rebellion. Rebels would be a much better title for it too. Sometimes when watching Andor I started imagining all the events of Rebels happening in the same world and laughing.
It’s the main reason I hate Rebels so much. It’s always Mission Accomplished for the main characters with (almost) no casualties, main characters rarely if ever die, and the Empire is so laughably incompetent it makes you wonder how they rose to power in the first place.
If I’m allowed to brag, I am one of the very few who’s been immune to the Filoni Kool-Aid from the start.
YouTube user HelloGreedo made what is IMO the best critique of how Palpatine is portrayed. When he first appears in the OT he was inspired by the Roman and Chinese Emperors of old, but the prequels made him so goddamn evil, more akin to a mythological creature from the Underworld.
From what I’ve read about The Rise of Skywalker (I refuse to watch that movie), Abrams cranked up the whole evil entity to a ludicrous level.
Before the prequel trilogy, I always assumed the reason you didn’t hear about the Jedi having love lives was because they tended to be hyper-focused on their vocation, but if a Jedi were to fall in love it was no big deal.
At no point in the OT did either one of Obi-Wan or Yoda say to Luke something like “Now that you have chosen this path you must forsake any notion of a love life. Your father violated this.” or something to that effect.
coasting on '80s nostalgia
This is my problem with pretty much all pop culture these days. It’s all about the 1980s.
That’s really interesting. I actually just read Dark Empire and I’m on Dark Empire 2 right now. I still question that internal logic though because the Emperor was clearly Vader’s master, and the Dark Lord of the Sith wasn’t ever subordinate to anyone else in TOTJ, other than ghosts of former Dark Lords like Marka Ragnos.
I’m trying to think of a justification for this inconsistency and I’m coming up blank.
I like to entertain the idea that Anakin joined the Sith specifically to gain the power to defeat Palpatine. But he overestimated his own abilities, confronted Palpatine half-cocked, had his ass handed to him, and was forced to join him or die.
This is a way better idea than Anakin joining the Sith to prevent Padme from dying during childbirth IMO.
I say ROTJ marked the point George Lucas decided that Obi-Wan’s robes from the first movie were the official Jedi vestments, as evidenced by Anakin’s ghost, which retroactively creates a problem.
If Obi-Wan was in hiding why would he still be wearing the very robes that would give away his identity as a Jedi?
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1. Incredible action movie. Only the train scene looked fake. One of the best Mission Impossible films. Why this film bombed at the boxoffice i have no idea. It was better than No Time to Die. And also better than the newest John Wick.
Barbenheimer killed all of its momentum.
The first set of five minute shorts were OK, but it was just nonstop action. The longer videos were a vast improvement IMO, as they had more of a Star Wars feel to them.
The one EE scene that should have been part of the theatrical cut is Saruman’s death.
Instead of dragging Palpatine’s corpse back, use Anakin as the final ‘boss’. The confrontation on Mortis ends with Anakin Skywalker appearing to Rey and Kylo. Anakin has become the ‘Father’, intent on bringing balance to the force, and to achieve this he needs a Son (Kylo) and a Daughter (Rey). Both have been ‘destined’ to fulfill these positions and have felt the weight of external forces pulling them throughout their lives. Rey defies prophecy, choosing to leave and help the galaxy directly rather than watch from a distance.
That’s a pretty fucking cool idea.
I genuinely don’t get why Filoni is held in such high regard, as I tend not to like his stuff very much.
I’ve been wondering the same thing for years.
If you ask me, I say Kreia would greatly approve of Baylan Skoll. Anyone else agree?
What is with all the spam accounts and posts on here?
Same here.
I myself prefer the EE, but if there’s one thing that should have been part of the theatrical cuts it’s most definitely Saruman’s death in TROTK, which is left unresolved in the theatrical cut.
I would love to see Huyang join Baylan in an endeavour to establish a remade Jedi/whatever-you-wanna-call-it order in the new galaxy.
Baylan is clearly driven by the thought of a new, improved order, and Huyang has fallen out of time with the fall of the Jedi. It makes sense for them to start over again.
Too bad Ray Stevenson died. Baylan has proven to be the most popular character in this series.
thank you! but the imgur says 404 for me
Same here.
I got ripped off of some of my money.
Read the thread to find out how to download, do not pm me.
You should already own a copy of these films on official home media.
Do 35mm prints exist for the Return of the King Extended Edition?
No, which is a real shame as this means the EE LOTR trilogy in 35mm will forever remain incomplete.