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DuracellEnergizer said:

This one really captures the way that Carrie often doesn’t seem to know what to do with her hands in the first film.

If only.

I tried watching it when one of my college roommates bought the DVD and quit after the first disc. I remember being truly offended that a movie that cost half a billion dollars to make had such a lazy script.

I never played Super Star Wars, but I had ESB for SNES and ROTJ for Gameboy. I noticed the original is available on the PlayStation store; I really ought to snag it one of these days.

Weren’t the Millenials some apocalyptic sub-sect of Christianity in the middle ages?

I think that yes, the prequels are that bad, but that doesn’t particularly bother me anymore. It rankled before the Disney acquisition when the Star Wars series was a closed system and half of it sucked, but now I feel about them the way I do about bad Bond movies. Yeah, Die Another Day sucks, but I’m not angry it exists, and if it’s on TV some slow afternoon I’ll probably watch a chunk of it and be mildly entertained by how misguided it is. There are a handful of set pieces in the PT that I genuinely enjoy, and I was young enough when TPM and AOTC came out that they still kind of work for me as nostalgic junk food (ROTS is my least favorite SW film, and I’m sure the main reason I’m harder on it than the other prequels is because I was well into my teens by the time it came out). I also think I’m just past the point where hating things is fun. It feels a lot better to say “eh, yeah, whatever” to the prequels than it does to get all worked up about it.

Does anyone in the world actually care about the Avatar sequel? The opinions of everyone I know range from “huh?” To “meh.”

I read the first five or six. I liked those well enough except for the Stackpole ones, but the length of the series was ultimately too much to keep me on board as well.

For what it’s worth, I did read the Phasma novel, and it was one of the better ones from the new canon. Certainly the weirdest of the bunch.

It looks like Jon Hamm will be playing Boba Fett in the audio version of the A Certain Point of View short story collection that comes out next month. Do we think he’ll do a kiwi accent, or is this another case of SE changes being ignored, a la Vader’s eyebrows in Rebels?

NeverarGreat said:

Don’t know if this has been posted before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=861&v=nVZGUV77aRg
The guy’s got a point, y’all.

This is wonderful.

I seem to remember an interview (maybe the Nerdist podcast?) in which Abrams said he had next to no creative involvement in Lost beyond the first episode. JJ directed the pilot (which, fine, yes, was a 2-parter, so 2 episodes), but the show was always Lindelof’s baby.

I just picked up the Bandai 1/48 scale Snowspeeder model, and this time I think I’m going to attempt a paint job. I’ll post some photos once I start building. What’s really neat about the kit is that it also includes a tiny 1/144 Snowspeeder, which is the scale of the Millennium Falcon I built a couple months ago. Looking forward to displaying those next to each other.

Anyway, I’m fine with this. There are more potentially interesting choices out there, but I already know I like J.J.'s flavor of Star Wars. As long as he’s learned a lesson from the reaction to Starkiller Base and/or the story group reigns him in enough to prevent anything else like that, I’m on board.

It’s Abrams again, according to the official SW Instagram account.

EDIT: beaten to it.

Because he’s so frequently used as a talking point in tiresome posts like that. When four out of five mentions are about how Star Wars has sucked since he left in the early 80s, he tends to be a flag to stop paying attention.

Anyone else stop reading posts as soon as Gary Kurtz is mentioned? Just me?

The Legends timeline had its date of manufacture as 60 BBY. Considering you still see cars from 1957 and before on the street now and then, I don’t have any problem with that.

That little Kenner ship has to be the inspiration for the Phantom from Rebels.

I can’t find a picture of it doing it, but it slots into the back of the Ghost in much the same way.

I thought Life Debt’s main story was meh, but I really liked all of the political maneuvering within the Empire. Empire’s End was excellent, IMO.

I should be done with Phasma by now, but it’s been a busy week and I’m only halfway through. knowing more about the character, I really dislike her and I’ll find it very satisfying if/when she gets an onscreen death. I’m actually really enjoying the stuff with Brendol Hux, and his inclusion is a nice bridge between the Aftermath books and the ST. There’s also more than a little of Dune DNA weaved into the story, which is a pleasant surprise. I give it a tentative thumbs up, depending on how the back half goes.

Johnson could write it and Abrams could direct. I remember Abrams saying he was envious about not getting to direct TLJ after reading Rian’s script.

Oh God no, Burn After Reading is great.

Anyway, if I was going to put money on it, I’d guess they’ll give it to Jon Favreau, purely based on the amount of work he’s done for Disney over the past decade. Before the Han Solo shakeup I’d have said Spielberg was impossible, but with Ron Howard on board who knows. I’d like to see Guillermo del Toro take a crack at it, but that feels like wishful thinking. Maybe Peter Jackson? The Hobbit trilogy was a mess, but at least he’s proven he’s got more vision than Trevorrow.

I absolutely LOATHED Safety Not Guaranteed, which is the one of his that people seem to like. I’m fine with this.

NeverarGreat said:

joefavs said:

It bothers me that there’s nothing from ROTJ on that poster. Surely Slave I couldve been replaced with something specific to the third film.

Is the TFA Star Destroyer not good enough for you?

Shit, didn’t even realize on my phone. That’s even worse then. It ought to be either all ANH, stuff from the entire OT, or stuff from the entire saga. Drawing from only three non-consecutive installments is weird.

It bothers me that there’s nothing from ROTJ on that poster. Surely Slave I couldve been replaced with something specific to the third film.