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snooker said:

The denial of fan service is the crux of your hatred of his death?

You said that it developed the characters of everyone involved. In my opinion, his death only served to develop a bunch of much less exciting characters at the expense of killing one of cinema’s best characters in a really sudden and obnoxious way that gave him no real closure. Wanting closure to his relationship with Luke, which was central to the OT, has nothing to do with fan service.

Also, how was it cheap? The whole movie was building up to it.

It was obvious the whole time that Harrison Ford just wanted out of the franchise, and I can’t blame him.

I think that there was a shot in the theatrical version that was impossible to pan & scan so they just left it out or replaced it with something else. It’s not a big alteration.

Bride of Frankenstein deserves more than a 75%.

TV’s Frink said:

TV’s Frink said:

paja superior jumped the gun.

https://youtu.be/rBS4lsMwHCw?t=1m43s - this is worth watching. It actually made me laugh out loud due to it’s misleading title.

Handman said:

Oh yeah, Star Trek has better world-building than the PT too.

Star Trek has better world-building than the OT.

snooker said:

Han Solo’s death was perfect. It developed everyone involved’s characters.

At the expense of Han Solo getting a cheap and sudden death and denying us a scene of Han, Luke, and Leia together again.

Mrebo said:

How do these bogeymen catch your attention? He is annoying anyway.

He’s got a huge following, and recently a worshipful cult following, and he’s pissed me off for nearly ten years now. Everyone on Earth used to be fully aware of how stupid he is, but all of a sudden for some reason he’s considered a rational voice in the political sphere by many. Largely thanks to the rise of the alt-right I think.

Irresponsible gun-owner, compulsive liar, violent assaulter of an elderly union worker, alleged comedian, and general all-around sack of shit Steven Crowder continues the right-wing trend of dishonestly comparing Parkland survivors to Hitler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RKptf9Vu-U

Dek Rollins said:

I played Mario 64 as a kid once, and it was probably the most boring and confusing time I had ever encountered in a videogame. I just didn’t get it, but maybe I should revisit it some time.

I don’t want to sound rude, genuinely I don’t, but you obviously have played very, very few video games in your lifetime if you think that Mario 64 is the most confusing. Either that or you’ve primarily only played games that have come out since 2010. Strictly linear, hand-holding game design is a pretty new phenomenon.

There are even some levels in World that are curved slides. I was going to mention it but didn’t because I figured he meant what you said about the loops.

ray_afraid said:

snooker said:

This sets up distrust in Lando from the moment you see him. Which is perfect - because he inevitably betrays the main characters.

No, he doesn’t.
He makes a deal, that vader latter changes, to save his friends and the population of his city while handing over one person, whom he doesn’t know.
Despite the deal being “altered”, he still manages to save everyone’s ass. Would stopped Boba Fett and saved Han too if the Lady and the Wookiee weren’t momentarily stupid. 3PO even knew what was up.

Technically I’d still call it a betrayal even if it was rational behavior on his part. I guess betrayal sounds a bit too harsh, so I’d amend it to saying that he deceived our main characters.

Almost all of the Mario games from the original up until Galaxy are incredible.

Yeah, Star Wars has always made everything up as it went along. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, you just have to follow up your pre-established concepts and ideas (e.g. “No, there is another,” or “You fought in the Clone Wars?”) intelligently, and not terribly (e.g. “Leia is my sister!” or Attack of the Clones).

I think I have to go with Hayden Christiansen’s ghost. That one is one of the shortest changes but it’s quite possibly the worst and most insulting.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/starbucks-philadelphia-black-men-arrests_us_5ad22073e4b077c89ce91c74

More tyrannical cops. Too many American police seem to think that we live in North Korea or the Soviet Union.

snooker said:

I never understand when people say that the prequels had great world-building. Sure there was some, but it wasn’t great.

World-building can only be as interesting as the characters inhabiting that world, and all of the characters in the Prequel trilogy are so wooden. We see Mos Eisley for only a few minutes in Star Wars but it’s far more interesting and exciting than the Coruscant senate chamber.

I think the PT does a good job of world-building, but only on Coruscant. Outside of the boring Senate debates, we see a lot of different, and very interesting in my opinion, locations and settings and none of our characters draw attention to it. The opera scene is a fantastic example from ROTS. It’s tense and eerie, although that’s mainly due to the score and Ian’s performance, and is in a really strange and interesting location. We see a big sprawling night-life, but also a lot of normal hustle and bustle of the big city. Aside from the horrible 50s diner, I think most of the Coruscant scenery is good. The real problem that makes all of that world-building (if you want to call it that) essentially moot is that we never see Coruscant affected by the war or the rise of the Empire. Other than the Temple in flames, which is a great-looking shot, we get nothing.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

MalàStrana said:

NeverarGreat said:

Trump is very smart at branding and controlling the media narrative.

Media is politics, then do the math 😃

Also, if he’s so great with the media, then why is he so historically unpopular? And why was he barely capable of even coming within 3,000,000 votes of winning the popular election? I don’t even know why I’m asking these questions.

Because 8 billion illegal criminals voted for Clinton in California, duh.

I love how right-wingers claim to love the electoral college now purely because it gives Republicans an advantage. They say, “Well, if it weren’t for the electoral college then people in California and New York’s votes would count for something.” Yeah, that’s how the democratic election of a representative works.

In case you missed it, Trump claims he only lost the popular vote because people cast illegal votes in California.

He probably thinks that any and all votes cast by Mexican-Americans are illegal.

I’d say that the most satisfying aspect was seeing Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in character again. I didn’t like the death of Han Solo at all and it ruined a lot of what I did enjoy about the movie, but overall I think it was one of the better Harrison Ford performances in the last twenty years.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

MalàStrana said:

NeverarGreat said:

Trump is very smart at branding and controlling the media narrative.

Media is politics, then do the math 😃

Also, if he’s so great with the media, then why is he so historically unpopular? And why was he barely capable of even coming within 3,000,000 votes of winning the popular election? I don’t even know why I’m asking these questions.

Because 8 billion illegal criminals voted for Clinton in California, duh.

I love how right-wingers claim to love the electoral college now purely because it gives Republicans an advantage. They say, “Well, if it weren’t for the electoral college then people in California and New York’s votes would count for something.” Yeah, that’s how the democratic election of a representative works.

MalàStrana said:

NeverarGreat said:

Trump is very smart at branding and controlling the media narrative.

Media is politics, then do the math 😃

Also, if he’s so great with the media, then why is he so historically unpopular? And why was he barely capable of even coming within 3,000,000 votes of winning the popular election? I don’t even know why I’m asking these questions.

Ryan-SWI said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Empire basically establishes the entire nature of the force and the dark side.

Care to elaborate? Genuinely interested as to your reasoning.

Everything we know about the force pretty much comes from Yoda’s training of Luke. It wasn’t explored too deeply in ANH. Unless you’re counting midichlorians, which were pretty much abandoned after the first appearance in TPM, everything about the force sticks to what we got in Empire.

DominicCobb said:

Ryan-SWI said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I haven’t actually seen TLJ

Out of curiosity, why?

Not everyone likes watching things they know they’ll hate.

This is more or less my reasoning, but I don’t know that I’d hate it. I have not liked what I’ve heard and I don’t particularly care about the story the ST is telling, so it’s more just that I don’t have any desire to sink two hours into something I have no interest in.

I’ve not once heard anyone use expanded universe work to explain the ST. I heard it all the time when people would defend the PT, but never for the ST.

I personally don’t care about or value the lore of Star Wars at all, but I find it interesting that you, as someone who does, would think that ROTS contributes more to the lore than Empire. Empire basically establishes the entire nature of the force and the dark side.

He only knows how to get media attention. He doesn’t know how to effectively work the media.