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^ https://imgur.com/gallery/JEATY - by AUGEN2

https://imgur.com/gallery/r6Zla; with more from AUGEN2 here - https://imgur.com/user/AUGEN2

from https://imgur.com/gallery/r6Zla

^ in ball-point pen.

From https://imgur.com/gallery/6y2Cmxi

The Beautiful South - A Little Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lGzJwksSv4

Briana Corrigan’s beautiful yet acid-toned voice was a great fit for some of Heaton’s lyrics 😃

Judi Jackson - Worth It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pQZj39TgBE

Unfortunately it made for an effective instruction manual too.

adywan said:

You only have to look around places like facebook to see how the RT audience scores have been manipulated. Campaigns were started before the film even come out to give it negative reviews. Not just star wars pages either. 99% of the time, RT was the place they aimed for. After the film came out it got even worse. The amount of posts i had to delete on my page where people had posted links to these type of campaigns was astounding. They even added getting people to upvote the prequels on RT to make TLJ score look even worse. Just check out the ROTS reviews and see just how many new ones have suddenly appeared since TLJ.

There’s a real dark side to the Star Wars fandom and it came out in force after TLJ. The amount of the so called reviews and the negative comments/ attacks on social media that point their hatred for it towards the fact that there is more diversity, more women taking the lead roles, Disney is pandering to the SJW’s etc is disgusting.

On here too, unfortunately. There is a list of 15/20 or so new troll/wum banned accounts who came on here spreading hate and/or prejudice (often with making incorrect factual claims re the film - to the point you start to question if they actually watched it or not) - and that’s before getting into content with the ‘political’ aspects of SJWs, diversity, ‘true’ fans, & insights into Kathleen Kennedy’s secret feminist agenda, and other derogatory terms used for characters or people behind the camera.

And that’s all before addressing the film itself.

Thankfully most people on here likely never saw them (the troll/wum account content) - it was quite a busy time for the mods (probably like yourself on your twitter/facebook platforms) - deleting them was the right thing to do, of course - yet looking back at the thread apart from a few remnant troll posts - it’s like it never happened; they don’t exist.

Though of course, they do exist - and they’ll likely be back for Episode IX - maybe even for Solo…
 

Away from here, the rise of click-bait videos - with use of repeated key words to attract the hits/views - regardless of the content therein (videos / interviews / words taken out of context etc)… has upped the ante to new levels. Even those few who get called out enough to ‘apologise’ for their ‘inaccuracies’ seemingly do a short retraction/apology and then carry on as before, regardless (a bit like how UK papers print retractions and apologies in a 1 inch column - despite having done a multi-page spread spreading the ‘story’ previously).

Absolutley

Sony VAIO PCG-807k laptop, Windows 2000, 14.1" screen, Intel Pentium 3 650mhz, 128mb ram (though I cheekily upgraded this to 192mb - that’ll teach them), a 12gb HD, an 8mb ATI graphics card, and it plays DVD discs! It even came with Office 2000 - for free.

It has 2 usb ports people - and it’s own detachable PCMCIA wireless card too - we are through the looking glass here…

Take that, Handman - Pentium III is where it’s at! Rad!

😉

‘Star Wars director Rian Johnson: I felt the force of fans’ fury with Last Jedi’…

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/star-wars-director-rian-johnson-i-felt-the-force-of-fans-fury-with-last-jedi-a3800261.html

^ and some death threats too - though thankfully a lot more positive feedback amongst that.

Our likely best hope of a professionally done restoration for a 4K theatrical version of the Original Trilogy probably lies here - with poita’s superb The Original Trilogy restored from 35mm prints ongoing project.

Solely as a member here, I’d recommend anyone & everyone to have a look through the above thread, to contribute to help bring about something that many of us here, if not near-on all of us on this site, want to see come to fruition.

(just a random thought, there…)

paja mate - Haqz hasn’t been here on the site for a couple of months - and is likely still busy going on his last post. Feel free to send him a PM to ask how he’s doing on the project etc - though am sure he’ll post something up here when he can.

It’s a cool project - like you am looking forward to seeing this 😃

^ or…

Meanwhile, our likely best hope of a professionally done restoration for a 4K theatrical version of the Original Trilogy probably lies here - with poita’s superb The Original Trilogy restored from 35mm prints ongoing project.

Solely as a member here, I’d recommend anyone & everyone to have a look through the above thread, to contribute to help bring about something that many of us here, if not near-on all of us on this site, want to see come to fruition.

and we also save Bobson Dugnutt too 😉

‘Scoring The Last Jedi: a 360 VR Experience’…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b32Q1nTgHM0&

^ I have a similar feeling that they’d pull something like this if they were to ever release the OOT.

Meanwhile, our likely best hope of a professionally done restoration for a 4K theatrical version of the Original Trilogy probably lies here - with poita’s superb The Original Trilogy restored from 35mm prints ongoing project.

Solely as a member here, I’d recommend anyone & everyone to have a look through the above thread, to contribute to help bring about something that many of us here, if not near-on all of us on this site, want to see come to fruition.

^ Thought they were insightful and gave a good feeling for what they were going with and just how certain scenes are selected and then shot. Also, the work that goes into them - some very talented people there behind the scenes - and all the stuff goes into making the film that never actually makes it to screen (designs, concepts, models, scenes etc).

Really enjoyed the Director & The Jedi & the Balance Of The Force content.

‘Mark Hamill, Rian Johnson on ‘Star Wars’ haters and critics in the age of social media’… (interview & video)

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/29/entertainment/star-wars-last-jedi-rian-johnson-mark-hamill/index.html

Explosive Facebook Memo Leaks: Top Exec Defended Growth Even If People Get Killed…

https://fossbytes.com/explosive-facebook-memo-leaked-boz-defended-growth/

&

Facebook ‘ugly truth’ growth memo haunts firm - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43594959

‘Are you ready? Here’s all the data Facebook and Google have on you’…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy

& https://twitter.com/iamdylancurran & https://imgur.com/gallery/jrv03 are worth a look at too.

ChainsawAsh said:

I’d be stunned if they take a year or more off from movies at any point. They just haven’t announced what’s going in the 2020 slot (or later) yet.

Sorry mate - I was referring to the end of the world (or time here) 😃

So, 2019 then? 😉

Absolutely mate - a list of release dates for various countries can be found here:-

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3778644/releaseinfo

WestWorld season 2 trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVqDg32_8s

Shopping Maul said:

Seriously, we’re on a site that was created by adults (like me) who can’t handle the fact that their favourite childhood film had some cartoon dinosaurs inserted into it. We collect action figures and read comic books and discuss at great length just how white the snow on Hoth might have been on the original 1980 film stock. Yet someone writes a long dissertation about one of these movies and suddenly everyone’s like “gee, get a life dude”.

Isn’t this exactly the place for such a post?

I think some may read it when they have more time mate - though a few may be put off by the length, some may be put off by some issues addressed previously and not wanting to re-tread them, some will like or love it - and some may just be fatigued by it all (we are on the 245th page in one of several threads on here alone where TLJ is being discussed - let alone other sites, platforms and with mates & colleagues etc).

Fair play to Mjolnir Mark IV for such a post chronicling his issues with it - and presenting it very well.