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Star Wars is best when it mixes familiar story beats with bizarre and even unsettling settings and characters Keep Star Wars Weird
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gently caress Star Wars, my loving space-waifu Avasarala is coming back to the spotlight in less than a couple weeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3KTel_MTdU "I'm a smug old bitch who enjoys playing with life and death on her big chessboard"
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Nov 21, 2019 08:21
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LGD posted:Ebert is obviously more recent (and you're probably right about his trajectory), but tbh I wouldn't feel compelled to spend much time speculating on his hypothetical terrible twitter takes as a current media personality, rather than his actual contributions to film criticism eberts main contribution to film criticism was to invent the whole lets pretend like i dont actually have an opinion style of reviewing which was novel back when he started and provided a useful counterpoint to the esoteric styles that were more well known at the time but now literally everyone writes in the ebert style leading to the extremely surreal modern situation where basically all film critics agree that star wars and marvel movies are good but almost none of them can actually explain why
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Nov 21, 2019 08:35
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Atrocious Joe posted:they should have made Poe a series of clones Duncan Idapoe
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Nov 21, 2019 10:29
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KiteAuraan posted:If South Park's latest episode and the fact it still has a fanbase is any indication, we got a long way to go before we got full rights and acceptance. I'm not even talking about that I'm talking about knowing trans people exist
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Nov 21, 2019 11:33
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Sure but also just because you've made the EU non-canon doesn't mean you can't mine it for content. They already do.
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Nov 21, 2019 11:59
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tghey should make all the star wars writers read all the tie in books but only so they feel embarrassed when they try to pull the same contrived poo poo
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Nov 21, 2019 12:04
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Farm Frenzy posted:tghey should make all the star wars writers read all the tie in books but only so they feel embarrassed when they try to pull the same contrived poo poo I'm p sure that's cruel and unusual punishment
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Nov 21, 2019 12:12
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm p sure that's cruel and unusual punishment yah, it's a myth, imo, that good art comes exclusively from intense suffering
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Nov 21, 2019 12:19
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disney needs to break their highly paid screenwriters and show them that theyre just ripping off awful hack scifi hired guns from 30 years ago
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Nov 21, 2019 12:23
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you mean the script doctors right the screenwriters turn in unreadable trash
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Nov 21, 2019 12:27
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Somehow the end result of all this comes off as something thrown together at the last minute
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Nov 21, 2019 12:44
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I'm not even talking about that I'm talking about knowing trans people exist True. gently caress that episode pissed me off. Dolphin episode levels of poo poo.
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Nov 21, 2019 12:49
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Pretty much every post-TFA movie feels like two movies kind of stitched together to varying degrees- i get the sense that disney hires these directors and writers with some vision, then brings in a script doctor to re-shoot the movies really late in production to be more 'star wars' None of them are particularly horrible, though the glimpses of more imaginative movies hurts all of them at least a little. I'm not really convinced Rian Johnson's "gently caress star wars" version of TLJ was actually that good a movie, either, but then I also don't think KOTOR2 is very good because "what if star wars was illogical and dumb" is not a question i need a big plot line to explore.
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Nov 21, 2019 12:49
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that people actually liked the force awakens and that jj abrams star trek movie makes me think you dont really need screen writers to make successful movies. that gpt-2 bot could do it
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Nov 21, 2019 13:10
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Star Trek: Beyond loving rules
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Nov 21, 2019 13:12
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it didnt but like into darkness it felt like it was written by a human being that at least tried to say something and not a bot connecting random events and fan service
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Nov 21, 2019 13:16
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what deep message was into darkness trying to impart to us i must have missed it in between all the gratutious klingons white khan moments and that time they tested magic antiradiation blood on tribbles
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Nov 21, 2019 13:25
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Some Guy TT posted:what deep message was into darkness trying to impart to us i must have missed it in between all the gratutious klingons white khan moments and that time they tested magic antiradiation blood on tribbles military industrial complex bad
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Nov 21, 2019 13:28
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you have to compare it to the first one. the message of that one is that you shouldnt try to save civilizations because they might travel with you back in time to destroy your home world and force you to realize that its ok to have emotions even though you are a half robot
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Nov 21, 2019 13:34
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Some Guy TT posted:what deep message was into darkness trying to impart to us i must have missed it in between all the gratutious klingons white khan moments and that time they tested magic antiradiation blood on tribbles CIA bad E: this was also the message of the second season of Star Trek Discovery gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 13:46 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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Nov 21, 2019 13:44
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Panzeh posted:Pretty much every post-TFA movie feels like two movies kind of stitched together to varying degrees- i get the sense that disney hires these directors and writers with some vision, then brings in a script doctor to re-shoot the movies really late in production to be more 'star wars' The point is having an idea and sticking with it is better than trying to make Corporate Product For Mass Consumption (C)
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Nov 21, 2019 13:50
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Panzeh posted:Pretty much every post-TFA movie feels like two movies kind of stitched together to varying degrees- i get the sense that disney hires these directors and writers with some vision, then brings in a script doctor to re-shoot the movies really late in production to be more 'star wars' That's what happen to all the Disney movies. They hire a credible director but the only thing that director gets to decide is the non-cgi parts. Like Guy Ritchie might be hit and miss but he has a distinct style and the parts I've seen could've been directed by anyone. Favreau is the perfect Disney director because all his movies are bland as hell because all he seems to care about is that the cgi-animals looks good.
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Nov 21, 2019 13:53
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gradenko_2000 posted:One early episode of Jack Ryan begins with a Syrian father out in the boonies teaching his son to wash up, to pray, to take care of his grandfather, and then they share a tender moment as he drives away on a motorcycle lol is this the show with jim halpert?
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Nov 21, 2019 13:56
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Star Wars is fine if you don't over think it (or really think about it) and just enjoy the big dumb ride in a good theater.
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Nov 21, 2019 14:01
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spacemang_spliff posted:lol is this the show with jim halpert? yes
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Nov 21, 2019 14:03
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Some Guy TT posted:what deep message was into darkness trying to impart to us i must have missed it in between all the gratutious klingons white khan moments and that time they tested magic antiradiation blood on tribbles Neutronium fuel can't melt unobtanium beams
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Nov 21, 2019 15:28
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Normal thing is good for what it is
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Nov 21, 2019 15:55
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Wasn't into darkness written by a 911 truther
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Nov 21, 2019 16:08
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The point is having an idea and sticking with it is better than trying to make Corporate Product For Mass Consumption (C) I hate to tell ya but they're all Corporate Products For Mass Consumption (C) If you're looking for stuff that isn't Corporate Product for Mass Consumption, Star Wars ain't the place to go. Panzeh has issued a correction as of 16:48 on Nov 21, 2019 |
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Nov 21, 2019 16:33
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kind of disappointed that the recent episode of watchmen just has the senator come on screen and reveal how he and the dead sheriff were actually in cahoots. like it was obvious from the start that the senator had ulterior motives and that the sheriff was crooked, but the show seemed like it was going to let the characters do some sleuthing and figure it out organically. nope, instead the senator just blurts the whole scheme to the audience like half-way through the episode. i'm also still confused about whatever is supposed to be happening with adrian. he's in space hell on one of jupiter's moons except there's arbitrary rules in place keeping him there but there's also a magic line he can cross which drops him back on the surface of said moon in real time. i assume it's going to be a dr. manhattan plot mcguffin because you can't have a serial show inspired by a comic book and not have every single thing from the source material make an appearance, even though doctor manhattan's direct comments at the end of the comic amount to "peace out bitches, i'm going to another galaxy" edit: gently caress, the "game warden" is just going to be rorshach brought back to life by manhattan to serve as adrian's jailor isn't it
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Nov 21, 2019 16:55
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Freaking Crumbum posted:kind of disappointed that the recent episode of watchmen just has the senator come on screen and reveal how he and the dead sheriff were actually in cahoots. like it was obvious from the start that the senator had ulterior motives and that the sheriff was crooked, but the show seemed like it was going to let the characters do some sleuthing and figure it out organically. nope, instead the senator just blurts the whole scheme to the audience like half-way through the episode. ive given up on working out whats actually going on because the show just doesn't tell you anything until it feels like it
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Nov 21, 2019 17:16
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Duncan Idapoe Better than my attempt, Poe Damer-1 the sequels should have ripped off Dune more the EU already had a tusken raider jedi that went on to be emperor, just go all in and have him come to power by launching a jihad
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Nov 21, 2019 17:52
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Well, thanks to the last three hundred posts in this thread I now have doubled my total number of Star Wars Deeply Held Truths from one to two: 1: The first movie (which is not the fourth movie) is called "Star Wars", not "A New Hope" 2: Star Wars is a prequel to Battlestar Galactica, where the robot slaves finally rebel and start murdering the poo poo out of the humans
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Nov 21, 2019 18:29
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Farm Frenzy posted:ive given up on working out whats actually going on because the show just doesn't tell you anything until it feels like it Reminder that the guy who made Lost is the show runner. Mysteries for mysteries sake for all!
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Nov 22, 2019 03:06
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Edit: wrong thread.
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Nov 22, 2019 06:10
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gradenko_2000 posted:CIA bad "CIA bad but War on Terror very very good." That film tried, but it was so loving hamstrung by its own cynical Sorkin politics.
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Nov 22, 2019 06:20
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hell ye a this is the star war content ive been waiting for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGa2c3rEuE
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Nov 23, 2019 05:54
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it would be cool if the mandalorian had a slug thrower as a last ditch weapon and deringers a guy at the space casino or something
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Nov 23, 2019 05:55
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:hell ye a this is the star war content ive been waiting for scifi gun nerds are the absolute loving worst
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