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indigi posted:TLJ is about 40 minutes of good
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So what was the point of all the Threepio stuff? it’s just completely baffling ....what thematic, narrative or character development purpose did it serve? the movie feels a fever dream lmao
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Feb 25, 2020 02:10
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nemesis_hub posted:So what was the point of all the Threepio stuff? it’s just completely baffling ....what thematic, narrative or character development purpose did it serve? the movie feels a fever dream lmao It feels like they wanted to make it a big final sacrifice but either JJ chickened out or some suit at Disney screamed at him and made him walk it back. Same with Chewbacca. They couldn’t even commit to killing off Babu Frik and Zorri Bliss when their planet exploded and they were loving nobodies lol
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Feb 25, 2020 02:22
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Btw the knights of Ren all survived and they’re all friends again so don’t worry
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Feb 25, 2020 02:26
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You take that back, Babu Frick was the best and possibly only genuinely good part of that movie. Not the whole 3PO plot, just the character.
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Feb 25, 2020 02:29
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Zoran posted:the really criminal thing is that nobody lost a hand. (snoke doesn’t count) I thought C3PO was carrying the torch for lost limbs with his red arm, but then seconds after first appearing on screen he casually says "I really should reattach my proper arm!" What?!
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Feb 25, 2020 03:33
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2house2fly posted:I thought C3PO was carrying the torch for lost limbs with his red arm, but then seconds after first appearing on screen he casually says "I really should reattach my proper arm!" What?! I don't remember that part, but if so it was a reference to a rare C3PO figure that had a red arm. E: that I now can't find any reference to on the internet. A false memory? Fantastic Foreskin fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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Feb 25, 2020 03:39
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Oops I forgot this was a ROS thread, I meant his red arm in TFAnemesis_hub posted:So what was the point of all the Threepio stuff? it’s just completely baffling ....what thematic, narrative or character development purpose did it serve? the movie feels a fever dream lmao
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Feb 25, 2020 03:42
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nemesis_hub posted:So what was the point of all the Threepio stuff? it’s just completely baffling ....what thematic, narrative or character development purpose did it serve? the movie feels a fever dream lmao Not only was it walked back so non of it actually mattered but then D-O (who, as the kicker is voiced by JJ Abrams) straight up goes "I had the map to Exegol the whole time and could have saved you 3/4s of a movie's worth of running around". JJ Abrams himself invalidates half the movie from inside the movie itself. The hackery is metatextual!
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Feb 25, 2020 04:23
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2house2fly posted:Oops I forgot this was a ROS thread, I meant his red arm in TFA Yours is the most coherent explanation for that subplot that I’ve seen, but then it’s played off as a joke and they kind of bully him into it? It also seems to contradict the theme of TLJ about reckless sacrifice being bad, but the thread title covers that
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Feb 25, 2020 07:05
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3PO's red arm is actually a Metal Gear reference, Venom Snake in MGSV can get a gold arm to match
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Feb 25, 2020 09:33
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nemesis_hub posted:Yours is the most coherent explanation for that subplot that I’ve seen, but then it’s played off as a joke and they kind of bully him into it? It also seems to contradict the theme of TLJ about reckless sacrifice being bad, but the thread title covers that Also the Mandalorian came along a week later and did the "comic relief droid heroically sacrifices himself for the sake of his friends and their mission" bit WAY better AND stuck the landing on it perfectly, making the C-3PO subplot in ROS look that much more dumber and hollower in comparison.
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Feb 25, 2020 09:54
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PinheadSlim posted:How many horrible lightsaber wounds and deaths are there in the ST? There's Snoke but I can't really remember any more. Kylo got a pretty disfiguring wound on his face at the end of TFA, but them TLJ moved it so it wouldn't look as bad. Rian Johnson apparently thought it looked 'goofy' going all the way across his face. Disney probably should have hired some people that wouldn't do stupid retcons of the previous movie.
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Feb 25, 2020 13:00
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"team of rivals"
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Feb 25, 2020 13:47
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The C3PO bit was necessary as the core plot of all Star Wars, the thing that distinguishes the mainline from the EU, is three generations of the same family bullying their effeminate slave.
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Feb 25, 2020 14:48
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There was another reason to watch?
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Feb 25, 2020 16:01
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Tulip posted:The C3PO bit was necessary as the core plot of all Star Wars, the thing that distinguishes the mainline from the EU, is three generations of the same family bullying their effeminate slave. Lol
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Feb 25, 2020 16:33
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nine-gear crow posted:Also the Mandalorian came along a week later and did the "comic relief droid heroically sacrifices himself for the sake of his friends and their mission" bit WAY better AND stuck the landing on it perfectly, making the C-3PO subplot in ROS look that much more dumber and hollower in comparison. Did it though? I thought the ending of the Mandalorian fell flat because it seems like the force makes it so no stormtrooper can ever hit their mark so when IG-11 sacrifices himself it seems unnecessary because first, the troopers come off as incompetent for the whole episode and then he just gets to walk into the middle of all of them then why not just throw the grenade into the middle of them?
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Feb 26, 2020 20:12
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Guy A. Person posted:He's not on Jakku is he? I thought he was at Maz's place. I thought he was one of the guys FN tried to escape with. Black guy with a white girl makes china uncomfortable
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Feb 26, 2020 22:00
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nine-gear crow posted:I love the loving dipshit whiplash public opinion tracking on the Sequel Trilogy. From The Force Awakens "IT'S TOO MUCH LIKE OLD STAR WARS, DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT" to The Last Jedi "IT'S TOO DIFFERENT, IT SCARES ME, FIX IT ABRAMS" and finally to Rise of Skywalker "NOT LIKE THI-HI-HI-HISSSSS TLJ isn’t really different it’s essentially empire strikes back with the throne room scene of ROTJ at the end instead of the luke/vader fight and the battle of hoth takes place at the end rather than the beginning of the film.
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Feb 26, 2020 22:03
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Noob Saibot posted:Black guy with a white girl makes china uncomfortable TROS made $20 mil in China, they literally do not give a poo poo about this franchise
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Feb 26, 2020 23:57
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JethroMcB posted:TROS made $20 mil in China, they literally do not give a poo poo about this franchise Okay, but someone making a movie hoping that China will give a poo poo about it might make choices based on their idea of what chinese viewers might object to.
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Feb 27, 2020 00:00
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Noob Saibot posted:Black guy with a white girl makes china uncomfortable Obligatory: 
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Feb 27, 2020 00:11
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CainFortea posted:Okay, but someone making a movie hoping that China will give a poo poo about it might make choices based on their idea of what chinese viewers might object to. Their first mistake was making TFA
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Feb 27, 2020 04:32
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I mean that definitely wasn't their FIRST mistake...
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Feb 28, 2020 12:44
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Surprised they didn’t say gently caress it and bring back Boba Fett too.
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Mar 1, 2020 22:34
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https://twitter.com/screenrant/status/1233877145690222593
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Mar 2, 2020 03:06
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Seems like they could have established that in 10 seconds with two lines of dialogue in the movie. Just have him tell Kylo “these clone bodies can’t withstand my dark side power, and the technology to make more is failing. If we’re going to enact my plan we must act now” and boom it’s all solved
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Mar 2, 2020 03:21
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Hell they could have very easily folded it into him explaining the Sith body transfer thing to Rey at the end. When he tells her he’ll possess her he can just say that he won’t have any need for imperfect clone bodies any longer
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Mar 2, 2020 03:23
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Should have leaned into it and had like eight of him running around at the same time.
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Mar 2, 2020 05:49
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one snoke enters, rey palpatine leaves
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Mar 2, 2020 05:50
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Give me a full loving Palpatine chorus line all doing synchronized high kicks to recruit Rey to the Dark Side. That would redeem the whole movie.
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Mar 2, 2020 05:53
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if hes a clone why the gently caress he look worse than he did in rots
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Mar 2, 2020 06:48
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nine-gear crow posted:Give me a full loving Palpatine chorus line all doing synchronized high kicks to recruit Rey to the Dark Side. That would redeem the whole movie. Springtime for Palpatine!
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Mar 2, 2020 07:05
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Doublestep posted:if hes a clone why the gently caress he look worse than he did in rots it's not a very good clone
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Mar 2, 2020 07:55
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The first few attempts were Snokes. Sheev's gotta been like "The gently caress? This isn't me! This is just some guy in a bathrobe!!" And the guys were like "Look man you got vaporized twice, we had to scrape mummified cells off of your toothbrush!!" "What! I don't have a toothbrush! Who the hell did you clone???"
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Mar 2, 2020 10:48
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Turns out sheev left lots of genetic material, all over the galaxy
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Mar 2, 2020 11:27
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Mooey Cow posted:The first few attempts were Snokes. Sheev's gotta been like "The gently caress? This isn't me! This is just some guy in a bathrobe!!" Sheev learn basic hygiene challenge Also Cease to Hope posted:it's not a very good movie
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Mar 2, 2020 15:04
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This is really stupid. The sheer audacity of not providing a direct explanation is one of those rare "so bullshit that it becomes kind of brilliant" moves and was absolutely the correct way to handle such a ludicrous plot development. And it will forever remain that way as far as I'm concerned. 
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It could've actually been a decent plot to have the failing clone be the specific reason why Palpatine needed to seek out his progeny that he previously didn't give a poo poo about. Like his DNA had become unviable through weird experimentation or something and all the clones came out badly deformed and aged to dust within months or something. But yeah that's just flat out not what's in the movie, you don't fuckin' clone someone as a crumbling old man puppet on purpose, and cloning has been established not to work like that in Star Wars. It makes an already insanely dumb plot even dumber to "fix" one aspect (Sheev being thrown into the core of a space station that was vaporized 5 minutes later) that was the least stupid part.
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