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I still maintain my "Anarchic Wild West" approach with a New Republic that has rectified the sins of the Old but is still young and small (and thus geographically far from the plot) would have been the ideal setting for the sequels.
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Taika has shown that he’s entirely willing to completely compromise his artistic talents in the name of delivering a no-drama product, so I fully expect that his Star Wars is going to come out on time, at budget, with no backstage horseshit, and be deeply boring and unglamorous so he can fund another Jojo Rabbit or something.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Taika has shown that he’s entirely willing to completely compromise his artistic talents in the name of delivering a no-drama product, so I fully expect that his Star Wars is going to come out on time, at budget, with no backstage horseshit, and be deeply boring and unglamorous so he can fund another Jojo Rabbit or something. Yeah whatever he turns in will be extremely safe and entertaining and family friendly, although I'm sure he will include some nods to stuff on the sly like he did the Maori inspired designs and the subtle colonialism themes in Thor 3. It'll be entertaining and make a bunch of money so he can do another WWDitS movie or something. Darko posted:Disney refused to make a protagonist a once terrorist in Rogue One to the point of reshooting half of the movie; they absolutely don't like any kind of real world parallels of nuance with their Star Wars. I still want to see that cut. Once you know about those changes the seams in the finished version are just unignorable. Still good though.
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May 13, 2020 20:51
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The sequels going to d+ right before a quarantine is going to create a new generation of kids that really vibe with rey's scratching the days off inside a decaying imperialist war machine on a parched planet
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May 13, 2020 21:38
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I just finished Solar Opposites on Hulu. It wasn't bad. The last episode had a Phantom Menace parody sequence. Which got me thinking, I don't remember the last time I saw a Prequel parody in mainstream media. The OT had been parodied to death through mainstream movies and shows, as well as having a fan film industry for a while. But the PT never got that treatment. I'm sure part of that is due to how it never reached the same pop culture impact as the OT had, that would have been impossible. And the bad reputation they have, but that's currently been being rehabilitated (but not for the reasons Disney intended). But you go on the internet and there's no end to the memes, fan videos, and the like. Revenge of the Sith came out right around the birth of YouTube. I'm sure it all shifted there and memes. Oh, and here's a video of Kermit the Frog as Palpatine.
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May 15, 2020 15:22
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I haven't kept a tally but if I see a meme or joke video edit or something that references Star Wars in any way, it's overwhelmingly likely to be the prequels. Just the other day I saw a version of the Anakin/Obi-Wan fight with edited VO to suggest that Obi-Wan hates Anakin for being a "simp" who posts "cringe"
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May 15, 2020 16:55
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drat the shot of Windu's lightsaber falling and dinking off the side of the building actually kinda owns.
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May 15, 2020 17:18
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This is pretty good casting, all the additions for season 2 are solid. https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1261413769709867008?s=19 Honestly more excited about the fact they got Michael Biehn in there than any of the bigger names.
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May 15, 2020 22:24
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Mat Cauthon posted:Honestly more excited about the fact they got Michael Biehn in there than any of the bigger names. James Cameron director status: confirmed
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May 16, 2020 01:21
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I saw a video of Michael Biehn dunk off his rear end looking grizzly as gently caress saying some phrase from Aliens and it made me sad hoping he is okay 
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May 16, 2020 14:16
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I think he just gets loaded when he has to do cameo vids. I would
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May 16, 2020 14:21
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dialhforhero posted:I saw a video of Michael Biehn dunk off his rear end looking grizzly as gently caress saying some phrase from Aliens and it made me sad hoping he is okay I met him at Motor City Comicon last year and he seemed a lot older but okay enough.
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May 16, 2020 14:49
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Getting loaded before being exploited by heartless capitalists is how I survived living in America for so long.
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I thought I'd have a stab at modelling Snoke's ship
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Captain Splendid posted:I thought I'd have a stab at modelling Snoke's ship You forgot the last step of stretching it 300% along the y axis
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May 18, 2020 22:14
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I made myself laugh the other day imagining what the scene where Luke discovers his crispy aunt and uncle would be like if it was in a mediocre movie made today like the MCU or something. The first shot would be Luke's eyes bulging out as a woman's voice from a communicator says "Luke, don't look...!" Then there'd be a pornographically slow close up pan over one of the CGI burnt bodies, quick cut to Luke breaking into a sprint, then he falls to his knees and there's a face closeup as he looks at the sky and screams and there are veins bulging out everywhere and he's got stubble. Instead of John Williams score the music is totally forgettable and quiet anyway. Then it cuts to Vader standing over a holo-chess board with pieces that look like the aunt and uncle and he flicks them over
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May 20, 2020 03:13
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Outside of the Infinity movies, Marvel doesn't do genuine. There would have to be some joke inserted there.
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May 20, 2020 04:28
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Jewel Repetition posted:quick cut to Luke breaking into a sprint, then he falls to his knees and there's a face closeup as he looks at the sky and screams Mark Hamill actually wanted to do this, but Lucas got him to do a more neutral performance so he could use the Kuleshov effect to have the audience project the emotion onto Luke empathetically.
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May 20, 2020 16:29
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I just took it that Luke wasn't really that cut up about losing his family because they were the ones holding him on Tatooine and now he has the excuse he needs to go off adventuring with Kenobi
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May 20, 2020 16:50
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Darko posted:Disney refused to make a protagonist a once terrorist in Rogue One to the point of reshooting half of the movie; they absolutely don't like any kind of real world parallels of nuance with their Star Wars. They fear demonstrating anything other than the most lukewarm mildly liberal politics that only enforces the status quo. From a business strategy it makes sense as it allows them to sell the movie to a wider audience but the end result is that they make material that speaks in glittering generalities and never actually says anything. This is why the sequel trilogy came out as a bland bowl of mush.
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May 21, 2020 14:59
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The Searchers is pretty relevant in any discussion of the Luke arriving at the burning homestead scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30N-weocZT4&t=24s
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May 21, 2020 19:18
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multijoe posted:I just took it that Luke wasn't really that cut up about losing his family because they were the ones holding him on Tatooine and now he has the excuse he needs to go off adventuring with Kenobi This, but also feeling guilty about feeling this while feeling guilty for not being there.
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May 22, 2020 13:14
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multijoe posted:I just took it that Luke wasn't really that cut up about losing his family because they were the ones holding him on Tatooine and now he has the excuse he needs to go off adventuring with Kenobi Is this sociopathy?
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May 22, 2020 13:27
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Ravenfood posted:This, but also feeling guilty about feeling this while feeling guilty for not being there. That's how I've always read his emotions. He clearly didn't care all that much for them, knew they weren't really his family, but he felt guilty as hell that while he was gone, this horrible thing happened, and he's also torn up that he doesn't feel that much sadness at their loss. Also had a funny thought that had the stormtroopers managed to get there before he ventured off to find R2, they'd have killed him as well (like Obi-Wan mentions) and Vader would never be turned back to the light. WHoops!
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May 22, 2020 14:38
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I've started to believe that Ben was doing a fake willy wonka "wait, please, don't go" to Luke as he zipped off. Seeing the scorched bodies is a deliberate part of radicalizing him against the Empire and Vader specifically. Getting cut down by Vader in front of Luke is part of this too. Becoming "more powerful than you can imagine" is less about being a ghost, and more about becoming a symbol/cementing Luke against Vader (which ultimately is a mistake) etc It worked so well that Luke must have convinced his sister to name her son after the guy haha
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May 22, 2020 14:52
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yeah I’m pretty sure Luke is upset about his adoptive parents who’ve raised him his whole life getting blasted into smoking skeletons and left for him to find it feels weird to even have to argue that point
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May 22, 2020 18:18
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like when I was 17 or 18 I really wanted to run off and go on adventures and get out from under my parents wing too, but not more than I wanted them not to be gunned down and turned into skeletons i guess if I had been adopted though, maybe it’s different. any adopted kids in the thread here to chime in?
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Mandrel posted:yeah I’m pretty sure Luke is upset about his adoptive parents who’ve raised him his whole life getting blasted into smoking skeletons and left for him to find It's why modern films need to spend half their run time explaining the story to the audience. People decide Luke doesn't give a poo poo if they don't. Clearly he wants to go have fun space adventures, so gently caress aunt Beru.
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LUKE These are the same Jawas that sold us Artoo and Threepio. BEN And these blast points, too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise. LUKE Why would Imperial troops want to slaughter Jawas? Luke looks back at the speeder where Artoo and Threepio are inspecting the dead Jawas, and put two and two together. LUKE If they traced the robots here, they may have learned who they sold them to. And that would lead them home! Luke looks into the camera and lowers his sunglasses. LUKE Can you say 'road trip'?
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It's important not to miss what ANH is telling us about the characters and setting by imagining how you would react if it were your parents/guardians getting gunned down by space soldiers To expand on earlier points, Skywalker definitely feels sad & guilty but he grew up in the frontier, in a fortified compound, where life is very cheap. Owen almost certainly raised Luke on the story of what happened to his own mother. Neither of them bat an eye when a slave commits suicide right in front of them. Luke is experienced at shooting womp rats, etc. He's not a hard-bitten killer or anything like that, but he's not gonna hesitate to waste a moon's worth of people either
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May 23, 2020 00:44
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Do we know what happened to Owen’s mother?
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May 23, 2020 00:47
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Isn't she Schmi? My memory is fuzzy
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May 23, 2020 00:58
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Blood Boils posted:Isn't she Schmi? My memory is fuzzy Shmi was Owen's stepmother, Cliegg's second wife. Owen and Anakin are about the same age.
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May 23, 2020 02:12
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Lol that Rey’s parents/Palpatine’s son don’t even have names.
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May 23, 2020 02:41
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I heard for the novelization they decided her dad was just some escaped palpatine clone or something, I guess it’s kind of plausible he didn’t really have a name 
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May 23, 2020 02:46
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Lol that Rey’s parents/Palpatine’s son don’t even have names. Sheev Jr took his wife's last name, Nobahdi
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No Mods No Masters posted:I heard for the novelization they decided her dad was just some escaped palpatine clone or something, I guess it’s kind of plausible he didn’t really have a name You get emotionally and romantically attached to a woman you eventually come up with a name. Even the Clone Troopers all came up with their own names, which they held with pride.
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May 23, 2020 04:16
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It's Sheeev Palpatine, come on
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May 23, 2020 04:18
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Still lolling that sheev FUCKS
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*Pabloishly* Canonically speaking, the story group has made it very clear that Sheev Never hosed
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