Movie Posters - The good, the bad & the awful

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Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Okay, I thought it was a way of you saying "Let's get back to movie talk"

And really? Four out of eight? There was a Death Star in IV and VI, but what else?

Disclaimer: I lost interest in Star Wars real fast after I & II. I've never seen III, VII, or Rogue One.

VII & Rogue One

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Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

Improbable Lobster posted:

The only good thing about the Darksaber was that it exploded itself the first time they tried firing it. gently caress, the EU was such garbage.

I completely forgot about that, and it's pretty goddamn funny and perfect.

I remember another book where some robotics company implanted bombs in all the droids and they started exploding and killing people all over the galaxy. And now I think I may have only ever read two EU books.

Hat Thoughts posted:

VII & Rogue One

Well, that certainly explains it.

EDIT: Wait, you mean they're making another Death Star in VII? Or they just mention it?

Pope Corky the IX fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Feb 23, 2017

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SomeJazzyRat: Nov 2, 2012; Hmmm...

Pretty much Darth Vader and the Empire's #1 fanboy decided to recreate the Death Star except bigger and badder. In this case, instead of a moon sized space station, it's a planet with a huge gently caress-off laser.

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.; Buglord

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I completely forgot about that, and it's pretty goddamn funny and perfect.

I remember another book where some robotics company implanted bombs in all the droids and they started exploding and killing people all over the galaxy. And now I think I may have only ever read two EU books.

Well, that certainly explains it.

EDIT: Wait, you mean they're making another Death Star in VII? Or they just mention it?

There's a giant super weapon in The Force Awakens. It isn't called Death Star but it fulfills the same role.

# ? Feb 23, 2017 17:52

Sirotan: Oct 17, 2006; Sirotan is a seal.

GonSmithe posted:

Mondo is dropping a lovely Tyler Stout Civil War poster tomorrow so if you want to try to get a poster you can sell for 10x more than you buy it, the 10 seconds it's up before it's sold out is your chance.

Sold out instantly, lol. Someone on twitter responded to them with this: https://supercopbot.com/mondo-tees-bot/

# ? Feb 23, 2017 17:57

Jose Oquendo: Jun 20, 2004; Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a boring movie

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I remember a Star Wars EU book I read back in middle school where Jabba the Hutt's cousin commissioned the designer of the original Death Star to build another one that didn't require living space, just a floating super weapon. It ended up looking like a giant lightsaber, so it was christened "Darksaber" which I think was also the name of the book.

How many EU stories were about a new Death Star or a bigger Star Destroyer?

Darksaber was one of the worst books for a long time. The dumbest part is that Crix Madine goes out like a chump.

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Super-NintendoUser: Jan 16, 2004; COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES; Soiled Meat

Jose Oquendo posted:

Darksaber was one of the worst books for a long time. The dumbest part is that Crix Madine goes out like a chump.

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Hat Thoughts: Jul 27, 2012

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Well, that certainly explains it.

EDIT: Wait, you mean they're making another Death Star in VII? Or they just mention it?

They have to blow up another Death Star except this one blows up like 3 planets at a time ya

# ? Feb 23, 2017 18:12

Rirse: May 7, 2006; by R. Guyovich

Hat Thoughts posted:

They have to blow up another Death Star except this one blows up like 3 planets at a time ya

Including Not-Coruscant, even through it totally looks like it.

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Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

So why are people telling me to watch VII?

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feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

Because they are dummies. VII is vapid and passively bad, opposed to the prequels being vivacious and actively bad. It's a more enjoyable watch than the prequels but an emptier one.

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.; Buglord

Pope Corky the IX posted:

So why are people telling me to watch VII?

It's a decent Star Wars flick if you care about watching a decent Star Wars flick

feedmyleg posted:

Because they are dummies. VII is vapid and passively bad, opposed to the prequels being vivacious and actively bad. It's a more enjoyable watch than the prequels but an emptier one.

nah

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Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

I don't even know what a "decent Star Wars flick" is anymore. But thank you.

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.; Buglord

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I don't even know what a "decent Star Wars flick" is anymore. But thank you.

A film that has actors with actual chemistry, good set and effects design and a plot that doesn't revolve around walking in giant corridors while discussing politics. It's practically a remake of A New Hope in some ways but I thoroughly enjoyed it. But if you don't care about Star Wars then it probably won't change your mind TBH.

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Bar Crow: Oct 10, 2012

Pope Corky the IX posted:

I don't even know what a "decent Star Wars flick" is anymore. But thank you.

FDA labeling rules say that extruded Star Wars product may be called a decent flick if it contains less than 0.1% rat feces by volume.

# ? Feb 23, 2017 18:39

Sir Kodiak: May 14, 2007

Improbable Lobster posted:

A film that has actors with actual chemistry, good set and effects design and a plot that doesn't revolve around walking in giant corridors while discussing politics.

Agreed that Pope Corky should watch The Nice Guys.

# ? Feb 23, 2017 18:44

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.; Buglord

Sir Kodiak posted:

Agreed that Pope Corky should watch The Nice Guys.

It has neither Stars nor Wars but The Nice Guys is loving excellent so I agree

# ? Feb 23, 2017 18:46

Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

Bar Crow posted:

FDA labeling rules say that extruded Star Wars product may be called a decent flick if it contains less than 0.1% rat feces by volume.

I live in NYC and I'm used to the state required amount of rat feces in my food, thank you.

Sir Kodiak posted:

Agreed that Pope Corky should watch The Nice Guys.

My spouse and I have that on our list for this weekend, actually.

# ? Feb 23, 2017 18:47

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

Sirotan posted:

Sold out instantly, lol. Someone on twitter responded to them with this: https://supercopbot.com/mondo-tees-bot/

Those Tyler Stout posters might actually be the worst kind of Mondo posters.

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Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

Improbable Lobster posted:

It has neither Stars nor Wars but The Nice Guys is loving excellent so I agree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiqPmsBYieA

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Sir Kodiak: May 14, 2007

Ryan Gosling is a pretty big star.

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

Improbable Lobster posted:

It has neither Stars nor Wars but The Nice Guys is loving excellent so I agree

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Super-NintendoUser: Jan 16, 2004; COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES; Soiled Meat

feedmyleg posted:

Because they are dummies. VII is vapid and passively bad, opposed to the prequels being vivacious and actively bad. It's a more enjoyable watch than the prequels but an emptier one.

The Force Awakes is basically what a computer would spit out if you told it to watch all the existing Star Wars media, and downplay the things most complained about on the internet and enhance everything else.

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Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

Jerk McJerkface posted:

The Force Awakes is basically what a computer would spit out if you told it to watch all the existing Star Wars media, and downplay the things most complained about on the internet and enhance everything else.

Like how in Weird Science they input all of their favourite attributes to output their ultimate jack-off material.

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feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

Lobok posted:

Like how in Weird Science they input all of their favourite attributes to output their ultimate jack-off material.

This is easily my favorite TFA review.

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Dissapointed Owl: Jan 30, 2008; You wrote me a letter,
and this is how it went:

Lobok posted:

Like how in Weird Science they input all of their favourite attributes to output their ultimate jack-off material.

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Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

Darth Vader has a weird dick

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The MSJ: May 17, 2010

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McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

Lobok posted:

Like how in Weird Science they input all of their favourite attributes to output their ultimate jack-off material.

Would watch TFA with 80s Kelly LeBrock as Rey.

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MikeJF: Dec 20, 2003

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Well, that certainly explains it.

Even if you didn't see it I can't see how you wouldn't know Rogue One is about the Death Star.

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Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Palpek posted:

I'm saying there's already a lot of Death Stars in real Star Wars so in the EU where every Mos Eisley cantina patron shown for half a second has an epic story involving a number of main Star Wars characters you can probably quadruple the number.

Also it's 4 out of 8.

Three, if we're including "bigger badder Star Destroyers" as stated; Empire introduced the Super Star Destroyer and it spent half the movie pursuing the Millennium Falcon. For sheer pedantry, you can even say that only Episode I doesn't contain a superweapon - the Death Star plans appear briefly in Episode II and the Death Star under construction shows up at the end of Ep III - but the story of the prequels doesn't focus on them.

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WeedlordGoku69: Feb 12, 2015; by Cyrano4747

Pope Corky the IX posted:

So why are people telling me to watch VII?

Because it's a fun movie. It's deliberately reminiscent of IV in a lot of ways, but it twists the paralleling elements enough to make it fresh regardless, and Kylo Ren is a pretty loving great villain.

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Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

Man is Michael Pe�a gonna be typecast as a cop for the rest of his life?

# ? Feb 24, 2017 10:04

Palpek: Dec 27, 2008; Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.

He has a part in My Little Pony: The Movie so he's got that going for him.

# ? Feb 24, 2017 10:10

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

Because it's a fun movie. It's deliberately reminiscent of IV in a lot of ways, but it twists the paralleling elements enough to make it fresh regardless, and Kylo Ren is a pretty loving great villain.

Also it has a black and a female protagonist and both those characters are cool and good.

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marshmallow creep: Dec 10, 2008; I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me