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TLJ wasn't as bad upon second viewing but the people who defend it this way are just doing the old Brittany Spears is a great musician because look at how many records she sold routine
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Darko posted:It's not about the politics in the movie itself, it's that society is at one of its cyclical boiling points now in the West that people are diametrically opposed on. Movie review and opinions are more based on bad faith arguments based on those "sides" than the movies themselves in a lot of cases. A lot of movie arguments now are almost entirely based on identity politics. I was very disappointed coming out of the theater and I promise you it had nothing to do with identity politics and everything to do with the whole movie seeming like the creators didn't have any respect for the characters or the universe Lucas had created.
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No Mods No Masters posted:I feel Rose is a good character in an unintentional way, insofar as her pablum perfectly reflects the essential hollowness of the resistance in the context of the films and disney wars in the context of reality the resistance is inherently contradictory in that anyone that hopelessly liberal would just be posting about it, not fighting
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May 23, 2019 17:21
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The biggest problem with the ST is that Abrams and Johnson and everyone else involved at that level is a basic bitch, like the type of people who would wonder why LOTR included an appendix when it's already so long.
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May 23, 2019 17:29
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YaketySass posted:The politics seems to be a weird mix of democracy and aristocracy, the details of how that works never being explained. This thread is about Star Wars
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May 23, 2019 23:46
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General Dog posted:In TLJ he actually has a more clearly defined character arc than Rey. Unfortunately, said well-defined arc is tedious and unsatisfying. PTSD former stormtrooper on a mission to save a loved one and the galaxy upon arriving: WOW CRAPS TABLES
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May 24, 2019 21:24
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FlamingLiberal posted:I almost love that this unnecessary, meandering sideplot just ends with them being betrayed and their mission being irrelevant but it doesn’t even matter since Holdo saves them by ramming the ship Which is something autopilot could have done at any time
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May 24, 2019 21:25
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hello, non-cspammers. meet preston waters
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May 25, 2019 18:49
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Do we all agree that Holdo was only created so a character named Ackbar wouldn't be the suicide bomber?
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May 25, 2019 21:18
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Anakin should have started training at like 18. That would have lined up with Yoda's fear about Luke and also added some plausibility to him turning, oh and also allowed him and Obi Wan to have a better friend/master relationship. I'm still mad they made the Jedi into flawed bureaucrats though so w/e.
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May 28, 2019 18:48
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KaptainKrunk posted:jedi are an analogue for contemporary (late 90s) technocrats; well-intentioned dipshits unable to see the irony of living in a temple at the heart of power Yeah but before the prequels they were a mystical order of warrior monks and more importantly unambiguously good and right. E: which makes a better epic story imo than this namby-pamby "there must be balance between light and darkness" nonsense they've ran with since then
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May 29, 2019 04:20
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Angry Salami posted:Yeah, I remember the end of Return of the Jedi, when Luke decided Ben and Yoda were unambiguously right about Vader being irredeemable. Very powerful moment. Them personally giving up after everything that had happened isn't an indictment on the Jedi as a whole.
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FlamingLiberal posted:It just blows my mind that TFA just kind of hand waves away what happened over 30 years in this universe and acts like we should already know why Luke is missing, Leia is running some weird Republic splinter group, and Han is once again back to his old poo poo I bet you're still wondering about my red arm too
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May 31, 2019 15:51
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Vinylshadow posted:Falcon gets blowed up, killing Lando, Chewie, Threepio, and Artoo, leaving only the new characters to carry the rest of the Star Wars saga immediately after they die it jarringly cuts to another scene and their death isn't ever discussed
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i've been a huge star wars fan since i was a toddler, read like a hundred star wars books in middle school and high school, and i still haven't watched solo despite it being on netflix for months
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The falcon blows up in a lightspeed ramming attack on the twin towers
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Jun 7, 2019 13:40
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why do the knights of ren look like the bad guys from hobo with a shotgun
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Jun 7, 2019 13:42
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well they wouldn't want to be derivative
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celewign posted:I recently bought CEotTK and holy smokes that movie is so well shot. It's a masterpiece. you bought what now?
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I've never been to a Disney park, but it seems like mostly waiting in lines all day in a huge crowd. Is that accurate? Sounds like a nightmare.
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Taintrunner posted:
he has a blaster amd stormtrooper armor. I wonder what he does 
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Jul 13, 2019 04:40
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Jerkface posted:Get smoked by Poe Dameron whos gonna say something like "They come in red now?!" lol do you write for disney
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Jul 13, 2019 05:08
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Bogus Adventure posted:He didn't write the story for Star Trek or Into Darkness. They were written by a hack and a 9/11 truther. so jj abrams and who?
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Jul 13, 2019 18:41
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do you guys think there's only like four planets? multiple desert planets in a galaxy, so what
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General Dog posted:Why would Palpatine leave an entire fleet and an army of "Sith Troopers" stored in mothballs throughout the entire Civil war rather than, you know, use them to end the war? Maybe they weren't ready
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Jul 31, 2019 22:40
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My beef with Phasma is that she's really immersion-breaking (though hardly the only offender from the sequels). Considering we've only ever seen stormtroopers commanded by officers in plain uniform, the idea of this super stormtrooper kinda jumps out at me as pretty cynical marketing.
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Aug 6, 2019 16:56
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Calling it now—Rey is a clone made by dark side sorcery for the purpose of hosting Palpatine's ghost, but Luke hid her away long ago so Snoke (Palpatine's imperfect host) wouldn't find her.
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Aug 13, 2019 14:01
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in the big space battle do you think the mega star destroyers will have more than like four guns this time?
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Aug 19, 2019 12:42
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Why is it that Palpatine seems genuinely badass in ROTJ as he drips with pride and malice, just chewing the scenery, but post-scarring ROTS Palpatine just seems cheesy, like the actor is clearly hamming it up?
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You probably didn't even notice me, behind Snoke the whole time
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Aug 21, 2019 12:41
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Colostomy Bag posted:I always wondered how Palpatine was as a kid. delete this before they see it
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Aug 22, 2019 14:01
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My least favorite part of ST ship design is that all the capital ships have some prominent weapon gimmick instead of duking it out with lots of comparatively small turbolasers, etc. like mile long battleships should.
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Aug 23, 2019 20:38
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Watching ESB and something about it has always bothered me. If Admiral Ozzell hosed up by dropping out of lightspeed too close because he felt that surprise was essential, how did that alert the rebels to the attack more than dropping out further away and approaching at sublight speed?
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Aug 24, 2019 18:16
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No Mods No Masters posted:If other impressions from the room are accurate, it's not even really in the maul style though. Supposedly it's a lightsaber tuning fork poo poo, the folks at gillette started making star wars movies
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Aug 24, 2019 23:47
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Don't use passive voice, folks
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Neo Rasa posted:I actually did not recognize that that was C-3PO due to his red eyes. lol
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General Dog posted:They honestly could have framed this entire thing as a local conflict that the Republic just refused to get involved with, and nothing would have changed. If the personal stakes are truly enough to carry the movies, then why bother even bother with contriving a reason that any of this imperils the entire galaxy? Eh, we don't want to see the main Star Wars downgrade their stakes.
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Teek posted:Bad guy motivations never seem to make much sense if you stop and actually think about it. When Lucas made the prequels, he made Anakin's motivations even more nonsensical. Okay, so Vader supports the Empire and wants to kill Palpatine. Okay, but why is he loyal to a regime that grew out on a conflict he now knows was fake and manufactured? He knows Palpatine played him and the galaxy, there's no reason he has to stick by his side as a dog on a leash. "Oh, well I'm evil now, guess I just have to bide my time until I can try to kill my boss?" Except he saves Palpatine's life multiple times, but then also wants Luke to join him so they can kill the Emperor. Well, what is it Vader? Do you want to end the destructive conflict or just constantly perpetuate all the manufactured poo poo the Empire does to stay in power? The dark side of the Force is super loving evil and corrupts people, and Palpatine is a powerful sorcerer, OP.
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garycoleisgod posted:I have always thought that Sith didn't make up all of the dark side force users. Like all Sith are dark, but not all dark are sith. Like all Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians are catholic. I have the same idea and I think it's to reconcile the idea of dark Jedi we had from the EU with the "rule of two" they came up with much later that doesn't quite mesh with what we knew from before.
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Mandrel posted:like The Bandit and his hat, The Mandalorian only takes his helmet off for one thing and one thing only shidding
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