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I've never seen TROS without being intoxicated and I don't recommend seeing it sober, whether you use themes or whatever, it's up to you.
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Apr 12, 2021 16:51
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galagazombie posted:Part of what makes the original Tron memorable is a thing that can't be replicated. that it's Computer Animation is so primitive and "bad" that it cycles around to tricking your brain into thinking it's a brave aesthetic decision instead of the fact that computer animation back then just sucked. Even today when you watch the Light-Cycle scene it looks great, but not for any reason the makers intended. I don't really know how you can replicate that weird accidental timeless quality in a sequel. They really couldn't do it in Legacy, where things were pretty much that standard "IPod Future" aesthetic that Hollywood overuses today. Then Legacy basically throws that idea out. The only programs that get any characterization are the antagonists, and Quorra. And Quorra is treated as proof that there are real, original people in Tronworld--what wasn't real enough about Ram and Crom? Well, they were nobodies.
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Apr 19, 2021 22:58
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TheLoquid posted:TLJ is actually extremely easy to understand and has straightforward messages about hope and self-sacrifice and how we have to learn from the past.
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Apr 20, 2021 22:20
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Sheev Page.
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Apr 21, 2021 01:35
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Hey, nobody likes an armed missionary.Blood Boils posted:Ani + Obi shouldn't even be considered friends from work, they've never had voluntary employment. They're warrior monks who were recruited as children!
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Apr 21, 2021 18:12
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Shanty posted:Whatever beef Maul has with the Jedi is really interesting. It's not "at last, we will own these dumbasses and personally grab a bunch of power", it's "at last, we will have revenge". Vinylshadow posted:The 2017 Darth Maul mini-series covers that - Maul's seeking revenge of the Jedi for their massacre of the Sith at Malachor, as well as their weakness born from complacency We can presume that Palpatine and Dooku aren't the only ones buying slave-gladiators, or the Nightsisters wouldn't be training them. They're not there to repel any invasion force. During the Clone Wars, Maul sought out ancient Sith secrets to get revenge on his enemies, not because he cared about some ancient Sith culture that never actually existed onscreen until the last seasons of Rebels and Clone Wars.
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Apr 30, 2021 19:23
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Bigger Luke is now Canon. All glory to Canon!
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May 1, 2021 17:54
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It's amazing how these people just totally spaced on the point Lucas was making when he had Obi-Wan treat lightsabers like they're sacred, only for he and Anakin to both lose their lightsabers constantly.
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May 3, 2021 16:17
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Why is a clone of Luke nine feet tall with claws?
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May 3, 2021 17:48
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Noob Saibot posted:Filloni is doing what Geoff johns does at DC he’s gonna do whatever he wants and completely disrespect other authors and because he has his own fan base the execs are gonna go along with it.
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May 5, 2021 14:37
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Horizon Burning posted:i believe the light side is first mentioned in TFA. otherwise, yes, it was purely an EU creation and has poisoned how people perceive star wars for years since. there is the force and the perverse unbalancing of it - the dark side. to use the common analogy, you don't say that a little bit of cancer in a healthy body is balance.
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May 8, 2021 19:21
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Mantis42 posted:I think people confusedly assumed 'the light side' was a thing and that balance meant both the Jedi and the Sith had equal numbers or influence because of how obviously similar the Force is to the Dao.
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May 8, 2021 22:35
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:I don't "dislike" Star Wars. I grew up with it and have seen the OT many, many times. Of course I'm less in love with it now there's more good than bad, and the overall continuity has been somewhat tarnished, but I still try and find things to like in it, and often find myself grading them downwards after my initial impressions, as reality takes hold, despite my initial optimism.
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May 8, 2021 22:50
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There's no Rule of Two. It makes no sense whatsoever. Yoda says "Always two there are," meaning that there's never just one. It's a comic book thing. There are three Sith in the movies and two more in the animated series, who were all alive at the same time.
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May 24, 2021 17:51
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I know I'm going to regret asking, but is there some Canon answer on whether Palpatine was deformed by his own lightning powers or if Windu just made him drop an illusion that had been there the whole time, or whatever the debate was?
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May 25, 2021 22:49
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Mandrel posted:there’s nothing special about stormtroopers and there never was, it’s just space body armor. euphronius posted:JJ was hired to Star Trek 2009 Star Wars and that didn't work for a lot of reasons. I think that's main takeaway. we still ended up with 3 objectively competent and sometimes good films. I understand that lots of people did not like them for whatever reasons. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 15:41 on May 27, 2021 |
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May 27, 2021 15:39
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The conference room scene in A New Hope is one of my favourite scenes of all time because it's such efficient exposition about boring political stuff in an action adventure film. Snoke, on the other hand, has a scene where his lackey explains basic elements of the setting to him, as if he's some cloistered emperor who has no idea what's going on. Mandrel posted:IX is structured like a 2 hour long YouTube fanedit pulling clips from 3 different movies that don’t exist. it’s just poo poo happening one after another after another Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 16:21 on May 27, 2021 |
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May 27, 2021 16:14
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Yeah, I was prepared to be generous with the movie, but the very first dialogue I was immediately thinking "They don't seem like they're actually having a conversation."
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May 27, 2021 17:58
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Neurolimal posted:He's pretty important, evident by him being the focal point of TLJ's climactic scene. My point is that he wasn't a sacred cow integral to the story that had to be preserved for the final boss fight. He's some rear end in a top hat manipulating petit nazis and throwing around a mentally unstable kid. He gets murdered by his protege as is usually the case for sith, making way for the far more interesting antagonist. He's Count Dooku.
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May 27, 2021 20:51
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean that's around as much characterization as the Empire ever gets. Like, we know this about the empire: 1. It was a Republic before the Emperor took it over 2. The Emperor just dissolved the Senate, the last fig-leaf of rule by the governed in his Empire 3. To avoid ceding any power to a bureaucracy, the Empire will now be a decentralized government where governors have broad powers over vast regions of the galaxy, and individual planets are client states dominated by fear of invasion. 4. This is ludicrously loving expensive, and the Emperor plans to get around that with a superweapon that can obliterate any planet anywhere in the galaxy. 5. There are different branches and factions of the Imperial military whose leaders have differing opinions about this. 6. They're all afraid of the Emperor's hatchetman, a cyborg wizard who defected from the Jedi Order. 7. There's a Rebellion which is gaining sympathy and legitimacy. It's a highly organized movement with standardized weapons, uniforms, formal chains of command, etc. 8. Some now-former senators were aristocrats. Senators like Princess Leia aid the Rebellion under the cover of diplomatic and humanitarian activities, which at least partly explains how it's an organized resistance with serious military hardware. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 21:53 on May 27, 2021 |
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May 27, 2021 21:34
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euphronius posted:Luke Skywalker has vanished. The First Order "rose from the ashes of the Empire." What does that mean? Did the Empire just continue in diminished form after Palpatine's death? Is the FO the government of a lot of planets? Leia is leading a RESISTANCE with the support of the REPUBLIC. What's the distinction? The Republic, by necessity, also rose from the ashes of the Empire; what's its relationship with the FO? Why aren't they at full-scale war? Is the Republic supporting a subversive Resistance in FO territory, or openly supporting a partisan movement against FO occupation? It's muddled either way, because we don't see the FO actually occupying/governing territory beyond Starkiller Base. Compare this to ANH where the Tattooine is clearly under military occupation, while actual governance is quite loose. And that's just the opening crawl. There's also stuff like where FN comes from. The FO forcibly recruits children--so do they conduct raids, or buy slaves, or formally rule a lot of planets and have a conscription system?
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May 27, 2021 22:08
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euphronius posted:The FIRST ORDER reigns.
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May 28, 2021 01:10
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euphronius posted:It also connects to the story of the Phoenix
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May 28, 2021 17:18
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They didn't actually have any way to police most of the galaxy. The Republic was more of a loose international governing body than a nation state.
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May 29, 2021 22:03
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The Senate couldn't even verify what was happening on Naboo during Episode I.
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May 29, 2021 22:14
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Ingmar terdman posted:Tatooine, cloud city, and endor are I suppose the three worlds we get a good look at in the OT. They have distinct fauna and flora and people running about. I understand for a story reason why crait and hoth and going to be barren but why is maz kanata's castle where pirates are flying in and out just in the middle of a generic forest And compared to Mos Eisley the aliens are boring as poo poo. They're more boring than a random scene in Quark's Bar from DS9.
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May 30, 2021 15:25
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That's not realistic. This is Star Wars, a very prestigious Disney imprint. Here, have five aliens with beige, flat, noseless faces.
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May 30, 2021 18:37
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galagazombie posted:Haven't watched Bad Batch.
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Jun 22, 2021 14:24
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I thought that the costume designs in Rebels were mostly very bad. I liked the Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper Mandalorian.
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When a movie is burdened with the task of wrapping up the story of all the old characters, and making good on the promise of the new characters, anything that wastes screen time really stands out. (That said, I totally forgot that they went to the galactic equivalent of a county fair for some goddamned reason.)
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Robot Style posted:Nearly $5000 dollars for two nights in a slate gray compartment with no sunlight, and two of the beds are an oblong hole in the wall.
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I'm a few pages into the comic adaptation of Trevorrow's script, and there are already more interesting alien faces than in the entire ST.
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I like Star Wars.
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Aug 28, 2021 15:57
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I like Star Wars! Good Star Wars I've seen recently: Space Sweepers, Space Truckers,
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The only thing I remember about Thor 2 was the sidekick referring to Mjolnir as "Mew mew." I don't remember anything insincere about Iron Man 2, it's just weird because Vanko is very clearly the hero and he loses.
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I'm ambivalent about Marcia Lucas' comments. The problem is not that the OT characters died. It's that the ST was basically devoted to their sendoff. So to replace them we have these half-formed characters who didn't really get their own arc, and who we're supposed to care about because Luke Skywalker gave them the rub. This is "nadir of WWE" quality storytelling.Jewmanji posted:Pretty sure actors are just gonna start working prohibitions in this stuff into their contracts
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Sep 20, 2021 23:48
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Definitely volcel. He stops the blaster bolt in midflight, how do you think you learn that power?
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:His plot appears to have been deliberately constructed on the bodice-ripper level of being a redeemable bad boy who stalks the female lead but it's okay because destiny. he's a school shooter
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Blood Boils posted:Again, are you really a school shooter if a) your school is also a temple/training ground for religious warriors and b) your teacher draws down on you first?
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