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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:it was too much fun what show are we talking about ?
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echinopsis posted:oh yep lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbMFLDb3CbI yeah that part sarah connor does not like it when her firstborn incest baby dies
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGSw1zeYdcQ for when you really, REALLY need to let people know you smoke w̨͌ͯ̈́̅͢͏͇̬̺̤͚̜ ̳͈͓̼̼͊̿͑̍̄̋̑ę̷̶̞͚̙̻̹̺̙̠̲̐̋͗͌̀̎ͤ̚ ̖̪̹͕̳̺̪̖͕̋̃͑ͨ̊̓̏͡ȩ̵̛̘͈͕͈̭̄ͮͥ͋͑ ͚̰̘͆̾́ͭ̓̃ͨ̆̈́̀d̓̿̾ͩ͏̧͖̭̳͇̞̗̘
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rewatching The Phantom Menace for the first time in almost fifteen years and I think I've figured out what the problem with the movie is. it's not that jar jar binks is a poo poo character. it's not that the writing sucks. it's not that the early pre-LOTR digital film and CGI combination is noticeable and kinda janky it's that there are scene cuts every loving 30 seconds. I'm half an hour in and there have been at least fifty wipes, most of which are jumping completely out of the context of what's going on prior to the wipe. it's all still in the naboo/trade federation/palpatine story but it's insanely jarring and it feels absolutely nothing like any of the other star wars films. even Attack of the Clones has the sense to make any given scene last five minutes -- we're not spending 30 seconds on mandalore then jumping back to the senate then 30 seconds later popping over to the council then back to mandalore, we spend a good chunk of time with Obi-Wan on Mandalore going over the clone project and meeting actual important characters, culminating with an interesting fight scene we haven't even met Anakin yet and this is already an insanely disjointed mess that makes me wonder when george started eating solids for breakfast instead of yayo e: good loving work to the 4K blu-ray team on this one for placing the hardcoded watto subtitles in a manner that gets cut off by the 3840x1608 matte. even the lucasfilm dipshits knew this film wasn't worth saving.
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Kazinsal posted:rewatching The Phantom Menace for the first time in almost fifteen years and I think I've figured out what the problem with the movie is. it's not that jar jar binks is a poo poo character. it's not that the writing sucks. it's not that the early pre-LOTR digital film and CGI combination is noticeable and kinda janky https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-the-seven-star-wars-films-reveal-about-george-lucas “The Phantom Menace” was depressing, perhaps because of the centrality of the child Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), whose perky earnestness in a holy cause makes the movie feel like a homiletic children’s broadcast. The actual emotional peak of the film—the “Ben-Hur” parody of the space-chariot race, which Lucas realized with obvious verve and delight—occurred early on, while the huge quantities of exposition and lengthy establishment of the conflicts underlying the episode and the series turned the film into a slog. Nonetheless, the sheer volume of that exposition, the invention of an intergalactic politics to counterbalance the quasi-religious story, impressed me even more than the mythology of “A New Hope”—even if Lucas here relied on even duller methods to deliver it. What’s more, one visual device—the red zone of the shield generator, which filled the screen to look like a faded and scratched color print running sideways—was utterly arresting (I watched it three or four times in a row) and it suggested realms of invention that Lucas was barely ready to tap.
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gently caress me I totally forgot about the whole virgin birth angle aaaaaaaaaaaaagh I wish I could go back in time and get george off the blow
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Kazinsal posted:it's not that jar jar binks is a poo poo character. it's not that the writing sucks. jar jar is a different kind of character than we've had in star wars before. he's the key to all this.
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Kazinsal posted:gently caress me I totally forgot about the whole virgin birth angle  it's like hearing about the woman who had to transcribe tarantino's script for pulp fiction barely intelligible and you have to wipe the blood and coke off the pages
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indigi posted:"amusing" "and promiscuous" -Spielberg ya know for a 12 y/o
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anyway The Duel (aka Duel Of The Iron Fist) was wild. check it out. not to be confused with Duel Of Fists, also from 1971 by the same director lol
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Kazinsal posted:it's that there are scene cuts every loving 30 seconds. I'm half an hour in and there have been at least fifty wipes, most of which are jumping completely out of the context of what's going on prior to the wipe. george lucas is a terrible editor. star wars was famously saved in editing by his wife. really the credit for star wars' success should go 50% to marcia lucas and 50% to ILM. as a terrible editor, if he had the final cut over phantom menace, which of course he did, that's why it's disjointed and awful. he also sucks at directing. he did not direct empire strikes back, and it is obviously the best one. he's not a good scriptwriter either (see those screenshots above). and his ideas are all fundamentally ripped off from prior works. what is he good at, anyway?
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Sagebrush posted:what is he good at, anyway? WORLDBUILDING! here's the merchant character, who keeps child slaves and has a big nose
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Sagebrush posted:george lucas is a terrible editor. star wars was famously saved in editing by his wife. really the credit for star wars' success should go 50% to marcia lucas and 50% to ILM. truth the best thing he hasn't done was Andor which was a love letter to his student project THX 1138 clever man, that was also his phone number lando, windu, etc
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Sagebrush posted:what is he good at, anyway? taking the credit
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:truth
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indiana jones is my favorite fictional character so i just wanna point out that, despite george lucas' best attempts, spielberg eventually decided marion was 16 and indy was a 26 year old grad student when they first met. it's gross but 1925 was a different time and indy is NOT a pedophile. 
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Sagebrush posted:indiana jones is my favorite fictional character so i just wanna point out that, despite george lucas' best attempts, spielberg eventually decided marion was 16 and indy was a 26 year old grad student when they first met. it's gross but 1925 was a different time and indy is NOT a pedophile. so with tenure and planes in place, what hat do you usually wear?
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Sagebrush posted:and motorcycles! don't forget motorcycles. haha, true!
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Sagebrush posted:he also sucks at directing. he did not direct empire strikes back, and it is obviously the best one. The best bad directing in Star Wars is Hamill and Fischer slipping into fake english accents whenever they are opposite Guinness and Cushing
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Sagebrush posted:and his ideas are all fundamentally ripped off from prior works. this one is kindof a bullshit criticism. it’s not like he’s lifting other movies scene-for-scene. liking to make art that deliberately calls back to other work or builds on it is not some grave artistic sin
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mystes posted:What the gently caress is this real? as real as anything else: https://moedred.livejournal.com/2009/03/04/ under "TAPE TWO"
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rjmccall posted:this one is kindof a bullshit criticism. it’s not like he’s lifting other movies scene-for-scene. liking to make art that deliberately calls back to other work or builds on it is not some grave artistic sin I'm not criticizing him for ripping off other movies, just countering the argument that "sure, he's not a great director or editor or screenwriter, but he comes up with such creative ideas!" His ideas aren't that creative in the end. Star Wars is Kurosawa plus Dambusters in space. Star Wars is the best space opera series and Indiana Jones is the best adventure series, but that's because of the whole team. Lucas is just the boss
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Sagebrush posted:indiana jones is my favorite fictional character so i just wanna point out that, despite george lucas' best attempts, spielberg eventually decided marion was 16 and indy was a 26 year old grad student when they first met. it's gross but 1925 was a different time and indy is NOT a pedophile. 
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infernal machines posted:as real as anything else uhh
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infernal machines posted:as real as anything else: https://moedred.livejournal.com/2009/03/04/ under "TAPE TWO" 
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sorry, would it help if it had a blue check?
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rotor posted:uhh what? do you want to get into the burden of proof for a supposed transcript of an informal chat recorded in 1978, here, in the sci-fi thread? either you believe that is a transcript of a recorded session or you don't there's not going to be a fulsome accounting and chain of trust here. this is some poo poo that would have been on some fan usenet 30 years ago, but instead it's on this person's livejournal page from 2009 the transcript itself has been posted elsewhere, not using this site as the original source, it's a thing that's been around for quite a while infernal machines fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Dec 5, 2022 |
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