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josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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the bigger question is, are the star wars movies rational

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Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011
none of them are real. you only think you saw them.

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012

Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.




Wedge Regret
The Star Wars movies and shows are real and strong and most of them are my friends.

No, not you, Rise of Skywalker. Never you.

Twenty Four
Dec 21, 2008


Cease to Hope posted:

do you think the star wars movies are real

I'm sure the old movies came on reels in theaters but now most films they show are just digital.

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

This title contains sponsored content.

i'm a bit more awake now and I can confidently say that the star wars films are integers

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.
Anyone who wants to play a fine, prequel-rear end experience: Baten Kaitos HD collection. The story and the general design philosophy are pretty explicitly similar but without being too derivative either.

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011
what does that even mean

Twenty Four
Dec 21, 2008


Cease to Hope posted:

what does that even mean

:iiam:

I'm assuming that was posted in the wrong thread because like 30 seconds on a search engine tells me its some anime RPG card video game I have never heard of, and I have no idea what that has to do with star wars movies.

Or maybe FunkyAl is just hopped up on goofballs.

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.

Twenty Four posted:

:iiam:

I'm assuming that was posted in the wrong thread because like 30 seconds on a search engine tells me its some anime RPG card video game I have never heard of, and I have no idea what that has to do with star wars movies.

Or maybe FunkyAl is just hopped up on goofballs.

It's kinda star warsy in the way most jrpgs are star warsy, freedom force fighting against a high tech empire stuff, but the neoclassical/Renaissance visual design, analogues to pre-war Europe, presence of an evil emperor, and the fact that the sequel is a prequel, reminds me of the prequels.

It's just good stuff folks, and you heard it here first.

fartknocker
Oct 28, 2012

Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.




Wedge Regret

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011
i played the first baten kaitos game, it just left no impression on me other than very generic JRPG that was part of a shortlived card-battler RPG fad

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.
Well then you are lost!

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


FunkyAl posted:

Anyone who wants to play a fine, prequel-rear end experience: Baten Kaitos HD collection. The story and the general design philosophy are pretty explicitly similar but without being too derivative either.

My prequel experience was going wow this sucks.

Not much of a recommendation for a video game

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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it's the experience of every video game

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


josh04 posted:

it's the experience of every video game

Stop playing bad video games!

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

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CainFortea posted:

Stop playing ... video games!

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.

CainFortea posted:

My prequel experience was going wow this sucks.

Not much of a recommendation for a video game

My prequel experience was getting to leave school early to see revenge of the sith. Enjoy your homework!

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


FunkyAl posted:

My prequel experience was getting to leave school early to see revenge of the sith. Enjoy your homework!

Some of us aren't literal children and weren't in school when the prequels came out.

Zoran
Aug 19, 2008

I lost to you once, monster. I shall not lose again! Die now, that our future can live!

CainFortea posted:

Some of us aren't literal children and weren't in school when the prequels came out.

Aren’t literal children? No children currently alive were in school when the prequels came out

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.

CainFortea posted:

Some of us aren't literal children and weren't in school when the prequels came out.

Enjoy your high-powered corporate position at Sears!

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Zoran posted:

Aren’t literal children? No children currently alive were in school when the prequels came out

Everyone younger than me is a child. Everyone older than me is a boomer.

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011
tbh homework vs ROTS is kind of a toss up

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Cease to Hope posted:

tbh homework vs ROTS is kind of a toss up

Not exactly. Math can be a lot of fun.

Tenebrais
Sep 2, 2011

Episode I was a fun kids' movie and that is the best thing Star Wars can be.

2 and 3 were worse because they stopped trying to be kids' movies.

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Any movie is a kids movie if you show it to a kid.

Twenty Four
Dec 21, 2008


CainFortea posted:

Any movie is a kids movie if you show it to a kid.

lol, the implications

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.
Meantime, the Lego Batman movie is for adults because I was an adult when it was released.

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

This title contains sponsored content.

Tenebrais posted:

Episode I was a fun kids' movie and that is the best thing Star Wars can be.

2 and 3 were worse because they stopped trying to be kids' movies.

It's true, George's one moment of cowardice was cutting the role of Jarjar down in subsequent movies.

FunkyAl posted:

Meantime, the Lego Batman movie is for adults because I was an adult when it was released.

Lego Batman also wants for Jarjar.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017
Star Wars has always been for children.

BiggestBatman
Aug 23, 2018
When I tried to get my Star Wars a kid was holding the last copy of it and I told him he couldn't take anything from that aisle unless he was with his parents so he went to go get them and I took his Star Wars and bought it heh heh

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



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Tenebrais posted:

Episode I was a fun kids' movie and that is the best thing Star Wars can be.

This is what is making Skeleton Crew one for the ages. Just a perfect kid's show, mixing Treasure Island with the Goonies, but in the Star Wars universe.

Capturing that vibe of fun, simple, exciting kid's adventures that just hasn't been around for the longest time.

Sally
Jan 9, 2007


Don't post Small Dash!
all RPGs are Star Wars prequels or sequels. some are just more honest about it than others (eg KOTOR)

banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




Tenebrais posted:

Episode I was a fun kids' movie and that is the best thing Star Wars can be.

2 and 3 were worse because they stopped trying to be kids' movies.

A space rhino headbutts a space panther.
Jango flying judo kicks a jedi
Kermit the frog fights Dracula


How the heck is 2 not a kids movie?

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011
the fact that a significant amount of the movie is pretty juvenile doesn't make it a kids' movie

banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




What exactly makes something "not a kids movie" in your eyes?

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.

banned from Starbucks posted:

What exactly makes something "not a kids movie" in your eyes?

when it does cognitive harm

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.

George posted:

when it does cognitive harm

I've got some bad news about kid's movies.

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011

banned from Starbucks posted:

What exactly makes something "not a kids movie" in your eyes?

idk, really. i'm not invested especially in whether any given prequel is a kids' movie. there definitely do exist movies that are juvenile or childish at times that aren't particularly well-suited to kids. logically, that means juvenalia is necessary(?) but not sufficient for a movie to be a kids' movie.

Twenty Four
Dec 21, 2008


banned from Starbucks posted:

What exactly makes something "not a kids movie" in your eyes?

I think "what does/doesn't make something a kids movie" is a combination of intent and execution with the creation, with the intent probably being the most defining factor.

If you set out to make a kids movie, then it is. It might not be "appropriate for all ages" or even at all depending on the execution, especially if the execution fails.

If a movie wasn't planned as a kids movie but is kid appropriate, it's still not a "kids movie" just "fine for kids".

Speaking towards movies in general, usually it's pretty obvious what they were going for, sometimes not so much and it's a little more tricky especially with movies that look to be for kids on the surface but end up being pretty dark, which is for some reason fairly common. Or the much more common "kids movies that are good for adults" usually because of some humor thrown in.

Then you get stuff like these movies where I don't feel like I can even trust the revisionist words coming straight from George Lucas when he claims what he was going for or was thinking.

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017
Star Wars is for the children, like Wu-Tang.

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