Star Wars 8 shit talk

looking at those DC "flop" numbers are insane, perhaps the current blockbuster film business is just unsustainable

― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), 31. december 2017 19:14 (fifty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It is. The Dark Tower was both a major flop, and the best selling film directed by a Danish director ever. The studious are throwing so much money at stupid ideas with untested directors it's insane. Everyone wants to get the next big Cinematic Universe, or the next Jurassic World.

if this business can't figure out a way to make money on selling 3 quarters of a billion in tickets I don't know what to tell them

I think the marketing costs are scaled to the production costs so you end up with tons of money tacked on to the budget

It’d be funny if they eschewed tv commercials and major ads for the next Star Wars film and just let it ride on momentum

I hope they one up ROTJ and advertise one title up until opening night and then reveal a different title when it opens

Star Wars: Big Ship Go Boom Boom

More thoughts later but a second viewing really does make the film even better watching, and I very much enjoyed it out of the gate. A couple of moments remain drawn out but the pace works very well and I really did enjoy multiple creative moments in both editing and cinematography in particular.

Hamill’s performance remains strong but I was taken at how well Ridley and Driver did, especially in the telepathy scenes where the other wasn’t there.

honestly they could have just cut out everything that Finn was involved in and you'd have a better, shorter movie

That would mean losing Rose, and no.

she was good but could I live with out that character to ditch cat horses, Del Toro, and slot machine leprechaun?

better to just trim down the screen time for the horses, del toro, and the slot machine gags. but i've made my case on that one.

xpost Faith and begorra. Or is that Force and begorra?

also I just remembered Mr. Leftovers as a weird Hunger Games villain with that brooch lol, man that whole thing was goofy

Liked the character and actor, but I wish so much of the Rose stuff were not so contrived. Nonsensical bombing raid set up so that her sister gets sacrificed to give her motivation, spontaneous crush on non-entity (and demonstrated coward!) Finn to give her a romantic motivation, culminating in ... a potential suicide run to prevent someone else's suicide run?

Anyway, mentioned earlier but lots of suicides or attempted suicides in this movie!

well, they wanted to make sure it was as difficult as possible for poe to discern when it's a good thing to selflessly throw yourself into the fray for the greater good, and when it's just a needless waste motivated by ego.

We’re binging The IT Crowd today and I realized all technical criticisms of how Star Wars works are basically the same as complaining that the IT Crowd building would have at least had smoke detectors.

Yeah my stepmom helpfully incorrectly spoilered the movie for me by saying "the main character dies" and that b/w the divided reception ("A CONTROVERSIAL NEW DIRECTION IN STAR WARS FILMA") really had me thinking Rey was gonna die

Like 10 minutes in it occurred to me this was such an ensemble that "the main character" from her POV could be *anyone* which really raised the stakes for me in every fight/battle sequence (woah , and I really bought that Finn was gonna bite it in that run

Rose as a character is fine but she feels like a plucky Disney sidekick grafted onto a Star Wars film. Also the off-ness of calling a character Rose in the SW universe really grates - other protags have otherly names like Rey, Kylo, Poe, Maz ... even Finn gets away with being a Verizon of his serial number. And then ... Rose.

ack, version, there isn’t even a company of that name in my country you stupid autocorrect

Han, Luke, Leia

Ben, Owen, Bubba, Ray, Rex, Cody, Django

elan sleazebaganno

did we get a last name? she could be rose sleazebaganno.

well now she’ll be rose sleazebaganno to me until proven otherwise

it’s Tico

oh right

tombot with the block

she was rose sleazebaganno for less then 30 seconds ffs

tom lolzblockanno

Han? Leia? Not everyday names to me. Dunno who Bubba is. Django is Jango but I’ll take it. But Rose just sounds like lazy DGAF writing.

“Leia” seems like a variation of “Leah” which is a perfectly ordinary name.

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."

some of their names may sound like some of ours but it's just coincidence

Like...really? Obi-Wan goes by Ben in ANH, there's Luke, Luke's uncle is named Owen, all kindsa common names in the uni

Yoda’s last name? Ho, obviously

http://www.tshirtbordello.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/600x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/i/d/idaho-udaho-lg.gif

Lucas got the names for the main trio of heroes while at a bar overhearing a dude defending his gf: "look if you lay a hand on her..."

Better than asking his 4 yr old or whoever for prequel names.

prequel names do include a Ric, another Ben, and an Evan iirc but yeah overall it's a syllable dartboard disaster over there

More real people should be named after verbs. Wedge, Bail, Mace.

porkins

Biggs

god dammit I'm sure I remember making some kind of actual point about "plucky sidekick Rose" back there

I can't find where I posted the original Darth Icky story :(

Star Wars 7 shit talk

also detailed here

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/04/04/fall-of-the-empire-how-inner-turmoil-brought-down-a-legendary-studio.aspx

But then a phantom menace struck. George Lucas would periodically check in on the status of the games his company was making, lending creative input and advice. The developer I talked to sighs, and agitatedly says, “In one viewing of Fracture, [Lucas] said it looked really good, but he didn’t like [Mason Briggs’] name. We’re like, ‘What do you mean, George?’ He responded to the effect of, ‘It doesn’t really fit. When he jumps on stuff, he moves pretty fast. I like B.J. Dart.’

dying

TS: BJ Dart vs. Jet Brody

Meantime, more on roast Porgs and how to get green milk (that creature wasn't CGI, it turns out)

http://collider.com/the-last-jedi-neal-scanlan-interview/#porgs-caretakers-fathiers-vulptex-crystal-foxes

might go see this again today, expecting to have a contented, enjoyable DC-like second viewing experience

better than cgi recreation of carrie fisher in a film not yet made how abt cgi removal of ewan macgregor from three films that have been

Movie would have been way better if Rose had been played by Awkwafina. Or if she'd played any part, really.

i remember the shiver of naive optimism i felt when told that macgregor was to play obi-wan. 'wow, nothing is sacred - and that's a good thing!' is what i thought, or something along those lines. everything was yet to play for. it could have all turned out so differently.

there is no film he isn't the worst thing in

(i am watching attack of the clones for the first time to test this thesis)