"to be continued with three more movies directed by Uwe Boll"
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
btw if ppl wanna shit talk Star Wars 8 I just made this brand new thread: Star Wars 8 shit talk
― insecurity bear (sic), Monday, 16 December 2019 06:00 (four years ago) link
Good call - let’s keep this thread silent and the lines open, in case anything happens in the next five days!
― Inapt Authority (morrisp), Monday, 16 December 2019 06:39 (four years ago) link
I guess my understanding of the advanced physics that make possible the transportation technology of the Star Wars milieu is not sufficiently developed to enable me to make any confident statements about what is realistic or not. Could there be slow bombers? Maybe? Could there be some reason to drag a needle in red snow? I guess? My criteria basically boil down to: does it look cool? But I get that tastes differ.
― o. nate, Monday, 16 December 2019 15:10 (four years ago) link
I get the impression that those bombers weren't meant to be flown in heavy crossfire and were meant to do Enola Gay-esque bomb dropping which is why Poe got screamed at afterward
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
It'S NOT SNOW IT'S SALT
GAWD
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 December 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
it's cocaine iirc
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 16 December 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
roll it up in some death sticks
― mh, Monday, 16 December 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
I totally forgot the last one ended with Jedi street urchins or something. I wonder if this new one will feature an army of children to the rescue? It would certainly save on Ewok costumes.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 December 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Monday, 16 December 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
"It's not snow, it's poiso ... agggh!"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 December 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
"it's...bird shit"
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Abrams has anticipated the audience groaning when he introduces what appears to be yet another desert planet in the next installment until the 'sand' is revealed to be graham cracker crumbs.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 December 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Surprised there is no character named Guano.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 December 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Lol @ old lunch
― Inapt Authority (morrisp), Monday, 16 December 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
Missed my opportunity to make the now-obvious '(tastes sand) Sir...it's a dessert planet!' joke.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 December 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
'...Raspberry!'
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
My kids and I want a Spaceballs II so badly
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
read some alleged spoilers for this and: lol
― Simon H., Monday, 16 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
No one believed me when I told them that the Skywalker referred to in the title was in fact Luke's new husband Kylo, bet you're all embarrassed now.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
Rey is Darth Plagueis
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
...is Count Dooku
― Simon H., Monday, 16 December 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
But who becomes Darth Chocula
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
going to be wild when Kylo somehow pulls the exact same lightsaber trick a second time to take out Palpatine, followed by him saying "I'm Emperor now"
― mh, Monday, 16 December 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
Question for those that have seen spoilers: will there be The Force in this, y/n?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 December 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
yes, but also characters' midichlorian counts are displayed onscreen like the eventual deaths in The Irishman
― Simon H., Monday, 16 December 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
Lol, first reaction from colleague who was at press screening: It's like it's written by a Star Wars fan who had his childhood ruined by The Last Jedi.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
the spoilers floating around out there are distinctly unpromising
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 12:02 (four years ago) link
Kylo Ren opens the shower door and there stands Snoke in all his soapy glory.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
I'm awfully glad I didn't allow myself to get invested in these things. TFA marked the first time my entire family went to the theater together in probably 30 years (very nearly pulling it off again, minus one person, with TLJ and hopefully achieving the trifecta this year), and if that's all I get out of the new trilogy, it's enough.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
lol I think the last movie my entire family saw together in the theatre was ... Dr. Strange? (It was totally forgettable, iirc, and I suspect they harbor a quiet grudge for being dragged to something so unmemorable). Now even the movies we all see we see in waves and various combos. They have less than zero interest in the new Star Wars, or Star Wars in general, afaict. I don't think my wife even knows what a Wookie is. We have Disney+, and 2/3 of the big draws might as well be invisible to them.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
142 minutes
short!
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link
These days, yeah, that might as well be a pre-feature cartoon.
I've got to say, as someone who grew up steeped in this shit (Star Wars 1 in the theatre 1978 or so may be my earliest memory), it's a relief to have a family with no fan-boy inclinations. My girls are getting older, but they still love Frozen, and yet, though they saw the new movie opening weekend, that, more or less, was it. I guess they listen to the songs sometimes. It's possible the Harry Potter films had a SW like impact on them, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
I was genuinely shocked that my sister (who has evinced precisely zero interest in SW ever) saw TLJ with us, and genuinely the opposite when she opted to sit out the follow-up.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
even the usually hyperbolic Twitter first reactions are tentative. normally I root for everything to be good but in this case a fiasco would be much more fun
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
I do like reading the Kathleen Kennedy cool-your-brakes stories, with Iger being all "full steam ahead!" and Kennedy being more cautious about the future of the franchise.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
it's completely baffling to me that disney's approach to making the mainline star wars movies seems to be a one-at-a-time thing with no clear idea of an overarching three-movie plot at the outset
although i guess having an actual licence to print money means you don't need to worry about this stuff much
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
I’ll be going with my wife on Saturday (my son’s still too young to see a movie like this cold, without me pre-screening it... though I felt a little cruel mentioning that mommy and I are going to see the new Star Wars movie, lol)
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
xpost I'm not that baffled. If the last several years of franchise moviemaking have taught us anything it's that very few people seem to have the ability to do it with any real alacrity. Everyone else just seems to be flying by the seat of their pants and hoping for the best.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
That’s how the first trilogy was made, yeah? Except with 3 years between films. Maybe they assumed lightning would strike twice.
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
yeah, you're right - just seems weird that you have marvel on one side of the disney operation organising a 23-film story with relatively few public hitches and over on the star wars side you've got regular eruptions of creative confusion
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
Even though he only directed the first, I gather that Lucas was still pretty heavily involved in the OG trilogy. As opposed to most franchises today which one assumes are largely shepherded by studio execs and marketing teams.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
SW needs a Feige.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
I really think The Force Awakens is better from feeling like it can stand on it's own, instead of feeling like it's just setting up a trilogy. But it really didn't set up a trilogy, lol. And yeah, with Solo being a setback for the standalone films, I'd quite honestly be more amused if this one 'failed' as well. (it's not going to fail, everyone is going to see it. I'll see it as well in the new year)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
And yeah, as basically every other mega-franchise fails, it becomes more and more impressive/scary how Feige has been able to do it.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
xxxp Not marketing teams (they just market), but yeah. There’s no “creative” like Lucas or even Feige guiding the whole thing.
― I'm off Twitter, and high on life! (morrisp), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
I might not even see the new one but tbh the whole thing seems like Disney and co reacting to the discourse and working based on that to try to please the fans - people complained that TFA was too familiar so TLJ veered contrary; people complained even harder about that so they (apparently) veered back hard towards the familiar.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
Not marketing teams (they just market)
I think you underestimate their reach and power.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
it'd be interesting to know how much of the extremely online hate for the last jedi actually exists among regular moviegoers - presumably disney have reams of market research on that, and in terms of pure box office tfa made $2bn and tlj made a relatively paltry $1.3bn
― WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
I have to say I was also really baffled by Salo at first but I've come around to it. It's an uncompromising vision of life in the Empire. I'll be disappointed if Rise of Skywalker rows back from that. Maybe there's only room for one 'one for the dads' entry in the canon though?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link