star wars 9 grim resignation thread

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.

SW needs a Feige.

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)

And yeah, as basically every other mega-franchise fails, it becomes more and more impressive/scary how Feige has been able to do it.

xxxp Not marketing teams (they just market), but yeah. There’s no “creative” like Lucas or even Feige guiding the whole thing.

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.

Not marketing teams (they just market)

I think you underestimate their reach and power.

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

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?

xxp I worked at a studio for 15 yrs! They really don’t get involved in the filmmaking... they do generally choose the title, though.

At any rate, it's definitely a good thing if Disney is making $100 million movies based on the ever-shifting whims of the fans (or, rather, the most obnoxiously-vocal fans), that is absolutely the way to make big and expensive films.

Anyone who harbors genuine rancor for TLJ needs some genuine tragedy injected into their life, for serious.

'an uncompromising vision of life in the Empire' is definitely one way to describe salo but i dunno if that's a conversation we should be having in the star wars thread

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.

It's certainly a bracing depiction, but I still have trouble watching the Stormtroopers forcing naked Rebels to eat spoonfuls of feces. Maybe that's just me.

Goddamn it, Scottish clone me. We really need to better coordinate our japery.

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You won't like what happens to redundant posters under the Empire

Apparently there's a lot of fan service. Not shocked but meh.

But i am going to watch this with 12 year old eyes.

I'm skipping Morbid Angel to see this so better be good!

I am sorry to the 12 year old whose eyes i stole tho

i'm glad you addressed it cuz i couldn't find a decent gif of james hong in blade runner saying 'i do eyes'

it's a relief to have a family with no fan-boy inclinations.

^ v much relate to this.

Actual unironic predictions, why the heck not:

Rey is Kylo's sister, separated from her family at birth for a reason which will strain the plot to near-breakage
Luke will appear as a Force ghost or at least a disembodied voice
The word "midichlorians" will be uttered in a throwaway line
There will be a fakeout where we think Palpy is gonna shoot lightning from his fingers but then doesn't, for some reason

It's all been a fantasy in Baby Yoda's head.

It's all a bedtime story being told by an elderly Jar-Jar to his brood of younglings.

I will assume Rey, like Anakin, is a Palpatine mind baby as the latter will reveal in this (possibly with flashbacks, possibly confirmed by FG Anakin himself)

Luke will appear as a Force ghost or at least a disembodied voice

I think this is guaranteed! I predict a few other Force ghosts will appear, as well...

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I can’t think of any way to make Rey fit into the larger storyline that doesn’t feel terribly, well, “Forced”

rey is a time-travelling, shape-shifting watto

I demand Yoda do his giggling while kicking his legs move again

A rebus 4 u all

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the raves are rolling in

Tweeting through tears - #TheRiseofSkywalker isn’t the best Star Wars film, but it is the ULTIMATE Star Wars film. A truly stunning finale to a nine film saga. Only weird thing was the amount of screen time spent on characters wolfing down raw vidalia onions. I ADORED this movie.

— ben mekler (@benmekler) December 17, 2019

Okay, seriously, you need to give some sort of warning before posting things like that so my coworkers don't think I'm having some sort of fit.

avengers endgame vibes from that tweet

I dunno, I don't feel like the consumption of Vidalia onions was quite as front-and-center in Endgame. I'm glad to see Abrams is apparently willing to go all-in on that front.

lol at that guy's Cats tweet being quoted so many places

oh lmao my brain sure skipped over the raw vidalia onions

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— ben mekler (@benmekler) December 17, 2019

lol

Thanks to red carpet coverage on Twitter I learned that Kathleen Kennedy has a twin sister, Connie, who works in visual effects production, including on a bunch of Disney and Marvel stuff.

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I've never been happier about the media paying scant attention to the things they feverishly publish.

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glad at least one person out there is using their blue check for good

The (actually pretty dark) RedLetter take down of the hype cites about a half dozen, maybe more, publications that used a verbatim headline about the movie breaking box office records before it's even opened.

I'm skipping my screening tonight because why not

did you leave your onions at home? poor form imo

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is... is that a glass of onion juice

the featured Star Wars-themed cocktail at my drafthouse-style theater, no doubt

which we drink while dancing to Larry Levan's remix of "Lapti Nek"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrOSuY12Rrs

That or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfUxy7PdHxY