star wars 9 grim resignation thread

they PROBABLY would have come out the gate with more of an MCU-type structure

thank Obi-Wan for small mercies

oh so we have spoilers here now anyway

"grim resignation" is in the thread title but i didn't imagine it'd describe the end of the movie

yeah thx Alfred, not paying to see this now.

Mission accomplished *Palpatine cackle*

c'monnn alfred, man, i'm deliberately not bookmarking the spoilers thread

imagine if we’d learned in Return of the Jedi that Darth Vader had lied and wasn’t really Luke’s father

c'monnn alfred, man, i'm deliberately not bookmarking the spoilers thread

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, December 18, 2019

I genuinely didn't see the other thread! Also, I genuinely underestimated people's aversion to spoilers; they've never stopped me from seeing or not seeing anything.

^ either uncharacteristically myopic or willfully, puckishly perverse, not sure which. People avoiding SW spoilers, you say? Why, I had no idea!

that's a lot of adverbs for me to scan without my contacts!

Alfred nudging his friend with a 'watch this' twinkle in his eye as he walks out of an ESB screening and past a throng of people eagerly waiting to see what exciting revelations this new chapter will hold.

SW film goes reactionary w/ f*n s*rvice, film at 11 (god what a hideous term)

more like "Sotosyn stumbling out of The Two Popes wondering what cantrips he can cast that will make the Adriatic and Mediterranean rise just enough to destroy Vatican City."

ROTJ already kind of did a complete backtrack from the scope and darkness of Empire Strikes Back so in a way this is rhyming, it’s true poetry.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SilkyRepulsiveFallowdeer-small.gif

In this movie, the Emperor shoots electricity out his butt

LOL @ posting spoilers immediately after like six posts from people about avoiding spoilers, what a thread

Zombie Samuel L. shows up to give Palpatine a force bolt facelift, undoing all that unsightly prunefacery he caused back in the day, perhaps giving him back those creepy old chimp eyes while he's at it.

Xpost mine most def isn't...i hope

A New Pope

you’ve been talking about movies on the internet for like 15 years now, come on

anyway I’m sure I’ll forget that once I actually get around to seeing this

I...liked this! Ridiculous, overstuffed, fan-servicey and epic at the best of times ( Abrams grew a sense of scale that extends beyond a couple of shots!). Right now it's my fave of the new 3.

Jar Jar appear?

Sadly for you...no.

100% That Binks

Lol

Everybody getting all crestfallen about the absence of Jar Jar can take heart that there's still plenty of Boss Nass in this film, including an entire dance sequence set to the B-Boys' 'Sure Shot' (as is the Abrams way).

I know it's evoked on occasion, but it still needs to be explicitly pointed out now and again: this movie was directed by someone who put a Beastie Boys song in each of the Star Trek movies he directed. That actually happened.

SW film goes reactionary w/ f*n s*rvice, film at 11 (god what a hideous term)

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:17 AM (two hours ago)

Morbs it'll fascinate you to (perhaps) learn that "fan service" didn't originally mean "stuff fans want" it specifically meant "pointless T&A in anime"

i don't recognize that distinction

tomato tomato

^ crude-yet-effective description of fanservice

I thought it meant "Jake Gyllenhaal, meet me for an Old-Fashioned."

I guess at the end of the day fanservice comes down to how you like your tomatoes.

an old fashioned what, one may wonder

http://www.sparklesintheeveryday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Gluten-Free-Old-Fashioned-Tomato-Relish.jpg

Call me old fashioned, but there's nothing I relish like a hot tomata'!

(This has been the 'star wars 9 grim resignation' thread, only on ILX.)

Do plenty people go for Tomata?

What is this diarrhea

-Peter Travers

You know your Star War has gone south when you've lost Rolling Stone.

#CATSMovie first reactions call it "way too horny" and "bewildering"https://t.co/PLEU1IRoWR pic.twitter.com/zgjmIrFo8w

— MirrorMovies (@MirrorMovies) December 17, 2019

"Five stars, purrrfect."

Can a movie be too horny?

can a movie about cats with human tits be too horny

I don't think so

if you touch me
You'll understand
What happiness is

First leaked scene from Cats:

https://media.giphy.com/media/11sYjstB0hOL04/giphy.gif

Does Jason DeRulo sing his character's name over and over

Ok so... it's Abrams. But...based on some of the press I was pleasantly surprised.

I mean...I cannot stan for this the way I did TLJ. It has a solid first half but gets really messy in the second. He stuffs too much in there and some of it doesn't land.

But...it hit enough right notes for me that I enjoyed it. Definitely a dumber SW movie than the one before but hey the OG trilogy was often p dumb too.

I did like some of the new mythos