my memory is that the most cringe-inducing bits got worse in 2 and then 3 but on average the films improved
― ciderpress, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
I actually like RotS. But can't ride for the two prior
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 December 2019 03:26 (four years ago) link
It's better if you imagine both Anakin and Padme were being puppeteered by Palpatine and that's why they seemed like zombies
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 December 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
Spoiler alert: this movie was rad.
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Sunday, 22 December 2019 04:56 (four years ago) link
The Wayfinder is cool i want one also apparently girl at end that Lando talks to apparently long lost daughter as hinted in some of the comics that's good i thought he was just trying to fuck her
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:00 (four years ago) link
Haha, that’s interesting to know... my wife thought there was gonna be a gag where he goes (after a beat) “...What’s your mama’s name?”
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:07 (four years ago) link
guys this is not the spoiler thread
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:10 (four years ago) link
Fuuuuuck sorry about that
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:27 (four years ago) link
After drinking a bit I guess I saw morrisp's post that said spoiler and conflated that with the thread title.
MODS CAN U DELETE
Yeah sorry, was following N’s lead there, lol (guess that’s no excuse)
― Nobody uses the phone anymore (morrisp), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:33 (four years ago) link
Nobody should ever follow my lead!
― Bublé in the changer, I wish I was dead (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:34 (four years ago) link
this is the first take I've seen that makes me want to pirate it
Rise of Skywalker is the perfect culmination of the Star Wars series. An accidental masterpiece on the impossibility of art under late capitalism. Five Bags of Popcorn and ten Babu Fricks.— Morton Downey III (@cushbomb) December 22, 2019
― Simon H., Sunday, 22 December 2019 05:45 (four years ago) link
Lol
http://www.sntstory.com/2020/01/02/the-192-minute-j-j-abrams-rise-of-skywalker-cut-is-coming-sooner-than-you-think/
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
oh thank god disney have seen sense because the main issues with this film were definitely that a) it was not long enough and b) there should have been even more callbacks to the previous movies
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
Love to see a corporate entity with more money than god whose guiding principle is 'fortune favors the...em, er...well, let's not make any hasty declarations on that front until after we've done extensive market research and focus testing'.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
look i'm not gonna lie if it's 40 extra minutes of babu frik then i'll be there day one
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
Babu Frik performing Public Enemy's Fight the Power
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
shut up and take my money
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
Also the lonely Tosche Station owner finally gives up waiting for Luke. His name...
Mr Binks, Esq
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
*taps the display name badge*
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
that site with this story looks.. uh, really reputable
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
Lol yea. The real story seems less uhh interesting
https://www.ign.com/articles/2020/01/04/star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-star-hopes-theres-a-directors-cut-dominic-monaghan-jj-abrams
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
no additional frik, no deal
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
Monaghan then described a scene that he was a part of that didn't make the theatrical cut.“Another thing that we will hopefully see at some point in the future," he said, "is that in the final battle, Connix [played by Billie Lourd] injures her leg. Obviously, myself, Rose and Connix are exiting the battle, and Rose has a weapon. While Rose is busy doing stuff, I grab Connix’s arm and put it over my shoulder to make sure that all of us come back as unscathed as possible.”
“Another thing that we will hopefully see at some point in the future," he said, "is that in the final battle, Connix [played by Billie Lourd] injures her leg. Obviously, myself, Rose and Connix are exiting the battle, and Rose has a weapon. While Rose is busy doing stuff, I grab Connix’s arm and put it over my shoulder to make sure that all of us come back as unscathed as possible.”
wow this sounds amazing
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
I really didn't get why Monaghan was in the film
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
What I want to see is the meal they enjoyed before the battle. In real time, if at all possible.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:13 (four years ago) link
Monaghan, like several other actors, was in the film because he'd worked with Abrams before, full stop.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
This film needed to be shorter, not longer. Or, the script needed to be simpler. But when there is no fucking point to any of it, it's hard to know what to leave out.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
Billie Lourd was robbed tbh
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
As recently discovered in the Rise of Skywalker Visual Dictionary, Monaghan played historian Beaumont Kin, who was on track to become one the youngest professors at the Lerct Historical Institute before the First Order destroyed the Hosnian system.
phew, glad we cleared that up
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
did we even know that billie lourd's character's name was connix?
She's named in one or both of the prior movies
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
you can see Leia's lips not lining up with the dialogue when she says "Billie, get me a coffee" instead of "Connix, what's our status"
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
The Arhul Hextrophon School of Embedded Journalism was a school located on Lerct. Beaumont Kin attended the school, and met the Rebel Alliance historian Voren Na'al there.
I haven't seen Rise of Skywalker yet, but I'm assuming that the Arhul Hextrophon School of Embedded Journalism is an absolutely central setting.
― jmm, Monday, 6 January 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
yeah, babu frik is a columnist for the new yavin times who ends up reporting from the front lines of the battle with the final order
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
I bet Monaghan is telling everybody he had a major part that was cut by the evil studio to just his handful of scenes
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
bg constantly making me lol today
The film is largely focused on j-school prof Luke's attempts at securing tenure. Sorry 4 spoilers.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
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― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
I'm rewatched the prequels, mostly because all the post-mortem discourse about "Episode 3 being actually pretty good" made me realize that I had no memory of ever seeing it. (I don't think I actually ever did!)
It's pretty easy to target the awfulness of the "romance" elements, Jar Jar, and talk about how "an explanation for the mystical elements of this series are not what drew us to it in the first place", but as a plot schematic, I'm pretty begrudgingly surprised at how well Lucas was able to create a compelling character out of Palpatine.
Lucas has proposed (I think) that the series be viewed in order-- this would mean that Luke Skywalker's origins, and parentage, would be established before the reveal in 5, so, fuck that-- but I am attracted to the idea that viewing 1-3 might create in the viewer a not-knowing of Palpatine's intentions, and make his re-appearance in 5 (and re-emergence in 6) be that much more compelling, idk. I think there's a lot of good work done here even if, if, if, etc.
― kelis navidad (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
This whole fuckery ended better than Game Of Thrones, at the very least
Weird! I was gifted a year of Disney+ for xmas so, as you do, I spent the weekend watching eps 1-2 (for the second time ever in their entirety) and starting on The Clone Wars cartoon, and my impression is pretty much identical to your own. For all the garbage in the prequels that people justifiably denounce, the Palpatine plot and the machinations of the Clone Wars are actually pretty decent. And it kinda shines a light on (no spoilers) how comparatively half-assed certain plot developments are in the new one.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 January 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
Jar Jar is absolutely cringeworthy, but his quiet moment is actually the pivot that brings Palpatine to power!
There's a very leading discussion in Ep. 2 about how using the clone army could turn the tide, but there's no way that a majority of the senate would vote in favor of using it. Cue Palpatine sadly ruminating that were Senator Amidala here, she could give a speech that would convince the senate to grant the chancellor war powers. Next scene? Jar Jar gives this speech, and Palpatine ends up with the ability to make unilateral decisions in the time of war.
It's unknown whether future historians would hang the entire mess on Senator Binks
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
I hate the character, and it makes me sound like a geek, but I am kinda interested in knowing what on earth happened to Jar-Jar after the fall of the republic, the jedi, and Anakin. What does this goofy idiot do after everything he cares about has collapsed?
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
be sorry
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
I guess when he is sorry he makes a hilarious sound with his mouth.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
i assume he was liquidated in the conversion of the senate into the empire. emperor prob had anakin kill him
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
replace "senate" with "republic" lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
It's implied in a book that he's a street performer and broke
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:46 (four years ago) link
I literally can't tell if that's a joke or not :)
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:49 (four years ago) link