Star Wars Anthology shit talk (Rogue One, Young Solo, TBD)

I haven't listened to the songs from Hamilton, but I'm pretty sure that's better than Hamilton.

BEG TO DIFFER

but it's still p good

it's no Star Wars Gangsta Rap

As someone who has devoted upwards of fifteen minutes to Eminem lyrics parody ILX posts in the past, and who in high school contemplated forming an anime-themed song parody act as a DragonCon-ready money-making scheme, I endorse Old Lunch's work and reject all comparisons to awful YouTube channels, name-branded geek parody operations, and DragonCon-ready money-making schemes.

I came in the door
i said it before
I never let a Jawa creep on me no more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3gf6qyAHOw

Speaking of videos, I assume this from a few weeks back was shared, which I must share again due to Ben Mendelsohn's none-more-Oz approach to a lot of this. I assume it will fill VG with thoughts of home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HRiRy-gooo

i love this vid so much. Ben is the best

i had no idea Tudyk was the robot.

i had no idea Tudyk was the robot.

VG, i assume you know the film Idiot Box? He is great in that.

yes! i think i saw that in the theater? good stuff

He's great in most things he's been in, especially Animal Kingdom.

is Diego Luna a loveable dork

Felicity Jones is lovely. I wish we had more of her in star wars.

Im sure theres pieces of her floating in the galaxy

The girl in Tracer Hand's video is right that there are bad things about this film, and I'm quite convinced by some of her observations; but she should put it on a relevant scale of comparison, like ... maybe ... other Star Wars films since 1983 or 1980. It's not going to be THE PHILADELPHIA STORY.

The only part I disagreed with was that characters have to have an arc in order for the viewer to care about them (which is not always true) and then the rest of her arguments are all predicated on that.

lol OTM

I saw this yesterday. It was okay. Just another movie. I liked Ben Mendelsohn and the visual of the Star Destroyer over the Jedha plateau.

xxp the complaint about the characters all dying in similar ways is stupid. It's a war movie. It's like complaining about all the characters in Saving Private Ryan getting shot or blown up. That's . . .how wars work?

I think her long painstaking complaint video is very odd because she's some kind of big STAR WARS fan, and however poor it is, this is the best STAR WARS film in over 30 years ... I mean, does she have even longer and more detailed videos complaining about every other STAR WARS film since 1980 or so? Maybe she should just ... consider that she perhaps doesn't like STAR WARS that much?

I'm entirely in favour of detailed complaint videos. This is what the internet is for.

Why are STAR WARS films set off by themselves in this way though? It seems like a weird boundary to draw around something. Why not compare them to other action-adventure movies generally? One thing RLM did that I liked was bringing in things like Star Trek (2009) or the sword fight in Die Another Day to say, look, there are more interesting and exciting ways of shooting things like crises in space or lightsaber duels. I feel like when people go to see things like Fast and the Furious they are comfortable saying they liked the action better in Mission Impossible (or whatever).

Plus until last year all the STAR WARS films since Jedi were terrible, something acknowledged by a great number of STAR WARS fans, so insisting that they be accepted as a standard seems like a really really low bar, idk.

yeah that's a ridiculous argument. I won't be watching the video, but it's perfectly reasonable to judge Rogue One by standards other than its quality relative to other Star Wars movies. Might as well just give up and go home otherwise. Although...

I think I was saying, she seems to be coming on as a big STAR WARS fan, but she doesn't like the best recent SW film, so maybe she should rethink her starting point.

Maybe I have misunderstood and she doesn't actually like SW much, and the droid in the background etc is just a one-off joke for this video.

I think it's OK for people who don't like SW to criticize SW, and compare it unfavourably to other films, if they want.

Is she RLM? I don't know her name, haven't seen her before.

maybe she likes star wars in a different way than you like star wars

Maybe she likes Force Awakens more. I like Force Awakens more.

I think I was saying, she seems to be coming on as a big STAR WARS fan, but she doesn't like the best recent SW film, so maybe she should rethink her starting point.

like the pop-culture-opinions-as-objective-truth thing here is metacritic user comments level

PF: "RLM" is Red Letter Media, some podcast / youtube guys who watch these movies a lot and then rant about them, as one does

...spliced in with weird torture skits

Woody Harrelson (!) joins cast of Young Han Solo film.

http://www.starwars.com/news/woody-harrelson-signs-on-for-young-han-solo-film

I don't think I want to see his face popping up in Star Wars.

Eh, they'll give him some pointed ears and a unibrow or whatever they do to those Star War characters and you won't even know it's him.

I hope he plays the exact same character he played in The Hunger Games. Not the same type; I want Haymitch Abernathy to show up.

xxp: I'm sure he'll do a great job acting, and I'm sure they'll do a great job with him. It's just that his face really leaps out at me as "oh hey, that's Woody Harrelson from the zillion other things I've seen him in" moreso than many other actors.

Yeah I was going to say "maybe they'll mo-cap him".

he'll play a wise-cracking stoner robot.

I must admit I had the exact same thought as DJP

He'll be an out of work dealer who used to sell weed to young students at the Jedi Temple. "Yeah it was a sweet ride but the Empire shut the place down, man."

Dogged detective (also half dog)

I think Woody Harrelson should put a rider into all of his contracts that mandates whatever project he works on has to do rewrites in order to include the reveal that his character has secretly been Haymitch this whole time.

imo Haymitch, before he became a Hunger Games participant, was a folksy bartender but the games... changed him

I see you see where I was eventually going with all of this

i wonder if they made frazier today, they'd CG cap kelsey grammar to be his own brother instead of hiring david hyde pierce.
would be nice to see uncanny valley coach.

Not happy about Woody news. Think this might be where I get off the ship. Then again I had the same reaction about Forest Whitaker.

and he turned out to be great!

if woody is anything other than a grizzled mentor-type smuggler to young han solo who dies at the end of the first act, his ship incinerated by Boba Fett in a bounty beef, i'd be shocked.

"Naw, Greedo. Ah am your father."

Confirmed: Woody playing Jabba the Hutt.

No CGI or anything. Just Harrelson in tighty whities chilling on a dais and eating frogs.