Star Wars 8 shit talk

you are wrong

Yeah that doesn’t even make any sense, there was no blaze of glory on November 9, Jeb! has less to do with the real world than Snoke does, and Poe is an asshole.

I reject this take in its entirety

No no no you are wrong bcz Poe is rugged and handsome and beautiful and young Bernie Sanders looks like...young Bernie Sanders. The only thing remotely hot about that guy is his mug of herbal tea (not pictured).

veg ilu but yung bern can get it ok

he’s all yours, Hoos

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— rstevens 🐳💨 (@rstevens) March 19, 2018

my ilx account is caretaker memes only now

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Bernie vs. the Republican Death Star

An unexpected inspiration:

Heinrichs was the production designer for numerous films before The Last Jedi, including the Coen brothers’ Fargo. When designing the visual look of the battle on Crait, he drew inspiration for the blasts of deep red from a darkly comic moment from the 1998 film. “[The battle of Crait] is obviously a very graphic depiction of a violent battle that happens, the red on white and the rooster tail. I was actually thinking of telling Rian that I was inspired by the end of the movie Fargo which I had actually done, the wood chipper scene.”

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I'm about as old testament as you can get to this (original '77 cut only = no sequels please), but this was easily my favorite out of any of the sequels. Sometime after the Abramsification I said that Rey & Chewie should have just bailed for another galaxy far, farther away and I'll happily settle for burning it all down. It looked great projected on the side of my wall, but I'll def catch it when it's in the Cineramadome. So much of the look and feel reminded me of the original Ralph McQuarrie paintings.

There is double tension of having every scene an impossibly hard life or death situation and having many syke! moments sprayed throughout that the whole experience felt very dissatisfying. It's a shame because I did enjoy the general direction and bigger ideas Johnson tried to implement but boy oh boy was there ever a need for a film to be a story and not a collection of deus ex machinas.

Director/Actress Victoria Mahoney will be second unit director on Episode IX. First WOC to handle the camera on a Star Wars film.

Happy to share this historic news. A black woman directing stories in a galaxy far, far away. First unit director #JJAbrams. Second unit director @VictoriaMahoney. #StarWarsE9 #StarWars pic.twitter.com/s689jv9I4u

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) April 17, 2018

Cool. Should we start a Star Wars 9 anticipation thread?

star wars 9 grim resignation thread or gtfo

Somebody start something.

I like that title tbh

lol, me too.

ha, Victoria Mahoney was the Putumayo proprietor in Seinfeld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4CaeujELo4

here you go star wars 9 grim resignation thread

This was so turgid, there was no tension (aside from 'is this where Leia dies? no? okay. that lasts twenty seconds), bad CGI, stilted dialogue, bad jokes. Rogue One and TLJ forgot that they're supposed to be fun adventure movies.

https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/star-wars-fans-campaign-to-remake-the-last-jedi-explained.html

Who’s behind the remake effort?
An individual or a group that’s channeling the imagination-capturing heroism of Luke, Leia, Han, Rey, and Finn by … staying anonymous.

What do they want?

Another version of The Last Jedi—one that, according to the campaign’s Twitter account, isn’t “juvenile,” “unconscionable,” or “blasphemy.” The remaker(s) don’t have a storyline or even a protagonist in mind—they’re just certain that their fantasy version will be better than the movie that already exists. Per their plan, the remakers “will be consulting with Star Wars fans directly throughout the writing of the remake … to make a version of TLJ that is as close to universally accepted as possible.” They do acknowledge the impossibility of pleasing everyone, so they might have to prepare for a potential Remake the Remake of The Last Jedi campaign, and the Remake the Remake of the Remake of The Last Jedi campaign, and so on. Because that’s how fandom works!

rewatching this on netflix. imo this movie is cool

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but really though man, that red room fight

It was something.

So is this movie three acts or five? I’m actually interested in the structure because there are so many moving parts and almost all the ones that have soured, for me, come in the “beginning,” but I have a hard time figuring out when the beginning ends, scriptwise.

Particularly to casino’s mention of the fight with the praetorian guards - is that act 2? Or act 3? It seems like it matters because if this movie is supposed to be a three-act blockbuster tentpole then they really did fuck up, but if it’s a five-act epic like I suspect are director was going for, then some of the story choices make more sense, particularly regarding how useless Rey is for most of the film.

Lately newer Star Wars have been disturbing to watch for me. Something about how they always take a handful of seconds to show an overly gung-ho group of good guy soldiers all chiming in with a "let's do this!" and a smirk, then a mere few seconds later they're each getting blown up so effortlessly... They're literally burning to death in horrifying space explosions because they've thrown themselves into yet another space fight that almost guarantees death. There's just such a big discrepancy between their willingness to jump into old rusty fighters and die for their cause in what they probably know is a pretty inconsequential battle VS. the amount of technology in the universe that implies driverless (or robot driven) fighters could do the same job. It gets to me. Now here's a ragtag cast of colorful-ALL DEAD! Gone! Sorry! Now charred corpses floating through endless space forever.

it’s called Star Wars not Star Cuddlepuppies

it’s called Star and Wars, not Adam and Steve

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I'm not complaining I've just been creeped out in this specific way lately.

That juxtaposition! Or it's just exploding in space. Or both.

i think it's fair to expect that in a war movie (and a disney movie at that!) that death has meaning for the good characters. sometimes the new movies rise to that (and quite nicely) and sometimes they brush past incredible losses.

That’s where this one fell down on second viewing for me. The resistance gets reduced to platoon size over the course of about, what, 20 hours? And in the theater, when I didn’t know it was coming, I got distracted by the fun stuff; later, on a small screen, I just wanted to strangle every person in a leadership position.

I mean at least in this one it's clear people are upset about these deaths, but they oddly never seem to fully rebound on Poe, whose fault they pretty much all are, even though Johnson does seem to intend us to recognize this (via the whole Finn/Rose storyline). By rights he should have ended the film broken and wracked with guilt, going off to do penance or something.

The Poe/Leia/Finn/Rose storylines are a mess. I only really enjoy the Rey/Luke/Kylo parts, and even that gets pretty shakey the more they intersect with the rest of team towards the end of the film.

it says a lot that boyega, tran and lazy-cosplay laura dern keep that storyline watchable.

they could kill literally everyone in the resistance except rey/finn/poe and have poe be like "when it rains it pours huh buddy" and it still wouldn't be as bathetic as "starkiller base"

The redlettermedia video complains it's too much like a madcap comedy but isn't the real problem that it's not madcap comedy enough?

I forget where I posted my thoughts after my first attempt at a second viewing but I totally agreed with you

okay I said dark comedy but y'know

star wars 9 grim resignation thread

I like how in Luke’s fantasy oh himself at the end his hair is a lot less grey

― calstars, Saturday, December 16, 2017 12:49 PM bookmarkflaglink

yeah when he pulled off his hood at the end i was like ‘wtf I guess he stopped off for some grecian 2000 and a quick haircut on the way’

― dipso inferno (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, December 16, 2017 1:21 PM bookmarkflaglink

Can the Force be used for haircuts?

Once you start down that dark path, forever it will dominate your grooming regime

Lightsaber manscaping, hmm

don't make me post the jar jar lollipop again

Stop trying to implicate us in your sexual fetishes.