Morbs is otm, Hamill as cranky exile was the best thing going in that film.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
Perhaps in part by the way Luke's exile mirrored his exile from stardom
I bet Hamill is very comfortable with his distance from stardom - he's the busiest working actor (the only busy actor!) from the original trilogy, and if he wants a dose of adulation he can do a convention somewhere in the world four days out of every seven.
(it was probably a mixture of choice and circumstance over the decades for him, as it was for Luke - but one doubts he's felt unfortunate since, say, 1993.)
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
i saw Woody Harrelson in a Planet of the Apes movie recently and thought "Yep, that is actor Woody Harrelson". i can easily see myself watching this saying "Yep that is Donald Glover dressed up like Lando."
Spoilers the actor Woody Harrelson is also in this.
I agree that Adam's take on The Last Jedi is, er, idiosyncratic.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Hamill's like one of the only people associated with this franchise who I legit respect/have some fondness for. He seems like a pretty smart, well balanced guy.
still ain't seeing VIII tho
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
you wouldn’t like it, there’s no death star
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
The death star is in our hearts
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
It's in there, it's just very small.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 23:03 (five years ago) link
I want shakey to watch it and join us in realizing that Mr Bruneau is off the money
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 17 May 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
nah, adam otm
all the potentially interesting stuff that's dangled in front of the audience in ep viii (maybe rey and/or kylo will switch sides! maybe the jedi order SHOULD be burned down!) gets swept away by the end in favour of resetting the status quo
essentially all that's changed between the beginning of the movie and the end is that luke is dead, there are less rebels than there were before, and the main cast is all in the same place
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
and there's not even a death star ffs
the Jedi order IS burned down, in favour of a decentralised system placing power in the hands of the workerpresumably JJ Abrams will ignore that and anything else interesting abt TLJ, but that's fine, I'll never see it
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:02 (five years ago) link
I want all kinds of crazy simultaneous plots and shenanigoats going on all throughout IX, then in the last five minutes Jedi Master Stableboy from the end of VIII saves the galaxy.
― THERE IS NO PHIL D. THERE IS ONLY LIZ (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:06 (five years ago) link
Ep 9 is going to end with all of the planets being destroyed and then the surviving Jedi (all 3 of them) piling into an escape POD and warping to another galaxy, where they speed towards mysterious planet Earth circa 1901 to begin anew.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
lol at autocorrect
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
three jedi hurtling through space in a paperback book with a weirdly greasy-feeling cover
― chilis=lyrics...hypocrits (sic), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link
lol
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
http://media.rhizome.org/blog/9086/PZ7.jpg
― THERE IS NO PHIL D. THERE IS ONLY LIZ (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2018 13:19 (five years ago) link
the Jedi order IS burned down, in favour of a decentralised system placing power in the hands of the worker
tbf the only thing that actually burns down is a big tree - the jedi's holy books are preserved in the falcon at the end so those plucky force-sensitive workers coyuld easily find themselves yoked to the jedi order again if jj abrams wills it
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 May 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
the jedi's holy books are preserved in the falcon at the end
Was hoping these were just Chewie's Dejarik rulebooks.
― nashwan, Thursday, 17 May 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
So this week Disney announced that the next Star Wars Celebration convention is going to be in Chicago at McCormick Place rather than in Orlando or L.A./Anaheim as most of the previous ones have been. The Venn diagram of SW fans/MAGA chuds is now saying they won't go because CHICAGO IS A LAWLESS HELLHOLE. Like, compared to Florida.
Fine by me. Shorter lines for everything if these fuccbois don't go.
― THERE IS NO PHIL D. THERE IS ONLY LIZ (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
Haha, every time my mom comes to visit her dumb friends (she has smart friends, too) are always worried for her safety.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
I mean McCormick Place is basically Thunderdome when you really stop to think about it.
― THERE IS NO PHIL D. THERE IS ONLY LIZ (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
The Lucas museum is going up in Chicago is it not?
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 18 May 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
No, it got run out of town!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
Lucas went to check the city out and got murdered it was a pretty sad story.
― omar little, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Anyway, everything's cool:
http://www.materials-talks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/no-guns.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
Caught a glimpse of some comments on a local Maryland news story recently: "they're trying to turn Baltimore into the next Chicago!" When Fox gives them their talking points, they sure do stick to them.
― how's life, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
I live in Orlando and a cosplayer and I were laughing at how ridiculous the concern is. also there's way more to do in Chicago than Borelando
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 May 2018 13:11 (five years ago) link
SW people should just cosplay and pretend lawless hellhole Chicago is Mos Eisley.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 19 May 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link
I've spent my fair share of time in Chicago and nothing there has ever worried me as much as crossing eight lanes of traffic in Orlando.
― THERE IS NO PHIL D. THERE IS ONLY LIZ (Phil D.), Saturday, 19 May 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
Orlando's traffic sitch is horrible at the moment too because of the I-4 expansion.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 19 May 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
Unbidden, my phone has just updated me, via CNN, with news that "Donald Glover is cool with Lando being pansexual in 'Solo: A Star Wars Story,'" should there be any doubt that this is the most boring of all possible worlds.— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) May 22, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
I thought this movie came out already and that the reason I didn't know anyone talking about it was because it had flopped.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2018 17:33 (five years ago) link
Okay sooo Solo seen. Non-spoiler take: liked it a lot! Lightest tone for any SW movie yet but not without moments of grime (literally) and pathos. Very episodic in feel, if the whole idea of SW is growing out of serials, this really felt like a serial in full-length form, one mini-adventure after another. Couple of blindside moments especially towards the end -- it's been *really* interesting to see how the recent films have taken in material from the prequels and beyond -- and they do leave the door open for some future directions as direct followups if they want to go that route. Donald Glover is all that, but Ehrenreich did a good job of growing into the character. And of course Phoebe Waller-Bridge stole the show.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 May 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
not without moments of grime (literally)
dizzee rascal cameo?
― i am fast and full of teeth. i willl die in a barn fire (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 25 May 2018 08:36 (five years ago) link
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/star-wars/57999/star-wars-boba-fett-movie-coming-from-james-mangold
― groovypanda, Friday, 25 May 2018 11:34 (five years ago) link
That is some tiresome bullshit. Can we please not?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 25 May 2018 11:37 (five years ago) link
i liked it too. my biggest concern going in was alden's harrison and he holds his own just fine. he's not the character we meet in the mos eisley cantina but he inhabits the role with his own grinning charm. def looking more forward to solo 2 than i was solo 1
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
So is this a series.Enjoyed it but was trying to think where people fit in to later events I knew better. But it is a large area being covered.
Lweave it out of context but is that Darth Maul senior that pops up at one point. I'm not sure about where this fits in chronology.
― Stevolende, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
my understanding is it's a trilogy, set between revenge of the sith and rogue 1
for stevo's eyes only (don't read if you haven't seen the movie and/or don't know much about the expanded universe): http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Maul
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 25 May 2018 12:25 (five years ago) link
Felt like watching a really good episode of Firefly, basically. Everyone puts in a good effort, and the comedy bits landed. Lacked the sense the original trilogy had that it was happening in some distant alien galaxy.
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
needed more maeve imho
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 25 May 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
Can't wait to see the toxic side of SW fandom all die from aneurysms trying to reconcile "FUCK YEAH FINALLY A MOVIE ABOUT MANDALORIANS" with the fact that under the helmet he is already canonically Not White, so they can't rant about Disney SJWs ruining Star Wars.
― Eliza D., Friday, 25 May 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
Han Solo Adventures by Brian Daley and the Adventures of Lando Calrissian by L. Neil Smith are the real reference points for this movie (both written and published prior to 1984), and the vibe in the film reflects them pretty well.
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
they should bring back darth maul in something, he was the only cool part of ep1
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 25 May 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
Yup, fully agreed.
Question asked and answered a few posts back...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 May 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
without getting spoilery i will say star wars x being way better than i was expecting has me stoked for xi, xii, xiii, and xiv (whatever order they're coming out in the next few years). just please don't cross streams with guardians of the galaxy reloading for xv and after. thor at most in the sense luke ends up going all odin to yoda's buddha
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 25 May 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
I do love these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-I8bu07fwM
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 May 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
I'm in a local "geek bar" right now watching Cavs-Celtics game 6, while another TV is showing the original Star Wars, and now I want a trilogy about that one weird tall Jawa.
― Eliza D., Saturday, 26 May 2018 01:28 (five years ago) link
That would be preferable to the boba fett movie imo
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 26 May 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link