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

It's in there, it's just very small.

I want shakey to watch it and join us in realizing that Mr Bruneau is off the money

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

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 worker

presumably JJ Abrams will ignore that and anything else interesting abt TLJ, but that's fine, I'll never see it

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.

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.

lol at autocorrect

three jedi hurtling through space in a paperback book with a weirdly greasy-feeling cover

lol

http://media.rhizome.org/blog/9086/PZ7.jpg

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

the jedi's holy books are preserved in the falcon at the end

Was hoping these were just Chewie's Dejarik rulebooks.

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.

Haha, every time my mom comes to visit her dumb friends (she has smart friends, too) are always worried for her safety.

I mean McCormick Place is basically Thunderdome when you really stop to think about it.

The Lucas museum is going up in Chicago is it not?

No, it got run out of town!

Lucas went to check the city out and got murdered it was a pretty sad story.

Anyway, everything's cool:

http://www.materials-talks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/no-guns.jpg

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.

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.

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.

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

SW people should just cosplay and pretend lawless hellhole Chicago is Mos Eisley.

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.

Orlando's traffic sitch is horrible at the moment too because of the I-4 expansion.

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.

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I thought this movie came out already and that the reason I didn't know anyone talking about it was because it had flopped.

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.

not without moments of grime (literally)

dizzee rascal cameo?

http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/star-wars/57999/star-wars-boba-fett-movie-coming-from-james-mangold

That is some tiresome bullshit. Can we please not?

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

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.

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

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.

needed more maeve imho

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.

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.

they should bring back darth maul in something, he was the only cool part of ep1

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.

Yup, fully agreed.

they should bring back darth maul in something, he was the only cool part of ep1

Question asked and answered a few posts back...

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

I do love these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-I8bu07fwM

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.

That would be preferable to the boba fett movie imo

hard not to wonder how LANDO would have fared by contrast

Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Solo: A Star Wars Story” is flying well below forecasts, heading for a Memorial Day weekend launch of around $110 million domestically, early estimates showed Friday.

The four-day figure is significantly under the studio’s recent estimates in the $130 million to $150 million range at 4,380 North American locations. First-day grosses are coming in at about $32 million — including $14.1 million from previews, which set a Memorial Day weekend record.

Should the holiday estimate hold for “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” it will raise questions about franchise fatigue and Disney’s strategy of opening the tentpole a mere five months after “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” debuted on Dec. 16. “The Last Jedi” debuted impressively with $220 million in North America, and went on to earn $620 million domestically and $1.3 billion worldwide.

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/box-office-solo-a-star-wars-story-memorial-day-weekend-1202822710/

We definitely need to know the whole backstory of a guy who has three lines of dialogue before comically falling into the Sarlacc pit.

PHASMA can't be far behind that one

Right? The whole reason BF was ever cool in the first place was because of the mystique of this masked badass, and now we know so much about him, who fucking cares what he did before the OT? Grrrr.

I mean, I already watched that film, in amongst the rest of the prequels.

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., Friday, May 25, 2018 8:28 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do u mean Obi Wan Kenobi