star wars 9 grim resignation thread

it's kinda sad that yoda, while stopping in as a force ghost in last jedi, didn't make time to go visit chewbacca too. "ahhhhh my old friend, i have never forgotten our time together" etc.

I forgot RotS pretty quickly, so I'm sure Yoda did too

we actually never know if he stops in on Chewbacca tbf, because we never spend enough time with Chewbacca in these freakin' movies

I feel like this really needs to just be an R-rated Chewbacca-centric revenge flick where he just goes John Wick on the First Order

For the purpose of exposition, Chewbacca in a starring role would require some tiresome character(s) constantly saying stuff like, "what's that Chewie? you want my light saber? but you don't know how to use one", just so there could be some kind of dialogue or character development other than Chewbacca roaring/ honking at everyone non-stop. Han Solo played that role in the first (now last) three films, but there has to be a limit to how much of that an audience would put up with.

Other than that little technical problem, it sounds like a great idea.

tbf most all "grizzled wetwork operator goes on revenge tour" films tend to feature extremely taciturn protagonists pitted against cocksure kingpins who blather on and on, oblivious to their inevitable fate until the climax, so I dunno how much expository spoken-subtitling Chewie would need.

Yeah does John Wick have lines?

About 460,000 results for does Chewbacca have a penis.

....and worlds collide.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/star-wars-episode-ix-matt-smith-1202886507/

there was a Doctor Who in the first Star Wars!

phantom menace? who is it? ;-)

And wasn't one of Empire's bounty hunters dressed up in an old Doctor Who costume as well?

Can someone please enlighten me as to which Dr. Who was in the OG Star Wars and who he played?

Peter Cushing, who was in an unofficial/official Doctor Who movie or two in the sixties.

He played Grand Moff Tarkin.

Yes, but who did he play in Star Wars?

He played Alec Guinness

Ok, I had no idea Peter Cushing played Dr. Who at one point.

I was expecting it to be some random cantina alien or something

Well yes that also happened, Snaggletooth was I believe the Third Doctor.

Aw HELL YES
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Yes, but who did he play in Star Wars?

― Blag Blingeeborp (Old Lunch), Wednesday, August 29, 2018 3:12 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He played Alec Guinness

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Wednesday, August 29, 2018 3:14 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually Peter Cushing did play many games of holochess against Alec Guinness, while waiting between takes on the set of the Millennium Falcon.

captain kurk h8 klingons becos they kill his son

Funny. Many fair points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f83D18xL7VE

I am not going to watch an hour-long YouTube about a two-hour movie.

plinkett reviews are generally really incisive tbf (if somewhat... problematic occasionally)

i will never forgive you for exposing me to that comment section

Holy shit I didn't realise it was Red Letter Media, gtfo here with that.

Like, I was going to say that in the year of our lord 2018, I don't really want to watch something where the screengrab is a caricature of Comic Book Guy, whether the balance is praising or damning that straw man, I didn't realise it is the one site that tries to set both to 11.

I’ve never watched any of those rape-comedy review things but I guess at least they’re saving time by coming out before the movie now?

I'll be impressed if that's their last Star Wars video because that shit brings the clicks like nothing else they do

RLM’s “Best of the Worst” videos, in which they they clown on obscure Z-Grade horror and action flicks, are sooooo much more entertaining than anything where they’re obligated to weigh in on mainstream sci-fi/superhero franchises.

yeah, that's the only RLM that's worth a damn

the thing I mainly hate about these videos (besides the obvious) is that they really only criticize movies on a script level, and tend to treat screenwriting as the Alpha and Omega of filmmaking

plinkett feels like such an ancient unfunny meme at this point

xp iirc their vids about the sw prequels were thoroughly damning on a lot of levels - script, story, characterisation, acting, scenery, blocking... like the key moment at the end of the phantom menace one where they asked random people to describe in a few words the characters of han solo & princess leia, which they did no problem; then asked to describe princess amidala & qui gon jinn the response was "... uh... "

'Sanjuro' for the latter!

I love it when YouTube film critics use the word "retard" to complain about how movies represent disability

"this fictional greasy nerd who has never heard of a shower and is obsessed with dressing down the star wars prequels and sequels definitely has bodies in his basement" = pure comedy

Disney shareholders got to see the first Episode IX footage today. They just wrapped principal photography last month, so this is probably not effects heavy stuff.

https://scontent-msp1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/54268460_314888339381251_3292474431070273536_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&_nc_ht=scontent-msp1-1.xx&oh=dd00a0a45259f2816aedbab4b2b7e795&oe=5D1A287E

I’m a Disney shareholder! Nobody invited me

damn, Kylo Ren is going to look at the Vader helmet

finally

phrasing

Star Wars Twitter is abuzz with what appears to be a reliable leak of the Episode IX title, just two weeks before the panel for the movie at Star Wars Celebration.

All I can find is 'Skywalkers'.

The Milk of Human Kindness

It's not Grim Resignation?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D2zrEiSWoAAFydF?format=jpg&name=240x240

that would be lame, so probably correct

though I would hope it means that there will be a character named "Will"

I was actually going to jokingly suggest Journal of the Whills so I sort of almost guessed one of the words, kind of.