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

i saw solo on the plane on monday, first of the new star wars movies id seen. would've been the worst movie id seen in years if i hadn't watched life of the party and father figures on the same flight

fwiw it's definitely the weakest of the new ones.

I watched Solo on a plane two weeks ago and liked it much more than I thought I would. A lot of this probably has to do with the fact that it was a shiny newly refurbished plane with movies on a flight that normally is old shitty planes with no movies.

Also my kid is almost four and for the first time ever played quietly on the ipad and watched the first fifteen minutes of a dozen movies during a flight instead of needing constant attention, so I was shocked and amazed that I got to watch an entire movie uninterrupted.

as someone who got off the star wars train after going to see episode 1 as a teenager just after it opened i somehow still got really canon-geek why-did-you-ruin-this about things like his surname, the kessel run, darth maul's reappearance, han having essentially helped create the rebellion despite the most important fact about him at the start of a new hope being that he is a mercenary who wants no part in that shit blaah

So glad I skipped this

jim, have i got a thread for you!

good thread

Cringed so hard and so fast at the ".. equal rights?" 'joke' that i almost did myself a mischief.

Diff'rent Snokes: A Star Wars Story

Finally got round to watching the rest of this while recovering from food poisoning. It was mildly better than the food poisoning, but less exciting.

I also watched a little over an hour of it on a plane and hated almost everything about it, aside from some production design that was wasted.

this is actually pretty cool - machine learning inserts harrison ford into solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANXucrz7Hjs

Rogue One on UK netflix, thought I'd watch it again (second time only) as a comfort movie, it totally hit the spot. The plot and editing niggles were largely ignorable, some great set pieces and no significant longueurs; the emotional depth was provided more by the horrors-of-war-lite theme than individual characters but that's fine, it still had the heart and soul (and looks of course) of a Star Wars film; k2-s0 was a+ comic relief. Cushing looked terrible though, really stood out as a videogame character in a live action film. Carrie Fisher not so much.

i wonder if they'll be able to resist that videogame character trick if they make another movie set in the classic era

Diego Luna reprising his Rogue One role in a live-action series for Disney's new streaming service: https://www.starwars.com/news/cassian-andor-live-action-series-announced

Pedro Pascal taking the lead role in the The Mandalorian TV series: https://variety.com/2018/film/news/star-wars-pedro-pascal-mandalorian-series-1203023818/

Fuck yeah SW POC!

The CGI Cushing is a weird case. I knew at once watching it that it was a recreation, but several people I know who didn't know who Cushing was had no idea he wasn't a real actor in the film. The uncanniness does seem to depend on prior knowledge.

OK, this show is going to be . . . something.

https://www.starwars.com/news/pedro-pascal-revealed-as-the-mandalorian

Pedro Pascal (Narcos) has been cast in the title role as a lone Mandalorian gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy. He is joined by Gina Carano (Deadpool), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), Emily Swallow (Supernatural), Carl Weathers (Predator), Omid Abtahi (American Gods), Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man), and Nick Nolte (Affliction).

wtf

STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN

EXT. MANDALORE - DAY

CARL WEATHERS fires a blaster at WERNER HERZOG’s hip.

WERNER HERZOG
It was not a significant blast; I am not afraid.

— hikikomori povich (@SarahSahim) December 12, 2018

already more interesting that solo

that’s an... electic cast

No less notable, though this news had already appeared:

Currently in production, The Mandalorian is written and executive produced by Jon Favreau, with Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels) directing the first episode and serving as executive producer alongside Kathleen Kennedy and Colin Wilson. Additional episodic directors include Deborah Chow (Jessica Jones), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates), and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok).

I will definitely be interested to see how Filoni handles live action, since he's done a very good job with animation.

I also can't wait to hear Giancarlo tell Boba Fett he'll fuck him up quick, two times.

pic.twitter.com/LyzbK7v7dL

— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) December 12, 2018

Okay, I've just discovered that I can instantly make myself laugh by imagining any line of SW dialogue as uttered by Werner Herzog.

have zero faith in Favreau (so weird that this is where his career went) and I can't imagine Werner's role will be enough to make this interesting tbh

but it is intriguing

I want Herzog to narrate the opening crawl.

Hell maybe the whole project should be like one of his documentaries and he's just narrating the action as it happens.

"from...my point of view...it is the...Jedi...who are evil"

"I ask one of the Jedis if it is possible for a droid to go insane"

If you had told me back in the day that Monica's chubby, MMA-obsessed boyfriend on Friends would be shepherding part of the future of the Star Wars franchise 20-odd years later, I'd have laughed in your face.

“The Force is not with you. Nothing in this broken universe is with you. The sound of a TIE fighter’s ion engines are a mournful scream sent into an uncaring void. We are all chained to Jabba.” https://t.co/Z10KpZiOsA

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 12, 2018

The internet is totally going to ruin this in like a day's time, but I'm enjoying it while it continues to be enjoyable.

whoops missed it, too late for me

Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates)

read that as (Dolemite)

lol at Dolemite

Would watch

solo was good, agreeably small scale and the better for it

uncanny how they got a guy to be such a ringer for liottas han

Thought it was rank rotten

fuck me, if deems likes it I may actually have to subject myself to this

Emilia Clarke is v wooden.

Done the thing these star wars movies do and explain backstory that was better off unexplained (kessel run, Solo actually having been a good guy and not just a selfish thief prior to a new hope).

Glover's Lando way more compelling than what's-his-chops' Solo but still mibbe too much of a Billy Dee Williams impersonation.

Woody decent as usual.

Darth Maul at the end? Fuck off

i kept my expectations low but yeah this is better than fine.

granted if you havent resolved yr issues with backstory references going in youve wasted yr ticket money so yknow caveat empire but standalone it did what rogue one managed (not to as strong an effect for the obv reasons that the ending to that wasnt available) in keeping it sw, keeping it fun and a nice tight job with the character beats

plot didn't get in the way of my fun. all i ask.

emilia clarke is vvvvv pretty and did just fine. i liked the obvious arc i mean jesus i left a gf waiting twenty minutes while i went to the bar once and she had done worse on me by the time i got back cmon han buck wise up

nah this is still hot garbage from the jump

u have a dilemma tombot

Agree this film is fun enough to watch at least once. Didn't like Glover in it as much as many do though. As for Clarke, well, she doesn't deserve any more stick than Bettany.

idk that i want to boost this movie all *that* much but bettany is better than fine in this role

Solo was fine and entertaining enough and nothing was particularly bad about it except maybe the basic premise of trying to retrofit some kind of explanation of what the Kessel run is

I liked what they did with droids in this movie and the whole idea of sentient droids basically being treated as slave labor is something I'd like to see addressed more in Star Wars movies

Feel like that was sort of hinted at in the original movie with contrast between Jawa's treatment of droids vs Luke's.

the angle that droids arent just tools is obviously comfortably the worst thing about this movie but the actual droid character pushing it was good