star wars 9 grim resignation thread

Seeing these tentpoles on opening night in an old double-decker theater, with a packed house, is rarely not worth it

Can I make a brief observation? (I'm sure there are a zillion other Star Wars threads, but this is the one on top.)

I'm far from a trve kvlt SW fan (though I have friends like that -- one guy had a podcast for a few years, collects the toy figures, etc.). Like most ppl my age, I grew up loving the movies; bought a secondhand "visual encyclopedia" or two in the prequel era; etc. I have no deep investment in defending the "honor" of the property, and I lack the depth of knowledge to get into nerd-level discourse. But a person I follow on Twitter occasionally retweets these dudes declaring that they've found a new "plot hole" in the Star Wars storyline or mythology... and then a bunch of their followers pile on with smug affirmations (like, "Love to wear my Jedi robe and use my real last name when I'm supposed to be hiding out from space Nazis," or whatever).

And I can never resist butting in with a explanation/rebuttal, because (a) it feels lame to be picking apart a narrative that (to my understanding) wasn't even really fleshed out beyond the first movie when that was made, let alone planned to take shape the way it is, after being cobbled together over the decades; but also (b) I realize that there actually *are* good responses to these "gotcha!" posts, which even I (in my casual fandom) am able to easily identify and point out. If anything, it's impressive how reasonably coherent the SW universe actually is, when you realize how these little nitpicks actually can be resolved if you step back and apply a little thought to the problem ("No-Prize" style), rather than rushing to publicly declare what a supreme boss you are for having outwitted the combined forces of George Lucas, Walt Disney, and Ron Howard. You know what I mean? That shit bugs me!

All mythmakers run into the same problem set fwiw. Pointing out plot holes in your epic of choice often just illustrates how blind you are to the ur-narrative, or something. All heroes are pie filling; all worlds are pastry - the way you tell an American story is there’s no lid.

This looks tired and overstuffed. And they're riding silly horse creatures (again). Nice color grading, though.

Y U no like horsies

Apropos of Ned's comment above re: the music, if you're into SW music you can do worse than following this guy on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/fmlehman

That big iceberg in space looks good but Abrams still seems particularly reluctant to introduce new types of location into Star Wars (I don't think Death Star On Sea counts here and the stormy element makes it quite reminiscent of Kamino from Ep 2) so we're back to lots of scenes on Jakkooine and Forest Planet/Moon (lol is it Endor tho or what).

can't wait to find out who finally wins the Star War

mods can we threadban morbs and shakey

Another new trailer. I like the direction they're going in.

https://youtu.be/PMW4Ad8fIF4?t=209

can't wait to find out who finally wins the Star War

The dudes who collect building utility data, obv.

That big iceberg in space looks good but Abrams still seems particularly reluctant to introduce new types of location into Star Wars

not his fault they've already done all the types of planets

I was thinking the same thing... not sure how many new environments they can really incorporate (or if that should even be a goal). Anyway, the jungle moon really is Endor, right?

can't wait to find out who finally wins the Star War

they should do a planet with two biomes. the characters could go from one to another and be struck dumb w bewilderment

bubble planet
garbage planet
lava planet
crystal planet

planet made up of tiny sentient death stars
sentient planet
gambling planet

fur planet

They did the gambling planet in the last movie, it was da worst sequence

garbage planet

it's called Ord Mantell and it rules

They did the gambling planet in the last movie, it was da worst sequence

They did the gambling planet in the last movie, it was some quality Star Warsing

hair planet
cubicle planet
DMV planet

Nazi planet
gangster planet
Roman planet

lol

planet bearing an uncanny resemblance to mid-20th-century earth

Medieval Times planet

Car planet

baobob

discarded receipts planet
argumentative planet
smug planet

planet of the apes

is palpy actually going to be in this?

yes, are you tired of winning yet

Yeah. I think he prefers to be called "Sheevsy" though

jazz planet

YOUR COMING TOGETHER... WILL BE YOUR UNDOING genuinely made me lol tho so good job if they meant to

Casino scene could've been great in the last one but was uninspired (altho the tracking shot Wings homage was great). Should've had giant size version of Dejarik, people getting freaked out thinking the holograms were real monsters (would've made a good Back To The Future 2 homage). Also the story idk...

It's about the atmospheres you're not feeling, man.

xxp

So will there be Ewoks in this or what?

rapping ewoks

the one Ewok we thought sadly died in ROTJ was cloned by Palps and man he is pissed

Ewoks repping.

Ewoks in The Battle of Epping Forest.

Car planet

planet bearing an uncanny resemblance to mid-20th-century earth

pfft you call that a car planet

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F78.media.tumblr.com%2Fd06853f4c1835bf3a6b20f0d08ed678a%2Ftumblr_o59llucmvn1qmwwklo1_1280.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

lol

Re: Ewoks — sadly, the Endor Holocaust theory may be validated in this movie

i will actually watch this if palpy is in it. otherwise no.

I liked Endor Holocaust's first couple of records, but when the songs got shorter and more commercial they started to suck imo.

hair planet
cubicle planet
DMV planet

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, October 22, 2019 2:00 PM bookmarkflaglink

Nazi planet
gangster planet
Roman planet

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 22, 2019 2:01 PM bookmarkflaglink

Jfk
Blown away

planet bearing an uncanny resemblance to mid-20th-century earth

― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Tuesday, October 22, 2019 11:21 AM (one hour ago)

god that looks deplorable

is nar shaddaa in this movie