star wars 9 grim resignation thread

On top of Poe's corpse

saw this gif and it made me feel hyped for lightsaber battles

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (2017)

Cinematography by @steveyedlin
Directed by @rianjohnson
Learn more about this movie from the director's commentary: https://t.co/v4HYoxSCfO pic.twitter.com/aiK6YLgZmR

— One Perfect Shot (@OnePerfectShot) December 11, 2019

re: Maze Runner: you might be thinking of the Divergent series? that one def fizzled after 2 movies of the 3 (?) books

The third movie did come out but only part 1 of 2

doing some rewatching in the background here, and I’m once again wondering how accurately the subtitles reflect what was actually said when they translate non-Basic-speaking characters

In ROTJ, they *claim* Jabba says Han is now “bantha fodder” when he clearly says “bantha poodoo” which seems more like “bantha shit”

justice for non-basic speakers!

I reread the novelisations more than I saw the films and "bantha fodder" rings familiar tbh

Bantha is about as much a warrior as Will Ferrell

banthas seem like they should be herbivores, but who knows?

I encoded the SW films for my home server a few years ago and accidentally left off subtitles. They’re very understandable without, in that the intonation and a few soundalike words pop up in dialogue. Not a master class in alien language writing, but at some point someone made the wise decision that reading subtitles wasn’t necessary to get the plot.

But in Phantom Menace Jar-Jar steps in what is clearly supposed to be crap and calls it "poodoo!"

(How he knows Huttese is an open question)

Could just be that it is basic slang and they’re fucking with us!

I am wondering, if there is an Emperor, ghost or otherwise, if he’s gonna pull out “my young apprentice(s)” in this new one

There’s a teaser clip that is SPOILERY out there now that you may want to avoid

let me just say,

SITH TEMPLE

is Kylo going to destroy the Sith texts with Darth Sidious's ghost?

Baby Yoda is running it all from the sith temple

the Force is just karate

pretty sure that wasn’t the Emperor blowing up at the end of ROTJ. that was him going through a portal to SITH TEMPLE

they should have palpy winning at the end and making rey his underling after giving kylo ren the old force lightning after he turns goody

they won't obv

I would cackle with glee

he gives Rey the title of Darth Skywalker to really rub it in

Darth Icky

Rian Johnson healthily seems to take this attitude even to rabid Star Wars fans, insisting that the hundreds of misspelled Last Jedi abuse replies on every tweet he makes about baseball games are a tiny proportion of the actual feedback he gets overall.

lol

Met @JRichardKelly in film school. He came in with his super 8 film & propped an anamorphic lens in front of the projector. HE SHOT HIS SUPER 8 FILMS ANAMORPHIC. I was like “son of a bitch!” Been friends ever since. He’s a great filmmaker who’s always played by his own rules. https://t.co/hgAYySmvoX

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) December 13, 2019

Dear Rian Johnson,

Fuck you, you ruined Star Wars

— Sauce (@AndrewCsaucey) December 13, 2019

cool an account that was created only to yell at Rian Johnson, dude's got some good priorities???

why post that swill here sic

They call him sauce... cos he gives everyone gastritis

I found it hilarious how insanely petty it was, like what a fascinating little fact about the inventiveness of a director whose first feature showed a promising creative voice, offered up by someone who had a chance to marvel at that inventiveness even earlier. And what it says about Johnson that he takes the opportunity to share that admiration in a concise anecdote rather than just RT a plug and move on... just met by a mentality that can't comprehend generosity or creativity as concepts. Whose adoration (?) of Star Wars has not managed to impart any notions of the value of kindness and tolerance from the text, or of interest in or appreciation for clever solutions to filmmaking challenges, that combine vision with hands-on craft. Remembered my post from the other day, and thought how aptly this illustrated the ineffectual nature of those gnat-bite responses.

Then I clicked through on Mr Sauce's account after posting and regretted it tbh.

lol fair nuff

If Star Wars was real, Sauce would be Hux's mixologist

Brick is the only other RJ movie I’ve seen (besides TLJ); the bonus disc is great, he was really inventive in making use of limited resources to get interesting shots, etc.

Lakers are def playing better than I thought they would be at this point. They’re doing it with good defense and relying heavily on their two stars, not sure how sustainable the latter is though.

Lol ring thread

rong thrid

Yes

Lebron James is a Sith

laker data from the entire campus

Wasn’t even tryin to look at this thread! It’s certain to be miserable I fear.

Then I clicked through on Mr Sauce's account after posting and regretted it tbh.

lol same but good to have my suspicions confirmed

Watched Last Jedi today and it was pretty good(!) So that's probably my favorite now outside of the original three.

I was in the right mood and the casino planet stuff was good! I didn’t pay enough attention to the myriad of bourgeois alien hijinks before.

Small weird thing but the critique of last Jedi being about “the friends aren’t together on an adventure” is some Care Bears level garbage of storytelling needs

— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) December 12, 2019

How about the critique that multiple plot lines in this film are terrible?

a view many of us dont' share

We can't all be right all the time.

i like pretty much all the plot lines and how they end in failure

maybe they win today, maybe you win tomorrow

Everything outside of the Rey/Kylo/Luke stuff just seems absurd and corny to me. I'm going to give this movie one more chance before seeing the new one, maybe I'll warm up to it.

The thing that bothers me the most about TLJ is the dumb vehicles - in a world full of all kinds of ships of all sizes capable of traveling at incredible speed and defying gravity, two major scenes were built around slow-ass bombers and those stupid skid machines that seemed to exist only for the red surface visuals.

I’ve also wondered for years why snow speeders have those harpoon guns on the back with a dedicated operator because wtf purpose could those possible serve other than suddenly being useful for tripping ATATs

the rebels are space whalers

How to Catch a Hutt

Some people call me a space whaler
Some call me a gangster of Hutt