star wars 9 grim resignation thread

you’ve been talking about movies on the internet for like 15 years now, come on

anyway I’m sure I’ll forget that once I actually get around to seeing this

I...liked this! Ridiculous, overstuffed, fan-servicey and epic at the best of times ( Abrams grew a sense of scale that extends beyond a couple of shots!). Right now it's my fave of the new 3.

Jar Jar appear?

Sadly for you...no.

100% That Binks

Lol

Everybody getting all crestfallen about the absence of Jar Jar can take heart that there's still plenty of Boss Nass in this film, including an entire dance sequence set to the B-Boys' 'Sure Shot' (as is the Abrams way).

I know it's evoked on occasion, but it still needs to be explicitly pointed out now and again: this movie was directed by someone who put a Beastie Boys song in each of the Star Trek movies he directed. That actually happened.

SW film goes reactionary w/ f*n s*rvice, film at 11 (god what a hideous term)

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:17 AM (two hours ago)

Morbs it'll fascinate you to (perhaps) learn that "fan service" didn't originally mean "stuff fans want" it specifically meant "pointless T&A in anime"

i don't recognize that distinction

tomato tomato

^ crude-yet-effective description of fanservice

I thought it meant "Jake Gyllenhaal, meet me for an Old-Fashioned."

I guess at the end of the day fanservice comes down to how you like your tomatoes.

an old fashioned what, one may wonder

http://www.sparklesintheeveryday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Gluten-Free-Old-Fashioned-Tomato-Relish.jpg

Call me old fashioned, but there's nothing I relish like a hot tomata'!

(This has been the 'star wars 9 grim resignation' thread, only on ILX.)

Do plenty people go for Tomata?

What is this diarrhea

-Peter Travers

You know your Star War has gone south when you've lost Rolling Stone.

#CATSMovie first reactions call it "way too horny" and "bewildering"https://t.co/PLEU1IRoWR pic.twitter.com/zgjmIrFo8w

— MirrorMovies (@MirrorMovies) December 17, 2019

"Five stars, purrrfect."

Can a movie be too horny?

can a movie about cats with human tits be too horny

I don't think so

if you touch me
You'll understand
What happiness is

First leaked scene from Cats:

https://media.giphy.com/media/11sYjstB0hOL04/giphy.gif

Does Jason DeRulo sing his character's name over and over

Ok so... it's Abrams. But...based on some of the press I was pleasantly surprised.

I mean...I cannot stan for this the way I did TLJ. It has a solid first half but gets really messy in the second. He stuffs too much in there and some of it doesn't land.

But...it hit enough right notes for me that I enjoyed it. Definitely a dumber SW movie than the one before but hey the OG trilogy was often p dumb too.

I did like some of the new mythos

I thought it was dire.

Would rank it with Episodes I to III

Reading this recap by the NY Times of how their film critics rated each of the Star Wars episodes from 1-9, I was bowled over to read how much A.O. Scott loved "Revenge of the Sith":

"...by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes Mr. Lucas has directed."

"The sheer beauty, energy and visual coherence of 'Revenge of the Sith' is nothing short of breathtaking.."

And this after he panned "Attack of the Clones"!

As noted somewhere upthread, I've only seen the prequels once in the theater, but my perception at the time was that each improved slightly upon the one before. I am somewhat curious to see how they'd fare a second time around.

that's my recollection too but I also saw them out of order; I skipped Attack of the Clones completely and though Sith was a step up from Phantom Menace. I saw Clones several years later and liked about half of it and found the other half dreadfully boring. But not as cringe inducing as Phantom.

my memory is that the most cringe-inducing bits got worse in 2 and then 3 but on average the films improved

I actually like RotS. But can't ride for the two prior

It's better if you imagine both Anakin and Padme were being puppeteered by Palpatine and that's why they seemed like zombies

Spoiler alert: this movie was rad.

The Wayfinder is cool i want one also apparently girl at end that Lando talks to apparently long lost daughter as hinted in some of the comics that's good i thought he was just trying to fuck her

Haha, that’s interesting to know... my wife thought there was gonna be a gag where he goes (after a beat) “...What’s your mama’s name?”

guys this is not the spoiler thread

Fuuuuuck sorry about that

After drinking a bit I guess I saw morrisp's post that said spoiler and conflated that with the thread title.

MODS CAN U DELETE

Yeah sorry, was following N’s lead there, lol (guess that’s no excuse)

Nobody should ever follow my lead!

this is the first take I've seen that makes me want to pirate it

Rise of Skywalker is the perfect culmination of the Star Wars series. An accidental masterpiece on the impossibility of art under late capitalism. Five Bags of Popcorn and ten Babu Fricks.

— Morton Downey III (@cushbomb) December 22, 2019

Lol

http://www.sntstory.com/2020/01/02/the-192-minute-j-j-abrams-rise-of-skywalker-cut-is-coming-sooner-than-you-think/

oh thank god disney have seen sense because the main issues with this film were definitely that a) it was not long enough and b) there should have been even more callbacks to the previous movies

Love to see a corporate entity with more money than god whose guiding principle is 'fortune favors the...em, er...well, let's not make any hasty declarations on that front until after we've done extensive market research and focus testing'.

look i'm not gonna lie if it's 40 extra minutes of babu frik then i'll be there day one