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  1. 21 hours ago, E.T. and Elliot said:

    I'm not getting my hopes up. They disappointingly kissed the movie's ass in the Half in the Bag review and they also love Star Trek 2009. The Plinkett reviews were only good in the beginning. Ever since they finished up the prequels, they've just been shit.

     

    Yeah, how dare they enjoy a movie. They should only have morose, cynical disdain for everything.

  2. I've never thought that franchise filmmaking and artistic freedom are necessarily mutually exclusive. They're just not exercised in tandem that often. But there are exceptions. Empire adheres to certain paradigms set up by the original film but it is different in a lot of ways. I can't say for certain that it's an Irvin Kershner film because I'm not as familiar with his overall body of work but it clearly is not a film directed by George Lucas or Richard Marquand. And that extends to The Force Awakens as well. It was authentically Star Wars but it was also very much a JJ Abrams movie, with a lot of his strengths and some of his weaknesses. So I think Rian Johnson will be able to maintain his artistic voice within the industry behemoth that is Star Wars and that makes me very excited, especially since he's also writing it. Disney/Lucasfilm is giving a lot of creative power to Johnson. It feels similar to me to when WB got Christopher Nolan to revitalize Batman as he was another young auteur on the rise.

  3. The GameCube was an underrated system. Had some of the best games ever made on it and was the last time Nintendo was a true competitor in terms of hardware. It was more powerful than the other systems at the time. Its biggest problem was the smaller discs making many multi-platform releases not viable.

  4. 1 hour ago, Datameister said:

     

    That about sums up my views. I'll add that on the one hand, I owe him tremendously for some of the films (and film music!) that his ideas led to...and on the other hand, I find his comments about Disney being "white slavers" utterly tasteless and just generally uncool, regardless of his later apology.

     

    A lot of the comments he's made in recent years are just mind boggling. He often comes off as a petulant child.

  5. 10 hours ago, Datameister said:

    It really functions as more of a general victory theme that's loosely associated with Poe. Like Finn's "theme", it's never put through any real leitmotivic paces the way something like Rey's theme or Kylo Ren's theme would be - it's just there to provide a musical throughline in some moments that involve similar emotions and similar characters.

     

    When I first heard Poe's theme on my first viewing, it struck me as being the birth of Finn's theme. It occurs right as he takes his first definitive action against the First Order. It's his birth as someone other than a stormtrooper. The moment is about him, not Poe. I thought the theme would be used for him in the rest of the film. I kinda wish that had been the case. It's a beautiful theme, and frankly, I think Finn needed his own musical identity more than Poe, who's a relatively minor character in this film.

     

    It is odd that Poe has more of a theme than Finn does but I think part of that might be by design. I anticipate Poe having a bigger role to play in subsequent films, making his theme a taste of things to come, and Finn growing into whatever kind of character he will be. It's important to keep in mind that not every character in the original film had their own theme. For some it wasn't until later that a thematic stamp was put in the music. 

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