Star Wars is better than everything

[Faleel 5,346]

It's probably Goodmusician or Ggctuk's edits with clips from A Musical Journey

[Jay 37,353]

LEGO Star Wars Special Edition 20th Anniversary Sets Revealed

[Holko 9,525]

Yeah, those were available for 2 weeks now.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

5 active SW threads now. 

[Fargo 297]

3 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

5 active SW threads now. 

 

Not enough. We can do more. We just have to try harder.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

*George Takei voice*

 

Ohhhh myyyy

 

[Manakin Skywalker 4,892]

[SteveMc 2,674]

2 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

*George Takei voice*

 

Ohhhh myyyy

 

Nice dress.

[Ollie 1,059]

That’s not Padme.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Huh, I never considered if Vader ever tried to date again after he became a Sith Lord. That's a spin-off I would like to see!

[Holko 9,525]

Actually it's about a stalker nurse in love with him, imagining their wedding and all. When she sees him under the mask and says he's beautiful, Vader just puts a saber through her and tells the janitors to clean up.

[SteveMc 2,674]

But, she survives and becomes a Harley Quinn/Boba Fett hybrid.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I bet she gives great helmet.

[Fabulin 3,511]

let me just land here a find of prophetic proportions:

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

He can see things before they happen.

[Fabulin 3,511]

.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Who was his father?

[Nick Parker 3,040]

I don't know, the annual child support checks' return address is a PO Box at Watto's.

[Pieter Boelen 740]

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-strange-saga-of-matt-smiths-rise-of-skywalker-role-1834415964/amp

I fully expect Matt Smith to show up as:

The Eleventh Doctor.

Talk about a SUPRISE TWIST!!!

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Is it just me or are the Doctor Who actors in a bunch of crappy movies? The Hobbit, Terminator Genesis, World War Z...

[Fargo 297]

I say it’s 50/50.

 

That one dude was in the first season of Jessica Jones. Probably the bet thing about that season. 

 

Also one was in Gone in 60 Seconds. And that is a gawd damn masterpiece. 

 

And the old one was in The Thick of It. Edit: and In the Loop. Great show and great movie. 

 

Who was in the Hobbit?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

1 hour ago, Ghostbusters II said:

Is it just me or are the Doctor Who actors in a bunch of crappy movies? The Hobbit, Terminator Genesis, World War Z...

 

I know you don't like them, but Karen Gillan is great as Nebula in the Guardians/Avengers movies.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Never saw them.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

1 hour ago, Disco Stu said:

 

I know you don't like them, but Karen Gillan is great as Nebula in the Guardians/Avengers movies.

 

And David Tennant is probably one of the most hard working actors today.

[mstrox 6,651]

He’s Scrooge McDuck

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

He was in Harry Potter for 90 seconds!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

He has nine credits for 2018 on IMDB.

Ten for 2017.

 

A very hardworking actor.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Quantity over quality. Just get back in the suit and be Doctor Who again. They need him now more than ever.

[Holko 9,525]

6 hours ago, Fargo said:

Who was in the Hobbit?

Sylvester McCoy!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

4 hours ago, Stefancos said:

He has nine credits for 2018 on IMDB.

Ten for 2017.

 

A very hardworking actor.

 

So is Eric Roberts!

[mstrox 6,651]

I'd rather see Peter Capaldi in Star Wars.

[Quintus 5,399]

 

[Pieter Boelen 740]

Just watched the LEGO Star Wars "All-Stars" series. It's loyalty to John Williams' themes is really incredible!

Not just the main themes (Luke/Force/Leia) make appearances, but also the less well-known ones.

Plenty of Adventures of Han, the Fathiers Charge and even the Resistance Desperation theme from Last Jedi.

This in addition to new themes for the characters of the story. Seems Disney is taking its music pretty seriously.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

A mere week after I said on this forum that I don't like comics as a storytelling form, I decided to start reading Star Wars comics over the weekend.

 

Starting with the trade paperback of the first story arc of the 2015 main line Star Wars relaunch, "Skywalker Strikes."  I'm still kinda not sure if I'm "reading it correctly" when I'm reading a comic.  Like, I always this weird hangup where I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be getting more out of individual panels or something.

 

Anyway, I actually really enjoyed the opening 3 issue setpiece of Han, Leia, Luke, Chewie and the droids infiltrating an Imperial weapons factory to blow it up.

 

There's this really cool part where Vader is buried under rubble by an AT-AT walker that Han/Leia have commandeered, and then when he's discovered by a stormtrooper...

 

Spoiler

Here's the cool art when he's initally shot at by the AT-AT

 

And here's where the unfortunate stormtrooper sees him without his mask/helmet

 

[mstrox 6,651]

Most of the arcs in the main Star Wars run are really great.  And the majority of the (first) Darth Vader book as well.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

So the break from Star Wars films will last all of.... 3 years.

 

[Jay 37,353]

So after we get Star Wars movies one per year from 2015-2019, the next one isn't dropping until 2022?  Wow.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

At Celebration last month Disney announced that there would be a hiatus from Star Wars films after IX.  Of course there will be Disney+ stuff in the meantime.

 

I kind of hoped that the hiatus would be longer.  Let hunger for new movies build up a little more.

[Jay 37,353]

 

Here's a variety article about this fwiw

 

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/disney-avatar-star-wars-marvel-1203207661/

[Nick Parker 3,040]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

So after we get Star Wars movies one per year from 2015-2019, the next one isn't dropping until 2022?  Wow.

 

Almost like Disney is listening to its consumers!

 

Re: comics: I haven't read many, but my freshman year in college I got really into Daredevil, and checked out the Frank Miller run that put his name on the map. What I found myself doing, @Disco Stu, was I would read these issues super-quick and not really absorb much. What improved my experience, was I began to read the frames between the frames. I've never read any interviews with comic book artists to corroborate this, but I get the sense that good artists design each panel, or frame, to convey the illusion and sense of many motions or actions before and after the one that's explicitly captured in that one panel. Much like how a book encourages you to create a mental motion picture, I found myself encouraged to take each panel as an invitation to imagine those implied actions as a fluid, moving entity that glued each panel together; as a result, I found my comic reading experience to be much fuller and richer, and more digestible. 

 

 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

1 minute ago, Nick Parker said:

 

Re: comics: I haven't read many, but my freshman year in college I got really into Daredevil, and checked out the Frank Miller run that put his name on the map. What I found myself doing, @Disco Stu, was I would read these issues super-quick and not really absorb much. What improved my experience, was I began to read the frames between the frames. I've never read any interviews with comic book artists to corroborate this, but I get the sense that good artists design each panel, or frame, to convey the illusion and sense of many motions or actions before and after the one that's explicitly captured in that one panel. Much like how a book encourages you to create a mental motion picture, I found myself encouraged to take each panel as an invitation to imagine those implied actions as a fluid, moving entity that glued each panel together; as a result, I found my comic reading experience to be much fuller and richer, and more digestible. 

 

 

 

This is what I'm trying to do as well with the Star Wars comics I'm reading this week.  I figure if I was speed reading them, which can so easily be done, I'd might as well just read the Wookieepedia entry instead.

[mstrox 6,651]

If we weren't getting a ton of live action Star Wars content (much more than 2 hours a year!) I'd be kind of bummed, but waiting three years for another movie is fine

[Bilbo 3,709]

How long before D&D get Trevorrowed? 

[Larry O 115]

It would be pretty cool if the big switcheroo was waiting for us once formal announcements get made. Everyone thinking this is the Benioff/Weiss trilogy and it turns out it's Rian Johnson's. 

I think the Disney+ presence will make the every-other-year release schedule seem less spaced out, although yearly Star Wars was working just fine. I know people will point to Solo's underperformance, but Iger more or less took the blame for that in an interview last year. If Solo had been pushed back to December (like Rogue One had) once Howard got brought on to reshoot most of the movie, I think the rhythm they'd established up to that point would have been rewarded. People got very used to Star Wars being a Christmas event very quickly, and the decision to force Solo to stick to its original summer release date (to protect Mary Poppins, which for some reason was anointed as THE can't-miss Disney winter blockbuster for 2018, which was a really bad call as it turns out) is what hurt Solo more than anything. 

If Solo had gotten the opportunity to come out in December, not only would it have made more money (even with its bad release date it still made more than Poppins did in its choice one) but I'd imagine the compressed and cramped nature of everything would have been lessened quite a bit. More press, better marketing, more of a chance to spin what happened with Lord & Miller, more of a chance to give Howard an opportunity to make the case for authorship, more of an opportunity to give audiences some distance from the giant ugly mess that "discourse" about The Last Jedi became, a conversation that quickly became so ugly and controversial the conversation itself became fodder for more than a few cultural and political articles. 

But every other year Star Wars will be fine. We used to have to wait three years between movies, and then wait decades between trilogies, and we didn't have huge, high-budget miniseries constantly running in the interim, either. Plus it's possible we're not getting consecutive trilogy installments. It could be possible we're getting Benioff & Weiss part I, then Rian Johnson Part I, then Benioff & Weiss part II, etc etc. 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

When it was announced Star Wars was going on hiatus, I thought it might be more significant than a few years between more movies. Fake news.

[Larry O 115]

Three years is a pretty significant break for a series that's been ongoing since 2015. Granted, it's not like the 12 year break between Avatar movies, but imagine Pixar taking a 3 year break once Toy Story 4 drops, or Marvel not releasing anything after Endgame until 2022, or Disney taking three years off from their animated classics remake slate after Lion King.

Their machine is very finely tuned, and audiences are very used to annual (at a minimum) hits from their favorite brands. Disney+ will scratch some of that itch, but three years off isn't in-significant considering the entertainment landscape as it is now. 

[SteveMc 2,674]

George's wallet. https://t.co/0FDhJt2wJE

— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) May 7, 2019

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

We had to wait five years for the sequel to the 2014 Godzilla!

[Chen G. 3,949]

Isn't Skull Island part of that "Cinematic Universe" (god, I hate that term) though?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

I thought the Skull Island ride at Universal Studios was based on the Skull Island movie since it opened around the time the movie came out. However, it was actually based on the Peter Jackson movie which I didn't like, but it's an almost completely different take aside from the look of the creatures.