Jurassic Shark 12,067 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 As long as it doesn't drag out forever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 I can easily see episode IX approaching the screentime of The Last Jedi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mstrox 6,651 Posted April 3, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 3, 2018 I'm happy with them dragging out forever and ever. Keep making fun movies about wizards and rogues and hopeful fantastic situations in space. Of course, I want IX to be a satisfying capper to the 'trilogy' in the same way that Jedi was for the OT. But when I first got into Star Wars in the mid-1990s, there was never an Ending to Star Wars. Luke and Leia and Han and Occasionally Lando were always off fighting the next threat - Thrawn, Isard, the Vong, etc etc etc, starting like one minute after their "happy ending" on Endor with The Truce at Bakura. I derive a lot of fun out of these movies being a series of serial adventures, and less in some super-serious statement of finality. Pieter Boelen, John, The Illustrious Jerry and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 I think all film series', even if they are original stories, reach a point where they're better off closing up shop, as it were. I feel like Star Wars (again, in terms of the main episodes) is at that point in its life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,067 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 I hope the final scene of Ep. IX uses the Ewok Celebration music... mstrox 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Porg Celebration. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 45 minutes ago, kaseykockroach said: The only thing I notice in these movies is Rey's fantastic abs. And her eyes. And her smile. ...or as Screen Junkies says: aaaaaaaaaabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pieter Boelen 740 Posted April 3, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 3, 2018 35 minutes ago, Chen G. said: I think final chapters need to have a bittersweet quality. Making it upbeat would undermine its sense of heft. What you describe would be downright depressing, as far as I'm concerned. I only asked for a little bit more upbeat. Why must upbeat undermine anything anyway? Sometimes, a massively happy ending can be more impactful than anything else. Doesn't hurt to broadcast some hope into this world, I think. Jurassic Shark, mstrox and John 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,067 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 4 minutes ago, Pieter_Boelen said: Why must upbeat undermine anything anyway? Sometimes, a massively happy ending can be more impactful than anything else. Doesn't hurt to broadcast some hope into this world, I think. Yeah, it should end with Putin and Trump being tossed into the Sarlacc pit. Add the Turkish guy too. Taikomochi and Pieter Boelen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 4 hours ago, Chen G. said: The way its explained to us, The Force sustains existence, so you could approach it more in terms of cutting off people's connection to it, rather than eliminating the force itself. I think its the best way to bring closure to this series, and if you want to do something unexpected yet inevitable, than I feel like that's the way to go. The way to do that would be to create a virus that kills midichlorians. The Resistance would use biowarfare to infect the galactic population with anti-midi agents that would render a Force-user suddenly impotent with the Force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 When you larn to quiet yawr mind...you will hear them speaking to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 How about the Resistance makes a Resistance Star and the First Order make a Starkiller II and they blow each other up at the same time, creating a black hole and sucking everything in the galaxy in, save the outer rim just so Rian Johnson can mess around there for a few movies. 😊 6 hours ago, mstrox said: I'm happy with them dragging out forever and ever. Keep making fun movies about wizards and rogues and hopeful fantastic situations in space. Of course, I want IX to be a satisfying capper to the 'trilogy' in the same way that Jedi was for the OT. But when I first got into Star Wars in the mid-1990s, there was never an Ending to Star Wars. Luke and Leia and Han and Occasionally Lando were always off fighting the next threat - Thrawn, Isard, the Vong, etc etc etc, starting like one minute after their "happy ending" on Endor with The Truce at Bakura. I derive a lot of fun out of these movies being a series of serial adventures, and less in some super-serious statement of finality. And what of the next three trilogies and however many spinoffs? I'll watch if you watch mstrox. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Buddy, I stuck around for Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. I'll be there. The Illustrious Jerry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 Is anybody else hoping they use a real "9" in the text crawl instead of a Roman Numeral? Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 I bet they will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manakin Skywalker 4,891 Posted April 8, 2018 Share Posted April 8, 2018 And abbreviate the "Episode". Ep. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,306 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Well JJ already ruined the opening crawl font. Might as well ruin another tradition! bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Look, Indy. The Roman numerals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demodex 557 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 23 hours ago, crumbs said: Well JJ already ruined the opening crawl font. Might as well ruin another tradition! What are you talking about? I swear you guys nitpick everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 JJ changed it from the default (Times New Roman) to Webdings. Cerebral Cortex and crumbs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,306 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 3 hours ago, Demodex said: What are you talking about? I swear you guys nitpick everything. He broke consistency with every crawl since ROTJ and went with the font used on ESB's crawl for the film title. That said, I've no idea what font The Last Jedi uses. It seems like a hybrid of the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Never noticed. I have noticed, however, that sometimes the opening crawl looks a bit crooked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Its your imagination, kid. Come on, let's keep a little optimism, here. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 19, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2018 I’m watching Last Jedi for the 7th or 8th time tonight. I hope Domhnall Gleason gets the opportunity to really up his ham game in IX. He’s such a campy fun part of this movie. And that Dreadnought commander is such a good quick character. Makes a great impression for his 2 minutes of screen time Love leaky Finn. Everything on Ahch’To is fantastic. Luke throwing the saber makes me smile every time. The whole vibe of the village and the guardians, the weird local animals. All great strange world building Adam Driver smolders off the screen. Riveting performance. The movie sets up how Snoke is overplaying his hand a bit right from the start in terms of nakedly manipulating Kylo. Rey’s little smile to the thala siren is the highlight of the whole movie Love the Supremacy action sequence. The action scenes are sooooo good. Forget the haters, Leia in space makes the hair stand up on my neck every time. Magical. The music is perfect. Captain Big Nose Lady has an instant classic character actor in Star Wars look. Looks like someone who would’ve been in the original trilogy. Love Holdo’s slightly haughty aristocratic air but you totally buy her confidence as a military leader Finn’s reading of “May the Force be with you” to Rose is very funny. I find each main character’s arc of maturing in their own needed way very elegant. The conversations between Kylo and Rey are the actual highlight of the movie. I like how the long distance ones are done without any needless special effect. Can’t wait for the weird little monocle alien on Canto Bight to get his own spinoff movie in 2055 after Tesla buys Disney or whatever. “Old man Snoke’s boudoir” mstrox, John, Docteur Qui and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 19, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2018 God everything on Ahch’To really is just engrossing The scene of Yoda and Luke just talking as master and student is perfect. Can’t wait for Ghost Luke in IX Bilbo, Pieter Boelen, Ricard and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Whenever Hamill's on screen, sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 All of it! I love it! From Rey’s desperate casting about for meaning to the milk aliens! Anyway it’s this old dad’s bedtime. Gonna finish the movie tomorrow night. I love it! Can’t wait for IX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 I liked when a drunken Luke said Darth Sidious. A surprise, to be sure, but, a welcome one. Disco Stu gushing over TLJ must be how I come across to all of you when I rave about Always. I'm so sorry... Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pellaeon 593 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 I figured it was just troll bait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 You need an acting coach! I can show you the ways of the Julliard course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 The Last Jedi is good as hell. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumbs 14,306 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 It's a brilliant movie, easily the best in the series since Empire. People will realise eventually. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 It was alright. Neither best nor worst. Anyone expecting masterpieces from this franchise is kidding themselves and needs a back injury to give them some perspective. Kasey Kockroach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Every Star Wars movie is the best one since Empire!...which in of itself isn't as good as Last Starfighter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,067 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 9 hours ago, Disco Stu said: The conversations between Kylo and Rey are the actual highlight of the movie. I like how the long distance ones are done without any needless special effect. It would have been more realistic if they used Skype. Anyway, great review, Disco! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Hardly a review, more of a live blog. I just love Star Wars movies. It’s nice to hold on to one series you turn off your adult critical faculties for and just watch like you did as a kid. I mean look at the prequels, in general those who despise them were adults when they came out and those who love them were teens or younger. It’s funny to watch the exact same thing happen again with this trilogy. All these prequel defenders who now get their very own “ruined my childhood!” moment. Cerebral Cortex and Pieter Boelen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 TLJ sucks! Disney is hiding the real numbers! Kennedy is corrupting SW to become a feminist platform to attract lesbian transgenders! Rian Johnson can't direct! Star Wars RIP!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Ha, I had heard about Kennedy getting into Twitter spats with long-standing SW fans calling them 'old fat bitter white misogynists' or somesuch. Although ... I have heard that in Solo, the previously undoubtedly straight Lando will have a crush on Han that he makes no secret of. If true, that is an unfortunate example of a character's nature being altered purely to crowbar in SJW issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Sorry, but as a gay man, I don't see how a character's attraction to a character of the same sex is "SJW bait". For me it's... reality. John and Jacck 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 19, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 19, 2018 Generation X : “George Lucas ruined my childhood!” Millennials : “Hollywood’s SJW agenda ruined Star Wars! Also 9/11 was an inside job!” Jacck, Docteur Qui and Not Mr. Big 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 51 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: Generation X : “George Lucas ruined my childhood!” Millennials : “Hollywood’s SJW agenda ruined Star Wars! Also 9/11 was an inside job!” Millennials probabky make up the majority of SJW though. It’s older generations that I find have the problem. Mostly people who grew up with the OT I find to be the most bigoted and close minded of fans. Jet fuel can’t melt decade long fan theories!! Docteur Qui and TSMefford 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Mwillenials... Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 But gamergate and alt-right are very much young men’s movements. Pathetic 20something dudes. 6 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Mwillenials... Welsh is a beautiful language Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docteur Qui 1,544 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 On 5/19/2018 at 9:05 PM, Sweeping Strings said: Although ... I have heard that in Solo, the previously undoubtedly straight Lando will have a crush on Han that he makes no secret of. If true, that is an unfortunate example of a character's nature being altered purely to crowbar in SJW issues. I might add that at no point in ESB or ROTJ was Lando depicted as "undoubtedly straight". He was undoubtedly attracted to and flirting with Leia, but that doesn't at all mean that he is straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Lando's not a system, he's a pan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Have also heard that it turns out that it wasn't Han who got the Falcon through the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but Emilia Clarke's character instead. No idea if that's true or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Does she die in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 50 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said: Have also heard that it turns out that it wasn't Han who got the Falcon through the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, but Emilia Clarke's character instead. No idea if that's true or not. That's interesting. Solo never said that he made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, just that the ship did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 That's not true! That's impossible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 On 4/10/2018 at 6:39 AM, Richard said: Its your imagination, kid. Come on, let's keep a little optimism, here. Ugh. Don't remind me of that. One of several of beta Han's cringe worthy lines in that movie. Han Solo should not sound like a self-help guru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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