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Gordy Haab is a bit of an uninspired choice. It'll sound like Williams but won't really be elevated beyond pastiche at least based on his past solo work.

Gordy Haab is a bit of an uninspired choice. It'll sound like Williams but won't really be elevated beyond pastiche at least based on his past solo work.

Troy Baker
 
He sounds convincing for most lines, but some I just hear nothing but his normal voice

Gordy Haab is a bit of an uninspired choice. It'll sound like Williams but won't really be elevated beyond pastiche at least based on his past solo work.

Actually, thinking about it, killing Mutt may not have been due to Shia's offscreen antics but more to Mangold himself.
 
Just look at Logan: a dark and gritty movie that, set in the future of the Fox X-Men universe (or whatever that was), gave those characters a depressing future. Wolverine is just a grumpy old guy who can't wait to finally lose his cure powers and die, Professor X is demented and is responsible for destroying the X-Men, mutants are forgotten and on the brink of extinction, the world is shit, etc.
 
Maybe that's just Mangold's thing: he likes to take his characters from the lowest point in their lives (Logan, Indy) and then make the relutant partners of a plucky female (X-23, Helena) on an adventure that will make them... slightly less depressed or something. And just as Logan died in the end of his movie, Indy almost "died" in the end of his, but that was changed to something more... crowdpleasing? 

I'm surprised they didn't get the Afterlife composer again, he did a great job.

I'm surprised they didn't get the Afterlife composer again, he did a great job.

I love the first 20 and last 40 minutes of Jedi, but will admit I find it the weakest overall of the main six. I will, however, always love it for the gift it was to the EU. It broadened the galaxy in a way the first two simply didn't, or couldn't. I don't think Star Wars would have been kept alive in the 90s without it. It was my first Star Wars love, and I find myself appreciating it again, despite its faults.

Except for Chewie's dad (or was it his grandfather?) who instead pleasures himself while watching alien porn.

Yep. I keep up to date on the new stuff, but haven't played a new game about 3 years. I gave my PS5 to the kids. There's so much old stuff I've never gotten to that I'm now finding much more rewarding. Modern game development is unsustainable without a host of predatory consumer practices, and the psychology of modern game design has killed the hobby for me.

It’s honestly up for debate until next Thursday to be honest. This is a Bethesda game and not from EA, so it’s not as highly likely to get Haab and Barton in here. Clint has been doing WoW as of recently. I’m not sure where Todd Howard sits on film music and whether or not it’s important (to him), so we’ll just have to see.
 
I do think there’s a fair chance Vincent Oppido (composer of the Indiana Jones temple segments in Fortnite) could be in the running. Some decent stuff there (listed below)

Stingers:

 
Reductions (by Oppido himself):
 

I don't buy Ring Theory. Especially with the way Schilkeman tried to explain it by having all these different ridiculously convoluted caveats whenever it didn't fit the pattern, it smacks of confirmation bias and bending the movies over backwards to fit in that narrow perspective. It's especially telling how varying amounts of vagueness the comparative texts can be, stripped back just enough so it can superficially resemble whilst ignoring the wildly different contexts and details.

I believe that there's intentional rhyming, I do not believe that it's as rigorous or fixed of a structure as Ring Theory makes it out to be.

I don't buy Ring Theory. Especially with the way Schilkeman tried to explain it by having all these different ridiculously convoluted caveats whenever it didn't fit the pattern, it smacks of confirmation bias and bending the movies over backwards to fit in that narrow perspective. It's especially telling how varying amounts of vagueness the comparative texts can be, stripped back just enough so it can superficially resemble whilst ignoring the wildly different contexts and details.

I believe that there's intentional rhyming, I do not believe that it's as rigorous or fixed of a structure as Ring Theory makes it out to be.

No, just visually. If anything when I hear the music I hear Silvestri's Quick and the Dead.
 
As for the Emperor: I might have a different opinion if the Emperor in the SESE of Empire looked like the Emperor in Jedi. He doesn't. And I don't think McDiarmid's performance is very good. AND they tried to shoehorn in "THIS is when Vader found out!" into the new dialogue.
 
But it also doesn't fit with any of Kershner's film making. On that count I feel the same way about the Wampa. It just doesn't feel the same and Empire has a VERY specific look.
 
 
Yeah, I hated the whole "Hey! Let's EXPLAIN why the Emperor looks this way!" AND he looks terrible.
 
Well...
 

Here's the thing with all these "imperfections" in the OT...they're supposed to look like that! These films were made in 77/80/83 after all! Maybe the Emperor doesn't look quite right, so what? Should we go back and change the aeroplane flying over the airport in Casablanca because it looks fake? Let's replace 1933 King Kong with a CGI ape while we're at it.
 
Star Wars deserves the same amount of respect. Before it was the cultural monster it is now, it was a film, and a pretty important and influential one. It should be treated as such.

The SE's, especially Star Wars, are an abomination. Almost all the changes are awful. I get the rationale for updating the Emperor, and while that's not as offensive as some other the changes, it's a slippery slope because the same rationale leads to things like swapping out ghost Anakin in ROTJ.
 
The only thing I actually liked in the SE's were the added windows to Cloud City. It really opened up the space, and you'd expect windows in a city in the clouds. They didn't look out of place. Don't get me wrong, I'd still just rather have the original film, but that's the one change I didn't mind.
 
Otherwise...nothing. I get why they'd do the kind of technical things, like clean up the matte lines (though I'd have preferred they even leave well enough alone on that), but other than doing a first class restoration and new transfer, obviously the OT deserves to be released in its original form, in the highest quality possible on the most current format.

I liked the original emperor hologram - it was evocative!  One of those neat things that was lost for the sake of Canon.

The fact of the matter is, nobody in the original Star Wars reacts very realistically to loss. That's part of what gives the movie its light touch. If Luke spent four minutes of screentime being depressed after the death of his aunt and uncle, and then again crushed after Ben's death... or if Leia spent those scenes of her we see in Imperial confinment nearly catatonic after having witness the loss of her entire planet... it could make for pretty good drama, but the film isn't going for that. In fact, at every turn the film makes sure to follow any character death with throwing us back into the action, to stop us lingering about it.
 
That's why we think of The Empire Strikes Back feels so much darker, even though nobody of consequence dies in it: when Luke finds out, its allowed to linger.

Sure, if your passion is bad movies.

I liked that detail because it showed he was more concerned with his partner saying yes than a box literally vanishing in front of him, that felt very human

There is almost certainly more to Mrs. Flood than meets the eye, she knows way more than she should and is putting up the appearance of just being a normal nosy neighbour. The fourth wall breaking feels more like a hint to her connection to these new supernatural occurences I would say

I think the episode establishes both 15 and Ruby as very much the kind of people that just go with the flow. 15 is now unburdened by a lot of the past anxieties and so there feels like there's less deliberation behind his actions, like he very much operates off vibes as opposed to consternating about whether he should risk taking another companion, which I think is something that hung over pretty much every other occurence of this in Nu Who. I could see this getting them both into trouble though, The Doctor might learn a lesson about over-correcting into being too carefree. In addition, I think 15 feels a lot of kinship with Ruby as both foundlings and is feeling that absence of family especially since 14 essentially gets to have one while he rushes off into the wilderness of time and space

From a first watch the episode was very frantic but that's par for the course with Christmas Specials so I look forward to when the regular run starts so we can really sit with these characters

EDIT: Just watched the commentary and yep, my intuition is very right. They've got plans for Mrs. Flood and that final scene was not just a gag

Roger can stream any film he wants from the cloud.

Terrible?

Terrible?

Terrible?