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47 minutes ago, JNHFan2000 said:
It's directed by Roland Emmerich. Interesting...
On the very big plus side: Midway. On the minus side: Everything else in the 21st century. (I haven't seen The Patriot.) (What's White House Down? Does that maybe not suck?)
But seriously. I loved Midway SO much!
1 hour ago, A24 said:Have we ever seen Hopkins in an ancient Rome drama?
Does Titus count?
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1 minute ago, A24 said:
explores a side of Rome never before told — the dirty business of entertaining the masses, and giving the mob what they want most... blood and sport.
Oliver Reed would like a word.
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6 minutes ago, Faleel said:
Didn't Star Trek II have stuff added to make Spock's return possible though? (The capsule on Genesis, "Remember"?)
Added without Meyer? Yes. Added after the film was released? No.
Look! TIE fighters!
I never did see the Clone Wars episodes where Dooku razes Dathomir. Maybe I should catch up. I also never saw the whole "Ahsoka on trial" part either.
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8 minutes ago, mstrox said:
Russian Doll ruled so I’m looking forward to the showrunner’s take on Star Wars.
I liked the first season. I couldn't get into the second.
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7 hours ago, Schilkeman said:
Didn't care for either of them. Only made it one episode into Bad Batch, Obi-Wan and Boba Fett.
Nope. There's nothing here for you then.
7 hours ago, Schilkeman said:There is definitely a military vs civilian dichotomy set up by the plot with the scientists worried that the "military" will take the Genesis project from them. That would not happen in the show.
There is ONE guy and the leader of the project says "I cannot and will not subscribe to your interpretation of these events." And she's right.
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31 minutes ago, Schilkeman said:
I agree with Roddenberry that the overt military tone of the film is off-putting
I know fans hated Balance of Terror, Errand of Mercy, and The Doomsday Machine. TWOK was so military that the turning point of the plot was when Kirk did NOT take a military stance to an undeclared Federation ship.
But they did fire phasers. As they did in many Roddenberry approved episodes of Star Trek.
31 minutes ago, Schilkeman said:how Disney couldn't possibly mess it up again, could they?
Other than Resistance what has Disney messed up with animated Star Wars? Speaking for myself Rebels is my third favorite Star Wars thing ever. Bad Batch has gotten a very good reception. And the Final Season of The Clone Wars was so good I keep thinking I like Revenge of the Sith. (I really don't. It's so terrible.)
People still generally love Mandalorian and Ahsoka got at least an OK reception. Boba Fett and Kenobi are the two big misses.
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4 minutes ago, DarthDementous said:
good. not everything needs multiple seasons to tell its story.
Oh dear. Are we allowed to have TWO optimists in this thread? This is a Star Wars thread after all!
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Now... now eventually you do plan to have TALES OF THE EMPIRE in your Tales of the Empire thread?
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Good thing Tales of the Empire (that's this thread, right?) is Filoni and not Gilroy. Filoni is a FAN. He's forgotten more about Star Wars than we'll ever know. And it will probably feature some sort of wolf.
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EDIT: TOTALLY wrong thread!
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12 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:I don't understand the question.
Vejur expects an answer.
An answer? I don't know the question!
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Love is clearly the key.
Although Jerry wrote the melody to A Star Beyond Time and Paul Williams wrote Flying Dreams. So maybe love is the bridge?
No, it's a lovely melody but a terrible song. It's the key.
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Oh. Good. They've spent millions of dollars to film my biggest pet peeve EVER.
(Not only did we not fake the moon landing but we could not have faked the moon landing.)
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On 05/04/2024 at 2:43 AM, Schilkeman said:
with a strong emphasis on visual storytelling, not just as set dressing for dialog.
Mr. Villeneuve? Is that you?
Star Wars (the film) may not have the most sophisticated dialog and it has become more than fashionable to bash the writing. But the back and forth patter of the first two movies was always my favorite part.
I do think Star Wars can be very flexible. I've come to realize that my favorite component of Star Wars is the Galactic Civil War and that particular set of good guys and bad guys. Even when I was a kid the Jedi sections of the two sequels were my least favorite parts. Looking back I like them even less because they completely consume the hero of the first movie and essentially move him to his own films separate from the rest of the cast. (Making The Last Jedi a rather logical extension when you think about it.)
TotE looks super interesting to me. It feels like with the last few projects that Filoni is trying to connect all the dots. "What happened after this? What did this character do after that?" I'll be very interested to see how this show uses Vader. My favorite Vader outside of Star Wars and Empire is in Rebels. I want to see these people doing their JOBS.
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Yeah, try and watch 28 Days Later at the moment. (At least in the USA.)
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Ahsoka (and Chopper) has been added to Star Tours.
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13 minutes ago, Tom Guernsey said:
I always imagined that streaming would be like in Star Trek where they just have anything in the database and you'd be able to access it...
I call this my Plex server.
Streaming is well enough for titles that we say "Hey, what's on?" But I'd never rely on it for titles that are important to me. (Yes, I'll buy the Strange New Worlds discs eventually.)
Well. I suppose there is a certain amount of complacency on my part. I don't have Person of Interest or Rebels on disc. I should really be taking a more adversarial approach and grab things while I can.
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1 hour ago, Stark said:
I think G2014 and Skull Island are modern masterpieces and KOTM is rather close, while GvK is a terrible movie (even if beautiful)... so this time I clearly do not agree with the audience at all.
We reach. Although I found KotM far more enjoyable than G14, so flip those for me. Skull Island might be the best RIDE of all of the modern US monsterverse movies.
The one scene that I remember that grabbed me in GvK was the fight on the aircraft carrier. But it was SO amazing and visceral that I found it realllllly hard to watch. And that was just watching it on TV!
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2 hours ago, Richard Penna said:
Yep, I rented a heck of a lot of DVDs and Blu-rays from LoveFilm, and was very disappointed when they stopped as they had pretty much everything. Particularly as you could see all the extras and special features and generally see how good the release was, and I'm fairly sure I bought a few Blu-rays after having rented them.
What's just occurred to me is why Netflix (and others) clearly have a long-term issue with licensing agreements with the studios for streaming when they could rent out films/series/etc to their heart's content as long as they had the disc. Evidently the licensing model must be very different for streaming.
When Netflix started they just bought discs just like we would and rented them out. (So it seems anyway.) Then as they got bigger they started getting the same kinds of discs Blockbuster would get, i.e. movie only, no extras. Often with an annoying message that you could get the extras if you went and bought the discs.
I don't know anybody who said "Goodbye cable, I've got VHS." Those would be two separate media services. VHS for movies. Probably not shows - even I wasn't paying the kind of money it would take to get all of Star Trek on VHS. Nevermind the shelf space! And for taping things off of TV. Then cable / TV for watching what was "on".
Hell yes I said "Goodbye VHS / Laserdisc, I've got DVD now!"
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8 hours ago, Andy said:
First time watch for me. What didn’t audiences like about this?
I hated it. But I haven't seen it since 1995. Maybe the things that made it seem ridiculously self indulgent in '95 will, with nearly 30 years of far worse cinematic indulgences to compare it with, seem charmingly quaint and old fashioned.
My expectations were high as it seemed like the kind of niche film aimed right at me that nobody else was going to like. And then I didn't like it. So very sad.
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Oh no! People on the internet are cranky about Star Wars!
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Oh, I still haven't listened to the score separately from the film, but this was a tremendous sequel score. The first of the Spengler Films leaned very heavily on Bernstein quotes and did it very well. But this one? Wow, it actually managed to live in the same musical space without hardly ever directly quoting EB.
The Official Jerry Goldsmith Thread
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Well, in late 1994 Jerry thought "Wow, this will be the FOURTH Star Trek show. And this will be the THIRD Star Trek thing I've written for. And they already use my theme for another one. And I hear they're making ANOTHER movie next year and they want me for that one! Wow, there's just a SWARM of these things!"