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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 15, 2018 5:21:47 GMT
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Post by Applelight Limited on Feb 18, 2018 20:22:08 GMT
No wonder they needed Porgs! If you go out to the coast here you’ll see puffins. Lovely creatures. You know the babies are called Pufflings? Anyway, I’m really sad at the state Star Wars is in at the moment. I love Star Wars. I love the setting and the idea of it. But it just keeps getting mismanaged. People say ‘oh but it’s space magic so you can’t judge it too hard’, but you still expect characters to behave in a realistic fashion. And we just aren’t getting that.
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Post by Applelight Limited on May 28, 2018 18:33:25 GMT
So I saw Solo the other day and...it's great! Not only is it a great origin story for Han and Chewie, you really will love all the characters in it. The acting is spot on, especially from Danny Glover. You will believe he's actually one of those cgi remakes of the original. It is a proper bonified western/heist movie in space, and you won't be expecting some of the revelations in it either. The story isn't amazing or terribly original, but it is told brilliantly. Like A New Hope in fact. Some say it doesn't do anything new for the franchise but honestly, after the mess that was TLJ, that might be OK for the minute. I rate it the second best of the Disney era movies (a close second after Rogue One).
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Post by japaneseteeth on May 28, 2018 23:34:10 GMT
Yeah, I just saw it today, and I thought it was pretty great. My only real gripe is that I thought it introduced a few too many characters (i.e. Beckett's partners who get killed off during the train heist) and should've focused more on the Han/Chewie/Lando/Tobias team rather than taking half the movie to set it up. Lando was great though, as was the whole sequence of how he gets the Falcon.
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Post by Applelight Limited on May 29, 2018 23:29:45 GMT
Yeah, that did slow things down, but would the movie had worked without them?
I actually really enjoyed the war scenes. Putting the War in Star Wars, like Rogue One. Those were the fabled Imperial Army troopers we always heard about but never saw. I wish the Clone Wars had been presented half as good as that.
Also, Solo is sadly doing poorly at the box movie. I put it all down to Disney mismanaging it. Too soon after TJL, right after stiff competition from Infinity War and Deadpool 2, with negative publicity from the production troubles, and of course trying to dig the franchise out of the big pit TLJ has dug for it. Such a shame too, as I consider it to be the best one of the new era after Rogue One.
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Post by japaneseteeth on May 30, 2018 6:04:03 GMT
That seems to be the general consensus, honestly. It's a solid entry in the franchise that wasn't handled well. On the whole it was perfectly entertaining and honestly we needed a good popcorn movie after TLJ. The problem is that we didn't need it quite so soon.
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Post by Applelight Limited on May 30, 2018 23:23:36 GMT
Disney really did mishandle this movie. It’s a shame because it’s solid.
I’ve heard lots of rumours that Solo is the first of a side trilogy which will include the future Fett and Obi-Wan movies. That could be cool.
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Post by japaneseteeth on May 31, 2018 2:57:31 GMT
That would definitely be cool. Also I really hope that they bring back Ewan McGregor to play Obi-Wan because he was definitely one of the best parts of the prequels.
And yeah, it's really aggravating. If they would've just held off another month or two and spent some more time building up to it, they probably could've easily gotten a lot more out of it. Hopefully they'll learn from how it turned out and be a bit more careful with future movies. I think the main issue here is that they want to do the same thing with Star Wars that they've been doing with the MCU. The problem is that the MCU has a wider variety of characters and genres to work with, so it can have everything from sci-fi to buddy comedy to political thrillers. Star Wars has to keep that sci-fi core to it, which creates a bit of limitation to what they can do with it.
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Post by Applelight Limited on May 31, 2018 11:52:45 GMT
Ewan McGregor is Obi-Wan. No question.
And you're right. Plus, another thing to consider is Episode 9. The response to that will help determine if Star Wars itself is being avoided at large or if it was just doubts about Solo that led to it doing poorly at the box office.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 13, 2019 5:47:58 GMT
I'm really looking forward to the dramatic title drop. Finn will hug Rey and say, "Rey, your parents may have been complete nobodies... but to me, you'll always be the Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker."
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Post by Applelight Limited on Apr 13, 2019 12:33:16 GMT
Ah that cracked me up, thank you.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Apr 13, 2019 14:31:18 GMT
That would be hilarious. But yeah, I'm really curious to see where they go with this.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 13, 2019 16:46:02 GMT
Really hoping JJ doesn't back down from some of the controversial story choices from TLJ. Like, I know everyone at Lucasfilm said they stood behind Rian Johnson' s choices, but who knows how much of that was the truth and how much was just PR.
I do appreciate that paralleling ROTJ means they’re apparently revisiting the wreckage of the Death Star II rather than just having the First Order build another planet destroying superweapon.
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