Stomski
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEECH!! But don't worry. It won't happen again.
Posts: 6,120
|
Post by Stomski on Jan 3, 2020 20:37:05 GMT
I still can't figure out why when MCU have shown how well multi movie franchises can maintain a strong consistent narrative, Star Wars sequel trilogy managed to screw it up so badly.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2020 16:16:19 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jan 23, 2020 17:25:30 GMT
Whoops.
-Ralph
|
|
Stomski
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEECH!! But don't worry. It won't happen again.
Posts: 6,120
|
Post by Stomski on Jan 24, 2020 8:48:39 GMT
Good lord - that shot of Chewie being interrogated is a little harrowing.
Curious what role the brain creatures had in it.
|
|
Jim
Thunderjet
Micromaster Backside Monitor
Now in glorious Ultra HD 4K
Posts: 4,916
Member is Online
|
Post by Jim on Jan 24, 2020 19:24:18 GMT
I think people are stretching the truth a tad when it comes to the different vision for the film. You could select lots of pages from the (excellent) art book for Last Jedi and claim them to show a different vision for the film. Part of what the books do is show the wide range of concepts the art team comes up with, including for deleted scenes.
|
|
|
|
Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 2, 2020 20:56:44 GMT
|
|
Stomski
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEECH!! But don't worry. It won't happen again.
Posts: 6,120
|
Post by Stomski on Apr 28, 2020 7:22:11 GMT
Any UK store exclusives on the BD anyone knows about?
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 29, 2020 19:05:32 GMT
No idea, Asda has the choice of sleeve but that's it.
|
|
The Huff
Thunderjet
Hufferlover
Posts: 4,243
|
Post by The Huff on May 8, 2020 22:11:17 GMT
I watched this the other night. I really thought it was plain awful. Just things happening with no meaning or emotional weight. Acting was incredibly dull.
I don't quite understand why a franchise as beloved as this would be treated so poorly.
Perhaps I just didn't get it.
Good to see a Jawa Sandcrawler again though I guess.
|
|
Jim
Thunderjet
Micromaster Backside Monitor
Now in glorious Ultra HD 4K
Posts: 4,916
Member is Online
|
Post by Jim on May 9, 2020 14:05:11 GMT
Good to see a Jawa Sandcrawler again though I guess. And even that has been superseded by The Mandalorian! My daughter would like to watch ROS with me, having watched most of the other films together, and I just really don’t fancy going through it again. But it’s not like I’m going to let her down. |
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on May 9, 2020 21:19:12 GMT
I have asked for the blu-ray set of Episodes 1-9 for birthday so will re-appraise 9 then. I remember very little about it other than having to look away a lot in the last third due to constant flashing lights in dim environments. It worries me slightly that not much else has made a lasting impression...
-Ralph
|
|
Stomski
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEECH!! But don't worry. It won't happen again.
Posts: 6,120
|
Post by Stomski on Jun 26, 2020 13:33:38 GMT
Well, tried to sit down to watch RoS for the first time since the cinema. Got 15 minutes in before I gave up. I mean c'mon JJAbrams... Was this really the best threat you could come up with? And that name for the plan? C'monnnnn.
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 26, 2020 22:41:22 GMT
Not yet rewatched it since the cinema.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jun 26, 2020 22:53:07 GMT
I have the Blu Ray. Not watched it yet. Rewatched Episodes I-III instead.
-Ralph
|
|
Stomski
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEECH!! But don't worry. It won't happen again.
Posts: 6,120
|
Post by Stomski on Jun 30, 2020 11:09:34 GMT
At least they had a decent long running plot!
|
|
Jim
Thunderjet
Micromaster Backside Monitor
Now in glorious Ultra HD 4K
Posts: 4,916
Member is Online
|
Post by Jim on Jun 30, 2020 14:16:42 GMT
7, 8, 9 were like a round-robin where the first and last parts were written by the bad kind of fanfic writer and the second by a talented professional (regardless of whether you think he was the right kind of creator for Star Wars, I don't think anyone could say he's a hack or that he didn't put the effort in).
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jun 30, 2020 16:29:22 GMT
I didn't like 8 initially as I thought it was boring but it has grown on me a lot.
-Ralph
|
|
Stomski
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEECH!! But don't worry. It won't happen again.
Posts: 6,120
|
Post by Stomski on Jul 3, 2020 7:53:59 GMT
Yes 8 is a real grower as much as the plot devices are weak and Canto Blight is badly realised, the arcs for the main characters actually have personal development with emotional reasoning.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 28, 2020 21:31:27 GMT
I have asked for the blu-ray set of Episodes 1-9 for birthday so will re-appraise 9 then. I remember very little about it other than having to look away a lot in the last third due to constant flashing lights in dim environments. It worries me slightly that not much else has made a lasting impression... -Ralph It has now been watched! Um. Er. That was....um. -Ralph |
|
|
|
Post by Shockprowl on Oct 29, 2020 8:11:22 GMT
Still not seen it. And not going to out of my way to see it neither.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Oct 29, 2020 10:09:45 GMT
Now I have seen it again (and could literally see this time the last third of it) I think I can say that for me, it is the poorest of the nine 'episodes'. It's just bland and dull. There's no life to it. Even Williams' score is unusually bog standard. The cast are trying their best but there's just nothing for them to work with. No wonder John Boyega has since went off on one about his experience on it. It doesn't link up with any of the previous 8 films: there's no flow. It's like bad fanfic. We watched with subtitles as my partner is hard of hearing and this showcases just how basic the dialogue was: it feels like first draft placeholder text.
A shame. It's watchable. Palpatine is fun, even if there's no reason for him to be there. It's not the worst SW film overall for me (hello, Solo) but it's...crap.
-Ralph
|
|
Stomski
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
YOU INTERRUPTED MY SPEECH!! But don't worry. It won't happen again.
Posts: 6,120
|
Post by Stomski on Jan 21, 2023 13:17:57 GMT
{Spoiler}If Hayden Christensen turns up in this in some kind of 'Ultimate Skywalker Team-up' to once and for all destroy The Emperor I'll never watch Star Wars again. Finally rewatched last night and this technically does happen. Sorry mate. |
|
|
|
Post by Shockprowl on Jan 22, 2023 21:39:16 GMT
{Spoiler}If Hayden Christensen turns up in this in some kind of 'Ultimate Skywalker Team-up' to once and for all destroy The Emperor I'll never watch Star Wars again. Finally rewatched last night and this technically does happen. Sorry mate. Oh no. Star Wars is dead. Cardboard Death Star is all that remains. |
|
Cullen
Empty
Cat Stabber
Posts: 1,222
|
Post by Cullen on Jan 25, 2023 14:35:01 GMT
Rise of Skywalker for me was the worst of the three sequel movies. They stole most of the plot points from the Dark Empire comics from the 90s, which could have been really cool, but there was no set up in the previous films to build up to this. "Somehow Palpatine returned" sums up the whole movie for me. It was chewing gum for the eyes though.
The whole hidden fleet of mini-death stars doesn't make any sense. Why did Palpatine bother making the second Death Star if he was already making a fleet (a fleet!) of other ships with planet destroying lasers. It makes no sense.
And while I'm on I might as well rant about my least favourite part of the Last Jedi. Most of the film is a chase between the rebels, who are out of fuel and can't jump away, and the First Order who aren't our of fuel and could easily use their hyperdrives to jump some ships in front of the fleeing rebels and cut them off. And don't say they can't do that because in the same film we see Finn and co jump away to the silly casino planet and jump right back to where they were. Arrgh!
|
|
|
|
Post by Shockprowl on Jan 25, 2023 19:24:32 GMT
The new films are just so bitterly disappointing. Bitter. BITTER. Crushingly disappointing. Like being punched in the stomach by a big sweaty biker with 'LOVE' and 'HATE' tattooed on his knuckles and not even having the will to fight back. The two I've seen sucked my very life out of me, leaving behind a waxy, sallow husk of a Star Wars fan. Rogue One breathed new life, but it seems to be alone in a void lacking of ideas.
All that remains is Cardboard Death Star.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jan 25, 2023 19:34:42 GMT
The Prequels don't seem so bad now!
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Shockprowl on Jan 25, 2023 21:50:05 GMT
Bloody hell, you're right Doc'! Fuck a duck.
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 25, 2023 22:00:27 GMT
Attack of the Clones is still shit.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Doctor on Jan 25, 2023 22:04:37 GMT
Yup, but it's better than Episodes 7-9.
-Ralph
|
|
|
|
Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 25, 2023 22:14:07 GMT
No, I like The Last Jedi.
|
|
