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  3. Posted

    On 2/5/2018 at 12:19 AM, Idiot Cube said:

    I can't wait for Baby Han and Puppy Chewie to walk past the Millenium Falcon while it's being constructed, and for Han to roll his eyes and say "You'll never catch me in a piece of junk like that."

     

    I also look forward to the schoolyard fight scene with Greedo.

    inb4 the scene were Lando affectionately refers to his ship as "old bird" and Han comments on how that would make a cool name for a ship, like "century hawk" or something

  5. Posted

    Episode III is actually okay, at least when the characters are angry and grief stricken they aren't wooden. There's a little bit of nice world building, and it's probably the best shot of the three. Plus I think the Anakin/Obi-Wan duel is the best lightsaber fight in the entire series, until it jumps the lava shark and they're swinging around on ropes and shit.

     

    Episode I has some redeeming factors and it's really frustrating because if Lucas had managed to reign in the plot and toned down the kid friendliness it could have been decent. It's really hard to root for Anakin like you could Luke because he's too young to be compelling or have enough agency to drive the story forward . Too much shit happens to him completely by accident. If they had to keep Anakin that young then the movie should have been about Obi-Wan but they couldn't even do that right... but if the story had centered itself around either of them properly, it might have been forgivable.

     

    Episode II is pretty much horrible throughout. Half of it is a mystery plot we already know the goddamned ending to, and the rest of it is just mind numbing set piece after mind numbing set piece. Nothing feels like it has any consequence because it's just filler to get us from "Anakin meets Obi-Wan" to "Anakin betrays Obi-Wan". The whole mystery plot could have worked if it had focused more on how Palpatine played everyone against each other and less on the mechanics of how the clone army was developed. The battle sequences are boring because it's all nameless clones throwing themselves against droids. Most of the background Jedi have about as much charisma as either, and there's never any sense that a character you care about might suffer or die in the war. It's the most sterile pointless conflict imaginable. They botched just about everything. Yoda should never had a shitty CGI lightsaber battle and they should have left Boba Fett the fuck alone. Literally the only reason Episode II can justify its existence is how fucking great Christopher Lee is as Count Dooku, and we get more of him in Ep. III anyway. I feel like we could expunge Ep. II from Star Wars canon and it would have very little impact on the story at all. I really fucking hate Episode II.

  6. Posted

    The saddest thing about the prequels is Lucas focused on all of these groundbreaking effects at the expense of just about everything else, and a lot of it's started to look like hot garbage in a relatively short amount of time. It's like going back and watching the first Toy Story, except that's such a good film it doesn't matter how primitive it looks. The OT with all of its old practical effects has held up 100x better.

     

    I honestly think the push to remember the prequels as better than they were is marketing. A lot of those articles came out after Disney bought the property and I'm sure people are happy to write that clickbait garbage with a little "encouragement" from Disney. At the time of acquisition the prequels accounted for more than half of the entire canon Star Wars universe and it must be hard to stomach the fact that everyone hates an huge part of the series that they might want to milk later on. Maybe if they convince everyone the prequels weren't that bad they can print some more money with the Ewan McGregor Obi-Wan spinoff they'll probably greenlight between Episode XV and Sarlacc: A Star Wars Story.

     

     

  10. Posted

    5 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    Now we can look forward to the Han Solo film.

     

    We can finally get resolution to why Han Solo said that his ship was good enough to make a run in a short distance rather than a short time.

     

    (It couldn't be that he was trying to bullshit an old man that he thought was a backwater rube.)

    One of the better theories I've heard is that the Kessel Run is littered with some kind of obstacle... black holes, mines, etc. When plotting a course through, you end up increasing the distance of your trip to circumvent those hazards. So Han is basically saying he took the most direct and dangerous path through.

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  14. Posted

    On 12/20/2017 at 5:21 AM, Razputin said:

    Thinking back on the governor, that is probably just my overall irritation of the entirety of the walking dead; it has such an inconsistent tone. You can introduce Michone as a hooded ninja with two zombie carrier slaves, and a guy who pretends he is a highborn king holding a tiger on a leash, but if you then turn around and start being deep about the nature of humanity I just get completely pulled out of it

    This is why TWD works better as a comic than as a terrible, terrible show.

  15. Posted

    On 12/10/2017 at 8:27 PM, Razputin said:

    Crowning moment being that, although he is a vicious gruesome psychopath serial murdering tirant, we have to make absolutely sure that it's clear this guy does not condone rape. Full frontal smashing someones head in with a baseball bat until their eyes pop out we can spin into a charismatic character but rape would be a bridge too far

    I think that's what makes Negan an interesting character, though. He truly believes that his actions are justified because he's rebuilding civilization, and he believes in certain standards that need to be upheld, while not being able to recognize how his abuse his power and sadism are also ruining what he's trying to accomplish. 

     

    He claims to only kill was a means of controlling people through fear, and he enforces a "kill as few people as you can" rule with his underlings, but he clearly enjoys killing. He strictly enforces a "no rape" rule, but he has multiple wives that are arguably forced into a relationship with him because of the power dynamics of their society.  He's deeply fucked, but he's also managed to get results and create one of the most well organized, well protected societies we see on TWD. In a lot of ways his goals are the same as Rick's, which makes him a little more interesting than some tactlessly brutal nutjob like the Governor.

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  20. Posted · Edited by kayohgee

    2 hours ago, John Caveson said:

    It is indeed a sad notion that advocating for less government control over people's lives is considered "edgy

    This is such a bizarre argument to make in this particular case. The only way the government is "controlling" the internet is having a regulation that no one is allowed to control the internet. Your stance is basically akin to this:

     

    Major automotive companies start adopting highways across the United States. They are granted permits to set up toll stations along the highways they own, so that on a road owned by Toyota, only owners of Toyota cars can expect to drive with any expectation of a reliable speed. Drivers of every other brand have to drive in slow lanes, or pay tolls to get into faster lanes, or may not be able to drive on those roads at all. Clearly no one wants this. The government steps in and says "This fucking sucks. Roads need to be reliable and accessible to everyone within reason." and sets up a regulation to end the practice. By your logic, the government is being the tyrannical party in this situation even though it's clear they're acting in the best interests of the public, which is their job.

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