Star Wars 7 shit talk

... How can the third one be seen as a gay parable?

what if yoda was originally a huge hulking angry green dude but then sheev shrank him using evil sith magic, that would've been cool(er)

ok not really

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yeah explain gay parable interp plz

Emperor Chicken Hawk openly lusting for Leif Garrett.

love that moment when he blasts SLJ out the window then looks at Anakin and mouth open goes AHHHHHHHHHH

so... ROTS is tolerable if you think its main allegory is that gay people are evil predators?

"From my point of view, heteros are evil!"

yeah it has the tone of those anti-marijuana PSAs from the fifties

"'Straight' is a point of view, Anakin."

goodthread

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/4100099/palpatine-s-ahhh-o.gif

McDiamard does kill it in that scene.

wait, did I say The Phantom Menace? I meant the trailer, again

http://i.imgur.com/7554iFV.gif

I asked whether the movie was good, she was just like, yeah, it was pretty good

I rest my fucking case

― Οὖτις, 2. joulukuuta 2014 18:48 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people did NOT want to admit TPM was bad

― Οὖτις, 2. joulukuuta 2014 18:48 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Er, I mentioned this story because I wanted to argue against what you claimed upthread. This is the quote from you:

it took YEARS for people to turn on the prequels and admit they were terrible

― Οὖτις, 1. joulukuuta 2014 18:50 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In the case of my flatmate, it didn't take her years to admit it was a bad movie, just a few days. And she was like the most fanatical SW fan I knew, all my other friends agreed TPM sucked immediately after they'd seen it.

people thinking it sucks and people not wanting to watch it are two separate things, too

never underestimate the ability of human beings to rewatch garbage just because it's related to their favorite series

(*goes to watch Law & Order: Cincinatti)

fair enough Tuomas. Maybe Finns suffer less cognitive dissonance or something

yeah let's not fight..
http://www.stomptokyo.com/sings/swholiday/images/hug2.jpg

this is how i remember the prequels coming out -
first one had so much hype coming in, was inevitably disappointing. darth maul and that song and that fight at the end were cool. the racism was weird. jar jar was always terrible. kid anakin was terrible.
attack of the clones was more fun and marginally better, the romance was absolutely godawful. CG generally kinda sloppy looking. Yoda flipping around spastically was a rare high point.
third was not great but much better than the first two, even with all the hamminess, still more entertaining/action-packed, less moments of talking and boredom

The element from the prequels that most regularly springs to my mind is Elan Sleazebaggano and his death sticks.

How come every fucking scene in these movies involves someone standing in front of a window with a million fucking things happening in the background.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

Maybe just a lot of windows, things going to be moving around. No big deal.

One of my fave (few) Gene Siskel stories was around the time of the SW re-releases, which happened to coincide with a brief re-release of The Godfather. Someone asked Siskel how the Godfather re-release print looked, and he said it was pretty much the same, except during the wedding scene they added a bunch of robots just walking around.

i consider TPM the best of the prequels (it's still fucking awfulmediocre).

hyperbolic you shall not be

How come every fucking scene in these movies involves someone standing in front of a window with a million fucking things happening in the background.

this kind of action meaningful in its contrast to the kind of action other movies might include: characters moving from place to place, for instance, or reacting physically to the information they receive, or interacting casually and spontaneously with others. you might have to cut all that but no matter how small the empty green box is you can def fit a window in there, and after that, well, it's imagination time.

lol siskel

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TPM had my favourite moment in the prequels, which was the final lightsaber battle being interrupted by forcefields going up, and Qui-Gon using the lull to get in some quick meditation.

^^^ this is definitely cool. that's the best prequel saber fight, right? don't really remember anything else except scissoring off christopher lee's head and the hysterical series nadir/apex when "general grievous" suddenly unfurls like 6 spinning lightsabers from panels in his shoulders or some shit.

I don't mind the effect. I thought it was effective in an Ep III scene in which this titanic battle of good vs evil rages while Coruscantians look for parking in rush hour traffic.

i think one of the worst part of the prequels is the CGI. it just doesn't convice, puppets have always been better

this kind of action meaningful in its contrast to the kind of action other movies might include: characters moving from place to place, for instance, or reacting physically to the information they receive, or interacting casually and spontaneously with others. you might have to cut all that but no matter how small the empty green box is you can def fit a window in there, and after that, well, it's imagination time.

And you can do it all in post! Good ol' one-take Lucas.

same thing goes for all the glossy machinery, whoever mentioned the dirtiness of outer planets and space junk in eps 4-6 upthread was otm

i think one of the worst part of the prequels is the CGI. it just doesn't convice, puppets have always been better

― marcos,

Always struck me as baffling that the Yoda puppet in ep I was so much shittier than the one in ep V.

For all the hate piled onto Jar-Jar, I don't think Watto gets complained about nearly enough

Watto seems like the epitome of a labored but terribly conceived CGI character

watto is fucking hideous

I mentioned the trailer and concept of VII to my brother-in-law last weekend, and he wanted to know if the original star trio were in the cast. I am envious of such ignorance in this era.

Hey which one of you is this guy

http://www.clickhole.com/article/fanboy-loves-star-wars-so-much-he-plans-watch-forc-1514

xp Yeah, but it's not like they got him from Jim Henson and oh shit it's a racist-looking puppet, better write some lines for him.

(I mean, it's not like anything explains anything about Watto other than 'No-one says no to George')

I sort of got a kick out of mentioning the trailer in the office breakroom and watching the faces of a handful of male 30-something law firm associates all light up at once

one of the reasons I don't want to watch TPM with my daughter is that I am not looking forward to explaining how every alien is a racist caricature

I'm trying to think what else I liked in the prequels, and the pod race sequence is basically it. CG Ben-Hur was the only real idea these movies had.

The pod race was too goddamn long.

The Darth Maul fight was basically out of a HK Wuxia movie and that was my favorite part of the prequels, I think

My favorite Star Wars-related cultural products of late are the Uncut fan remakes and the grindhouse version of ANH.

same thing goes for all the glossy machinery, whoever mentioned the dirtiness of outer planets and space junk in eps 4-6 upthread was otm

― marcos, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 4:02 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Thank you my good man *dons flowing Jedi robe*

this is semi-intentional, isn't it? ie the "golden age" of the Republic giving way to the grimy oppressive nature of the Empire?

man a lot of rust accumulates in 18 years

you should see what happens to Boston roads over the course of one winter

It's a much-discussed aspect of the original trilogy, the "used future"

Maybe late-'90s CGI tech just wasn't refined enough to create believable rust and grime.