Star Wars 7 shit talk

not to put something out there that I don't feel like expanding on (much) but...

one of the things that I liked about the OG star wars trilogy had is the sense of infiniteness -- there were all these AWESOME ALIENS in the cantina but none of them had names (at the time), or all the dudes wandering around Bespin or w/e and that gave the illusion that the galaxy went on and on and on and you could never hope to see it all. The idea that there was so much out there in the world that could be seen but not understood or compartmentalized is pretty powerful to a 6 year old who sees the world through that same lens. I never got into the EU stuff for pretty much that reason. Once you start trying to give a name to everything some of the wonder goes away.

― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, October 2, 2015 11:33 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah totally. The fact that it left so much unexplained made the universe so much more real, and it was probably my first exposure to a story told in that way.

The Black Hole is sort of hurt by a lot of the Disney touches, e.g. those cartoonish floating robots with their corny dialogue, but there are aspects of it that are genuinely terrifying, and yeah, the theme rules.

gosh watching clips on youtube it really does look a lot worse than I remembered

I re-watched The Black Hole not too long ago and yeah, does not age well. Schell is hammy *even for a Disney movie*, and most of the actors seem bored. (Borgnine puts in some effort.) Maximillian robot still genuinely, and I love that he just leaves Schell for dead like "Would love to help, but I have a thing."

I can't help but think that the makers of Event Horizon were fans, though.

I watched it within the last decade and yeah it doesn't hold up - plot and characters are largely nonexistent

Jeez, next you're going to tell me that The Last Starfighter hasn't aged well. Whither my childhood memories.

Counterpoint is that The Last Starfigter was always awesome

I am eyebrow-tilted by the fact that sometime between when I gave a shit about this stuff and the SW: Battlefront beta, the pronunciation of AT-AT changed from an acronym (at, at) to an initialism (ay tee ay tee).

gr8080

Exactly. Who wants to go up against an 8080? of any grade.

I know I am gradually turning into a gawker media stan already but these two listicle / clip mixes have really made me want a PS4

http://kotaku.com/eight-players-who-killed-it-in-the-star-wars-battlefron-1735641858

http://kotaku.com/10-priceless-fails-from-the-star-wars-battlefront-beta-1735757709

wait what board am I on

I bought a PS4 yesterday, see u on the BATTLEFRONT.

Man, I am not precious about Star Wars at all, but it has done nothing to deserve FPS players.

How so?

The gif at the top of http://kotaku.com/one-gif-sums-up-star-wars-battlefronts-modern-multiplay-1734746714 is a decent place to start? Basically multiplayer in general is (I know, I know) a hive of scum and villainy, console and PC both.

just downloaded this :/

see you in 2016

Oh, you mean pubbie scum

I spent about 2.5 hours playing the Drop Zone map in the beta, to discover that I am really, really out of practice on FPS. I've been playing platformers and MMOs so much, I was just getting decimated.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRnIPhQUYAAoupy.jpg

Nice.

no Luke in the poster?

he hasn't been seen (apart from a hand maybe) in any of the marketing material so far

ANOTHER Death Star?! O_o

Still... Chewie taking aim looks rad :)

I especially like how you have to think for a minute about where Chewbacca's right arm ends and Leia's hairdo begins. Like what they're going for with
Rey's staff and Kylo Ren's saber, but hair

trailer for the trailer

https://twitter.com/DisneyStudiosCA/status/655806407648800768

Interesting to me that, in the material we've seen so far in trailers, we've seen a desert planet, some kind of snowy/icy environment, and some kind of jungle/forest environment. All the primary planets from the OT. Gotta imagine that's purposeful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc

I'd suspect everything about shooting a kwazillion dollar franchise meso-reboot is pretty purposeful

I'm pissed that the new-trailer teaser trailer doubles as an ad to make people watch fucking Monday Night Football.

oh yeah and the stanza rhyming bit. I read about that earlier on some other site for nerds

will the new movies ever feature people eating food or visiting a WC?

btw the poetry quote comes from the official making-of documentary. it's amazing that they released it -- it is on the level of some kind of monster in terms of the filmmakers getting away with shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da8s9m4zEpo

Yeah the prequel trilogy was almost worth it for giving us that and the RLM reviews.

does that new death star have eyelashes

the sassy star

starfleeker

wtf ANOTHER DEATH STAR????

You know, the dark gritty reboot.

(Hey I titled this thread for a reason.)

Maybe they will get Bill Murray for the Christmas special this time.

it's a pokeball. the force awakens is a stealth pokemon crossover.

dying at "starfleeker"

xp chewbacca revealed as a bidoof

cannot believe tickets are going on sale NOW; star wars is going to be a completely inescapable and utterly engineered phenomenon of daily life (moreso) for the next few years huh

its so weird that Star Wars was just a stupid nonsensical film student b-movie and now it this monolithic eternal cash cow

i just hope it gives Mel Brooks some good material to work with

a stupid nonsensical film student b-movie

The original Star Wars film got a Time magazine cover and big write up before it was even released, so even though it mimicked many b-movie conventions, it was never a b-movie.

via ned:

http://i.imgur.com/h8WQhMn.jpg

can't wait for the reveal that Jar Jar came out of the woodwork sometime after Endor, realizing the son of his bestest bombad friend is alive, and he's been holed up with Luke somewhere in the Outer Rim cooking up a plan