I can't help but think that the makers of Event Horizon were fans, though.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:05 (nine years ago)
I watched it within the last decade and yeah it doesn't hold up - plot and characters are largely nonexistent
― Οὖτις, Friday, 9 October 2015 19:36 (nine years ago)
Jeez, next you're going to tell me that The Last Starfighter hasn't aged well. Whither my childhood memories.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:48 (nine years ago)
Counterpoint is that The Last Starfigter was always awesome
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 9 October 2015 19:51 (nine years ago)
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).
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Saturday, 10 October 2015 23:39 (nine years ago)
gr8080
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 October 2015 00:10 (nine years ago)
Exactly. Who wants to go up against an 8080? of any grade.
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 11 October 2015 00:41 (nine years ago)
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
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 11 October 2015 00:59 (nine years ago)
I bought a PS4 yesterday, see u on the BATTLEFRONT.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Sunday, 11 October 2015 17:22 (nine years ago)
Man, I am not precious about Star Wars at all, but it has done nothing to deserve FPS players.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 October 2015 17:34 (nine years ago)
How so?
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Sunday, 11 October 2015 17:58 (nine years ago)
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 October 2015 20:11 (nine years ago)
just downloaded this :/
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 11 October 2015 20:16 (nine years ago)
see you in 2016
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 October 2015 21:27 (nine years ago)
Oh, you mean pubbie scum
― Purves Grundy (kingfish), Sunday, 11 October 2015 22:17 (nine years ago)
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.
― I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Sunday, 11 October 2015 23:42 (nine years ago)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRnIPhQUYAAoupy.jpg
― Number None, Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:28 (nine years ago)
Nice.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:31 (nine years ago)
no Luke in the poster?
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:41 (nine years ago)
he hasn't been seen (apart from a hand maybe) in any of the marketing material so far
― Number None, Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:47 (nine years ago)
ANOTHER Death Star?! O_o
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:48 (nine years ago)
Still... Chewie taking aim looks rad :)
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:49 (nine years ago)
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
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:20 (nine years ago)
trailer for the trailer
https://twitter.com/DisneyStudiosCA/status/655806407648800768
― Number None, Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:23 (nine years ago)
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.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:29 (nine years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxU2eqZtYmc
― Number None, Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:32 (nine years ago)
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.
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:35 (nine years ago)
oh yeah and the stanza rhyming bit. I read about that earlier on some other site for nerds
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:36 (nine years ago)
will the new movies ever feature people eating food or visiting a WC?
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:38 (nine years ago)
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
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:52 (nine years ago)
Yeah the prequel trilogy was almost worth it for giving us that and the RLM reviews.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:54 (nine years ago)
does that new death star have eyelashes
the sassy star
― μpright mammal (mh), Sunday, 18 October 2015 21:44 (nine years ago)
starfleeker
― BRAAAAAAMETHEUS (El Tomboto), Sunday, 18 October 2015 21:46 (nine years ago)
wtf ANOTHER DEATH STAR????
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 October 2015 00:19 (nine years ago)
You know, the dark gritty reboot.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2015 01:28 (nine years ago)
(Hey I titled this thread for a reason.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2015 01:29 (nine years ago)
Maybe they will get Bill Murray for the Christmas special this time.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 October 2015 04:04 (nine years ago)
it's a pokeball. the force awakens is a stealth pokemon crossover.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 19 October 2015 06:38 (nine years ago)
dying at "starfleeker"
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 19 October 2015 16:03 (nine years ago)
xp chewbacca revealed as a bidoof
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 19 October 2015 16:29 (nine years ago)
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
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:00 (nine years ago)
its so weird that Star Wars was just a stupid nonsensical film student b-movie and now it this monolithic eternal cash cow
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:31 (nine years ago)
i just hope it gives Mel Brooks some good material to work with
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:32 (nine years ago)
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.
― Aimless, Monday, 19 October 2015 18:36 (nine years ago)
via ned:
http://i.imgur.com/h8WQhMn.jpg
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:38 (nine years ago)
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
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:46 (nine years ago)
I can't wait until Jar Jar steps out of the shadows behind Kylo Ren and ignites his FOUR BLADED LIGHTSABER after saying "MEESA SECRET EMPERORER ALL ALONGS"
― si monvmentvm reqvires, pvmpkin spice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:53 (nine years ago)
i would put the odds of jar jar or a jar jar alike being sarcastically killed in the background of one of these movies at about 3 to 1
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:54 (nine years ago)
normally i oppose such things but it might be good to have a really long torture scene
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:56 (nine years ago)
or maybe just 15+ dense paragraphs of text flying through space describing the torture at the very beginning
― 1999 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 19 October 2015 18:57 (nine years ago)