Star Wars 7 shit talk

The institution of a flat tax

I think it was just b/c the Old Republic was the dominant power, and it was usurped from within. Tarkin mentions that the Senate has been dissolved and regional governors now have direct control.

It always aggravated the shit out of me that S-Palp is so easily able to dupe everybody in all three films...

Prequels that is

Anakin's defection reduced to a moment of "ahh, fuck it..."

I mean Anakin was always spoken of in reverent terms in the original trilogy who lost his way to the Dark side....

And yet there isn't a moment in the prequels where he isn't a petulant hotheaded, selfish piece of shit that commits genocide in a village in a fit of anger and has extremely creepy obsession with Padme that she for no discernible reason reciprocates.

I know people are revered in death etc but they really shat on his character arc

There is not a single motivation anyone has in the prequels which make any sense.

You have trolled us for the last time, GABBNEB!

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 8:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not trolling. the stormtroopers made me cry. a few years later, i was afraid of the stove at a place we spent the night on vacation because it looked like darth vader's helmet.

turns out i had a pretty good instinct about shitty fucking coca-cola/windows movies.

or you were a four year old that was scared of shit once

and an instinct for shitty fucking coca-cola/windows politicians

and an instinct for shitty fucking coca-cola/windows politicians

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:22 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

welcome to america. i'm not choosing what movie to see/band to like when i vote, the great category error of the alternative-favorers.

(i'll pass on the stupid misjudgment of people you don't know)

or you were a four year old that was scared of shit once

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:17 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or, you know, both

Thank you for taking the time to share your moral stance with us. You are both brave and an inspiration.

and have pointed out that you have been otm in this thread

which are you. don't believe me? ask you!

*you are. got me so upset I'm typing backwards

being scared of the villains in a movie isn't really "disliking" it imo

I had vivid nightmares about Sesame Street as a kid and I still watched the fuck out of it

(usually the Count, but weirdly had one w/ Grover and another with Big Bird)

really hoping this is all the setup to baggles declaring his intention to become a stormtrooper-themed superhero, to strike terror into the hearts of his enemies

i haven't been reading this thread because lol but the part in the trailer that made me cringe was mr. ren going "i will finish what you started" to vader's mask like wtf did vader start? did anyone alive at the end of ROTJ other than luke ever see him as more than just a prominent military leader? dude wasn't like spreading pamphlets about the dark side all over foreign planets or leading any seminars

He's planning a trip to the imperial VA to kill off any surviving officers

ren is supposed to be some sort of sith scholar/collector/obsessive, no?

he's going to lust after women that babysat him when he was young

kind of insane we learned absolutely nothing about the sith in the prequel trilogy.

would you say it's.... pretty sneaky?

kind of insane we learned absolutely nothing about the sith in the prequel trilogy.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:14 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of insane we learned absolutely nothing about anticipating new star wars movies after the prequel trilogy.

being scared of the villains in a movie isn't really "disliking" it imo

― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tears don't really express fear btw fyi

oh im not anticipating this. prequels ruined it for me, i definitely learned my lesson. ill probably torrent it

actually ROTJ Special Edition new song and dance is what ruined it for me.

I appreciate scepticism of blockbusters and giant franchise machines in general, but considering the person / producers responsible for the prequels or the meddling with the special editions have nothing to do with this it's not really relevant experience.

Yeah, because JJ Abrams has never ever fucked up an old revered sci-fi franchise :)

I try to pay attention, because everyone else is paying attention, I read this enormous thread, for instance, but I'm beginning to realize how little I care. Mainly because people use character names already, and I have no idea who they're talking about, and even how they know?

There are sites that you can go to, which will tell you, if you seek them out. You are not unfamiliar with the idea that there will be seekers?

Like, in quidditch?

In fairness, that is also an answer to the question.

I try to pay attention, because everyone else is paying attention, I read this enormous thread, for instance, but I'm beginning to realize how little I care. Mainly because people use character names already, and I have no idea who they're talking about, and even how they know?

Well, it's simple:

Hillary
Bernie Sanders = Democratic nominees

Trump
Jeb!
Carson
Rubio
others = GOP

Seems like there be more sex scenes in star wars, especially greedo sex scenes

actually ROTJ Special Edition new song and dance is what ruined it for me.

yes! Ewok song re-cast as a Peruvian pan flute tune was a big let down. My son wanted to re-watch this, but I dread it because these changes are so horrible. Why can't we have the old school tunes?

I try to pay attention, because everyone else is paying attention, I read this enormous thread, for instance, but I'm beginning to realize how little I care. Mainly because people use character names already, and I have no idea who they're talking about, and even how they know?

― Frederik B, Thursday, October 22, 2015 5:13 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This has been a thing since at least ROTJ and possibly even Empire. I'm sure I knew who half the dudes in Jabba's throneroom were before I ever saw them onscreen. It is a little ridiculous this time around, though, I agree (see the mention upthread about Halloween costumes for characters we don't know anything about yet...what if you're unknowingly dressing your kid up like a space racist???).

I distinctly remember, maybe a year or so before Phantom Menace was released, reading speculation online and being intrigued by mentions of this new character named Jar Jar Binks.

"Binks" was never a good sign.

Star Wars names have always been stupid though. Like wtf is a Chewbacca.

Without ridiculous names for characters that have less than a minute's screen time, we would have no Lobot.

Binks is a real last name though, that's the thing. It's not stupid at all. It's totally normal.

Lando Rabinowicz

I can't remember the name of the site now, but there was one prior to Episode I that was a repository for leaks and which, via set reports and photo leaks, had essentially the entire story published and illustrated prior to the movie opening.

Luke Skywalkerdopolous

The entire story was published in hardback weeks before the movie came out!

http://www.liswiki.com/library/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/star-wars-i-phantom-menace.jpg

"This novelization, unlike those from the original trilogy, contains much that is not in the movie. It includes three entire chapters of material created by Terry Brooks and unique to the novel. The first two chapters of the book concern Anakin's next-to-last podrace and its aftermath, while a later chapter describes an encounter between Anakin and a wounded Tusken Raider in the desert."

It also contains the fact that George Lucas is terrible the Rodian that Anakin plays with as a kid is actually Greedo.

Binks is a real last name though, that's the thing. It's not stupid at all. It's totally normal.

― how's life, Thursday, October 22, 2015 8:59 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See, e.g., this exchange I had on Twitter:

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

The first two chapters of the book concern Anakin's next-to-last podrace and its aftermath

yeah, if there was one thing the phantom menace needed it was more fucking podracing, good job terry brooks