Star Wars 7 shit talk

http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/16/star-wars-the-force-awakens-may-the-force-just-do-one-and-why-star-bores-need-to-just-grow-up-5569260/

Star Wars The Force Awakens: May The Force just do one – or why Star bores need to just grow up
Paul Connolly

I’ve had enough of this puerile Star Wars hysteria.

Grown men and women have actually been blubbing – over social media, natch – about the impending release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Don’t believe me? ‘I basically saw my childhood culminate in front of me and I just wanted to cry at times,’ tweeted one chap of arrested development recently, in praise of the movie trailer.

And there was this, from a female: ‘Saw a Star Wars trailer for the first time on cable and no I’m not crying it’s just – OK, yeah, I’m crying.’

Oh, good grief, do give it a rest.

But it gets worse. Never one to keep his inner child on a leash, Star Trek’s star Simon Pegg last week called the much-criticised Star Wars prequels ‘infanticide’.

For a second I thought the fanboy’s fanboy had seen the light, had realised that his endless obsession with comic books, superheroes and the like should have been left in adolescence. I really thought he’d said ‘infantile’.

But no, he was comparing a few harmless films aimed at kids to the murder of a child.

Instead of showing signs of late-blossoming maturity, Pegg has regressed even further.

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May The Force just do one...
May The Force just do one…
Let’s get something straight here. Star Wars is a movie franchise aimed at children. It’s not great art.

Hell, it’s barely even adequate art. It’s just a business enterprise aimed squarely at relieving children’s parents of their money. That’s it.

There are no hidden truths, no attempts at insight into what it is to be human. It’s just an action series with great CGI.

And that’s fine, really, it is. For kids anyway.

I enjoyed watching Star Wars when I was a child. My dad even bought me the soundtrack. But by the time I was 13 or 14, I’d moved on. I was growing up, so I wanted something to get my teeth into, something to make me think.

Star Wars didn’t make me think.

It was the same for Doctor Who. Loved it when I was ten; hugely embarrassed by it before I was 16.

If you’re still thrilled by Star Wars or Doctor Who (or even Harry Potter) by the time you’re out of your teens, you need to take a long, hard look at yourself.

This entertainment is for children. You’re an adult. It really is time to grow up.

please don't feed trolls

Obvious click bait but his life must be one long, thrilling roller coaster ride.

'natch'

This rud nua of posting the link and then the whole fucking article anyways, let alone sans comment, idk.

That guy is so pure. I really admire him.

Oh my god, those females with their crying.

I'm not even sure I really took the film in properly, I was just so relieved it wasn't shit.

I mean, the thing about the guy who wrote that article is that he really seems to have it all figured out. He seems so content and...I dunno, whole? Like a fully-actualized person, completely devoid of ego. He seems like he'd be fun to hang out with. In a totally adult way, of course.

If you're ranting and raving about how other people's taste in entertainment is WRONG, maybe it's time to etc etc.

to realize they're lost for good

have we talked about the "empire are really the good guys and luke is a radicalized terrorist" theories yet? i read a few articles on the topic that i found provocative.

So apparently Stefan and Jean-Ralphio provided the vocalizations for BB-8.

i'm confident i could predict 90% of the 'spoilers' for this product

apparently the local imax theater at the science center is one of eighteen theaters showing the force awakens in 70mm

the 70mm upscaling process (for stuff not shot in 70mm) can make action scenes look really wonky ime as a 70mm projectionist

yeah, i don't see the point of it for sumthin shot digitally.

this wasn't shot digitally iirc

shot on 35mm, yeah

part of the film was shot in 70mm imax format

yup!

and plenty of films shot in 35mm look ace projected in 70mm

that said, i don't know what the digital post was like on this one... if it was in 4k, i'm not sure 70mm would matter too much. however for a film of this expense i imagine they could have gone full fincher and done post in 6k

still waiting on my copy of american cinematographer to find out the answers to these world-historical questions

important film questions to be addressed

Just hope jj is bringing the wipes...or is that the editor's domain?

"Everybody better bring the wipes to the pants-shittingly good Star Wars 7." - Peter Travers

"J.J. Abrams' rollercoaster wham dinger of a movie is guaranteed to melt your heart and soil your undies."

Presumably some sort of side effect of melty heart

read those last couple aloud in the car on the way back to work from lunch. "wham dinger" went over really well.

"Daisy Ridley finds the bruised heart at the core of Rey."

up to 11 dissenting critics on RT. (5%)

Martin Shkreli yelled out a major spoiler as he was being arrested today and someone posted it on my FB today. im not even that hyped on the new Star Wars but it bummed me out. it was inevitable, though, since I probably won't be able to see it until 2016. i bet all the matinees are sold out for weeks.

Martin Shkreli yelled out a major spoiler as he was being arrested today

hahahahahaha

@keithuhlich
You know what, artists? Don't give me what I want.

xp lol, what a troll. i bet i know what the spoiler was

I agree with @keicthulhuch.

xp wait that didn't actually happen, right?

Yup. Not gonna link because the fucking headline is the spoiler.

Four word review: sucks to be Shakey.

? I'm havin a great day

i *am* seing a sequel tonight: The Look of Silence

ahma watch a modern dance version of the nutcracker by charles burns and mark morris
i hope chewbacca shows up early

Saw it. Felt it. Cried. Will scoff at self-important cynics. The end.

has it topped taking care of business as best jj abrams project?

nice

Disappointing

3D didn't detract but didn't enhance to much either. There was 3D lens flare at one point. No post-credits sequence, in case you feel inclined to stick around through that stuff. Great movie.

Saw it. Felt it. Cried. Will scoff at self-important cynics. The end.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck)

can you post in the form of a credits crawl

I am in the lobby waiting for my theater to be seated, drinking a Star Wars themes beer

I don't like you either

lost track of the number of death marks I have by now tbh

we cool mh