and Ewoks: Battle for Endor
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 December 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
anyway, this was the most satisfying movie I've seen in quite a long time.
― akm, Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Hmmm. I still think the trench run from ANH is one of the most amazing chase sequences ever put to film. Top five easy, top three or two quite possibly. TFA didn't have that going for it but it's still a great movie
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
The trench fight in Hope didn't hold up to my memory of it at all
― polyphonic, Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
the scene where it goes from cockpit to cockpit "red five standing by" "gold leader standing by" is my fav suspense-ratcheting scene of all time
― ogmor, Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:15 (eight years ago) link
"seat-dampening delirium"Anthony Lane reads ILX
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
THEY CAME FROM BEHIND
it's called STAR WARS btw
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
Saw it this morning, here is my review
:D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 December 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
It's hard to compete with William Hootkins as one of the original pilots
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Sunday, 20 December 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link
this was fine but not as great as i was hoping based on the reaction of others
― k3vin k., Sunday, 20 December 2015 05:20 (eight years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/_cpEPEHEz1/?taken-by=msichicago
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Sunday, 20 December 2015 05:39 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pi1PVw792M
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Sunday, 20 December 2015 14:29 (eight years ago) link
so $238 M weekend gross in N America est'd
seems low
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 December 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
gotta wait for the nerds to liquidate their kids' college funds so they can see it again
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 20 December 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
also known as Fallout 4 syndrome iirc
― cart and spork (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 December 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
wonder how many seats had to be disinfected for semen stains on opening night
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 20 December 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
― ogmor, Saturday, December 19, 2015 3:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
truth
― 龜, Sunday, 20 December 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Lost Tyree lost Dutch... they came from behind...
― 龜, Sunday, 20 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
saw this yesterday, had a lot of fun
daisy ridley is the best thing to happen to star wars since 1980
― hand of jehuty and the blowfish (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 December 2015 13:01 (eight years ago) link
Did u forget Squid Head
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 December 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Sorry: Tessek the Quarren
What the "remix" reviews are missing, for me, is the overwhelming (in every sense of the world) sensation I got that this world had kept on existing just as it was since 1983, with the characters living on, messing their lives up, time passing just as in the real world, and only now did we somehow manage to find our way back to it, a return to neverland, more or less, tinged with the pathos of loss, of having grown up in the meantime, and yet it was there all along. We just didn't have access to it. It's a different kind of enchantment from the first trilogy precisely because it builds on that feeling of time and a world lost, but it does remember the importance of enchantment and captures it correctly.
Great post.
― ledge, Monday, 21 December 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
Feel the same way with Crystal Skull?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 December 2015 23:26 (eight years ago) link
I rewatched Crystal Skull over the Thanksgiving holiday and it was decent! It has more jokes related to historical setting than the other Indiana Jones films (atomic bomb test, Grease-style diner fight) and the end is more of an effects-laden send-off, but there are some really good set pieces when they're springing traps and navigating ruins.
John Hurt and Karen Allen are great, Shia LaBeouf a lot less so.
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 21 December 2015 23:34 (eight years ago) link
Pfff, Indy's just a guy, this is a whole world. [CENSORED} - still, that felt like some genuine, unfakeable emotion.
― ledge, Monday, 21 December 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
Sorry for spoiler leakage.
― ledge, Monday, 21 December 2015 23:45 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, come on, dude. There's a whole other thread.
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 00:00 (eight years ago) link
Having trouble containing my excitement :(
― ledge, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
hehe
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWye0lkWoAAd_0x.jpg
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
It's just fair; a Stormtrooper was on Fridays cover
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 00:43 (eight years ago) link
idgi
― tobo73, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 02:34 (eight years ago) link
This is pretty great:
http://www.gq.com/story/oscar-isaac-guitar-star-wars-cover
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 03:51 (eight years ago) link
seek help
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 04:26 (eight years ago) link
Not all of us spend all day cumming on Virgin Spring VHS covers
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link
pfffft
u don't know me
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 04:32 (eight years ago) link
picturing Morbs swaggering in a north face puffa and skully now
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
Lol!
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 22 December 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Saw it last night and thought Force Awakens was wonderful. Went in a cautious skeptic, left a total convert. It is just *so well done, so charismatic, so adept at tapping into the magic of the originals without being beholden to them. I very much look forward to the subsequent movies in the series.
It's bizarre to me how invested some of ILX's in-house film critics are in dissing a film they have not seen and will not see (see also the Chi-raq thread), which is never ever AGL.
Now off to the spoilers thread to chat some more.
― Are you fondeling the computer. (stevie), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link
also, booming posts from longneck and veg in this thread
i know yr not talkin bout meeee, stevie, but i will see this at some point. preferably for free.
i dunno if youve heard, but this film is actually running for more than 3 days! what a world.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
its really good Morbs! I hope you enjoy it!
― Are you fondeling the computer. (stevie), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
Careful, this is the non-spoiler thread.
― jmm, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
Those posts are kinda spoilery. I'm going to delete them and c&p them to the spoilers thread.
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
yes i am looking forward to going through that in a few days. keep it non-spoilery here plz!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
Mentioned it already, but I do think Guardians of the Galaxy captured the Star Wars vibe maybe better, though perhaps because it is crossed with Indiana Jones.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 18:33 (eight years ago) link
I disagree, I think GotG was stealing from the best while trying to stay in a category unto itself. In retrospect the choice of a pop soundtrack was extremely wise.
I'm just hoping Daisy Ridley gets to have a better post-trilogy career than Mark Hamill did.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:17 (eight years ago) link
Haven't seen it, do want to, can imagine it being a better film even though TFA was basically everything I wanted it to be... but capturing the vibe better? Than a film that has the same characters, actors and story, look & feel, and co-writer? Xp
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
'jupiter ascending' and 'the martian' each in their own way captured the 'star wars' vibe better than 'guardians of the galaxy' did imho but neither anywhere near as well as 'the force awakens'
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:24 (eight years ago) link
jupiter ascending was horrendous and made me fall asleep
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link