Star Wars 7 shit talk

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"seat-dampening delirium"
Anthony Lane reads ILX

El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link

THEY CAME FROM BEHIND

El Tomboto, Saturday, 19 December 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link

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

It's hard to compete with William Hootkins as one of the original pilots

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

this was fine but not as great as i was hoping based on the reaction of others

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

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, December 19, 2015 3:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

truth

, Sunday, 20 December 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link

Lost Tyree lost Dutch... they came from behind...

, 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

Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 December 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link

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

Having trouble containing my excitement :(

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

Are you fondeling the computer. (stevie), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 15:08 (eight years ago) link

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

you missed all the good parts

reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link

I got as far as the first action scene with Tatum "air skating"

Number None, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link

Guardians of the Galaxy is a better movie than The Force Awakens, but I wouldn't necessarily call it more star warsy... For one thing, the sort of pop cultural references and absurdist humour it's loaded with aren't really a Star Wars thing at all, SW is more po-faced. But I do admit that GotG was better capturing the sense of wonder in seeing weird-looking aliens, surreal cosmic environments and cool ships, which is a pretty essential part of space opera. TFA was pretty low-key in that department, at least compared to the original trilogy, which was full of that stuff.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:51 (eight years ago) link

I'd say GotG's most obvious influence is not Star Wars but Fifth Element, when it comes to humour and characterization. Also, they're both saturated with bright primary colours, whereas SW is a more subdued.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link

TFA was pretty low-key in that department, at least compared to the original trilogy, which was full of that stuff.

Hardly fair to compare one film with three.

ledge, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link


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