Star Wars 7 shit talk

kids like all the movies! kids were/are totally into queen amygdala and other stuff from the prequels!

i'm not sure what anyone on any side of this argument thinks they are proving. kids like all kinds of things.

like using magnifying glasses to crush ants and picking boogers.

I kind of wonder if I'll have similar responses when I finally watch it at home this week. Obviously seeing it the first time on opening night in a packed house almost in the center of the front row of the upper deck was fucking awesome but the next morning watching it at 9am in a small art house size joint around the corner of my office so I could make a bunch of my coworkers spoiler-proof I was a bit less drawn in. But that was going from audience reaction dialed up to 11 to like lol it's 9am what are we all doing here.

I doubt I'll ever notice the practical details to the extent you are able to but I'm kinda intrigued by Casino's "no in-jokes" cut idea, I wonder what that would feel like.

Kids do like everything, but there seems to be something different about this one. When I was a kid everyone played Star Wars. When the prequels came out, all the kids played nu-Star Wars; Darth Maul was the most popular costume and boys ran around playing Anakin, not Luke. But when I see/hear kids playing Star Wars lately, they're still playing Luke/Darth/Han, and by "they" I mean mostly boys. I've never seen a little girl, to the best of my recollection, dress up as Leah, let alone Rey; I wonder if making the latter the protagonist will have an impact come Halloween? I wonder if this is because Lucas, is his odd genius, aimed the prequels at children first and foremost, and that Abrams attempted to make a more "grown up" Star Wars, which obviously hit a lot of adults in the nostalgic sweet spot but may not have had more than incidental traction among the young set? (Unlike what Frozen did, or even Guardians of the Galaxy or the other Marvel movies seem to have done. Certainly Force Awakens did really well, but not exponentially better than, say, Jurassic World, I don't think.)

Or maybe it's that kids like "Star Wars" generally, in any form, and don't really make a distinction between films/generations/narrative? Maybe to them it's a brand in the truest sense, like Disney or Kellogg's. What flavor of Star Wars is your favorite, etc?

Abrams attempted to make a more "grown up" Star Wars

is that true though?

your last graf is closer to the truth imo - it's all Star Wars, it's all part of the same thing. kids don't make distinctions until they become snotty teenagers and start thinking they know everything. Darth Vader is an iconic villain, nobody will top that for a long time - of course they'll still talk about him. And shops continue to sell Luke and Yoda and Vader toys, brand-new, right next to the new characters. There's just masses more cumulative accretion of material from those movies than from the new ones. There is also just masses more mainstream entertainment alternatives filling every minute of every kid's day, from Candy Crush to Netflix, there's no way a single movie will have the kind of impact now that Star Wars did in 1977.

I've never seen a little girl, to the best of my recollection, dress up as Leah, let alone Rey

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/88/1e/4c/881e4cc64fb24de8bcf469c6fde84c73.jpg

http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/i-crocheted-this-bb-8-for-my-little-rey-12__700.jpg

http://fangirlblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rey-costume-Gigi-FGOTD-1024x682.jpg

https://blog.adafruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WonderCon-Cosplay-4-03272016-337x480.jpg

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fwiw the "cool" Star Wars action figure series (the taller, more articulated ones) are releasing a Rey action figure.... this month. and it looks a little janky compared to their other ones.

It's more "adult" in that it's actually interested in its villain as something other an obsidian slice of badass - which is not something the original films do until RotJ.

The last few posts seem to be coming from an alternate universe where there hasn't been a popular Star Wars TV show for most of the last 8 years.

thank you Phil <3

ftr i saw plenty of girls dress up as leia when I was growing up.

the ahsoka tano action figure actually looks pretty badass

We need a clone wars / rebels thread IMO

start it, you know there'll at least be the two of us

Omg @ that crocheted bb8

yeah, that's awesome

Has any of you visited a Disney park in the last five months? The new SW figures are ubiquitous. My five-year-old niece knew their names before she'd seen the mvoie.

mine routinely call kylo ren "the new darth vader" rather than his actual name / i think i have relayed this u&k info prior but it bears on current discussion

I saw a little girl dressed as Leia at Safeway the other day, just shopping with her mom like it was her normal daily outfit.

"When I was a kid everyone played Star Wars. When the prequels came out, all the kids played nu-Star Wars"

kids don't play anything anymore, they have no imagination

when i was a child

start it, you know there'll at least be the two of us

― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, April 6, 2016 12:19 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

make that three.

also easy to forget: the newest movie came out last Christmas, there hasn't even been a Halloween yet.

When does that next movie come out?

We have a thread for that

Star Wars Anthology shit talk (Rogue One, Young Solo, TBD)

Star Wars, Clone Wars, Rebels, Oh My

kids don't play anything anymore, they have no imagination

they just lay in bed drooling while staring at vines on their iphones IIRC

Don't know if this has already been posted but fair fucking play

http://swanh.net

wonglingwoo!

That's awesome

Impressive.

tbh i thought Solo's death was cheaply staged and made kiddies bawl

wow what a colossal waste of time that webpage is. must have taken ages.

Sent the guy an email, told him to make sure he checks with you next time he does anything to make sure you approve.

thanks for philsplaining

I am loving that webpage.

Props for whoever did it for their hard work, but it's kinda boring.

I daresay the guy who did it will get some cool work as a result of it. I'm guessing Adam can't say the same for his contributions to ilx.

actually i've gotten some good work from ilx. some music videos. some songs. some cool stuff.

this is sort of cute, i will give it that, but visually dull. and i'm pretty sure competition for art & design work at Disney is tough and most portfolios would take a crap all over this.

this should be filed this under Baconing of Minimalism.

also tbh i feel like the standard for being above criticism on ILX has to be something higher than "the creator will probably get some good work from it." people get all kinds of work out of viral-ready mediocrity all the time. not everything that takes a long time to do is all that great.

I think the standard for criticism should be higher than "that took a lot of time." Smacks of "that guy had too much free time, right?"

Yeah okay, that's fair. I think I sort of inserted some words from my own reaction to the piece, which was that it was taking me an inordinately long time to consume and yet without producing any kind of joy or critical insight or anything so that I suddenly went "why am I still clicking forward in this?"

Yeah. Movie-converted-to-flowchart, while impressive, is not the most exciting medium.

baconing of minimalism?
http://i.imgur.com/ecGEKbY.png

baconing of minimalism

https://di959x84wsbql.cloudfront.net/imgs/fc0a765dbe13418183c9730260006553/final.jpeg

I daresay the guy who did it will get some cool work as a result of it. I'm guessing Adam can't say the same for his contributions to ilx.

― it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Thursday, May 26, 2016 7:33 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually i've gotten some good work from ilx. some music videos. some songs. some cool stuff.

this is sort of cute, i will give it that, but visually dull. and i'm pretty sure competition for art & design work at Disney is tough and most portfolios would take a crap all over this.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, May 26, 2016 5:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What mental process led you from "will probably get some work" to "will get hired by Disney?" Serious question, can you read?

lol

I feel bad about reading Adam's posts in a monotone, lumbering voice but it sometimes pays off

I think the standard for criticism should be higher than "that took a lot of time." Smacks of "that guy had too much free time, right?"

well exactly

How about this: it took someone a whole lot of time to produce something that's kinda neat but ultimately really boring, and which 99.99% of people will never finish beyond the first few scrolls.

So it's like a self-published ebook that you give away for free!

If someone can get some animated-SVG AT-ATs going at some point I'd take that.