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Post by Chicken in Black on Dec 15, 2017 15:24:51 GMT
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daved
Better than Steve
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Post by daved on Dec 15, 2017 16:05:34 GMT
I'm not an SW guy but Mark Hamill looks cool as shit.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Dec 16, 2017 17:44:50 GMT
A theatrical re-issue of the original unaltered films could easily make a billion per film. Thats what happens when all that Star Wars money starts to roll in. The Force awakens over $2 trillion world wide Rogue One over a trillion world wide
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Post by Chicken in Black on Jan 4, 2018 19:28:35 GMT
I waited since like 1979 to see Luke kick butt as a Jedi master.... and they totally took that away from the charictor and Mark Hamilton as an actor. I cant connect to a chick kicking butt. Call me a chauvinist, say I’m lacking a PC attitude... whatever. Don’t mess with my childhood hero’s. Maybe Rey could like bring a beer to Luke while he kicks someone in the butt with the force. They should have given him and his fans the long waited long over due moment to shine... then slide in Rey. Disney has no right just because their wallet bought Star Wars to ruin my childhood. Mark Hamilton, the charictor... Anyway, most people actually called Funky54 a chauvinist in response...
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jan 4, 2018 20:05:02 GMT
I waited since like 1979 to see Luke kick butt as a Jedi master.... and they totally took that away from the charictor and Mark Hamilton as an actor. I cant connect to a chick kicking butt. Call me a chauvinist, say I’m lacking a PC attitude... whatever. Don’t mess with my childhood hero’s. Maybe Rey could like bring a beer to Luke while he kicks someone in the butt with the force. They should have given him and his fans the long waited long over due moment to shine... then slide in Rey. Disney has no right just because their wallet bought Star Wars to ruin my childhood. Mark Hamilton, the charictor... Anyway, most people actually called Funky54 a chauvinist in response... Let's get Luke into a lightsaber battle. Remember the last time an old Jedi got into one? He totally got his time to shine...
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Jan 4, 2018 22:05:53 GMT
They need to cut down on the wimmenz and brown people. There where none of those in the originals.
Oh, wait...
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jan 4, 2018 23:09:58 GMT
I loved how the writer-director fucked with the fanboys' expectations: - Hotshot young pilot finally succeeds in destroying an enemy taget – and he's demoted for not following orders.
- Two heroic rebels and an opportunistic rogue sneak aboard an enemy ship in order to sabotage it – and the rouge continues to be only in it for himself as he betrays the two heroic rebels.
- Luke Skywalker confronts the main baddie for a lightsaber battle – and he wasn't really there (Luke brushing the "dust" off his shoulder after Kylo Ren slices through him might have been my favorite moment in the entire film.)
- Evil head of the enemy forces begins to hurt the main heroic character – and he's quickly & unceremoniously sliced in two by his petulant apprentice.
- New heroic-but-black character is about to cleanse himself from the series (by pulling a "Matt-Decker move" from Star Trek), but is rescued by the newer short Asian female heroic character.
- Mission to sabotage enemy space ship – abject failure
- Hotshot young pilot revolts against out-of-touch female boss – and he's stopped by a even older woman (while the "out-of-touch" female boss sacrifices herself to save the hotshot pilot's sorry ass).
- Main female hero continues to be the current series' main hero – even with Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker in the cast. (And she seemed a bit less "Mary Sue-ish" this time around.)
Each item listed above were real WTF moments while watching the film, as they totally went against everything you figured would happen in a Star Wars movie. It made the film more memorable than the previous one – even though the slow-motion space chase was full-on stupid.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Jan 4, 2018 23:57:03 GMT
Oh, there are even slanty-eyed asian wimmenz in this?
Well, that's just wrong.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Jan 4, 2018 23:57:48 GMT
Support your local (white only) MRA.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jan 5, 2018 1:03:41 GMT
Oh, there are even slanty-eyed asian wimmenz in this? Well, that's just wrong. That's what is so delicious about the whole thing. If they had gone with a tall, stereotypically-attractive, white woman, the fanboys might have been mollified. But, with a plain-Jane, short, Asian woman the producers basically flipped off all the Star Wars dorks. The budding Rose and Finn relationship was unexpected (and sweet) and yet one more thing for the fanboys to lose their collective minds over. (Although, a romance with the black Finn character would have likely started riots.) Rian Johnson (the writer-director) must have made a list of things Star Wars fans expected, and purposely punctured each one. After 40 years of enduring asshole fanboys pontificating Star Wars at every opportunity, I give props to Rian Johnson for totally fucking their shit up.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Jan 5, 2018 1:20:49 GMT
Among the actresses who auditioned for the part: Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Miss Sloane, Concussion), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel) and Bel Powley (The Diary of a Teenage Girl). Yet, Johnson picked Kelly Marie Tran. Even better, before we're introduced to the character, we discover her sister, played by Veronica Ngo, who is much more of a conventional beauty.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Jan 5, 2018 1:30:55 GMT
Oh, there are even slanty-eyed asian wimmenz in this? Well, that's just wrong. That's what is so delicious about the whole thing. If they had gone with a tall, stereotypically-attractive, white woman, the fanboys might have been mollified. But, with a plain-Jane, short, Asian woman the producers basically flipped off all the Star Wars dorks. The budding Rose and Finn relationship was unexpected (and sweet) and yet one more thing for the fanboys to lose their collective minds over. (Although, a romance with the black Finn character would have likely started riots.) Rian Johnson (the writer-director) must have made a list of things Star Wars fans expected, and purposely punctured each one. After 40 years of enduring asshole fanboys pontificating Star Wars at every opportunity, I give props to Rian Johnson for totally fucking their shit up.
Lol, awesome. Suppose I should see this thing now.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jan 5, 2018 1:43:37 GMT
Oh, there are even slanty-eyed asian wimmenz in this? Well, that's just wrong. That's what is so delicious about the whole thing. If they had gone with a tall, stereotypically-attractive, white woman, the fanboys might have been mollified. But, with a plain-Jane, short, Asian woman the producers basically flipped off all the Star Wars dorks. The budding Rose and Finn relationship was unexpected (and sweet) and yet one more thing for the fanboys to lose their collective minds over. (Although, a romance between a white woman and the black Finn character would have likely started riots.) Rian Johnson (the writer-director) must have made a list of things Star Wars fans expected, and purposely punctured each one. After 40 years of enduring asshole fanboys pontificating Star Wars at every opportunity, I give props to Rian Johnson for totally fucking their shit up. Just noticed I had forgotten to include this stipulation. Oops.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jan 5, 2018 2:03:10 GMT
I loved how the writer-director fucked with the fanboys' expectations: - Hotshot young pilot finally succeeds in destroying an enemy taget – and he's demoted for not following orders.
- Two heroic rebels and an opportunistic rogue sneak aboard an enemy ship in order to sabotage it – and the rouge continues to be only in it for himself as he betrays the two heroic rebels.
- Luke Skywalker confronts the main baddie for a lightsaber battle – and he wasn't really there (Luke brushing the "dust" off his shoulder after Kylo Ren slices through him might have been my favorite moment in the entire film.)
- Evil head of the enemy forces begins to hurt the main heroic character – and he's quickly & unceremoniously sliced in two by his petulant apprentice.
- New heroic-but-black character is about to cleanse himself from the series (by pulling a "Matt-Decker move" from Star Trek), but is rescued by the newer short Asian female heroic character.
- Mission to sabotage enemy space ship – abject failure
- Hotshot young pilot revolts against out-of-touch female boss – and he's stopped by a even older woman (while the "out-of-touch" female boss sacrifices herself to save the hotshot pilot's sorry ass).
- Main female hero continues to be the current series' main hero – even with Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker in the cast. (And she seemed a bit less "Mary Sue-ish" this time around.)
Each item listed above were real WTF moments while watching the film, as they totally went against everything you figured would happen in a Star Wars movie. It made the film more memorable than the previous one – even though the slow-motion space chase was full-on stupid. I don't care quite enough to see the movie, but I do have a passing interest, and read about it here and there. And I can't help but imagine how godawful boring the movie would be if it went in the direction everyone expected. These expectations are not just based on general tropes, but on particular themes from the previous films. How disappointing would it be if this new episode followed the same path at the previous ones? At that point, it would just be a weird and misguided attempt at a remake. Keeping it fresh and exciting is, or rather, should be the ultimate gift to the fanboys. Too bad they are so damn toxic. Somehow or another, the first reactions I saw to the new film were on a conservative Facebook page. The hatred for women was strong with this one.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Jan 5, 2018 3:00:27 GMT
Oh fuck, conservatards and their fear of women and teh gheys. So cute. So manly.
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