You - Want a Link?Downfall is the name of that movie where Hitler rants that everybody cuts into amusing rants.Which Punishing One downfall meme are they referring to?
Well I know that; I was wondering if anyone had a link to the video posted to this forum specifically about the Punishing One.
You want a LINK?
You can't Handle the link!
I knew they were "listening" in... NEW ARTICLE UP
"Better than the prequels" remains a low bar I'm not sure is a legitimate argument in anything's favor.
*coughs* I think a couple of the Rebels arcs are better than Episode 7...
That's a pretty low bar; it was an entertaining movie to be sure, but as to being a decent film it's a lot closer to the Bay Transformers movie.
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"Better than the prequels" remains a low bar I'm not sure is a legitimate argument in anything's favor.
*coughs* I think a couple of the Rebels arcs are better than Episode 7...
Hmm, that is redundant when it is better than the prequels. 
I might hate GLs dialogs in I, II and III, but I for sure share his opinion on episode 7.
Besides, do we count Clone Wars as part of the prequels? ;-)
I give all shows three episodes to convince me if after that point it hasn't then it's clearly not worth sticking with.
The main cast are not heroes they are bullies, the art style is atrocious and the lack of respect for the last 30 years of star wars is appalling.
If you like it that's fine everyone has different tastes but that does not invalidate what's clearly my opinion.
Eh, fair for you to give it a chance, but I feel 3 episodes is never enough to determine if I should stick with a show, for a show like Rebels, runtime of 20 mins per ep and 13 eps in the first season, my personal judgment is that watching all of season 1 doesn't take up a lot of time and by the end of that if you're not invested, then the show is clearly not for you.
Art style is a matter of opinion, I think it's okay, it is an animated show. Lack of respect for 30 years of Star Wars?...I don't know, they've been pretty good with the cameo's and references including using West End Games RPG ships from back in the day in the show itself. I think saying that is stretching it far.
As for the characters being bullies rather than heroes. I think your missing the point of what being a Rebel in Imperial territory is. Being a thorn in the Empire's side is the job description pretty much.
It took me at least ten episodes to finally decide I hated Arrested Development. I was about 12 episodes into Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. before I got bored of it. And don't get me started on Young Justice or Gate: Jietai. I can't say, "Give it a chance" because if you didn't like SW:Rebels and didn't like SW7 that's symptomatic of going full grognard: hating things because they're new and new things are bad. At that point there's little hope of a positive prognosis, you just isolate the patient with reruns of X-Files and hope they're comfortable at the end.
Frankly, what Rebels makes me think of is someone's campaign notes from an old WEG Star Wars game. Basically, just a small group of folks with a couple of ships bumming around a planet being terrori- er, freedom fighters. So I can smile at the occasionally ridiculous stuff like the Blade Wing with a super-shipkiller cannon because it makes me think, "I bet that happened around a game table; either the players rolled ridiculously well or the GM realized that the players weren't gonna figure the real way out."
That being said, I'm surprised anyone would think the devs DIDN'T look at this forum. Playtesting is an isolated world and in this game the devs are what, two waves ahead of what's current? So knowing what the actual game looks like is necessary, and this is the place to get a reasonably clear view of it.
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Wow...they didn't really say much about the TAP V/1.
I don't like rebels, I have no knowledge of this inquisitor guy beyond his pilot rules at first I was just going to buy the scum ships.
The TAP is so obviously a good fighter I've ordered three even though the show its from is rubbish.
That says it all.
Actually Rebels is really good, and has come a long way since the first few episodes.. season 2 is outstanding, and the latest episodes have really shown some good direction where this is all going.. better dialogue and some very good plots.. growth of characters and even the bad guys..
Nope I watched siege of lothal when I gave rebels it's second chance I didn't like it any better and I gave up forever after that nonsense with walkers hunting each other in the dust storm.
Which Punishing One downfall meme are they referring to?
Downfall is the name of that movie where Hitler rants that everybody cuts into amusing rants.
Ah, they mean Der Untergang.
"Better than the prequels" remains a low bar I'm not sure is a legitimate argument in anything's favor.
*coughs* I think a couple of the Rebels arcs are better than Episode 7...
That's a pretty low bar; it was an entertaining movie to be sure, but as to being a decent film it's a lot closer to the Bay Transformers movie.
To be fair, the first Bayformers movie is pretty okay, but people seem to want to forget that because of the garbage sequels. Not perfect, not great, but pretty okay.
Yeah transformers one was passable not great but it didn't inappropriately touch my childhood, no that was the racist number 2, then the racist number 3 and then...then they did that to the dinobots.
I need my blanky.
Yeah transformers one was passable not great but it didn't inappropriately touch my childhood, no that was the racist number 2, then the racist number 3 and then...then they did that to the dinobots.
I need my blanky.
If you ever for some reason watch Age of Extinction right now, just take a moment to ask yourself:
What is exploding right now?
To be fair, the first Bayformers movie is pretty okay, but people seem to want to forget that because of the garbage sequels. Not perfect, not great, but pretty okay.
I fell asleep during Michael Bay's first Transformers film.
I wasn't the only one, either.
I thought the first Transformers movie was awful. Too much focusing on the annoying human characters, and too many quick-cuts away from the robot fighting action. Then one of the Autobots peed on somebody. Honestly, the best part of the movie was the 2 seconds where Starscream jumped up in the air and transformed into jet mode because it reminded me of the old Macross/Robotech cartoons. The rest of that movie was steaming hot garbage.
"Better than the prequels" remains a low bar I'm not sure is a legitimate argument in anything's favor.
*coughs* I think a couple of the Rebels arcs are better than Episode 7...
That's a pretty low bar; it was an entertaining movie to be sure, but as to being a decent film it's a lot closer to the Bay Transformers movie.
To be fair, the first Bayformers movie is pretty okay, but people seem to want to forget that because of the garbage sequels. Not perfect, not great, but pretty okay.
The first Bayformers was pretty ok like the first Star Trek or TFA was pretty ok. And then it got a bunch of pretty ok sequels. And that was the moment when people started to get angry, because they accepted pretty ok for the first, but expected better for the sequels which are just as good or bad as the first one.
The toys were good though. I was glad that we finally got some real-life vehicle modes for TFs! But yeah the movies are not the best, sadly.
Nope I watched siege of lothal when I gave rebels it's second chance I didn't like it any better and I gave up forever after that nonsense with walkers hunting each other in the dust storm.
If you think of that scene as nonsense, then you have correctly identified the show as not being to your taste. 
"Better than the prequels" remains a low bar I'm not sure is a legitimate argument in anything's favor.
*coughs* I think a couple of the Rebels arcs are better than Episode 7...
That's a pretty low bar; it was an entertaining movie to be sure, but as to being a decent film it's a lot closer to the Bay Transformers movie.
To be fair, the first Bayformers movie is pretty okay, but people seem to want to forget that because of the garbage sequels. Not perfect, not great, but pretty okay.
The first Bayformers was pretty ok like the first Star Trek or TFA was pretty ok. And then it got a bunch of pretty ok sequels. And that was the moment when people started to get angry, because they accepted pretty ok for the first, but expected better for the sequels which are just as good or bad as the first one.
The cinematography of VII is way above anything Bay (and the school of cinema he spawned) has ever done. It was refreshing to see a movie that wasn't like "Ohhh obvious fake CG explosions, lets show them from 70.000 different angles!" TFA, despite its flaws, shows a lot of potential.
"Better than the prequels" remains a low bar I'm not sure is a legitimate argument in anything's favor.
*coughs* I think a couple of the Rebels arcs are better than Episode 7...
That's a pretty low bar; it was an entertaining movie to be sure, but as to being a decent film it's a lot closer to the Bay Transformers movie.
To be fair, the first Bayformers movie is pretty okay, but people seem to want to forget that because of the garbage sequels. Not perfect, not great, but pretty okay.
The first Bayformers was pretty ok like the first Star Trek or TFA was pretty ok. And then it got a bunch of pretty ok sequels. And that was the moment when people started to get angry, because they accepted pretty ok for the first, but expected better for the sequels which are just as good or bad as the first one.
The cinematography of VII is way above anything Bay (and the school of cinema he spawned) has ever done. It was refreshing to see a movie that wasn't like "Ohhh obvious fake CG explosions, lets show them from 70.000 different angles!" TFA, despite its flaws, shows a lot of potential.
Cinematography was indeed way better. Though the plot was just running along the bay formula in very, very predictable paths. Well, or any young hero's + old mentor for the rescue story of the last ~30 or so years of hollywood cinema. But hey, at least the female was the lead this time, so something "new" and completely irrelevant to the formula added. ;-)
"Better than the prequels" remains a low bar I'm not sure is a legitimate argument in anything's favor.
*coughs* I think a couple of the Rebels arcs are better than Episode 7...
That's a pretty low bar; it was an entertaining movie to be sure, but as to being a decent film it's a lot closer to the Bay Transformers movie.
To be fair, the first Bayformers movie is pretty okay, but people seem to want to forget that because of the garbage sequels. Not perfect, not great, but pretty okay.
The first Bayformers was pretty ok like the first Star Trek or TFA was pretty ok. And then it got a bunch of pretty ok sequels. And that was the moment when people started to get angry, because they accepted pretty ok for the first, but expected better for the sequels which are just as good or bad as the first one.
The cinematography of VII is way above anything Bay (and the school of cinema he spawned) has ever done. It was refreshing to see a movie that wasn't like "Ohhh obvious fake CG explosions, lets show them from 70.000 different angles!" TFA, despite its flaws, shows a lot of potential.
Cinematography was indeed way better. Though the plot was just running along the bay formula in very, very predictable paths. Well, or any young hero's + old mentor for the rescue story of the last ~30 or so years of hollywood cinema. But hey, at least the female was the lead this time, so something "new" and completely irrelevant to the formula added. ;-)
TBF, it wasn't running along the Bay formula so much as Bay and it were both running along several MUCH older formulae, which not least Star Wars ep IV also followed.
Abrams wasn't copying Bay, he was copying Star Wars, is what I'm saying.
I don't get how people complain about a predictable plot in Star Wars, when the "big twist" in EPV is that Darth Vader is Lukes father. Star Wars has always been formulaic and was carried by good executution, characters and setting. I don't say you can't dislike EPVII. If the characters didn't resonate with you there is nothing that can be done about it, but please don't make up pseudo-objective nonesense reasons for it.
It was predictable because it was a remake of hope, the death of you know who was no surprise.
Ford saved that movie without him I wouldn't of smiled once, Poe was a none event, Finn didn't have the charm that made Han solo a lovable rogue he was just an ahole, rey was unrelatable and Mary sue.
The reason for that being they weren't their own characters just clones and it was painfully obvious.
If it hadn't been star wars it would of already been forgotten, as it stands it's an above average film.
You can paint it that way, but I think thats inaccurate.
It also is spelled would have.
I don't get how people complain about a predictable plot in Star Wars, when the "big twist" in EPV is that Darth Vader is Lukes father. Star Wars has always been formulaic and was carried by good executution, characters and setting. I don't say you can't dislike EPVII. If the characters didn't resonate with you there is nothing that can be done about it, but please don't make up pseudo-objective nonesense reasons for it.
That's one HUGE
Disney simply didn't make a new movie. it's a rehashed Not_that_new Hope plot with extra liberal quotas
What you call a remake I call a formula, I don't think we will ever agree on this.
Edited by Admiral DeathrainI don't get how people complain about a predictable plot in Star Wars, when the "big twist" in EPV is that Darth Vader is Lukes father.
If you are refering to Dutch/German word for father, it's a coincidence, Vader wasn't meant to be Luke's father back in ANH.