1 minute ago, Megatronrex said:

Super-Mega-Ultra Bears show up

I mean... still sounds more realistic than ewoks lol

Reminds me of:

1 minute ago, PartyPotato said:

You saying Chewie isn't marketable? I want to give that big fur ball a hug every time i see him.

I think several small furry creatures more marketable than an army of gigantic furry creatures, would be BRUTAL in the film...

Smokes new super weapon:

Lense flare through a magnifying glass.

4 minutes ago, Visovics said:

I think several small furry creatures more marketable than an army of gigantic furry creatures, would be BRUTAL in the film...

This made me picture an army of gigantic furries. D*** that is frightening.

JJ is so overrated IMO. He did an extreme ho-hum job with Trek now he's back to provide more garbage SW.

I can honestly say if TLJ is a dud, it'll be hard to get me to a theater for Ep9 with him at the helm. I loved Rogue One, but FA was nearly my least favorite SW movie.

2 minutes ago, Noosh said:

Smokes new super weapon:

Lense flare through a magnifying glass.

Mega Murder Magnifier

Just now, Megatronrex said:

This made me picture an army of gigantic furries. D*** that is frightening.

Still more believable than ewoks

Just now, Darth Sanguis said:

Still more believable than ewoks

Sad but true

26 minutes ago, ripper998 said:

Good god, lighten up folks. He is making a movie to sell tickets, not appeal to star wars diehards. I for one think is a decent director that provides alot of action. I like TFA, I thought it was well done, but that's just my opinion.

I do believe the Force Awakens is a well made movie and scratched the Star Wars itch. I think my disappointment is that it's not experimental.

That said, what little I've seen of the "making of" for these Disney-controlled Star Wars has proven that Disney has tight reins on the IP. Except for JJ, it appears like there has been some problem with every other director. In Rogue One, I believe they hired a different director for the reshoots, they fired the director for the Han Solo movie, and now they're dumping the episode 9 director. In each instance, the director says that Disney was difficult to work with and Disney says something about how the director was going in a direction they didn't like. So instead of hiring directors that want more autonomy, it's probably best they pick directors who will do exactly what Disney/Lucasfilm want.

Will JJ make a fine movie? I'm sure it will be exactly that. I keep hoping they try new things. For everything Rogue One got wrong, I was glad they tried new things as well.

I think JJs a good director, and I personally loved TFA, but he never really does anything that's original. Definitely not the best pick for the film, but also not the worst one (better than Colin Trevorrow ).

1 minute ago, Stasy said:

it'll be hard to get me to a theater for Ep9

15 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

Here we go again...




Personally I think it isn't a bad choice. What are the odds that EP IX is objectively worse than Return of the Jedi? I mean, Return was great, as a kid it was my favorite, but as an adult it's kinda hard to not cringe when you see hordes of well trained imperial troops getting completely REKT by the care-bear brigade.

The movie will be fine. Relax.

Not nearly as much as I cringed Starkiller Base, Hux's weird speech, or all the questions I had about what in the world the relationship between The Resistance, the Republic, and the First Order was. Or why if it was possible to Hyperspace through shields you wouldn't just have a droid hyperspace a GR-75 right into the oscillator. What's the size of the Reistance? Do they literally just have like fifteen X-Wings and the Falcon, because that was all that sent on a planetary bombing assault... TFA just felt so incredibly empty, like the Galaxy had about 50 people in it. Even while walking through Star Killer base, Han and Finn only encounter like two people: the one person who can deactivate the shields (but why the **** would Captain Shiny-Facism do it?) and the person they were trying to rescue. I am sure am glad they couldn't spare two minutes of film to add a little bit of context about the scope and relationship of the factions we were watching struggle against one another. But thank goodness we got like five minutes of Benny Hill themed squid monster chasing that used some of the worst CGI in the entire franchise. Might as well of just had Episode II's Dax "Diner Operator" Greasestain chasing the characters through the halls with a bunch of butcher knives in his hands -- I would have found it just as intense and suspenseful. I also liked how after we see Poe kill 12 TIE Fighters and three stromtroopers in eight seconds we then have to hear "That's a **** of a Pilot!" in case we didn't get the whole "Poe is the biggest and bestest ever and makes every other pilot in the 30-year-old franchise seem like a goon" vibe they were cramming down our throats.

Lazy movie was lazy.

But hey, we all cringe at different things.

PS: I don't just complain about movies to complain or because they're new. I tend to enjoy most movies I see, and I utterly loved Rogue One because it flushed the world out and filled it with things and was beautifully directed with excellent well-paced action. ****, I even liked Alien Resurrection quite a bit, to give you some standard of comparison.

1 minute ago, Darth Sanguis said:

Ha, that's a good one.

I really don't mind waiting for it to come to some kind of at home medium. Especially if I'm not emotionally invested in a film. Theater costs are getting out of hand fast, and honestly it looks better on my TV 75% of the time.

32 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

What are the odds that EP IX is objectively worse than Return of the Jedi?

Extremely high in my opinion. If ROTJ is "bad" given the proper world building and framework the beginning of the trilogy created how can this new trilogy possibly conclude objectively better given the shaky framework from TFA. Meh. Meh Abrams has yet to make a "good" movie in my experience and has made some that are objectively bad like Trek '09 and The Force Awakens. This can quite easily end up worse than Return of the Jedi.

25 minutes ago, Visovics said:

@ovinomanc3r is that you on the last point?

I thought you were clever enough to see the difference between fire and a pyromancer.

4 minutes ago, AllWingsStandyingBy said:

Not nearly as much as I cringed Starkiller Base, Hux's weird speech, or all the questions I had about what in the world the relationship between The Resistance, the Republic, and the First Order was. Or why if it was possible to Hyperspace through shields you wouldn't just have a droid hyperspace a GR-75 right into the oscillator. What's the size of the Reistance? Do they literally just have like fifteen X-Wings and the Falcon, because that was all that sent on a planetary bombing assault... TFA just felt so incredibly empty, like the Galaxy had about 50 people in it. Even while walking through Star Killer base, Han and Finn only encounter like two people: the one person who can deactivate the shields (but why the **** would Captain Shiny-Facism do it?) and the person they were trying to rescue. I am sure am glad they couldn't spare two minutes of film to add a little bit of context about the scope and relationship of the factions we were watching struggle against one another. But thank goodness we got like five minutes of Benny Hill themed squid monster chasing that used some of the worst CGI in the entire franchise. Might as well of just had Episode II's Dax "Diner Operator" Greasestain chasing the characters through the halls with a bunch of butcher knives in his hands -- I would have found it just as intense and suspenseful. I also liked how after we see Poe kill 12 TIE Fighters and three stromtroopers in eight seconds we then have to hear "That's a **** of a Pilot!" in case we didn't get the whole "Poe is the biggest and bestest ever and makes every other pilot in the 30-year-old franchise seem like a goon" vibe they were cramming down our throats.


"You're so lonely... So afraid to leave... At night, desperate to sleep... You imagine an ocean... I see it... I see the island... And Han Solo... You feel like he's the father you never had. He would have disappointed you."

"I'm being torn apart. I want to be free of this pain. I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it. Will you help me?"

I'm sorry all I can hear is Kylo's whiniest lines...

1 minute ago, Frimmel said:

Extremely high in my opinion. If ROTJ is "bad" given the proper world building and framework the beginning of the trilogy created how can this new trilogy possibly conclude objectively better given the shaky framework from TFA. Meh. Meh Abrams has yet to make a "good" movie in my experience and has made some that are objectively bad like Trek '09 and The Force Awakens. This can quite easily end up worse than Return of the Jedi.

I get that some people hate those films, but I fail to see how you arrive at the conclusion that those two movies are "objectively" bad.

3 minutes ago, Frimmel said:

Extremely high in my opinion. If ROTJ is "bad" given the proper world building and framework the beginning of the trilogy created how can this new trilogy possibly conclude objectively better given the shaky framework from TFA. Meh. Meh Abrams has yet to make a "good" movie in my experience and has made some that are objectively bad like Trek '09 and The Force Awakens. This can quite easily end up worse than Return of the Jedi.

Schrodinger's trilogy:

Both too identical to the original trilogy and not identical enough.

10 minutes ago, Stasy said:

Ha, that's a good one.

I really don't mind waiting for it to come to some kind of at home medium. Especially if I'm not emotionally invested in a film. Theater costs are getting out of hand fast, and honestly it looks better on my TV 75% of the time.

Yeah, I could get that, but how bad is it, really? I mean, I saw AOTC in theaters 5 times and I didn't even like 40% of the movie. I think many star wars fans are full of fluff when it comes to "not seeing" the new movies... I remember when the EU got wiped there were literal thousands of people swearing they wouldn't see TFA.... yet TFA still broke records?

Something don't add up there. lol

Anyways, I'm sure if TLJ is bad enough it'll be true, not for me though.

3 minutes ago, Darth Sanguis said:

Schrodinger's trilogy:

Both too identical to the original trilogy and not identical enough.

Wouldn't that mean the movies are both awesome and awful at the same time until we watch them and then all die from poisoning?

1 minute ago, Viktor Tanek said:

Wouldn't that mean the movies are both awesome and awful at the same time until we watch them

Yes. This. Exactly.

1 minute ago, Viktor Tanek said:

and then all die from poisoning?

I choose to interpret this as drinking ourselves to death, so also yes.

Bleh! The only choice worse than JJ would have been Peter Jackson's spinny-cams, corny action, and endless dramatic music!

The new "Star Treks" are an insult to everything Gene Roddenberry established with Trek, and while the script for The Force Awakens wasn't horrible, albeit derivative, the directing was everything wrong with modern movies: overly-dramatic and far too much (ab)use of music (like 10x more than needed). Not happy!

33 minutes ago, PartyPotato said:

Anyone know why Return of the JEdi went with Ewoks and not Wookiee? Seems like it'd be cheaper finding tall people.

The explination I have heard is the natives were supposed to be primative warriors and Chewbacca is by no means a primative, he is a highly skilled Technician and Pilot as well as being a warrior. Now that is how I have heard it explained, it still doesn't explain why they could not have had the second Death Star being built around an enslaved Kashyyyk.

Prepare for lens flare and wrack focus.

Noooooooooo. I don't like this director at all.