8 hours ago, JJ48 said:

I don't know...Vader seems to go after his foes head-on, and I can't really think of a reasonable scenario for why he'd be sneaking around picking off grunts one-by-one. It seems a bit...playful for his character, if that makes sense. Some bounty hunters, though, I could totally see taking this approach.

Rather than rebel troops, perhaps some Jedi who escaped order 66? There are still a few I'm sure, and they would offer a bit more threat, plus lightsaber battles. Plus, with the force, Vader would want to not fight a group necessarily all at once.

But even with rebels, it can work if written so perhaps he can only get one or two at a time. Perhaps it is a rebel or better yet partisan offshoot that disable and kill the crew of a star destroyer. We know in canon the rebels never captured one. Vader picking off the rebels that did this, and the size of the ship means it's too large to have them all in one place.

The writing of the script has to be done well, but all the elements are there. The single minded determination and systematic slaughter of the characters, thematically works. I don't see it as Vader playing with the rebels, but more only having the opportuniry to eliminate one or two at a time.

On 10/12/2018 at 10:56 PM, JJ48 said:

I don't know...Vader seems to go after his foes head-on, and I can't really think of a reasonable scenario for why he'd be sneaking around picking off grunts one-by-one. It seems a bit...playful for his character, if that makes sense. Some bounty hunters, though, I could totally see taking this approach.

I'd like to see Iggy in that role, now that you mention it...

49 minutes ago, NotBatman said:

I'd like to see Iggy in that role, now that you mention it...

Ooh! Let's do a series of IG-88 horror films, along with some HK-47 movies, building up to the truly epic IG-88 vs HK-47!

The Fault in Our Star Wars

The King and Jedi

What about Boba?

On 10/16/2018 at 4:48 AM, TopHatGorilla said:

The Fault in Our Star Wars

The King and Jedi

What about Boba?

Air Force Wan.

Three Men And A Boba.

On 9/4/2018 at 1:21 AM, Porkchop Express said:

Star Wars is already the story to Big Trouble in Little China.

The alley fight is clearly the Battle of Hoth, and Wang, Egg and Jack are Luke, Obi-wan and Han.

Han: I don't get this at all ... I thought...

Palpatine: Shut up, Mr. Solo! You were not put on this world to "get it".

Firefly

... Then I can die happy...

Cowboy Bebop would also do the work.

Scarface: Galactic crimelord must defend himself against bloodthirsty rivals. His "Little friend" turns out to be a rancor.

Shogun Assassin/ Lone wolf and cub: A lone jedi travels the galaxy with his infant son, who's destined to become a very powerfull jedi. He fights scum and criminals while avoiding the assassins the empire sends after them.

1 hour ago, Red Castle said:

Firefly

... Then I can die happy...

Cowboy Bebop would also do the work.

Or Trigun. Imagine Vash the stampede with a lightsaber.

House of Cards. But with this guy:

The Droid Who Would Be King
A pair of scheming droids travel to a remote planet to convince the natives that they are gods (think 3PO with the Ewoks, only more devious, and with the plan ultimately backfiring)

1 hour ago, Robin Graves said:

House of Cards. But with this guy:

Imagine all the scenes in the Prequels where everything kinda stops, and Sheev turns and starts talking to the screen about things like how someone is an fool and he'll have them killed once he's finished seizing power.

If the last spin-off movies were anything it shows that throwing a Star Wars skin on another story doesn't translate to a good story, and to be fair the current Star Wars story (Episodes I-VIII) just isn't very good. Now the story in the very first Star Wars movie is amazing, however that was because it was focused on a retelling of the Hero's Journey to a Science Fiction/Fantasy setting. The trilogy later became a great part with the 2nd act plunging the hero into dire straights where the 3rd was the inevitable resolution. But as it has been tried to expand out first to earlier events than to later events it just lost focus. Thus the story got bloated and later fell flat.

If you want a good Star Wars story applied to other stories first you have to have a good Star Wars story, that has been proven to be rather difficult but not impossible. TIE Fighter had an incredible story to it. Of course the lord of all stories was KOTOR but they were able to pull a trick by going so far back that the events could be rearainged and corrected to fit the Episode 1 timeline. Still a great story that is a Star Wars story.

Trying to find a blockbuster movie like say 6th sense and then throw in the Star Wars skin on it probably won't be any better than the last one. Here is a video that I believe states the Status of where we are with Star Wars perfectly. though it is more about games than movies I think the points made in the video apply to the new movies now more than ever.

1 hour ago, Marinealver said:

If the last spin-off movies were anything it shows that throwing a Star Wars skin on another story doesn't translate to a good story

Don’t follow. Both of the spin off movies have been pretty good. It’s the ones that are trying to expand the “saga” that are turning people off.

19 minutes ago, Forgottenlore said:

Don’t follow. Both of the spin off movies have been pretty good. It’s the ones that are trying to expand the “saga” that are turning people off.

If the last one was any good it wouldn't have flopped as word of mouth would have overcome grievances with the prior film. Granted the direction with the Saga is likely heading the wrong way much like the prequels. I liked Rouge One but not as a story. It was in the same quality as the Ewok movies. But I stick to my point, first they have to get the Star Wars story right, before they can take other good stories and put Star Wars skin on them.

3 minutes ago, Marinealver said:

If the last one was any good it wouldn't have flopped as word of mouth would have overcome grievances with the prior film.

If this is true, no company with a decent marketing team should ever go bankrupt.

On 10/21/2018 at 9:42 PM, Marinealver said:

If the last one was any good it wouldn't have flopped as word of mouth would have overcome grievances with the prior film.

I don't know if I believe that. I think Star Wars fans take the franchise way too seriously. This franchise has floated largely on repeat viewings and ticket presales. Solo had two main areas where it fell short of TFA/R1/TLJ. Its ticket presales were *way* down. Its weekly drops were even worse than The Last Jedi. Basically, all the market data told us that a good number of Star Wars fans declined to see it entirely, and thus didn't go see it multiple times. Catering to the die-hard Star Wars fans is crucial to their success. They throw money at the franchise. It's hard to believe that a movie as inoffensive and non-divisive as Solo just suddenly tanked for no reason, five months after The Last Jedi blew up the fanbase and pissed a bunch of them off. Its audience scores are higher than TLJ on pretty much every review aggregator. So it means people are choosing not to see it. I mean, sure, the sample size is smallish and Angry People on YouTube have to be taken with a sense of scale, but there were a lot of people saying they were boycotting Solo. You have to believe that a lot of them followed through on the threat. I mean, I only saw it because I'm a critic and I get to go to the screenings. I wouldn't have paid any money to see it, just because it's hard to get excited about the Disney Star Wars properties.

I liked Rouge One but not as a story. It was in the same quality as the Ewok movies.

Gedoudda he-yah. If you want to be taken even remotely seriously, you might want to dial the hyperbole down below a level where a blackfaced Robert Downey Junior is forced to begin giving you pointers about your portrayal of the mentally handicapped.

6 minutes ago, TheVeteranSergeant said:

I don't know if I believe that. I think Star Wars fans take the franchise way too seriously. This franchise has floated largely on repeat viewings and ticket presales. Solo had two main areas where it fell short of TFA/R1/TLJ. Its ticket presales were *way* down. Its weekly drops were even worse than The Last Jedi. Basically, all the market data told us that a good number of Star Wars fans declined to see it entirely, and thus didn't go see it multiple times. Catering to the die-hard Star Wars fans is crucial to their success. They throw money at the franchise. It's hard to believe that a movie as inoffensive and non-divisive as Solo just suddenly tanked for no reason, five months after The Last Jedi blew up the fanbase and pissed a bunch of them off. Its audience scores are higher than TLJ on pretty much every review aggregator. So it means people are choosing not to see it. I mean, sure, the sample size is smallish and Angry People on YouTube have to be taken with a sense of scale, but there were a lot of people saying they were boycotting Solo. You have to believe that a lot of them followed through on the threat. I mean, I only saw it because I'm a critic and I get to go to the screenings. I wouldn't have paid any money to see it, just because it's hard to get excited about the Disney Star Wars properties.

Gedoudda he-yah. If you want to be taken even remotely seriously, you might want to dial the hyperbole down below a level where a blackfaced Robert Downey Junior is forced to begin giving you pointers about your portrayal of the mentally handicapped.

What the heck does racily offensive imagery has to do with the Ewok Adventures? The story of Rouge One was bad and pacing was pretty horrible. The Action was good and I guess that was good enough. Solo had action as well, but it was too predictable and almost boring.

Apparently you've never seen Tropic Thunder. Or the Ewok movies, for that matter.