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One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Star Wars has always been more fantasy in space than science fiction, but I didn't like it either. Not just the free falling bombs, but the whole scene really. A lone fighter attacking a dreadnought?
just because someone says they didn't like something does not mean they are whining about it. You really need to stop this.
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Disney has reorganized its assets and ToysRUs has basically collapsed everywhere except for Canada (they are becoming another company up here). This doesn't really bode well for Star Wars' future.
Finished Star Wars Rebels, the ending wasn't too bad I guess. But for all of the plot points that Rebels wrapped up it kind of left a lot hanging. Darth Maul was just sort of there and they didn't really do much with him relevant to the story. The lack of Ashoka Tano, Obi-wan or Ventress was somewhat unsettling. What the heck was the other dimension thing about? Is it the same as the Mortis and Yoda vision quest thing? What happened to Thrawn? What has Ashoka been up to for two seasons? What was the point of introducing Saw Guerrera? Why does everything feel like it is more interested in making cameos than developing characters or actually expanding the universe. So much of this needs to be explained, now that Clone Wars and Rebels did not explain it. Finally what was that whole time skip at the very end? Was it meant to be after Endor? Were Ezra and Ashoka gone for over 6 years?
Also LOL at Indiana Jones references.
Toys r us closed.
Response: Ummmmm. Ok.
What? You think this will stop them from making mos of their sales? Also surf io9 for some good toy recommendations Star Wars among them.
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Toys R Us has boxes and boxes full of Star Wars toys. No one is buying them, no one cares. It doesn't matter where you sell it because no one is buying. Though I can't imagine that Star Wars toys helped their situation.
Reportedly, quality is below par.
Also, it's somewhat like candy that supermarkets strategically arrange towards the cash registers and at rugrats line of sight, a very immediate, tactile and visual experience.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
Not exactly true. The inspiration of the MF scene was taken from a WWII film from bombers. Everything else you see is the result of aerial combat in general.
That entire scene was a joke.
So a man who played the role in three movies prior has no authority on his own character? You are just being argumentative now. It really is scary that people actually believe the Last Jedi is a good movie.
To be fair, ToysR Us have been struggling for years now.
The bombs? Gravity induced field, I think. Maybe replusors or magnetic rail mortar.
Should be expository in the movie, if only for five seconds.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
LOL, you can't explain stupidity.
They are space, presumably a highly advanced society and the best solution for destroying a large ship is to have slow flying ships fly above a target and "drop" bombs on a target. Meanwhile in a Galaxy not far away, they manage to create an entire planet into a planet-destroying weapon.
The first 15 minutes of the movie, we had Marx brothers humor, silly dramatize WWII era bombs complete with mechanical failure that you would think their technology would make that not possible, and disobeying becuse it was worth it cliche. Oh, there was the cheesy over the top sacrificial death cliche.
Star Wars combat in general is a joke. This is something you're going to have to live with, it being in space, yet heavily inspired by World War 2 aerial combat.
This is not a series we go to for realism. Yet, we're able to pull more out of this movie how Star Wars combat works than in any any previous movie.
He played it for four films and one scene at the end of another film. Others have worked Star Wars for their entire careers. Like I said, he knows more about the Joker.So a man who played the role in three movies prior has no authority on his own character? You are just being argumentative now. It really is scary that people actually believe the Last Jedi is a good movie.
Show. Don't tell.
Last edited by Gaidin; March 21, 2018 at 07:54 AM.
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.
No, I just read more and I watch more. If I want semi-realistic space flight by the fighters I watch BSG, not Star Wars. If I want high strategy in the space opera, it's more likely to come out in a book series, not in Star Wars. Star Wars is a pulp sci-fi and people in this thread don't seem to be cognizant of that fact.
What? That Lucas Arts is a corporation that has people dedicated to manning the fort that is Star Wars knowledge and they have spent upwards of their entire career there? Where Mark Hamill has played a role in four films? The man has more screen time as the Joker over multiple shows, movies, and video games adding up to more solid voice time than the entire Star Wars movie set altogether.This has to be one of the ridiculous arguments I have read in my life.
Your math doesn't add up.
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One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Insulting my intelligence is not going to make your apology mush better.
physics not withstanding the bombing scene was s joke. It isn’t that it didn’t make sense scientifically, it didn’t make since in the established physics of Star Wars. For some reason this is lost on you.
Actors RS study their characters. They capture their thoughts and feelings. There are three movies in which Luke is developed and mark had a part in the development. If you bother watching ch any interview he stated as much. The Last Jedi was a departure from that development. I am not alone with this MH agreed as well as many SW nerds.
As as far as I am concerned, you seem to love a sucky movie. If you want to explain away every bit of stupidity in the movie, then so be it. Just don’t get pissy because we are not buying the crap you are ditching out. As far as I am concerned, if it looks like crap, feels like crap, and smells like crap, then it is crap.
Last edited by Abdülmecid I; March 21, 2018 at 01:33 PM. Reason: Continuity.
I apologized? You're reading some strange into my posts.
Popcorn sci-fi is god damned awesome. Unashamedly so.As as far as I am concerned, you seem to love a sucky movie. If you want to explain away every bit of stupidity in the movie, then so be it. Just don’t get pissy because we are not buying the crap you are ditching out. As far as I am concerned, if it looks like crap, feels like crap, and smells like crap, then it is crap.
Last edited by Abdülmecid I; March 21, 2018 at 01:34 PM. Reason: Continuity.
One thing is for certain: the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
This isn't directed at you or me trying to pick a fight or anything like that, but trying to provide a realistic explanation for it annoys me more than the scene itself. It was nonsense, better to recognize it and move on.
I agree that its something we must live with. I don't hold SW up to the same realism standard as Interstellar or The Martian. But it is also okay to express one's dislike over it.
Regarding Hamill and The Joker, whether he knows more about that character is irrelevant dude. He IS Luke Skywalker. No one else has played the role; Mark brought the character to life. He absolutely is an authority on the character and is entitled to a sense of ownership of the character.
Hamill has had forty years of fan conventions to reflect on the character, probably has read the further adventures from a range of authors.
So he probably knows also how the fanbase wanted the character to develop.
Eats, shoots, and leaves.