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     Pwnzor |
I've got tickets for tonight at 7pm. Who else is going?  | ||
| Macbuell |
I'm not sure if I am going to go or not. I'm still po'd about how the butchered the last Star Wars movie. | ||
| Rick_a |
The wife and kid, normally excited about everything Star Wars, are pretty mum on this one. We're still reeling from the last one. The only new Star Wars I really liked was "Rogue One." I've probably watched that one a dozen times. "The Force Awakens" had promise, but "Last Jedi" kinda flubbed it. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I am cautiously optimistic about this one. The last one pretty much made me hate every last remaining character. I saw action figures on the shelves of those characters and coudn't help but wonder who would want to buy that? That last movie was a travesty. Made phantom menace look like Kitizen Kaine. Rogue one was outstanding. I'm hoping for some of that here. | ||
| Macbuell |
The Rogue One was really good but they have really destroyed the sequels. Rogue one was all new characters and maybe that was why it worked. With Solo, I don't know what I think about who they got to play the character. Something about him from the previews just doesn't seem to fit. Apparently the Kessel Run is in the movie so that has me intrigued. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Eh, I must be getting old and/or movies are just made for our ADD society these days. I have lost interest in the latest Star Wars movies. And the posts in this thread kinda confirm my opinion. | ||
| Aesquire |
I'm hoping to overcome my apathy before it's out of the theaters. It's the kind of movie you want a big screen and sound system that lets your bones feel the hyperdrive activate. Since my niece is a hardcore Star Wars Otaku, She's either already seen it, or I'll be taking her shortly. I have a suspicion she's gone full Fujoshi on this movie....  | ||
| 86129squids |
I've REALLY got to be tempted to spend the $$$ and deal with the bother to go to a theater anymore. Downtown Knoxvegas has a nice Regal facility, bonus to be able to hang out and walk around before and after the show. Otherwise my flatscreen and my home hi-fi can't be beat. Most of the movie theaters I've been to have what looks to be an impressive sound system, but they don't even use the speakers except the very front ones. Once paid the big bucks to go see "300" on what was called "IMAX" with several of my sales buddies from Smoky Mountain HD...not even close to a <real> IMAX. Sound absolutely sucked, and it looked like some moron wiped a big booger on the screen. Never again. With my fully stocked fridge, my "pause" button, and my dawgies too, no place like home! Anyhoo, pardon the rant, please post your opinions if youn's go see it. | ||
| Froggy |
I'm personally burned out by Star Wars. I feel at this point it is just a Disney money printing machine and lost the charm that made episodes 1-3 great. I was disappointed with 7 basically being the Death Star plot all over again, then Rogue One was another Death Star movie. I'm done, maybe when they come up with something new in a few years I'll come back. | ||
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| Pwnzor |
Lol you guys are too much. All movies are money printing machines. What else would a movie be made for, besides making money? Personally, I think this may be the best Star Wars movie ever made. I could be wrong, but my guess is it will at least be in the top 3 I will let you know in a couple of hours, I am sitting outside the theater right now. Seeing it in IMAX with Dolby sound | ||
| Froggy |
There is a difference between a movie making money and them just abusing a brand to milk it for every dime. | ||
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| Pwnzor |
Well then don't see it. It was really good and I enjoyed it a lot. | ||
| Aesquire |
Thanks, I'll see if the niece has seen it already. I liked Rogue One. The missing story. Referenced in IV as a costly affair, I never expected to actually get the tale. Lucas is a genius, but a narrow one. I through III show his limits, baldly. And SPOILERS, costly it was, indeed. I liked that it was not a remake, or used the original stars, The Star Wars universe is bigger than you will ever see in movies. A huge pile of books, multiple animated series, ( some parts better written than the Original trilogy ) I don't even pretend to know the bulk of the mega saga. As mixed as reaction was to VII, I actually started to like the female lead.... And I really, REALLY, want Kylo to either get a credible and painful realization of his idiocy, or a nasty, well deserved death in IX. Really nasty, "oh, I done F#$%ed up" death. Best I can hope for is a death saving the day with a last minute heel face turn. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeelFac eTurn But I still want edge of rating smoking body parts, I really don't like him.  And I've decided that in VII, Luke Skywalker wasn't alive. Don't care what canon is. I like the twist. | ||
| Jon |
Whew! I thought this was a thread about divorce. | ||
| 86129squids |
I've always thought "Han Solo" was a reference to... | ||
| Crusty |
... a date with Rosie? | ||
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| Aesquire |
That is photoshopped. She doesn't look anywhere near that good. Isn't that Saddam? On topic, the fans seem to like SOLO, and the reviewers are mixed, often for the wrong reasons. I haven't seen it yet so I can't address the complaints from the folk who call it "preachy" or dislike the sexuality of a character. After all, this is family entertainment, action, shooting, chase scenes, all the classic stuff. I hadn't heard about any offensive love scenes in the entire series, and the only really offensive persons I've seen are Skywalkers. Whiny bunch. | ||
| Aesquire |
Up front let me say I'm more a Trek fan than a Wars fan. I haven't paid to see the new Trek series, so as far as I'm concerned it doesn't exist. Feel free to make comments I won't get and don't care about. Trek, Gene Roddenberry's Utopian fantasy, has evolved over time. The tech in Star Trek is understandable. Sure, the technobabble is strong and bogus, but warp drive, transporters, flip phones, and Alexa all have rationalized explanations, and build on known science. The fictional stuff, crossed paths with real technology, sometime deliberately. The U.S. Navy did a study on Ship Bridges, and adopted Trek layouts from TOS. With seatbelts. What can I say about flip phones? Warp drives are in theoretical stage today, antimatter is real, and we know how to make it, the EM drive may indeed be the Impulse Drive of tomorrow, only transporters are likely to be impossible. ( but they only existed in the first place to save money on showing the ship take off and land ) The Next Generation couldn't afford all the switches and blinking lights of the Original Series, so unwittingly invented touchscreen controls and reconfigurable control panels. Star Wars? Lucas had no science fiction background, and didn't even care if the tech was schitzo, he doesn't think that way. Nearly every aspect of Wars tech is retro rationalized by fans and fanfic/novelizations. Magic crystals and insane economics, Wars is, and always will be, a Fairy Tale with chrome and blasters. Films after Lucas just build on his base, and barely give lip service to the improbability of the setting. That's ok. I enjoy Fairy Tales. But I'm a Hard SF fan, and I want my Tech to be consistent. That doesn't mean I won't go see Solo, or IX, and I am usually too polite ( hah!) to harsh other's enjoyment of fiction. Besides, for every complaint about The Last Jedi, I can only point to one of the coolest scenes in the entire series. The self sacrifice of Vice Admiral Holdo. The silence, after 8 films of screaming Ion drives. The stark images. Freaking Brilliant! | ||
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| Rick_a |
Just watched it. The kid gives it a 9.5, the wife a 7, and I a 7.5. It was alright. | ||
| Pwnzor |
8.5 here I could do without Lando being a robot fokker | ||
| 86129squids |
Weird spoiler, Matthew... did they make a lightsaber/fleshlight combo? | ||
| Rick_a |
 Yeah...the whole droid thing was a bit too SJW for me. | ||
| Cupcake_mike |
I thought it was better than pretty much any of the "others"...besides the originals, of course. Ron Howard did a great job, I didn't even know going in that he was the director...They did a great job of not blowing that up and also I actually gave a damn about the characters. |
