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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
Star Wars has some men running scared these days.
It's been years since it last had that effect.
Star Wars has some men running scared these days.
It's been years since it last had that effect.
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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
Trying to be diplomatic. I've found saying "Rogue One sucks" usually closes everybody's ears.
Trying to be diplomatic. I've found saying "Rogue One sucks" usually closes everybody's ears.
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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
I'm liking these numbers. I like to see Disney get some dirt in their eyes and hurt.
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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
No.
Not any more.
It's part of the EU that they rebranded as 'Legends'.
https://www.mymbuzz.com/2018/01/16/solo-a-star-wars-story-to-reveal-how-han-and-chewbacca-met/
No.
Not any more.
It's part of the EU that they rebranded as 'Legends'.
https://www.mymbuzz.com/2018/01/16/solo-a-star-wars-story-to-reveal-how-han-and-chewbacca-met/
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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
Well just yesterday they were saying projections were for 400-450 mil... and just one day later..
Yes the rising American economy explains why the whole world is staying away from it...
Weren’t you saying it was just memorial weekend before and the second week would pick up?
And do you remember the worst year for the economy in recent years? 2008.. the year TDK became the first CBM to crack a billion (when the top 10 still meant something)
Well just yesterday they were saying projections were for 400-450 mil... and just one day later..
Yes the rising American economy explains why the whole world is staying away from it...
Weren’t you saying it was just memorial weekend before and the second week would pick up?
And do you remember the worst year for the economy in recent years? 2008.. the year TDK became the first CBM to crack a billion (when the top 10 still meant something)
Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
Well just yesterday they were saying projections were for 400-450 mil... and just one day later..
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Yes the rising American economy explains why the whole world is staying away from it...
Weren’t you saying it was just memorial weekend before and the second week would pick up?
And do you remember the worst year for the economy in recent years? 2008.. the year TDK became the first CBM to crack a billion (when the top 10 still meant something)
The Clown Prince of Crime
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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
It's official, xipotec is Kathleen Kennedy.
It's official, xipotec is Kathleen Kennedy.
The Clown Prince of Crime
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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
Kennedy: "Begin replacing all male extras with women. Make the Force stronger with them too."
Johnson: "My lord, is that canon?"
Kennedy: "I will make it canon."
Trevorrow: "This game of yours has failed, we dare not go against the fans."
Kennedy: "Johnson, I don't want this stunted slime in my sight again."
Johnson: "But what of the returning OT cast?"
Kennedy: "Abrams should have never brought them into this. Kill them immediately."
Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
Lol, the lingering thing with TLJ that does bug me the most are the piss poor military tactics from beginning to end. Yes I've said many times that SW films aren't known for the most logical tactics but at least they've always been *effective.* Sure Tarkin assumedly could have blown up Yavin instead of orbiting it but he was still one second away from obliterating the Rebel base had Han Solo not returned at that very moment and Luke used the Force to make a one in a million shot. Sure the Empire could have assumedly sent TIE Bombers to skim the ground next to the AT-AT's and quickly take out the Hoth shield generators but the AT-AT's still did the job themselves.
But Hux not sending bombers after Leia's cruiser? Why? Because the Star Destroyers could do the job just as easily? Obviously not since they remained engaged in a chase that literally took hours (didn't Rose say they had six hours of fuel?) And Hux's plan wasn't almost thwarted by a fluke (someone using the Force, etc.) no he was almost duped by the most pedestrian of all escape plans (get on smaller life boat/escape pod type craft that literally every ship bigger than a fighter is chalk full of.) Hux had no good reason not to pursue with Fighters and/or Bombers (*three TIE Fighters* obliterated the command ship's hangar and bridge within seconds and yet he orders them to retreat??) leaving the Resistance to come up with a pretty boring mode of escape.
Even if he didn't use Fighters (which the Empire did when pursuing fleeing ships in literally every OT film plus RO) could he really think of nothing else but waiting for Leia to run out of fuel? Even without Fighters/Bombers the OT Empire would have still used the full might of their fleet to stop every escape route imaginable. Once they had Leia's trajectory why not pull an "RO Vader" and call in half a dozen Destroyers to come out of hyperspace *in front* of her? Grrrr. The FO just did nothing that ever made me think "these guys are beasts, how will the good guys escape?" Like I was constantly thinking during the OT and RO.
And as awesome as Holdo's lightspeed maneuver was why would Hux instantly dismiss the option to obliterate it once he realized that it was not unmanned? And why did the ship need Holdo to pilot it in the first place? Were they worried it was going to crash into something if she wasn't at the controls? And getting back to Hux for all he knew Leia herself was still on the ship. Why selectively ignore that one ship, especially when it became clear that it was about to go to lightspeed? Okay so he'd never anticipate a kamikaze attack but he was still fine with just allowing their greatest warship to simply escape?
It's *the* most bothersome thing about TLJ for me, and I've criticized those tactics from the beginning. I tried turning a blind eye because again, tactics in the OT were often logically unsound in favor of stuff that simply looked cool or created an extra level of excitement. But guys like Tarkin were awesome, intelligent, and calculating from beginning to end, same with the Emperor so one critical oversight is easy to accept. Hux is just incompetent from beginning to end (he even needs his second in command to explain what his fleet can do!) which brings the entire First Order down, Snoke and Kylo included.
Then there's Luke. As much as I liked his arc the one thing that I did find surprising was that he left Leia and the Resistance to guess at his intentions when he showed up on Crait. It's cool when heroes have a "secret plan" that they keep from the bad guys that the audience and the bad guys learn at the same time (like the audience learning he was a projection the same moment that Kylo did.) But why would he include his own allies that he's literally trying to save out of the loop especially when being out of the loop could literally cause their destruction?
And maybe he assumed Leia would tell everyone since he supposedly touched her hand and kissed her forehead without really touching her thus revealing to her alone that he wasn't there in the flesh. Why then did *she* just wait until the lightbulb went off with Poe? It just could have so easily gone the other way with everyone senselessly dying simply because Johnson wanted *everyone* surprised at the end.
Solo did it right. Han also had a secret plan that the audience discovered in the exact same moment that Drydon and Beckett figured it out but unlike Luke he made sure that Qi'ra and Enfys knew what he was planning so that they could take their own appropriate actions at the appropriate times. And TLJ could have done that too. Have Luke out there facing Kylo with Poe looking confused and then Leia puts her hand on his shoulder and says, "Commander, it's time." Or something like that. Then his eyes go wide as he realizes what's happening and he then gives the same order for everyone to clear out. The audience could have still been kept in the dark until the exact same moment but without looking back at Luke and Leia and shaking our heads at how silly it was for them to keep everyone in the dark for no valid reason at all.
As a fan of the Holiday Special Fett cartoon I'm glad that they didn't contradict the fact that Chewie meets Fett after ANH and mistakenly thinks he's an ally until R2 reveals that he's working for Vader.
Its just so weird to see you posting this sort.. I know you still like TLJ but still its strange.
Lol, the lingering thing with TLJ that does bug me the most are the piss poor military tactics from beginning to end. Yes I've said many times that SW films aren't known for the most logical tactics but at least they've always been *effective.* Sure Tarkin assumedly could have blown up Yavin instead of orbiting it but he was still one second away from obliterating the Rebel base had Han Solo not returned at that very moment and Luke used the Force to make a one in a million shot. Sure the Empire could have assumedly sent TIE Bombers to skim the ground next to the AT-AT's and quickly take out the Hoth shield generators but the AT-AT's still did the job themselves.
But Hux not sending bombers after Leia's cruiser? Why? Because the Star Destroyers could do the job just as easily? Obviously not since they remained engaged in a chase that literally took hours (didn't Rose say they had six hours of fuel?) And Hux's plan wasn't almost thwarted by a fluke (someone using the Force, etc.) no he was almost duped by the most pedestrian of all escape plans (get on smaller life boat/escape pod type craft that literally every ship bigger than a fighter is chalk full of.) Hux had no good reason not to pursue with Fighters and/or Bombers (*three TIE Fighters* obliterated the command ship's hangar and bridge within seconds and yet he orders them to retreat??) leaving the Resistance to come up with a pretty boring mode of escape.
Even if he didn't use Fighters (which the Empire did when pursuing fleeing ships in literally every OT film plus RO) could he really think of nothing else but waiting for Leia to run out of fuel? Even without Fighters/Bombers the OT Empire would have still used the full might of their fleet to stop every escape route imaginable. Once they had Leia's trajectory why not pull an "RO Vader" and call in half a dozen Destroyers to come out of hyperspace *in front* of her? Grrrr. The FO just did nothing that ever made me think "these guys are beasts, how will the good guys escape?" Like I was constantly thinking during the OT and RO.
And as awesome as Holdo's lightspeed maneuver was why would Hux instantly dismiss the option to obliterate it once he realized that it was not unmanned? And why did the ship need Holdo to pilot it in the first place? Were they worried it was going to crash into something if she wasn't at the controls? And getting back to Hux for all he knew Leia herself was still on the ship. Why selectively ignore that one ship, especially when it became clear that it was about to go to lightspeed? Okay so he'd never anticipate a kamikaze attack but he was still fine with just allowing their greatest warship to simply escape?
It's *the* most bothersome thing about TLJ for me, and I've criticized those tactics from the beginning. I tried turning a blind eye because again, tactics in the OT were often logically unsound in favor of stuff that simply looked cool or created an extra level of excitement. But guys like Tarkin were awesome, intelligent, and calculating from beginning to end, same with the Emperor so one critical oversight is easy to accept. Hux is just incompetent from beginning to end (he even needs his second in command to explain what his fleet can do!) which brings the entire First Order down, Snoke and Kylo included.
Then there's Luke. As much as I liked his arc the one thing that I did find surprising was that he left Leia and the Resistance to guess at his intentions when he showed up on Crait. It's cool when heroes have a "secret plan" that they keep from the bad guys that the audience and the bad guys learn at the same time (like the audience learning he was a projection the same moment that Kylo did.) But why would he include his own allies that he's literally trying to save out of the loop especially when being out of the loop could literally cause their destruction?
And maybe he assumed Leia would tell everyone since he supposedly touched her hand and kissed her forehead without really touching her thus revealing to her alone that he wasn't there in the flesh. Why then did *she* just wait until the lightbulb went off with Poe? It just could have so easily gone the other way with everyone senselessly dying simply because Johnson wanted *everyone* surprised at the end.
Solo may be my fav Star Wars film do to the waking effect it had on you
Solo did it right. Han also had a secret plan that the audience discovered in the exact same moment that Drydon and Beckett figured it out but unlike Luke he made sure that Qi'ra and Enfys knew what he was planning so that they could take their own appropriate actions at the appropriate times. And TLJ could have done that too. Have Luke out there facing Kylo with Poe looking confused and then Leia puts her hand on his shoulder and says, "Commander, it's time." Or something like that. Then his eyes go wide as he realizes what's happening and he then gives the same order for everyone to clear out. The audience could have still been kept in the dark until the exact same moment but without looking back at Luke and Leia and shaking our heads at how silly it was for them to keep everyone in the dark for no valid reason at all.
As a fan of the Holiday Special Fett cartoon I'm glad that they didn't contradict the fact that Chewie meets Fett after ANH and mistakenly thinks he's an ally until R2 reveals that he's working for Vader.
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Prime Clone
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
I’ve come around to the same way of thinking. I’d been ranking the ST above most of the PT because it was better made, even though I cared less about it.
But I still rank the anthology films “so low” because they’re not major episodes (and Solo just ain’t that great).
I’ve come around to the same way of thinking. I’d been ranking the ST above most of the PT because it was better made, even though I cared less about it.
But I still rank the anthology films “so low” because they’re not major episodes (and Solo just ain’t that great).
jye4ever
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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
Khev saying his farewells giving the ST its final burial...
Khev turns around and sees JAWS, Wor-Gar and a-dev in happiness:
Meanwhile jye:
Khev saying his farewells giving the ST its final burial...
Khev turns around and sees JAWS, Wor-Gar and a-dev in happiness:
Meanwhile jye:
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