Star Wars: Episode IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[TheDucky]

Great art from a great trilogy.

 

[jye4ever]

No. But he was lying. That's worse.

But they have always maintained that only Lucas thought he had a train wreck the main cast knew they had something special

Now SAG probably thought it was a one and done lol


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[Wor-Gar]

But it even reaffirmed on the show that Lucas' last-minute editorial addition was sparing Vader's life and having him escape at the end of Star Wars. He decided that at the end. Before that - Han killed Vader.

I don't know, I just remember as a kid growing up thinking Hamill (who I loved as Luke) was a pompous ass having seen all his real-time interviews. Now after years of Skywalker and Joker, his mere appearance in a trailer makes grown men cry. Yeessh.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Just typing those mere letters...

ANH
ESB
BR
ROTLA

Dude is freaking legendary


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Yeah, over-rated seems pretty harsh. Indiana Jones and Han Solo. Not too bad.

Most actors are fortunate if they get one legendary franchise character to play.

 

[jye4ever]

But it even reaffirmed on the show that Lucas' last-minute editorial addition was sparing Vader's life and having him escape at the end of Star Wars. He decided that at the end. Before that - Han killed Vader.

I don't know, I just remember as a kid growing up thinking Hamill (who I loved as Luke) was a pompous ass having seen all his real-time interviews. Now after years of Skywalker and Joker, his mere appearance in a trailer makes grown men cry. Yeessh.

See I was really too young to comprehend his off screen demeanor I just remember the movie visuals.

But now watching his Carson interview and a few others you are not wrong he was very pompous for a nobody but even then he acknowledged the absurdity of SAG being involved lol

I dig it though.


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[The Buffinator]

Yeah, over-rated seems pretty harsh. Indiana Jones and Han Solo. Not too bad.

Most actors are fortunate if they get one legendary franchise character to play.

Not a franchise, but his Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive was excellent too. And let's not forget his playing Jack Ryan in a couple of Tom Clancy adaptations, although I actually preferred Alec Baldwin in the role.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Good to see that the thing that has people most upset is the "they can fly now? " Line.

Not true. It's just one of many idiotic things that happened in the ST for Star Wars fans to mock when bored.

 

[abake]

Yeah, over-rated seems pretty harsh. Indiana Jones and Han Solo. Not too bad.

Most actors are fortunate if they get one legendary franchise character to play.

Don't get me wrong, I love Ford's roles in those iconic movies (ANH, ESB, ROTLA, TOD, BR), but really, that's about it... he even managed to mangle his own legacy with crappy acting in ROTJ, and both Last Crusade and Crystal Skull aren't that great.

Not a franchise, but his Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive was excellent too. And let's not forget his playing Jack Ryan in a couple of Tom Clancy adaptations, although I actually preferred Alec Baldwin in the role.

Agreed, The Fugitive (and also Witness) was a solid role in a solid movie, but his Jack Ryan was crap. Like just about everything else the man's been in. And maybe it's just me, but every time I've seen an interview with him, he comes across as some insufferable bastard.

So... yeah, I love some of his roles, but not a fan of Ford.

 

[Wor-Gar]

So... yeah, I love some of his roles, but not a fan of Ford.

Now this makes more sense. The pot and earring didn't do him any favors either.

 

[JAWS]

Well he wasn?t wrong now was he.

He was smart.

Better to be prepared or else end up like ROTJ Han.


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Ford is so overrated...
The man did three great roles from 77 to 84 (SW, Blade Runner, ROTLA) and that was basically it.
And in BR he is completely overshadowed by Rutger Hauer.

He was pretty good in Witness...

But yeah somewhere soon after TOD Ford just started collecting paychecks.. I do think he performances in the ST and BR 2049 were all solid.

Just typing those mere letters...

ANH
ESB
BR
ROTLA
TOD

Dude is freaking legendary


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Some art from a trilogy.

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Yeah, over-rated seems pretty harsh. Indiana Jones and Han Solo. Not too bad.

Most actors are fortunate if they get one legendary franchise character to play.

SW, ESB, ROTLA, and TOD Ford are enough for me to always be a fan.

 

[JAWS]

Funny, I didn?t do any of that and I understood the story just fine.

Agreed. I never needed any of the books or comics.

But I will say that the book shedding light on it being Palps soul in the buddy of a clone.. Yeah i liked that a lot and thought they could have spelled that out better in the movie.

 

[JAWS]

In the comics Poe saw them fly before, so.....

Personally I think there is something in the water in the Star Wars Universe. I mean Obi Wan forgot who R2-D2 was. Seemed to think Luke was the last hope till reminded by Yoda there was another.. Han remembers shooting Greedo first. Vader at one time knew he had a son but then forgot he had a son. Vader remembers that the Emperor use to look a lot different but then looked the same. Leia remembers her mother who she never really met.

SO I guess I can forgive anyone for not remembering that Stormtroopers had jet packs in the comic books.

Its all so confusing

 

[Prime Clone]

Great art from a great trilogy.

I concur. Though...


The OT and ST treat Anakin's saber like a sacred heirloom passed down through the generations.

Then there's AOTC:

 

[jye4ever]

Rewatching RO it was very clear this time that many of the troopers that Chirrut took out with his stick or a kick were just as bad as how the ewoks took them out.

I think its more of a Disney mandate than it is a stunt coordination problem but his strikes on the trooper are downright super soft taps then the trooper passes out!

Hell why would even a hard stick hit or kick take out a fully armored trooper.

It?s really really REALLY BAD lol

At least he looks much cooler doing it than an ewok.


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[The Buffinator]

Rewatching RO it was very clear this time that many of the troopers that Chirrut took out with his stick or a kick were just as bad as how the ewoks took them out.

I think its more of a Disney mandate than it is a stunt coordination problem but his strikes on the trooper are downright super soft taps then the trooper passes out!

Hell why would a hard stick hit take out a fully armored trooper?

It?s really really REALLY BAD lol

At least he looks much cooler doing it than an ewok.

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Because (by extension) his stick was one with the force and the force was with his stick???? That and it was necessary for the box office in the Asian markets. lol

 

[Asta]

Rewatching RO it was very clear this time that many of the troopers that Chirrut took out with his stick or a kick were just as bad as how the ewoks took them out.

Endor was an analogy for the Vietnam War. Guerilla warfare vs. the hubris of a better equipped empire that considered itself all-powerful.

https://nypost.com/2014/09/21/how-star-wars-was-secretly-george-lucas-protest-of-vietnam/

Vietnam, it turns out, was a strong undercurrent in the thinking of Lucas (who was rejected for the draft because he was diabetic). Even before he made “Star Wars,” he wanted to make a documentary-style antiwar film on Vietnam that was to be called, in a title devised by his friend John Milius, “Apocalypse Now.” (The project passed on to another Lucas compadre, Francis Ford Coppola, who had given Lucas his first movie job working on the musical “Finian’s Rainbow.”)

...

Back in a 1973 note on “Star Wars,” Lucas made clear which side he was rooting for in the Vietnam War: “A large technological empire going after a small group of freedom fighters.”

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Because (by extension) his stick was one with the force and the force was with his stick???? That and it was necessary for the box office in the Asian markets. lol

Alot of good it did for the Star Wars market over there...Just not a Star Wars region I guess

 

[Khev]

Rewatching RO it was very clear this time that many of the troopers that Chirrut took out with his stick or a kick were just as bad as how the ewoks took them out.

I think its more of a Disney mandate than it is a stunt coordination problem but his strikes on the trooper are downright super soft taps then the trooper passes out!

Hell why would even a hard stick hit or kick take out a fully armored trooper.

It?s really really REALLY BAD lol

At least he looks much cooler doing it than an ewok.

In the bunker at the end K2 just lightly brushes some Stormtroopers into one another, killing them instantly, lol.

 

[jye4ever]

In the bunker at the end K2 just lightly brushes some Stormtroopers into one another, killing them instantly, lol.

You would think a powerful mechanical hydraulic arm would punch a hole straight thru their helmet but nope just a scuff on their armor that is even smaller than what I get on my Hasbro black series vehicles and helmets.


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[punisher1974]

Guys you have to understand that the Disney Star Wars movies are in the same universe as the old contra video game where one touch equals death.