Star Wars: Episode IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[ajp4mgs]

Wait is Luke holding the actual lightsaber energy beam with his hand, why doesn?t he look like a ghost there.

There's a blue "aura" around Luke in that pic, so I think he's meant to be a ghost - even if it doesn't convey that very clearly.

And, yeah, Luke traps Kylo's blade in his hand. "More powerful than you can possibly imagine."

 

[Wor-Gar]

does Hans Gruber brother in DH3 count as recycling lol

Absolutely. So do the Nazis in Last Crusade.

They could have used Palpatine's brother, Kheev, as the main villain, who is living in sin with the ghost of Jyn.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Temple of Doom is better than Last Crusades. Indy with a tie? Bah!!

 

[Wor-Gar]

Temple of Doom is better than Last Crusades. Indy with a tie? Bah!!

Yeah, well, Last Crusade has no end of problems -- logic problems, bad comedy beats, stupid action moments, etc -- its the Diamonds Are Forever of Indy movies. ToD is miles better. But no Indy movie has ever come close to Raiders.

 

[Sassafras]

The concept art for Trevorrow's "Duel of the Fates" version of ep9 have started leaking. Here's an imgur link to 20 different pics of the artwork that I found on Reddit:

Shouldn't have looked. IMO better. Tor Valum wouldn't have looked like a baby dragonfly.



Not to mention the coolness of grabbing a light saber blade.

 

[ajp4mgs]

Shouldn't have looked. IMO better. Tor Valum wouldn't have looked like a baby dragonfly.

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Not to mention the coolness of grabbing a light saber blade.

The pic of Luke is killing me. Not just the idea and imagery of his ghost form trapping a lightsaber blade, but knowing that Luke would've played a much bigger role in the conclusion of the saga. That he would've gotten those face-to-face confrontations with Kylo. And that he would've had powers/abilities that they could've played with to make the "more powerful . . . " line have a new context with Luke Friggin' Skywalker.

 

[Khev]

Remember that all the PT concept art was awesome too.

That said I love that we're getting this unprecedented amount of info about what "might have been." Usually this kind of thing never sees the light of day.

DOTF would have been another TLJ with the identity politics though.

The script had Rey questioning Luke as to why she should let "some old man who died a thousand years ago" tell her "how to live," had Rose Tico looking at the homeless people living in the lowest levels of Coruscant and saying "the rich never care who or what they step on" (FFS ), and R2 calling 3PO "elitist" for not having anything in his databank about Coruscant's poor people.

Then there was Rose on a torture rack with Hux saying "Are you comfortable" to which she replies "absolutely, in fact I have one of these at home." Ba doom tss, lol.

 

[jye4ever]

Yeah, well, Last Crusade has no end of problems -- logic problems, bad comedy beats, stupid action moments, etc -- its the Diamonds Are Forever of Indy movies. ToD is miles better. But no Indy movie has ever come close to Raiders.

epic post is epic

You just made a-dev have a sad though lol


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[jye4ever]

Remember that all the PT concept art was awesome too.

That said I love that we're getting this unprecedented amount of info about what "might have been." Usually this kind of thing never sees the light of day.

DOTF would have been another TLJ with the identity politics though.

The script had Rey questioning Luke as to why she should let "some old man who died a thousand years ago" tell her "how to live," had Rose Tico looking at the homeless people living in the lowest levels of Coruscant and saying "the rich never care who or what they step on" (FFS ), and R2 calling 3PO "elitist" for not having anything in his databank about Coruscant's poor people.

Then there was Rose on a torture rack with Hux saying "Are you comfortable" to which she replies "absolutely, in fact I have one of these at home." Ba doom tss, lol.

Then Rose puts on the Joker makeup and enacts her revenge.


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[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Yeah, well, Last Crusade has no end of problems -- logic problems, bad comedy beats, stupid action moments, etc -- its the Diamonds Are Forever of Indy movies. ToD is miles better. But no Indy movie has ever come close to Raiders.

It doesn't have Spielberg's annoying wife, I'll give you that, but the good stuff is so much better and memorable than anything in TLC. IMO TLC is boring.

 

[jye4ever]

It doesn't have Spielberg's annoying wife, I'll give you that, but the good stuff is so much better and memorable than anything in TLC. IMO TLC is boring.

I cringed at the end of LC getting to that knight lol


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[Wor-Gar]

Despite an accurate mimicking of Ford by River, the movie starts with Indy as a Boy Scout acquiring all his signature gear and scar in one 3-minute action sequence. That says it all. From there, Indy goes to Venice, gets the sniffles in Austria, meets Hitler, rides a zeppelin then a tank, meets a 14th century knight, and pours healing water on his dying father -- although the water's power is said to not exist past the temple seal, so Indy's Dad should have dropped dead once he exits the temple. Whatever... stupid movie.

 

[Khev]

Despite an accurate mimicking of Ford by River, the movie starts with Indy as a Boy Scout acquiring all his signature gear and scar in one 3-minute action sequence. That says it all.

It really does. Though I do like the idea one person had of the guy he gets the hat from having should have been played by Tom Selleck.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Despite an accurate mimicking of Ford by River, the movie starts with Indy as a Boy Scout acquiring all his signature gear and scar in one 3-minute action sequence.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Yeah, pirates did it too. Recycle!!!!

 

[a-dev]

Despite an accurate mimicking of Ford by River, the movie starts with Indy as a Boy Scout acquiring all his signature gear and scar in one 3-minute action sequence. That says it all. From there, Indy goes to Venice, gets the sniffles in Austria, meets Hitler, rides a zeppelin then a tank, meets a 14th century knight, and pours healing water on his dying father -- although the water's power is said to not exist past the temple seal, so Indy's Dad should have dropped dead once he exits the temple. Whatever... stupid movie.

I never took it that way - you just don't have immortality once you go outside the temple. If it heals a wound while you're inside the temple that wound isn't going to suddenly unheal and kill you when you leave.

Although I do have a couple of questions - that Knight was an old man. What's immortality if you still age? And secondly, how let down must he have been when everyone ****ed off and left him there? Seemed like he was hoping someone would take over his job. And if his job was over once the Grail was lost down that chasm why not ''hide it'' that way in the first place?

 

[Wor-Gar]

I never took it that way - you just don't have immortality once you go outside the temple. If it heals a wound while you're inside the temple that wound isn't going to suddenly unheal and kill you when you leave.

Why not?

Although I do have a couple of questions - that Knight was an old man. What's immortality if you still age?

Maybe he had to sneak out from time to time to hunt for food and water -- so he slowly aged each time, then scurried back into the "immortality chamber". Although, by your calculations, any negative aging should have been eradicated when he returned just like a knife wound or gunshot... since aging is also a degradation of organs, etc. His body should have been repaired with each re-visit to the "Immortality Chamber"... or does he have to take a drink from the well with the correct cup each time? In which case, how much magic water is in that small puddle? Magic water I guess. In any event, he should not have aged at all until he was free... and then like the punishment to the bad guy he should have accelerated into dust... just like Indy's Dad's repaired gunshot should have opened back up.

The fact that the bad guy accelerates into dust proves that the reverse, drinking from the correct cup, should accelerate you back to where you were.... therefore, the knight would not age. Right?

 

[a-dev]

Why not?

...because...it didn't happen in the movie?

I take it as an unnaturally occurring physical injury is different from the natural ageing process. Once the gunshot wound is healed that's a permanent fix as it is in most circumstances when someone survives a gunshot. The power of the Grail in this case was a quicker means of doing what a surgeon will do.

I dunno how it follows from what I said that should the Knight leave the temple for his weekly shopping - and age each time he does so - that the Grail would revert him back to the age he had been prior. That's your own speculation...and evidently it's not what happened because, well, he's an old man.

 

[TaliBane]

This one is screaming for a Jye Joker photoshop. Needs a few clown masks on the background peeps too.

Kinda cheap how the artist just cut-pasted a Finn screamy head photo into their artwork. It's that kind of laziness and the photoshoppy look to a lot of the newer SW movie art that makes it much less fun to look at vs McQ.

The Mando stuff was such a breath of fresh air, and love how they showed it so prominently in every ep.

Personally, I always love bringing in a "new evil" rather than recycling the old.

The head of the studio just personally fired you.

Yeah, well, Last Crusade has no end of problems -- logic problems, bad comedy beats, stupid action moments, etc -- its the Diamonds Are Forever of Indy movies. ToD is miles better. But no Indy movie has ever come close to Raiders.

Like so many (nearly all) 80s "franchises," Indy greatness is one movie - Raiders. I do like TOD and parts of TLC but they are 6/10 and 5/10 compared to Raiders.

Remember that all the PT concept art was awesome too.

I recently took out the "art of TPM" book and you can really sit down with it, forget the actual movie (and ll the fallout) and dream of what it could have been based on that artwork. You can sort of imagine OT quality story/characters with those visuals and it's a satisfying experience.

 

[Wor-Gar]

So he can live forever inside that room, and ages slowly as he goes out for food? So each couple days, he ages a few hours (or however long he isn't in that temple)? Thus after 600 years or however long, he's just aged to somewhere between 90-110. But eventually, if he keeps going outside, he may die and be unable to get back to immorality chamber.

Simple enough.

The repairing a gunshot really makes no sense in context. Why couldn't Indy's Dad just be fine even with a hole in his side? Immortality. If he lost an arm, would it grow back? If he lost his head, would he be OK inside the temple?

But if your argument is "its in the movie so it works" then I know you have run out of real justifications.