Star Wars: Episode IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

[Ce Ilhuicamina]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

I wonder what nonsense Khev and Jye are spewing, you guys don't quote them as much these days.

 

[Khev]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Damn you met Hamill you lucky fauker you.

I got to meet him at Celebration VI in Orlando. I was both excited and nervous that I might catch him on an off day (or moment) and my childhood hero would be forever tainted from that point on. Thank God he was such a class act. Very gracious and polite. He was in "head down autograph mode" when my wife and I approached his table and all I could say was "It's an honor to meet you." That got him to pause, look right up at us where he thanked me and engaged in a fun little chat about my favorite Topps ESB cards and him remembering the specific sayings he would write back in the early 80's depending on the scene he was autographing.

I know there's wisdom in the saying "never meet your heroes" but thank God that wasn't the case with Mr. Luke Skywalker himself.

Chakor you are way too young to be critiquing SW shouldn’t you be playing Fortnite with my son lol

 

[Rorywan]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

It’s all good part of me is just pulling your leg anyways you know how I am by now lol

Actually I know RO is the highly respected go to modern SW movie but for me RO actually had much worse character problems than what is being described about TLJ.

I enjoy RO quite a bit because of that absolutely mind blowing 3rd act and K2SO (plus bringing back Vader/Tarkin/Leia certainly didn’t hurt) but had it not been for those items that movie would’ve been in some serious trouble for me.

I think Solo narrative has an easier job than RO because we’re at least familiar with Solo and Lando where RO stumbled with fleshing out all of those new characters.

That RO 3rd act though is some of the best SW ever created it can easily stand proud with the best the OT has to offer.

TLJ Holdo suicide and Luke are up there for me as well BUT i’ll fully admit that RO 3rd act is superior SW to anything not Luke related in TLJ.

Damn you met Hamill you lucky fauker you.



Chakor you are way too young to be critiquing SW shouldn’t you be playing Fortnite with my son lol

So what you are saying really is that you think TLJ is a terrible movie?

I agree. Well done for admitting your errors in judgement.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

I got to meet him at Celebration VI in Orlando. I was both excited and nervous that I might catch him on an off day (or moment) and my childhood hero would be forever tainted from that point on. Thank God he was such a class act. Very gracious and polite. He was in "head down autograph mode" when my wife and I approached his table and all I could say was "It's an honor to meet you." That got him to pause, look right up at us where he thanked me and engaged in a fun little chat about my favorite Topps ESB cards and him remembering the specific sayings he would write back in the early 80's depending on the scene he was autographing.

I know there's wisdom in the saying "never meet your heroes" but thank God that wasn't the case with Mr. Luke Skywalker himself.

I never had the good fortune of meeting him.

That will have to wait until the afterlife where I will stalk him forever.

So what you are saying really is that you think TLJ is a terrible movie?

I agree. Well done for admitting your errors in judgement.

No i’m saying RO 3rd act is that damn good lol

 

[Chakor]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Chakor you are way too young to be critiquing SW shouldn’t you be playing Fortnite with my son lol

These movies are clearly catered to the kids, so ironically, at the age of 22, I'd say I'm in a good position to judge them as films. As a kid of 1996 I have no nostalgic connection to the OT, so therefore I'm not blinded by any amount of love for them when watching the ST - which look like the OT but lack proper heart and substance IMO. If people genuinely like these movies, then more power to them. I just don't feel anything from them and find them absolutely gratuitous sequels ala the Bayformers movies.

So what you are saying really is that you think TLJ is a terrible movie?

I agree. Well done for admitting your errors in judgement.

 

[Khev]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

As a kid of 1996 I have no nostalgic connection to the OT

What movies *do* you have a nostalgic connection to? Harry Potter perhaps? Or were you too young even for those?

 

[Rorywan]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

I never had the good fortune of meeting him.

That will have to wait until the afterlife where I will stalk him forever.



No i’m saying RO 3rd act is that damn good lol

I will agree with that.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

These movies are clearly catered to the kids, so ironically, at the age of 22, I'd say I'm in a good position to judge them as films. As a kid of 1996 I have no nostalgic connection to the OT, so therefore I'm not blinded by any amount of love for them when watching the ST - which look like the OT but lack proper heart and substance IMO. If people genuinely like these movies, then more power to them. I just don't feel anything from them and find them absolutely gratuitous sequels ala the Bayformers movies.

When I was 10 years old I watched SW first theatrical run.

You at 10 got Scary Movie 4, Silent Hill and Step Up.

I guess that’s pretty close lol

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

What movies *do* you have a nostalgic connection to? Harry Potter perhaps? Or were you too young even for those?

Harry Potter definitely is one. Even though I was born after, TMNT is a big one. I love the PT but I was 6 when TPM came out.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Harry Potter definitely is one. Even though I was born after, TMNT is a big one. I love the PT but I was 6 when TPM came out.

Hnnnnng

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Hnnnnng

My dad said the same thing when I told him to take me.

 

[Khev]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

When I was 10 years old I watched SW first theatrical run.

You at 10 got Scary Movie 4, Silent Hill and Step Up.

Yeah I was 9 when the SW OT completed so they got to imprint on me every bit as much as any teaching from my parents, lol. And yes I still have even images of the original SW burned into my brain from watching it on the big screen at age 3. Age 9 was E.T., Wrath of Khan, TRON, and Poltergeist, age 10 was Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Temple of Doom and Terminator. Age 12 was ALIENS, Top Gun and Platoon, age 13 RoboCop and Predator, age 14 Die Hard, etc. In my mind I've been the perfect age for every major theatrical release of the last 40+ years.

Missing all that would SUCK. Unless you're a kid today because my kids get the MCU, TFA/RO/TLJ, Ready Player One, current Pixar, and so on. Kids from the 90's who say that the OT doesn't mean much to them probably tend to say that because they were forced to grow up with the *Special Edition* OT. Definitely a tainted experience. And they didn't have 3-5 years of thinking Boba Fett was cool before watching him die stupidly in the Sarlacc Pit. Kids who binged the SE OT saw him introduced in a lame CG Jabba scene and then a few hours later die like an idiot. They were robbed of so much...

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

To be fair, who needed the OT when you had a T-Rex ****ing up Velociraptors. Yes, even the Spinosaurus was badass.

 

[Khev]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

To be fair, who needed the OT when you had a T-Rex

Over Bruce the shark, Dragonslayer, Clash of the Titans Kraken, Alien Queen, and Predator? Nah...

 

[Chakor]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

What movies *do* you have a nostalgic connection to? Harry Potter perhaps? Or were you too young even for those?

Off the top of my head?

Jurassic Park
Pirates of the Caribbean
Men in Black
Aliens
Gremlins

Missing all that would SUCK. Unless you're a kid today because my kids get the MCU, TFA/RO/TLJ, Ready Player One, current Pixar, and so on. Kids from the 90's who say that the OT doesn't mean much to them probably tend to say that because they were forced to grow up with the *Special Edition* OT. Definitely a tainted experience. And they didn't have 3-5 years of thinking Boba Fett was cool before watching him die stupidly in the Sarlacc Pit. Kids who binged the SE OT saw him introduced in a lame CG Jabba scene and then a few hours later die like an idiot. They were robbed of so much...

Eh, I wouldn't go that far. I hated the first two prequels even as a kid and have not watched them again to this day. I liked the ideas for them on paper but urgggggggg they're just so unwatchable and bloated with awful CGI. The only one I liked and watched multiple times was ROTS, and based on memory, I'd still but that film above the ST. It's been a good ten years since I last watched it mind you.

To be fair, who needed the OT when you had a T-Rex ****ing up Velociraptors. Yes, even the Spinosaurus was badass.

Agree with the first part...

Over Bruce the shark, Alien Queen, and Predator? Nah...

I'd watch Jurassic Park over JAWS and Predator any day.

 

[Khev]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Off the top of my head?

Jurassic Park
Pirates of the Caribbean
Men in Black
Aliens
Gremlins

Ah yes, of course.

But Men in Black as a defining movie from your childhood?

 

[abake]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Oh look another reviewer pissed off that Rian didn’t give him what he had meticulously built up in his mind for these characters after TFA going so far as to compare it to the Aliens/Alien3 character direction changes.

Yawn lol

But i’m happy to see that Snikt found work at Forbes.

Actually, he says absolutely nothing about that... he just points out that it is a pretty poor film.

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Over Bruce the shark, Dragonslayer, Clash of the Titans Kraken, Alien Queen, and Predator? Nah...

After seeing RPO, I'd give a nut to go back and be born 12 years earlier. 80s had some great shot. 90s ain't bad, but we were riding off the sloppy second of the 80s.

 

[Chakor]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Ah yes, of course.

But Men in Black as a defining movie from your childhood?

This would be a list of defining childhood movies for me:

The Curse of the Black Pearl (my ANH)
Dead Man's Chest (my ESB)
Jurassic Park
Men in Black
Gremlins
Alien and Aliens
Pumpkinhead (no kidding)

No Star Wars films make that list. At all.

 

[CallMeTheDoctor]

Re: Star Wars: Episode IX - December 20, 2019

Don't forget LOTR.