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Agreed. I have a lot of discs piled up I'm eager to get to (whether or not the prove worth it in the end of course remains to be seen): F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu , Metropolis , Blade Runner 2049 , several Marvel films backlogged... Remind me...you are a fan of Blade Runner or no? Look forward to hea...

Holy crap, I think Alien: Covenant is still the last film I've seen. You have to fix that, LT. Many worthier movies you need to get in. My last movie might have been Hostiles , at the theater. Really solid western with excellent performances from Christian Bale, in particular, and Rosamund Pike. I ...

In a way, this shows that again the writers have rolled back the character development to their first appearance like Han and Leia. Though as you've both pointed out, its been haphazard and without the requisite thought. A lot of the callbacks just felt superficial to me, and without the depth/emot...

Yoda's appearance was one of the things that felt out of place and written by someone who hadn't watched the OT. And it was "crazy" Yoda that he used as a test for Luke. Yoda did not act that way before or since. And the puppet looked awful and nothing like either in the OT or PT. People ...

Thanks for the post! Some comments below. I agree with Luke in that him returning wouldn't make the First Order disappear. The propaganda of Luke being able to do more, meant that had he returned that hope from the universe would have died. I agree that Luke returning wouldn't make the First Order d...

I caught the premiere of that. Must say I was unimpressed. Too dark--I mean, literally, the thing was lit like the inside of a refrigerator six feet under ground--too gruesome, and utterly lacking in sympathetic characters. I'll tune in this evening for Episode 2, but a second chance is all it gets...

Both seasons of Carnivàle . A fantastic series! Too bad it was cancelled... I started this and for some reason didn't continue. I need to get back to that. Also, I signed up for 3 months of CBS access at 20% mostly to get the AFC championship game, but figured I could get caught up on Discovery , t...

toVor wrote: ↑January 12th, 2018, 1:28 pm What about the unesteemed ones, the rogues and the scruffy nerfherders? The derelicts? The nitwits and dimwits?

And you would be the ringleader, right?

I don't think anyone's posted a link to this article, but I thought it was an interesting take on some of the events in TLJ: http://bigshinyrobot.com/60239/luke-skywalkers-arc-star-wars-last-jedi/ Not sure it will change anyone's minds about the quality of the storyline, but it might give people so...

Well, the Star Wars novelization mentioned ducks and dogs, but I can forgive that given its age. The Aftermath -trilogy was far worse with its references to snow globes, hamsters, direct references to Earth mythology and modern American slang. The writing is also atrocious: She's spinning, once mor...

Johnson has also said, in an interview with Collider , that Kylo Ren wasn't lying: So, here we have a conflict between Rey's vision/memory of her parents apparently blasting off from Jakku, with Kylo's true statement (according to Johnson) that her parents were nobodies who were buried in a unmarke...

I couldn't agree more with the posts about the poor quality of the new books. I hated the Aftermath books. I thought Tarkin was quite good. Currently reading Phasma and I'm struggling to keep going. I don't know what it is with the present-tense, simplistic style but I do not like it. I also agree ...

I've quite frankly never seen Abrams concluding much of anything. He opens up his mystery box whose content can be interpreted any which way, but he never closes it. And I think you're quite right: As I wrote after first having watched the movie, I felt as if Johnson didn't like some of Abrams's id...

In my opinion this was the weakest plot of the SW movies. While Johnson tried to echo The Empire Strikes Back with the Raddus in place of the Falcon , I think it failed completely and felt to me as a boring version of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica pilot 33 (in which the plot made more sense ...

Things I liked: 1. Porgs They were cute. I think their screentime was just right. 2. Carrie's performance It's been hard for me to see the Leia/Carrie of the OT. No specific criticisms of her performance, though. 3. Rey's character development I like what we got. I really hope they do something mea...

Master Magnus wrote: ↑December 30th, 2017, 4:37 pm Christmas is over and my least favorite holiday, New Year's, is tomorrow... I need a big glass of champagne...

Why your least favorite?

Momin327 wrote: ↑December 27th, 2017, 5:07 pm I liked how Luke referred to Emperor Palpatine as "Darth Sidious", his Sith title from the Prequel Trilogy.

I did, too. That was a nice touch. On the other hand, I found it odd that he referred to a "Jedi" training Darth Vader, not mentioning Ben/Obi-wan by name.

Doesn't surprise me. Can't even have a decent conversation here like with TFA. Just negativity. Javen, decent conversations can happen whether people like the movie or not. I didn't like TFA or TLJ, but I still love SW and love talking about them. That's why I'm here. I'm not seeing any problematic...

I have many questions but the one that I keep coming back to is if Snoke was the one that connected Rey and Kylo so they could communicate with each other prior to the throne room scene....which he admits he was. Who connected them together at the end when Rey is moving the rocks so the resistance ...

"He's not my Luke Skywalker," says Mark Hamill.

Darth Badly Awakens wrote: ↑December 22nd, 2017, 3:13 pm It is, matey.

Hello. How are you?

Doing well. I was relatively new during your last bit of time on the old forums. Man, you gave me fits. Drove me absolutely nuts. Of course, I was "but the learner" back then. I'd like to think I'm a bit wiser now.

Welcome back!

toVor wrote: ↑December 21st, 2017, 3:33 am Your very first post on this board, or rather the prior version of this board, was to express your hatred of Episode II and I as well. Now this one you say you need to see it again? Did you like it old man, or not sure?

Wait...is this really the Darth Badly?

In hindsight I have determined that I don't care about who Snoke is or why he came to power. Clearly he was a bridge to support Kylo's growth from Luke's student to Supreme Leader of the First Order. Abrams and Kasdan obviously expected whoever picked up the story in Episode VIII would expand on Sn...

Think about the scenes in TLJ that feature Snoke and try to imagine any backstory being presented whatsoever. Is he going to tell Hux or Kylo his life story out of nowhere, especially considering they probably know most of it? Or, okay, he tells Rey, and we're suddenly inundated with a buttload of ...

I like Poe getting taken down multiple pegs throughout the movie and his subsequent growth from it. Hubris and gumption can only take one so far and he had to learn that the very hard way. Classic hero's journey stuff. I didn't get any sense of Poe getting taken down a notch. He was so understandin...

Does that mean that it was good? Unfortunately no. Upon my first viewing I have to say that there are things to like, quite a few things not to like a few things that the filmmakers had forgotten about since TFA as there's a serious continuity error (the Knights of Ren seems to have been completely...

Didn't much care for the movie. Saw it Thursday and Friday night. Here are some thoughts: I don't mind humor in these movies, and quite enjoyed much of the humor in TFA. But the first scenes with Hux turned him into too much of a joke, which then made it hard as the movie progressed to feel much sus...

I first thought this was a joke...: Deadline Quentin Tarantino doing Star Trek?! :o I have no issues with this. Never opposed to seeing different takes on things. Based on that article, it looks like Tarantino made a pitch to Paramount (as opposed to the latter seeking him out), so I see that as be...

Master Magnus wrote: ↑November 16th, 2017, 1:26 pm The last two episodes (including the cliffhanger before the mid-season break) were actually pretty good!

That's good to hear. At some point, I'll check out the rest of the season.

Hopefully gonna see Thor Ragnarock tonight with my son. I really liked it, and I'm having a tough time deciding whether I preferred it or GOTG2. Definitely the best of the Thor trilogy (though I know some found it too jokey and almost like a spoof of the previous Thor movies). A little bit too long...