TFA has surpassed $2 billion worldwide, and $900 million domestically.

Hopefully they use that money to make a better movie than TFA-We-Condensed-The-OG-Trilogy-Into-A-Fucking-Rehash

Quote from: Fun Timer on February 08, 2016, 12:35:08 AM

Quote from: Kupo & the Two G-strings on February 08, 2016, 12:32:26 AM

TFA has surpassed $2 billion worldwide, and $900 million domestically.

Hopefully they use that money to make a better movie than TFA-We-Condensed-The-OG-Trilogy-Into-A-Fucking-Rehash

People complained that the prequels weren't like the original trilogy. Now people complain that TFA was too much like A New Hope.

Make up your fucking minds.

But I'm not one of those people.
I'm a fan of good things.
One of my least favorite things about the phantom menace were the gungans, but their presence was similar to the ewoks in Return of the Jedi, family fodder and sillyness.

Mostly I had gripes with execution in the prequels. They struck me as mediocre even as a kid.

And the prequels had plenty of advantages in my book, but almost all thematically, and not by how the film depicts these themes. The conflict between the CIS and Republic was much more interesting than between rebels and empire and I think the plot points of Anakin's seduction to the dark side were more interesting than Luke's training as a Jedi to defeat the nebulous and (of course) evil empire.
They're just poorly executed. What particularly rankled with me was Anakin's character. He is ridiculously cliche and naiive, he's not someone i can take seriously. This is quite unfortunate, seeing as he's the protagonist of the prequels and a central character in story events. He just makes the whole experience unbelievable and ruins the immersion for me. He makes the experience feel cheaper than what it should be.
However, the prequels do have the best lightsaber battles. And don't tell me TFA had good lightsaber battles, they were shit and everyone and their mother knows it.

Even though Luke isn't a very interesting character to me he manages to be convincing in relation to the themes which guide him. He's archetypal, and the narrative of the og trilogy well establishes that. I think it makes for a tighter plot and well adjusted characters to function within it. the intrigue the prequel movies set out with, of more political and personal intrigue are excellent things to address, and I'm glad they went for them even if they died on their asses trying. The prequels had a harder job of living up to the first trilogy by setting it up. In my eyes, the prequels took more risks, and I can at least appreciate that.

It's not like TFA doesn't provide new things, but it also has a new set of expectations from me as an older viewer. I'm not as young and underexposed to tropes and cliches as I was when I watched the prerequisite trilogies. For example the First Order is more than a rehash of the empire, they're another excuse to generate moral binaries from Nazi look-alikes, it makes the experience cheaper, but it's doing it from the same place as the og trilogy, and only worse as time progresses.
 
I don't even think TFA is a bad movie. It's mediocre for me at worst. But unlike the prequels it isn't offering anything new or interesting thematically. The execution is better than the prequels, but there's nothing substantial I can really care about; it's like taking a car ride through your neighborhood for the seventh time.

Happy 84th John Williams. Let us celebrate!

Show me the power of the dark chocolate...show me, grandfather. And I will let nothing stand in our way. I will finish, what you started.

Wow, I feel like my childhood just came back to me. I hope I'm not the only one who read these in the 90's. I've been thinking about them for a long time and it's all coming back to me! Anyone else? I remember checking them out from the Elementary School library and was my first exposure to the EU.

The Jedi Prince Series.

-The Emperor has two sons who are triclopses
-Darth Vader's glove is magic
-Luke Skywalker has to rescue space whales (what brought this up in my memory are the space whales in the new Rebels episode)

http://www.polygon.com/2016/2/13/10985076/republic-commando-2-sequel-story-sev

"The second was proposed by director Tim Longo. It had Sev, the sniper character (serial RC-1207), surviving to become the progenitor of the Rebellion's army. Douville mentioned the working tagline for such a game ("Every Rebellion begins with a single soldier") so it seems this version had a little more traction internally. LucasArts in the later half of that decade, though, was not a stable place, and "very few people involved with Republic Commando ended up staying on" with the studio, Douville said, one reason among many why the game was never realized."

Why fucking live?

Sev would have been the beginning of the rebellion? That would've been fucking bonkers cool.

Well, I suppose we already have Rex as a key member of the beginning of the Rebellion, so that idea at least partially survived.

Star Wars, the only franchise that actually can get you excited with a production teaser:

Perfect

>tfw you miss the hype of watching this dozens of times per day

I enjoyed TFA, but I do think parts of it could have been executed a little better. It also feels a little odd that the only characters now connecting VII to the previous titles are Chewbacca and Luke, although if there was ever only one person it would have to be Luke. That, and I don't find the soundtrack to be at all as memorable as any of the others.

Did anyone else also remember the SW graphic novels set in the original trilogy's timeline? I had a few but I can't remember the names.

Been watching Clone Wars IN ORDER. Enjoying it so far.

Photo of what is in all likelihood the Rogue One Vader.

Robes should be over the upper chest armor, and the stitching on the gloves should run perpendicular to the suit's stitching.

Despite that awesome trailer, this season of Rebels is pretty bad so far.