What Are You Watching Now
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@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:
Watched Solo last night. Had no idea Ron Howard was the director.
This was really good.The fan hate was high for this.
I thought the story was good over all.
It was only meh. Definitely not a real Star Wars story in my mind. That of course doesn't make it a bad movie - it was a robbery movie is all. It was a decent popcorn flick with some characters from Star Wars in it.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:
@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:
Watched Solo last night. Had no idea Ron Howard was the director.
This was really good.The fan hate was high for this.
I thought the story was good over all.
It was only meh. Definitely not a real Star Wars story in my mind. That of course doesn't make it a bad movie - it was a robbery movie is all. It was a decent popcorn flick with some characters from Star Wars in it.
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LOL - all that said - I fucking loved Rogue One!
The reality is - almost nothing movie wise that doesn't directly move the classic story forward or fill in desirable gaps - nothing will really give the fans what they want. At least not from a Star Wars POV.
Could a Boba Fett movie be cool? probably - but it's not going to feel like Star Wars - really, their best bet when trying to do this is the make sure it feels NOTHING like a Star Wars movie, break that connection. The movie needs to stand on it's own - hell - write the movie and say - if you knew nothing about Star wars, would this be a cool movie? If the answer is yes, next you ask - Does it portray the character as expected from the original? If yes - make it, if no - dumb that trash.
I'm pretty sure this is the first TV/Film project in - oh wait, no it's not. I was going to say, I think it's the first project that didn't directly tie into the OT, but it's not. Star Wars Christmas Special didn't - and neither did the Ewok adventures (well I guess they did after reading some of the Wiki pages, but a lot of that was killed off in new canon of EP I -III). None of these shows really lasted either.
I think the more recent cartoons have done well because they fill in the gaps to the movies - plus, well, they are cartoons for kids and the kids liked them enough to keep watching.
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@dashrender They did some stuff I didn't like lore-wise. I never wanted to know what the kessel run was for instance. There's no way that it could ever live up to the legend and of course, it didn't. If you made this just a science fiction movie outside of the starwars universe though I think most people complaining would've liked it.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@dashrender They did some stuff I didn't like lore-wise. I never wanted to know what the kessel run was for instance. There's no way that it could ever live up to the legend and of course, it didn't.
Awww - you never read the books - that explains why you didn't know what the Kessel Run was - or at least had an idea. Personally - that was probably one of the best parts. Though of course it left a huge gap - if that robot had those charts and was able to make a new way through - why could no one else?
If you made this just a science fiction movie outside of the starwars universe though I think most people complaining would've liked it.
Agreed - it would have just been another space adventure train robbery movie. Something like that does not belong in the SW universe, unless, as I mentioned before - they change the style so drastically as to basically make it it's own thing.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
if that robot had those charts and was able to make a new way through - why could no one else?
They presented it like it had maps that were lost long ago but it's kind of just a cop-out to make it easier to write lol
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
if that robot had those charts and was able to make a new way through - why could no one else?
They presented it like it had maps that were lost long ago but it's kind of just a cop-out to make it easier to write lol
And the main plot device of Episode VII. And it was a poor plot device in that movie too.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
if that robot had those charts and was able to make a new way through - why could no one else?
They presented it like it had maps that were lost long ago but it's kind of just a cop-out to make it easier to write lol
I only saw Solo once, the day it was released - so I don't recall all the details like lost maps, but...
LOL - no different than the map section that was missing from R2 in EP VII. Seriously - no one in the known galaxy had that section of the star map? It was so dumb. A huge chunk of the galaxy was just unknown to R2. /sigh
Removing a single planet like they did in EP II Attack of the Clones was a much better and more plausible situation. or likely just as good - you simply have NO IDEA AT ALL where this planet is that Luke went to - again, showing the partial map was just bizarre.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
if that robot had those charts and was able to make a new way through - why could no one else?
They presented it like it had maps that were lost long ago but it's kind of just a cop-out to make it easier to write lol
I only saw Solo once, the day it was released - so I don't recall all the details like lost maps, but...
LOL - no different than the map section that was missing from R2 in EP VII. Seriously - no one in the known galaxy had that section of the star map? It was so dumb. A huge chunk of the galaxy was just unknown to R2. /sigh
Removing a single planet like they did in EP II Attack of the Clones was a much better and more plausible situation. or likely just as good - you simply have NO IDEA AT ALL where this planet is that Luke went to - again, showing the partial map was just bizarre.
There is an alarming amount of missing map/planet information now that you mention it
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:
if that robot had those charts and was able to make a new way through - why could no one else?
They presented it like it had maps that were lost long ago but it's kind of just a cop-out to make it easier to write lol
I only saw Solo once, the day it was released - so I don't recall all the details like lost maps, but...
LOL - no different than the map section that was missing from R2 in EP VII. Seriously - no one in the known galaxy had that section of the star map? It was so dumb. A huge chunk of the galaxy was just unknown to R2. /sigh
Removing a single planet like they did in EP II Attack of the Clones was a much better and more plausible situation. or likely just as good - you simply have NO IDEA AT ALL where this planet is that Luke went to - again, showing the partial map was just bizarre.
There is an alarming amount of missing map/planet information now that you mention it
LOL - it's one thing for the Maw to be unmapped... but the galaxy at large... just terrible visual representation of the problem of finding Luke.
Again, the whole planet being deleted from the records would have simply been better, or hey, there's another Maw - and we know there's a planet in there, but don't know where in there.. etc.
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Forked the Star Wars discussion: https://mangolassi.it/topic/18063/star-wars-what-do-you-like-about-the-new-movies-and-what-is-not-so-great.
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Immortal Demon Slayer on Prime.
It is another live action take on Monkey King.edit: Incredible, just watch it!
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:
@momurda I liked the first season but I get the impression that they didn't know where they wanted to go with it. I also liked the first portion of Bleach though before they went into the spirit world.
The Bleach movie on Netflix is spot on for the very first few chapters, they hit every detail. Worth watching for sure.
Just watched this tonight.
This was definitely a good movie version of Bleach. I like what they did with it.
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The Fades Season 1 on Amazon Prime.
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@jaredbusch Yeah I really enjoyed it. I read the comics, and later saw the anime, and now the movie and it was all great.
Regardless of what people like or dislike about where the series went.
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@momurda Loved the book. I will give it a shot then
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@jmoore It is not Journey to the West; it is sort of a prequel.
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@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:
@jmoore It is not Journey to the West; it is sort of a prequel.
You mean this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Kong -
@jaredbusch Yes the US release got the movie renamed to Immortal Demon Slayer, but it is Wu Kong.
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Speaking of Journey to the West, I need to dig up Saiyūki off the CD I archived it to and put it on my Plex server.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiyūki_(TV_series)
