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Nov 12, 2019 - 11:30 AM
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dragon53
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
THE MANDALORIAN---new tv ad released for the Disney+ tv series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RVnrBLOBcI&t=26s
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG---trailer released for the new, improved Sonic.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szby7ZHLnkA&t=24s
HAN VS GREEDO---the original 1977 STAR WARS movie aired on Disney+ and included a new version of the controversial Han Solo and Greedo cantina shootout scene. In the new version Han and Greedo appear to shoot at each other at the same time. A tweet by Lucasfilm's Pablo Hidalgo said the new version was supervised by George Lucas for a 4K remastered 3D version which was canceled.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxBdIwuejxE
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER---JJ Abrams compared THE RISE OF SKYWALKER to Rian Johnson's THE LAST JEDI, “On this one, I let myself be, at least in the way I was approaching the thing, freer. In Episode 7, I was adhering to a kind of approach that felt right for Star Wars in my head. It was about finding a visual language, like shooting on locations and doing practical things as much as possible. And we continue that in Episode 9, but I also found myself doing things that I’m not sure I would have been as daring to do on Episode 7.
Rian helped remind me that that’s why we’re on these movies – not to just do something that you’ve seen before. I won’t say that I felt constrained or limited on 7, but I found myself wanting to do something that felt more consistent with the original trilogy than not. And on 9, I found myself feeling like I’m just gonna go for it a bit more.”
Also, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, who will develop a new STAR WARS movie, commented on possible STAR WARS fan fatigue, "Well they’ve made about five movies in about five years and it’s made over five billion dollars, so I think they’re doing just fine with Star Wars. And RISE OF SKYWALKER looks incredible to me,"
RIN TIN TIN---Warner Bros. is rebooting its famous German shepherd franchise to the present day with Rin Tin Tin being a military dog sent on a covert mission to stop a large enemy attack.
POINT HORROR---HBO Max horror anthology series underway based on the Scholastic book series. RL Stine is the writer. John Chu is the director/producer.
TITANS---DC Universe renewed the series for Season 3.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
In THUNDEBALL, actress/striptease artist Maryse Guy Mitsouko played Mademoiselle La Porte, the French Secret Service liaison to James Bond in France. Mitsouko committed suicide in Paris in 1995.
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Nov 12, 2019 - 10:09 PM
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Warlok
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"Rian helped remind me that that’s why we’re on these movies – not to just do something that you’ve seen before."
Do they even listen to what they're saying? Rian johnson basically re-shot the Hoth battle from Empire but in a moronic and less satisfying way - and cribbed many other bits from the originals. Yet he is somehow the one that helped Abrams realise he could do what he wanted and not just reshoot A New Hope again or whichever film it would have been this time. Good grief.
Disagree. And I find myself compelled to point out how logical what Rian Johnson did.
The Empire Strikes Back established that the Empire *has* Walkers and sometimes utilizes them in assaults. Okay. Accepting that, and accepting the realities of Death Star technology and the processes of development, it is also utterly logical to expect other applications of that technology throughout the Empire. To present both a Walker assault and some type of tech attendant not only seems reasonable & apt, it also argues against the absence of that... essentially, without Walkers and that tech, one could certainly wonder where it is. If the Empire engages in an assault, why would they *not* utilize Walkers and Death Star tech?
Yes, similar Hoth scenes. Its an assault on a fortification. I expected something along those lines, and then was pleased to behold the duel. The context and the confrontation was different from Empire. Lots of westerns have gunfights, involving the same horses and guns. Yet those gunfights were not the same by those sole virtues. I see much different and story-tellingly brave in Rian Johnson's effort. Yes its with some of the same elements of that universe, but (of course) by necessity.
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Nov 12, 2019 - 11:11 PM
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Xebec
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The Empire Strikes Back established that the Empire *has* Walkers and sometimes utilizes them in assaults. Okay. Accepting that, and accepting the realities of Death Star technology and the processes of development, it is also utterly logical to expect other applications of that technology throughout the Empire. To present both a Walker assault and some type of tech attendant not only seems reasonable & apt, it also argues against the absence of that... essentially, without Walkers and that tech, one could certainly wonder where it is. If the Empire engages in an assault, why would they *not* utilize Walkers and Death Star tech?
Yes, similar Hoth scenes. Its an assault on a fortification. I expected something along those lines, and then was pleased to behold the duel. The context and the confrontation was different from Empire. Lots of westerns have gunfights, involving the same horses and guns. Yet those gunfights were not the same by those sole virtues. I see much different and story-tellingly brave in Rian Johnson's effort. Yes its with some of the same elements of that universe, but (of course) by necessity.
As you have it, the Walker assault is fine and it's established that the bad guys would attack that way. That's okay.
But where Johnson can pretty much choose any location from his imagination to shoot a scene - he chose one that very much resembled the Hoth Battle. That's a stunning lack of imagination. He could have written almost literally anything. So he chooses to have a soldier taste the floor to say "ugh, salt", just to show he isn't just redoing the Hoth Battle. Because everyone knows that's why that line was in there. That's just very poor.
I don't see anything brave in Johnson's storytelling choices. Lots of rewarmed ideas, really bad attempts at humour, and lose after the first draft ideas. I don't even care about over-arching themes with Skywalker or any of that, i just mean internal logic within scenes. It was scene after painful scene of nonsensical gibberish, and characters acting without logic just because the script needs a specific thing to happen. It's a masterclass in bad plotting and character writing. A truly awful film. He did cast Adrian Edmondson, though, so he can't be all bad, and i'm actually interested in Knives Out for some reason.
(I fear we may have creative difficulties on our $250 Bond film, too)
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Too many fur-balls in that TLJ, it's stunningly BAD!
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RIN TIN TIN---Warner Bros. is rebooting its famous German shepherd franchise to the present day with Rin Tin Tin being a military dog sent on a covert mission to stop a large enemy attack.
What the hell is the point of this? Is there a secret clamoring for more Rin Tin Tin?
If they really think they have a good premise, a well-written story, why not just make an original idea? Going back old fading nostalgia and re-working the basic premise until it's only a husk of what it once was just for the name is utterly bizarre.
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