Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Raja said: Ha, I think that’s the sane person that had a hilarious YouTube rant, I’ll have to check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 I become more and more convinced every day Terrio was the problem here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 48 minutes ago, Werthead said: $950 million.That's starting to tail off now. Looks like it'll fall a fair bit short of The Last Jedi but should overhaul Rogue One, especially if it gets a good weekend this week. 47 minutes ago, Ran said: It's definitely going to go over the billion mark. Given the divisiveness of TLJ, and seemingly TRoS, the result is pretty good. I think the billion mark comment was about death totals for the villains, but I may be mistaken. 33 minutes ago, Darth Richard II said: I become more and more convinced every day Terrio was the problem here. The writer of Batman v Superman? A problem you say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 33 minutes ago, Jace, Basilissa said: I think the billion mark comment was about death totals for the villains, but I may be mistaken. The writer of Batman v Superman? A problem you say? Right? Shocking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 5 hours ago, Jace, Basilissa said: Also, the name Palpatine appears in the Holy Trilogy a grand total of NONE times. Lies! We totally knew his entire backstory Before Jedi and totally didn’t learn his first name a few years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 14 minutes ago, Darth Richard II said: Lies! We totally knew his entire backstory Before Jedi and totally didn’t learn his first name a few years ago! Why does this matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 2 minutes ago, Ran said: Why does this matter? Oh I’m ripping on his quote about warring families. Also a bit of shade thrown at the people upset when TFA cane out that we didn’t know Snoke’s backstory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 6 hours ago, Tywin et al. said: Did he give the order? Was his paw on the lever? S***, I guess Ted in accounting killed billions too. This response suggests someone needs to brush up on their Hannah Arendt. 1 hour ago, Jace, Basilissa said: I think the billion mark comment was about death totals for the villains, but I may be mistaken. It was. But how seamlessly the conflation transitioned into a discussion about TROS' BO is very amusing, so, shh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 1 hour ago, DMC said: This response suggests someone needs to brush up on their Hannah Arendt. You are bad at reading sarcasm on the internet. I made that joke specifically because I am Jewish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 1 minute ago, Tywin et al. said: You are bad at reading sarcasm on the internet. Right back atcha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 9 minutes ago, DMC said: Right back atcha. That felt more insulting than playful, but w/e, nothing to clutch one's pearls at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mother of The Others Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 3 hours ago, Ran said: It's definitely going to go over the billion mark. Given the divisiveness of TLJ, and seemingly TRoS, the result is pretty good. It's weird. This one didn't actively piss me off. TLJ was divisive because that movie was a lightsaber up the ass. So of course it split the fans in half. But I don't feel divided after Skywalker. At first, one starts to wonder if JJ improved and did a better job of making a movie...... but then you remember how Lucas probably swept in and devoted most of his efforts to shaving down the worst JJ foibles so the world never had to see them. I'm guessing that's the real reason this movie had less barriers to enjoying it. That, and the characters only had time enough to get about their business, with no chance to talk their way into poopy territory. All the upsetting character details were already on the table, which meant this movie didn't need to stain itself any further with bad character choices and could just push the pedal down and accelerate to the big finish. What you have to make peace with is that Star Wars made a Mortal Combat movie starring its own electricity guy, with some of rise of skywalker's concepts being of the quality you'd expect from that kind of production. But it was some pretty fun Power Rangering, right? so I'm going to strike a pose like a celebrating Ranger and hold it for a few seconds until you're done reading this. In my head canon, RoS might end up being Episode VII and i'll simply keep pretending the last two movies were jedi mind tricks. And the emperor's ships in RoS only appeared to have been grown like turnips.... in reality, he used a mind trick to prevent audiences & enemies from discovering his true methods, his protected trade secrets as a dark lord. Because if it were common knowledge everyone would do it and you'd have emperors popping up like Wallgreens. Oh no. So this is what it's like when you decide to like one of these movies and then you have to go delusional to explain away all the problems. It's happened to me! Who do I call now? Is there a therapist who specializes in this? Can i combine my treatments with a stay at the disney star wars hotel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 5 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said: That felt more insulting than playful, but w/e, nothing to clutch one's pearls at. Meant it as playing along. My mind immediately went to Eichmann and the banality of evil when you mentioned Ted in accounting, but I guess that's just cuz I'm weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywin et al. Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 13 minutes ago, DMC said: Meant it as playing along. My mind immediately went to Eichmann and the banality of evil when you mentioned Ted in accounting, but I guess that's just cuz I'm weird. Nah. Honestly I was trying to imagine what the worst job in the Death Star would be and I pictured some poor accountant in a cube farm who sighs as he spills coffee on his clip on tie again while thinking about how his wife is probably dancing suggestively to the music coming from a stereo in some guy's garage because he's more manly than him. And Ted is just the blandest of names, but maybe I am just taking a shot at Ted Cruz because who the hell drops Rafael for Ted? Oh well, that's one way to transform yourself from a Canadian born Latino into a racist white Southerner with political ambitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 Ha one of the old EU books had a story about the guy who flips the switch on the Death Star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astromech Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 9 hours ago, Corvinus said: Is that when Palpatine's lightning hits the ships, and we see the Tantive IV crew get hit pretty hard? Apparently the actor playing him said he wasn't dead, but that's just him. Can any character be said to be truly dead after we've seen Palpatine return? Fucker should've stayed dead. Cheapens Vader's sacrifice and redemption. Thx for pissing on my childhood asshole writers! Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 5 hours ago, Ran said: It's definitely going to go over the billion mark. Given the divisiveness of TLJ, and seemingly TRoS, the result is pretty good. Given Solo's performance as well, it's a sigh of relief at Lucasfilm. But this film looking like it's going to do half the business of TFA, only scrape to the same level as what was supposed to be a side-movie (RO) and fall short of (the albeit much-better-reviewed) TLJ. Lucasfilm and Disney are going to be doing some serious number crunching before really committing to the next films, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a serious budget cut down to the $150-175 million range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 1 hour ago, Werthead said: I wouldn't be surprised to see a serious budget cut down to the $150-175 million range. I wouldn't be surprised to see that improve the quality of the films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argonak Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 21 hours ago, Darth Richard II said: Lies! We totally knew his entire backstory Before Jedi and totally didn’t learn his first name a few years ago! The original novelization for Star Wars provided his name, although not "Sheve." It was written by Alan Dean Foster and is pretty good, I still have a copy of it. And that was written in the 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argonak Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 18 hours ago, Werthead said: Given Solo's performance as well, it's a sigh of relief at Lucasfilm. But this film looking like it's going to do half the business of TFA, only scrape to the same level as what was supposed to be a side-movie (RO) and fall short of (the albeit much-better-reviewed) TLJ. Lucasfilm and Disney are going to be doing some serious number crunching before really committing to the next films, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a serious budget cut down to the $150-175 million range. Or maybe they could hire competent writers and directors who could produce movies of quality, rather than the mediocre and inconsistent stuff in the sequels? I'm constantly amazed at how little effort movie makers put into the foundation of a movie, when they're willing to spend hundreds of millions on cgi and big name actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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