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Post by Tristan's Journal on Mar 4, 2020 10:13:35 GMT
I do like Clones, it's rough and irritating and gets everywhere. But (or because of this) it is still an imaginative film and piece of authorship in a business plagued by formulaic junk food for the dumb masses. The core merits are: - outstanding art design and world building - original and substantial storytelling (of a republic being subverted and split in parts (mirrored by the fall of Anakin to the dark side) and beginning of the clone wars [triggering a great show too]) - beautiful soundtrack and awesome sound design - one of the few SW films you can watch with women without coming off as a manchild, and some of the best one liners in the saga - functions perfectly as coherent middle chapter/Act B of a trilogy developing the central conflicts and setting up the ending/downfall of III. "Rise of Skywalker" on the the other side is formulaic junk food lacking vision or imagination (even the makers seem to agree on this) - still more entertaining than Force Awakens IMO, but it fails as an proper ending to the sequels, and even worse as an end to the saga by diminishing the previous films (TLJ, OT & PT).
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Mar 3, 2020 13:30:34 GMT
Hmmmm interesting. Liam Neeson says he's done being involved in Star Wars movies: uproxx.com/movies/liam-neeson-done-star-wars-batman-marvel-movies/Part of me wonders if he's just trying to appear apathetic to the franchise as he knows they're working on that Obi-Wan series, and maybe he wants to use it as a bargaining chip on his side when it comes to contract negotiations (should they need him...which is likely). ...another part of me wonders what 'little fuzzy furry creatures' from Episode 1 he's talking about...? I don't remember any little furry creatures in Episode 1! The guy must have watched Episode 6 instead or something. he probably did not watch the film and thought the tennis balls would turn into Ewoks...Maybe the battle droids and Gungans originally had fur. But they just could not do CG-fur convincingly back in the 90s. Neeson is playing hard to get as bargaining chip, or to deflect if he already has a voice over deal like in Clone Wars.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Mar 3, 2020 13:15:53 GMT
no, just no. I liked that particular episode though.
Time travel has enormous potential to mess a narrative up, there are preciously few stories that execute this soundly. Usually time travel becomes a paradoxical deus ex machina device that does not even adhere to it's own logic.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Mar 3, 2020 12:59:55 GMT
1. Imperial March/Vader theme, because it's a brilliant riff on Chopin's funeral march theme, and extremely varied and nuanced in the soundtracks, going through lots of inspired musical permutations
2. Duel of the Fates, bc it's simply so iconic and epic a choral piece, but unlike the march it never becomes a true leitmotive.
3.Across the Stars, probably my favorite love them in film soundtracks, clearly inspired by 2nd movement of Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
HM: Battle of the Heroes, only not top 3 bc duel of the fates is too close in structure and effect.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Mar 2, 2020 12:44:14 GMT
no, the RotJ screenplay simply suffers from too many issues, beginning with the muppet-show of the first act, the shoehorned family drama and the all-too-easy stake-less victories.
Wookies would make it actually worse as this would make the Empire look even more incompetent (who overlooks a powerful warrior-population of tech-bigfoots next door...?).
The Ewoks at least served their purposes, they were comic relief next to the dramatic dogfights and duels, they embodied the "size matters not" theme and were the only truly new thing (stone age culture of teddy bears) in this film.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 28, 2020 14:39:56 GMT
3 questions that say it all: To Iger: If so powerful you are, why leave?To KK & Iger: At an end your reign is, and not short enough it was.To you: You saltier than Crait, bro?
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 27, 2020 10:22:24 GMT
Watchmen is my favorite superhero film - mature, beautiful and iconic, especially the D.C. I rank it before all the DarkKnights, Logans, WonderWomen or Jokers. It made me read the graphic novel, and I have not read a comic book since hitting puberty. V for Vendetta was alright, did not impress me too much. But it has become iconic and cult-ic, should probably watch it again for final appraisal.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 27, 2020 9:56:37 GMT
nah, let's bend the rules of physics and biology only where absolutely necessary for narrative purposes, like with sound in space or interstellar travel or clone babies in tubes. But not for morals or politics.
That being said, I am fine if they never go farther than slave-bikini Leia or nipple-free Crylo in terms of sex appeal. Or Anakin-Padme's long marital kiss in terms of passion.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 25, 2020 18:42:27 GMT
FMJ, but it is too close.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 24, 2020 10:41:57 GMT
these are a bit smaller and have the white coating, but nothing new or different design wise. The reason why this looks a bit like a kid's nerv gun is that the stylized white coating (silver would have been better) is unusual for Star Wars and stormtrooper guns tend to be compensatory in size. My main issue was always the Donald Duck beak-form of the helmets, looks so Disney SW. --
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 24, 2020 9:15:33 GMT
Force Awakens. Because it diminishes and destroys the achievements, arcs and lore of the previous films because of rushed rehash. An utter abomination.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 21, 2020 15:24:32 GMT
"Snoke", that sounds like something Sheeve would pull out of his behind. And it turns out he did.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 21, 2020 15:06:39 GMT
^ cringe², dude you are embarrassing. Not as much of a embarrassment as you are bro. I must be ludicrously embarrassing then considering his message, brah. I am not a bandwagon sheeple. I do not derive my opinions from authority or the general consensus, or your perceptions of what the general consensus should be. Try it too someday.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 21, 2020 11:28:21 GMT
Looks like Tristan and TheNolan really miss DC-Fan since they were announced as banned for life from the website last month, and are trying to claim the throne of master troll for these parts. you are desperate for attention again, are you? Btw calling out posts like yours are a form of trolling. Your projection is noted. You seem to be desperate for answers of those you deem trolls. " Qui tacet consentit" does not apply here, pal. Honestly, some your posts simply do not warrant an answer. Like your recent " Inception stole from an old Disney Duck cartoon" claim. I ignored it as harmless man-child-noise until you shoved it into my face several times in several unrelated threads. Thus, I was forced to quickly debunk it, beginning with release time down to content. imdb2.freeforums.net/post/3651337/threadAnd what did I get in return? A whiny passive-aggressive repose. So, I do not see an incentive to respond to some of your more nonsensical or questionable posts, intellectually or morally. And I cannot even begin to fathom what your Homer Simpson post refers to; and my tolerance for child rape comments is significantly lower than yours (it's below zero). That being said, I still reserve the right to respond to some of your more sensible messages.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 19, 2020 15:22:50 GMT
yeah, because absorbing the creepy out growths of the man child universe like Joss Whendon has brought DC certified successes (release the Snider cut!).
Marvelous DC career his. The poet of pedophilia only follows.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 19, 2020 14:09:26 GMT
deservedly, Disney-Marvel knows it's audience, I'll give them that.
As they say, the raccoon turd always floats at the shallow end of the kiddy pool, but at least it keeps floating.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 19, 2020 14:00:49 GMT
The whole thing of Padme "lost the will to live" is still one of the stupidest plot points (or plot hole since it doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense) by Lucas. Period.
C) Just accept that it's fucking stupid.
A mother WANTS to live for her children! It's stupid.
But instead she "lost the will to live".
WTF? Was Anakins dick THAT good? Maybe he was using force cock or something. I gotta learn that shit.
^ cringe², dude you are embarrassing.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 18, 2020 17:56:46 GMT
I find your lack of education disturbing. It's called Psychogenic Death, or "GiveUpItis" by the laymen. It's a real phenomenon in scientific literature and in fiction literature. " It isn't suicide, it isn't linked to depression, but the act of giving up on life and dying usually within days, is a very real condition often linked to severe trauma." bigthink.com/mind-brain/can-you-die-from-giving-upwww.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/people-really-do-die-from-losing-their-will-to-live-new-study-defines-giveupitis/it could have been as much Palpatine could have been behind his mother's death to trigger his rage. It's a valid interpretation but not corroborated by anything in the films. In the end this is just an - artistically inferior - fan theory as it shifts away all responsibility from Anakin and his choices (Palpatine is behind it all) - and this negates the moral tale that Revenge of the Sith is: - Anakin, by fearing to lose, betrays and destroys the ones he swore to protect and love. He causes the very thing he tried to prevent. - Palpatine keeps his promise discovering the secret by keeping Anakin from dying (whether by Force or via tech suit is left open) and thus "ironically" mirrors Plagueis fate. lol, yes, magic is the only explanation for the ignorant. Only an sithhead deals in absolutes... non sequitur and false cause. Believe what you want, but those with knowledge do not have to believe everything. Yeah, it's in scientific literature and fiction. But no real cases of it. dude, it's real read the articles and research it. It is said C Fishers mother died that way too; I have seen it with healthy persons dying a month after their life partner was gone. So there is that since the dawn of mankind. you cannot even fathom the mind of Lucas. Your theory sounds like fine fan fiction. The issue is you thereby destroy any subtext and layer of the story. Lucas wanted a moral tale of an originally good person destroying everything he fought for by his own design, not the Sith devil doing it for him. The point of Padme not dying (merely) of physical injury was to show that Anakin with his dark deeds destroyed everything that defined her and what she fought for: liberty, democracy, their marriage and family. He snuffed her out. It's not just a case of physical domestic violence gone wrong, but deeper than that.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 18, 2020 14:20:56 GMT
The whole thing of Padme "lost the will to live" is still one of the stupidest plot points (or plot hole since it doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense) by Lucas. I find your lack of education disturbing. It's called Psychogenic Death, or "GiveUpItis" by the laymen. It's a real phenomenon in scientific literature and in fiction literature. " It isn't suicide, it isn't linked to depression, but the act of giving up on life and dying usually within days, is a very real condition often linked to severe trauma." bigthink.com/mind-brain/can-you-die-from-giving-upwww.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/people-really-do-die-from-losing-their-will-to-live-new-study-defines-giveupitis/it could have been as much Palpatine could have been behind his mother's death to trigger his rage. It's a valid interpretation but not corroborated by anything in the films. In the end this is just an - artistically inferior - fan theory as it shifts away all responsibility from Anakin and his choices (Palpatine is behind it all) - and this negates the moral tale that Revenge of the Sith is: - Anakin, by fearing to lose, betrays and destroys the ones he swore to protect and love. He causes the very thing he tried to prevent. - Palpatine keeps his promise discovering the secret by keeping Anakin from dying (whether by Force or via tech suit is left open) and thus "ironically" mirrors Plagueis fate. lol, yes, magic is the only explanation for the ignorant. Only an sithhead deals in absolutes... non sequitur and false cause. Believe what you want, but those with knowledge do not have to believe everything.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Feb 18, 2020 9:52:50 GMT
That is exactly what I am talking about. No PT needed, indeed: "Luke, when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be."
" helped the Empire to hunt down and destroy the Jedi...now the Jedi are all but extinct"QED QED 😂 Why would that possibly make Obi-Wan Yoda's last ally when Leia was hidden?! It was years before. There is NOTHING in the OT to suggest otherwise - you are simply using the end of the PT to create your viewpoint. Just because Obi-Wan and Yoda are the last left by TESB doesn't mean Yoda had to share info with him decades before! Does not compute indeed! I am astounded as to your ability to constantly shift the goalposts, from no inner OT contradiction to whether Obi was Yoda's last Jedi-ally in the OT period (which is a no brainer as explicitly stated). Interpretation is the process of construing information reasonably within the context. Thus: - Your interpretation of "there is another" was arguable in the context of Empire. - Your interpretation became nonsensical within the context of Jedi where we learn "the other" was Leia, and Obi Wan knew about the children. - It became blatantly false and debunked in the context of Sith where we see that Obi knew and was involved in the hiding of the children. Therefore: Reasonably speaking, you should have let go of this interpretation as from 1983. Btw, the PT explicitly leaves open the possibility of surviving "stragglers" which is an explicit plot point in Sith.
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