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Started by Barrister, November 13, 2019, 12:54:52 AM

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Oexmelin

#2340
September 24, 2024, 07:23:06 PM
I did steal a sentence from Hondo when I taught in English. « The stories I could tell. So many of them true! »
Que le grand cric me croque !

viper37

#2341
September 26, 2024, 05:49:45 PM
Quote from: Oexmelin on September 24, 2024, 07:23:06 PMI did steal a sentence from Hondo when I taught in English. « The stories I could tell. So many of them true! »
:D
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Syt

#2342
November 01, 2024, 10:41:49 AM
New trailer for Skeleton Crew. Goonies vibes intensify.







Minor spoiler:

The song caught me off guard, though. The first few seconds of the trailer I was ... "Sounds a lot like ... nah, can't be." But it kept going, and, well the Huttese lyrics made it very clear. :P Still takes me back to being a 6-year-old kid when the song came out in 1982. -_- :blush:

https://youtu.be/KQRaj1vcnrs
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Sophie Scholl

#2343
November 01, 2024, 10:47:50 AM
I'm so excited for this. It looks like an absolute blast. It's always a welcome development for me when what Star Wars is is redefined and made fresh while still keeping the heart of the universe intact.
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

HVC

#2344
November 01, 2024, 10:47:52 AM
Looks surprisingly decent.

*edit* what's the over under of them finding the new new new Death Star :P
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frunk

#2345
November 01, 2024, 10:53:48 AM
Disney embracing a sillier side of Star Wars makes me hopeful they'll finally release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Detours

Syt

#2346
November 01, 2024, 10:59:22 AM
Quote from: Sophie Scholl on November 01, 2024, 10:47:50 AMI'm so excited for this. It looks like an absolute blast. It's always a welcome development for me when what Star Wars is is redefined and made fresh while still keeping the heart of the universe intact.

Agreed. I feel it's always kind of been this way, but in the recent years there was such a strong push to continue working with the "known" characters, tropes and settings that it got at least in my opinion quite stale. Not saying that Disney should completely stop doing stuff like Ahsoka or Mando that ties into "the big story", but always happy to see new characters, settings and points of view, like in Andor, or Acolyte.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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celedhring

#2347
November 01, 2024, 01:00:18 PM
Quote from: frunk on November 01, 2024, 10:53:48 AMDisney embracing a sillier side of Star Wars makes me hopeful they'll finally release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Detours

Woah, wasn't aware of that. Hate when they do this.

Sophie Scholl

#2348
November 01, 2024, 01:52:40 PM
Quote from: celedhring on November 01, 2024, 01:00:18 PM
Quote from: frunk on November 01, 2024, 10:53:48 AMDisney embracing a sillier side of Star Wars makes me hopeful they'll finally release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Detours

Woah, wasn't aware of that. Hate when they do this.
It certainly isn't ideal, but at least they didn't destroy it like all of the stuff at WBDiscoveryWhatever. Shelved means it might see the light some day.
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

crazy canuck

#2349
November 08, 2024, 01:16:47 PM
QuoteLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A new "Star Wars" film trilogy written by "X-Men" producer Simon Kinberg is in the early stages of development at Walt Disney Co, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Kinberg, who co-created animated series "Star Wars Rebels," also will produce the movies alongside Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy.

Grey Fox

#2350
November 08, 2024, 01:22:23 PM
 :yeah:
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

celedhring

#2351
November 08, 2024, 01:43:34 PM
I saw the news, but I failed to get excited for it - we've had so many of such announcements over the years that never go anywhere.

Habbaku

#2352
November 08, 2024, 01:59:16 PM
It'll be quietly shot behind the ear in 1-2 years.
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Zoupa

#2353
November 08, 2024, 02:25:33 PM
I was the biggest SW nerd for over 30 years. I have all the comics, several versions on the original trilogy on VHS and DVD.

Unfortunately, with very few exceptions, Disney Star Wars has been crap in terms of percentage. Out of all the content release, I can say I enjoyed Rogue One, Andor and the Bad Batch. Maybe some of Rebels. The writing has been pretty terrible in the other stuff. Probably has to do with the volume of stuff pumped out. I gave up on Kenobi, Acolyte, and Boba Fett after an episode or 2. Ahsoka was terrible but I still finished it. I'm probably done with Mandalorian and don't think I'll watch the kids show Skeleton thing.

I am: teh sad.

Syt

#2354
December 03, 2024, 01:03:57 PM
First two episodes of Skeleton Crew.

Really enjoyed it. Yes, episode 1 is incredibly predictable in its use of 80s kid adventure tropes (Goonies, obviously). Ep. 2 jumps more into the fun. :D

Love the jaunty pirate tune in the end credits. :pirate 

Also, like 80s kids movies it has a bits you probably wouldn't see much in content aimed at young audiences today. "Violence! Death! Mutilations! Brothels! ... You know - for kids!" :lol:

Unexpected: Jaleel White (Steve Urkel) as cyborg pirate. :ph34r: Also, unexpected Star Wars Holiday Special homage where I was glad I didn't have a drink in my mouth because I would have spewed it all over the place in laughter. :lol:

Really fun opening scene. (So many little details, like a Gran with only two eye stalks and an eye patch, and we really don't see enough Shistavanen - the wolf race seen in the pre-Special edition cantina scene in A New Hope - in Star Wars :wub: ).

SM-33! :wub:

Great start; very much focused on fun action. Good nostalgic escapism. Not groundbreaking IMO, but so far well executed. :)
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—Stephen Jay Gould

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