Star Wars Megathread

[The Larch]

I need more Baby Yoda in my life. 

Hamilton / Baby Yoda crossover!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7EyOy0-Of0

[Eddie Teach]

What's this nonsense about Jabba the Hutt being in Episode IV? 

[Tonitrus]

I need more Baby Yoda in my life. 

I might be a heretic, or just a scrooge, but Baby Yoda does not impress me. 

[HVC]

ok there Shania

i'll probably watch the new movie and dislike it like all the other new trilogy films, but still gotta do it.

[Eddie Teach]

I'd like to see you move objects with your mind.

[celedhring]

Well, that sucked.

Decent Dark Horse-ish climax, but overall it just feels they were improvising. Some of the plot points are pretty silly. It feels this trilogy either never had a plan, or had a different one every movie.

There's this moment where Rey wonders [spoiler]why Leia trained her despite knowing she was a Palpatine[/spoiler] and I almost screamed "because they just made this shit up!"

[11B4V]

I need more Baby Yoda in my life. 

I might be a heretic, or just a scrooge, but Baby Yoda does not impress me. 

A brilliant marketing ploy.

[FunkMonk]

If there's one thing Disney knows how to do it's create adorable fictional creatures.

Anyway, I'm rewatching The Phantom Menace for the first time in maybe 10 years and, uh, I kinda like it a whole lot better than the new trilogy. Maybe it's the general shittiness of the Disney trilogy in comparison.

Who knew the Mouse could so successfully rehabilitate an aging, past it genius?

[Syt]

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/the-mandalorian-star-wars-baby-yoda

[...]

Allow Deborah Chow, the director of episode three of the series, to explain what she witnessed:

"I had a day with one of the weirdest moments I've ever had directing," she told Vanity Fair. "I was directing Werner with the puppet, and Werner had just fallen in love with the baby. Werner, I think, had forgotten it wasn't actually a live creature, and started sort of...directing the baby."

It's as charming, but no less surreal. "Werner is talking to the baby as if it was a real thing. And I'm trying to direct Werner," Chow said. "And I'm just like, How did I get here? How did my life end up like this?"

[...]

[Duque de Bragança]

If there's one thing Disney knows how to do it's create adorable fictional creatures.

Anyway, I'm rewatching The Phantom Menace for the first time in maybe 10 years and, uh, I kinda like it a whole lot better than the new trilogy. Maybe it's the general shittiness of the Disney trilogy in comparison.

Who knew the Mouse could so successfully rehabilitate an aging, past it genius?

Let us not exaggerate, shall we? Jar Jar Binks, midichloridians i.e the rape of childhood can only happen once (all right maybe twice with the  Last Indy movie).
The lack of direction or vision in the new trilogy, specially the last movie is jarring though.

[The Larch]

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/the-mandalorian-star-wars-baby-yoda

[...]

Allow Deborah Chow, the director of episode three of the series, to explain what she witnessed:

"I had a day with one of the weirdest moments I've ever had directing," she told Vanity Fair. "I was directing Werner with the puppet, and Werner had just fallen in love with the baby. Werner, I think, had forgotten it wasn't actually a live creature, and started sort of...directing the baby."

It's as charming, but no less surreal. "Werner is talking to the baby as if it was a real thing. And I'm trying to direct Werner," Chow said. "And I'm just like, How did I get here? How did my life end up like this?"

[...]

It's all both hillarious and lovely. 

[FunkMonk]

If there's one thing Disney knows how to do it's create adorable fictional creatures.

Anyway, I'm rewatching The Phantom Menace for the first time in maybe 10 years and, uh, I kinda like it a whole lot better than the new trilogy. Maybe it's the general shittiness of the Disney trilogy in comparison.

Who knew the Mouse could so successfully rehabilitate an aging, past it genius?

Let us no exaggerate, shall we? Jar Jar Binks, midichloridians i.e the rape of childhood can only happen once (all right maybe twice with the  Last Indy movie).
The lack of direction or vision in the new trilogy, specially the last movie is jarring though.

Oh, they're definitely bad movies. Bad ideas that no one told Lucas were shit, like midichlorians ( ), bad acting, convoluted plots, etc etc, the Prequels faults have been told to death.

But at least Lucas had a vision and stuck to it. Those movies complement each other more than the sequels do. On the scale of bad movies, I'm starting to prefer the prequels to the Disneys.

[celedhring]

I see we're you're coming from but the prequels are just too incompetent. At least with the current ones I can switch off and be decently entertained. Sometimes.

Plus, there's Rogue One.

[celedhring]

Incidentally, this show is the first time in Star Wars canon I remember body armor actually being defensively useful and not just there to make characters look cool (which it does) - [spoiler]Mando's beskar armor has already blocked several blaster hits[/spoiler]. Now cue Syt saying how we already saw that in Clone Wars season 7 ep 93.

We already saw that in Episode VIII [spoiler]with Captain Phasma and her chromium armor.[/spoiler]

Saw a speculation that [spoiler]Mando will remove the helmet ... to shield Baby Yoda (because blaster proof)[/spoiler].

Getting into speculative territory, I was told yesterday that one of the reasons for episode 7 to be pushed forward and be shown before Episode IX was because [spoiler]they wanted to show Baby Yoda using the Force for healing, when he prevents Carl Weathers' character from dying from the poison, as it is speculated that in Episode IX they'll show a similar healing done through the Force and wanted the precedent to be there ahead of the film[/spoiler].

That's pretty much exactly what happened.

You know, if they were worried about introducing new never-seen force powers, I'd rather they looked at [spoiler]that weird Ben/Rey space-bending malarkey.[/spoiler]

[frunk]

My standard reaction to Abrams movies is:

Right after - That was fun, but...
An hour later - That was dumb.

I probably won't see it in the theater unless my relatives want to go over Christmas.