STAR WARS: EPISODE IX (Rumored Title: BALANCE OF THE FORCE)

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Eusung said:
Film director Kyle Newman says journalists who he will not name gave phony positive reviews for The Last Jedi to "maintain access"

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Well that explains rotten tomatoes shitting their bed.
 
BisexualMMA said:
Five years? At her current pace it will only take Rey three more weeks to reach the singularity.

In five years she'll be an omniscient, omnipotent main sequence star or something.
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LOL.

You know how the canon explanation is that when Luke cut himself off from the Force...the Force found Rey and powered her up.

Okay, so if we accept that...even though I think it would have been better if Luke was involuntarily disconnected from the Force..and THAT was why he was hiding, he was trying to figure out how to connect to the Force again...and knowing he was the last Jedi....he felt it was important that he survivie even if it meant leaving the fight...and The First Order figured out that Luke suddently became vulnerable, so they were trying to find and kill him ASAP before he became connected to the Force again.

so at the Jedi temple he learned enough to be able to know that someone was out there with immense Force power...and that she would come find him, so he was waiting for her

,,,...then what if Rey showing up on Arch-To connected Luke to the Force again and he is powerful again....but at the cost of decreasing Rey's power level by 50%...so she has to train really hard to increase her power level.

We also get Luke learning what has happened and feeling devastated at the state of the galaxy...wishing he could have done something...

That way we could have seen a powerful Luke alongside a Rey who is not nearly as OP as we got....more like Luke in ESB.

Would have been better IMO....
 
I love those "Simpsons predicted..." posts, so I stumbled across this one the other day, thought it was funny. It was Simpsons predicted The Last Jedi

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Filming will wrap up very soon (1 or 2 months).

I think we're getting a short teaser next month, followed by a teaser trailer at Star Wars celebration in a few months.

I'm fascinated to see them, but for different reasons than previous movies.
 
I actually think MMA provides an excellent example of the kind of climate a lot of film reviewing exists in today. You look at the MMA Media and I would argue its much closer to a lot of film reviewers than most sports, its not generally focused on large media bodies as say the NFL, NBA, etc is but rather on smaller specialist sites like Sherdog. In that climate I think pressure is much easier to exhort, we've seen the UFC do it to MMA journalists to the point were a very high percentage of them are viewed as little more than shills. In film reviewing as well I think Disney are in a similar position, control of much of the market and the ability to suspend access or advertising on one specialist film site in favour of another.

SO I don't think theres a direct payoff happening but I thinki theres very significant pressure to go with the flow and give major Disney releases good reviews. TLJ especially I think really benefits from this as well by both latching on some tokienistic politics and just in its nature, the constant rug pulling and rapid pace I think gives a "WTF did I just watch?" feeling and from there a bit of pressure makes it easier to fall on the side of "it must have been good"
 
moreorless87 said:
the constant rug pulling and rapid pace I think gives a "WTF did I just watch?" feeling and from there a bit of pressure makes it easier to fall on the side of "it must have been good"
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Pretty much. i wish the critics could watch it today and review it again. I'd be fascinated to see the results.
 
Squint Eastwood said:
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Seems like a pretty massive flip in opinion to start calling dislike of the prequels a sign of a "toxic fanbase", the reality is by the mid 00's hating those films had become very much a cultural touchstone not something confined to a hardcore fan base, indeed the main support they seemed to get was from certain hardcore fans.

I would go so far as to say a lot of the popularity of the sequels feels like its built on dislike of the prequels rather than love of the original films. They seem like their made very much along the lines someone like Chris Stuckman or 1001 other net commentators playing to the lowest common denominator would advocate, basically very light modern blockbusters. Meanwhile you look at Rogue One that did actually go down well with more of the Starwars fanbase and that was loathed by those people, "A Starwars film taking itself seriously and not paced like an ADHD child on crack? this is what JJ Abrams was here to save us from!".
 
Eusung said:
LOL.

You know how the canon explanation is that when Luke cut himself off from the Force...the Force found Rey and powered her up.

Okay, so if we accept that...even though I think it would have been better if Luke was involuntarily disconnected from the Force..and THAT was why he was hiding, he was trying to figure out how to connect to the Force again...and knowing he was the last Jedi....he felt it was important that he survivie even if it meant leaving the fight...and The First Order figured out that Luke suddently became vulnerable, so they were trying to find and kill him ASAP before he became connected to the Force again.

so at the Jedi temple he learned enough to be able to know that someone was out there with immense Force power...and that she would come find him, so he was waiting for her

,,,...then what if Rey showing up on Arch-To connected Luke to the Force again and he is powerful again....but at the cost of decreasing Rey's power level by 50%...so she has to train really hard to increase her power level.

We also get Luke learning what has happened and feeling devastated at the state of the galaxy...wishing he could have done something...

That way we could have seen a powerful Luke alongside a Rey who is not nearly as OP as we got....more like Luke in ESB.

Would have been better IMO....
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"Disconnect and reconnect with The Force"?!

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TFA wasn't bad, it wasn't good but it wasn't the worst thing ever. It created some potential for the sequel, introduced some new characters etc.

Unfortunately the sequel is in strong contention for the worst star wars movie ever made. The Last Jedi was garbage. Apart from the god awful clone wars movie, it's the only star wars movie i haven't been able to sit through a second time.

I dont know how they are going to come back from that tbh.

ps. Rogue One is excellent.
 
Tuf_guy said:
"Disconnect and reconnect with The Force"?!

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Turns out luke was only on the “trial period” and never gave yoda his credit card number to keep the force activated.

Yoda returns to the island as a force ghost and burns his tree down for late payments.
 
90 50 said:
Turns out luke was only on the “trial period” and never gave yoda his credit card number to keep the force activated.

Yoda returns to the island as a force ghost and burns his tree down for late payments.
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I thought The Force was all prepaid at the beginning.
 
90 50 said:
Turns out luke was only on the “trial period” and never gave yoda his credit card number to keep the force activated.

Yoda returns to the island as a force ghost and burns his tree down for late payments.
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Being disconnected from the Force was a dumb idea to begin with and makes little sense. But if it's gonna happen, at least don't make Luke be the one to make that choice. He has family out there and doesn't wanna know if something bad could happen to them apparently.

I heard there was an EU novel where Luke was isolated on some planet and lost his ability to tap into the Force.

Morning Star said:
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FFS memes are supposed to be concise, not a 20 panel shill rant.
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lol...it might be the worst meme he's posted yet. I hope he didn't make it.
 
Tuf_guy said:
I thought The Force was all prepaid at the beginning.
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See, obi wan Gave him a taste free early on, expecting him to get hooked and charge on that shit later.

Obi got fucked up by Darth a rival dealer in the dark force before he could start collecting.

Yoda Gave him some expecting obi had been charging and he already knew the deal but didn’t.

When Luke ran to the island to keep from paying yoda shut that flow down and went collect.

Broke ass had no credits, so he burnt his tree down.
 
90 50 said:
See, obi wan Gave him a taste free early on, expecting him to get hooked and charge on that shit later.

Obi got fucked up by Darth a rival dealer in the dark force before he could start collecting.

Yoda Gave him some expecting obi had been charging and he already knew the deal but didn’t.

When Luke ran to the island to keep from paying yoda shut that flow down and went collect.

Broke ass had no credits, so he burnt his tree down.
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Damn, I gotta start over with the original trilogy and work my way back up. I missed way too much of this the first time. Then I missed the entire last movie, altogether. Sounds like it was a huge mistake to have missed. This shit is DEEP.
 
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