Movies STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS v.9 (Dragonlord's Review)

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Star Wars Clone Wars cartoon is great. I've been pushing this series on here for as long as I can remember.

 

[Harmonica]

I have seen the movie yesterday. It's fun but unfortunately, nothing more than that. Just another one in the long line of "instant culture" products where everything happens without build-up, over night and without merit.

 

[FyrFytr998]

I'm about to give TCW another chance.

Too many people are saying too many good things about it.

It really kicks up in the 2nd season. The Mandalorian story arc was really good.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

i'm on season 5 now with the clone wars.

 

[FyrFytr998]

Watching that Mandalore story arc from season 2 while eating brunch now. I disagree, with the statement that a live action show would be too expensive. The focus could be more character driven and less spectacle. Star Trek always did well with modest effects. No reason SW couldn't do the same with better than modest effects and Disney's backing.

I gotta say. About the ONLY thing I dislike about TCW is when the guy doing Obi's voice overdoes the accent during the corny one liners. It's like he wanted the jokes to flop.

 

[Loiosh]

I'm just going to drop this here because it TOTALLY made my morning. These are great days to be a talented Star Wars fan.

 

[Frank23]

 

[Loiosh]

And if Star Wars had been a western...

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Season 6 of clone wars was the darkest of all the seasons.

They went out on a high note IMO with that season.

The episode where Kenobi and Anakin track down the trail of master Sifo Dyas is one of the better from that season.

Dark episode and Count Dooku is at his best in that Epsiode. Very evil

 

[Loiosh]

One of my favorite quotes from the series is:

"Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."

I always see Lucas being given credit for it, but Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan write the screenplay.

Am I missing something?

 

[Loiosh]

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: January 17, 2016

RIDE ALONG 2 Dethrones STAR WARS with $39.5 Million

Universal's Ride Along 2 topped the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with an estimated four-day gross of $39.5 million from 3,175 theaters, well behind the first film but easily enough to win the weekend ahead of The Revenant and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Elsewhere in North America, Alejandro G. Inarritu's awards frontrunner The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, placed a strong No. 2 with an estimated four-day gross of $35 million from 3,559 locations for a domestic total of $93.2 million.

After ruling the box office for four consecutive weekends, The Force Awakens placed No. 3 domestically with a four-day gross of $31 million from 3,823 theaters for a domestic total of $851 million. The movie has begun shedding theaters in North America; its tally since opening had been 4,134 sites before this weekend.

Internationally, J.J. Abrams' Star Wars blockbuster became only the fifth film in history afterAvatar, Titanic, Jurassic World and Furious 7 to cross the $1 billion mark. Worldwide, Force Awakens' gross through Monday is projected at $1.86 billion.

In China, Force Awakens has earned $95 million since opening Jan. 9. The movie was bumped off a large number of screens this weekend to make way for Chinese movies, and could ultimately top out at $150 million or less.

Box Office: 'Ride Along 2' Dethrones 'Star Wars' With $39.5M; '13 Hours' No. 4

 

[Loiosh]

It was a nice run while it lasted.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

I love this guy. Might be my favorite actor right now. Was perfect in ex-machina.

 

[Space]

This is the most heartbreaking post I'v ever read...jeez...Dem tears,

No kidding.

People like to shit on ROTJ (because of ewoks?) but the moments when Vader tells Luke, "It's too late for me," and then later when he kills the Emperor and tells Luke to take off his mask, tells him Leia was right, and is burned in a funeral pyre...come on, those are the most powerful moments out of all the Star Wars films.

 

[Rum]

No kidding.

People like to shit on ROTJ (because of ewoks?) but the moments when Vader tells Luke, "It's too late for me," and then later when he kills the Emperor and tells Luke to take off his mask, tells him Leia was right, and is burned in a funeral pyre...come on, those are the most powerful moments out of all the Star Wars films.

ROTJ has the best first act and the best final act in any Star Wars film.

Jabba's Palace absolutely shits on Maz Kanata's crappy knock-off of a tryhard Cantina and the emotion and triumph of "I am a jedi ... like my father before me" destroys anything else in the whole 7 film saga. That's even without the heartbreak of the death of secretly lovable mass-murderer/torturer Vader.

Throw in those man-eating murder bears and the death of Yoda and you got a god damn classic.

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

Update: January 17, 2016

RIDE ALONG 2 Dethrones STAR WARS with $39.5 Million

Universal's Ride Along 2 topped the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with an estimated four-day gross of $39.5 million from 3,175 theaters, well behind the first film but easily enough to win the weekend ahead of The Revenant and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Elsewhere in North America, Alejandro G. Inarritu's awards frontrunner The Revenant, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, placed a strong No. 2 with an estimated four-day gross of $35 million from 3,559 locations for a domestic total of $93.2 million.

After ruling the box office for four consecutive weekends, The Force Awakens placed No. 3 domestically with a four-day gross of $31 million from 3,823 theaters for a domestic total of $851 million. The movie has begun shedding theaters in North America; its tally since opening had been 4,134 sites before this weekend.

Internationally, J.J. Abrams' Star Wars blockbuster became only the fifth film in history afterAvatar, Titanic, Jurassic World and Furious 7 to cross the $1 billion mark. Worldwide, Force Awakens' gross through Monday is projected at $1.86 billion.

In China, Force Awakens has earned $95 million since opening Jan. 9. The movie was bumped off a large number of screens this weekend to make way for Chinese movies, and could ultimately top out at $150 million or less.

Box Office: 'Ride Along 2' Dethrones 'Star Wars' With $39.5M; '13 Hours' No. 4

Brace yourselves China, dozens of awful chinese-new-year comedies are coming...

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Watching that Mandalore story arc from season 2 while eating brunch now. I disagree, with the statement that a live action show would be too expensive. The focus could be more character driven and less spectacle. Star Trek always did well with modest effects. No reason SW couldn't do the same with better than modest effects and Disney's backing.

I gotta say. About the ONLY thing I dislike about TCW is when the guy doing Obi's voice overdoes the accent during the corny one liners. It's like he wanted the jokes to flop.

Interesting. I find myself waiting for Ben's next 'dad' joke - it's funny and endearing to me. They have really fleshed out some of the characters in this series, with the exception of Anakin - maybe that's because we know too much about him already. My favorite character is easily Ashoka Tano. Would when she's older and allowed attachment.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Having said that, whomever is voicing Anakin has done him a great justice. Incredible that an animated character got it right.

 

[EvilDDS]

Interesting. I find myself waiting for Ben's next 'dad' joke - it's funny and endearing to me. They have really fleshed out some of the characters in this series, with the exception of Anakin - maybe that's because we know too much about him already. My favorite character is easily Ashoka Tano. Would when she's older and allowed attachment.

She's old enough to be in Playboy

But go hit up a comic-con and you'll run into a ton of them