STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Just watched the Mark Hammil interview thread, and she states that he signed on to do the new movies in the summer before Disney bought star wars.

Anyone know if the story was different, drastically changed by Disney, what was planned etc? @Dragonlordxxxxx I'm looking at you here.

When Hamill said they "signed on", he meant it figuratively and not in contract signing kind of way. Lucas talked to Hamill and Fisher about doing another trilogy a few months before Lucasfilm was sold to Disney.

Hamill: "I had no idea that George was going to sell to Disney until I read it online like everybody else. He did tell us last summer about wanting to go on and do [Episodes] VII, VIII, and IX, and that [newly appointed Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy would be doing them."

"Yeah, last August, he asked Carrie and I to have lunch with him and we did... So when he said, “We decided we’re going to do Episodes VII, VIII, and IX,” I was just gobsmacked. “What? Are you nuts?!” [Laughs] I can see both sides of it. Because in a way, there was a beginning, a middle, and an end and we all lived happily ever after and that’s the way it should be — and it’s great that people have fond memories, if they do have fond memories. But on the other hand, there’s this ravenous desire on the part of the true believers to have more and more and more material."

http://www.ew.com/article/2012/10/31/mark-hamill-star-wars-episode-vii-disney/

 

[SammyPops]

When Hamill said they "signed on", he meant it figuratively and not in contract signing kind of way. Lucas talked to Hamill and Fisher about doing another trilogy a few months before Lucasfilm was sold to Disney.

Hamill: "I had no idea that George was going to sell to Disney until I read it online like everybody else. He did tell us last summer about wanting to go on and do [Episodes] VII, VIII, and IX, and that [newly appointed Lucasfilm president] Kathleen Kennedy would be doing them."

"Yeah, last August, he asked Carrie and I to have lunch with him and we did... So when he said, “We decided we’re going to do Episodes VII, VIII, and IX,” I was just gobsmacked. “What? Are you nuts?!” [Laughs] I can see both sides of it. Because in a way, there was a beginning, a middle, and an end and we all lived happily ever after and that’s the way it should be — and it’s great that people have fond memories, if they do have fond memories. But on the other hand, there’s this ravenous desire on the part of the true believers to have more and more and more material."

http://www.ew.com/article/2012/10/31/mark-hamill-star-wars-episode-vii-disney/

thanks.

Do we know what Lucas was thinking, even very early thoughts for the new trilogy?

 

[One MMA Fan]

Oh how cute.. still:

 

[Goonerview]

Oh how cute.. still:

Man, I love episode 3

Palp: kill him now

Anakin: it's not the Jedi way ...

Palp: DO IT!!

*Anakin beheads Dooku in brutal fashion*

 

[TrueBias]

RottenTomatoes is at 50%.

1 point away @shadow_priest_x priest until the numbers game favours the haters.

 

[Goonerview]

Still can't believe Luke Skywalker's last words: "see ya round, kid"

Sounds like something Clint Eastwood would say.

 

[minute bull]

The numbers game is self-defeating. Too often do we abide numbers when they favor our platform; when they don't, we brush it off with something like What do numbers even mean? I know the truth!!!!!

If people can't be convinced by assiduous, solid arguments -- do you really think generic and possibly falsified numbers are going to make any whit of difference?

Haa I laugh at your appeals to emOHtion and weak aaad hahminem attempts. THEY DO NASSING.

Still can't believe Luke Skywalker's last words: "see ya round, kid"

Sounds like something Clint Eastwood would say.

Nothing's gonna beat:

I love you.

I know.

 

[TrueBias]

Trolls in RT

more trolls in imdb.

Again, look at the user reviews. I literally sat for 10 min looking for good reviews. They're easier to find on rt, yet their scores are much more accurate.

In short, i believe imdbs score is flawed.

 

[ShinkanPo]

The aliens in the casino world were such caricatures. They looked like the monopoly man.

It was so lame.

The Red Throne room was pretty "metal" looking. I liked it. They should have done more with Snoke and ... yeah, this movie had lots of potential.

Snoke has that Rich dirty old man vibe with his Robe kinda a space Hugh Hefner!

Since they want this SJW agenda thing maybe they should have doubled down on it by portraying Snoke force grope Rey, or have Rey get captured by some Galactic Pimp and have her wear a space bikini!

 

[GtehMVP]

Nothing's gonna beat:

I love you.

I know.

lol, best line in all of Star Wars. Too bad they made him a deadbeat dad/husband though. Watching JJ try to recreate their playful flirting in TFA was very cringe worthy. They should have been sipping space Boosts

 

[minute bull]

Fucking UP the wall.

I have to wonder what we might have gotten if Harrison Ford hadn't broken his ankle.

Or wasn't, you know, a jillion years old.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

lol, best line in all of Star Wars. Too bad they made him a deadbeat dad/husband though. Watching JJ try to recreate their playful flirting in TFA was very cringe worthy. They should have been sipping space Boosts

Lol fuck. I forgot about that scene and line.
I had a flashback to the cringe that i had the night i saw this in the theater

 

[minute bull]

Attention fans of Jyn Erso: an explanation for a minor plot point in TLJ.

 

[Guestx]

Lol that is a BIG ASS problem.
It's THE complaint about it. No one is against seeing casinos in SW, it's that that entire side quest was a pointless waste of time

It was a plan that failed. Should every plan succeed whenever heroes in a story set out to do something? Wouldn't that be boring if that's how all movies worked?

 

[minute bull]

I get that people wanted to be more entertained, but it seems like there's zero recognition of plotting and structure. Which is almost as bad as chiming in without having seen the film.

 

[Guestx]

RottenTomatoes is at 50%.

1 point away @shadow_priest_x priest until the numbers game favours the haters.

You mean on that one site?

 

[SmilinDesperado]

It was a plan that failed. Should every plan succeed whenever heroes in a story set out to do something? Wouldn't that be boring if that's how all movies worked?

No, of course not.
Failure is fine if it serves a point in the movie.

Rian putting this casino arc in the movie was like choosing to eat a shit sandwich.
Of all the things he could have made, or restaurants he could have went to, he decided to shit between 2 slices of bread and ate it whole

 

[Guestx]

No, of course not.
Failure is fine if it serves a point in the movie.

Rian putting this casino arc in the movie was like choosing to eat a shit sandwich.
Of all the things he could have made, or restaurants he could have went to, he decided to shit between 2 slices of bread and ate it whole

It was a feasible plan. The characters tried to execute it. And it didn't work.

I just don't see what the fucking problem is with that. It's not like the plan itself didn't make sense.

 

[vcmmafan]

RottenTomatoes is at 50%.

Yup

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Do we know yet how Benicio's character new that the rebels were 'secretly' sending the remaining people off on ships to the planet while they expected to bad white guys to continue following the main ship?