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First official image is out, rockin' it old school. This will be the first Transformers movie I have actually looked forward to in a very long time. I like Hailee Steinfeld as an actress and Travis Knight directed Kubo and the Two Strings which was fantastic.

Yeah I don't doubt at all that Lucas thinking something like the Sith homeworld was too important to the overall lore of Star Wars to let a third party come up with a name for it was a factor.

Yeah I think Korriban actually sounds better myself. I still call it that to.

FYI ya boy George retconned the name to Moraband because he thought it sounded better (more like Morder).

There's not going to be a director's cut or extended edition. It creates problems with a single, unified canon that is primarily defined by the movies when you have multiple edits of them. I'm sure they don't want to revisit a situation like having to defend the Special Editions as the...

Yeah MoS I actually like but I can see how longtime Supes fans have issues with the portrayal of the character in it and I benefit from not being one of those. Either way I would definitely take that one in before watching the wheels completely fly off in BvS.

No. He was only lured back to work on 7 by the promise of getting to do a Solo movie. He's said that will be the last movie he writes. Abrams is writing 9 with Chris Terrio. Johnson is a writer/director in that he was written everything that he has directed so far. Well movies anyway. He...

Oh it's too late for that. He's the whole reason the talk of an Obi-Wan movie ever got started in the first place. That to.

They more than likely told Ewan "Let the puppet have it's moment. You'll be getting your own movie soon."

Yes any reasonable viewer would come away from the prequels thinking the jedi were at least partially culpable in their own demise. We don't need to be told that. But seeing that admission from a figure like Yoda, the old dogmatist who was calling the shots when it all came tumbling down, is a...

Rebels is aimed at a younger demo than TCW was. It's a Y7 show while TCW was TV-PG. They have stuff in there to try and satisfy older fans who they know will be watching it but if you're not prepared to give it some leeway on that front then I wouldn't waste my time with it. Part of that is...

The fights we've seen in the new trilogy so far with lightsabers have had a less polished look to them. Some of that can probably be attributed to the fight choreography not being quite as good but I think it's also something that they are going for. I remember people criticizing the prequel...

Yeah I find it an odd critique. Not that a_skeleton_03 was offering it up as one as much as just pointing it out, but I've seen others do so.

Yes it was part of the larger theme that the institutions you trust (the Senate, the Jedi, the Republic at large), even those that you see as having a tradition of standing for what is good, can fail their own purpose. Lucas was trying to sprinkle in a little Vietnam in a way similar to how he...

I'm sure most here are aware that George Lucas's inspiration for the OT were the Saturday matinee serials (specifically Flash Gordon) that he watched growing up. But something that fewer people know about are the Star Wars radio dramas that were made in that same retro spirit. While Lucas...

Campy cool. Either that or he thinks he'll jump a space whale in the Falcon.

It's only a small difference but it is easier for a critic rating to go in the positive column on RT than it is for an audience score. It's only takes a 6/10 for a critic uptick but a 3.5/5 for an audience one. It doesn't end up accounting much for the divergence between the scores for TLJ...

The lack of Solo promotion is raising a few eyebrows but there is a new leak. It's not an "official image" according to Disney/Lucasfilm but it is made by one of their licensees, so it's probably using official images they already have access to. I'll spoiler it in case some actually want to...

I'm firmly in the Solo doubters camp but I don't know that I would put much into the veracity of that article. One thing Lucasfilm does well is keep their dirty laundry in house except in situations where it's impossible to hide (like firing a director). I think that "source close to the...

Yeah for me that Leia scene is one of the moments that drags the movie down more than it should given how long it takes in the overall scheme of the movie. Seeing her use the force is a big moment for Leia fans who have been wanting to see that for a long time (I'm not one of those but I know...

It just seemed like you were saying everyone should have turned to a detailed YouTube breakdown of the flaws of the movies like you did instead of going to see the movies for themselves at the time. And remember one of the big criticisms of TPM by fans when it came out was of kid Anakin. The...

RLM's take wasn't actually an option when the prequels came out.

There are a few people saying that a move of release date is still on the table. That they are seriously gunning for the May release but are still willing to move it if they end up having to. That may be why the marketing for this hasn't made so much as a peep yet. The only thing they've put...

Well they do have a middle ground. It's just very narrow. A simple Fresh rating is for a score of 60-75%. Certified Fresh is over 75% with some other qualifiers for number of reviews thrown in as well.

Don't forget Apocalypse Now and Jaws, two movies with such epic production problems they had documentaries made about all the production problems. The one about Jaws is fascinating (for me at least, I love that movie so much).

After. Lord and Miller had less than 4 weeks left in principle when they were cut loose. Howard finished that out and then the scheduled 5 weeks of reshoots turned into 4 months worth. He pretty much reshot the whole movie.

Remember all of those movie commercials you saw in the 80's and 90's that would include a series of 1-4 word quotes from reviewers saying how good a movie was? Flashing an RT score is the same thing, reduced down to a number. It's the new "Two thumbs up" just with more thumbs. They're not...

I mentioned the comparisons to the DC movies and the narrative of failure that Lucasfilm is starting to run the risk of. Solo is poised to throw fuel on that fire. The news surrounding it has been largely negative so far and it's in a very unforgiving spot on the calendar (3 weeks after IW and...

Not quite. Lucas reached out to Fisher and Hamill to see if they would be interested in reprising their roles when he started working on his story treatments. He later told them that he was retiring, selling the company, and that Kathleen Kennedy would be taking over. At that point he said...

Lucasfilm doesn't do public test screenings. They screen internally and with a few trusted, external figures but nothing that would be considered traditional test screening. Incidently Marvel doesn't do public testing either (which I'm only bringing up because I'm pretty sure I mentioned in...

Luke dying. I said several time in the TFA thread and this one that I didn't think they'd have him die, especially after Fisher passed away. It seems to me that you're being overly restrictive in how you define meaningful risks though. How often do we hear it's not just about the destination...

So ... you don't think that he took any actual risks in this one?