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I can't count the number of times I've seen him describe himself as being very visually oriented. I think he overweights visuals in the process as a result. He has a very diminished sense of everything else that's going on that makes a particular scene or sequence of scenes work. For him it's...

Great video. Glad to see the credit it gave his ex-wife. Many people have said for a while now you can see her absence in everything he's done since their divorce in the 80's. The entire OT is as good as it is because they were such collaborations of talented individuals. Lucas becoming more...

It's for a streamed show and not the movies but they put out a few shots of some of the characters in costume for the live action Teen Titans show they have in the works.

Yeah I mentioned that earlier. I remember reading that in the issue of Time Magazine that came out right as ESB was released. He had nine films planned, a trilogy of trilogies, and that by the end of it the only characters left would be R2 and 3PO and the story would in effect be told through...

lol I guess I'm at the point where I find "And they all lived happily ever after" a cliche. That doesn't mean I want miserably ever after either though. Han didn't seem miserable in TFA to me though. I never imagined him to be great family man material so I didn't find him not being that a...

What in particular in how he was handled?

Well I said after I saw it was going to run hot and cold on it. There are things I really liked about it but that doesn't prevent me from seeing it's problems. And I was never a big Luke guy. Han and R2 were always my boys. That's part of what makes seeing Luke shifted from where we last saw...

I think it's pretty easy to see what Johnson was going for. The "twist" of TLJ was the full inversion of ESB. He didn't rehash it, he turned it on it's head. No one went into ESB with a laundry list of expectations, just a general question of "I wonder what's gonna happen next?". It was...

Lucasfilm said this themselves quite some time ago. They want to give each director as blank a canvas as possible. It's why none of the stuff like books, shows, or games take place at any point time wise beyond where the current saga is. They're all set before it so as not to fence the...

That's really not the understanding that Luke came out to on the other side of his self-imposed exile. It was what Yoda told him. Yeah, the Jedi fucked up. They got bogged down in "being Jedi" instead of being what was needed for the times during which they collapsed. But he also told him...

Lay off of what?

aka Sicario 2

Title: Soldado Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action, Crime Director: Stefano Sollima Cast: Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Catherine Keener, Christopher Heyerdahl, Jeffrey Donovan, Isabela Moner, Matthew Modine, Ian Bohen, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Jake Picking, Michael Love Toliver, Bruno Bichir...

Agreed. But remember when WB was beside themselves after BvS was released? It was making a lot of money but it was still, what they considered to be, underperforming. It was because of those week-to-week drops. It ended up having a pretty short theatrical run as a result.

You do realize it was termed The Resistance when they started writing the script for TFA ... in 2013?

WOM is the strongest driver of turnout after brand affection and the marketing had done it's thing. And I never said the box office was an indicator of how good a movie is, which is highly subjective. I said it's the most reliable indicator of audience satisfaction. Yes brand affection can...

To distinguish it from the Rebellion because it's not the same sort of movement. The Rebellion was an uprising from within the Galactic Empire against it's own government. The Resistance was a movement within the New Republic in opposition to an external threat. At the end of TLJ they took up...

I'm not sure that it can be said they're out of touch with the broader, general audience. A couple of the audience score metrics like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic show very deep divisions while IMDB shows it to be less so. But the metric that the industry itself uses to determine how...

lol have we really gotten to the point that people are bitching about the way they use the all caps in the opening crawl?

Yes but that not an indictment of one person writing an entire trilogy. It just highlights the need for that one person to actually be able to write.

The OT episodes didn't have a single writer either. Lucas had help with the ANH script from people who went uncredited in the finished product. Lawrence Kasdan wrote the other two. The only trilogy that was a true one man act across the board was the PT.

I don't think they've ever said exactly how Luke found it. San Tekka did help Luke many years before when Luke was looking for old jedi sites and lore as he prepared to rebuild the order but he himself didn't learn of it's location until after Luke had gone off on his own. The explanation for...

I guess we're gonna end up going over the whole TFA map discussion again. Yes it has some holes in it. R2 has a map of the whole galaxy in his memory system (which supposedly had some planets and systems the Empire exclusively had known about. He got that information when he tapped into the...

I added it in the edit as you replied. It's in the opening crawl in very broad strokes.

Luke didn't leave a map to Ahch-To. It was known that he went to find the first jedi temple. Lor San Tekka (Max Von Sydow's character) was an old explorer, student of the history of the jedi, and a member of the Church of the Force. As part of his studies he uncovered a map showing the...

Ian McKellen wants to play Gandalf in Amazon 'Rings' series So he's down for coming back as Gandalf. The bigger question will be is Amazon gonna be down for paying him to come back.

I know he probably still has some issues with Johnson's take on Luke even with people praising his performance all over the place. But the US premier is the exclamation point on the very long promotional tour they run these guys through every time. As one of the oldest members of the cast he's...

The captain (Captain Canady) of that dreadnought that Poe attacked at the beginning of the movie seemed like a legit, no nonsense badass. It was a shame he bit it so soon.

Hux is supposed to be a pretender who rose in rank not because he was actually capable but because he's an underhanded weasel. His father was a first rate asshole and a generally unrespected officer in the Republic Army who served the Empire but was never formally a member of it's military...

He (Rian Johnson) got an offer to do his own trilogy.

Disney couldn't get the LA times to stifle a single story about some of their dick moves in Anaheim and film critics were lining up to stick one up their keister when they tried to blacklist that paper's movie reviewers from their press screenings. If Disney has the whole of film critics in...

Lucas's comments are nothing more than damning with faint praise. He basically said "it's looks pretty" which is more of a compliment to his old employees at ILM than it is for Rian Johnson. He's a major stockholder in Disney after the sale of his company and he's aware that him fully speaking...

It's gonna be interesting watching how the box office for this one shapes up over the coming weeks. Some people have said that this is Lucasfilm's BvS. That may well prove to be true. But there are two components to that. Like TLJ, BvS was very divisive among that franchise's core fans. A...

It was mobile.