It was memorable to me. Old Man Luke has been the best and most interesting character of the entire saga.
No, it really still does.
I did too and it was like watching it for the first time all over again. Although it was better than ROS.
Maybe⌠I just find it really hard to watch Rogue One and not see the seams barely holding the movie together from the drastic reshoots. Itâs amazing that it works as well as it does, but youâre right, it does work well. Tony Gilroy pulled off the impossible.
The Last Jedi is the one Iâve gone back to and appreciated all the more each time.
Jolee Bindo is one of the reasons an old republic movie trilogy would be the best ever. Iâm not saying make a movie of the game(s), Iâm just saying a movie set back then gcould really get into the morality of the jedi, the rules, why no emotions is actually bad, or good, whichever, etc.
Grey Jedi! Kashyyyk! Korriban (or whatever they want to call it) with all those sith ruins! armies of dark and light side force users going at it! a TRUE sith empire vs a Jedi-led republic!
ugh, could be so fucking epic.
From your mouth to Kathleen Kennedyâs ears.
A true Jedi vs Sith war would be so epic.
Agree that a story about no emotions being bad/good would be powerful. Enforced Stoicism is arguably why Anakin turned to the dark side.
Are there any comics or books from the previous expanded universe that you wish had been movies?
Nomi Sunrider! Ulic QelâDroma! Darth Bane! (any of those would be awesome)
I absolutely loved the story of the KOTOR games, but it would be really hard to adapt it without pissing off a LOT of people who made different choices than the ones they would canonize. Revan male or female? romance or no? light or dark? Too many choices/endings left to the player that they would have to make real. I wouldnât touch it with a 10 ft pole, but Hollywood tends to be stupid about shit like that, and they still donât take gaming seriously, so who knows.
oh my god Iâm such a fucking nerd
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Went through some CBS stuff, main thing is Star Trek: Discovery season 1 was pretty good, is this a hot take? Will re-up and watch season 2 after Picard drops in a few weeks.
I really wanted to like Discovery and found parts of it interesting, but got busy and stopped 2/3 of the way through S1 and never had a super strong need to go back to it. Itâs not terrible but I didnât really give a fuck about any of the characters, which is the kiss of death.
Looks like Iâm posting in the wrong thread but Iâll be brief. So I liked Captain Lorca, the engineer Tilly, and Stamets the chief science guy who grows the shrooms and ends up doing the jumps. Meh on the lobster guy Saru (although I like his fear ganglia) & Michael. Ash Tyler was a waste of time. I think thatâs the main cast. I think the show does enough Trekkie things to be enjoyable, its visuals are nice also, so note to JJ you can have your fancy graphics and attempt to tell standard Star Trek stories at the same time.
I want to agree with this as far as the movies needing to be more âTrekâ than they are now, but I do have to admit what works best for a TV series doesnât always work for a movie. Even with the original cast movies, the ones that were the most high-concept like the show (ST: The Motion Picture and The Final Frontier) were also universally considered the two weakest, while the generally agreed best one (Wrath of Khan) is the closest to an action movie out of all of em.
It was divisive, with some people hating it for hating it because they thought the casting was ramming political correctness down their throats and that it didnât do enough to resemble Star Trek shows of the past. So, there are parallels to TLJ, although it wasnât as critically acclaimed.
Yeah, I think ST fundamentally doesnât work as a movie. Even the rare good ST movies donât always capture the vibe that made us like the show. I know ST5 gets panned for being goofy, but to me it feels like itâs the only one done in the same quirky style that the TV series was.
What was so funny about the new movie is that they decided to appease the fans by sidelining KMT rather than by making a better movie.
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Skip to season 2. It goes in some bonkers directions that will at least keep you interested.
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STD lost me with those long scenes with Klingon subtitles. It didnât help at all that those new Klingon face prosthetics made emoting impossible. So how are the actors supposed to convey emotion when their two tools, face expression and vocal inflection, are crippled? Theyâre reduced to shouting lines in a made up language wearing a mask. Terrible.
Then think of the range of emotions that TNG Klingons could express with their face. Smirking Gowron. Dour Worf. Disdainful Kurn.
Discovery is terrific and super underrated.
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LOL at this turning into a Star Trek thread
chefâs kiss
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