Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker

[p1stonhead]

AshVX220 said:

Halb said:

P-Jay said:

I'm not really into Disney and no amount of unlimited access is going to make me want to watch Jungle Book again or whatever and I won't pay £15 a month to watch the Star Wars live-action thing because I know I'll end up paying it for years always saying "I must get around the cancelling that" when it ends.

Depends on the price, and I do like like Disney, but I wouldn't pay for Disney alone, but now Disney have Marvel, Pixar, their own stuff, SW, and now Fox!

A draw thatb would get me would be the original three films, Star Wars, EMpire and Jedi in their unfked forms.
Plus the MCU telly series.

Apparently it's going to be $6.99 p/m in the US, I imagine it'll be similar here.

Id say it was a lot cheaper than people expected. At that price its pretty much a must have IMO especially for parents.

Look what happened to their stock price when the service/price was announced!

[Nom de ploom]

I restarted watching TLJ the other night and i will take back some comments I've made previously about the dialogue being totally garbage.

it is still mostly garbage but i'm hearing more on a repeated viewing so it does stack up better than on first viewing. There are however still things that grate.

The whole Leia force recovery after being blasted into space is utter bks and pretty much the whole codebreaker sequence too was just shoehorned in and felt like the matrix - there is a key. the key is owned by the key master, only when this key is turned at the right time yadda yadda yadda, it was ANH revisited.



Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver really hold the film together. I don't think Mark Hamill would ever win an Olivier at any stage of his career but does well enough.

I need to finish watching but i'm taking back some of my harsh comments from a first viewing.

as for the teaser trailer, well...it is a teaser so it will provoke endless speculation...The emperor, palpatine etc could be using the force to communicate after life like Obi Wan did for example, they might not have significant parts to play...

[warch]

Nom de ploom said:

I restarted watching TLJ the other night and i will take back some comments I've made previously about the dialogue being totally garbage.

it is still mostly garbage but i'm hearing more on a repeated viewing so it does stack up better than on first viewing. There are however still things that grate.

The whole Leia force recovery after being blasted into space is utter bks and pretty much the whole codebreaker sequence too was just shoehorned in and felt like the matrix - there is a key. the key is owned by the key master, only when this key is turned at the right time yadda yadda yadda, it was ANH revisited.

Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver really hold the film together. I don't think Mark Hamill would ever win an Olivier at any stage of his career but does well enough.

I need to finish watching but i'm taking back some of my harsh comments from a first viewing.

I liked the film, but yes the code breaker bit and all of the scenes set on Canto Bight (the casino) are completely unnecessary apart from to give Rose and Finn something to do.

Not sure about the 'Mary Poppins' bit, don't care either way about it.

[kev1974]

Three new, as yet untitled, Star Wars films announced for 2022, 2024 and 2026, once the original trilogy is completed. These look like they will be spin-offs along the lines of Rogue One / Solo etc? Hope they are better than the latter.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/thre...

[p1stonhead]

kev1974 said:

Three new, as yet untitled, Star Wars films announced for 2022, 2024 and 2026, once the original trilogy is completed. These look like they will be spin-offs along the lines of Rogue One / Solo etc? Hope they are better than the latter.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/thre...

Star Wars fatigue is fully set in.

I don’t hold much belief in these being any good. A Star Wars film shouldn’t just be ‘ok’. The last one was (Solo) and the one before was bloody terrible (TLJ)

[Gallandro01]

If this is directed by the GOT guys then I'm in.
Just imagine Star Wars done properly with political intrigue plus great action and hopefully hundreds of Jedi v Hundreds of Sith!

TROS better be good though after the bloated mess that was Endgame!!

[glazbagun]

Gallandro01 said:

If this is directed by the GOT guys then I'm in.
Just imagine Star Wars done properly with political intrigue plus great action and hopefully hundreds of Jedi v Hundreds of Sith!

TROS better be good though after the bloated mess that was Endgame!!

If you follow the GoT thread, they're proving something of a disappointment. Nothing like the franchise-killing level of outraged that TLJ faced, though.

[KrazyIvan]

Gallandro01 said:

If this is directed by the GOT guys then I'm in.
Just imagine Star Wars done properly with political intrigue plus great action and hopefully hundreds of Jedi v Hundreds of Sith!

TROS better be good though after the bloated mess that was Endgame!!

I can just see it now, hours and hours of build up with lost of dark science and even more nothing happening and then its all over after the bad guy falls for a party trick by a 12 year old.

Or the Rebels could lose some big ships after forgetting to look behind the suspiciously placed big moon over yonder...

Thanks but no thanks, GOT it turning out to be one season to long.

[HorneyMX5]

Johnsons trilogy is still being mentioned and he was at a SW thing recently with KK. Doesn't bode well to be honest.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Skywalker saga wrapped up and hoping they don't cock it up, after that I think I'm not sure if my interest can be sustained with a new trilogy.

[glazbagun]

What star wars needs is the kind of writing by the nerd-aware types who can appreciate and work with established lore and view the series as something which needs to be celebrated, not slightly embarrassed about and changed into any old space show. Sci-Fi for some reason always seems to have been shafted in the US by companies who didn't like it, but knew that it was making money for some reason or other and put unimaginative people in charge.

[Gallandro01]

In a weird way what Star Wars needs is to take a leaf out of Marvels book and introduce a slew of larger than life characters they can be good, dark or somewhere imbetween but they need to have personality and presence.. Marvel has an abundance of riches that has served them well. At the moment Star Wars is a rich tea biscuit plain and boring and Marvel is a friggin Jaffa Cake with cream on top! So Cmon Star Wars get back to where you belong!

[p1stonhead]

Gallandro01 said:

In a weird way what Star Wars needs is to take a leaf out of Marvels book and introduce a slew of larger than life characters they can be good, dark or somewhere imbetween but they need to have personality and presence.. Marvel has an abundance of riches that has served them well. At the moment Star Wars is a rich tea biscuit plain and boring and Marvel is a friggin Jaffa Cake with cream on top! So Cmon Star Wars get back to where you belong!

And humour. Marvel is funny. Star Wars is too serious for its own good.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Gallandro01 said:

In a weird way what Star Wars needs is to take a leaf out of Marvels book and introduce a slew of larger than life characters they can be good, dark or somewhere imbetween but they need to have personality and presence.. Marvel has an abundance of riches that has served them well. At the moment Star Wars is a rich tea biscuit plain and boring and Marvel is a friggin Jaffa Cake with cream on top! So Cmon Star Wars get back to where you belong!

Even though I've never seen any of the Marvel stuff I totally agree with this. Totally. Film the Star Wars Universe in movies based around the central characters, tying together one great big story arc where the characters meet in each others films.

Would mean having strong writing talent however which they seem to have proved they don't have.

[Halb]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Even though I've never seen any of the Marvel stuff I totally agree with this. Totally. Film the Star Wars Universe in movies based around the central characters, tying together one great big story arc where the characters meet in each others films.

Would mean having strong writing talent however which they seem to have proved they don't have.

I read that and thought, 'true, and SW doesn't have the decades of stories to draw on that Marvel does.' Then I realised, that they actually did. The YUGE amount of books and stories which popped up from 1990 onwards are/were the golden treasure equivalent of the Marvel mythos. The stories which showed what happened to the characters we love, treated them right and took them onwards. Looking back now It seems colossally retarded to dump 10 years of history into the toilet...considering what the writing 'talent' has come up with.
Really screwed the pooch on that one

[p1stonhead]

On a Disney related note, who the fk wants FOUR more Avatars?!

[Halb]

I reckon this guy is as wrong as much as he is right, but he makes entertaining vids.

Disney Announces The Next Decade of Star Wars
WorldClassBullstters Published on 8 May 2019
https://youtu.be/A5sep3O9K8U

[Baby Shark doo doo doo doo]

Gallandro01 said:

If this is directed by the GOT guys then I'm in.
Just imagine Star Wars done properly with political intrigue plus great action and hopefully hundreds of Jedi v Hundreds of Sith!

TROS better be good though after the bloated mess that was Endgame!!

Unfortunately without the stories by GRRM, the GoT writers are out of their depth. They’d struggle writing Spot books for toddlers.

[Gallandro01]

It's rumoured that the time period their films might cover is the Old Republic so imagine the prequals again with lots of Jedi runing around, lush visuals, better world building this time and much better scripts and more fleshed out characterisation.....

Now that just might a strawberry trifle I would eat until I got sick!

[AshVX220]

anonymous said:

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Yep, I've seen every Star Wars film on opening day and am a bit of a sad Star Wars geek, but I'll not go and see this in it's first week. Maybe end of the 2nd week or sometime in the 3rd week.

[Baby Shark doo doo doo doo]

anonymous said:

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If the professional reviews say it’s wonderful I’ll wait for it to be available to rent

If they claim it’s awful, I’ll go to the cinema in the first week.