Yeah, there's a few old style ones in the lineup. Also, all the shots onboard the Supremacy that show the hangar bay/assembly area have old style walkers. Obviously you can't compare sizes in those shots, but i thought it was interesting that there were no AT-M6s shown in there.
Those were there, but there were big crane-like things moving around and they were carrying like 4 or 6 AT-ATs
As someone who refuses to say "at at" but instead says AT-AT (like the initialism it is, like FBI), I'm glad the new model has to be pronounced the "right" way.
Just saw it with my boys. We all loved it. They didn’t complain about anything save for my 9 year old complaining that Finn and Rose kissed. They’re getting a second movie today. Justice League which I’m sure they will love and I’ll be like meh ok.
Merry Christmas to my favorite non-sports thread on tmb. It’s one of the few threads where we stay largely on topic and don’t delve into petty unrelated bull shit. You guys are all awesome.
They've already got money for my ticket, so there's that. The article is written pretty slanted, so taking it with a grain of salt.
yeah, that article is essentially labeling TLJ as a failure that has Disney spooked for Solo. The movie with glowing critical reviews and mostly great audience reviews that's closing in on a billion dollars after 2 weeks of release. I'm sure Disney is worried about Solo and it may very well tank, but it is that film's troubled history that would lead to both. Also, let us not forget the rending of garments before Rogue One came out. We ended up with a top 3 Star Wars movie then.
I think the May release date is the biggest problem. Release the film December 2018, and people will have forgotten about the TLJ stuff by then and ready for another Star Wars story.
This is clickbait nonsense. I have hated the idea of this movie from the beginning but this is ridiculous. Lucasfilm increased Ron Howard's original workload because they liked what they saw from his dailies. He was originally brought in to film the last two weeks remaining of the original production and then oversee reshooting at a later date. He ended up filming continuously from July-end of October and reshot 80% of what Lord & Miller shot. You know Lucasfilm was very involved, probably at an extreme micro-management level, once Howard came on board. You think they'd keep throwing money at this if they didn't like what Howard was delivering and were expecting a bomb? What would a bomb for a SW movie even look like from a box office perspective? Even if this has a $200 million budget it's probably breaking even from box office returns alone based on the SW name. That's forgetting about all the tie-in merchandise revenue it will generate as well.
Good time to point out that the Solo movie was only greenlit because it was a condition for Lawrence Kasdan coming back to write The Force Awakens. He was happily retired and only agreed to come back if it was a two picture deal with his son helping to write the Solo movie. I don't think we're going to get too many more, if any, movies that recast an established SW character (Boba Fett doesn't count).
I for one won't be seeing the movie... Because I just flat out don't give a shit about it all. I want some new material with new characters.
Hopefully much better now that JJ is focusing on destroying Star Wars.... O WAIT NEVER MIND THEY HANDED TO QUINTON FUCKING TARANTINO....... PLEASE KILL ME NOW
I refuse to get on the TFA hate train. That movie did its job exactly as it was intended to. I don't need high art, but I'm a sucker for nostalgia. ESB ANH ROTJ TFA TLJ RO ROTS TPM AOTC And although AOTC rightly deserves to be called the worst film in the franchise, let's not suck the dick of ROTS too heartily. It's the perfect prequel movie, in that it's a series of great ideas that are either terribly executed in and of themselves or they are well-executed but are ruined by the surrounding context. So many "this is the moment the prequels were made for" moments happened in that movie that were completely botched, like, I dunno...Anakin's actual turn to the darkside, and Palpy's actual ascension to Emperor is so rushed it's like Lucas ran out of time and had to resort to "character just says it and everyone just shrugs." It underscores how much of the prequels were just George twirling on his thumbs for two and a half movies, dicking around until finally making the movie everyone wanted to see in 1983...only by then the moments are ruined because of shoddy execution. There was a clear and present feeling of "just get it over with" throughout that whole film. It was so sad and disappointing.
The prequels felt hollow because all they did was drive a plot. There was no character development for the characters that needed developing, chiefly Anakin but Padmè too. I think TLJ feels hollow to a lot of folks for the opposite. It barely moves the plot of the trilogy, but it has great character development for everyone.
I think the PT would have been so much better (besides the lazy direction and terrible screenplays) if the story had focused on Obi Wan as the central hero, and kept Anakin as a side-character with a role no bigger than, say Han (who, while important, was certainly secondary to Luke in the OT). Let us see the rise and fall of his apprentice through his eyes and end with him leaving for exile on account of his failures. That's a heck of a through-line for a story, but Lucas just made a mishmash of an ensamble story that serviced no one in particular and allowed no one to be the lead that the audience could latch onto. I agree about TLJ too. On the surface, the movie seems like it goes nowhere (though it doesnt: Kylo becomes Supreme Leader, Luke becomes one with the Force, Rey comes into her own as a Jedi, the Resistance is almost entirely wiped out). But what it does is serve as great character building for Ben, Rey and Poe, prepping them for a big finale in IX. The only one to get the shaft is Finn, which is why a lot of people (me included) thought he should have sacrificed himself at the end of the movie. Then again, based on the way Rian shot the climax, with Luke saying "the rebellion is reborn today (cut to Poe, the next political leader), the war is not over (cut to Finn, the next warrior leader), and I'm not the last Jedi (cut to Rey, the next Luke)" it's clear he wanted Finn to live so he could become something more in the next movie.
The Phantom Menace did set up the fact that the Star Wars universe is pretty vast and expansive, the OT had what, all of 3 planets and 10ish characters and the big bad is for all intents and purposes a goblin that shoots lightning. It didn't have good character development because George couldn't write a script worth a damn anymore but it had a ton of world building the OT lacked.
It had great character development for Kylo and Rey (and I would argue Luke, although some might disagree and he's dead now anyway). Finn's plot was awful and his character went backwards. I'm TBD on Poe's character. If he builds off this arc in IX and becomes a smart leader to go with his other characteristics, I'll say his character development was good. If he just does a bunch of dumb stuff (or shows no signs of this arc mattering), his character in TLJ was a waste of time.
I think one of the major themes of TLJ was positioning the trio of good guys to be the next generation of Leia (Poe), Han (Finn), and Luke (Rey). Not necessarily a 1:1 copy, but in terms of what they can do with the characters going forward. It's weird though becsuse by the time everyone is in their groove the trilogy will be over and we won't see these guys again for a decade. Will they come back as the stars of X-XII or will they pass the baton to a new next generation the way the OT trio was used in VII-IX? You gotta think they'll be the stars since they're all so young, relatively speaking.
she backtracked that. She said it during a press junket thing, so who knows what the context or intention was. Those things are grueling and often lead to confusing quotes. She may have meant it and had to try to spin it when Disney yelled at her afterwards, but it could have also been talking about taking time away from the Star Wars movies before coming back, which seems to be a possibility with the way they're setting things up from a storyline perspective.
Lol at thinking any of the core cast wouldn't come back. They got Harrison Ford to come back for crying out loud.
I could easily see Ridley and, to a lesser extent, Driver and Boyega not want to be defined by one role.