Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

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Lambourne

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Lithose said:
Yes, that is the essence of it. Movies are still way too expensive to make, and so imagination, which entails a lot of risk, needs to be curtailed--and that ends up hurting good films. What he fails to point out though is that it ALSO ends up blocking a lot of absolute dog shit from getting made, because a lot of people THINK they have good imaginations but in reality they'd produce dog shit.

We won't get a true revolution in movies until the average 'art house' movie can do what a current big budget film can do. And the only thing that will bring that about is technology, cheaper, easier tools that can be used by more people. Digital cameras, and computers and programs which allow far faster video and audio editing have allowed these great small budget films to be made (As someone mentioned, the resurgence in horror is a direct result of this) and now we're going to be waiting on AI, and other 'smart' tools to allow us to replace legions of special effects artists. It will probably happen in the next century or so, but its going to be the next 'leap'.

When current special effects go through a revolution akin to what digital video editing was to old physical splicing/editing, you'll have a ton of new good films produced. But as said, that's not going to come from any social conventions changing in Hollywood--it will come from technology.
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I think the fundamental problem is in writing, probably because of the same cult that has infected journalism. They're all working backwards, they're thinking of what moral points they want to make and then they try to write a story to tie those together. Add to that studio meddling (probably pushing the same nonsense) and you've already constrained creativity so much that it's hard to make anything interesting let alone innovative.
 
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Lambourne said:
I think the fundamental problem is in writing, probably because of the same cult that has infected journalism. They're all working backwards, they're thinking of what moral points they want to make and then they try to write a story to tie those together. Add to that studio meddling (probably pushing the same nonsense) and you've already constrained creativity so much that it's hard to make anything interesting let alone innovative.
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Thomas Sowell called it 'Cosmic Justice'. Kathleen Kennedy is attempting to create 'Cosmic Justice' by writing Star Wars to adhere to her cult's dogmas. She thinks all white males are autocrats like Admiral Holdo. This is her reading of history. Thus, the only way to achieve narrative Cosmic Justice, is for her to create Admiral Holdo and make her be the biggest authoritarian retard imaginable.

In University this concept is referred to as 'Social Justice'.

All in all it is most simply known as 'Group Justice'. It's a form of class and/or race warfare as advocated by every Socialist since before even Marx.

Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were all gigantic advocates for 'Group Justice'. This is why the last Star Wars movie is so nauseating to most people, even if they're not aware of why exactly.

Holdo is Lenin and/or Stalin. Poe is Washington and/or Lincoln. Disney got it exactly wrong because they are nothing more than a gigantic entertainment subsidiary of The Cult.
 
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Sterling

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If only they could somehow fire Rian Johnson from the trilogy they promised him, and replace him with Villeneuve, we might have A New Hope...
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I mean if he's not allowed to do his thing, not sure how it would be good. The whole reason Villeneuve is awesome is because studios seem to let him do what he wants. He made a huge budget noir film, which there's no way Disney would let him do.
 
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I am certain at this point I won't even torrent this, but would appreciate if whichever cuck sees this opening night comes back and posts the entire plot here, dont even spoiler it just out in the open.
 
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'Yeah um folks aren't really all the pumped when we are doing the writing'.



In fairness their GOT ending was bad enough to be a Disney SW movie, they should have went for it.
 
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Khane

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Toxic fandom.

"We're nervous, but we remain resolute in our arrogance"

What a dynamic duo.
 
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Lithose

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Toxic fandom.

"We're nervous, but we remain resolute in our arrogance"

What a dynamic duo.
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Pretty much how they treated Gamergate or essentially any public response against anything media does now. They snipe troll posts from twitter, make a little collage and call it a 'toxic fandom' to avoid dealing with any actual criticism toward the underlying issues. Its amazing how often this gets used now to avoid admitting Hollywood or the media produced another pile of shit.
 
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Deathwing

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Kinda awesome/sad when the reviews/criticisms/reactions are more entertaining than the piece of media itself.

Did anyone ever think "Can't wait for the Ebert review!"? Multiple times I've watched RLM's review of the Star Wars Christmas Special and I still haven't watched the special itself.
 
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Too bad a theater wont show Spaceballs on opening night of this shit show. I would totally go to see Spaceballs in the movie theater.
 
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Lithose said:
Pretty much how they treated Gamergate or essentially any public response against anything media does now. They snipe troll posts from twitter, make a little collage and call it a 'toxic fandom' to avoid dealing with any actual criticism toward the underlying issues. Its amazing how often this gets used now to avoid admitting Hollywood or the media produced another pile of shit.
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Same shit with the all female Ghostbusters movie
 
ohkcrlho

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Deathwing said:
Kinda awesome/sad when the reviews/criticisms/reactions are more entertaining than the piece of media itself.

Did anyone ever think "Can't wait for the Ebert review!"? Multiple times I've watched RLM's review of the Star Wars Christmas Special and I still haven't watched the special itself.
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I only watched once the prequels and I have seen Mr plinkett reviews about them many many times.
 
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Deathwing

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I only watched once the prequels and I have seen Mr plinkett reviews about them many many times.
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That's usually what I use to introduce people to RLM. My wife doesn't care for cinema critique but even she finds "what's wrong with your face" funny.
 
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Lanx

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Same shit with the all female Ghostbusters movie
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the best thing to come out of that, was Thor got to show his comedic acting chops and taika waiti took that on with Thor Ragnarok

Director Taika Waititi recently spoke to Spectrum (via Daily Mail) and shared that the previous "Thor" and "Avengers" films may have not "exploited" Chris Hemsworth's comedic talents that much.


He explained, "He's a real comic talent and I feel like that was something that needed to be showcased." It was something he wanted to showcase from the very beginning, during the early stages of development. He explained that putting his funny side on the forefront of the character will make him appear "cooler" to the fans on "Thor: Ragnarok."

Director Taika Waititi isn't the only one to see Chris Hemsworth's comedic talents, which he already showcased in the Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley-directed film "Vacation" in 2014 and Paul Feig-directed "Ghostbusters" in 2016.
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Siddar

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Zapatta said:
'Yeah um folks aren't really all the pumped when we are doing the writing'.



In fairness their GOT ending was bad enough to be a Disney SW movie, they should have went for it.
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Toxic fandom is the sjw's defending the crap that was the last jedi.

Fandom menace would be those who hated the lest jedi.

At least they would be if media weren't a bunch of lying shills.
 
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