Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****
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I know it has been mentioned on another thread, but how cool is the Mandalorian?
Bitch and moan all you like about the Skywalker saga movies going off kilter but you can't deny the rich universe for storytelling that Lucas and following directors/writers etc created. What other franchise or entertainment vehicle has this level of detailed universe? GoT may be a candidate but TV wise it is two dimensional compared to SW.
Yep, with the third trilogy the plan got messy. Primarily because there was no plan, but this formula of making it up within this galaxy while following on and adding to what already exists is exactly what has created this richness.
Yep, Marvel made a cohesive set of movies but they had that slate to draft it all out and sometimes totally ignore even the comics the franchise was built on. With SW they could only try by resetting the canon which annoyed many.
Mandalorian has gone back to the original SW formula of taking an old and successful genre and re-inventing it in a galaxy far far away.
We haven't seen good westerns in ages because the world they existed in has been done to death. Using the SW universe offers up a big area to cotinue.Pity that Dave Filoni wasn't in charge of mapping out the third trilogy. He's done a brilliant job here and in the other things he has had a hand in has at least tried to make sense of where the 'blockbusters' were going.
One of the biggest tragedies was the Solo movie (which gets a bad rap IMO). They were obviously looking to set up a long storyline for a couple of favourite characters and the OTT reaction by some killed it off.A Mandalorian style show continuing the Han/Chewie story prior to ANH would have been great.
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@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Also Baby Yoda..
Yeah. This is where Filoni is clever. He found an avenue for exploration that even the multitude of fan fiction has hardly touched. We have only ever seen or heard of one of Yoda's species. In fact, up until this it was 'species unknown'.
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@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
I know it has been mentioned on another thread, but how cool is the Mandalorian?
Bitch and moan all you like about the Skywalker saga movies going off kilter but you can't deny the rich universe for storytelling that Lucas and following directors/writers etc created. What other franchise or entertainment vehicle has this level of detailed universe? GoT may be a candidate but TV wise it is two dimensional compared to SW.
Yep, with the third trilogy the plan got messy. Primarily because there was no plan, but this formula of making it up within this galaxy while following on and adding to what already exists is exactly what has created this richness.
Yep, Marvel made a cohesive set of movies but they had that slate to draft it all out and sometimes totally ignore even the comics the franchise was built on. With SW they could only try by resetting the canon which annoyed many.
Mandalorian has gone back to the original SW formula of taking an old and successful genre and re-inventing it in a galaxy far far away.
We haven't seen good westerns in ages because the world they existed in has been done to death. Using the SW universe offers up a big area to cotinue.Pity that Dave Filoni wasn't in charge of mapping out the third trilogy. He's done a brilliant job here and in the other things he has had a hand in has at least tried to make sense of where the 'blockbusters' were going.
One of the biggest tragedies was the Solo movie (which gets a bad rap IMO). They were obviously looking to set up a long storyline for a couple of favourite characters and the OTT reaction by some killed it off.A Mandalorian style show continuing the Han/Chewie story prior to ANH would have been great.
I know that Filoni directed two episodes, but the Mandalorian is Favreau's baby. He's the creator and wrote the episodes.
Both are rumoured to have a larger role in Star Wars movies in the future. Hopefully Favreau gets to direct one.
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@Kirwan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
I know it has been mentioned on another thread, but how cool is the Mandalorian?
Bitch and moan all you like about the Skywalker saga movies going off kilter but you can't deny the rich universe for storytelling that Lucas and following directors/writers etc created. What other franchise or entertainment vehicle has this level of detailed universe? GoT may be a candidate but TV wise it is two dimensional compared to SW.
Yep, with the third trilogy the plan got messy. Primarily because there was no plan, but this formula of making it up within this galaxy while following on and adding to what already exists is exactly what has created this richness.
Yep, Marvel made a cohesive set of movies but they had that slate to draft it all out and sometimes totally ignore even the comics the franchise was built on. With SW they could only try by resetting the canon which annoyed many.
Mandalorian has gone back to the original SW formula of taking an old and successful genre and re-inventing it in a galaxy far far away.
We haven't seen good westerns in ages because the world they existed in has been done to death. Using the SW universe offers up a big area to cotinue.Pity that Dave Filoni wasn't in charge of mapping out the third trilogy. He's done a brilliant job here and in the other things he has had a hand in has at least tried to make sense of where the 'blockbusters' were going.
One of the biggest tragedies was the Solo movie (which gets a bad rap IMO). They were obviously looking to set up a long storyline for a couple of favourite characters and the OTT reaction by some killed it off.A Mandalorian style show continuing the Han/Chewie story prior to ANH would have been great.
I know that Filoni directed two episodes, but the Mandalorian is Favreau's baby. He's the creator and wrote the episodes.
Both are rumoured to have a larger role in Star Wars movies in the future. Hopefully Favreau gets to direct one.
Favreau is so fucken money
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@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Soooo was that Boba Fett at the end we see walking to the killed bounty?
Cobb Vanth is the more likely. He is current canon (from the Aftermath novels), lives on Tattoine, and wears Mando armour that he got from some Jawas that found it. The theory is that the Jawas found Boba's armour after the Sarlacc spat it out.
He is known as 'The Sheriff' which ties in with the episode title 'The Gunslinger'
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Caught the 12.01 screening of Episode 9 lastnight
Will have to watch again to digest it all.
Overall enjoyed it, felt the Leia scenes were show horned in, didn’t always work. Fast paced all the way through, lots of fan service.. lots of fan service.Definitely an improvement on episode 8
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@Virgil was just reading somethign saying is has been slayed by critics, putting it almost as low as Phantom Menace...
I often think it is just cool to think stuff is crap, I'll take the boy and make up our own minds.
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@taniwharugby said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Virgil was just reading somethign saying is has been slayed by critics, putting it almost as low as Phantom Menace...
I often think it is just cool to think stuff is crap, I'll take the boy and make up our own minds.
Critics liked the politics of the last movie, so a movie more geared towards fans was never going to make them happy.
It was fine, not great. Certainly much better than the last film.
Basically, these are kids films and my 12 year old was jumping out of his seat with excitement.
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@Kirwan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@taniwharugby said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Virgil was just reading somethign saying is has been slayed by critics, putting it almost as low as Phantom Menace...
I often think it is just cool to think stuff is crap, I'll take the boy and make up our own minds.
Critics liked the politics of the last movie, so a movie more geared towards fans was never going to make them happy.
It was fine, not great. Certainly much better than the last film.
Basically, these are kids films and my 12 year old was jumping out of his seat with excitement.
I don't think that is necessarily true, if anything there was as much 'politics' in this one as TLJ. I think sometimes critics and audiences don't mesh.
I think I prefer TLJ, which I watched last night in preparation, to this (on one viewing though so that could change). I liked a bunch of this but found it was just a wee bit too cheesy too often.
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I liked that Hux was the spy, and he just did it because he couldn't stand Ren, and that Richard E Grant just shot him.
The Ren-Rey kiss at the end was fucking stupid though. That scene loses nothing without it.
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@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Caught the 12.01 screening of Episode 9 lastnight
Will have to watch again to digest it all.
Overall enjoyed it, felt the Leia scenes were show horned in, didn’t always work. Fast paced all the way through, lots of fan service.. lots of fan service.Definitely an improvement on episode 8
Did the same. I really enjoyed the movie.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Caught the 12.01 screening of Episode 9 lastnight
Will have to watch again to digest it all.
Overall enjoyed it, felt the Leia scenes were show horned in, didn’t always work. Fast paced all the way through, lots of fan service.. lots of fan service.Definitely an improvement on episode 8
Did the same. I really enjoyed the movie.
@ACT-Crusader said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Caught the 12.01 screening of Episode 9 lastnight
Will have to watch again to digest i Mo t all.
Overall enjoyed it, felt the Leia scenes were show horned in, didn’t always work. Fast paced all the way through, lots of fan service.. lots of fan service.Definitely an improvement on episode 8
Did the same. I really enjoyed the movie.
Same, definitely an Improvement on Last Jedi, still not sure on some choices but not too much to complain about
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Just watched ep9. Massive step up from the other two, no doubt the best of the final trilogy. Lots of action, lots of worlds and a few new decent characters. Lots of nods to the past but it felt much more original. They couldn't resist slipping in a few woke scenes but I didn't really care. The story had twists and turns and I thought could stand well into the top handful of films in the 9 film series
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Saw it, for the first half hour I thought "fuck, here we go again"
But every thing from the scene in Ren's quarters on was fucking great. I loved it.
I cried at one point
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@mariner4life It got dusty in our theatre too
