Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****
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@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@canefan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@canefan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@canefan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@canefan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Finished season 1 of the Mandalorian. Most enjoyable
What was great
- They were able to have some nuance about characters being good or evil but it wasn't overcomplicated
- The actors had varying ethnicities but it wasn't made a big deal of, so felt totally natural
- Great action and storytelling
Mando was off the charts. Even better than I expected and I expected a lot.
Even the middle episodes which weren't as good were still great.
Kuill dying is one of the most emotional SW deaths of all time.
The IG droid's triumphant "death" was brilliant too
the shootout that he and Mando had in the first epsiode was so well done. Ever since we saw that group of Bounty Hunters in Empires Strikes Back for a matter of seconds I always wanted to see them in action. ( nerd alert: yes I know it's a different IG unit )
They've set things up really well for Moff whatshisname from Breaking Bad to be a major antagonist next season but I'd love to see a Jabba the Hutt type Alien as well.
Yeah, it was definitely great to see a bunch of the ESB bounty hunters mixing it up. The baby Yoda getaway scene saw a few familiar faces (not the same characters but same looking as ESB)
All this talk is making me want to watch it again. I'm in two minds whether I really liked the tatooine episode or not, almost like they were trying to fit in TOO MUCH fan service and nostalgia......
Was that the gunfight when he took the kid?
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@Kirwan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@canefan I was thinking he meant the jawas.
Was that one of the early ones? When he got them the egg? That was a little bit lame but it was early in the series so I was okay with that
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@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Apparently it fleshes out the Jedi that we only catch glimpses of in the movies quite a bit ?
It's pretty shameful that a bloke who at last count owns six star wars T shirts hasn't found time ( especially now ) to watch this.
Not sure why your even here to be honest, other then to remind us every 5 mins how much you loved The Last Jedi..
*you’re
That was for @Bones
Your ruining the joke.
What the fuck why would you make me come in this odious thread.
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Watched that Clone Wars series 7 tonight with the oldest son. Had a chance to catch up and watch all the episodes as the final episode is being released on Monday.
Have to say these are very well done, but I am a bit of a Star Wars tragic.
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As far as rating the recent trilogy goes, I though TLJ was a fucking abomination, TFA was great and I was so disappointed by TROS that unlike the other two I didn't even go back and watch it a second time at the movies, but that was more because I wanted to build some anticipation for the small screen release. I'm hoping it won't be as disappointing the second time around, but it'll still be better than TLJ.
How they let two directors go off in such vastly different directions and grossly contradict or undermine each other's work ia beyond me.
TFA was a great start to the trilogy. I watched it twice on its first day of release and later I bought the DVD. Hell, I even paid once to watch it on Stuff pix despite having it on DVD just because i wanted to watch it in bed. Tedious plot which now seems to be the least of all the evils introduced in this trilogy, but great character intros, some awesome scenes, landscapes and battles, one amazing 'here comes the cavalry' uplifting, squeal like a little girl moment when the X Wings arrive over thelake just as Han etc are being captured. Bit of a cliffhanger (excuse the pun) at the end. Great stuff.
Then TLJ fucked that all up. New direction, depressing ending, shit new characters etc. The only good bits were the early bombing scene, the kid with force powers right at the end (so, so, so disappointing this wasn't built on in TROS) and the comic relief when Poe is talking to old what's-his-face from the FO.
TROS was too scatter gun I felt at the time. There were too many good bits which just weren't built on enough. There should have been more time devoted to showing how the Rebels assembled their fleet across the galaxy, and the introduction of the fleet as it was, was implausible and a missed opportunity to create another uplifting scene. And Palpatines' enormous fleet and forces just being magic'd up at late notice? Please. But I'm really looking forward to seeing it again regardless. I've done a good thing in rebuilding my anticipation. Bring on May the Fourth.
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@Bones said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@MN5 said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Apparently it fleshes out the Jedi that we only catch glimpses of in the movies quite a bit ?
It's pretty shameful that a bloke who at last count owns six star wars T shirts hasn't found time ( especially now ) to watch this.
Not sure why your even here to be honest, other then to remind us every 5 mins how much you loved The Last Jedi..
*you’re
That was for @Bones
Your ruining the joke.
What the fuck why would you make me come in this odious thread.
Go for a run fatso. Don’t come back.
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@shark said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
So I've never watched any of the cartoon SW stuff aside from some of the Lego SW stuff with the kids during lockdown. What order does it go in? Are there any specials to fit in, in the correct order?
If you have Disney Plus they have a section of the must watch episodes of the Clone Wars. The first movie is pretty bad, and it took into season 2 to find its feet.
If you search online you’ll get the list of the episodes to watch, you can skip loads.
The best thing I can say about the show is it makes the prequel movies better to watch. Anakin becomes a real character and you feel a gut punch when the clones turn in Order 66.
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@Bovidae said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Are Clone Wars and Rebels on D+ in NZ? I need to subscribe at some stage to watch The Mandalorian but outside of a couple of Marvel and Pixar movies there wasn't much else I was interested in when I saw the original offering.
Take up a free trial. You will binge Mando in a night easily.
Best SW product in years IMO. Way more in tune with the OT than any of the movies since. Not too much reliance on CGI for CGI's sake.
As above, just select the key CW episodes and do the same for Rebels.
For starters the Maul appearance in Solo will make sense and in Rebels his arc will conclude (in a satisfactory manner).
Some of the hastily shown force related stuff in TROS is set up in Rebels as well.
The best SW characters not in the movies are in these shows as well. Ahsoka has a lot of story, Thrawn isn't as good as in the 'Legends' novels but is still a character that is worthy.
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@Crucial I do intend to use the 7-day free trial to watch it.
I have been bingeing shows on Amazon Prime at the moment while I have a cheap deal for 6 months and then I will cancel to subscribe to Disney. As I have the Star Wars movies and the better Marvel movies I don't need D+ to watch them. So really it was just The Mandalorian and these SW-related shows that interested me. I've read that D+ doesn't have new seasons of some shows (e.g. Agents of Shield) and obviously the PG-13 rating limits what other movies/shows are available.
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@Bovidae said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
and obviously the PG-13 rating limits what other movies/shows are available.
Yeah, I was disappointed with the movies on offer considering they have Fox now. But apparently they're going to put those movies on Hulu which is a fat lot of good for us here.
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@Kirwan said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@shark said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
So I've never watched any of the cartoon SW stuff aside from some of the Lego SW stuff with the kids during lockdown. What order does it go in? Are there any specials to fit in, in the correct order?
If you have Disney Plus they have a section of the must watch episodes of the Clone Wars. The first movie is pretty bad, and it took into season 2 to find its feet.
If you search online you’ll get the list of the episodes to watch, you can skip loads.
The best thing I can say about the show is it makes the prequel movies better to watch. Anakin becomes a real character and you feel a gut punch when the clones turn in Order 66.
Or in my case, if you have a 16 yo son who’s been watching this stuff most of his life, he will tell you what to watch 😎
Some of the links between the prequel movies, Clone Wars series and Rebels are pretty good.
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Am half an hour into TLJ on Disney+. It started well but then it first jumped the shark when Leia floated back from space, alive.
The Poe calls Hux bit is good. That space battle in general was a strong start. Some of the dialogue between Luke and Rey in these early scenes is good too. I'll probably turn off in disgust shortly.
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@shark said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Am half an hour into TLJ on Disney+. It started well but then it first jumped the shark when Leia floated back from space, alive.
The Poe calls Hux bit is good. That space battle in general was a strong start. Some of the dialogue between Luke and Rey in these early scenes is good too. I'll probably turn off in disgust shortly.
Wuss. I watched all the prequels ... three nights in a row.
I deserve a medal.
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Well, i just finished a TLJ re-watch. Not as bad as the last time I watched it, pre TROS, but that's probably because the ending with just a dozen or so Rebels left now doesn't seem as depressing. I forget that Poe and Rey had never met until the end of this movie which seems crazy.
It shits me enormously that it bounces from this to a semi-sizable Rebel force again at the start of TROS without any background re how they rebuilt. And I'm as annoyed that the sprog at the end with the force powers and Rebellion ring doesn't become a character. So much of the end of this movie is just thrown away and it's as if TROS is a sequel to TFA. Bah.
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@shark said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Well, i just finished a TLJ re-watch. Not as bad as the last time I watched it, pre TROS, but that's probably because the ending with just a dozen or so Rebels left now doesn't seem as depressing. I forget that Poe and Rey had never met until the end of this movie which seems crazy.
It shits me enormously that it bounces from this to a semi-sizable Rebel force again at the start of TROS without any background re how they rebuilt. And I'm as annoyed that the sprog at the end with the force powers and Rebellion ring doesn't become a character. So much of the end of this movie is just thrown away and it's as if TROS is a sequel to TFA. Bah.
Yeah, the lack of rebuild was annoying for me, but I guess the original series had jumps like that as well.
I think that the sprog was supposed to be a pointer to a future trilogy that Rian Johnson was going to do ... which I assume is not happening now. He'll be busy making Knives Out sequels instead.