Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****
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@shark said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Also, they send out an SOS while at the base on Crait (sp?) and it's not even acknowledged but then one movie later Lando is able to garner an enormous fleet at the drop of a hat?!
Lando is a smooth talker. I can see that happening. I’d personally listen to him more than any SJW rebel under Leias command
I think in retrospect what irks me the most is the locksmith guy getting away without anyone catching up with him down the line. That and Rose ruining Finns suicide mission to blow up the big cannon.
Canto Blight woulda been a cool setting for some dynamic action with an actual decent storyline behind it. It’s a beautiful looking spot, maybe we’ll see it again in future movies.
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The reason this all a mess is they didn’t use the Marvel approach from the screenwriters up. They have a through line across multiple movies, even bringing individual directors like Gunn to double check the Guardians sections in Avengers movies.
They spent years on the script to avoid as many inconsistencies and plot holes as possible and earn their big moments.
With Star Wars it was much more disjointed, letting the director go off and write his own film is fine fire stuff like Solo. But you need a more coordinated approach for a trilogy.
They just made three movies because there were three in the other two. They didn’t have a plan for an over arching story. Proof was the rabbit in a hat Palpatine reveal.
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@shark said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Good point re the code breaker. They should have just blown him up when Holdo flew the rebel cruiser into the FO ship.
Holdo shouldn’t have been there at all. That character should have been a bulgy eyed squid looking bloke ( RIP Admiral Ackbar ) rather than a purple haired lesbian
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Rise of Skywalker available today fellas, 4th of May. Great marketing.
I'd better make sure I watch it repeatedly to see where it sits in the SW Movie echelon.......at the moment it's 4th, 5th or 6th, duking it out with Rogue One and Revenge of the Sith for me.
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Star Wars is ultimately a franchise written for kids and merchandise sales. The films gained legendary status for our generation because they were so awesome to us as kids.
Disjointed? Don't care because LEGO sets cost a bomb and make us license money. Jar Jar Binks? Who cares as long as @MN5 is buying all the action figures. Characters that look like they need more development? Mate just blow up some fucking Death Stars already...
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@NTA said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Star Wars is ultimately a franchise written for kids and merchandise sales. The films gained legendary status for our generation because they were so awesome to us as kids.
Disjointed? Don't care because LEGO sets cost a bomb and make us license money. Jar Jar Binks? Who cares as long as @MN5 is buying all the action figures. Characters that look like they need more development? Mate just blow up some fucking Death Stars already...
I wish I'd kept hold of my SW figures from the 80's. They'd be worth a bomb now. Fuck knows where they ended up. I constantly remind my boys not to make the same mistakes I did ( not just Star Wars related haha ), they have quite a LEGO collection now. Most impressive.
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@NTA said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Star Wars is ultimately a franchise written for kids and merchandise sales. The films gained legendary status for our generation because they were so awesome to us as kids.
Disjointed? Don't care because LEGO sets cost a bomb and make us license money. Jar Jar Binks? Who cares as long as @MN5 is buying all the action figures. Characters that look like they need more development? Mate just blow up some fucking Death Stars already...
Do they what!!.. try buying an older retired set, they can easily be 10x their original RRP
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@NTA said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@MN5 limited run creates value among collectors, versus mass production which does not. My 16yo still has Star wars LEGO and it just gathers dust.
Really, which sets... asking for a friend
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@Virgil said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@NTA said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
Star Wars is ultimately a franchise written for kids and merchandise sales. The films gained legendary status for our generation because they were so awesome to us as kids.
Disjointed? Don't care because LEGO sets cost a bomb and make us license money. Jar Jar Binks? Who cares as long as @MN5 is buying all the action figures. Characters that look like they need more development? Mate just blow up some fucking Death Stars already...
Do they what!!.. try buying an older retired set, they can easily be 10x their original RRP
Great hobby to get sucked into...So much more impressive than when we were younger huh ?
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I left lego behind as an adult when they came in specific kits. As a youngster I preferred using my imagination from a range of building blocks.
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@antipodean said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
I left lego behind as an adult when they came in specific kits. As a youngster I preferred using my imagination from a range of building blocks.
My son was well into his Lego, have a shit tonne of it in the roof, including lots of SW stuff. Making specific kits wasn't so much the problem, it was when they went into moulding way too many special pieces for a kit. You felt like it was 'make it once' rather than a clever use of standard blocks that eventually formed what you wanted.
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@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@antipodean said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
I left lego behind as an adult when they came in specific kits. As a youngster I preferred using my imagination from a range of building blocks.
My son was well into his Lego, have a shit tonne of it in the roof, including lots of SW stuff. Making specific kits wasn't so much the problem, it was when they went into moulding way too many special pieces for a kit. You felt like it was 'make it once' rather than a clever use of standard blocks that eventually formed what you wanted.
Its good to see that they have gone away from that again now (it nearly sent them to the wall)My boys ( 10 and nearly 12 ) enjoy making it and putting it proudly on display. Their figure collection is pretty damn exceptional, my personal favourite quirk is the fact they have every single bounty hunter from ESB.
Fuck George Lucas is a marketing genius, excluding Boba Fett did those guys even have 10 seconds of screentime in total ? yet they all have names, interesting backstories etc.......Bossk was apparently wearing an old space suit from a Dr Who episode in the 60's !
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@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
My favourite by far is the AT-AT with the motor. Walks just like the 'real' one.
Not long ago grabbed that one, it’s pretty clever how it works. Clunks along in a funny way but does walk.
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@Crucial said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
@antipodean said in Star Wars VII ****contains spoilers****:
I left lego behind as an adult when they came in specific kits. As a youngster I preferred using my imagination from a range of building blocks.
My son was well into his Lego, have a shit tonne of it in the roof, including lots of SW stuff. Making specific kits wasn't so much the problem, it was when they went into moulding way too many special pieces for a kit. You felt like it was 'make it once' rather than a clever use of standard blocks that eventually formed what you wanted.
Its good to see that they have gone away from that again now (it nearly sent them to the wall)Let me know when you dig it all out....