star wars thread

[A Whirring Bone-White Gleech]

I'm stepping in at the end of a long thread that appears to have touched on some heavy stuff, but

I fucking hate Star Wars.

[Nikaer Drekin]

One thing I've been thinking about recently is that, in terms of movies, the prequel era was not exactly a high point for Star Wars. I've got a lot of affection for the prequels and I appreciate a lot of storytelling stuff they tried to do, but... as films, they're not great. But that same stretch of time was quite possibly the golden age for Star Wars video games.

There were so many fantastic games that came out around that time: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, the first two Battlefronts, Rogue Squadron, Republic Commando, the Jedi Knight games, even stuff like Episode One Racer. I never really got into Galaxies or Empire at War but I feel like they were really well-liked, too. It's unfortunate that Disney (and EA, I suppose) haven't really been able to match the bar for quality that LucasArts set in the late 90s and early 2000s.

[Yavuz]

One thing I've been thinking about recently is that, in terms of movies, the prequel era was not exactly a high point for Star Wars. I've got a lot of affection for the prequels and I appreciate a lot of storytelling stuff they tried to do, but... as films, they're not great. But that same stretch of time was quite possibly the golden age for Star Wars video games.

There were so many fantastic games that came out around that time: Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, the first two Battlefronts, Rogue Squadron, Republic Commando, the Jedi Knight games, even stuff like Episode One Racer. I never really got into Galaxies or Empire at War but I feel like they were really well-liked, too. It's unfortunate that Disney (and EA, I suppose) haven't really been able to match the bar for quality that LucasArts set in the late 90s and early 2000s.

It seems like the new Battlefronts weren't necessarily terrible games with regard to the actual gaming part, but EA/Disney's bad decisions hobbled them. IIRC, the rebooted Battlefront was released before it was finished because they wanted to link it to the release of The Force Awakens, so it came out kind of half-baked and bad. And then of course, new Battlefront II got fucked up because of EA's comical greediness.

I think another point to be made is that there have been quite a few Star Wars video games that have come out since Disney bought LucasFilm, but most of them have been on smartphones. Which is not ideal, just in general.

[Bunnybread]

I saw the new worstest movie ever in the history of mankind over on netflix.  I mean, I get it if folks are pissed that Luke died after a ForceTime call and that is a pretty weird way to go out.  But it wasn't THAT bad.

Got you, fam....
https://twitter.com/PTSDGuts/status/1048607343447920640/photo/1

Just click it.  I dunno how to embed shit.

[SHAMBA~1.SBB]

RIP, Peter Mayhew.

[Monkey’s Paw Wish]

So I kind of like The Mandalorian. A lot of that has to do with a very cute puppet.

[Dr. Buttplug]

Dog sat for my friend and got to watch the episodes of The Mandalorian that exist right now. I have one burning question: Do you think the Jawas eat those hairy eggs to get high or is it just like a rare delicacy for them?

[Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop]

Dog sat for my friend and got to watch the episodes of The Mandalorian that exist right now. I have one burning question: Do you think the Jawas eat those hairy eggs to get high or is it just like a rare delicacy for them?

Haven't seen mando, but my knowledge of jawas is that they drive around the desert selling shit (and lookin like the dudes from phantasm). If there was something that got jawas high I imagine it would lead to a massive restructuring of jawa society because they would compete to sell it. Just blue milk for thought!

[Dr. Buttplug]

Dog sat for my friend and got to watch the episodes of The Mandalorian that exist right now. I have one burning question: Do you think the Jawas eat those hairy eggs to get high or is it just like a rare delicacy for them?

Haven't seen mando, but my knowledge of jawas is that they drive around the desert selling shit (and lookin like the dudes from phantasm). If there was something that got jawas high I imagine it would lead to a massive restructuring of jawa society because they would compete to sell it. Just blue milk for thought!

Yeah they trade, but we're not really shown why they've chosen a nomadic lifestyle. It could be that they explore the desert. Maybe it's the best way to recover scrap and move from food source to food source, but maybe it's also a way to get crazy space cactus juice and disgusting animal glands for their psychoactive properties?

Anyway the sets and costumes are brilliant and make the show totally worth the price of admission (ideally paying for one month of Disney+ when all the episodes are available, or house-sitting for someone who has kids in my case.)

[Sauce]

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker is a movie about Star Wars.

[Agent (gobble, gobble) Coop]

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker is a movie about Star Wars.

And how!!!

[duz]

It feels like a Star Wars movie that was made in 2019.

[Spenny]

JJ Abrams retire bitch

doo doo ass movie

[I Liked That Joke]

I liked a lot of individual scenes but I was really disappointed by how they just dropped the emotional throughlines, themes and plots to make Return of the Jedi again. Also jesus christ I'm sick of planet destruction, we get it. Learn a new bit.

Here's my very long pitch for a better version, nsfw'd for length and spoilers by omission:

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No Palpatine, no fleet of star destroyers or huge sith army out of nowhere. Kylo goes after an ancient Sith artifact that would give him incredible evil powers (like galactic mind control or the power to throw planets around or something). The movie is about Rey, Finn, Poe and Rose et al. chasing after him or trying to get their first while the rebellion fights his first order in the background, kind of an Indiana Jones thing and it allows the cast's really good chemistry to shine. Rey and him get in a lot of lightsaber fights, there's some crazy sith traps and they have to get past all of Kylo's lackeys.
Rey is tempted to use the power for herself but her friends remind her of her humanity.
Finally Kylo is turned to the light and sacrafices himself to destroy the sith artifact (think lotr but  if smeagol beat gollum), Finn and Rey talk about their feelings, and some combination of Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose and BB-8 wind up romantically linked. I'd personally prefer a gay pairing to make reddit angry but I'll take whatever.

[Dr. Buttplug]

Palpy is back baby, and this time, he fucks.