>on a desert planet with limited water and food sources
Does she ever bathe? Or does she reek of body odor? Also, how come she can afford perfect hair, eyebrows, makeup and shaven legs?
Bravo JJ.
Smells like Amelia Clark i bet. Beefy.
>>64628915
hello screbbit
I want to suck her cute feet clean!
Discuss horror & exploitation!
Cool movies I've watched in recent days:
>The Cinemasnob Movie
>Hellraiser
>The Burning
>Poultrygeist
>City Of The Living Dead
>A Serbian Film
>Braindead
All were good :^)
Does anyone by chance know a horror film that involves as much cuckery as does Hellraiser? That shit was a blast.
>>64628553
did you actually sit through blood sucking freaks, then?
>>64628683
clive barker tends to use infidelity as a plot point alot
I really really like this movie
>>64628462
It's quite a good flick, yes
Cruise saved sci-fi
Then you have /v/edora sensibilities
The prequels were more than just a popcorn flick. They had deeply interlaced stories and foreshadowing with subplots unfolding into subplots all of which were paramount to the overall story arch. The prequels can be watched in three ways. 1) As the relationship background of Obi-Wan and Vader 2) The galactic series of events that led to the creation of the empire and 3) The rise of Darth Sidious.
Meanwhile TFA is practically Star Trek in its presentation, has no emerging subplots or interesting character relationships beyond the most hamfisted and forced bromance ever put to film, a girl that suddenly is as powerful as ROTJ Luke with zero training, and zero mention on the state of the galaxy. We just know there's a first order and a new republic but never learn about their intentions besides disney villain reasons for destroying things.
The prequels were flawed masterpieces with an overuse of ageing CGI, but TFA is practically capeshit.
I'm glad people are starting to realize the prequels are bad meme is bullshit.
>>>>>>reddit.com
the prequels are classic shakespearean theater tone and style mixed with a greek tragedy story and modern political drama intrigue. All of this combined with breathtaking effects and worldbuilding from hollywood's premier idea man and visual technology innovator and it blends together for something truly special. It's patrician cinema at its highest form.
Rey is not a Mary Sue, I can prove it.
>malnourished scavenger fights off two men twice her size
Been living there for most of her life and either has fuzzy memories of her early training and/or she taught herself.
>fumbles at first, then suddenly outmaneuvers 2 TIE fighters while flying through a scrapyard and though the inside of a ship
She knows those star destroyers. She scavenges in them, has been for years. and it's not impossible that she has found smaller ships that could still be in good enough shape and taught herself to fly.
>master mechanic that can quickly identify problems with ships she's never flown on
She has probably snuck aboard that ship/found plenty of stuff over the years and studied them. There are ships littered on that planet.
>full on force vision from touching a lightsaber, hears Obiwan speaking
Anakin had something similar, just in the form of a dream. The Force will manifest itself however the hell it wants.
>never used a gun before, fumbles at first, then suddenly starts dropping storm troopers left and right
Force sensitive. They tend to have higher reflexes than most. This is canon.
>Trained Sith Apprentice mind read barely works on her, then reads his mind in return
Force Sensitive. Also, she still probably had some kind of training if not had someone tamper with her head.
>Jedi mind trick on guard out of nowhere
She failed twice. Jedi are myth, but she still knew of them. Also, Kylo was trying to do the same, no matter how differently he was doing it. Enforcing his will on her. It's the same basic principal.
>Trained force user Kylo Ren has trouble pulling lightsaber towards him, but it rockets towards Rey from 40 meters
Sheer force of will. Not to mention when seeing your friend nearly die, emotion and focus tends to come in here.
>100 pound woman bests trained swordsman
He was injured and not fighting her as seriously as he wanted. He wanted her to come with him. She took advantage of that.
Explaining WHY she's a Mary Sue doesn't disprove that she's one, it just further confirms it
Reposting because you guys don't know what a Mary Sue is
The problem with Rey is not that she beats the odds or that she has special abilities. She is just overly competent on a, and this is important, IMMERSION BREAKING level.
We know the the vague rules of Star Wars and and we know the laws of the universe and we know how other characters compare (which is why Mary Sue's are usually fan fiction characters, because they just completely shit on everything that was set in the fictional universe)
Here let me give you an example:
A good skill of Rey is that she's tech savvy. She is a scavenger hunting for scrap parts, so of course she knows how technology and electronic parts work.
What doesn't make sense is that she can shoot her way out of Storm Troopers (who finally appear as competent in this movie) with a locked gun AND without knowing how to actually use a gun, while the Storm Troopers keep missing.
Fin doesn't know how to fight with a Light Saber properly, which makes sense and he got a little better with it when he fought Ren, but it still wasn't enough.
Then Rey picks up the Light Saber and immediately starts fighting like she's been weilding Light Sabers all her life.
Then there's the whole force shit. Yeah the force is powerful within her, but even for people who have a powerful force affinity they need to learn how to control it.
Luke needed two entire movies to become proficient with the force and STILL was too weak. Anakin got a full Jedi training and was STILL too weak to beat Obi Wan.
Rey breaks the immersion here by immediately becoming a force expert simply by closing her eyes for 5 seconds. It's just bullshit.
Then there's the fact that every character immediately loves her.
Han, who generally doesn't trust people, instantly offers her to make her his second officer. Chewie loves her DESPITE NEVER EVEN HAVE INTERACTED WITH HER (leaving aside that Chewbacca is also a character who generally doesn't like strangers)
Cont.
>>64625249
Leia wishes her good luck even though she doesn't even know who the fuck she is.
Heck even newly introduced characters immediately love her like that weird granny Han introduced the squad to. She immediately cares about her for no reason, while she was also described to be a rather difficult person and even is rather rough to Fin and Han. It's immersion breaking because it just completely goes against what you just learned about the character. But you know she needs to act nice to her, because everyone we're supposed to like acts nice to Mary Sue and everyone who we're supposed to hate is mean to Mary Sue.
This holds true for this movie as well.
Heck Kylo Ren has an inexplicable obsession over her even though he never met her AND he knows that the robot is the thing that actually has the information AND even though it would make more sense to be obsessed with Fin, because he's a traitor.
But that was sidelined because Kylo needed to be obsessed with Mary Sue, because she's the one the universe revolves around.
In general you ask yourself what even the point of Rey is in the movie and why she's in this conflict although she's disconnected from everyone. Yeah there's BB8 but he also only immediately trusts Mary Sue just because. If BB8's goal was to find his master there was no reason for him to follow her. She could've been some Scavenger who sells him for his parts (And you know that's actually what she is, but she goes against her original motivation, because Mary Sue is kind to everyone and everyone loves her for her kindness)
And there's minor shit, like her getting jumped by some brutes only to lead up to a generic "hero saves girl" scene where they met, but instead she beats them herself, making the scene entirely pointless. The only thing that scenes like that leave you with a "what was the point of that?" feeling.
And all this leads to an incredible boring character you just can't invested into,
Cont.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-the-seven-star-wars-films-reveal-about-george-lucas
>If I had seen “Revenge of the Sith” in real time, in a theatre upon its release, in 2005, I think that, at the moment when Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), sizzling in the blue lightning that Mace Windu (Samuel L. Jackson) reflects back at him, cries out to Anakin (Hayden Christensen), “Power! Unlimited Power!,” I would have leaped out of my seat yelling with excitement. The entire movie is filled with an absolute splendor of the pulp sublime, and that moment is its very apogee.
>>64624874
>It’s nice to see George Lucas get a little love (as Bryan Curtis noted this week). Yet this retroactive recognition is nonetheless proof that a filmmaker can be both rich as Croesus and assured of a place in history while still remaining a misunderstood and unappreciated artist. Lucas’s great achievement isn’t the conception of the “Star Wars” saga, the inauguration of the franchise, or his consignment of it to Disney for cloning ad infinitum. Those are for the movie books, for the pundits who reduce movies to such sociological oxymorons as “collective imagination,” the cultural counterparts to industry analysts who talk only about box office. What endures for the critics and their lay associates, for aesthetes who live for the beauty and the pleasure of movies, is Lucas’s directing—of two films, “Attack of the Clones” and, especially, “Revenge of the Sith.” If Lucas had done nothing else in his life, he’d have an honored place in my personal pantheon for that work.
>>64624907
>It’s easy for me to say so, because I only just saw those films now, after a few days of not-quite-binge-watching of the Blu-ray set of the series. I’m nearly a “Star Wars” newbie. Prior to viewing “The Force Awakens,” I had seen the first film in the series (the one belatedly renamed “A New Hope,” from 1977) some time in the nineteen-eighties, and none of the others. That’s because I was utterly underwhelmed by “A New Hope,” impressed solely by the world-making of the script—the delivery of a ready-made but minor mythology—but neither moved nor fascinated nor at all delighted by the filmmaking. Rather, I was shocked—that the director of “American Graffiti” could have constrained himself to create such a turgid, stilted, flat, and textureless movie. I wasn’t working as a film critic or journalist at the time (or when any of the subsequent five films came out). I went to the movies guided solely by pleasure, even curiosity, and nothing in the viewing of “A New Hope” induced me to catch up with the then-recent releases of “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi,” nor to follow along with the three prequels.
>I was wrong not to watch. But it would have taken a couple of decades to find out how wrong I was, because the marathon watching of “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Return of the Jedi,” and “The Phantom Menace” was a chore (for the record, a self-imposed chore). “A New Hope” at least had the merit of coming first—it had the element of surprise—along with a comically flat direction that appeared to be a parody of the mediocre serials on which it was based. “Empire” and “Jedi” had nothing parodistic; their absurd earnestness and the bombastic banality of their direction (by Irvin Kershner and Richard Marquand, respectively) are a perfect match for the oppressive, hectoring John Williams scores that accompanied them.
>>64624933
>My colleague Alex Ross recently wrote in praise of Williams’s music for the “Star Wars” series. I defer to Alex regarding the details of musical knowledge and craft that Williams displays; I differ with him regarding the emotional and sonic affect of the music. Hearing Williams’s compositions for “Star Wars” is like being ordered, loudly and aggressively, to feel, and to feel one thing. It sounds calculated to bludgeon a viewer into submission, to create a cowed unanimity of simple and narrow emotions that are the antithesis of imagination and fantasy.
>If there was nostalgic, faux-naïve whimsy in Lucas’s inaugural installment of “Star Wars,” it was gone from “Empire” and “Jedi,” replaced by a hegemonic bellow for devotion and belief. A friend—who happens to be one of the best critics around—says that the “Star Wars” saga has become the closest thing to shared religious belief among contemporary Americans. He told me this before I had seen “Empire” and “Jedi.” Now I believe him, but I’d add that it’s not a joyful religion, not a terrifying or awe-inspiring one, but a wet blanket of piety that replaces passions with palliatives, and mysteries with nostrums.
>I watched the series in the order of release—4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3—because it makes no less narrative sense to do so. It’s the age of Christopher Nolan, not to mention the two “Godfather” films, so it shouldn’t take a Ph.D. in Alain Resnais to make sense of a series in flashback, especially because the series superimposes two time frames on each other—the characters’ evolution, and the evolution of the series itself. I’m much more interested in the latter, and that interest brought rewards that far exceeded that of the ostensibly grand narrative revelation at the end of “Jedi.”
The alien races and alien animals in TFA don't really resemble Star Wars. Star Wars aliens tend to have a particular look to them, both the sentients and the beasts. TFA's aliens all look like they were ripped off some other franchise's aliens.
And they didn't even bring back Twi'leks, Biths, Sullustans, etc.
And pic related is not something you'd expect from Star Wars.
>>64623945
>Sullustans
nien nunb was literally in the movie
I thought they looked like D&D monsters. The whole thing had a rather D&D feel to it, which makes me greatly anticipate the Darths And Droids version.
There was another D&D-esque part in the movie, at the end when Rey "uses the force" and closes her eyes to do a little meditation thing before beating Kylo in a saber fight. That was her levelling up, buying and then immediately using Battle Meditation, which anyone who has played KotOR will remember is a broken-as-fuck buff/debuff power.
This is the day boys.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROY
>>64622546
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROY!
Happy Birthday, Roy! Those moments won't be lost!
Deadwood movie
Happening
2016
Thank you based Home Box Office
>Yesterday, we received confirmation of this Deadwood movie from a very reliable source: Michael Lombardo, the president of network programming at HBO.
>“It’s going to happen,” he said.
Google it because I can't post the link because of this god damn spam system
>Specifically, Lombardo confirmed to TVLine that creator “David [Milch] has our commitment that we are going to do it. He pitched what he thought generally the storyline would be — and knowing David, that could change. But it’s going to happen.”
>The timing of the movie, however, is still uncertain. Lombardo said that David Milch is currently working on another project, but that as soon as he wraps up work on it, his full attention will turn toward the film. There is, however, the matter of bringing back the cast. HBO is lucky in that regard: Almost the entire cast of Deadwood is made up of character actors, and those who have gone on to find bigger fame elsewhere — Timothy Olyphant, Anna Gunn, Ian McShane, Dayton Callie, and John Hawkes — are not currently tied to any major series projects now that Sons of Anarchy and Justified, infamous users of Deadwood alums, have gone off the air.
Can you faggots stop arguin about Star Wars for 5 minutes
Can we for a moment address something that has been grating on me for a few weeks now that everyone seems to ignore.
Lets forget about Finn being played by Boyega, lets ignore his terrible acting. Lets ignore every SJW argument, counter argument etc.
Can we, for fucks sake discuss how this character was written?
This guy is the stereotypical Star Wars fan, what Hollywood thinks the young millennial SWs fans are like. He looks at everything in wonderment like a three year old visiting SW DIsneyland. He talks to everybody like he's a millennial kid. His character doesn't fit the universe. His mannerisms, his dialect, everything is out of character for SW. He is supposed to relate to the fans, but he is in fact such a horrible cliche that I hate him for it.
This is a valid criticism of TFA, I'd figure more /tv/ fucks would be on this like maggots on Han's dead body. Guess /tv/ only hates TFA when they want to be contrarian.
>>64619039
And nearly everything he does is for comedic effect. He's not Jar Jar annoying, but he's certainly the comic relief character
>>64619039
You put in way too much effort for just another "I hate niggers" thread. This movie and this site destroyed your mind and you're not even aware of it.
Okay, so if this guy can stop a fucking BLASTER BOLT midair, and he can force grab or whatever that officer guy and drag him towards him midair, totally against the guy's will, he obviously has a pretty solid control of the force. Technically more than Vader, who never did more than lightly choke a guy.
SO WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T HE EVEN TRY THIS SHIT AGAINST FINN AND REY???
>b-but his entire character is about how unfocused he is and how he has no confidence and Rey already outmatched him once
Okay so you literally don't even try? And what about Finn? In what universe would you approach melee distance with a guy holding a lightsaber, no matter how much you thought it would be an easy win? Just fucking force throw shit at the guy.
Fuck there was a lot wrong with this movie but that made my eyes roll so hard they fell out of their sockets. Even when he's clearly losing the upper hand against either of them, he never once tries desperately to throw a rock at them or something. And don't get me started on three people involved in a fight with laser swords that cut through metal like butter all surviving with minor grazing wounds. And then deus ex chasm opening up perfectly between Rey and Kylo without Rey so much as falling down.
Like, there's plenty of pedantic shit you can say, but these are just stupid decisions made by the producers to make the movie more "dramatic" or "interesting". You didn't HAVE to make these choices that are so fucking hairbrained they fall apart the minute you turn your brain on.
>realism
>space wizards
>>64610371
this tbqh f a m
>>64610371
It's not about realism. It's about logic.
So after Kylo Ren is Grievous no longer the shittiest villain in Star Wars?
Dis is Impossibru!
No, Grievous was really great in the Clone Wars cartoons, particularly the Tartakovsky star wars miniseries.
Kylo Ren did a good job playing the "young, immature, inexperienced" Sith.
The worst villain is Darth Maul. Shows up, says nothing, dies. No character at all.
>>64632149
This. I don't even dislike Gunray, but he is pretty much useless.
How come no agent noticed him yet? He could be a big hollywood thing in no time.
Just not funny.
>>64629623
they have a thing with adult swim now
>>64629646
jew detected
he's the size of a child and balding. Good luck building a career on that
>black comedian
>black people be like this and white people be like that
Idiot.
The whole African American existence is that of the yard stick of they're perpetrator.
Stockholm syndrome refers to a group of psychological symptoms that occur in some persons in a captive or hostage situation. It has received considerable media publicity in recent years because it has been used to explain the behavior of such well-known kidnapping victims as Patty Hearst (1974) and Elizabeth Smart (2002). The term takes its name from a bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 1973. The robber took four employees of the bank (three women and one man) into the vault with him and kept them hostage for 131 hours. After the employees were finally released, they appeared to have formed a paradoxical emotional bond with their captor; they told reporters that they saw the police as their enemy rather than the bank robber, and that they had positive feelings toward the criminal. The syndrome was first named by Nils Bejerot (1921–1988), a medical professor who specialized in addiction research and served as a psychiatric consultant to the Swedish police during the standoff at the bank. Stockholm syndrome is also known as Survival Identification Syndrome.
>female comedian
>MUH VAGAAAAIIIIINNNNNNAAAAAAA
>>64629228
Don't you enjoy? I enjoy.
That helicopter shot was like the intro to Father Ted
ah rey you're an awful eejit
KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE SIDES
>>64628146
in my head, the only reason that scene happened the way it did was because some suit wanted it that way.
