holy shit we dodged a fucking bullet there
JLaw actually has an acting style that would really mesh with Quentin.
(since both are reddit as fuck)
>>64098413
Her feet probably weren't up to Tarantinos standards.
>>64098413
i could see her playing six horse judy
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>“Luke Skywalker has vanished” read the first words of the iconic yellow-text scroll we've come to expect from each new entry in the Star Wars franchise, and with them J.J. Abrams has established a framework from which to construct the inaugural entry of this new trilogy: a search for the past that allows for liberal borrowing from its extant mythology's proven strengths.
>The Force Awakens is another of Abram's competent, reverential, and blessedly humorous reconstitutions of an established fantasy world, this time with an added benefit of the inherent, deep-seated emotional attachment many have to this particular constellation of characters and milieus. There's a new crop of heroes and villains here, but they're all directed to seek counsel from the old ones, a tact that both serves to elegantly fill in some narrative gaps in the 30 years that have elapsed since 1983's Return of the Jedi, and form an extended metaphor for Abrams's own earnest recycling of the story structure and dramatic beats of George Lucas's original film.
>The plot here is a basic inversion of 1977's A New Hope. This time it's a female protagonist, Rey (Daisy Ridley), who's winnowing her life away on some desert planet until the arrival of a messenger droid (a cute tag-along, BB-8, that's more WALL-E than R2D2) sets her on a mission to deliver a map with Luke Skywalker's whereabouts. And her male counterparts are this film's joint Leia surrogates: a pilot, Poe Dameron (Oscar Issac), who's taken prisoner by the First Order (formerly the Empire), and a rogue stormtrooper-with-a-conscience, Finn (John Boyega), who frees him.
>A series of divine coincidences leads three of these four characters (Poe is estranged from the rest of the cast for much of the film) aboard the Millennium Falcon, which leads, like a homing beacon, to the smuggling freighter of its former owners, Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford). The new baddies—including a constantly screaming General Hux (Domhall Gleeson), the Vader-masked Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), and a CGI hybrid of Galactus and Voldermort known as Supreme Leader Snoke—pursue our heroes, and inevitably, a certain series-rhyming casualty follows.
>Abrams is with little doubt the best director to helm these familiar beats since the late Irvin Kershner, and if his franchise entry doesn't boast The Empire Strikes Back's particularly potent concoction of drama or space-opera romantic sweep, it does serve as an always welcome corrective to the current franchise climate of gloomy self-seriousness, calibrating its tonal alchemy to Spaceballs-worthy silliness (“I can't understand you in that mask”) with a surprising, and welcome, frequency.
>This levity makes it difficult to find too much fault in the film even when it exists less as a meaningful extension of its world than as a fan-service deployment device, in part because every eye roll-worthy moment (another Death Star to destroy?) is preempted by the film's own built-in eye-roll response gag (”...but bigger!”). Also because its affectionate call-backs are doled out with such underlying competence, from the fleet narrative's clean, three-act structure, to the convincingly deployed iconic visual grammar of wipes and agile dolly shots, to the strength of the performances. Ford, in particular, is better here than he ever was in the original trilogy, taking to his role as sage veteran and guide with a wiliness and scrappy, irreverent charm that informs the character of the film itself.
>But The Force Awakens is still more or less a fetish object, a film that exists to inspire phrases like “It feels like Star Wars again” ad nauseam from a fanbase that equates the lasting impact of Lucas's prequels as something akin to PTSD. Its analog grain, practical effects work (shrewdly augmented with CGI), and the impression, at least, of a new story in this universe being told, rather than the predetermined one we were subjected to last time, lend Abrams's effort a baseline rejuvenation, one he and returning screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan stoke throughout with the kind of nostalgia this series has been exploiting since it first co-opted John Fordian vistas and plot points from Akira Kurosawa films. The strategy works because mining mythology gives the impression of discovery, but one hopes that having thoroughly dredged that particular well for all possible returns, the next Star Wars installment may go looking for this franchise's future instead of safely dwelling in its past.
-Sam C. Mac, Slant Magazine
>>64098401
I look at that picture and think
>There must be some way outta here
>said the joker to the thief
The top ten films of the decade so far.
10. DJANGO UNCHAINED
9. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
8. WAR HORSE
7. DRIVE
6. ENTER THE VOID
5. THE SOCIAL NETWORK
4. INCEPTION
3. A SEPARATION
2. SHAME
1. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
>>64098422
name one bad film on my list, and what am I missing?
>>64098384
>inception
>war horse
>drive
>shame
holy fuck this is cringeworthy
watch more films
Ok I never watched a Star Trek. And I think I start watching from a movies.
Is The Wrath of Khan good one to start ?
>And I think I start watching from a movies.
No.
>Is The Wrath of Khan good one to start ?
Yes. But no. Don't start watching from the movies.
Televised Trek is the superior Trek, the essential Trek, the real Trek.
Watch a Top Ten or Top Twenty episode list of TOS. If you like what you see, go back to the beginning and watch the whole show.
Watch the pilot of TNG, then try watching from the beginning of the third season. If you like what you see, go back to the beginning and watch the whole show.
Save DS9 as a reward for when you finish TOS and TNG.
>>64098380
If you're going to watch Wrath if Khan at least watch the episode Space Seed first.
>>64098380
why would you start a trek thread without a trek picture you cockgobbler? now it will take twice the work to keep the fire going
So fucking dissapointing. Villeneuve has great talent for creating suspense, but gets lost in action and his best directing feat consists of letting his cinematographer do the location filming. I think Sicario is the most poorly written film I've seen since Prometheus. At least Counselor didn't pretend its outbursts of prose were grounded in reality. This movie thrives on creating ludicrous plot resolution in order to fit in punchlines. I bet the fucker that wrote this envisioned the dinner scene and went ass backwards from there. It's like a fucking video game plot.
>muh video games
stop trying to force this meme you autist
A bunch of mad kiddos are going to try to refute you because they simply didn't notice.
>>64098313
But Villeneuve himself said that the whole night vision sequence was influenced by video game shooters.
Complete the sentence for her
I glad she moved from /v/ideogames to /tv/
>>64098176
Here's your >her
What the fuck do you expect from Point Break? You might as well criticize TMNT for being unrealistic.
Maybe Point Break was made for bros, not trans women?
What movie has the most Mary Sue character you can think of?
>>64098156
Lucy, probably
An amateurish film with a major fault such as a Mary Sue isn't gonna get funded in most cases.
Harry Potter
Seriously, what the fuck was he thinking about?
Nothing.
Same as the people who paid to see it.
Who is this semen demon?
what is this from?
>I ran the numbers
>It checks out!!!
>I did the math
>It checks outs!!!
i am an asdro fizzisist
>>64097967
GRANDMA PLAYS THE NUMBERS
>>64097967
>I'm the only one that knows about gravitational thrust!
BRAVA RIDLEY
Is Sheev the happiest person in the Star Wars universe?
No but he's certainly the most overrated.
>>64097980
Can't Peeve the Sheev!
oh boy another sheev thread
Oscar Isaac on whether R2-D2 is a boy or a girl
>What is gender? You know, let's talk about that. Let's talk about gender and artificial intelligence, maybe...
>...you know gender is a very, uh, it's a fluid thing.
What did he mean by this?
>instead of saying that he is a fucking robot and has no gender he bring in SWJ politics
jews, wetbacks and niggers. Good fucking god, where did it all go wrong?
>>64097984
Gender is a fluid thing though
Sex isn't but gender definitely is
sauce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7N17DN8wRk
Watched this for the first time today.
Based as fuck. A fantastic Christmas movie and a better action movie than any Marvel-brand piece of shit.
Made me think about how I want to make action shorts. Make the characters likable, and give them clear-cut goals.
Also, the fucking bantz in this movie were top-tier.
>>64097871
Bump
>>64097871
Do yourself a favor and don't watch any of the others besides maybe the third one, you'll regret it and they will ruin the series for you.
>>64098507
That's what I've heard. After seeing this one, I don't think they could follow up with some PG-13 piece of shit co-starring professional charisma vacuum Jai Courtney
Anyone see Concussion? Is it worth seeing? Will Smith get an oscar?
>>64097770
For playing a crazy voodoo "doctor"? No
Nigga bought his medical degree from some african shithole for $20 and an AK47
Tell de troof. Tell de truf
I am waiting the subtitles tbqhf
Holy fuck this was awful. Only got 20 minutes into the first episode and it was already full blown feminist drivel.
>all males are retarded or incompetent bible thumpers
>the females are the only ones who can do things right and are the only powerful characters
>edward iii portrayed as a pussy wimp
Digusting 0/10 whoever wrote this shit up should kill themselves. Worst tv show i've ever seen and thats saying something
>>64097481
Pillars was amazing though, so I am still going to check it out. The guy in the christmas thread said this was just subpar, which seems to be the general opinion now that I looked it up.
2015 etc
you are better off watching something older
>>64098968
Yeah im a big fan of historical fiction and series like 'the devil's crown' and 'i claudius' and 'les rois maudits' gave me a hard on. Even 'Rome' was pretty decent. But nowadays, you CANNOT find a good historical drama that isn't riddled with gender issues or muh diversity
>800mill in on week
Has another movie ever done so?
And now everyone who was going to see it has seen it. It will crack just a little over a billion then fade into obscurity.
James Cameron will kill himself. No one cares about Avatar 2.
I hope he comes with an original story and blow away Star Wars as the highest grossing movie ever.
