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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

https://watch30rockonline.cc/ is one of my favorite website, I like just clicking random episode and watch 30 rock out of context. However, whenever S1 episode came out and it says "18 years ago" it feels depressing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And its still a piece of shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

The trailer vs the end product is truly something. They almost cut all of the expansive beach battle they spend months filming in the maladives.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago

I actually kinda like Rogue One but the main thing I remember about the movie is that when they properly introduce the blind monk character, Chirrut Îmwe, it's in the middle of a fight and he shows up to knock out stormtroopers with his walking stick. And at first it's sort of cool, but then it goes on forever, and it starts to feel silly, and you can feel the cracks in the choreography because you start to think "surely one of these guys would just shoot him in the back" and then the character is just there and basically doesn't do or say anything of significance until his death scene. Sort of the problem of the entire movie in microcosm. Lots of interesting ideas for characters that don't get much to do or say. Even the best fleshed out character, Jyn, feels contradictory and ultimately thinly characterized.

As I always say, the novelization is much better.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The scene where Jyn tells Cassian that he's basically a stormtrooper because he's willing to kill her father for the rebellion frames her as correct and it's such 2016 lib shit that it actually damages the 'evergreen' or 'timeless' quality you want in a fantasy movie

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Its also an last minute addition by gilroy. OG mads mickelsson dies because draven sends in bombers because he believes the mission has failed.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Andor makes her look like an idiot so good job Andor

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Nope.

Watch season one of Andor.

Watch season two of Andor.

Watch Rogue One. (this is when you realize Cassian Andor is the real star)

Watch Star Wars A New Hope.

Proceed to ignore all other Star Wars.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I've been struggling with whether to rewatch this one. The only time I saw it I got so zoinked on over the counter dissociatives that I basically lived inside the movie for most of the middle of it.

It was so awe-inspiring and terrifying that I don't want to paper over that experience with a normal watch, but I also don't remember good chunks of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

If you were wowed by it the first time, probably leave it as a memory. I’d you thought it was pretty good, you’re fine to rewatch. I just did and can report that it’s firmly pretty good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The last time I watched alien was on dissos and it was so unfathomably good I've always been afraid to go back and watch it again because I'm sure I'm going to be a little disappointed.

Also Rebel One is mid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Alien is peak still.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Alien is pretty good

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

It's a super mediocre movie, so you're probably best wirh the memory

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The last act, where it's just fighting and stealing the plans, holds up. The rest drags it down.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

There is some cool stuff but on the whole it's nothing special. Better than the other Disney movies and the prequels but that's cause it's just okay

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Sweet. People like to rave about it but I trust the Hexbear party line more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

It was the best Disney star wars product. So mid stands out amongst bad. Also the trailers was basically all scenes cut from the movie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

Still the 4th best star wars movie but that isn't really saying much.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Astonishingly odd move to be honest to not have originally built up the characters with the Andor series before doing the events that happened there. Harder to care for characters you just meet in an already big universe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Marvel was still in his infancy with their breakthrough of the bazillion tie-in movies and media, where to understand that movie you need to watch 20 others first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

They'd already released 15 of the MCU films by that point

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

tbf, the whole media landscape was way different back when Rogue One came out. it wouldn't be for another 5+ years that cinematic universes connecting tens of movies and multiple tv series would be the norm. Mandalorian was the first live action star wars, and it only started in 2019

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Rogue one was the last Star warts movie i watched in any capacity. I checked out after that. Made me realize i really don't give a rip about those movies in any context.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

That shit happened to me in 2008. Went from reading the novels as they came out to completely dropping the entire franchise, since then I've kinda just observed it from afar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it's because I'm just an outsider to it now, but good grief there just seems like there's so much of it. Disney (that's who owns it right?) is really getting their moneys worth imo. And it all looks like shit, frankly.

My kids aren't even interested in it, but maybe that speaks to my being out of touch with kids now of days more than my children's dislike of SW.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

I summed up everything that I'd call "good" or better in the Star Wars TV and movie canon a few days ago in another thread and it's depressing how much of the franchise is slop - but Disney is just carrying the torch, they didn't start the fire.

Anyway the worthwhile TV and movie bits are: the original trilogy, the clone wars TV movie (the 2D animated one, not the 3D one that I linked), the Mandolorian Season 1, and Andor seasons 1 & 2. Everything else can be skipped.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

oh lord that movie is so bad and should've gotten the TV show cancelled or substantially reworked

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

The show ended up being one of the best parts of Star Wars imho, the spinoffs Bad Batch and Tales of the Jedi/Empire/Underworld are all good too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

nah spider maul and "the family" are irredeemable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I've tried to watch it and I'm sorry to say that it actually sucks. Even the "good episodes" that people have specifically recommended to me suck. It's written for babies and the animation looks like garbage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Bad Batch shit the bed. They wanted to do a legends style clone rebellion but then cut it short. I can’t believe battlefront handled the kamino rebellion much better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

2nd, I still think of Umbara from time to time

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It got the show green lit. The movie was the pilot if I recall

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

yeah it was the pilot and it was dogshit. dunno how the series was allowed to proceed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

The series from what I saw was as well. I tried like 10 episodes or so like 10 years ago cause every nerd ever said it made the prequels not suck. The show is trash and holy shit anakin and ashoka are such a 2000s 19 year old dating a 15 year old vibe

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

There was this press circuit video where they had a Star Wars quiz for the cast and Diego got a question about something from Rogue One. Adria said something like "you have to know this one" and his response of "that was like 10 years ago" gave me the chomsky-yes-honey

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Best part of that interview is Denise Gough and Ben Mendelsohn just repeating the word “Kalkite” back to each other in character voices and cracking up.