As a friend once said “how can you be a reformed scoundrel, if you were never one to begin with?”I never got why they had to mess with that scene. They really dorked it, to make Hans seem nicer... WHY LUCAS??![]()
As a friend once said “how can you be a reformed scoundrel, if you were never one to begin with?”I never got why they had to mess with that scene. They really dorked it, to make Hans seem nicer... WHY LUCAS??![]()
My impression was that the bounty on Hans Solo was dead or alive, Greedo is holding a gun on Solo and tells him he has been looking forward to this, which I always assumed he meant to kill him to collect the bounty. So what would we expect him to do? Self preservation.As a friend once said “how can you be a reformed scoundrel, if you were never one to begin with?”
Yep, yep, yep.My impression was that the bounty on Hans Solo was dead or alive, Greedo is holding a gun on Solo and tells him he has been looking forward to this, which I always assumed he meant to kill him to collect the bounty.
link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first
My impression was that the bounty on Hans Solo was dead or alive, Greedo is holding a gun on Solo and tells him he has been looking forward to this, which I always assumed he meant to kill him to collect the bounty.
link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_shot_first
Are you joking around a little or did she come out and say some crazy SJW crap?
Disney can never seem to get any of its "Star Wars" movies to do well in China, and an actor from one of its movies knows why.
In a recent interview with JoBlo, Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen, who played Chirrut Îmwe in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," gave his take on why it seems that the Middle Kingdom is the only region in the world that doesn't have "Star Wars" fever, and it matches with what some analysts have posited.
"Chinese audiences didn't grow up with 'Star Wars' culture so unfortunately it didn't work," Yen said of the poor "Rogue One" performance there. "Marvel is a lot easier to understand. 'Star Wars,' there's a whole universe out there. Marvel, from the costumes, to the music, to the idols, to the stars, it's much easier to close the gap between the film itself and the audience."
Yen's thoughts mirror what analysts have been telling us for the last year.
"The characters that have become iconic in other countries — in the United States Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker and Han Solo have been elevated to revered cult status — there is no such feeling in China and that has impacted the box office prospects there," comScore box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian told Business Insider after the release of "The Last Jedi."
"The Middle Kingdom treats 'Star Wars' like a second-class cinematic citizen," Jeff Bock, a senior analyst for Exhibitor Relations, said after the release of "Solo."
But Disney doesn't have that problem with its Marvel properties.
What were the complaints? Was he "too short?"![]()
Earlier today, it seemed like #BlackStormtrooper might actually eclipse #BlackFriday as a trending topic. That’s because the official trailer that aired Friday for the next film in the Star Wars saga—The Force Awakens, directed by J.J. Abrams and scheduled for release in December 2015—opens on a black man wearing a stormtrooper’s uniform.
The man, who is played by John Boyega (of Attack the Block), pops into view perspiring and panting hard. He is surrounded by desert: in all likelihood the rolling dunes of Tatooine, the homeworld of both Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. And he appears to be in trouble.
Maybe the only people more alarmed than Boyega by his circumstances were commenters surprised by the sight of a black man’s head emerging from the white plate armor of an Imperial stormtrooper. People on Reddit compared the trailer to a scene from the 1987 Mel Brooks spoof Space Balls, a gag that plays up a black stormtrooper as jive-talkin’. In other threads and on Twitter, some people registered mere racist shock. But a few corners of the Internet turned to the internal logic of the Star Wars universe to appeal the presence of a black stormtrooper. Didn’t the prequels reveal that all stormtroopers were white clones?
No, they didn't. In Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi travels to the secretive planet of Kamino, where he discovers the existence of a clone army that would feed the so-called Clone Wars and eventually serve as the model for the evil Galactic Empire’s stormtrooper infantry. (Spoiler alert: Don’t watch the prequels.) Those clones weren’t white in any sense of the word. Jango Fett, the bounty hunter who served as the genetic template, was culturally (and perhaps ethnically) a Mandalorian. And the actor who portrays him, Temuera Derek Morrison, is a New Zealand-born person of brown skin and partial Maori descent.
Even if Morrison and Fett (and all of his clones) choose to pass as white, by the time of the events of Episode IV: A New Hope, the Empire has been recruiting from general populations for years. That’s why it makes sense that a young Luke Skywalker, lured by a galaxy larger than the humble moisture farm he calls home on Tatooine, dreams of enlisting in the Imperial Navy.
Neither Star Wars nor Disney needs redemption.
Surely you exaggerate just a bit.My thinking as well. Solo was "just ok" but I've ranged from "love" (Rogue One) to "like" on the films. They're a trillion times better than the prequels IMO.
True. Revenge of the Sith was really enjoyable.Surely you exaggerate just a bit.I'd accept 1000 times better.
Anyhow, I agree about Rogue One - fantastic film and one that hit me in the feels at the end.
Surely you exaggerate just a bit.I'd accept 1000 times better.
Anyhow, I agree about Rogue One - fantastic film and one that hit me in the feels at the end.
True. Revenge of the Sith was really enjoyable.
Same!![]()
Rogue One is like watching the real Star Wars Episode 3.![]()
I like that.Oh, what if this HAD been the case, but there had still been three prequels:
- One prequel that tells the story of Anakin Skywalker, from young child to birth of Vader.
- One prequel that functioned as a political thriller explaining the origins of the Empire vs the Rebellion in the context of the Jedi/Sith construct, including Palpatine's usurpation of power.
- Rogue One.
I really think that part of the problem with the prequels was that it stretched what would have easily been one movie into three, but then still left whole swaths of story unexplored. Nothing really made great sense and all we really learned about Anakin was that he didn't like sand.
That could have led into the original trilogy, with the current trilogy wrapping up the Skywalker saga WHILE resolving the Sith/Empire conflict. IX could have been Rey and Kylo training together under Leia to bring balance to the Force (and universe).
(And, for that matter, still could be. With some Force ghost Luke, Obi-Wan, AND Anakin for good measure. Imagine how it would affect Kylo to commune with Vader . . . only to discover Anakin.)
ETA - That political thriller prequel could have been the story of Obi-Wan -- a Ben Kenobi/James Bond-esque sort of story. And thereby set up what happened to him between Sith and New Hope.
“You’re disliking it wrong!”. That’s a new one....there is a really toxic group of fans who didn't like the sequels, in particular TLJ, for all the wrong reasons.
That's the thing, it might have - and there was some explanation given in other official media. As someone who did all my university studies in history I know everytime an empire or large polity falls, especially a dictatorship, it can get messy. Considering the galaxy went through two devastating wars with a brutal regime in-between it's "realistic" to see something like a First Order inspired by the idea of Nazis setting up a regime in South America after their defeat. Or we could have left the happy ending and gone with your idea set a century later.
The worst about this though is the reaction of fans, I honestly don't care if people have a different subjective opinion than mine but there is a really toxic group of fans who didn't like the sequels, in particular TLJ, for all the wrong reasons. Any criticism now is lumped in with these fans and it is disheartening.
I meant they were screaming about "the SJWs" are taking over and attacking the role of female leads for being female and threatening white men. This is some what I have read...Can you elaborate on this? Are you referring to some of the criticism that was thrown towards a few of the characters based on who or what they are?
I thought the movie was absolute garbage. Slow speed chase through space and the General mary popping it through space, give me a freaking break. From that point on, the movie lost me and never got me back. I have only seen it once and that was enough for me.
I have low expectations for Episode 9, very low expectations. I liked JJ's last outing, it was tolerable, not my favorite, but definitely not my least favorite.
I am pessimistic about episode 9 based on what came before it, weak writing based on way to many recycled ideas. I believe fans did not want to relive episodes 4-6, at least not story wise, they wanted the Star Wars magic achieved with Rogue One, but to be taken into a fresh new Star Wars adventure they could love, like a child. Imo, so far, they have not gotten that.I am cautiously optimistic for Episode IX
I have to admit though, the end of the trailer gave me goosebumps![]()
I am pessimistic about episode 9 based on what came before it, weak writing based on way to many recycled ideas. I believe fans did not want to relive episodes 4-6, at least not story wise, they wanted the Star Wars magic achieved with Rogue One, but to be taken into a fresh new Star Wars adventure they could love, like a child. Imo, so far, they have not gotten that.
I blame Abrams and Disney. They had all the opportunity and the budget, but they just did not have it in them to forge into new original territory, too risky I guess, so let’s fall back on what worked before. In the process they short changed the SWs Universe, to fill their purses. Story purity? HaHa, who needs that?![]()