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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 25, 2016 10:47:37 GMT -5
Y'know, I've never actually seen the holiday special. Is it wrong that all this talk about it is making think I should finally watch it? Or are my self abusive tendencies coming up again? If you're ok with throwing away an hour of your life you will never get back to watch something that even the 9-10 year old Star Wars fanatic in me recognized as pure crap and a waste of time even when there was no other new Star Wars content available, then go for it. I put away my Star Wars figures for like a week and a half after watching it trying to shed the ugh feeling of it all. -M Well, my wife had to work Saturday morning, so I decided to kill some time and try to watch this on YouTube. As expected, it wasn't good. I never realized how annoying Wookies were with their howling until you got three of them together. And then they would stop every few minutes to watch something on video so they could work in a guest star. The Diahann Carroll thing as the old Wookie's fantasy in the Perv-O-Matic chair was really creepy. I only got about halfway through when I started to feel something gastrointestinally wrong. That started a chain of events that continued through the rest of the day. It led me to one inescapable conclusion (which may be too much information, but...) :
The Star Wars Holiday Special gave me what the Imodium commercials refer to as "occasional irregularity".
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Post by Confessor on Jan 25, 2016 10:57:55 GMT -5
If you're ok with throwing away an hour of your life you will never get back to watch something that even the 9-10 year old Star Wars fanatic in me recognized as pure crap and a waste of time even when there was no other new Star Wars content available, then go for it. I put away my Star Wars figures for like a week and a half after watching it trying to shed the ugh feeling of it all. -M Well, my wife had to work Saturday morning, so I decided to kill some time and try to watch this on YouTube. As expected, it wasn't good. I never realized how annoying Wookies were with their howling until you got three of them together. And then they would stop every few minutes to watch something on video so they could work in a guest star. The Diahann Carroll thing as the old Wookie's fantasy in the Perv-O-Matic chair was really creepy. I only got about halfway through when I started to feel something gastrointestinally wrong. That started a chain of events that continued through the rest of the day. It led me to one inescapable conclusion (which may be too much information, but...) :
The Star Wars Holiday Special gave me what the Imodium commercials refer to as "occasional irregularity".
If that's all it gave you then you got off lightly, I would say. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 25, 2016 11:00:46 GMT -5
Well, my wife had to work Saturday morning, so I decided to kill some time and try to watch this on YouTube. As expected, it wasn't good. I never realized how annoying Wookies were with their howling until you got three of them together. And then they would stop every few minutes to watch something on video so they could work in a guest star. The Diahann Carroll thing as the old Wookie's fantasy in the Perv-O-Matic chair was really creepy. I only got about halfway through when I started to feel something gastrointestinally wrong. That started a chain of events that continued through the rest of the day. It led me to one inescapable conclusion (which may be too much information, but...) :
The Star Wars Holiday Special gave me what the Imodium commercials refer to as "occasional irregularity".
If that's all it gave you then you got off lightly, I would say. If that was lightly, I'd hate to think what others got from it. I was trying to be delicate, but let's just say I didn't stray far from bathrooms that day. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2016 11:31:21 GMT -5
Looks like it will cross 900m in the USA by the end of next weekend (Feb 7).
The dvd/blu-ray is due 1st week in April, although the HD digital release will be all over the internet about 3 weeks earlier.
May the force be with my 100mb/sec broadband.
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Post by Action Ace on Jan 31, 2016 23:08:47 GMT -5
Considering the shenanigans Disney pulled with the digital version of Star Wars Rebels, you may want a DVD.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 2, 2016 9:44:46 GMT -5
Considering the shenanigans Disney pulled with the digital version of Star Wars Rebels, you may want a DVD. What did they do? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2016 9:55:33 GMT -5
Considering the shenanigans Disney pulled with the digital version of Star Wars Rebels, you may want a DVD. What did they do? Pre-sold season 2 as a digital streaming product as "the complete season" then split the season in 2 and if you pre-ordered the season, you only get part 1 now. They tried calling the second part Season 3 to justify the move, but that didn't fly. At least that's how I understand it. -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 2, 2016 10:30:37 GMT -5
Pre-sold season 2 as a digital streaming product as "the complete season" then split the season in 2 and if you pre-ordered the season, you only get part 1 now. They tried calling the second part Season 3 to justify the move, but that didn't fly. At least that's how I understand it. -M Ah, I don't go in for streaming so I had never heard of that. I'd probably be a bit miffed if I had signed on and paid for what I though was a full season only to get half, though that might depend on how much I paid. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2016 13:20:34 GMT -5
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Post by Action Ace on Feb 7, 2016 23:14:54 GMT -5
On the All Time Domestic Box Office Adjusted for Inflation Chart, its 900 million dollars plus puts it at #11. It now ranks #2 in the Star Wars franchise that has five out of the top 18 spots.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 18, 2016 15:52:16 GMT -5
So... I just got into the flow of it - even if I couldn't care less about its financial success - and watched again the whole saga in order and was surprised by many things.
First, my list
1. Empire Strikes Back
2. Revenge of the Sith
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Star Wars
5. Phantom Menace
6. Attack of the Clones
7. Force Awakens
After second viewing, TFA is even more disapointing then upon first viewing, the plot, characterizations and lack of epicness still making this new entry unnecessary IMHO. But what surprised me most is that when I got past the ugly aesthetic of the prequels (the third one actually wasn't bad in that regard) some of the stories were fairly enjoyable, to the point that episode III actually became quite intersting with a strong opening. But what mostly caught me was that the story it told was more interesting then the new one.
Rebels has also been an easy casual watch.
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Post by Randle-El on Feb 20, 2016 16:55:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 17:11:48 GMT -5
I'll get the Rey variant covers if they're good  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 5, 2016 9:28:05 GMT -5
An article on CBR states that the opening scene in the movie could have been Luke's hand clutching his lightsaber, falling from orbit to Jakku.
Readers commented that this made no sense, as the hand should really have fallen down on Bespin, not Jakku, unless it managed to escape the planet's gravity and travel who knows how many light years on its own to a different star system. To which other readers replied "D-uh noob SW is fantacy anything goez go read some science book you nerd".
Which makes me really, really want to have my own starkiller base.
But seriously, what a stupid idea. If it does make dramatic sense for Rey to get Luke's original sabre, I am quite glad to explain its continued presence with a "it's a long story" non-explanation. Alternatively, if we must dot every i and cross every t, I'd be much happier with the sabre being caught in some air vent at the end of Empire (same as happened to Luke a few minutes later), and then recovered by a maintenance guy who sold it on E-bay. "Authentic Jedi knight lightsaber! Collector's item!"
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 5, 2016 9:35:04 GMT -5
Cutting that scene was definitely the right move... unless Jakku is either right next to Bespin, or actually IS Bespin... otherwise weird stuff has to happen, as RR said.
I suppose the easiest answer would be a NEw Alliance team retrieved it from Bespin, then got shot down in a battle with Imperial remnants over Jakku before Luke got his hands on it.
I also agree 'It's a long story' is quite an acceptable explanation for now... hell, they could put out a 'tales of the lightsaber' short story collection at some point that tells us how it got to Maz.
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