Mr Sneeze

Rainn Wilson for Dr Doom

86% +14% / -86% is completely plausible. Your just missing the error bars.

Great movie, just fantastic! I can only repeat what many have said so I won't bother.

I really hope he doesn't stop after 10.

I really liked it! The first episode is nicely self contained and awesome!. Episode two, on the ship, again, very well done. The final episode worked for me and I look forward to re-watching the series.

I have always felt the book starts out so well but grinds to a halt by the end. Not a great book in my humble opinion but such a great literary character. Adaptations can many times be some what hampered by the book but not here. Just my

One of the strongest titles of the silver age and leading into the bronze is Dr Strange IMHO. I think the material really is too good for the movies, or at least this is one area where the movies show their short-comings. Just my 

I liked the first movie well enough! So on a lateral tangent here, the one movie that I saw recently that really made me think of Doctor Strange through no intent on it's part was Spider-verse. I would love to see a Dr Strange epic with a similar style of animation.

1 hour ago, @therealsilvermane said:

People ranking any one of the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, New Trilogy, or spin-off movies over any one of the Original Trilogy films is causing a disturbance in the Force.

Just because we got to see Darth Vader do a Freddy Krueger impersonation in Rogue One does not make it a better movie than Return of the Jedi. The SW movies after ROJ are all basically “ fan service” films which serve more as cinematic tributes to the three greatest sci-fi adventure fantasy films of all time.

If you told me I could only take 3 movies of the 11 then I'll take the prequels and I'm going to also assume I can have your copies, yes?

The idea that a creator of an IP is a poor caretaker of said IP is a bit of a ludicrous statement if for no other reason than the creator is under no obligation to be a caretaker or to meet anyone's expectations. We are all free to love/hate or walk out and have our art/entertainment/pornography needs met elsewhere or create our own IP's that check all the boxes.

Obviously in reference to Lucas and everything he's done since the first film. I'm not trying to deify him but the vilification get's a little long in the tooth after a while.

Hope all goes well!

In Lucas' defense, Star Wars was aimed at the young toy buying public for the most part. 

In defense of Haydn Christiansen, I think he was great in those movies, as was Natalie Portman.

2 hours ago, @therealsilvermane said:

Not really. The Last Jedi was to finally give us full appearance Luke Skywalker again (as opposed to last panel cameo app.), the main reason we went to see any of these movies to begin with. The world flocked to Last Jedi to see Luke. At the end of the movie, Luke is no more. Rise of Skywalker thusly didn’t have the Luke Skywalker tease going for it. Matter of fact, Last Jedi left audiences with absolutely NOTHING to look forward to in the next movie as all our questions seemed to be answered, including Rey’s origin.

Agree completely. A lot of momentum going in with little going out regardless of peoples opinion of the film, divisive as it was.

I still find it amazing that a film getting close or hitting $1B can be considered a disappointment - I know the expectation is higher but the days of Star Wars having a lock on spectacle ended a long, long time ago.

31 minutes ago, Rip said:

Speaking of Rotten Tomatoes audience scores. RotS is the MOST manipulated movie score in RT history. with over 33.6 million votes. 32 million of them all casted in one small period of time in 2010 lowering the score from 85% to 64%. Then another 1.5 plus casted in back and forth voting years later. This is roughly 5 times all the other movies combined. 

Wow! I had never heard that.

I met my wife just before that movie came out and we went and saw it 4-5 times. The most fun I've had going to the movies as an adult. The opera scene rates as my personal favorite of all the movies.

For those that remember Steven Spielberg's  made for TV movie, Duel.

Duel (same title)

Two spaceships, same premise with minimal dialogue - doesn't star Dennis Weaver.

Maybe the realistic market cap/share for a decent SW film is just over a billion?  China is weak for the franchise and TFA had a lot of hype that's not likely to be repeated. Not that there's anything wrong with that - a billion that is.

5 minutes ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

The existence of the Sith Dagger isn't the problem - it's how it was used to find the Emperor's Wayfinder that I have a huge issue. "Stand in this area and the dagger is shaped exactly like part of the fallen Death Star after you pull this little tab blah blah blah" that was a huge failure.

They (Rebellion/Resistance) had the Death Star plans in the past. They don't know where the throne room was? They couldn't use that or Luke's ghost to tell Rey? It seems like a horrible story point when there were easily much better options.

The Sith Dagger's existence is fine. How it was used as a MacGuffin was awful.

That was definitely a bit much. Also , I think it would have worked better if 3PO couldn't translate the runes at all, which would have made more sense but I guess it brings the quest to a standstill.

4 hours ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

Solid 4/5. It simply feels and sounds like a Star Wars movie. A fun film experience.

Where it excels: Tingly feeling in my pants every time they flip off TLJ.

Unfiltered stupidity: Sith dagger. There is no excuse for this.

Sith Wayfinder? Not a fan, but I don't hate it.

While the editing may seem 'sloppy', on my 2nd viewing it seemed perfect. Very fast-paced but the scene-to-scene threads all made sense.

My faith in Star Wars has been renewed. I will now watch The Amanda Lori And Who? and also continue playing Jedi: Fallen Order.

I'm not a big fan of the fighting thru the Force kinda thing, or the teleportation of the lightsaber, but (again) I don't really hate it.

I basically deducted 0.5 for the Sith Dagger and another 0.5 for every ship of the Imperial Fleet having a planet-killer cannon.

I liked the dagger and the wayfinder, they hinted at a greater story to be told. As for the planet killers, the less said the better.

4 hours ago, fantastic_four said:

My top ten Star Wars sequences:

1. Darth Maul vs. Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan (Phantom Menace)
2. Vader hallway (Rogue One)
3. Yoda vs. Dooku (Attack of the Clones)
4. Anakin and Obi-Wan vs. General Grievous's fleet (opening sequence from Revenge of the Sith)
5. Anakin vs. Obi-Wan (end of Revenge of the Sith)
6. Millennium Falcon vs. Imperial fleet (Empire Strikes Back)
7. Millennium Falcon vs. Imperial fleet at Death Star 2 (Return of the Jedi)
8. Obi-Wan vs. General Grievous (Revenge of the Sith)
9. Imperial AT-AT walkers vs. rebel forces on Hoth (Empire Strikes Back)
10. Clone army vs. Trade Federation army (Attack of the Clones)

That's a good list and I wholeheartedly agree on the number one spot!

Just rambling here...

Where I thought it might go was for Rey and Kylo and Palpatine to all die. They always talk about balance, so to me that seems an all (good and bad) or nothing proposition. If Rey is alive and she is in the light then somewhere out there is someone in the dark, no. Or equally interesting would be for Rey to have been morally ambiguous, both in the light and dark side.

2 hours ago, Rip said:

Going more with the lost scripts as possible inspiration... 

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Lucasfilm had worked on a TV show called Star Wars Underworld, one of the storylines involved a love interest with Palpatine.

Something along the lines of Palpatine getting his feelings hurt and his love interest had ties to the criminal underworld. Anyway, its interesting.....

 

 

1 minute ago, I like pie said:

3 hours ago, Rip said:

However it (TRoS) does help explain Rey vast powers. Even in the Last Jedi there are many hints to Rey being from something possibly more. Luke even talks about how Rey went straight to the darkness, there were other clues as well which is why I've thought she had something to do with Palpatine. 

You can go back to Episode VII, when she fought Ren at the end. Her lunge fighting technique mimics Palpatine from Episode III.

That's interesting!

27 minutes ago, Rip said:

May very well been possible. A lot of these ideas were rough.

Here is the caption:

“We’ve seen dead Jedi come back as blue ghosts. Maybe Sith can come back. And maybe there’s some all powerful Sith that’s controlling whatever the dark side is. We did talk a lot about how the final battle frontier for Jedi might be in the spirit realm. So you have to have a bad-guy ghost.”

Personally I thought they started off on the wrong foot right away trying to wedge these new story into a remake of Star Wars rather than a wholly new story.

Bingo!