Roujin wrote:

LivDiv wrote:

Roujin wrote:

I was half expecting Finn to confess his undying love, since the film was so busy pretending TLJ never happened.

That is literally what I thought he was going to say. Didnt think he was going to mention that he is force sensitive.

Yep, because your last dying words to a close friend being "BTW I GOT THE FORCE YO!" are so far down the list of things you would say in that situation it's hilarious that that is what he was going to say even if he didnt fancy Rey. My hot take is that this was a JJ mystery plot thread that never got resolved, was just there to add some extra something to the scene and he was never going to follow up on it until the interview questions came in. The big dummy.

If a friend and I were about to die in quicksand, and with their last breath they revealed their big secret was that they can use the force, then the last words they'd have heard would have been me screaming "Well fucking use it to get us out of here you twat!". And to be honest when watching the film, i thought them stuck in quicksand would be a chance for Rey to show her powers by getting them out of it...instead of them all effectively drowning and escaping by a bizarre flukey 'tunnels under quicksand' setup.

No one ever really quicksand

Skerret wrote:

There are always tunnels under the quickrocks, always.

There's always money in the banana stand

*no touching*

Quicksand scene in Krull is the genre standout I think. Robbie Coltrane looks so unphased by the whole thing, it's very realistic.

Just thinking of that quicksand scene (edit; star wars one!)...maybe it's my memory tricking me but did it not also look really weird and very obvious that they were in something 'different'? like in the middle of the dessert, someone dug out a small pond and filled it with maltesers.

Thinking about that scene generally, i think it sums the whole film up. conveniently and chaotically, they all end up landing in the same small patch of danger, there's a forced and rushed emotional/dramatic bit as they get ready to die, before a miraculous escape, "oo look there's the thing we needed", and move on to the next bit.

Lucas is best served constrained by others. Worst thing that happened to him was success.

I rewatched it over Christmas and can confirm that for me, the worst parts IN ORDER OF WORSTNESS are: Aliens, Little animated critters (including the monkeys but not the ants, the ants are okay), Shia LaBoeuf, Cate Blanchett’s accent, Cate Blanchett’s character, and the fridge incident.

There's a big canon of quasi-science and literature that deals with Ancient Alien theory, so it never seemed off to me. Temple of Doom didn't fit with 1 and 3 but was certainly from that tract of pseudo-archaeology that Indy dealt with.

The worst parts were, all the bits that happened in it.

The music was not fine.

I would prefer seeing further adventures of Indy, the nazis, and obscure Christian mythology. If anything, switching up to the obscure mythology of other major world religions would have been a better fit than casual communism and WOO ALIENS.

True, and they had to address the fact that Harrison Ford is older now, so were forced to set it in that era. It’s logical, but that doesn’t change it being shit.

This thread has gone off the rails

Hahahahahaha omgggggg.

Disney are like "Shit, we took all the fan feedback on board and they still hated Episode 9, the little shits! Okay, okay, everybody be cool, we can still make our projected revenue and keep the shareholders happy and keep our jobs but we need to find something and quick. Fuck, okay, fuck, umm is there anything we can salvage back from the EU? Who is the most popular EU character? Oh fuck, it was fucking Boba Fett, oh jesus fucking christ, okay, okay, everybody calm down, what is the next most popular thing from the EU after Boba fucking Fett? Someone call fucking google and buy another chunk of analytics taken from the theforce.net...okay...here we go...okay it's KOTOR everybody, these fucking nerds fucking loved these RPGs back in the day apparently, and they already made two games? Well shit son, that sounds like two thirds of a BRAND NEW trilogy to me! Oh thank fuck, our bonuses will remain intact!"

And then everyone just does a load of coke, or something.

Diluted Dante wrote:

Revan from KOTOR is canon again.

Disney to get EA to make a new KOTOR? KOTOR film/Disney+ show?

Awesome. Hopefully there is an Old Republic movie coming or a triology. If you want to give the franchise a kick up the arse and give people more sith and jedi and battles then Old Republic is the way to go.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-01-06-star-wars-rise-of-the-skywalker-makes-the-old-republics-revan-canon

...Perhaps Lucasfilm's move to make Revan canon should come as no surprise, given it hinted as much in The Last Jedi. Eagle-eyed viewers of that movie may have noticed a subtle nod to Revan in the film. Inside Luke's home is a red crystal. According to the book, Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary, this is a "fragmented Sith lightsaber crystal..." that forms a part of a "recovered Jedi Crusader pendant". Jedi Crusaders were a renegade faction of the Jedi Order that battled against the Mandalorians 5000 years before the Star Wars movies. Its founder was Revan...