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DrizztLink posted...

Cabin in the Woods

I rushed to this topic to see if this was said. No better answer.

jpenny2 posted...

I want so badly to like this show, and I love that they got Ewen McGregor and others from the PT to return, but it seems like it might have worked better as a cartoon.

Should have been a movie, man. Its just sad how low effort this entire thing is. Ewan, trying as hard as he is, cannot save this shit.

Am I a Joke 2 You?

Sucks man. Lessons learned. Pick yourself up and get back out there.

also kudos to her for being mature and communicating those issues well. You wouldnt believe how rare that is these days.

pics are more fun than just saying some shit.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/6/AAB3ooAADUQy.jpg

Phasma is definitely up there for me.

It was the best episode so far and yet still riddled with problems

Kenobi hiding in full view. Tala tickling the helmet of a storm trooper and he acts like he just got hit by the Hulk. The god damn scooby doo trench coat gag. Reva interrogation a 10 year old child about the underground Jedi railroad like she had anything to fucking do with it. The show trying to make us care about Wade, who had 40 seconds of screen time total.

But yet the action was great and the plot of this was decent.

I enjoyed this episode a lot more but Jesus Christ whoever wrote and is running this show should be ashamed.

We Didnt Have The Heart to Tell You Thats Actually the 5th Snoopy, Charlie Brown.

008Zulu posted...

For some reason her powers reminded me of the Rings from Shang-chi.

I thought the same. Very similar. Mystical power gauntlets that come from somewhere unknown.

as for the show I went in with zero expectations and was pretty blown away. So much fun. Oozing with style and personality. Awesome showing right out the gate.

Zikten posted...

It was interesting. But yea like someone said, why couldn't they just set it to auto pilot? It didn't need to be a suicide

The number one biggest nitpick is why dont they do this all the time

a human mind, through sheer luck, math, determination, perhaps the force, or a combination of all the above was required.

OudeGeuze posted...

OP also ardently defended Diablo Immortal lol

people who bring up irrelevant shit are pathetic.

Also for what its worth, my opinion continues to be: for someone who couldnt give two shits about micro transactions, the game is fine. Its a mobile game. Who fucking cares.

We dont have squirrels where I live

But I kept finding peanuts hidden in my patio umbrella.

Turns out Blue Jays do the same thing. Stash peanuts in key places. Fuckin animals man.

Old fashioned is my classy drink.

Whiskey sour is my change up.

Spiced rum and Coke Zero is my go to.

Paralyzers are my backup.

Gin and Tonic, Mojitos, Margaritas, and Long Island Ice Tesss are my wild cards.

Jiggy101011 posted...

Honestly Microsoft does almost everything better than Sony.

This. Especially controllers.

They literally designed the best controller for the 360 and have been perfecting it since.

Sony is continuing to be stubborn out of sheer stupidity and nostalgia.

No one in their right mind prefers the stick layout of the PlayStation controllers. Ive literally seen doctors commit people because they prefer PS controllers. True story.

Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

Have we been able to? It's literally something I've never had the need to do so this is nothing to me either way?

i honestly have no idea Im an iPhone guy. But every time a feature gets added one way or another people take such ownership of having these features first lol.

Watch this be fuel for android users to say weve always been able to do this like thats going to entice anyone to jump ship.

Delta_Force posted...

"Just turn off your brain and enjoy the purdy pictures".

You go on to do exactly that below.

Then the PT ruined the mysticism of it by introducing Midichlorians. A lot of people got upset because it made The Force itself and the people who can interact with it a lot less special, it was now something that could be measured. The concept itself wasn't ruined, but again, it was now less special.

This is absolutely true but all Midichlorians were were a Shitty device to explain why Anakin was so special. They actually didnt explain anything about the force itself.

Sabers I have nothing to speak of since I have very little to no knowledge of that the canon is, I know that there is a crystal in there and IIRC from KoToR it is special/unique to each wielder.

Youve turned your brain off and enjoyed it. Exactly my point.

There was already enough lore to lightspeed travel that they didn't have to ruin it with this moronic move. Only someone who wanted to be an ass and lift up his name would even consider bothering with established lore. In no way shape or form was Holdo a master tactician and throughout the SW media there have been quite a few big brain characters. You're trying to tell me that not a single one of them even dreamt of smashing a vessel into another, or into a celestial body?

First of all. Youre so extra about how dumb this is and it just doesnt fit, youre just trying way too hard.

Secondly. Whether someone thought of it or not really actually doesnt matter. The idea may have come to someone in Star Wars before, but the literal fact that its next to impossible to pull off has prevented anyone from maybe even attempting it. I mean were talking about a literal kamikaze move as well. Theres not a lot of enticing aspects about it, should you actually successfully pull it off.

That move implies that they didn't even need to make a Death Star that houses millions (billions?) of troopers, TIEs and who knows how many more resources. They could have just used a Star Destroyer on any random planet since many of them are charted and most of the important ones definitely are.

it doesnt imply anything of the sort. It does imply that the imperials never thought to try it. But again, since the official explanation is that its a million to one shot, a Death Star is a more reliable planet killing idea.

It it nowhere near a million to one shot since at best the distance was a few hundred miles.

My implication of why that is so tough to pull off was entirely based on how short ranged it was. You watch the scene again like I just did, and it doesnt look like she warps through them, but into them.

I mean, you can ask any NASA scientist about the man hours, and math involved to put any one of the thousands upon thousands of things we have put into space ourselves. Then anyone can assume the insane math and calculations involved one would have to do to input the exact coordinates of two ships, moving in space, how exactly precise one would have to be to enter a warp a to hit a moving ship a relatively short distance away. When warps have always been about travelling a significant distance away too

Imagine literally using a tool that lets you typically move instantly over millions? Billions? Trillions? Of miles of space, to instead just end up in the bathroom of the first order ship right behind you.

You continue to act like anyone can do this because its fantasy, and that again shows youve turned your brain off completely. Like I said above. Thats just utter horse shit. Its a brilliant move and again, if you spend equal, or in my case similar energy, Im definitely not overthinking it to your degree. You can easily come up with as much logic to justify, defend, applaud, and love it.

The whole space chase was beyond moronic to begin with if you put any amount of thought into the setup. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING in that movie made any sense.

This has nothing to do with your other nitpicks of the movie. But it is telling, and proving my point about how badly haters dont want anyone to like anything in this movie.

I will concede I dont think the Holdo character worked particularly well. And imho giving her this dope scene and send off wasnt particularly the best decision. It wasnt my suggestion, Ive seen this a few times, but had it been Admiral Akbar I would have liked that a lot more and I dont think so many people, especially those like yourself, would have gone so far out of their way to find fault in it.

However. Theres no changing that now and it still doesnt change my opinions about how amazing that scene is for the climax of the movie and everything else that is happening at the same time right before that maneuver happens. Just fantastic real shame you cant enjoy it but thats clearly what you want for your life. And I aint trying to change your mind in the slightest.

I remember it distinctively.

The very initial response was overwhelming positive. And then the dust settled and people really started to hate it out of nowhere. Complaining it didnt push the plot forward (short sighted criticism imho).

And now I think were far enough away from it where the haters got bored and left and all that remains is positive vibes. For the most part.

ImagineUsngAlts posted...

@SwayM

Game is fun. I dont pay anything for mobile games and if I can play the game and have fun without a time limit, thats all I care about.

pauIie posted...

all this arguing over the light speed scene when leia supermanning through space is right there

I mean youre 100% right. I think this scene is universally trashed by both Last Jedi haters and fans alike.

The germination of the idea of that scene is fantastic and long long overdue. Finally show Leia has a strong connection to the force.

the idea and execution itself is abysmal and moronic. I was just talking to a friend last night and my idea to accomplish the same character development in a much better way would be to show Leia force healing someone. It wouldve been the first time we saw this power being used by someone on screen, and it would be an awesome one to give to Leia. It would have set up Rey doing it in Episode 9, and not have been just another bullshit thing about that movie. Also finally it would have introduced some connective tissue to the prequels. Making an interesting connection to Anakin wanting to find a way to save Padme.

imho anyway.

Delta_Force posted...

I'm just gonna pop in right here before I read on.

"As an object approaches the speed of light, the object's mass becomes infinite and so does the energy required to move it."

If someone in an X-Wing throws out a thumbtack while going at lightspeed, the thumbtack could cause the same amount of damage.

The scene makes no sense at all. Also they called it a 1 in a million, one in a million isn't much when there are billions of stars, a flight computer has to make a lot of calculations all the time to avoid hitting another object in space. Plus all she had to do was make a 180 degree turn and hit the gas.

There was no force implication, there was an attempt to "cover up the stupid", much like "Somehow, Palpatine" line.

I agree 100% that it looked cool. But it was beyond brain dead and broke any semblance of sense to the lightspeed travel and war tactics in Star WARS.
If they wanted to just blow your mind with moronic special effect they could have had Holdo use the Force to pull in 10 suns to smash the Supremacy, or pulled out a Jar Jar canon out of her ass and shot them with it. Both of those scenarios make just as much sense if not more.

This post is a prime example. Basically nothing in Star Wars is explained in the movies. The force, lightspeed jumps, sabres, nothing.

The extended universe may get into some of that shit.

But no one cared at this level until TLJ.

The science does not have to make sense for the scene to work. It has nothing to do with being brain dead. It follows basic logic anyone can understand, and is an amazing scene.

If you spent equally the same amount of energy, you will find just as many reasons to enjoy the scene. You could literally sit there, expelling the exact same BS energy, ruining lightsabres for yourself.
A beam of light cant have a fixed point, it would just continue forever. No way a crystal the size of a grape could have enough energy to power such a device yadda yadda yadda.

This is what I mean. If all you want to do for yourself is ruin cool shit by overthinking it in the worst ways. Fill your boots. The rest of us are just out here having fun.

Southernfatman posted...

You just seem to be going in the other extreme direction in thinking that anyone who has a problem with that scene or the movie is nonsensical or must not have fun in life. I don't care if people like TLJ. I've even sort of defended TLJ before. I've said I at least somewhat understand why people like it and that it at least tried something different even if I didn't like it and that's better than say, Rogue One or ROS that were just trying to toe the line and try to please everyone to the point of desperate pandering.

Also the more I think about it this needs to be said.

All the conversations about TLJ for the 5 years since its release have been dictated and controlled by the extremely vocal haters.

So yeah being extreme about select praise the movie deserves is where you have to be to even get a word in edgewise.

AllHeDoesIsWin posted...

If it was one in a million why was Hux so panicked when he realized what she was doing?

Because of exactly what happened? Its a movie btw. The added tension makes the scene better.

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Rogue Ones amazing final act had a whole bit about ships ramming each other in space.

lilORANG posted...

Bc nobody thought about it before Holdo

except every 6 year old who had been introduced to any form of space sci-fi.

Should have became a Star Wars writer then. The series could use more of that wonder. Instead of more Sand Planets and space politics.

DarkRoast posted...

The amount of open contempt the third film had for the second was both kind of hilarious and really sad.

Agreed. Mostly sad imho. When all 3 movies in your trilogy really are fighting with each other its not a good look.

But I stand with the decisions TLJ made, I think they were smarter and more interesting. I think JJs sour grapes after the fact and his inability to play nice after TLJ is just childish and ultimately brought the movie down completely. Literally resulting, imho, not just the worst movie in the Star Wars legacy by a county mile. But honestly one of the worst movies Ive ever had the displeasure of seeing.

Mensis posted...

That movie was horrible for so many reasons, that scene isnt one of them. Id hardly call it a top 10 moment however

Theres probably a lot less 10 material in the entire movie franchise than you think.

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Compare the size of the ships in TLJ to an x wing to the Death Star.

also again, if any Jabroni could do this. They would have.

Gamerguymass posted...

The utter irony of this statement.

Point it out please. Im believing something based on a clear line of logic from the film and taking the time to explain it and dude is literally just like yeah no

Southernfatman posted...

See, this is about as silly as the people who act like the movie killed their dog or something.

I lol'd at Dennis though.

How is that remotely comparable?

Like Im just saying have fun in life and enjoy things. And okay if you really didnt like it, fine, move on. But you literally cant even talk about the movie or the scene in general with haters coming out of the woodworks to bring the same nonsensical critiques.

People who try to piss in everyones cornflakes are the literal worst. Theres no comparison here. And yall who lump everyone together like this arent doing the world any favours either though.

scar the 1 posted...

That's a pretty weak implication

You can believe what you like. I have reasons for believing she used the force and youre just sticking your fingers in your ears.

scar the 1 posted...

No, to my knowledge it was never implied that Holdo could use the Force at all.

I mean the fact she pulled off a one in a million thing that no one else even attempted is literally the implication.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/4/1/AAB3ooAADTYx.jpg

scar the 1 posted...

Visually it looked great, I was just annoyed by Holdo killing herself when they could have had a droid do it.

I mean isnt it implied she used the force in some ways?

Honest question has a droid ever used the force in any Star Was media?

Southernfatman posted...

Some take the hate to extreme levels and that's stupid AF, but most of us just think it and other things in the movie are kinda dumb to outright bad and don't let it get that much too us. We're just disappointed mainly. Then you have extreme defenders going "Omg you must hate fun and must be the most miserable people ever who complain about everything! You must hate everything in life!" and generalizing all us critics.

Like jeez, it's not that bad.

If one of the coolest scenes put to film bothers you that you hold on to critiques that dont even make sense.yeah Id say you let the hatred consume you like a true Sithlord

Jabodie posted...

The explanation in 9 was about as good as the explanation for Palpatine's return.

No not even close. Somehow palatine has returned is a literal meme.

The other is haters not being able to have fun. Clear difference

Haters have attempted to strip all the fun out of this entire movie and I wont allow it.

its absolutely top 10. Its phenomenal. If you cant let yourself enjoy it, thats your own problem and no one elses.

Detractors say why did no one try this before and I say why cant that be the first time?Seeing something for the literal first time isnt a critique.

and then people say why cant it be done again. I mean episode 9, which is a complete piece of dogshit imho and shits on TLJ in so many ways, has the perfect explanation. It was one in a million. Yall let these movies make up their own rules a thousand other times but its this scene specifically you have problems digesting? No its not the scene. Its you. You miserable, sad human bean.

rexcrk posted...

Just Star Wars fans continuing to be the worst part of Star Wars.

Show is fucking awesome.

This is nothing like that. You cant hide every criticism behind this umbrella.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/7/4/AAB3ooAADTP6.png

bulletproofvita posted...

Just no.

Dude yeah it did.

You can not like it, and that's fine. But yall internet haters have gone so far out of your way to hate this movie, pick apart the entire thing with a fine tooth comb, that you literally won't allow any praise of it all. Like you're doing right now.

That shit is tiring.

MrMallard posted...

His dad would beat him and his brothers, and they'd have to work extremely long, cruel hours to perfect their performance as the Jackson Five.

When Michael's talent became apparent and he became the standout of the group, I imagine he received the most scrutiny out of the bunch - from 5 onwards, he was probably spending the most time being molded into a marketable celebrity. His talent probably paid his family's bills before he was even ten years old.

As he grew up and became a celebrity superstar, every aspect of his life was controlled by his father and whatever team of music industry fixers were there to keep that gravy train rolling. There are rumours that they used hormone-suppressing chemicals to prevent him from aging out of his voice, because puberty was one of the most crucial make-or-break aspects of being a child star. These rumours are fuelled by MJ barely aging - in appearance and in voice - compared to his contemporaries at the time.

By the time of Thriller, he was surrounded by so many yes-men and industry people leeching off of him that he probably didn't even live in the real world any more. He had a pet monkey. He had mansions. Rumor has it that he would pay an entire day's operational cost to a supermarket just so he could go shopping and experience normalcy, even though it was a bought simulation.

I think Neverland Ranch and the behavior he exhibited around children says it all. He was never allowed to be a child. He had as much life experience at 30 as he did at 5. All he knew was performance and abuse, and in trying to recapture what he had been denied, his actions disturbed a lot of young children and caused problems for them going forward.

He suffered from a disease that made his skin lose its melanin, and his fucking hair and face caught fire on the set of a Pepsi commercial. He made friends with other child stars like Macaulay Culkin - a figure who describes being made to sleep on the couch while his movies made tens of millions of dollars, because his father had been a failed actor and abused his sons to exert what little control he had in his life. Culkin still defends MJ to this day, because they had a kinship.

That's what makes the weird kid shit so sad, because I honestly don't think MJ was out to harm anyone or take advantage of children or feed some gross perversion. I think he had been so deprived of a life that he saw Neverland Ranch as a second childhood, and he behaved innocently as a child would. But when you're an actual child, and you're feeding the deranged fantasy of a grown man? To the point of sleeping in the same bed as that total stranger? That shit is incredibly damaging. I think it's a case of an incredibly damaged man with good intentions disturbing a lot of young children for life. There was no winning for anyone involved. Everybody lost.

To sum it up - I think MJ was such a weirdo because he was abused severely from a young age, and he was isolated from the outside world for pretty much all of his life. I don't think he ever intended to be a weirdo or hurt anybody. I think abuse, isolation and being used as a tool rather than being treated as a person is what made him a weirdo.

Well written post.

This is a few I've noticed from you now, good to see around here.

Northlane posted...

The only thing that takes me out of it is that Ben doesn't even try to disguise himself

You're on the run, empire is on high alert

Shave your head, shave your beard, lose the robes, do something

I mean this is absolutely foolish for sure.

A lot of the characterization for Obi has been a miss. Which is all to blame on the writing and direction. Ewan is fantastic and he's doing the best he can.

It's completely understandable he's at this point in his life where he's renounced his Jedi status, feeling like he failed, no longer training and studying. It's perfectly within his character to be rusty, recluse and unsure of himself.

Yet he'll take out a whole team of Stormtroopers like he never missed a day. Now that kind of scene should be "Yup. Our boi Obi still got it." It should be one of the MAJOR plot points of this show.

But that's not how the show portrays it. It's literally just arbitrary action scenes for the sake of it. There's zero emotional weight or payoff to any of this. In one scene he cowers and hides, and in the very next he'll be a super badass without hesitation. You can feel the complete lack of passion and creative effort in this show in those kinds of decisions.

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Have you ever seen kids run?

My kids both run like theyre just randomly flailing their legs and are lucky they dont go a over t every five steps.

Dude I know.

Like I've already said. The problem isn't the actual fact that a 10 year old girl (however old the actress is) can't run well. This is in no way saying "I wish 10 year olds ran better"

I'm saying that no one on the production of this show saw her run and then said "These scenes don't work and will look terrible. People will criticize and laugh at our show for the wrong reasons." They could have used creative editing to hide it and cut these scenes down so it wasn't literal minutes of a child running at a snails speed while goons are obviously acting like they can't catch up to her.

They should have scrapped it, the first scene especially.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNJRs8HL/?k=1

Just terrible.

PotHeadDog posted...

What is this "good" Star Wars that people are clamoring for? People keep talking about cheesy dialogue and bad writing. Did these guys even watch the prequels? There's a reason why they're so meme worthy. Star Wars as a whole is cheesy as hell. Some people take it way too seriously.

Prequels had good moments but were mostly bad.
Rogue One and Solo were great. Rogue one especially.
Episode 7 started off the trilogy on great footing, even if it was mostly rehasing.
Episode 8 had a lot of great ideas and great scenes.
Mandalorian was overall fantastic.

Seriously. This should have been a movie. This obsession of turning everything into a show these days hasnt been universally great.

ProfessorKukui posted...

We really judging a kid on their running form

lmao, nope. We arent judging the kid not being able to run well. Were judging the entirety of the creative heads where not a single one decided along the way that a kid running looks bad and the scenes simply do not work.

YourDrunkFather posted...

You miserable people hate everything

Not true at all. I always try to find the good in things and go out of my way to defend things in most cases. But I cant defend this.

au_gold posted...

Its not great, but its better than Moon Knight so far.

Moon Knight catching strays in this topic. Leave my mans alone.

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Yeah her acting is fantastic. Her running is so fucking cringe, and its been in all 3 episodes and idk why no one along the production didnt have the brains to scrap it.

Darkprince21 posted...

I like it, idk whats not to like?

The acting overall has been terrible. If the show were just Kenobi and Leia it would be alright. But everyone else has been awful. Except for Kumail, he was fun.

The pace is terrible and so many decisions in the show are bad, questionable, laughable or just downright terrible. Leias multiple running scenes in every episode so far are a perfect example.

Honestly it should have just been a movie. The production quality and pacing issues would be solved completely. Theres no reason this should been a show.

Episode 3 Spoilers

And this last episode with Darth Vadergod what a fucking waste.

They literally think the only way to make Vader interesting, intimidating etc is for him to just murder random people in a town? You just took one of the most badass, cultural icons to cartoon levels on one scene.

And then Obi sees him and immediately runs away? Okay, that decision itself I dont have as much issue with as much as I do with how poorly paced and executed it was. He runs into some gravel pits like 10 feet away, it just looks so stupid. And then walks around with his sabre lit upsearchinglike its not a forest where you could have easily lost him, he was just behind that one gravel pit lmfao. God it was so stupid. This was the scene they decided to shoot, this reunion between these two iconic characters, after 17 years since ROTS.

and on top of it all. Its still James Earl Jones. And Im not saying that JEJ isnt the amazing, iconic Darth Vader that he isbut where is Hayden? Like why even bring Hayden back for this if you stick him in the suit and gave the voice back to JEJ? Honestly they shouldnt have made him Vader yet in this show. Yeah that would have undone the end of Revenge of the Sithbut such a small price to pay for better characterization.

If youre enjoying the show, thats great. But I dont think it has any passion behind it other than Ewan, its just a complete waste of an idea.

WarfireX posted...

I kind of see what Ewan McGregor is saying. Isn't the Empire essentially just a bunch of space racists that think the human race is above all others? You never see non-humans working for them. They are clearly racists.

Like, I get that he's kind of virtue signaling, but the series is literally about the most evil portion of the galaxy being racists. Remember how disgusted they were to be using bounty hunters?

The inquisitors in the show have different races.

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ruining the canon is the least of the shows problems. That was actually my biggest worry going into it.

turns out bad acting, pacing, and just being lame as fuck were bigger concerns.

iPhone_7 posted...

u just hate it cause racism

https://twitter.com/starwarstake/status/1532516444029714433

This is frustrating. I hate that this happens but it also muddies the waters, making actual objective criticism having to speak over rabid racist fans.

58% audience score seems fair tbh though. The show isnt good, but the hateful fanbase that attacks actors on twitter doesnt represent me or my opinions in any way. Even giving them this attention doesnt help anyone.