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You do know it's a book from the 1840s and there's been at least 15 different film and television adaptations. If you're talking about this version can I recommend this mini-series as its far more in depth and closer to the source material.

One neat little part was Jyn Erso's blaster was based on a Luger pistol, maybe a devious reference to the original blaster being based on a Mauser.
There's no reason why props need to be based on anything, they could be wholly original.

they are money printing machines for Disney. there are worse things you can watch out there like Fast and Furious 8.

uziq wrote:

aren't all these franchise movies the studios' equivalent of abattoir slurry being pneumatically driven into bland-tasting industrial condoms?

Of course, and yet they do have a bit of a narrative and, such as the Luger thing, a tiny bit of lore which is entertaining to us neckbeards.

Passengers - 8/10

I really liked it, it started out a little trite and the science was very soft but both actors are very personable and it all flowed well.
The final part of the ending was just a little sappy, but the key part for me was the sentiments which weren't stated overtly - (I think the key to the key was a line in the trailer which I don't think was in the film) however paraphrasing Homer Simpson I don't need to go to the cinema to hear stuff which isn't said so I don't know.

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a review i read somewhere made the good point that star wars is the most claustrophobic and limited 'intergalactic' universe of all time.

every film is practically obliged to be a rotating conveyor belt of nostalgic references, winks and tips of the hat, and the same 5 props.

lightsabers + x-wings + at-at walkers + giant planet-destroying gubbin.

"do away with all the cheesy nostalgia". it's amazing how the tiniest variation in the formula has people wowed. "dude, rogue one had an at-aCt walker! so cool!" never mind the fact those things are impractical as fuck and make no sense in the context of the combat of rogue one.

not to sound like an asshole or anything but a theme is not the same thing. the great directors of the world are preoccupied with the same themes throughout their work. kubrick's movies are very different but they all have a theme and are unmistakably his. having the same 4 cookie-cutter characters, the exact same plot, borrowed shots, and the same 3 costumes and props is a cop-out. star wars could be so much bigger and they could develop their intellectual property so much. of course, they won't, because it's too big to fail. franchises of this size are as conservative as any cultural product can be. it's weird that people say 'rogue one' is this liberating new direction. i mean, really?

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

The fuck is an at-act walker.

it's a BIGGER and MORE AWESOME version, duh.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/at-act-walker

not sure if anyone has ever questioned the military efficacy of these things yet, but hell yea they look awesome

the star wars universe is just so diverse!

Wow.

I guess they did have vehicles that could be taken out with hemp rope and logs, but retooling bad transports and construction vehicles as assault platforms is a new level of suck for Star Wars.

Also that poster. It's like she's clinging to her collection of lifelike action figures while daddy Vader tisks disapprovingly from the doorway behind her shoulder.

"Noooo, my mint 2016 what's-his-name!"

george lucas is a fundamentally terrible director. the man is artless.

uziq wrote:

george lucas is a fundamentally terrible director. the man is artless.

His concepts are almost OK, except they aren't even his.

uziq wrote:

george lucas is a fundamentally terrible director. the man is artless.

Well he hasn't directed the last two star wars movies. Only ep I-III were his last star wars movies.

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