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For R1, just because they're stealing plans to a superweapon doesn't mean that's all the movie had to be about. I kind of wanted to know more about what Hannibal-dad was going through at that research station. How Ghost Dog rebel got to be so paranoid and delusional all the time. What's up with the two quasi-Jedi? Why and how are they still guarding a temple on an Imperial world? Instead, they were chucked out and for most of the time we got to focus on cookie cutter guerilla girl and her block-of-wood love interest.

I don't even remember much of what TFA was about now. Just that Luke was looking at some chick like she just handed him a dead squirrel and a hobbit-haired Snape had it in for blinking consoles.

An interesting angle would be to start from the perspective of the temple guys trying to keep the peace between the populace and the paranoid Imperials while an extremist rebel cell operates nearby. Sort of like a messed up Space Afghanistan. Then it could have intersected the Spunky-France couple to suck the survivors of the Death Star test along on the plans mission, maybe at a place that actually had Bothans.

I wonder how these guys sneaked onto an imperial base after all of that surely additional resources the empire's department of homeland security got to defend their data banks

Some of the cameos and cultural references were funny, but I didn't think it had the zip of the original.

The first one was unexpected and original, the second had no real originality - just a different story.

It did have Zoe Saldana though, so it was OK.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2017-05-06 22:41:20)

Wonder Woman 9.5/10
I deducted 0.5 as I didn't think the Amazon's outfits were skimpy enough. Not sure how the film-makers didn't know that the whole point of the Wonder Woman story is for the girls to run around in skimpy outfits.
Apart from that I thought it was pretty good.

'Valerian' was like a revolving sushi bar of introduced and quickly abandoned characters, environments, and concepts. Unable to tell a watertight story even with its generous runtime. Mildly annoying inconsistencies and plot holes. Perpetually cold and disgruntled generic female sidekick, as a romantic interest point that is just there but never explained. Watchable for all that. Noticed a lot of Fifth Element before it dawned on me why that was.

3 bananas out of 2 pears

First Man 10/10
So much engineering nerdery.

Defend your home with a short barrel 18 ga shotgun loaded with 00.

it hasn't been a very good year for mainstream hollywood movies. i can't remember really seeing any films that made me 'wow'.

i've been getting into this director lately. leviathan is a great movie.

yes. it is very well directed, well written, well paced, and the cinematography is excellent. but you don’t like it because it doesn’t present ‘your’ russia? it’s great film making.

it is by all consensus a solid movie. i think it’s similar to jacques audiard’s un prophete. it’s not too portentous or overblown. it’s not really even particularly about russia, which i guess is the stuff shahter can’t see past (the usual stuff about official corruption in putin’s early days of power, the intermingling and interdependence of church and state). it’s a film based on the classic western archetype of Job and a man whom god tests to the limit by taking away everything. the film is pretty obvious about this and is set in a sort of mythic-ancient landscape that isn’t really, and importantly, ‘russia’ at all.. but watch shahter call it terrible because a russian native director is ‘letting the side down’

i’d be intrigued to see his critique of the actual directing and cinematography.



i actually didn't realise it created such a furore in russia. lmao.

imagine living in a country so insecure about its image and place in the world that MINISTERS discuss average hollywood-level MOVIES in parliament.



eagerly awaiting british members of parliament debating the mean picture of england given in 'the favourite'.

Last edited by uziq (2019-02-01 01:41:14)