Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens

Valigarmander · #41

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ScottyMcGee · #42

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I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #43

I'm kinda glad they got rid of the EU. It bothered me at first but I ain't a big StarvWars guy so this helps me get a fresh start on the series, in a sense. However, I will miss The Apprentice from Force Unleashed. He represented the DBZ direction I always wanted the series to progress toward.

ScottyMcGee · #44

The EU was okay in the very beginning and then it just got way too bloated. And stupid. And bloated. So like a big. . .fat. . bloated dumb baby.

I can't stop thinking how that Sith guy looks like Revan though. At the very least, they maybe have inspired elements from the EU.

#45

The EU had some real garbage in it.

Any of you guys read that horrible IG-88 story from 'Tales of the Bounty Hunters'? You know, the one where he uploads his dumb idiot consciousness into the second Death Star computer and f*cks around with the Emperor? One of the very few SW offerings even stupider than the prequel trilogy and holiday special. (Rest of 'Tales of the Bounty Hunters' is pretty cool, though. 80% good. Awesome Dengar story, awesome Bossk story, really awesome Boba Fett story...acceptible 4-LOM/Zuckuss story.) (Ugh. Man. I so, so wish 'The Last One Standing' were accepted canon. It is better than Boba Fett's current biz in every way. If you like the real Star Wars, that there is a story you owe it to yourself to read. It's really hype.)

ScottyMcGee · #46

I loved the sh*t out of the Han Solo trilogy, both the old one by Brian Daley and the later one by AC Crispin. The Paradise Snare was actually my very first "I can read big books now like a grown up" book. Which was 3rd grade. (I still have my 3rd grader handwriting in there)

I never got into Rogue Squadron, but a lot of my friends love that series.

YouTube · #47

^I loved the game Rogue Squadron; does that count?

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

ZeldaGirl · #48

....so far this looks not terrible.

Bomby · #49

Valigarmander · #50

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Oh man. This is coming out in a couple months, isn't it?

#51

http://www.themarysue.com/boycott-star- ... why-again/

won't somebody think of the poor white babbys :crying2:

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #52

[QUOTE="Empty Loot, post: 1568238, member: 21459"]http://www.themarysue.com/boycott-star- ... why-again/

won't somebody think of the poor white babbys :crying2: [/QUOTE]

Of course not, they're worth nothing without the appropriate tint (read: any).

#53

...appropriate tiny what?

Anyway it seems "Boycott Star Wars VII" only got popular (So popular I saw it on the trending bar for a while) because of the outrage and not because of people actually saying anything offensive, making an almost nothing hashtag started by nutjobs bigger than it had any right to be.

[QUOTE=Hatok]85k tweets about #BoycottStarWarsVII and it's all people being outraged, nobody actually doing anything to cause the outrage[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Hatok]you'd think #BoycottStarWarsVII is controversial because a bunch of the tweets are about the racism thing... but no, it's all outrage[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Hatok]like jeez, talk about needing something to be mad about if you take a dozen crazy people and say this is a trend[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Hatok]since I last mentioned #BoycottStarWarsVII over 2000 new angry tweets have emerged[/QUOTE]

This is one of the reasons Twitter is not a good place to talk serious. Eventually you're just shouting into a tunnel for your friends.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #54

[QUOTE="Tarantula Ten, post: 1568258, member: 19345"]...appropriate tiny what?[/QUOTE]

Typo.

EDIT: Nvm, just gonna click Loot's link.

#55

...so I'll say it if no one else will--------kinda wish they hadn't asked the original series' crew in.

I mean, it's alright. I haven't seen the movie yet, so I have to reserve judgment for the time being. But I kind of really, really don't want to see seventy-year-old dyedushka Han Solo trying to do action movie stuff. Like, for the same reason I don't want to see Pete Venkman trying to bust ghosts into his old age, driving the Ecto-One twenty miles under the limit with his right directional on. Same reason I don't want to see geriatric John MacClaine fighting terrorists, trying to shoot people he can barely see owin to losing his bifocals two scenes back. It's depressing.

One of the saddest things I can remember in the movies was seeing venerable Harrison Ford trying to pull off his young-guy steez in 'Crystal Skull'. Like, that movie was irredeemable garbage, but the only thing that really hurt was seeing Indiana Jones as a sore-backed grumpy old man hobbling around. What a buzzkill.

#56

Apparently the nut that started this whole debacle argued that Star Wars VII supports white genocide somehow? Because it has a black and female character in starring roles.

Which... Samuel L. Jackson and Carrie Fisher were there first, so I don't know if they even watched Star Wars before. Billy Dee Williams too man. James Earl Jones.

JAMES EARL JONES.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #57

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1568260, member: 17381"]...so I'll say it if no one else will--------kinda wish they hadn't asked the original series' crew in.

I mean, it's alright. I haven't seen the movie yet, so I have to reserve judgment for the time being. But I kind of really, really don't want to see seventy-year-old dyedushka Han Solo trying to do action movie stuff. Like, for the same reason I don't want to see Pete Venkman trying to bust ghosts into his old age, driving the Ecto-One twenty miles under the limit with his right directional on. Same reason I don't want to see geriatric John MacClaine fighting terrorists, trying to shoot people he can barely see owin to losing his bifocals two scenes back. It's depressing.

One of the saddest things I can remember in the movies was seeing venerable Harrison Ford trying to pull off his young-guy steez in 'Crystal Skull'. Like, that movie was irredeemable garbage, but the only thing that really hurt was seeing Indiana Jones as a sore-backed grumpy old man hobbling around. What a buzzkill.[/QUOTE]

I guess I kinda understand that but characters have to get old, too. How do you imagine Indiana Jones goes out? Just retires? Doesn't sound like him to me. He'd probably still be doing Indy stuff. I think it depends on the characters, though. Balboa was a movie I can really understand people not liking for the reasons you mentioned (even though I like it).[DOUBLEPOST=1445336706,1445336338][/DOUBLEPOST][QUOTE="Tarantula Ten, post: 1568261, member: 19345"]Apparently the nut that started this whole debacle argued that Star Wars VII supports white genocide somehow? Because it has a black and female character in starring roles.

Which... Samuel L. Jackson and Carrie Fisher were there first, so I don't know if they even watched Star Wars before. Billy Dee Williams too man. James Earl Jones.

JAMES EARL JONES.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, a quick Google mentioned something about genocide. Loot's post about killing white babies or something made me think that was happening in the movie but I don't think it is.

If everyone is mad that there's a black character in the movie then they should probably realize there's been black characters in all the movies (as you pointed out). It seems like a black guy is the main character from the trailer, though. I don't care as long as they didn't make him black just so he isn't white.

#58

I like 'Rocky Balboa', because Sly could still pull it off. He got ripped as f*ck, you know? He looked amazing. It wouldn't have worked if he looked like someone's bad-knees flabby grand-uncle. It was a passion project, so quite clearly he gave a sh*t and put the work in. Compare to baldyhead Bruce Willis mumbling his way through 'Die Hard 5' completely stone-faced and emotionless.

I REALLY HATE POKEMON! · #59

[QUOTE="Booyakasha, post: 1568263, member: 17381"]I like 'Rocky Balboa', because Sly could still pull it off. He got ripped as f*ck, you know? He looked amazing. It wouldn't have worked if he looked like someone's bad-knees flabby grand-uncle. It was a passion project, so quite clearly he gave a sh*t and put the work in. Compare to baldyhead Bruce Willis mumbling his way through 'Die Hard 5' completely stone-faced and emotionless.[/QUOTE]

True, Balboa was great. It's just that I understand where people are coming from with their negative views of the film more than, say the new Terminator or Indiana Jones. A real boxer needs to be in his prime, and while I can ignore that because it's friggin' Rocky, I understand how others can't. Terminator and Indy Jones are pure fantasy, it's a lot easier (IMO) to overlook that it's grandpas doing not-grandpa-possible things.

Oh, and as for Die Hard, DH4 sucked so hard I never watched DH5, and I probably won't watch DH6 (it's coming, I hear) either.

ScottyMcGee · #60

I'm only a tad bit worried about how Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher will be on screen. Time hasn't been kind to them. I'm not worried about Harrison Ford becuase he's still badass and will probably be so until the day he croaks. I mean he just recently walked out of a plane crash. He's been active all his life.