the boat they take is too small
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Youâre right, that might count. But I still think Padme should have responded âFailed?? Girl, you are a freakinâ body double. The SOLE REASON I ever had you around in the first place is so you would be the one to die in this exact scenario.â
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âNow witness the power of this fully armed and operational ballet station.â
Er, spoiler.
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Yet theyâve still only made one Monkees movie.
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The Death Star II in RotJ had the array fitted early so that it could be part of the trap of the Rebel fleet. As to the scene in episode III, all I can see is the skeleton or possibly the scaffolding for the array, not the array itself.
Considering that it takes another twenty years or so before the Death Starâs (disasterous) shakedown cruise, I donât know why theyâd be installing the main weapon that early, before nearly anything else.
Yeah, I donât think itâs very widespread, but those people are out there.
And I donât get it. Because of the Netflix-made turdfest Crouching Tiger sequel, Iâve gone and found some decent Donnie Yen movies. I donât quite get the backlash here in the West about women in fight scenes. And after rewatching the original Crouching Tiger, I have to admit Iâd like to see Michelle Yeoh and/or Ziyi Zhang in a Star Wars Story.
On the subject of 1313, they did a giddy nod to the aborted game on The Clone Wars episode âTo Catch A Jediâ. by setting part of the episode in level 1312.
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True, but it would be hard to top that. Except perhaps with dandruff.
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This just goes to prove that the issue with female characters and non-white representation wasâŚLucas?
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I âsawâ that movie but it was at the tail end of a Monkees non-stop marathon (literally non-stop) and a lot of people were rather sleep deprived and/or on drugs.
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Considering that heâs the one who wrote Princess Leia as a firecracker, wrote Padme as a firebrand, and personally chose Kathleen Kennedy to be his successor, I donât think so.
Pablo Hidalgo recently compared the Death Star to the Big Dig construction project in Boston. At the end of Episode III, everybodyâs standing around saying âHooray, weâre gonna have a new battle station!â but then nineteen years later itâs just finally getting finished. Presumably the superlaser they installed at the end of III didnât work, so they took it out and installed a new one shortly before IV.
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Uh huh.
Tell me more.
Two movies in for the new ones and weâve already got two female leads and, what, four or five non-white visible human characters? What was stopping George all this time?
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To his credit Lucas did produce and co-direct at least one movie with non-white leading characters. By most accounts is wasnât an especially good movie though.
And thatâs just the actors in the movie.
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I have the most surreal memories and, to this day, I donât know how much of it was the movie, how much was the drugs, and how much was sleep deprivation.
I was also there with a new girl that I was in ânew relationship hotnessâ with so I was a little distracted on all levels.
Ah, youth.
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I hope she doesnât deliver all her lines like a sarcastic teenager.
Howard the Duck?
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Donnie Yen, yay.
When I saw the gif I thought it was a shooped joke, I hadnât been following and didnât know he was in RO.
âBloody awfulâ would be a better description. Itâs an insult to the memory of the Tuskegee Airmen (who deserve a proper serious movie, not this brainless tripe), and doesnât even work on a dumb fighter jock Top Gun level.
The script is awful, the acting is awful, the action sequences are awful, the special effects are awful.
My main hope for the new SW movies is that they make clear to the world what a lousy filmmaker George Lucas was.
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