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Post by Warrior of Aror on Mar 16, 2017 20:24:21 GMT
I haven't seen Moana, but I did see Zootopia recently. The heavy-handedness was a bit too much on-the-nose!
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Post by NightBlade on Mar 16, 2017 21:00:59 GMT
Moana was aggressively meh until I watched the bonus material and that made me appreciate it more. Although the story was super trite. The animation however was incredible
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Apr 27, 2017 18:39:55 GMT
The Silver Chair finally has a director! Joe Johnston, director of the first Captain America movie. What with William Moseley's comments about the production and this announcement, there actually is some hope that it could get released by Christmas 2018!
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Post by Kirenyth Fireblade on May 3, 2017 19:44:23 GMT
I might get to go see guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 on Saturday!!!
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on May 4, 2017 11:21:53 GMT
Kirenyth Fireblade: Nice! My roomie and I finished watching Merlin last night. I feel like it was a decent ending . . . except that a lot of my favorite characters died. And throughout this season and the lasts, the knights have been picked off in the order of how much I like them.
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Post by jliessa44 on May 4, 2017 18:05:50 GMT
Lol. XD my brother and I watched the last five episodes together and I thought it was hilarious how invested he got considering he'd only watched one episode before hand. The whole time he kept saying
*Spoiler-ish*
"If arm candy man dies I'm leaving. That'll be it. I'll be done."
Needless to say Percival was our favorite because I had the same attitude. It was absolutely hilarious how they designed his costume (and only his) to show off his arms. He even had his cape back to show off his arms most the time. XD
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Post by Starsinger on May 4, 2017 19:42:05 GMT
I believe there was much joking about that with the actors in interviews. But Gawaine was probably my favourite knight.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on May 4, 2017 20:06:45 GMT
jliessa44: True. xD Percival's awesome all around . . . not one of my top five favorites, but I still like him very much. Starsinger: My roommate would agree with you. I like Gwaine as well, though again, he's not one of my absolute favorites. (He's in the top three for knights, though, and close to the top five overall.) I liked Lancelot and Elyan best.
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Post by jliessa44 on May 5, 2017 0:14:45 GMT
I liked Percival and Merlin, despite his idiocy the whole time. Arthur wasn't too bad. But Morgana got on my nerves the whooooole time. The other knights weren't bad, but Idk. I wasn't too attached to most of them
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on May 5, 2017 11:29:51 GMT
I don't know . . . I kind of went back and forth on Morgana, depending on how crazy she was being. I liked her sometimes in the first season or two, but not consistently. At some point, I want to write an AU where Merlin is slightly less of an idiot and handles her finding out about magic a little better, resulting in her not turning evil and them becoming partners-in-magic, working together to deal with the threats to Camelot instead of Morgana being a threat to Camelot. (And, yes, sometimes Merlin would have to convince Morgana again that this is the best way, that it wouldn't be better to just take out Uther so Arthur can have the throne and maybe he'll be more sympathetic to magic, but then they'd both have a friend who knows who they are and doesn't die at the end of the episode.)
And yes, all that would go totally counter to the prophecy and whatnot, but whatever. I'd figure out how to make it work.
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Post by jliessa44 on May 5, 2017 15:46:33 GMT
Heh. That sounds cool! Most of the reason I hated her we bc of the way she talked the whole time. >.<
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on May 5, 2017 20:06:21 GMT
Heh. That sounds cool! Most of the reason I hated her we bc of the way she talked the whole time. >.< Thanks. What are you referring to, about how she talked? (I can think of a few things you might mean, and I'm not sure which.)
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Post by jliessa44 on May 5, 2017 20:21:35 GMT
Idk how to explain it. But like she just had a weird way of sounding and it was really obnoxiously stuck up kinda thing? Idk
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on May 6, 2017 11:59:59 GMT
Ah, ok. Makes sense. I do agree that she seemed arrogant at times, but I don't know.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on May 25, 2017 20:50:47 GMT
So I'm working on catching up on the Marvel universe and I just watched The Winter Soldier. Good movie, but knowing most of the major spoilers kind of dulled the emotional impact (naturally), which meant that instead of being all shell-shocked at the end, I spent the last five or ten minutes of the climax telling the titular Winter Soldier to stop having a temper tantrum. (I know he wasn't, but that's still how it came off to me.) Still enjoyed it, though. Plus Sam Wilson is awesome and might've jumped onto my Favorite Marvel Characters list.
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Post by riphunter616 on May 30, 2017 0:26:49 GMT
If you were to create a Berinfell film series, who would you cast?
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Post by Kirenyth Fireblade on Sept 27, 2017 3:53:42 GMT
Augh, that's hard!! Are we talking just ToU, or the first two as well? I'm afraid I don't know of enough younger actors to make a good judgment call. On another note, I just watched Pacific Rim for the first time (finally). It's anyone else besides me absolutely astounded by the size of the Jaegers? Like seriously, Gipsy Danger is 260 feet tall!!! That's almost like the Statue of liberty uprooted and started walking around.
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Post by NightBlade on Sept 27, 2017 16:55:45 GMT
DUDE I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE SECOND I LOVE THAT MOVIE. IN THEATERS IT WAS MIND BLOWING
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Post by Kirenyth Fireblade on Sept 27, 2017 21:28:44 GMT
I know right?! It's like Transformers, but with a plot! okay, that's an understatement.
And I'm pumped that John Boyega is starting in the second one. But how are they going to tie that in with the first one, since there's no reference to Stacker's family? (besides raising Mako)
Hey, did anyone besides me notice that Random Access Brain impulse Triggers is an acronym? R.A.B.I.T. All of a sudden that sentence makes a lot more sense...
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Post by jliessa44 on Nov 11, 2017 2:53:54 GMT
Thor Ragnarok was amazing. Go watch it
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Dec 18, 2017 16:07:05 GMT
Okay, guys.... who's seen Star Wars: the Last Jedi? I just saw it last night and I'm dying to hype about it with someone. XD
@jliessa: Thor Ragnarok was great! I loved what they did with the characters. The neon-colored-eighties-theme worked pretty well with the world and story line too.
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Post by jliessa44 on Dec 18, 2017 17:30:53 GMT
I'm gonna be real... I actually hated the star wars movie... up until an hour and half in I absolutely loved it. And then it was just a let down from there. :/ I did really love the first 1/2-3/4 though. Just all that build up towards redemption and then I was given that? Boo. And also Luke wouldn't have given up. He freaking saved Darth Vader who murdered children in cold blood because he saw the good. He would be like. "Op, what a brat. It's too late for him." And now I'm back to hating Kylo, annoyed with myself for getting fooled. And all those maybe deaths that ended in death like twice were really upsetting.
On Thor Ragnarok, I saw it twice and if I'd had more money and more people to see it with I would have gone again XD I absolutely loved it. And for the first time I actually loved Thor in it. Every other time he's been like a meh hero. He's always been one of my top favorites, but still kinda bland compared to others. And BANNER/HULK. I'm obsessed. Lol
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Dec 18, 2017 23:18:55 GMT
I agree about Thor- in this movie I enjoyed his character way more than I have in the past. Banner/Hulk had some great moments... although they're sinking my ship a little with him and Valkyrie flirting. I want him and Natasha together. I know that's not a terribly popular opinion, but I just really liked their dynamics. Also, Ragnarok was a really good movie for Loki fans like me. The part where Thor arrives in Asgard and immediately realizes something's up- and all the while the audience knows- was probably my favorite part of the whole movie. XD
About Star Wars: If I have one problem with the movie, it is the fact that Luke has given up. But the explanation in-universe makes enough sense, I think. I can understand being so incredibly hurt and guilty that you run from life, and Luke has repeatedly shown himself to be the sulking, everything-is-my-fault type of hero in the past. He has also demonstrated a tendency to contemplate dark things before allowing the light to win out. There were times when he considered killing Vader instead of redeeming him. So his moment of temptation to kill Ben upon seeing his intent to betray him and the order is actually consistent with his previous characterization. I had only hoped he would grow out of that kind of failing. So even though I was disappointed by Luke, it wasn't enough to mess up the movie for me, and he redeemed himself by the end of the film.
I was totally right about the Kylo/Rey romance. I expected it to happen, but I didn't expect them to dive headlong into it like they did in this movie. I found I was kind of okay with it. Actually, I wouldn't have been okay with it if she'd have given in to his advances (and her attraction to him), but the fact that they were both drawn to each other had a very interesting effect on their conflict. I loved seeing it play out. I did have to laugh at the shirtless scene though. It's just that I read this YA series called the Grisha Trilogy where almost the exact same thing happened. The villain and the heroine find themselves inexplicably linked through an emotional/psychic connection that neither of them can quite control. At one point the heroine "walks in" on the villain while he is shirtless and being treated for a wound. The scenes in Star Wars reminded me of it so much that I had to laugh... but they still pulled it off, so I didn't mind.
I also loved Kylo/Ben's character development. I really hoped they would not redeem him in this movie. I mean, of course I wanted him to be redeemed, but I think this movie would be far too soon. I was glad they teased at it- but the conclusions that he came to made total sense to me. He's not really ready to return to the light. He's genuinely drawn to Rey, but he's far too prideful (and insane) to actually change sides yet. He's on his own side, and that's all. The moment when he betrays Snoke was amazing to me- I was like, YES!! YESS!! But immediately the wheels in my head started turning: Wait, they can't just get rid of the villain in the middle of the series. That won't work! So then who's- And then I knew. He never intended to turn to the light. We weren't watching the fall of an Empire, we were watching the rise of a new Emperor.
I like the new character Rose. She's a nice addition. And BB8 is great. He's one of my favorite characters in the trilogy.
I found it agonizing- but good- that the heroes kept on failing. It made the struggle feel real. That's why I didn't mind the fact that they killed off so much of the Resistance. It was a sickening, devastating loss, but now the conflict feels like an actual conflict. The loss hurts. The whole movie played out just like my more complex, story-driven dreams do. You try and you try, only to be disappointed, and when (or if) you finally achieve victory, you feel joy... but also exhaustion.
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Post by jliessa44 on Dec 19, 2017 4:03:41 GMT
Heh. Loki's one of my favorites because he's done well. Even though my brother is infuriating about him. I think I liked him best in the middle of the movie with the grandmaster stuff and "YES! THATS HOW IT FEELS". Lol.
Meh but I hated kylo because he's so whiney and such a baby. And I thought maybe he was growing, but nope. He's just an even whinier baby because he can't bully some girl into liking him. So I was mad.
Rose was my favorite. Hands down best Star Wars character and I ship her and Finn so hard. I've always figured Rey would be better matched with Po anyway. In fact, I didn't quite realize she and Finn were being set up as a couple?
But I actually wasn't sickened by all those deaths because by that point I was just kinda numb. The whole will they die, won't they die, but they did die this time, but wait--psych! Just wore me out. Completely. By the end of the movie I was just waiting it out.
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Post by Aviar Goldeneagle on Dec 19, 2017 8:47:36 GMT
I've been pretty keen to discuss this with someone too. I watched Star Wars last night, and while I did find it an enjoyable watch, there were quite a number of things that I didn't like. I guess SPOILERS if anyone hasn't seen it yet. First, like what jliessa44 said, I didn't like Luke - to begin with anyway, I liked him more at the end - the reasons for him being this depressed old man who wants to give up on everything and everyone, needed to be fleshed out way more I think. Like, just because one of his students turned to the dark side he gives up on his sister and his friends to fly away to a remote planet on a remote island to die. Only for some reason he also leaves a map so he can be found again. I was kinda like "why?". The fact that he doesn't want to be found but leaves a map seems like a plot hole. The fact that he even got so depressed in the first place seems so out of character. It felt like he was overreacting to what had happened in the past and then just giving up instead of trying to fix it. There needed to be something much more to explain why he felt the way he did. Another big problem was the lack of character depth and development. Finn is still a fairly shallow character, we don't get to see much more of Snoke before he's killed, and the same with Phasma. And the characters (particularly Rey) are all so good at things with seemingly no reason for why they're so good. Like Finn is now flying ships/speeders with ease after just being a janitor Stormtrooper. Rose was just a mechanic and now she's flying First Order ships and speeders into battle. And Rey can just do everything. After TFA I was hoping we'd get some explanation as to why she was so good at everything - like maybe she had some amazing parental lineage making her supremely strong in the force or something - but no. Her parents were just nobodies from Jakku. So any random person can be massively strong with the force now? And that leads me into the next problem. All the big questions left from TFA were sort of answered, but they were answered in such unsatisfactory ways. So Rey's parents were no one special. Who is Snoke? Well he's dead now so it doesn't really matter. Why was Luke on the island? Well apparently no really good reason. And so on. I felt let down by the answers to the big questions left by TFA. Then there were the plot holes and weird storyline choices. Why and how did Luke die? What was the darkness under the island that drew Rey in? We didn't find or learn anything down there. And why do we spend an hour of the movie watching Finn, Rose, and Poe's plan to escape from the First Order, which does nothing to enhance or move the story along at all, except to get 80% of the escaping transports killed? Basically, it seems like with Rey, and then with the boy at the end of the movie, any random person can just have force powers. This takes the mythological feelings out of Star Wars I think. No longer is it just rare force lineage people who have force powers, but anyone at all. I did like the movie but I feel it could have been so much better if they had just fleshed out the characters a bit more, showing them learning and developing skills instead of automatically having them already. Show us how and where Rey learned how to fly a ship, fix any kind of ship, fight insanely well with a staff against men (in TFA), speak a ton of different languages, be an incredible shot with a gun, an incredible lightsaber fighter with almost no training, etc. At the moment, all we have is that she somehow learned how to do all these things by living alone with no one to teach her on Jakku. So yeah, I wish the characters could have been more thoroughly developed. Now, having got some of that stuff out of the way, , here's some things I really liked about the movie. I thought that it was a really nice Carrie Fisher farewell. Her character was great and I think it's a great way to see her go out. I've seen a number of reviews where people have been complaining about the space scene where she managed to revive in the vacuum and float back to the ship - I actually really liked that scene. We know she has the force, but we've never been able to really see her use it in any way, and so finally getting to see that in that scene I thought was really cool. The scene where Laura Dern's character slices through the enemy fleet was awesome too, just the cinematography and silence. Really enjoyed that. (As a side complaint, why was her sacrifice portrayed as heroic, but Finn's one for some reason seen as the wrong thing to do?) The scene where Snoke was killed was really awesome (aside from the fact that he died too quickly and easily and now he's gone). The way they built up to it and everything was great. And then seeing Kylo and Rey fight together - maybe something we'll see more of in the future. So yeah, there were a lot of other things I enjoyed and I did like the movie, but I dunno. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on my problems with the story too.
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Dec 19, 2017 15:15:12 GMT
The whole "why is Rey so good at everything" is pretty much answered with, "Because she's strong in the Force". I won't try to deny that she's a total Mary Sue, but she's likeable to me, and I think that's what matters most. I'm glad her parents turned out to be nobodies. If she had been tied to one of the other significant families we've seen throughout the saga, I think it would have felt a bit contrived. So her parent's weren't widely renowned, or even good people. It doesn't mean they couldn't have had a significant portion of the Force flowing through them anyway. Perhaps it was just dormant, like Rey's was until Ep. 7. Anakin's mother was a nobody too, but she must have been strong in the Force to have conceived a child without a father.
I don't think Finn was wrong for trying to destroy the canon the way he did. I think that Rose just didn't want him to die, and was trying to give him a little extra hope by saying what she did. (I really thought he was gonna die at that point. They had me fooled.)
Slicing through the enemy fleet and Leia's awesome moment in space were totally cool. I loved those moments. Same with Snoke's death scene and the Rey-Ben team up.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who saw the romantic potential in that meeting between Rey and Poe! I thought his expression seemed a little enchanted, and the same with hers. I don't think I like the pairing, but it doesn't really matter until the next movie, I guess.
The darkness on the island... I feel that it drew Rey in in an attempt to pull her fully into the Dark Side. She didn't find anything there, but she thought she might. So it teased her with the possibility of finding answers... if she kept coming back. I think that was the point of it. It didn't want to give her what she sought on the first try. The dark hole was there to warm her up to the Dark Side, and make her feel that it's nothing to be afraid of. She said herself that she should have felt frightened and trapped there- but didn't. There is now a foothold in her heart for the darkness to creep in, now that she believes she can somehow navigate it if needed.
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Post by Dmitri Pendragon on Dec 19, 2017 19:24:56 GMT
I saw Star Wars 8 a few days ago and loved it. I find myself agreeing with a lot of what Elethia has said. My favourite part was far and away the scene in Snoke's throne room; it is, I think, the emotional high point of the movie. Aviar, in answer to your question about the darkness on the island: I'm pretty sure it has to do with the "balance of light and darkness" that we hear a lot about in 7 and 8. There's actually some nice symbolism there. Recall Rey's vision when she first sees the dark side hole and a spray of water comes out. That and the plants around the edge seem to indicate that it would explode like a geyser when the tide is in. Throughout the movie, this is characterised as the dark side place on the island. Now think back to the cavern where Rey has the vision. There's a shallow round pool with a base of pebbles there, where drops fall from the cavern ceiling. And I thought, don't those two round places characterise the dark and the light sides well? We have the rage and enormity of the dark side that rises and ebbs with the tide, and we have the slow, steady drip of the light side into a calm clear pool. Poe, Finn and Rose—I agree that their subplot failed entirely, but equally it showed us who they are, especially Poe. I think it was realistic that they pursue goals outside of the Resistance leadership's plans, and their efforts tie well into the theme of failure vs. giving up. (BTW Laura Dern's character is called Amilyn Holdo, and she's swiftly becoming a favourite of mine.) This is probably not full justification for Rey's skills, but she's spent about her entire life scavenging from all manner of ships, which implies she's familiar with the engineering, at the very least, and I'd assume she's spent at least some time in the cockpits. Her abilities with the staff also seem to flow into her lightsaber training. She's also lived her life among a group of very diverse aliens, so familiarity with different languages isn't unrealistic. Everything else can be explained with the Force. Honestly I hope Phasma comes back. She's already proven herself able to escape from a tight place (trash compactor + exploding world-base) in a limited amount of time; surely she can handle a few flames. I still want to know more about Snoke…I loved watching his mastery of the Force, and I think he's much more interesting than the Emperor, as he's more of a character than a simple archetype (he is certainly still an archetype, but more personal than Palpatine). I want to know where he came from. I suppose the First Order came to be from the remnants of the Empire, but Snoke has thus far been unexplained. Anyone else find it odd that the Knights of Ren didn't warrant even a mention in this film?
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Post by Ellron Silvertree on Dec 19, 2017 19:46:21 GMT
I am enjoying reading this, because y'all are expressing a lot of my thoughts and responding to them as well. This is great I don't have the motivation to put together a big post right now, but I agree with a lot of what was said by Aviar, and I like a lot of what was said by Elethia and Dmitri. Lol. I agree, Dmitri, about Snoke and Phasma, especially Snoke. I am bothered by how much they built up his force powers and then made it so easy for Kylo to kill him. I understand why it might have worked, but I'm not quite convinced. It also felt anticlimactic. All in all I did enjoy the movie, and I'm going to see it again to try and just enjoy it and not critique/compare it to the plot of the Original Trilogy (I just wish they would choose a plot course that's further from the original premise. They have so much potential, so much they can work with it just feels like a cop-out in a way.). But the chase scene really bothered me because it was entirely comic and didn't serve much of a purpose. That and Finn's mantainance position felt like it was supposed to be comic relief, and I felt like it didn't fit well in a Star Wars drama. Even Jar Binks fit better imo. Lol. It just felt too much like a marvel-style comedy. This ain't a marvel movie. EDIT: Also, the Knights of Ren were vaguely alluded to but then never mentioned again. What happened to them? Where are they now? I feel like everything that TFA hyped up was either fulfilled in an unsatisfactory way or was ignored altogether.
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Post by jliessa44 on Dec 20, 2017 0:03:23 GMT
I love Jar Jar
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Dec 20, 2017 3:50:06 GMT
Confession- I actually did love Jar Jar as a kid. Not any more.
I do want to know where the Knights of Ren are. I can only assume Kylo will have them at his side in the next film.
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