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  1. 1 hour ago, Lord Darth Hunter said:

    Seeing a knife fight in SW throws me off. I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it. It’s similar to when they were on boats in The Mandalorian. When someone pulls a knife it takes me right out of the story. 

    This is absurd. Also, makes total sense haha. I felt this way about the Jedi books/journals in TLJ.

    I saw a post about one of the newer shows having an outfit with a zipper and people were losing their minds. STAR WARS CANT HAVE ZIPPERS? Then somebody posted a clip of Luke zipping up his inflight suit in ESB.

  2. I can agree with Choc, but also agree with both of you all at the same time. It DOES have that "fan film with a budget" vibe to it... but I remain (possibly foolishly) more optimistic about this over anything Filoni is responsible for.

  3. I’m reading this book right now for research, but it’s pretty cool and I’m shocked it’s not more famous or was ever adapted into a movie.

    It’s Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore. It basically does for werewolves what Dracula did for vampires. Published in the 1930s, it’s not the first werewolf story ever published, but it pre-dates the first werewolf movies, and clearly served as some inspiration. It’s sort of the blueprint for all werewolf tropes in modern pop culture. 

    Like Dracula it took bits of mythology from around the world, combined it with a historical figure of sorts, and turned it into a horror story with a fair amount of gore, violence, incest, other fun stuff. It’s only recently back in print, so if you’re a werewolf nerd, grab it.

  4. It looks a little Kung-Fu for me, but it's a new era we haven't seen, so maybe it's cool if it has a bit of a stylistic shift. I WISH it was the far future of the SW we know, but I;'ll take the past. As I mentioned before, I have a friend who wrote on this. She hasn't told me any details other than that for the most part it was a fun ride, but they wrote the whole season years ago at this point and she was nowhere near shooting-- but the main thing is that Leslie Hedlund, the show runner, is pretty big fan girl and she wanted to hit the familiar tropes and ideas, but also wanted to mix it up. So hopefully that comes across.

  5. My top 5 SCORES:

    1. Halloween 3 (Movie is a mess, but if you're into John Carpenter music it's low-key his best and you can hear hints of so many of his other great themes being worked out. It's only missing the classic Halloween theme. To that--

    2. Halloween 2018 (Carpenter revisits his classic theme and score with a more modern sensibility. I work to this constantly)

    3. Fight Club (Dust Bros. doing the Millennial break beat thing, love it for the gym)

    4. Wrath of Khan (Even though Horner plagiarizes himself regularly and the best bits of this score are recycled in Aliens and Cocoon, it's still burned into my brain).

    5. Tron Legacy (One of the most epic scores ever. Daft Punk, who I normally appreciate and enjoy more than love, made an electro masterpiece).

    *-- John Williams honorable mention. (TBH, it's kind of a no brainer that Williams in his prime did some of the most cinematic themes out there. I can't name one. I don't really ever put him on to listen to, but there's literally no other composer of whom I can instantly think of at least 5-6 iconic themes they are responsible for. Star Wars, Jaws, Close encounter, Raiders, Superman-- I mean come on.

    **-- Honorable mention two, Danny Elfman. I don't love all his scores by any means, but the Batman theme was so iconic, and for a time he was so unique in his compositions, he deserves some credit.

     

    My Top 5 SOUNDTRACKS:

    1. Purple Rain (no explanation needed)

    2. Top Gun (don't listen to it as much these days, but back then it was on constant repeat)

    3. Natural Born Killers (Trent Reznor made a mix tape!)

    4. Any Tarantino Movie (the guy knows how to drop the needle)

    5. Repo Man (no lie, my introduction to punk music as an 80s kid)

  6. Which character? I play Lady V so I can't think of his voice. But the dude who plays Garros in Mass Effect-- I hear him in every game ever.

    Also, I was able to break up with Starfield. The repetition of maps and actions eventually just bored me to death.

  7. Also, for the record-- Nic Pizzolato is a narcissist piece of shit. He was caught plagiarizing from Alan Moore in season one, and deflected by saying the only problems with S1 was that he didn't have enough control over Cary Fukinawa, who directed the whole season, even though Nic never directed a thing in hid life.

    In season 2, Nic blames all the short comings on the fact HBO pressed him for time. He had a writer's room against his will and blamed the fact he couldn't write every single episode himself for the uneven quality.

    In season 3, he was given full control, wrote every episode, and split directing duties himself with a guy he hand-picked. And the result-- lowest ratings ever. Combine that with how he is combative and throws everyone he can under the bus, HBO fires him.

    Now, he's drifted into weirdo butthurt creep style shit-posting on social media, retweeting every incel that complains about the men in S4 being inept. He will repost any article or review (often from amateurs) that shit on the show... all the while still collecting paychecks as EP/Creator. 

    The guy is capable of great work, but his ego and being a piece of shit far outweigh that fact.

  8. S1, for me, set the tone by saying this was a show about three things:

    1. Police who have been broken by their jobs, forced to reconcile how what's RIGHT isn't always what is LEGAL, and vice versa.

    2. A strange and horrific murder case that seems to edge into the occult

    3. A present tense frame story that looks back at a previous time as the case is re-examined.

    As an anthology, I knew it was going to be a different case and cast each season, but it seemed like those were the core ideas everything would be built around. And that wasn't just my assumption, I have a copy of Pizzilato's pitch and it says future seasons would always be about a pair of investigators that are set against each other, but have to work together on a case that spans over a long time period.

    So when the second season came out and was just a very by the numbers corrupt cop in LA storyline, I was disappointed. I wanted it to be rural, I wanted a hit of the occult. I wanted more of the things I liked. Aside the shoot out episode and the one where Rachel McAdams goes undercover at the sex party, the tension was flat as hell.

    Season three seemed to return to the form of season one, but it was so boring I never finished it. And I watched it during lockdown when I had nothing to do BUT watch TV shows.

    Season four is a return on all fronts, though I suppose the present-day investigation looking back only comes into play in the last episode. I don't think it was flat at all, I think each episode advanced the case in interesting ways, and the ending-- which still hints at something supernatural but also gives a logical conclusion, worked great.

    I do think they left one too many thing unanswered for (the tongue) and it did feel rushed that both Annie as well as Danvers/Navarro could spend five minutes in the under-ice lab and instantly have all the answers, but beyond that, I was very happy and did not think the bed was shattededed.

  9. Roman is one of those dudes I just can’t seem to figure out what the WWE sees in him. I’ve always thought he was boring as hell. I don’t dislike him, I just don’t care.

    At least Lesnar’s not involved. 

  10. 15 hours ago, Gamevet said:

    Fly Southwest. They have good prices and pretty nice planes.

    They also have the most inconvenient chaotic loading strategy, which is why at any airport on the west coast, the terminal is always chaos outside Southwest's spot.

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