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Lord Darth Hunter

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  1. Just saw this now that it's on MAX and I gotta say, meh. Keaton is the only reason to watch. All the other cameos are nothing more than cartoons staring blankly into space.
  2. Then again, don't most 80's adult comedies fall into the this-could-never-be-made-today category?
  3. I get the feeling Hoth was way worse than Antarctica.
  4. It was named in his honor. Also, I noticed when they rescued the prisoner witch whatever her name is, she was dressed like the Bride in Kill Bill, which in itself was inspired by Bruce Lee. Turns out the actress is Bruce Lee’s goddaughter. I had no idea. Nice touch there.
  5. Speaking of Aliens, anyone watch the 1983 Alien spoof, The Creature Wasn’t Nice (which was later renamed Spaceship and then Naked Space)? Starred Leslie Nielsen and Cindy Williams. I also loved: Moving Violations D.C. Cab 1980’s comedies were something else. Even the bad ones are rewatchable.
  6. I read a review that said, when I see Rosario Dawson in the get up I see Ahsoka, ditto for Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Sabine. But when I see Mary Elizabeth Winstead, I don't see Hera. I just see Mary Elizabeth Winstead in green makeup and prosthetic pig tails. I don't know what it is but Winstead didn't work for me as Hera and it seems I wasn't the only one. I'm also wondering if we will eventually see her and Kanan's son?
  7. Those were exactly my thoughts while watching this. Two Jedi kill a New Republic crew right out in the open and break a prisoner out of the ship...and no one thinks it's a good idea to alert Luke? The episodes play as if Return of the Jedi didn't happen and we are stil in the Rebels timeline. Eveything is hush hush and Hera and Ahsoka are doing everything on their own.
  8. So all the stories about this movie’s “bomb” status mention that the marketing budget is doing it in. From what I’ve read it needed to make closer to $800 million just to break even!?!? I’m genuinely confused as to why a movie would be made this way. What’s the point of making films that have to earn almost a billion dollars just to break even? Not make a profit mind you. Break even.
  9. Did anyone notice when that guy tells Ahsoka that Anakin spoke highly of her, you can hear Vader's breathing?
  10. By the way, something else I wanted in this film that closes out the series was a nod to Short Round. It’s always bothered me that we never heard anything about him again. With all the publicity recently surrounding Ke Huy Quran’s Oscar-winning performance and his reunion with Ford during the photo ops, I was hoping for a cameo from Short Round or at least a mention of what became of him.
  11. Well, dinosaurs don't exist in our reality but they sure look real in the Jurassic movies. But I do get what you're saying. It's not an Indy problem but a Hollywood problem. It's not that they can't do it. They just don't want to spend the time and money. They get the effects to just "good enough" status to release the film.
  12. Amazing when you think about how far technology has come in the last 40 years. Everything from computers to phones to cars to the internet and everything else. Yet films seem to be the only thing that has gotten worse. It would’ve been unthinkable if someone in 1981 had told us, there will be four more Indy films after Raiders of the Lost Ark with the last one coming out in 2023. But that movie is going to look godawful. The effects will be nowhere near as realistic as this Raiders movie looks. Our minds wouldn’t have been unable to fathom that studios can’t make movies in the 2020’s look as realistic as they did back in the 1980’s.
  13. Ironically enough because of Crystal Skull I went into this with zero expectations. And even then I still didn’t find it entertaining save for a few bits. Sidenote, the de-aging of Ford looked great, but they needed to do the respeecher or whatever that tech was that was used on JEJ's voice for Vader in the Obi Wan series. Ford, like Hamill and everyone else, doesn't sound the same in their 60's as they did in their 20's and 30's. It threw me off to see a young Ford talking in old Ford's voice.
  14. You’re not the only one. I second that motion. I liked “Wombat” too. She mirrored Indy’s development in the original trilogy — started off seeking “fortune and glory” and growing into letting go of the prizes to focus on saving her surrogate family. That said, I agree with the rest of your take. I put it right there with Crystal Skull. To quote Eddie Wilson from Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! It was not bad. "Listen, if I was in a bar and I heard you playing, it'd be nice being in there. Then I'd go home and I'd forget all about it. That's what not bad means."
  15. Especially when those men suck at their job. While Obi Wan and Luke are in the Mos Eisley cantina, there’s a scene of the troops investigating the buildings nearby. Threepio tells R2 they’re coming and to lock the door. The troops arrive at said door, knock and then one of them says, “door’s locked, move on to the next.” That’s it??? All you have to do to evade Imperial capture is to keep an eye out for them and as they get near, just go inside and lock the door.
  16. Next dumb question. “Look sir, droids!” When the troopers were investigating the escape pod, did they really not know that droids had been in the pod until one of them found that spare part in the sand? I’m pretty sure the tracks included R2’s three legged wheels. Right away that should’ve told them, well someone was in the pod and they had an R2 unit with them.
  17. I’m wondering if WWE knows what undisputed means?
  18. Like I said, the draft is stupid. I was hoping with HHH supposedly having creative control it would be better than in years past. But still the same ol same ol. No logic to it.
  19. This draft reeks of McMahon being fully back in creative. No logic to it. All that talk of factions and teams being spilt up, and we have Reigns and Sikoa being drafted together, Damage Control going together, the Women’s champions for each brand being drafted by the other brand. And are we really supposed to believe that anyone would be drafting goofs like the Miz above all that talent available?
  20. Agreed. As I listened to HHH say all those things about Reigns, all it sounded to me was like, no one has been able to beat Reigns and now he’s decided to lighten his workload so here’s a consolation prize for the rest of the roster. Makes this title already look weak. Also, one of the angles Reigns used in the buildup to the Wrestlemania match with Cody Rhodes was that Cody wasn’t ready for the crazy schedule and massive workload that comes with being champion!!!
  21. I hate that episode where the Mando kid was taken by that dragon thing and the Mandalorian jet packs ran out of fuel chasing it. Ever since then, every time I watched Mandos flying around everywhere I couldn’t help but wonder how much longer it’d be before they came crashing down. So watching them battle it out in the air, or when Axe flies from below the surface all the way to the upper atmosphere to the ship, then flies back down to avoid dying when he crashed the ship into the base, I kept getting taken out of the action just because of that. All that speculation about Grogu being the one who would unite Mandalore because of his background as both a Jedi and foundling. Seeing Gideon destroy the darksaber made me think, so much for that. (BTW, in the BOBF Mando says that the hilt of the darksaber is of a quality of beskar he has never seen before. I guess they forgot all about that part.) I really do hope that was the series finale. There’s really nowhere else to go with this character other than just create random “adventures” for the sake of extending the series. I think that was even a wink to the audience when Carl Weather’s character said those exact words to Mando when giving him the deed to his home.
  22. I see it as Cody left WWE and started a rival company. So it’s not surprising they didn’t let him waltz right back and get all the glory. Not saying they did this to punish or embarrass him. They want it to look like he earned it. Summerslam would be a good place to have that rematch. While not as big as Wrestlemania, it’s gonna be another stadium show and it could be the right place for him to finally get it.
  23. Late to the party here but I just wanted to say I was there for both days. When you’re live it doesn’t feel as long as if you’re watching on TV. The crowd stayed pretty excited throughout the shows. Even corny stuff like Pat McAffee and whoever that idiot was who joined him in the beatdown of the Miz had the crowd yelling and chanting.
  24. Choc, I love this. You completely nailed it. It's the same reason it was a big misstep for the series to shift its focus from Din Djarin to Bo Katan and have her be the one to unite the "tribes" instead of him. I wrote a few posts back that Bo had been part of the faction who fought against her own sister to bring an end to the pacifist society her sister was running. Bo's group would commit terrorist atrocities, such as blow up civilian buildings on Mandalore, killing innocent people. She ended up leaving this faction only because Maul took over and “he wasn’t Mandalorian.” She's no hero and asking the audience to get behind her and care about the Mandalorians is a huge stretch now. Also, I hate when characters commit suicide for no reason. The Mandos escaped through a hole Bo cuts in the wall that is only big enough for one person to go through at a time. They were all already out so Vizla could've followed behind and used that small hole to his advantage. He tells Bo to go because there's too many troopers and he's just going to fight off as many as he can right in the open. Duh, if you just go through the hole, as you fall back on the other side, the hole will nullifiy the troopers' numbers because you can shoot them with that crazy machine gun as they come through one by one.
  25. The Dooku ones were awesome. The Ahsoka ones were good only if you know why that training was important.
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