kajnrig
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I'm getting way more Last of Us from this than A Quiet Place. Both are good, but in their own ways. I dunno how much I want to see this, though I'm sure it'll be a good movie.
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With how adept Rey is with her staff, I'm surprised (well, "surprised") that they didn't just have her use that through the last movie. Would've been way more interesting than yet another lightsaber battle. A lightsaber polearm, perhaps? Would've been and would still be real cool to see a spear or guandao wielder. Of course, that would have necessitated a specialized coach/trainer to help Daisy Ridley. But still... -
They should retcon calling these past 9 movies the "Skywalker saga" because frakk that stupid ass stupid Z-tier focus group PR butt-speak. Is it incredibly petty of me that that's what pisses me off the most about Star Wars? Maybe, but look what we're working with here. frakking... "Skywalker saga." Pfffft. frakk off. "Skywalker saga."
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That's the glare from the desk lights, not them glowing. Seemed kind of... obvious.
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What Current Anime Are You Watching Version v4.0
kajnrig replied to wolfx's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Just in case you haven't seen the news yet, Hideaki Anno issued a candid statement on the (lack of) connection between himself/Studio Khara/Evangelion and Gainax. https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2019/12/30/hideaki-anno-denounces-links-between-him-and-arrested-gainax-president-discusses-past-with-anime-studio -
Yeah, but P-Bandai. Like almost all of the announced kits that actually interested me were P-Bandai'd, so... oh well.
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I like to think it's an intentional design. There's actually nothing at all in Zaku heads but those lights, and it distracts people into attacking it instead of the main body. IIRC in Pacific Rim the Cherno Alpha has exactly that type of design, a big ol' search light situated far above the actual cockpit so that enemies mistakenly attack that instead.
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Oh, it's not P-Bandai, they just did a limited release of it, similar to like the "Unicorn mode box art" initial release of the RG Unicorn, except so far as I can tell, there are no plans to keep producing it like there were for the Unicorn.
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It's a limited edition release, or at least the initial batch with special box and booklet is. There's been no word of when/if it'll see further release in any form the way the G30th did via the HG Starter Set 2.
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Rey's saber made me immediately think of Hindu/Buddhist vajra ceremonial weapons. I thought it made for neat religious imagery, though I doubt that the similarity is intentional.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
kajnrig replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
And it will no doubt release... in 2050. -
Now give him derp eyes. Do it!
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Force powers. /shrug I dunno man, Darth Maul was pretty super competent... until he wasn't. I dunno man, Darth Maul was pretty super likable and well-acted... until he wasn't. Look, if that's what it takes to get more Ray Park Darth Maul... Sorry, just watched me that Phantom Menace fight again. Got the double blade on the brain. Yeah, we all remember fondly that gritty Destroid war drama, Robotech. Nice build. It's always cool to see the thousands of ways people jerry rig up their own sabers. Speaking of lightsabers, though, I wasn't too hot on the lightsaber combat in this movie... or in the sequels in general, really. I know the one big fight scene in TLJ gets a lot of flak, but it's legitimately the one interesting fight scene out of all three movies. But anyway, in this movie in particular, something about how the characters swing their sabers a lot of the time... It happened too often to not notice, where instead of following through swings (or making it look like they're trying to, at any rate), characters would angle their grips/props/batons/etc. to make a lightsaber clash as shallow as possible. I dunno what it was. Maybe they just weren't given time to really work through each fight scene. From what I hear, the TLJ throne room fight is just as bad, where the actors didn't have enough time to get the timing of the choreography down right, so you'll see the stuntmen Praetorians doing "filler" maneuvers in the background meanwhile. Anyway.
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Last night while discussing the movie, my brother said that he ranks TPM as the worst in the franchise because it has Jar Jar Binks in it. And I've noticed that lots of people rank RotJ among the lower rung of movies citing the presence of Ewoks. And that got me wondering... Why? They're certainly not the worst aspects of their respective movies. They're a bit silly, a bit cartoonish, but it's not as if excising them would suddenly "save" their respective movies. Are Star Wars fans just allergic to childhood or something? I know that's a bit reductive, but still... Anyway, saw the movie. It was exactly what I expected it to be, which is to say that everything that happened was expected. This film did not even try to surprise me in any way, which is... fine... I suppose. It's a film that exists, that leaves you feeling as little afterwards as you felt before. People have already noted that this is basically two films rolled into one. While I am so glad for TLJ existing, I will say that this trilogy would have at least been internally tonally consistent (if completely uninteresting) if it had followed a single JJ Abrams "creative" vision. But I also would have preferred if this last film were directed by a third person entirely (I think it was Colin Treverrow?) to what we ultimately got here. (Also boy it was Return of the Jedi as hell, isn't it. How VERY Return of the Jedi it was.)
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Saw the first episode and a... half? Seems fine so far, if a bit... I dunno... identity-less. Obviously you can't glean too much from just an hour(?) or so of 5+, but so far I'm not seeing too much that makes it stand apart from any other "dark fantasy" story. Powerful but persecuted man with a jaded exterior hiding a resolute moral core, plus casual nudity (but only involving hot women!) and a conveniently totally justifiable sex scene. You can tell this story was written by a man. No, that's not a criticism of the show, just an observation. Wasn't put off by the time-jumping narrative at all. It actually seemed to telegraph the shifts pretty clearly, so while I didn't really know what had shifted from scene to scene, I knew that something had shifted, and so it didn't catch me off guard later when I realized what was going on. But maybe it gets more convoluted as it goes on. Anyway, decent show, not bad at all. May as well finish it up.
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There's an Entertainment Weekly review making the rounds for being abjectly terrible. Apparently the people (who actually got paid for their opinions) watched only the first episode or two before skipping to the last episode, then gave it a score of 0 out of whatever. That's... yikes.
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You might want to do what others did with the 1/20 VF-1 and contact HLJ customer support, see what they can possibly do to drop the price on shipping. How heavy, big, or just... whatever... is that figure? Does it come with all the thousand parts separated out on plastic trays?
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Eh, without knowing too much about the specifics of their arguments, I can't comment much about them. The video itself is kind of unclear on what those arguments are, only going as far (from what I remember) as to say: "...many of our most beloved pop culture institutions are also among our least well-understood ... precisely because they're so well-beloved. So much of the modern critical discourse is about recontextualizing and reclaiming works that have been overlooked and pushed aside, that we often assume that the universally accepted canon is either already well-understood enough or became universally accepted precisely because there never was a lot to unpack there." Boiling it down, it's basically "What made X movie/game/show/etc. super popular has kind of gotten lost to time, so people nowadays - especially those who want to puff up other, maybe smaller movies - sometimes minimize what made X movie/game/show/etc. super popular in the first place."
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Apparently according to him, in recent years (like the past decade, decade and a half) some historical critics have said not that it's bad but that it's basically overrated. I don't have any of them on anything. ... ... ...yeah...
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Oh, if you've got 1.5 hours to spare, and I know at least some of you are fans of his, Moviebob came out recently with this. My tl;dr of it: "Star Wars is a good movie, fight me." I mean honestly it does get kind of long in the tooth, hard not to do that at 1.5 hours, and I find him kind of insufferable at times, but anyway, me makes some interesting points at least.
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I mean look, when your "model" is the size of a small child...
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I don't know that it necessarily had to develop unless it was going for a Finn/Poe romance thing for cheap Progressive!!! points. That said, I agree that what each of them got individually wasn't satisfying. I see what the movie was going for, but the way it went about it wasn't nearly as strong as what the Rey and Kylo Ren arcs got. I'm guessing these points involve TRoS, so I'll leave them be until I see it, except to predict that: I'd compare this trilogy to the Dark Knight trilogy, in a way. The first and third movies feel really closely tied to each other in theme and story. The middle movie, while being the best of the three, retroactively felt disconnected once the third film came out. Here, I feel like TRoS will feel a lot like TFA, which is to say it'll definitely be a JJ Abrams movie for better and for worse. TLJ, the middle entry, will be the most satisfying and my personal favorite. Precisely. It wasn't and never should have been Johnson's responsibility to resolve the problems Abrams created, especially when Abrams didn't have any corresponding solutions. That's probably the thing I hate most about his "mystery box" concept of storytelling: he just creates mystery for the sake of mystery. That's not to say he needs to have a concrete, fully realized resolution, but it's irresponsible storytelling to not have the slightest inkling of... anything. While I'm kind of "eh" on your specific points, I too think a chimera born of both films would be superior to what we have currently. As it is, I think TLJ doesn't have a firm enough base upon which to build, so I'd personally prefer something that just takes some of the character introductions and basic relationships from the first movie and gives Rian Johnson otherwise free reign to integrate them however he sees fit into a narrative that finds its way to the same ending as TLJ. I don't think it would be especially hard to do, considering there's so little substance to TFA. ...actually I really like the "fo lightspeed ramming things" premise. Dunno if I'd want it so much as to excise that ducking jaw-dropping scene from TLJ, but... it's a strong premise to work from.
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It really warms my cold dead heart to see that super professional important bestest of the best most serious real business people are just as much dumb nerds overanalyzing everything as the rest of us plebs.
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I maintain that TLJ is the real start of the trilogy that TFA should have been. TFA asks a lot of small, inconsequential questions, and TLJ was right to smack them down and give us some better, meatier questions (as far as to build future movies' themes around, anyway), namely how will the Force, or rather the legacy of the Jedi and the Sith, change? I don't know, but I'm down to find out. That's the kind of stuff I want to see, not Literally Just A New Hope Again. Like @Mommar said, getting rid of JJ Abrams's mystery boxes renders TFA almost completely void of any other substance.
