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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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    This is you:
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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.
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    This is exactly what I was afraid would happen. Lo and behold.
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    Front Mission is a Square Enix property, though your point still stands...
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    Gonna interrupt this wonderful wonderful totally healthy discussion for something tangentially related:
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    To be clear, I don't think it's exactly bad-looking, but... like, how were your immediate impressions NOT "This is Sharon Apple, I can't wait for Information High to be its bootup sound."?
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    That is some Sharon Apple-lookin' ass console.
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    The game isn't releasing for another year, how could we possibly have an impression already?
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    Don't have the time to check it out right now, but that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! EDIT: Eh. turns out that wasn't at all what I was looking for. A brief side-by-side comparison at the beginning and end is... incomplete, to say the least. Some observations: - The more... "typical" proportions of the MG are both appreciated and disappointing. It does look more... well, typically appealing, but it loses some of what makes the Barbatos feel "wild." - More intricate inner frame is also both appreciated and disappointing. Technically, it's definitely more impressive, but I'm also rarely ever going to care beyond the initial construction. - Hands are a major improvement, though, all around. That honestly might be what seals the deal. - The inclusion of the mace is appreciated. Having to buy both the regular No-Grade Barbatos and the 6th Form just to get the mace or scratchbuild one never sat well with me, especially when IIRC in the anime it's almost exclusively the base Barbatos that uses it, not the 6th Form Barbatos. - That said, the mace's dumb blades gimmick is dumb and gimmicky. I have half a mind to count that against the kit. All in all, I'm still not entirely sold on the MG. I guess the only way to resolve this is to buy both and compare them in hand!
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    What I want to see is a comparison to the NG/Full Mechanics kit. I still don't see enough that would make me fork over the extra dough for it over that.
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    IIRC, the Max/Milia kit comes with reaction missiles included, right?
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    The correct answer is to just not ask in the first place.
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    New trailer:
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    Saw "21 Bridges" over the weekend and "Knives Out" tonight. Both are fundamentally sound, solid, smartly-made movies that I wouldn't normally check out in theaters. You aren't missing out on anything groundbreaking if you skip them, but you'll (almost) for sure have a good time with them.
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    Doesn't it just beep more intensely the closer you get? I imagine there MUST be a maximum range on it, too, though IIRC it beeped when the Mando was still at least several planets(/solar systems?) away, so...
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    I mean, sure I guess. I suppose my bigger concern is the second point, where they're afraid to go really big on establishing hard lore about Mandalore/Yodas/whatever out of fear of stepping on some theoretical other creator's toes. There's a vague chivalry/bushido thing going on, but it's not like, say, the Sith code or the like. Eh. Anyway. Decent show so far.
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    After all the hype, finally checked it out on a friend's subscription, and... boy, that is some artificial hype. Don't get me wrong, it's a fine show. I wouldn't mind seeing more episodes, but I don't feel the need to go out of my way. I wonder if the Star Wars universe is actually a hindrance. So far it's more... aesthetic than anything else. The lore seems a bit shallow, and I can't help but feel there's some trepidation on the part of the creators to create anything of substance for fear of stepping on some theoretical person's toes. Anyway. Decent enough so far, not worth getting another subscription service over.
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    Interesting stuff. NPR did a story on him, which is where Wikipedia reference his ambiguity regarding female roles: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15004725 (Tangent: More Ranma 1/2 references are always appreciated.)
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    I want Mackenzie Davis to step on me. But seriously, I really liked that way more than I thought I would. Wasn't much a fan of
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    It certainly is a concise summation of his feelings about going to war with the US, if nothing else. I don't think it's at all based in any actual statement he gave, but it's an example of the good writing that this movie sorely needed. I get why it's significant, you don't need to convince me. The film, though, does, and it failed at that. Yes. Ah I see, I suspected as much... Oh, that's not necessarily a ding against the movie, I didn't mean it like that. I was just taken off guard is all even though I rightly had no reason to be so. I sat down and an hour in the stray thought popped into my head: "Wow. These people are REALLY white." Which is weird, I didn't have the same reaction to other modern historical war films. But ah well, it is what it is.
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