Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[Vault Boy]

You know you fuck up hard if Turok is reimagined as a black man fighting Nazi raptors.

That moment when you take away one of the few Native American representatives in pop culture to get "woke".

 

[Creep3r]

Just when you think these trailers can't get anymore sickening and hammy, they find new ways to prove you wrong.

A new "trailer" came out that's essentially just behind the scenes footage from TFA and a lot of "MEMBER when Star Wars was good?!" clips from the OT and 70s Behind the scenes footage while a bunch of celebrities and e-celebs shill or react to IX. They even showed that clip of Obama going to see TFA. "Member when Obama and celebrity #3,241 went to see JJ's first Star Wars movie? He likes it! So should you!"

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[kidatari]

 

[ManateeHunter]

A sad possibility considering most movie-goers hardly watch movies and are just there to loaf around after drinking, kill time, fuck, scream or chatter on or text endlessly on their phone. At best they'll just glimpse back and forth at the movie, which seems to be becoming even rarer.

Hell, when we went to see the new Godzilla back in summer, it was nothing but people squawking and screeching while ushers did absolutely nothing. King Ghidorah fucking pops up and all we can hear is the sounds of some screeching parrots and howler monkeys (they're not reacting to Ghidorah, they've been like this for 20 minutes) while some kids start throwing ice cubes everywhere. And its been the same in almost every theater we've tried, making it so the only good time to see a movie is near the end of its run.

I wasn't aware western theaters were the equivalent of monkey zoos.

 

[ZMOT]

I wasn't aware western theaters were the equivalent of monkey zoos.

can't be easy in current year. telling anyone to shut the fuck up will probably start a "stop oppressing me" chimpout, even more so when it comes from the staff. otoh they already got your money, so why should the care? it's not like this turns people off going to the cinema or something...
only time I ever got ranted at in a cinema was when I was pissed and constantly commenting, yet still feel bad afterwards. can't even imagine doing that every time to the extent some people seem to do it.

 

[Dom Cruise]

A sad possibility considering most movie-goers hardly watch movies and are just there to loaf around after drinking, kill time, fuck, scream or chatter on or text endlessly on their phone. At best they'll just glimpse back and forth at the movie, which seems to be becoming even rarer.

Hell, when we went to see the new Godzilla back in summer, it was nothing but people squawking and screeching while ushers did absolutely nothing. King Ghidorah fucking pops up and all we can hear is the sounds of some screeching parrots and howler monkeys (they're not reacting to Ghidorah, they've been like this for 20 minutes) while some kids start throwing ice cubes everywhere. And its been the same in almost every theater we've tried, making it so the only good time to see a movie is near the end of its run.

And speaking of King Ghidorah.
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I haven't noticed people misbehaving at my local theater but one thing I have often noticed is that people just seem bored and confused more often than not at movies nowadays, you almost never feel that energy in the air that you used to, what I felt when I saw Grindhouse way back in 2007 for example.

Blade Runner 2049 was an example of that, I could tell the movie was boring and going over the heads of most of the audience.

And most recently I also got the vibe that people weren't enjoying Doctor Sleep.

Sci-Fi communities as a whole got ideologically captured by Progressives ages ago. Whether you're talking about fandom sites, the Hugo Awards, they're all infested with these assclowns. Once they had control of these communities, they decided they were going to use their authority to first keep out people who didn't agree with them politically, and later, to keep out people more talented than they are. The end result of this has been the writing community in Sci-Fi bleeding talent and not replacing it, ironically causing a race to the bottom, where the most likely candidates to win are the ones who charge the least and believe the right horse-shit.

Wendig does both. He's a constant progressive sperg, he never shuts the fuck up about Trump, he aggressively goes after anyone who dares point out who and what he is, and he works for the economic equivalent of roots and grass.

Chuck is the endgame of the paradigm progressives have established in Sci-Fi; a completely untalented hack who got where he is by kissing the right ass and hating the right people. The perfect blend of outright incompetence and giggling fucking contempt for his critics that comes from the fact that he performed absolutely zero work to get where he is and is using his position to try to hold back the talent of people thousands of times more qualified. The sort of person who will unironically insult Tolkien and claim his own verbal diarrhea is nothing short of the second coming of Christ in literary format.

One trend I've noticed with books recently is tons of Handmaid's Tale ripoffs, novel after novel of futures where wahmen are being oppressed.

 

[PseudoScrooge]

https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-every-disney-change-made-to-a-new-hope/

This is interesting fodder for the debate on exactly how the OT works in Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm:

Now it comes out that when color-correcting lightsabers, "Disney added a fine sparkly mist when they clash..."

What's interesting is this article gives Lucas full credit for "Maclunkey" and claims Disney did everything else, like color-correcting, restoring logos, and what I just mentioned.

Granted, this could be poor reporting, but it's interesting nonetheless. I haven't seen this "fine mist" myself yet, but it's a bizarre concept. Note also that the article says Disney "respected every one of George Lucas' wishes." Huh.

 

[Antipathy]

I'm starting to see advertisements for TROS popping up now. I suspected the blitz would have started at the beginning of November, but I think it'll pick up more.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

We got a clip today, which seems to confirm the leak about the chase on the sand planet.

 

[Raging Capybara]

It looks like a bollywood parody of Mad Max Fury Road. What a fucking re.tard.ed film.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

"They fly now"

Wow what a fucking concept.

 

[Judge Holden]

A sad possibility considering most movie-goers hardly watch movies and are just there to loaf around after drinking, kill time, fuck, scream or chatter on or text endlessly on their phone. At best they'll just glimpse back and forth at the movie, which seems to be becoming even rarer.

Honestly when I went to see the Joker the theater was filled with stereotypical dumb teenagers but they were all really engrossed and positive about the film despite the room being packed, so I think its a matter of luck a lot of the time with the crowd.

Hell, when we went to see the new Godzilla back in summer, it was nothing but people squawking and screeching while ushers did absolutely nothing. King Ghidorah fucking pops up and all we can hear is the sounds of some screeching parrots and howler monkeys (they're not reacting to Ghidorah, they've been like this for 20 minutes) while some kids start throwing ice cubes everywhere. And its been the same in almost every theater we've tried, making it so the only good time to see a movie is near the end of its run.

And speaking of King Ghidorah.
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Ya know I would love to go back in time to about 2009 and tell my ultrasperg franchise conSOOMer self that within ten years, pretty much the only live action series and one of the very few franchises I love that didnt shit itself to death and/or whore itself into irredeemable social bandwagon jumping fuckery would have been fucking Godzilla

 

[Hexadecimal]

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[Creep3r]

We got a clip today, which seems to confirm the leak about the chase on the sand planet.

"They fly now"

Wow what a fucking concept.

Wow... Its like jetpacks have existed in SW since forever or something... Not only is this dumb for a number of reasons, but even if we go by Disney's shitty Marvel comics, it had Poe and the rest already see and fight nu-troopers with jetpacks more than once. And even the shitty sequel campaign in EA's Battlefront II has them fighting nu-troopers with jetpacks. Just shows how much disconnection there is between JJ and the Story Group or how much of a damn they all actually give despite Disney shills claiming they care more about continuity than ever before. Then again they'll say just about anything to defend this shit.

Honestly, that whole "they fly now" crack just reminds of the same problems TFA had. Like nothing exists outside of what you see on screen in the films regardless if it makes sense. "You never see troopers flying in the previous movies or use jetpacks?! That means they've never flown before! This is truly shocking in a world where jetpacks and hyperspace travel are an easily accessible commodity!" JJ truly is a shitastic world builder. Only thing worse is the design and purpose of those tread speeders. They're essentially catapults for some bizarre fucking reason and only make the scene even more awkward than it already is thanks to the fact that they're trying too hard to emulate Mad Max.

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Pretty much the entire youtube comments section...

 

[Dom Cruise]

"They fly now"

Star Wars taking cues from Tremors 3: Back To Perfection?

 

[Godzilla@1989]

They even showed that clip of Obama going to see TFA.

That just makes me cringe.

I have a theory that he may have been involved in the What IF trilogy given his Hollywood fetish, but that's just my two cents.

 

[Flexo]

Dang I need to get this thread piped directly in my brain while I sleep so i can keep up. Maybe @GeneralFriendliness and I will just do a bitching podcast.

Enjoy this cathartic vid.

 

[Creep3r]

Speaking of Dark Horse, do they still have the comic rights for Alien, Predator and Prometheus?

Last I heard they did, with the ongoing Alien vs. Predator: Thicker Than Blood still being published by Dark Horse. However Aliens: Colonial Marines – Rising Threat (which was to be released in September) was cancelled, but I don't think that was Disney's doing. So far it seems they're safe from Disney's hands (for now anyway...) since it'll take a long time before Disney can sort out all the licenses, trademarks and legal mumbo jumbo with FOX.

Dang I need to get this thread piped directly in my brain while I sleep so i can keep up. Maybe @GeneralFriendliness and I will just do a bitching podcast.

Enjoy this cathartic vid.

What an unexpectedly pleasant surprise. Didn't expect Rageaholic to actually cover this topic, but then again, a lot more people have been covering it since the Mandalorian and the Kennedy interview with Rolling Stone came about.

 

[Bongsnake McGee]

T h E y F l Y n O W

 

[Ashen One]

We got a clip today, which seems to confirm the leak about the chase on the sand planet.

Is this an actual, official trailer? I'm speechless.
What comes immediately next must be incredibly important to the plot that they absolutely could not spoil, otherwise I don't see why they needed to cut off the trailer in that awkward moment before Poe even finished his "they fly now".