Star Wars Griefing Thread (SPOILERS) - Safety off

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

They neatly dumped the idea that the true villains of the franchise were the military industrial bankster interests (Hey, wasn't the primary help against the Republic the trade federation, remember that?). I just read a review that talked about that cynical hacker who hacked for both sides of every conflict said about the financiers of the war in the Sequel trilogy.

"Let me learn ya something, Finn. These guys made a lot of money, they are arms dealers to both sides of every conflict. They made half their money selling to the so-called bad guys, the First Order...how do you think they made the other half? SELLING TO THE "GOOD GUYS!" Its all a big machine, live free, don't join."

Star Wars: Death Drive — Eli Schiff

Authority has long been absent in the entire galaxy, and promises to continue to be under the postmodern and unserious Resistance. But the modernist First Order, while interested in restoration, is equally toothless, and run by fools.

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That counterfeits the whole franchise. It makes everybody some patsy or paypig to an intergalactic banking cartel that foments conflict and finances and sells to both sides.
Emperor Palpatine isn't the biggest antagonist in Star Wars, he's just its biggest patsy and paypig.

 

[HeyYou]

Who is on the top left?

Drake, before the canon wipe. The canon Drake is bottom left.

 

[Annexer]

I have zero interest in Star Wars so i'm kinda feeling left out making fun of this gargantuan trainwreck.



Oh well.
You guys have fun.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Dropping fast. It'll be interesting to see what the second weekend drop will be.

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

www.boxofficemojo.com

Date	DOW	Rank	Daily	%± YD	%± LW	Theaters	Avg	To Date	Day

Dec 20, 2019	Friday	1	$89,615,288	-	-	4,406	$20,339	$89,615,288	1
Dec 21, 2019	Saturday	1	$47,467,565	-47%	-	4,406	$10,773	$137,082,853	2
Dec 22, 2019	Sunday	1	$40,301,011	-15.1%	-	4,406	$9,146	$177,383,864	3
Dec 23, 2019	Monday	1	$29,200,000	-27.5%	-	4,406	$6,627	$206,583,864	4

I'd be surprised if Disney lose money on this though.

 

[Miller]

Leland Chee

The ideal team would be Leland Chee and Curtis Saxton. Instead we have Pablo Hidalgo and Matt Martin.

 

[verissimus]

I actually chose to fix that nightmare tooth thing:
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Not the greatest edit (200+ hours in paint.net), but a shitload better looking with a half-mask for it.

Looks like you're going with one of those Japanesesque mask looks.

japanese mask - Google Search

 

[Miang]

I suffered through TROS for a friend's sake last night. Even with enough boxed wine to sedate a neurotic cat lady from Newport Beach, it stung to watch. Then the only character who was even remotely interesting is, well, certainly not reappearing after this one, and I wouldn't even care if the rest got Poochied by the next film. I don't even remember the new characters or why they were in the movie.

It's funny, I think Mon Mothma has less screentime in ROTJ than Poe's old booty call does in TROS, but Mon Mothma is a far more memorable character because of how she's used: to sell you on the gravity of the opportunity the Rebellion has at Endor, and the incredible human (well, Bothan) cost that opportunity demanded. Same with the bad guys, too. Hux is played by a phenomenal actor, but simply by the strength of how their parts are written, Admiral Piett and General Veers are still unmatched as the "on the ground" Imperial everymen. Hux might have a pretty little "dastardly" speech before he blows up a bunch of planets, but somehow, Veers comes off as a far more menacing presence in that slow, inexorable AT-AT march to blow up a shield generator, and Piett feels like more of a person than Hux does. They're obviously never sympathetic, but they are interesting, and not treated as jokes. You want that in your bad guys, even the bit parts.

Don't even get me started on Maz Canada or whatever her stupid name is. If you offered up a draft with a character like that in a creative writing workshop, she would deserve no more than the word "superfluous" scrawled in red in the margins of her introduction.

It's strange that, for as much money as Disney has, the most memorable side character probably IS that one unnamed stormtrooper in TFA that feeds Finn his own elbows in a fair fight while he's wielding Anakin Skywalker's lightsaber.

I have more of a rant in me, but at the end of the day, the simple truth is that you could be forgiven for assuming these movies were made by people who do not care about Star Wars.

Because you're probably right.

 

[Relic 31]

Who doesn't? They're fucking hideous. Also I find it amusing that Hidalgo keeps pushing these guys as "Ithorian cousins with a different name" despite all concept art and promo shit calling them Ithorians.

Also this thing was in IX.
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According to the IX dictionary, his species has no eyes, nose, ears or even a brain. Instead its main sensory organ and nerves are in its mouth, so its head is just one giant fanged mouth and it constantly needs to grin to be able to sense things. The machine over his mouth is used as a substitute for brain, eyes, and ears... These things are naturally born like this? Who came up with these horrors? Does someone in the costume department have a fetish for brainless things? Or is this a metaphor for how Disney wishes its fans could be like?

It looks like a Strogg from the “Quake” games.

 

[Basil II]

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Of fucking course.
Gotta buy the book to see
That The new Character, Jannah, is his kid.

Then again JJ is so lazy most of us guessed this.

is that an actual scene in the movie? that pic looks like some late 2000's youtube meme.

 

[Reverend]

is that an actual scene in the movie? that pic looks like some late 2000's youtube meme.

nahh it's LongBeachGriffy in drag.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

So if KK is out but doesn't have a replacement, what happens to Lucasfilm?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

 

[Creep3r]

I actually chose to fix that nightmare tooth thing:
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Not the greatest edit (200+ hours in paint.net), but a shitload better looking with a half-mask for it.

I did my best. I tried to make him look like a pre-Disney alien, although the only one that I could think of with big teeth to match that body type were the karkarodons from Filoni Wars.

 

[Reverend]

So if KK is out but doesn't have a replacement, what happens to Lucasfilm?

Folded under John Faverau or Dave Filoni's portfolio.

Currently Dave Filoni's working for Star Wars:TV only but of course things change and since he is already there and MOSTLY liked by the fans....

 

[BipolarPon]

I did my best. I tried to make him look like a pre-Disney alien, although the only one that I could think of with big teeth to match that body type were the karkarodons from Filoni Wars.
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Good job, also it looks better than the traced one in Alien Archive. Alot of the images are unfournately traced in this book, which is often jarring as some are traced from live action and others from the cartoons.

 

[Creep3r]

Good job, also it looks better than the traced one in Alien Archive.
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Wow so they didn't even bother to draw original artwork from scratch? They just poorly traced pre-existing photos and artwork? What is it with Disney and tracing other people's shit? Makes everything they produce feel like some chinese knockoff.

 

[Adamska]

Looks like you're going with one of those Japanesesque mask looks.

japanese mask - Google Search

I was mostly just looking for a half mask to cover that fugly teeth, noted the Japanese half mask and thought why not? I mean Vader had some of that influence after all.

My original idea was to make the one I used a gas mask, but it looked really shit when I tried that.

I did my best. I tried to make him look like a pre-Disney alien, although the only one that I could think of with big teeth to match that body type were the karkarodons from Filoni Wars.
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It's impressive how randos on the net legit are just more competent than even the paid designers for this franchise. It's fucking pathetic.

Wow so they didn't even bother to draw original artwork from scratch? They just poorly traced pre-existing photos and artwork? What is it with Disney and tracing other people's shit? Makes everything they produce feel like some chinese knockoff.

Maybe they're trying to be more akin to a Chinese company so that the Chinamen consoom product... or they're incompetent and lazy monkeys.

 

[BScCollateral]

The faces on those two Chewbacca pop-things say it all.

I'm sure they're there because Chewie was in a scene with Porgs, but I like to imagine they think he is a Porg.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

It’s appalling that the Twilight movies manage to have each installment perform better than the other, while the ST can’t replicate that success.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

TROS has reached 55% on RT amongst all critics. If you selevt "Top Critics" it's even down to 49%. Just... wow. Disney.

MovieBob is literally the only defender of this piece of shit dumpster fire.
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So, what scene is he talking about?
I literally can't remember one scene that was the least bit memorable, since everything is so bland. Which is a fascinating concept to ponder:
The movie manages to have such "run-of-the-mill" overblown action scenes, they become "bland".

Like that scene where Rey somersaults over a TIE-Fighter? Somehow, that manages to be bland. It's surreal on how many levels this movie fucks up and how.

Dropping fast. It'll be interesting to see what the second weekend drop will be.

Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

www.boxofficemojo.com

Date	DOW	Rank	Daily	%± YD	%± LW	Theaters	Avg	To Date	Day

Dec 20, 2019	Friday	1	$89,615,288	-	-	4,406	$20,339	$89,615,288	1
Dec 21, 2019	Saturday	1	$47,467,565	-47%	-	4,406	$10,773	$137,082,853	2
Dec 22, 2019	Sunday	1	$40,301,011	-15.1%	-	4,406	$9,146	$177,383,864	3
Dec 23, 2019	Monday	1	$29,200,000	-27.5%	-	4,406	$6,627	$206,583,864	4

I'd be surprised if Disney lose money on this though.

I doubt Disney will lose money, it won't be a bomb, but it won't be the success they need if they want to get back their 4 Billion dollars any time soon.
However the damage to the brand might be pretty heavy.

Still hoping for a 60-70% decline in viewership for the next weekend.