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Post by meddle on Dec 23, 2016 10:05:34 GMT 10
I've finally saw Rogue One the best star wars I have seen in awhile Better than the seventh? Oh yes though i enjoyed the force awakens very much
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 24, 2016 12:15:44 GMT 10
So Carrie Fisher's just had a massive heart attack, and is not in a good way
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Post by meddle on Dec 24, 2016 12:38:48 GMT 10
So Carrie Fisher's just had a massive heart attack, and is not in a good way Damn
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 24, 2016 12:45:33 GMT 10
So Carrie Fisher's just had a massive heart attack, and is not in a good way Damn Yeah apparently it happened on a flight to London, and she had gone around 10 minutes without oxygen
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Post by professorfloydian on Dec 27, 2016 22:30:17 GMT 10
Yeah apparently it happened on a flight to London, and she had gone around 10 minutes without oxygen 2016 can't afford another death...
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 27, 2016 23:29:54 GMT 10
Yeah apparently it happened on a flight to London, and she had gone around 10 minutes without oxygen 2016 can't afford another death... There's still a few days left in this year, and I'd be surprised if there isn't one more major death....
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Post by professorfloydian on Dec 27, 2016 23:54:24 GMT 10
2016 can't afford another death... There's still a few days left in this year, and I'd be surprised if there isn't one more major death.... 2016 is turning out to be a really crappy year. 1. Deaths of celebrities 2. Trump gets elected 3. Racism gets spread 4. Discrimination gets spread 5. YouTube is dead wow
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 28, 2016 0:12:34 GMT 10
There's still a few days left in this year, and I'd be surprised if there isn't one more major death.... 2016 is turning out to be a really crappy year. 1. Deaths of celebrities 2. Trump gets elected 3. Racism gets spread 4. Discrimination gets spread 5. YouTube is dead wow Not to mention Brexit, the re-election of the Turnbull Liberal/National Government and the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.... Worst of all though is that Toblerone screwed over the little men.... those bastards.... this man explains it best:
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Post by professorfloydian on Dec 28, 2016 0:16:42 GMT 10
2016 is turning out to be a really crappy year. 1. Deaths of celebrities 2. Trump gets elected 3. Racism gets spread 4. Discrimination gets spread 5. YouTube is dead wow Not to mention Brexit, the re-election of the Turnbull Liberal/National Government and the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.... Worst of all though is that Toblerone screwed over the little men.... those bastards.... this man explains it best: Totally forgot about Brexit. But I don't know...I can understand why a country wouldn't want to join the EU. There was a comic with Iceland saying they're cancelling their EU applicartion, and the second panel showed a bunch of EU countries saying "gib monies". That illistrates it pretty well.
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 28, 2016 11:21:34 GMT 10
Not to mention Brexit, the re-election of the Turnbull Liberal/National Government and the rise of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.... Worst of all though is that Toblerone screwed over the little men.... those bastards.... this man explains it best: Totally forgot about Brexit. But I don't know...I can understand why a country wouldn't want to join the EU. There was a comic with Iceland saying they're cancelling their EU applicartion, and the second panel showed a bunch of EU countries saying "gib monies". That illistrates it pretty well. The thing is, I support Brexit, but the people that wanted it to happen did it for all the wrong reasons. The genuine Left was always opposed to Britain in the EU (Jeremy Corbyn for most of his career is one of them, as was Tony Benn), as you can read here:https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/leave-european-union-brexit-ukip-corbyn-cameron/ Unfortunately the Brexit argument has been hijacked by the hard Right, which argued from a xenophobic and nationalistic viewpoint
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Post by professorfloydian on Dec 28, 2016 13:28:03 GMT 10
Totally forgot about Brexit. But I don't know...I can understand why a country wouldn't want to join the EU. There was a comic with Iceland saying they're cancelling their EU applicartion, and the second panel showed a bunch of EU countries saying "gib monies". That illistrates it pretty well. The thing is, I support Brexit, but the people that wanted it to happen did it for all the wrong reasons. The genuine Left was always opposed to Britain in the EU (Jeremy Corbyn for most of his career is one of them, as was Tony Benn), as you can read here:https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/leave-european-union-brexit-ukip-corbyn-cameron/ Unfortunately the Brexit argument has been hijacked by the hard Right, which argued from a xenophobic and nationalistic viewpoint Honestly I'm surprised the EU thing worked... Here's the thing you know how in the EU there's the poor countries and rich countries right? So I would imagine people from Romania would be flocking to live in the UK due to the freedom of movement and put a strain on the UK.... So I understand why they wanted to leave. It's like Mexican undocumented immigrants in the US, I guess, but they're "legal".
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 28, 2016 22:39:44 GMT 10
The thing is, I support Brexit, but the people that wanted it to happen did it for all the wrong reasons. The genuine Left was always opposed to Britain in the EU (Jeremy Corbyn for most of his career is one of them, as was Tony Benn), as you can read here:https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/leave-european-union-brexit-ukip-corbyn-cameron/ Unfortunately the Brexit argument has been hijacked by the hard Right, which argued from a xenophobic and nationalistic viewpoint Honestly I'm surprised the EU thing worked... Here's the thing you know how in the EU there's the poor countries and rich countries right? So I would imagine people from Romania would be flocking to live in the UK due to the freedom of movement and put a strain on the UK.... So I understand why they wanted to leave. It's like Mexican undocumented immigrants in the US, I guess, but they're "legal". Have you checked the article?
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Post by professorfloydian on Dec 28, 2016 22:52:39 GMT 10
Honestly I'm surprised the EU thing worked... Here's the thing you know how in the EU there's the poor countries and rich countries right? So I would imagine people from Romania would be flocking to live in the UK due to the freedom of movement and put a strain on the UK.... So I understand why they wanted to leave. It's like Mexican undocumented immigrants in the US, I guess, but they're "legal". Have you checked the article? You know I don't read articles
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 28, 2016 23:59:55 GMT 10
Have you checked the article? You know I don't read articles You know you're a lazy motherfucker
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Post by professorfloydian on Dec 29, 2016 1:43:18 GMT 10
You know I don't read articles You know you're a lazy motherfucker And proud of it.
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 29, 2016 11:34:26 GMT 10
You know you're a lazy motherfucker And proud of it. I'm pretty sure that it's nothing to be proud of
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Post by professorfloydian on Dec 29, 2016 12:39:37 GMT 10
I'm pretty sure that it's nothing to be proud of if your self concious about your flaws it makes it slightly better
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Post by BluesyThug on Dec 29, 2016 16:29:17 GMT 10
I'm pretty sure that it's nothing to be proud of if your self concious about your flaws it makes it slightly better Slightly better? Perhaps. Proud? No
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 20:15:02 GMT 10
I just got around to seeing Rogue One. Very mixed feelings. On the positive, while this wasn't a movie that really needed to be made but as a prequel it was far more important to the story than the prequel trilogy. The major problem with the prequel trilogy aside from the nitpicks and the characters sometimes being quite insufferable was that it didn't need to exist. Phantom Menace could have been summed up in ten minutes to explain Anakin's childhood and Clones ultimately served no purpose at all, with Sith filling in a new holes that made you go "oh that's why that happened, I never thought of that, cool" but still was a bad film and ultimately Darth Vader didn't need a huge backstory as the mystery added to his character. Rogue One on the other hand while not entirely necessary either served as an introduction that led right into the events of the original Star Wars, a film that intentionally opened right in the action to evoke the feeling of the old film serials. Rogue One was made almost forty years after the original, just after people had become reinvested in Star Wars and fills in a hole that we never desperately wanted to know but still added something that makes for a relevant prequel and one that unlike Sith didn't demystify the original trilogy in any way. If the only films that existed right now in the Star Wars saga was the original trilogy, and a prequel trilogy was to be planned i'd make the first film in the series be a reworking of the events in Revenge of the Sith, the second film to be a movie about Vader's uprising (picture Al Pacino's rise in Godfather Part II) and the third to be the events in Rogue One. That would have saved us so much unnecessary hassle, which is why Rogue One while a bit late to the party, adds a bit of perspective to the actual saga in the way the prequel trilogy did not.
So in short Rogue One is the first time in movie history when we've seen a direct lead in to a film made forty years ago that doesn't miss any kind of gap. I also like the way suspense is built by the director and the overall inventiveness of the special effects and the war film-like feel which has ironically never been present in a Star Wars film before. However despite some genuinely poignant scenes I was never able to fully feel the weight of these emotional scenes or the grander weight of the story because these characters while okay and have some weight to them, never really allowed me to learn about them as individuals. In Force Awakens, there was a lot of quiet moments with Rey, we were allowed to learn about her as a character and as a person and that made us care about what was going to happen to her. Here we don't learn enough about these people to really gain investment. At least not for me.
So in short, the movie's okay. There's some fantastic scenes and I was entertained but it only makes me want to erase the prequels from history a lot more. So many people complain about the chronologically confusing nature of this franchise and the constant rate in which sequels are made to any franchise, not just Star Wars. The original trilogy is outstanding and with the Force Awakens I have high hopes for this new trilogy of sequels. Yet Rogue One is the only prequel of sorts in this franchise that shows any point of existing. It makes me go, wow, if this was the only prequel in the series than that'd save us a lot of trouble. So i'm glad I saw it, I just want a bit more from Star Wars than what we've got here. It shows potential, but for me, i'll just wait for Episode 8.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 20:18:59 GMT 10
In hindsight, I become much more critical of rogue one. It was dull but largely didn’t bother me too much and the action in the climax was expertly executed but not as exciting as I hoped it to be. So I was mixed and underwhelmed. But looking back it is also not good. At all. Do I hate it? No, but I really don’t have much good to say about it. It’s pretty much bad fan fiction adapted to screen.
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