CitizenVectron
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I don't know that anyone is saying the latter, thought some may be saying the former. Honestly I think it's possible that someone could have it be their favourite SW film, especially if they value cinematography as it's undeniably the most beautifully-shot SW movie. In any case, here is a 20-second fan edit that I think we can all agree fixes the movie entirely: As funny as this is, it actually would fix one of the criticisms of the movie. Well, not her doing it this way, but if she piloted the ship instead of Holdo. As someone on Resetera has pointed out, Poe could say something like "You can't use a ship as a ram in hyperspace, the jump is too erratic!" Then show Leia concentrating with the Force, and doing it anyway. It would explain why they don't just ram drone X-Wings into Star Destroyers all the time, and would provide a nice sendoff to her character as well as allow Holdo to remain as the leader of the new Rebellion (since there are already so few continuous side-characters in the new trilogy). This of course is said with hindsight that Carrie Fisher was going to die in real life. Obviously if she would have lived then having her play a role in stopping/turning Ben would have been more important. -
And if this pattern were actually true, then TFA should have bombed since there was a generally perceived feeling amongst the fanbase (though not public) that the entire PT sucked. But these sorts of things don't really hold up unless it's the same director, series, etc. So if Rian Johnson had made two Star Wars in a row and then the third bombed, we could reasonably believe that maybe the first two had something to do with it (assuming other conditions weren't in play). But Solo was a separate movie by separate people starring separate actors. I don't think the general movie-going audience really pays attention to this stuff like we do, and they just weren't excited for Solo. Honestly, I expect IX to do very well, probably a little below VIII. Audiences are going to want to see what happens to Luke now that he's dead, and I'm sure a large part of the marketing will go towards that.
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As sblfilms has also said, all we know about TLJ is that it was widely liked by audiences from the only two scientific polls we have. Anything else is anecdotal, especially internet forum feedback since it is self-selective. That doesn't mean it is a good movie (or bad or okay), as there is no such thing as an objectively good or bad movie. But in terms of being liked and enjoyed, TLJ is universally both by the public.
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DO you have any research to back this up? I am genuinely asking, not meaning to be snarky. I ask because online forums can't count for either side since it is 100% self-selecting (you only go online with the intent of sharing your opinion, so only the opinionated share them). The only evidence that can be used is that collected from people who were not self-selecting themselves. As far as I know, the only research of his nature that has been done is by Cinemascore which showed TLJ was very popular with the general audience (A). While I do believe that there is a divide amongst longtime fans (I would agree that it's probably a 50/50 split for and against the movie in this group), hardcore Star Wars fans probably only comprise 5% or less of the movie-going audience in general.
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I'm sure the defense will now shift to we left because of the principle, you can't value freedom.
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George Will leaves Republican Party
CitizenVectron replied to SaysWho?'s topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
In other words, George Will was never a conservative and all his past work is now to be re-seen through the filter of him being a secret Democrat by Trump supporters. -
He doesn't exactly think ahead.
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I imagine it has something to do with the fact that she's from France, and also that while there may be signs, you would normally expect an international border to be highly visible (more than just a sign). I'm just speculating though, it would be nice to see actual pictures. Regardless of that, holding her for two weeks does seem excessive.
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If only her party didn't support business owners refusing service to people for whatever reason they want.
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Charles Krauthammer died
CitizenVectron replied to CastlevaniaNut18's topic in The Political Re-Education Camp
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lol. True, but it's pretty big in that everything slowly becomes more and more partisan. Man, even just having a federal elections department would be incredible (yeah yeah, I know that won't work because elections are all state-level, blah blah...which is a top-five flaw, lol).
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The presumption seems to be that rising wages (caused by tightening labour) causes this. But wages aren't really rising this time...so how will that affect it?
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Yeah I think a PC sub-forum is good for hardware/software-related things that are non-gaming. I don't see the need for sub-forums for pretty much anything else, though. The site isn't active enough to warrant it, and honestly we probably lost a few users during the outage, too. Trolls shouldn't be an issue these days, and can be dealt with.
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One of the US' biggest flaws is that pretty much everyone in the executive branch can be hired and fired by the President. The US needs more at-arms-length organizations where they are federally funded, but they have an independent mandate that legally cannot be interfered with for partisan purposes.
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"Dear Mr. Putin, please let us use your sputniks to get the best American troops into space so they can shoot down your satellites."
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Let's unpack this. It is only a victory for consumers and retailers if both accept that paying taxes are a good thing. But we know that people don't like paying taxes, and retailers don't either since by not collecting it gives them an advantage over physical stores. So the only way this is a victory is if Trump thinks that taxes in general are a good idea. Which he does not. Which means this tweet is actually just him being happy that Amazon now has less of an advantage, as he hates Jeff Bezos. Except that Amazon has been collecting sales tax for a while now, and Trump remains ignorant of this.
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So he's going to put tariffs on cars built in Europe and in Canada? That's a huge chunk of cars entering the US. Have fun with sticker prices going up by 25% on consumer cars. People might brush it off when ketchup goes up by $.37, but not when a car goes up by $5,000 or $10,000.
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The best scenario is for Disney to just buy the Marvel rights from them, and for Fox to use that cash to sustain themselves as an independent studio with other projects. But this will not happen.
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Melanie is visiting one right now at the border. She will probably tell the children to be best.
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Amazon already collects tax in all states, so this shouldn't be an issue for them. I know in Canada the government was having a really hard time collecting from them, though.
