Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 The REAL Lando is comin' back! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 I think we all knew this was going to happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 omg... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 The best part of the new trilogy is the Rey-Kylo-Luke dynamic. Since nothing will top the Empire in terms of threat (the best you can do is just copy it, like JJ did in TFA), I think they should have actually not had any galactic threat to begin with, and made the new trilogy almost exclusively about the family dynamic. Yes you'd need a few battles thrown in, but honestly the battles in the new trilogy have been really small anyway. I'm hopeful for Lando, but I'm worried we're just going to get a cookie-cutter ending that's even more predictable than RoTJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Brick said: I think we all knew this was going to happen. Exactly... who did you guys think that distress call went out to? I was surprised when he wasn't in Last Jedi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 I hope Billy Dee addresses his robot sex preferences Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 6 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: Exactly... who did you guys think that distress call went out to? I was surprised when he wasn't in Last Jedi. Yeah, once I heard "allies in the Outer Ring", I figured it was Lando. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 He will come back and it will be a "hey remember Lando?" moment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number305 Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 My butt will be in the chair to watch this... but for me Star Wars is broke and I don't think they can walk it back at this point. Which is fine. Many people like the direction it took. I just didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 The need someone to kill off, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIEN-gunner Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Star Wars is dead. Good for Billy D. but adding him is just pure marketing desperation after the failure of Soylo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 14 minutes ago, ALIEN-gunner said: Star Wars is dead. *bookmarks* 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engel Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 2 hours ago, ort said: The need someone to kill off, right? They already have Leia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EternallDarkness Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 2 hours ago, ort said: The need someone to kill off, right? exactly , lol 37 minutes ago, Engel said: They already have Leia. yes, they have Leia, but they need some to kill on screen I actually don't think they'll kill him, you can only go to that well so many times...of course Hollywood does love to beat a dead horse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 3 hours ago, Engel said: They already have Leia. Joke post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 7 hours ago, Engel said: They already have Leia. They had their chance to do that but she turned into superman and lived through the whole movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 Just for the love of God don't make him Finn's father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 17 minutes ago, Brick said: Just for the love of God don't make him Finn's father. "...Grandpa!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 They need to bring back Watto. I need to know what he's been up to since Episode 1. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 10 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: They need to bring back Watto. I need to know what he's been up to since Episode 1. You already saw what he was up to in 2, so suck it up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 28 minutes ago, SaysWho? said: You already saw what he was up to in 2, so suck it up. Mind tricks don't work on me. Only money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number305 Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 12 hours ago, Brick said: Just for the love of God don't make him Finn's father. The big twist... he is Finn's mother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 TLJ sucks Oh wait. Yeah this doesn't give me confidence either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engel Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 21 hours ago, Greatoneshere said: Joke post? No, they have to kill her off unless they are going to CGI her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 28 minutes ago, Engel said: No, they have to kill her off unless they are going to CGI her. Right, they'll kill her off offscreen, likely between films during a time jump or at the very start of the film. So how is it they "have" Leia for Episode IX? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engel Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 24 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: Right, they'll kill her off offscreen, likely between films during a time jump or at the very start of the film. So how is it they "have" Leia for Episode IX? I'm not getting what's so hard to follow here. Ort states they need someone to kill off. I reply with they have already have Leia [to kill off]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 4 minutes ago, Engel said: I'm not getting what's so hard to follow here. Ort states they need someone to kill off. I reply with they have already have Leia [to kill off]. I think Leia doesn't really count as "someone to kill off" in terms of drama for the film, which is what Ort is getting at, I would think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 2 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: I think Leia doesn't really count as "someone to kill off" in terms of drama for the film, which is what Ort is getting at, I would think. Exactly. Especially since it pretty much has to be an offscreen death, either in the opening crawl, or her getting vaporized while we watch a ship get blown up or a building collapse or something like that from a distance. Not much dramatic weight to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number305 Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 19 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said: Exactly. Especially since it pretty much has to be an offscreen death, either in the opening crawl, or her getting vaporized while we watch a ship get blown up or a building collapse or something like that from a distance. Not much dramatic weight to that. We don't really know. Just as Luke was the mcguffin in ep 7 with no screen time Leia could be in ep 9. They could have her kidnapped in the opening crawl and the movie could be trying to rescue her and he mission fails with her dying off-screen towards the end. Just as an example. That would offer more emotional weight than if they just have some character say 'oh yea too bad about Leia dying last week...' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 1 hour ago, number305 said: We don't really know. Just as Luke was the mcguffin in ep 7 with no screen time Leia could be in ep 9. They could have her kidnapped in the opening crawl and the movie could be trying to rescue her and he mission fails with her dying off-screen towards the end. Just as an example. That would offer more emotional weight than if they just have some character say 'oh yea too bad about Leia dying last week...' I think saying "you still have Leia" regardless of how they handle it is a stupid thing to say short of CGing her character. Period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 I really wish they would have not used any of the OT characters at all for this one except Luke as a ghost (and have the trilogy start with Ben having already killed Luke as his moment of betrayal a few years before). The new trilogy is waaaay too tied to the past to have its own interesting story. I blame JJ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engel Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said: I think saying "you still have Leia" regardless of how they handle it is a stupid thing to say short of CGing her character. Period. Are you a star wars fan? edit- Also given the "burn the past" theme of the last movie, and like the OT the old characters dying to make room for the new generation, can the any of the deaths of the old characters have dramatic weight given that it's expected? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massdriver Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said: I really wish they would have not used any of the OT characters at all for this one except Luke as a ghost (and have the trilogy start with Ben having already killed Luke as his moment of betrayal a few years before). The new trilogy is waaaay too tied to the past to have its own interesting story. I blame JJ. I'm increasingly agreeing with this. I don't have much hope for Episode 9 being all that great, although I'm sure it will sell plenty of tickets. Solo really let me down hard, so I'm approaching all Star Wars material with extreme skepticism now. I think the best SW films in the future will be when Disney tries something bold and fresh with very few references to these films while still not turning into the prequels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 9 minutes ago, Engel said: Are you a star wars fan? I consider myself a lifelong Star Wars fan, but not one of the crazies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engel Posted July 12, 2018 Share Posted July 12, 2018 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said: I really wish they would have not used any of the OT characters at all for this one except Luke as a ghost (and have the trilogy start with Ben having already killed Luke as his moment of betrayal a few years before). The new trilogy is waaaay too tied to the past to have its own interesting story. I blame JJ. Both of the new films have been complete recycles of the OT I just watched the OT a few weeks ago for the first time since I had it on VHS in the 90's and then TLJ when it came out on Netflix and the amount of recycling is glaring. I notices some when I saw it in theaters but all 4 movies fresh it really stuck out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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