The Star Wars Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

As I'm not a Star Wars fan, it took me a while to get all the references what I bought the album

Trust Nos to get all cryptic. Totally lost me.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Trust Nos to get all cryptic. Totally lost me.

I've changed it so it should be easier to read. Basically, when I bought the 'Running with Scissors' album, I wasn't familiar with the events in The Phantom Menace, so it wasn't until after I'd seen the film that the song made sense and became funny.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Trust Nos to get all cryptic. Totally lost me.

Do you think in his spare time Nos works for MI5 Dem?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by hivemind

Do you think in his spare time Nos works for MI5 Dem?

Ha,ha. Sounds like we are edging into 007 territory now.

That is a film series which is going downhill fast.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Phantom menace.

A great sword-fight wrapped up with a convoluted plot about trade embargo's and Tax avoidance. Once he (lucas) doesn't have Kurosawa plotting and his wife suggesting changes or Lawrence Kasdan sitting down with his scribblings and putting them into some kind of order, Lucas is just not a very good writer. His best work was American Graffiti, there he was essentially putting his own teenage years on paper.
For the full breakdown of what went wrong with all the star wars films (including the new ones) Mr Plinkett on youtube is well worth watching. Pretty much gives us a bunch of new races and characters including Naboo and the gungans in order to sell more toys. Yet Disney are clearly evil for looking at this business model and wanting a piece of it.

Once again we get back to the point of what I was saying. The films are essentially kids films with spaceships and shit blowing up. They can be fun and mostly are (things like Gungans and ewoks aside). So from that perspective the new films really are pretty much more of the same.

Nobody's ultimately perfect, not even George Lucas (God bless him). I don't really know how many mooooooooooooooooooooooooore times I have to say this. Are you actually understanding this.

Lucas has something called "a coherent story" that actually makes sense. It's a fundamental rule when you create a story. It doesn't matter whether you have a plot that revolves around the Trade Federation or not. What actually matters in the long term is that the story has a clear objective. And in the longer process of a further two prequels, Lucas wraps up the story arc he set out to complete. This isn't the case with The Last Jedi. Abrams is now left with the biggest mess of non-connecting plot elements that don't seem to go anywhere. Johnson doesn't seem to understand the basic notion of this at all. Lucas did. It's extraordinarily simple keirarts. Its like learning the A, B, C's or 123. If you don't have a fully functionable story in the first place, you might as well go hide in a cave like a hermit and eat Porgs for the rest of your life with some green milk for company.

And you don't need others on YT to tell you any differently either. We all have a brain and something called individual thought, rather than Mr. Plinkett telling you how bad The Phantom Menace is on wonderful YT.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Ha,ha. Sounds like we are edging into 007 territory now.

That is a film series which is going downhill fast.

Just like Star Wars, the Alien and Terminator franchises.

I say bring back a PC Blake's 7. To hell with Disney/Star Wars.

Just imagine the fun we could have with a re-boot of Blake's 7. The BBC won't even show it on TV anymore. Apparently its been blacklisted.

I wonder ?why?.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by hivemind

Nobody's ultimately perfect, not even George Lucas (God bless him). I don't really know how many mooooooooooooooooooooooooore times I have to say this. Are you actually understanding this.

Lucas has something called "a coherent story" that actually makes sense. It's a fundamental rule when you create a story. It doesn't matter whether you have a plot that revolves around the Trade Federation or not. What actually matters in the long term is that the story has a clear objective. And in the longer process of a further two prequels, Lucas wraps up the story arc he set out to complete. This isn't the case with The Last Jedi. Abrams is now left with the biggest mess of non-connecting plot elements that don't seem to go anywhere. Johnson doesn't seem to understand the basic notion of this at all. Lucas did. It's extraordinarily simple keirarts. Its like learning the A, B, C's or 123. If you don't have a fully functionable story in the first place, you might as well go hide in a cave like a hermit and eat Porgs for the rest of your life with some green milk for company.

And you don't need others on YT to tell you any differently either. We all have a brain and something called individual thought, rather than Mr. Plinkett telling you how bad The Phantom Menace is on wonderful YT.

I understand what your saying. I just think your wrong.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Let's leave this now shall we. It's been entertaining but there can be no winner so it's all just going round in circles.

Have a Sand Person to be going on with.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Proof that Rik played one of the Sand People.

[Rik]

Ha ha, brilliant