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scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191218-film-review-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker

Haha what a review. I've never liked Abrahams so it isnt a surprise. I agree with the last paragraph especially. Lucas had a great imagination and it showed in his movies.

I will disagree with that. He had a great imagination and came up with good ideas, but he can’t write a story.

And if left to his own devices gets... well weird at best. The original trilogy was truly amazing, and Lucas certainly made the universe and the story, but it seems like so much of what was great about it was smart people around him, or just budget limitations, keeping him from losing control. His films before the trilogy and after it (THX, Howard the Duck, etc.) were, let's face it, total garbage. Other than the original trilogy, which he admits he didn't get to make like he wanted, is an isolated incident of excellence in one of the worst careers ever. Everything he touched turned to garbage, except the original trilogy, and even that we have to carefully isolate to "before he went back and edited it" and "as long as we arbitrarily isolate the three good films away from his bad ones."

If you are the right age and know him only for three awesome, popular films, he seems like a driving force. If you knew him before those films or see him in a historical context knowing what he did afterwards, I feel like it is clear that he's actually a horrible writer that, like anyone who writes enough, when heavily filtered and edited by others eventually turned out one thing that was good.

black3dynamite

Netflix The Witcher is available

coliver

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The original trilogy was truly amazing

I'm going to disagree here, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The original trilogy really wasn't amazing. The story was contrived and a copy of pretty much every samurai and western story in existence at the time. The acting was bearable but not phenomenal. The only truly good things about it, for the time, was the cinematography and the special effects.

Again, the original trilogy shaped my hobbies and nerd-dom and I'm a millennial... but all in all it they were better then average but not phenomenal movies.

Dashrender

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The original trilogy was truly amazing

I'm going to disagree here, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The original trilogy really wasn't amazing. The story was contrived and a copy of pretty much every samurai and western story in existence at the time. The acting was bearable but not phenomenal. The only truly good things about it, for the time, was the cinematography and the special effects.

Again, the original trilogy shaped my hobbies and nerd-dom and I'm a millennial... but all in all it they were better then average but not phenomenal movies.

This is why I believe you feel this way. It's true that it copied those things you mentioned, etc, but at the time it was a totally new spin on them. That alone made it awesome. Seeing it 10+ years after it was released, the technology had grown so much in that timeframe, there's not chance you could see it but through different colored glasses of your own youth.

coliver

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The original trilogy was truly amazing

I'm going to disagree here, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The original trilogy really wasn't amazing. The story was contrived and a copy of pretty much every samurai and western story in existence at the time. The acting was bearable but not phenomenal. The only truly good things about it, for the time, was the cinematography and the special effects.

Again, the original trilogy shaped my hobbies and nerd-dom and I'm a millennial... but all in all it they were better then average but not phenomenal movies.

This is why I believe you feel this way. It's true that it copied those things you mentioned, etc, but at the time it was a totally new spin on them. That alone made it awesome. Seeing it 10+ years after it was released, the technology had grown so much in that timeframe, there's not chance you could see it but through different colored glasses of your own youth.

Oh no, I admit that ILM did some phenomenal work on the movies... and that there was spectacle to it at the time. I love Star Wars... but honestly, until Disney destroyed the rest of it, the movies were the worst part.

Dashrender

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The original trilogy was truly amazing

I'm going to disagree here, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The original trilogy really wasn't amazing. The story was contrived and a copy of pretty much every samurai and western story in existence at the time. The acting was bearable but not phenomenal. The only truly good things about it, for the time, was the cinematography and the special effects.

Again, the original trilogy shaped my hobbies and nerd-dom and I'm a millennial... but all in all it they were better then average but not phenomenal movies.

This is why I believe you feel this way. It's true that it copied those things you mentioned, etc, but at the time it was a totally new spin on them. That alone made it awesome. Seeing it 10+ years after it was released, the technology had grown so much in that timeframe, there's not chance you could see it but through different colored glasses of your own youth.

Oh no, I admit that ILM did some phenomenal work on the movies... and that there was spectacle to it at the time. I love Star Wars... but honestly, until Disney destroyed the rest of it, the movies were the worst part.

The worst part? So what was the best?

coliver

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

The original trilogy was truly amazing

I'm going to disagree here, and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. The original trilogy really wasn't amazing. The story was contrived and a copy of pretty much every samurai and western story in existence at the time. The acting was bearable but not phenomenal. The only truly good things about it, for the time, was the cinematography and the special effects.

Again, the original trilogy shaped my hobbies and nerd-dom and I'm a millennial... but all in all it they were better then average but not phenomenal movies.

This is why I believe you feel this way. It's true that it copied those things you mentioned, etc, but at the time it was a totally new spin on them. That alone made it awesome. Seeing it 10+ years after it was released, the technology had grown so much in that timeframe, there's not chance you could see it but through different colored glasses of your own youth.

Oh no, I admit that ILM did some phenomenal work on the movies... and that there was spectacle to it at the time. I love Star Wars... but honestly, until Disney destroyed the rest of it, the movies were the worst part.

The worst part? So what was the best?

The books were definitely the best part.

RojoLoco

I've been binging Letterkenney since we found somewhere to stream it that isn't Hulu.

scottalanmiller

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Watching Now:

I've been binging Letterkenney since we found somewhere to stream it that isn't Hulu.

I've heard good things about that. The Hulu ads for it are so bad that it made me avoid it.

RojoLoco

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Watching Now:

I've been binging Letterkenney since we found somewhere to stream it that isn't Hulu.

I've heard good things about that. The Hulu ads for it are so bad that it made me avoid it.

I've been enjoying it, it's pretty dry humor and it takes a few minutes to dial in on their accents (they talk fast).

black3dynamite

Watching The Witcher S1E1

scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watching The Witcher S1E1

OMG, so excited about that!!

black3dynamite

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watching The Witcher S1E1

OMG, so excited about that!!

Episode 1 was awesome.

scottalanmiller

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scottalanmiller

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watching The Witcher S1E1

OMG, so excited about that!!

Episode 1 was awesome.

Can't wait to get to see it. Waiting for my daughter, though.