Star Wars Episode VIII - The Last Jedi *spoilers from Post 2857*

pixelburp

david75 wrote: »

Tony do you rate Denis Villeneuve? He’d be into directing a star war standalone as long as it’s away from the skywalker saga.

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-denis-villeneuve-movie/amp/

There's no chance Villeneuve would direct a Star Wars film; his style & approach just wouldn't gel, and I couldn't see him getting the latitude from Disney to make the film he wanted. I don't know how he convinced Warner Bros. to let him make a $200 million, 2.5 hour, low-key noir movie but I couldn't see Disney being so open to Villeneuve doing the same in the 'Wars universe.

Besides, working on Star Wars would likely mean Villeneuve having to nuke his Dune adaptation, a franchise that's crying out for a proper & creative telling; I'd much rather see a Villeneuve Dune film than a Villeneuve Star Wars at this point.

Call Me Jimmy

Hate to be a hater but I tried to watch the force awakens for the second time (watched it all the way through the first time), but only got halfway. The movie feels like one of those theatre rides through a star wars theme park. Sitting in the cart going 'look there's (waxwork) han solo', 'ooh there was a director of photography on this one' etc. but it's all based on horrible writing, a weird tone and ultimately everything in it serves a purpose in a transparent and shallow way. It's like plausible deniability on the part of the filmakers 'well, we did everything... correct.'

TLDR, want to but can't get excited about these films.

david75

Deadly

Drumpot

py2006 wrote: »

Phew, are you sure?

Yeh, if you look at Thursday bookings on some sites, if they still have midnight shows available, some of them have something like:

Thursday: 00:01 , 10.45, 13:30 etc

And I don't believe there are many (if any) midnight shows Thursday night, Friday morning . .

I am thinking of going to a really early morning showing (like 10am) because I find I am knackered leading up to and driving home from the midnight shows! Its a great buzz but even the thought of getting to bed at 3.30am tires me out !! ! Yep, I'm Old man Drumpot!

david75

Drumpot wrote: »

Yeh, if you look at Thursday bookings on some sites, if they still have midnight shows available, some of them have something like:

Thursday: 00:01 , 10.45, 13:30 etc

And I don't believe there are many (if any) midnight shows Thursday night, Friday morning . .

I am thinking of going to a really early morning showing (like 10am) because I find I am knackered leading up to and driving home from the midnight shows! Its a great buzz but even the thought of getting to bed at 3.30am tires me out !! ! Yep, I'm Old man Drumpot!

Early morning is best time to go cinema. Fewer wreck the heads playing with their phones n ****.

py2006

Exactly, first showing will be all the true fans. So less likely to have noisy teens and twats on phones.

Just looked at Odeon site and first showing of the day from Fri 15t is 9.30am

david75

py2006 wrote: »

Exactly, first showing will be all the true fans. So less likely to have noisy teens and twats on phones.

Just looked at Odeon site and first showing of the day from Fri 15t is 9.30am

Think cineworld are doing round the clock viewings.
I might get out of the midnight showing and leggit down to go again.

david75

“I want it to have all the things tonally that I associate with Star Wars  , which is not just the Wagner of it. It's also the Flash Gordon."

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/the-last-jedi-cover-story-on-the-dark-new-star-wars-movie-w512703

Drumpot

david75 wrote: »

Think cineworld are doing round the clock viewings.
I might get out of the midnight showing and leggit down to go again.

If you have the unlimited card this movie could pay for a years membership!

What is the imax screen like? I was going to goto ODEON isense but is it worth the extra trek for the imax? Not sure I’ve been to the IMAX but I think the 3D imax show is on 10.20 Thursday morning! Was also thinking of savoy screen 1 for sentimental reasons but haven’t been there in decades so haven’t a clue what it’s lkkd, screen quality or set seats?!

Theboinkmaster

Drumpot wrote: »

If you have the unlimited card this movie could pay for a years membership!

What is the imax screen like? I was going to goto ODEON isense but is it worth the extra trek for the imax? Not sure I’ve been to the IMAX but I think the 3D imax show is on 10.20 Thursday morning! Was also thinking of savoy screen 1 for sentimental reasons but haven’t been there in decades so haven’t a clue what it’s lkkd, screen quality or set seats?!

I'd avoid savoy screen 1 TBH and go with cineworld or omniplex rathmines for good screen/sound setup.

py2006

Theboinkmaster wrote: »

I'd avoid savoy screen 1 TBH and go with cineworld or omniplex rathmines for good screen/sound setup.

I found it savoy screen 1 amazing for TFA

david75

Drumpot wrote: »

If you have the unlimited card this movie could pay for a years membership!

What is the imax screen like? I was going to goto ODEON isense but is it worth the extra trek for the imax? Not sure I’ve been to the IMAX but I think the 3D imax show is on 10.20 Thursday morning! Was also thinking of savoy screen 1 for sentimental reasons but haven’t been there in decades so haven’t a clue what it’s lkkd, screen quality or set seats?!

I was fully planning to do this but there’s all kinds of catches so I didn’t do it.

david75

py2006 wrote: »

I found it savoy screen 1 amazing for TFA

Yeah savoy 1 is still the biggest in town and has the sentimental factor. It’ll be the last Star Wars we’ll see on that screen. It’s getting divided into two smaller screens in January.

Hector Savage

david75 wrote: »

Deadly. Where you seeing it? Avoid twitter for sure from the Thursday onwards.

I'll be on a business trip in Barcelona ! - and will see it there in a famous cinema.

http://www.phenomena-experience.com/sala.html

Great thing is too, cos it will be in English all the annoying teens won't be there, they will be at the dubbed version - WINNER !!

david75

Deadly

Just got a text off a good pal. He’s got me two tickets to the premier
over the moon

Still gonna go the midnight showing few hours later

Mickeroo

Hector Savage wrote: »

I'll be on a business trip in Barcelona ! - and will see it there in a famous cinema.

http://www.phenomena-experience.com/sala.html

Great thing is too, cos it will be in English all the annoying teens won't be there, they will be at the dubbed version - WINNER !!

It might be full of Spanish teenagers though. They travel in buses and are way worse than ours.

david75

Mickeroo wrote: »

It might be full of Spanish teenagers though. They travel in buses and are way worse than ours.

Has that dropped off here? You don’t see them in anything like the numbers or frequency that you used to.

david75

So the London premiere is the 12th and Dublin the 13th. Hoping against hope we get some of the cast over to Dublin. Or just Hamill.

Skellig n all. They have to right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyRECFEfz7g

david75

He looks like he’s gonna bring serious acting chops to this

Hector Savage

Mickeroo wrote: »

It might be full of Spanish teenagers though. They travel in buses and are way worse than ours.

Nope, this is the VO version, so they won't be there.

Hector Savage

david75 wrote: »

He looks like he’s gonna bring serious acting chops to this

MArk Hamill ?
I haven't been impressed with him in the trailer !

david75

Hector Savage wrote: »

MArk Hamill ?
I haven't been impressed with him in the trailer !

Wouldn’t worry about it. Trailers only ever gonna give you a taste. He’s got two and a half hours to move around in

david75

Final trailer. There is new stuff in here. Nothing spoilery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Ne7F-CRWU

Hector Savage

david75 wrote: »

Wouldn’t worry about it. Trailers only ever gonna give you a taste. He’s got two and a half hours to move around in

Either way I don't mind, good acting is not something important in a Star Wars film

david75

Doesn’t look like Luke is in the Falcon after all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6OAtTS_gok

Hector Savage

I've been watching the films in the lead up - in chronological order, so far I have watched Ep I, II, III

EpI is awful but II has it's moments and III is a bloody good film (apart from some terrible dialog and scenes).

Will watch Rogue one later - or maybe I should binge the clone wars series

R777B

Hector Savage wrote: »

I've been watching the films in the lead up - in chronological order, so far I have watched Ep I, II, III

EpI is awful but II has it's moments and III is a bloody good film (apart from some terrible dialog and scenes).

Will watch Rogue one later - or maybe I should binge the clone wars series

I'm doing the the same myself, only finished I and II. It still amazes me how bad some of the dialogue was.

And the delivery of every line in I is basically the same monotone non-acting. Incredible.

It'll be nice to move onto the decent ones now.

david75

Hector Savage wrote: »

I've been watching the films in the lead up - in chronological order, so far I have watched Ep I, II, III

EpI is awful but II has it's moments and III is a bloody good film (apart from some terrible dialog and scenes).

Will watch Rogue one later - or maybe I should binge the clone wars series

Fair play. AOTC is unforgivable bad for me. I can take TPM for what it is.
ROTS is really great.

Do the Clone Wars:) really want to see it in the other structure where you can follow the storylines separately. They screwed up the broadcast order. There’s a list somewhere you can just watch the Jedi episodes.

david75

Never knew about this. Could be good all three prequels edited down to one movie.

https://news.avclub.com/topher-grace-edited-all-the-star-wars-prequels-into-a-s-1798230237

Hector Savage

david75 wrote: »

Never knew about this. Could be good all three prequels edited down to one movie.

https://news.avclub.com/topher-grace-edited-all-the-star-wars-prequels-into-a-s-1798230237

Thanks for that, I had heard about this and wanted to get it - presuming Jar Jar Binks is completely removed - what the f*ck were they thinking creating that abomination of a character !!!??