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The Empire storyline should get wrapped up at any rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
There's a short scene in this where Jynn grabs a stormtroopers blaster and he just magically falls off the platform somehow. Maybe she pushed or tripped him? You don't see that. She grabs his gun and he falls off in a weird sequence of events. It was just poorly shot and staged and careless–like everything else in this movie.
I metaphorically threw my hands in the air when Stormtroopers were getting rekt by being hit with a wooden stick.
It was only ever "just [x>1] movies" if you were illiterate. Splinter of the Mind's Eye came out before Empire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
This movie does suck 2nd time around. But most big budget popcorn flicks are, so it is no surprise.
fixed, because I can list a ton of big budget popcorn flicks that don't, beginning with the that started them in 1975.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Right, I meant to say recent films.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
How many of those classics would even qualify as "big budget" by modern standards?
I find holding past events to modern standards problematic.
It's all relative. Those classics were big budget compared to what was standard at that time.
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Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
So then you had no problem with Stormtroopers getting wrecked by rock-throwing Ewoks? What makes sticks different from rocks? If it was acceptable then, it should be so now, same for the wooden acting and lazy plot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
I do. That sucked, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf