[Captainstabbin]

(06-26-2018 01:17 AM)Aurini Wrote:  

That video was so Basic Bitch.

>Opposed to SJWs
>Wants more support for female directors, and female directors of colour

She has the aspect of a talking sex doll, only her makeup places her deeper in the uncanny valley.

She's an absolute master of SIF angles. You'd never guess how obese she is from her videos. It's sickening to see all of the thirsty commenters calling her stunning.

It's strange that, near as I can tell, she was the first to break the conference call story. Other movie channels have several times her number of subscribers.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

In street-lingo she is called a "sitting beauty", but it seems that she lost some weight and became older and less attractive.

But for the thirsty 90% SJWs who work at Disney - that is enough to throw her some info for potential man-boob squeeze in the future.



Such conference calls are hardly a secret in companies - the water-cooler mail carries that information really fast within a company even if you try to suppress it. It takes one VP to start blabbing and since it's mostly women now in KKK-soyland Lucasfilm, then it will likely take 60 minutes before everyone knows.

[Easy_C]

Last Jedi is now on Netflix.

Damn....that’s bad. A movie going there is a tantamount admission that’s it’s got no more residual cash value, because it wouldn’t go on there unless they’ve calculated that the revenues from Netflix outweigh the massive cannibalization loss that’s comes along with zero Netflix customers buying the movie,

[Grit]

The original trilogy was so damn good because it told a story. I can't recall any story being told in any of the other movies.

If you ever heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, it is a theory that describes how people need basic satisfaction from things like food and sleep before they benefit from things like moral satisfaction or virtuous satisfaction.

If you were to draw up a hierarchy of needs pyramid for Star Wars, you will have a legion of fanboys defending what is actually a lower, base portion of the pyramid (like food and sleep) while never acknowledging the higher aspects (like morality or virtue). Did it have recognizable characters? Yes. Did it have action? Yes. Did it have great motion picture visual cinematics? Yes. Great, we got three stages up the pyramid.

Fanboys don't actually touch the higher, more enlightened aspects. Star Wars was an homage to serial movies. That's a rung up that no other Star Wars can compete with. Star Wars was the ultimate farm boy fantasy, farm boy moves to the city and becomes international, Luke moves from the desert backwater and squares off against the empire. He becomes more powerful in the city, not lost in the crowd. That a cohesive story that gives it another rung up on the enlightenment pyramid.

And perhaps the greatest aspect, the top of the pyramid, it's a father-son story. Touching on the most profound part of being father-son. What part? I would describe it as the one moment in the life of a father and son relationship in which the father accepts the son's ideas, i.e. allows the son to set "frame", allows his own ideas to go the wayside in favor of his son's, a spiritual "passing the torch" so to speak. Vader died not saying "I'm sorry" or "The empire is wrong and I repent", but simply saying to Luke "you were right." The story of cracking through the shell of a headstrong father.

[CynicalContrarian]

From Instapundit :

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Kathleen Kennedy Almost Fired as Head of Lucasfilm… But…

One point she alludes to, which she made before: She thinks that Star Wars never appealed to Kathleen Kennedy. Kathleen Kennedy didn’t like the franchise, because it was, indeed, a boys’ adventure franchise.
Instead of making a boys’ adventure franchise she didn’t get and didn’t like, she made it into something she could like: a girls’ empowerment fantasy.
This kind of sums up the problem with Social Justice Warriors taking over male-skewing sections of pop culture: They just don’t like it. They never did like it. Some of them even feel that these parts of pop culture encourage “toxic masculinity,” and therefore are evil.
And therefore must be subverted and remade into something they never were before.
So you… put multimillion dollar companies into the hands of people who don’t like the product those companies sell and in fact might even hate?
Well, good luck with that, I guess.

* * * * * * * *
Kennedy, who has previously declared that she owes nothing to the male fans of Star Wars (who, let’s face it, have maintained the value of the franchise for 40+ years):

Quote:

I have a responsibility to the company that I work with. I don’t feel that I have a responsibility to cater in some way. I would never just seize on saying, ‘Well, this is a franchise that’s appealed primarily to men for many, many years, and therefore I owe men something.'

Yes… yes… reach out with your Hatred… all is proceeding precisely as I envisioned…

Heh, indeed.™

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/375856.php

[CynicalContrarian]

[url=https://twitter.com/AGStover/status/1012137283573747712][/url]

[Captainstabbin]

^^ Might Bang the big titty, chubby girl on the left. I've fuck the feminist out of her and save, not just her, but a beloved franchise!

[MrLemon]

(06-25-2018 09:05 AM)Richard Turpin Wrote:  

This Breitbart article pulls no punches in dissecting the box office failure of SOLO. Honestly, it could have been written by a number of people on this thread;

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2...cover-why/

Here's another Breitbart article that continues to shred K Kennedy into tiny little gobbets:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2...star-wars/

Quote:

Disney is eager to fire and replace Kathleen Kennedy over her disastrous handling of the Star Wars franchise, reports Grace Randolph of Beyond the Trailer.
The left-leaning trades –Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter, and Variety, etc. — continue to willfully drop the ball when it comes to intelligent and honest reporting on Disney’s imploding Star Wars franchise. This means their readers cannot trust them for accurate and objective information. If a single one of these outlets has shown the moral courage to accurately reporting on the fan revolt against the left-wing turn the franchise has taken with Kennedy at the wheel, I missed it.

Quote:

Disney chief Bob Iger held a super-secret conference call with all the hotshots at Lucasfilm. Guards were posted at the doors to prevent leaks. Also on the call were the big shots from Pixar and Marvel.

During the call, Iger reportedly admitted he wants to dump Kennedy but is stuck with her for two reasons: 1) half of the Lucasfilm division is loyal to her and 2) no one wants the job. J.J. Abrams (who directed the Force Awakens and the upcoming Episode IX) turned the job down flat. Apparently, no one wants to deal with Kennedy’s hardcore loyalists and no one wants to take the wheel of the Titanic.

Randolph also reports that Disney is fully aware of the real problem. Kennedy was never a Star Wars fan, she resented that it was targeted at boys, and decided to blow up what worked (which she hated) and remake the franchise into a politicized female empowerment vehicle aimed at Social Justice Warriors.

I would like to point out that, just looking at a picture of Kennedy set off my hyperawave cunt-radar. BEEEEEEEP! STUPID CUNT APPROACHING ON VECTOR 1-1-9!

I'm also pleased to see that a man-hating cunt get blasted and ruined so quickly. Young men are the most aggressive killing machines ever evolved upon this planet. Just because they're using 4Chan techniques and chat boards, and Rottentomatoes down votes, doesn't diminish their precision competitive powers.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

< Fire all her loyalists - she has hired a bunch of hardcore leftists, then quickly hire competent people who love Star Wars- Hollywood is awash with those. It will be 99% men, but that is how the cookie crumbles.

But they don't want to do that, because KKK has searched far and wide to find some odd woman who was both far-left and sufficiently feigned Star Wars interest to be hired while being semi-competent.

[Richard Turpin]

TLJ has just won 3 Saturn Awards (not sure of relevance) for Acting, Screenplay and Editing. I've no quibbles for Hamill, who did very well with what he was given (somehow, this makes Lukes character butchery all the more unforgivable).

But Screenplay?! Come on, they are surely taking the piss now.

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-last-jedi-...rn-awards/

I watched it again the other day. For free. The wife hadn't seen it and wanted to know what the fuss was about so I sat down with the family and watched it again. Honestly, I was fully prepared to give the film another shot. I would have loved to have been wrong about my damning verdict on it's cinema outing. But no, it was worse than I remembered and even more painful to watch a second time.

[CynicalContrarian]

^
The same situation I had with the Farce Awakens.

Had a 2nd chance to watch it for free & was willing to give it an unbiased take, yet watching it a 2nd time & knowing what to expect meant that I could see it was even worse than what I remembered from the 1st occasion.

[questor70]

(06-28-2018 08:33 AM)Richard Turpin Wrote:  

TLJ has just won 3 Saturn Awards (not sure of relevance)

Star Trek Discovery won awards too, which just shows that the Saturn Awards are just as stocked with SJWs as the Oscars were for splooging over the SJW-porn of Shape of Water.

[CynicalContrarian]

Soylo.
45 days in release at the cinema.
& it still hasn't reached the $400mil mark. $400mil being about only half of what it needs to be profitable...

In Release: 45 days
Worldwide: $379,842,097

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?pag...gyfilm.htm

[Paracelsus]

And just as I suspected, they're wheeling out Lando for Episode IX.

Quote:

AS Star Wars fans nervously wait for the next major instalment to the sci-fi saga, one character has been confirmed to be making a comeback.

After much speculation, Billy Dee Williams, who played the role of Han Solo’s friend, Lando Calrissian, is returning to the big screen.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, sources said he has been confirmed to be reprising his role in Star Wars: Episode IX.

The film is the next blockbuster Star Wars movie to be produced by Disney/Lucasfilm, and will be directed by J.J. Abrams.

It will be his first Star Wars film in 35 years, when he last filmed Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Williams first appeared in Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back as an old friend of Han Solo (Harrison Ford).

Williams is the second new cast member announced for Episode IX.

It will be unfamiliar territory for his character, given Ford’s character, Carrie Fisher’s character of Princess Leia and Mark Hamill’s character of Luke Skywalker have all died or been killed off in the last two films.

He'll make a fucking killing out of this one, enough to retire on. His bargaining position is basically unassailable. And we can now confirm that the bastards blinked: The Last Shitpie was their big attempt at throwing the original cast out with the trash, if it hadn't caused a backlash there's no way Billy Dee Williams would've been called. For all their "Kill the past" rhetoric, they know full fucking well that nobody's going to show up to this shit without at least one face from the original films in it.

By the way, the Rotten Tomatoes hatewatch continues: 46% like, 2.9 out of 5 like score. We haven't hit the cartoon-movie Clone Wars 38% yet, but give it time.

[CynicalContrarian]

If Williams is smart, he'll have some editorial clout to ensure his depiction in Ep. 9 is not bastardized like Hamill was.

[Alsos]

Should be interesting how they reconcile the "Lando is pansexual" hype around Soylo with the fact he'll be in his early eighties in this film.

And by "interesting" I mean "probably nauseating".

Perhaps this is part of their gimmick for destroying the rest of the original cast: Lando tries to steal back the Millennium Falcon and ends up destroying it with himself, Chewbacca, and the droids aboard. In the first five minutes. With no plot relevance at all.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

(07-10-2018 12:36 AM)Alsos Wrote:  

Should be interesting how they reconcile the "Lando is pansexual" hype around Soylo with the fact he'll be in his early eighties in this film.

Why would it be hard? Obviously advanced technology has allowed him to live to his 80s despite having HIV.

[Alsos]

(07-10-2018 03:22 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(07-10-2018 12:36 AM)Alsos Wrote:  

Should be interesting how they reconcile the "Lando is pansexual" hype around Soylo with the fact he'll be in his early eighties in this film.

Why would it be hard? Obviously advanced technology has allowed him to live to his 80s despite having HIV.

See, now that leads to an idea sufficiently depraved for a Disney movie: the Force is the Star Wars universe's equivalent of AIDS, carried by midiclorians rather than a virus.

That first struck me as a cynical joke, then got to thinking about whether it was consistent with the fictional universe or not. The idea becomes even more depraved the more you think through the implications, given what the movies have established about the Force, the Jedi, and the Sith.

[spokepoker]

(07-10-2018 03:22 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(07-10-2018 12:36 AM)Alsos Wrote:  

Should be interesting how they reconcile the "Lando is pansexual" hype around Soylo with the fact he'll be in his early eighties in this film.

Why would it be hard? Obviously advanced technology has allowed him to live to his 80s despite having HIV.

Billy Dee Williams has aids?

[questor70]

(07-10-2018 04:25 PM)spokepoker Wrote:  

(07-10-2018 03:22 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(07-10-2018 12:36 AM)Alsos Wrote:  

Should be interesting how they reconcile the "Lando is pansexual" hype around Soylo with the fact he'll be in his early eighties in this film.

Why would it be hard? Obviously advanced technology has allowed him to live to his 80s despite having HIV.

Billy Dee Williams has aids?

No. It's suggesting that since the character has been retconned as pansexual that Lando probably contracted AIDS via gay butt sex.

[MajorStyles]

(07-10-2018 12:36 AM)Alsos Wrote:  

Should be interesting how they reconcile the "Lando is pansexual" hype around Soylo with the fact he'll be in his early eighties in this film.

I can't tell is this is the plot to a Star Wars movie, or a dissertation from the Sociology Department at Wellesley Women's College. Either way, it makes for a cringe worthy two hours.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

Star Wars was already bad with JarJar Abrams since he made The new Empire look stupid, depicted the main baddie as an immature Emo who has anger-fits and he created a nauseating Mary Sue. Never mind that the entire movie was just a dumbed down version of Episode IV.

Even mainstream Youtube channels are ripping into the world building:

And pansexual Lando - the question is only: "How will they kill him?"

Because to Disney killing is the only drama creation they know how to do. They kill loving fathers, parents and brothers in children movies to further their Satanic agenda, so to kill is like to diddle kids - no evil Disney bastard can do without. If you want to see truly Satanic children movies then go take a look at Tinkerbell - Legend of the Neverbeast - it has all the occult symbolism of a benevolent Luciferian beast out in the open - for children of course.

I recently found out that one of the main reasons that the MCU was not getting clobbered with SJW-propaganda and all-female super-movies was the large owner of Marvel and Disney Perlmutter. He was blocking a hard-left move of Marvel because he wanted to make money. Now he has given a tentative yes to the new crap.

So we can expect that other Disney franchise to get woke, go broke as well. The SJWs can only destroy and not create. And what they love to create is unappealing cultural marxist drivel.

I recently saw some Hollywood movies from the 1970s that did not have Charles Bronson in it. They were the Last Jedi kind of cultural marxist crap that were done by black-clad so-called intellectuals who were all nihilist and commie because it was chic. Big budgets, big great actors and they were shit. No wonder that French cinema dominated the world from the 1960s to 70s - they offered both deep movies, action as well as comedy.

It was Lucas and Spielberg and Ridley Scott who recreated movies made for the people, for the millennia that had real emotion in it, some were positive, some were dark, but all were entertaining. All the shitty misanthropic West- and White Christianity hating philosophers put their drivel indirectly in the movies due to influencing the creators. And Hollywood produced bomb after high-budget bomb until the studios returned to a pro-life formula. Heaven's Gate was such a movie of terrible dire communist story-telling.

Now it's back to the shit.

[Paracelsus]

(07-15-2018 04:04 AM)Simeon_Strangelight Wrote:  

Star Wars was already bad with JarJar Abrams since he made The new Empire look stupid, depicted the main baddie as an immature Emo who has anger-fits and he created a nauseating Mary Sue. Never mind that the entire movie was just a dumbed down version of Episode IV.

Even mainstream Youtube channels are ripping into the world building:

Blah, blah, blah. You know what gives the Empire its gravitas and its dignity? Because they got four competent actors who show us the Empire's face:

- Peter Cushing (as Grand Moff Tarkin)
- Kenneth Colley (as Captain Admiral Piett)
- Julian Glover (as General Veers. Glover would go on to be villain protagonist against James Bond and Indiana Jones in later films)
- Michael Pennington (as Moff Jerjerrod, in ROTJ. Fun fact, Alan Rickman auditioned for the part as well, and sounds like he was going to basically play the character in Hans Gruber or Severus Snape mode, which is why he wasn't successful.)

The common elements are, obviously that they're all English and therefore inherently terrifying, but they're all decades older and decades more experienced as actors than the man-children we got in Kylo Ren and General Hux. Kenneth Colley had been acting for 20 years before they got him in as Admiral Piett. Fucking Julian Glover had won Olivier awards, i.e. theatre acting awards, and was from the Royal Shakespeare Company, acting since the 1950s. Even fall guy Admiral Ozzel (played by Michael Sheard) was a long-experienced actor who wound up playing Adolf Hitler about 5 times through his career.

These men basically played the evil version of the British Navy. And they acted fucking rings round the mob we got in the The Farce Awakens and The Last Shitpie. You could actually believe in these guys as competent military men, and that fact alone was enough to establish Vader's menace - because they looked terrified of him. They didn't need to tell people they were powerful by screaming at them, they projected it. There's a couple of solid Game principles to be found in how these guys worked their magic.

[Simeon_Strangelight]

Yeah, but you see - it was very likely deliberate to NOT PICK HIGHLY CHARISMATIC ACTORS for the new Empire.

Everyone would have believed that Charles Dance was a new Grand Admiral able to reunite the Empire's military and march into the Galaxy retaking what they lost:



There is no shortage of guys like that in the world.

But they wanted the Empire to be a joke, because they cannot have a cool strong masculinity be all toxic.

That is a 100% SJW trope - make the villain look stupid and often easily defeated.

Adam Driver himself isn't such a bad actor, but they made him into this Emo moron who doubts his evil, who trashes a console in a fucking fit. He has been at war and constant killing for 15 years and this is the result.

So no - this is deliberate and guys like Peter Cushing would never have gotten the job.

Common SJW tropes:

+ all men are toxic and weak, need just to learn to be more feminine (that includes the bad guys who are sometimes bad because they have not learned to weep like a glorious woman)
+ all women are friends
+ women are great and know everything from the start - Rey Marysuewalker, - from the comics - Riri Williams, Kamila Khan etc.
+ does not matter what the girls do, they always get emotionally validated even if they are inept or cowardly
+ women love the science and are instantly good with it (Rey being good as an engineer on the Falcon)
+ women don't need a man to show them something - thus Luke has no need to train Rey - she swings the sword around after one meditation session
+ men fear the power of women and are afraid of the strong independent woman - Luke being afraid of Rey's power fits the bill
+ men are all toxic even if they are the best and brightest - thus Luke considers slaughtering his nephew in the sleep before he had done anything wrong yet, but he lets his dad live after he had murdered countless women and children
+ heterosexuality is never the answer (or very seldom) - thus no romantic interest whatsoever for Rey - that girl could be a nun
+ lesbianism is the default state - Leia and Admiral Holdo
+ homosexuality is always an option - Finn and Poe had mor "chemistry" than Rey did with anyone - that is also no coincidence
+ if you show any hetero-romance, then it has to be across races - that is also a SJW trope
+ capitalism is bad
+ the West is bad
+ slavery is bad, because that is a knee-jerk reaction to think badly of the West - most people are not aware of any other history or that the West ended it worldwide
+ climate change needs to be added - the fuel plot lines in both TLJ and Solo seem to be nods towards that "finite" we gotta care about the global warming crap idea

So this screaming around is normal in a SJW movie. Think about the Ghostbusters reboot - they made the main villain into a incel ridiculous Gamma. That is not by coincidence - there was no masculine Vlad the Terrible, because that would be too masculine.

As soon as you have far-left SJWs in charge, then all or most or some of the tropes will appear.

Ant-Man and the Wasp avoided most of those and that is why it worked - and even there they push the women to be smarter, stronger and better which becomes visible.

[eljeffster]

(07-10-2018 10:12 AM)Alsos Wrote:  

(07-10-2018 03:22 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  

(07-10-2018 12:36 AM)Alsos Wrote:  

Should be interesting how they reconcile the "Lando is pansexual" hype around Soylo with the fact he'll be in his early eighties in this film.

Why would it be hard? Obviously advanced technology has allowed him to live to his 80s despite having HIV.

See, now that leads to an idea sufficiently depraved for a Disney movie: the Force is the Star Wars universe's equivalent of AIDS, carried by midiclorians rather than a virus.

That first struck me as a cynical joke, then got to thinking about whether it was consistent with the fictional universe or not. The idea becomes even more depraved the more you think through the implications, given what the movies have established about the Force, the Jedi, and the Sith.