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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

2 completed and released with 3 more in the pipeline.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

You don't get to talk about killing ANYONE. Not here. Neither do they.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Rebel Moon is worth it just to see the Space Nazis get wrecked. LOL.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -2 points 4 hours ago

Which is why you'll never know Rogue One is trash. LOL.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Same. I got as far as "Yer a ~~wizard~~ rebel now!" and was like "Nope!" Took 3 full tries before I finished it.

The Rebel Moon movies are better than Rogue One and that's saying something.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

I dunno, I think the best of the Disney versions is still Force Awakens. The big complaint is "Well, it's just Star Wars..." which is true... but it's Star Wars without George Lucas. They had to prove they could do what Lucas did without Lucas and I think they succeeded in that.

Then Last Jedi shit the bed. Then Carrie Fisher died which painted them into a corner with Rise of Skywalker. Force Awakens was Han, Last Jedi was Luke, Rise of Skywalker was supposed to be Leia... 😢

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Especially the Spielberg sequel... After the success of the first movie, Crighton wrote a Lost World novel as a sequel to the FILM, not the first book.

Spielberg jettisoned the book and did his own sequel instead. :(

I really wanted to see the chameleon dinosaurs on film.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (10 children)

Rogue One is a shitfest for a variety of reasons:

The original writer director didn't start with a script, he started with a supercut of other sci fi films and used that to make a script.

https://slate.com/culture/2017/01/rogue-one-s-editors-used-pieces-of-wargames-and-aliens-to-mock-up-the-film-s-first-draft.html

Even when he had a script, he spent an hour a day shooting off script for things that looked cool, but served no purpose.

So when the first trailers came out, they were full of gibberish footage that was never actually used in the movie.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/6/14195898/rogue-one-star-wars-trailer-jyn-erson

Then he got fired and a new writer director was brought in, one who said his super power was he never liked Star Wars.

https://theplaylist.net/tony-gilroy-rogue-one-podcast-20180405/

“Because that was my superpower. A) I don’t like ‘Star Wars’—not that I don’t like it, but I’ve never been interested in ‘Star Wars’ ever, so I had no reverence for it whatsoever, I was unafraid about that and they were in such a swamp… they were in so much, terrible, terrible trouble that all you could do was improve their position.”

So you get conflicting scenes, one where Cassian has no trouble murdering an innocent informant, but not long after gets all sweaty and conflicted when it's time to assassinate a legitimate military target.

https://youtu.be/LORtuZ0ISF4#t=48s

vs.

https://youtu.be/eCN7zF1BMIQ

No character growth, no arc, just in one scene he has no trouble murdering an innocent guy WHO HELPED HIM BTW, but later refuses to take out a military target HE WAS SUPPOSED to kill.

To say nothing of crapping all over the iconic opening of Star Wars by having Vader watch the Death Star plans fly away, personally, with his own eyes.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 34 points 7 hours ago

My favorite bit:

Leia gives Rey a pendant and tells her that she can use that to track them wherever they go.

In the SAME SCENE, with NO CUTS, they are tracked by the first order and shout "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!"

You just described, IN THE SAME SCENE, how it is, in fact, possible.

Bonus: Putting a tracker in the Falcon was how the Death Star found Yavin IV in the very first movie.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I'd pay good money to see an animated adaptation of Truth in the Kyle Baker art style...

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218 to 214. Republicans could afford to lose 3 votes, they lost 2.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-vote-big-beautiful-bill-rules-committee/

"Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania."

 

"Officers have not found the suspect, who Milwaukie police identified as 42-year-old Loony John Franklin Toon of Portland."

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31191729

"One square mile (2.5 square kilometers) of the city's more-than-500 square mile area were set to be off-limits between 8pm and 6am for everyone apart from residents, journalists and emergency services, she added."

. . .

"Police arrested 25 people on suspicion of violating the curfew as of Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing an LAPD spokesperson.

The number of arrests was likely to rise as law enforcement worked to remove the remaining protesters from the area, the newspaper said."

. . .

"Overnight Monday 23 businesses were looted, police said, adding that more than 500 people had been arrested over recent days."

 

"One square mile (2.5 square kilometers) of the city's more-than-500 square mile area were set to be off-limits between 8pm and 6am for everyone apart from residents, journalists and emergency services, she added."

. . .

"Police arrested 25 people on suspicion of violating the curfew as of Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing an LAPD spokesperson.

The number of arrests was likely to rise as law enforcement worked to remove the remaining protesters from the area, the newspaper said."

. . .

"Overnight Monday 23 businesses were looted, police said, adding that more than 500 people had been arrested over recent days."

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31091610

Since we keep having to remove the video posts, here's an actual article on it:

 

Since I keep having to remove the video posts, here's an actual article on it:

 

AP burying the lede here...

"President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan would cut deficits by $2.8 trillion over a 10-year period while shrinking the economy, raising the inflation rate and reducing the purchasing power of households overall, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the Congressional Budget Office."

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