The Acolyte (Star Wars Disney+ show)

[billfromlaketravis 11447]

Looks good. No Filoni or Favreau I believe, so we should get new stories/perspectives/filming techniques. 

[mdmost 42999]

I'm taking my older kid to see Phantom Menace today. Yeah, the prequels aren't great put there's nothing like seeing the Wars in a theater. There's supposed to be a preview of the Acolyte at the end. I believe it's the fight scene between the knife girl and Trinity. 

[billfromlaketravis 11447]

59 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I'm taking my older kid to see Phantom Menace today. Yeah, the prequels aren't great put there's nothing like seeing the Wars in a theater. There's supposed to be a preview of the Acolyte at the end. I believe it's the fight scene between the knife girl and Trinity. 

1) Empire 

2) Return of the Jedi

3) Rogue One

4) New Hope

5) Sith

6) Phantom Menace

7) Force Awakens

8 ) Clones

9) Last Jedi

10) Skywalker 

Is necessary: 

 

Edited May 4 by billfromlaketravis

[UT_OB1 2217]

I feel like you haven’t watched AotC recently if you ranked it higher than…anything. 
 

You forgot to rank Solo. 😂

[billfromlaketravis 11447]

1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:

I feel like you haven’t watched AotC recently if you ranked it higher than…anything. 
 

You forgot to rank Solo. 😂

I liked Solo. Darn. Probably 6th for me. 

[CooterBrown 18003]

I liked Solo. Darn. Probably 6th for me. 

Solo is better than it should’ve been with all the problems it had with production. It’s pretty fun and had some cool world building in it.

[Red Five 40836]

4 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

3) Rogue One

4) New Hope

Is this something you honestly believe? 

[billfromlaketravis 11447]

8 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Is this something you honestly believe? 

Many, many people think R1 is better than Empire. 

[mdmost 42999]

The preview clip looked really good on the big screen. The dialogue in Phantom Menace is still so bad. 

[Red Five 40836]

32 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Many, many people think R1 is better than Empire. 

To me that would be like ranking Creed 3 over Rocky. I mean, it's Star Wars. It has to be in the top two, and only because Empire is so incredible. 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4975]

14 hours ago, mdmost said:

The preview clip looked really good on the big screen. The dialogue in Phantom Menace is still so bad. 

Did you think it would age like fine wine?

[nineliveslost 2753]

On 5/4/2024 at 1:27 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

1) Empire 

2) Return of the Jedi

3) Rogue One

4) New Hope

5) Sith

6) Phantom Menace

7) Force Awakens

8 ) Clones

9) Last Jedi

10) Skywalker 

Is necessary: 

 

Swap 2 and 4 around and it's close to my list

[mdmost 42999]

4 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Did you think it would age like fine wine?

I thought it might age better compared to the sequel trilogy. Lucas at least gets credit for trying something different. The dialogue, Jar Jar, and some of the acting based on the terrible dialogue are really the only parts of Phantom Menace I take issue with.

Edited May 5 by mdmost

[billfromlaketravis 11447]

19 minutes ago, mdmost said:

I thought it might age better compared to the sequel trilogy. Lucas at least gets credit for trying something different. The dialogue, Jar Jar, and some of the acting based on the terrible dialogue are really the only parts of Phantom Menace I take issue with.

Take Jar Jar and that dumb ass ground battle out of Menace and it’s a pretty solid flick. 

[Buzzrock 14902]

New trailer looks bad. Like something from SyFy or the CW or both.

[CooterBrown 18003]

Take Jar Jar and that dumb ass ground battle out of Menace and it’s a pretty solid flick. 

Then you’re left with a political thriller about a lush planet that will starve to death if it doesn’t get off planet supplies for 24 hours and a side plot about an annoying kid you wouldn’t mind being trampled to death by a taun taun.

[Scary Stranger 1714]

5 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

New trailer looks bad. Like something from SyFy or the CW or both.

[Michael Knight 12976]

On 5/4/2024 at 12:30 PM, mdmost said:

I'm taking my older kid to see Phantom Menace today. Yeah, the prequels aren't great put there's nothing like seeing the Wars in a theater. There's supposed to be a preview of the Acolyte at the end. I believe it's the fight scene between the knife girl and Trinity. 

I also watched the Phantom Menace this weekend and came to the realization that it would have been a better movie if none of the shit they did in the movie happened. Literally none of the scenes worked even Darth Maul was stupid when you compare him to Clone Wars and rebels Darth Maul.

[Red Five 40836]

My reaction is still "Lucas had 15 years to write that and that's the story he came up with?".

"Oh no, because of the blockade, all of our people are starving and dying!"

Where? On that sound stage over there, behind the blue screen? 

[smuggs 9352]

Oh for fucks sake is the villain a knight of Ren. Ugh.

 

 

Or maybe the Gimp.

 

[Michael Knight 12976]

21 minutes ago, smuggs said:

Oh for fucks sake is the villain a knight of Ren. Ugh.

 

Its set over 100 years before that

[smuggs 9352]

15 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

Its set over 100 years before that

 

Understood. I just hope they aren't trying to flesh-out a backstory of some of JJ's dud characters, as a tie-in to the current timeline.

[Funk Doctor Spock 12177]

This show is gonna suck, like most propaganda shit they put out. The trailer looked low budget. 

 

"Close your eyes and what do you see?"

Leslie Hedlund -"Nothing, Mr. Weinstein" 

Line stolen from a Twitter post that made me laugh. 

[atomheartbevo 89626]

 

 

[mdmost 42999]

Lightsaber whip and wookie Jedi could be interesting. 

[MissingInAction 25008]

I have a feeling this may kill the franchise until we get another season of Andor.

[CooterBrown 18003]

I really dislike that Jedis were made to be more common than janitors in the SW universe.

[mdmost 42999]

2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

I really dislike that Jedis were made to be more common than janitors in the SW universe.

I mean Obi Wan spelled it out in the first movie. They were abundant throughout the galaxy before the Empire. 

[Levi 2585]

On 5/6/2024 at 11:57 AM, Red Five said:

My reaction is still "Lucas had 15 years to write that and that's the story he came up with?".

"Oh no, because of the blockade, all of our people are starving and dying!"

Where? On that sound stage over there, behind the blue screen? 

Trade federation and a political blockade? George really nailed “Star Wars is for kids” 

[atomheartbevo 89626]

25 minutes ago, Levi said:

Trade federation and a political blockade? George really nailed “Star Wars is for kids” 

I see somebody’s been eating your pizza rolls as well.

 

 

[Levi 2585]

10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I see somebody’s been eating your pizza rolls as well.

 

 

It’s weird. I always felt like when one of George’s ideas didn’t land with the older audiences, he would use it as his scapegoat. 

[billfromlaketravis 11447]

Yeah the who owns Star Wars debate will always be a thing. I don’t think it’s a generational battle. Do quality work and it will be universally loved. Slap something together with poor writing, lack of vision, add poor casting and it’ll split the fanbase. Very young fans liked Rise of Skywalker. Everybody loves Andor, and to a lesser degree Mando. 

[mdmost 42999]

I always felt George saying Star Wars was for kids was his way to nullify any criticism of the prequels. Sure George, poop and fart jokes are for kids. Pod racing with a young Anakin is for kids. Starvation, slavery, stabbings, people getting cut in half...not really for kids. 

[atomheartbevo 89626]

2 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Yeah the who owns Star Wars debate will always be a thing. I don’t think it’s a generational battle. Do quality work and it will be universally loved. Slap something together with poor writing, lack of vision, add poor casting and it’ll split the fanbase. Very young fans liked Rise of Skywalker. Everybody loves Andor, and to a lesser degree Mando. 

And Rogue One, even when not compared to the sequels, is great - tightly edited, well-acted, everything is tied up at the end.

[Red Five 40836]

And Rogue One, even when not compared to the sequels, is great - tightly edited, well-acted, everything is tied up at the end.

Actually it ended with kind of a cliffhanger.

[billfromlaketravis 11447]

6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

And Rogue One, even when not compared to the sequels, is great - tightly edited, well-acted, everything is tied up at the end.

Agreed. 

Edited May 19 by billfromlaketravis

[Parliament 14239]

On 5/18/2024 at 1:32 PM, atomheartbevo said:

 

 

So another Jedi gone bad?  Seem the Jedi Training Academy needs to, you know, screen their candidates for homicidal tendancies.

[mdmost 42999]

Or a padawan who was kicked out because she only could get in touch with the dark side. 

[closetohumping 17433]

1 hour ago, Parliament said:

So another Jedi gone bad?  Seem the Jedi Training Academy needs to, you know, screen their candidates for homicidal tendancies.

Some people are just bad.   I’d bet less than 5% turn bad

[atomheartbevo 89626]

3 hours ago, Red Five said:

Actually it ended with kind of a cliffhanger.

[Levi 2585]

5 hours ago, mdmost said:

I always felt George saying Star Wars was for kids was his way to nullify any criticism of the prequels. Sure George, poop and fart jokes are for kids. Pod racing with a young Anakin is for kids. Starvation, slavery, stabbings, people getting cut in half...not really for kids. 

We kinda saw some of it with the Return of The Jedi and the little Ewoks. It’s ironic he says that now with the two best films from each trilogy leaning in the more adult/darker direction. 

[ztejas 43411]

Just saw a teaser during Game 7. This looks really fucking stupid. 

[Scary Stranger 1714]

 

[nineliveslost 2753]

[Buzzrock 14902]

That looks like the next Mortal Kombat movie.

[mdmost 42999]

[smuggs 9352]

She employs the same set of throwing knives that I ordered from US Cavalry when I was 15.

[Murfdogg21 4412]

On 5/5/2024 at 2:15 PM, nineliveslost said:

Swap 2 and 4 around and it's close to my list

 

On 5/19/2024 at 4:58 PM, Levi said:

We kinda saw some of it with the Return of The Jedi and the little Ewoks. It’s ironic he says that now with the two best films from each trilogy leaning in the more adult/darker direction. 

Y’all dorks from the 70’s love to shit on ROTJ for the Ewoks’ 5 minutes of screen time in what might the most emotional and character evolving movie of the franchise. It brings conclusion to Vader and Palpatine, and the nerds forget it also gave you Slave Leia, whose action figure you used to beat it to every day after you got off the school bus. ESB and ROTJ are 1a and 1b to me. In my stupid opinion, ANH is only loved and important because it was first, not because it was a better movie than the others. I actually rewatch Episodes 1, 3, and 7 far more than ANH, where Luke is a whiney sand boy, the first half of the movie drags on, and gave us a Obi Wan-Vader duel that is epically retarded in hindsight. 

[nineliveslost 2753]

4 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

 

Y’all dorks from the 70’s love to shit on ROTJ for the Ewoks’ 5 minutes of screen time in what might the most emotional and character evolving movie of the franchise. It brings conclusion to Vader and Palpatine, and the nerds forget it also gave you Slave Leia, whose action figure you used to beat it to every day after you got off the school bus. ESB and ROTJ are 1a and 1b to me. In my stupid opinion, ANH is only loved and important because it was first, not because it was a better movie than the others. I actually rewatch Episodes 1, 3, and 7 far more than ANH, where Luke is a whiney sand boy, the first half of the movie drags on, and gave us a Obi Wan-Vader duel that is epically retarded in hindsight. 

Are you off your medication?

Great you like different movies in different order. Chill homie

[Buzzrock 14902]

Y’all dorks from the 70’s love to shit on ROTJ for the Ewoks’ 5 minutes of screen time in what might the most emotional and character evolving movie of the franchise. It brings conclusion to Vader and Palpatine, and the nerds forget it also gave you Slave Leia, whose action figure you used to beat it to every day after you got off the school bus. ESB and ROTJ are 1a and 1b to me. In my stupid opinion, ANH is only loved and important because it was first, not because it was a better movie than the others. I actually rewatch Episodes 1, 3, and 7 far more than ANH, where Luke is a whiney sand boy, the first half of the movie drags on, and gave us a Obi Wan-Vader duel that is epically retarded in hindsight. 

Best lightsaber fight, best space battle, slave Leia, Solo rescue, Jabba sail barge escape, speeder bikes, Vader redemption, death of Yoda…but people love to whine about the Ewoks. It’s greatness.