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Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Centerfield Dec 18 2015 10:43 AM

For those of you who saw it, good? bad? No details!

Ceetar Dec 18 2015 11:24 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

is Jar Jar in it?

metsmarathon Dec 18 2015 12:49 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

kylo ren is luke and leia's half-brother, the secret lovechild of jar jar binks and padme Amidala.

soupcan Dec 18 2015 01:28 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Gal in my office saw it last night - said it was really good, long and she liked it a lot.

TransMonk Dec 18 2015 01:33 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I have tix for Xmas Eve morning. It's going to be really hard to not ruin it for myself by reading spoilers.

Edgy MD Dec 18 2015 02:00 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

soupcan wrote: Gal in my office saw it last night - said it was really good, long and she liked it a lot. It's been over 30 minutes since this post went up. Somebody should really go check on Fman.

TransMonk Dec 18 2015 02:02 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

BOC!

d'Kong76 Dec 18 2015 02:22 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Probably the only one here, I've never seen any Star Wars films in a theater. I have most of them now, and enjoy them, but I never got the bug that so many have. Really more of Star Trek brand fan, but even that I'm not fanatical or anything. Let's Go Mets!

Edgy MD Dec 18 2015 02:36 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I just like the Holiday Special.

Centerfield Dec 21 2015 08:20 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Good.

themetfairy Dec 21 2015 08:43 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

From a friend on Facebook - I know about no spoilers and all, but I really liked the part where Imperial stormtroopers pulled over the Millennium Falcon because Han was driving it in the fast lane at one quarter lightspeed with his left blinker on.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 21 2015 09:20 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I'm sorry, but I've been good, and I just have to tell someone: Kylo Ren is NOT actually a Sith lord, but is instead a PROFESSIONAL ACTOR, who is in the television show "Girls."

Centerfield Dec 21 2015 10:07 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

You know, what do you guys think is acceptable as a time frame to start discussing the movie? Two weeks? A month? I mean, at some point anyone who's anyone will have seen it right?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 21 2015 10:12 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I'd give it, like, two weeks. But then, I'm polite and shit. But, as a potential spoiler recipient? Practically speaking, after this last weekend, I'd imagine all bets are off.

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2015 12:48 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

d'Kong76 wrote: Probably the only one here, I've never seen any Star Wars films in a theater. I have most of them now, and enjoy them, but I never got the bug that so many have. I've also managed to avoid getting bitten by the Star Wars bug. Saw the original movie in the theater in 1977, but it didn't really grab me. I also saw Empire Strikes Back and Return (or Revenge) of the Jedi on the big screen but haven't seen any of the material that's come out since then and I'm not at all interested in this one. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: But, as a potential spoiler recipient? Practically speaking, after this last weekend, I'd imagine all bets are off. Is it too soon to talk about Citizen Kane?

Benjamin Grimm Dec 21 2015 01:43 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I remember seeing this in the paper last week and wondered if it was a spoiler. I'm surprised that more hasn't been made of this: New York Daily News Publishes Massive 'Star Wars' Spoiler (Don't worry, you can read the article without getting spoiled. It tells of the fact of the spoiler without spoiling anything.)

Centerfield Dec 21 2015 03:32 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I remember seeing this in the paper last week and wondered if it was a spoiler. I'm surprised that more hasn't been made of this: New York Daily News Publishes Massive 'Star Wars' Spoiler (Don't worry, you can read the article without getting spoiled. It tells of the fact of the spoiler without spoiling anything.) What a jerk. If you care enough to write something like that, then you should understand that you are ruining it for others who feel as strongly as you. If you do not understand what the scores of fans are feeling, then you have no reason to print a comic like that. I may not follow comic books or super heroes, but I can certainly understand being a fan and can relate to anyone who has a passion for these things. I don't understand anyone who makes fun of, or "cannot understand" a fan's devotion to something. I mean, except for Trekkies. OMG what dorks.

dgwphotography Dec 22 2015 06:59 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Centerfield wrote: I mean, except for Trekkies. OMG what dorks. Trekkers. Sheesh, get it right, will ya?

Benjamin Grimm Dec 22 2015 07:06 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

What a jerk. If you care enough to write something like that, then you should understand that you are ruining it for others who feel as strongly as you. I know. I'd like to think it was an accident, that it was meant to be published weeks later than it was, but that doesn't seem to be the case. That Between the Lines cartoon is consistently stupid and really doesn't deserve its place on the comics page. I just looked it up: it only runs in the Daily News. It's not in any other paper at all!

dgwphotography Dec 22 2015 07:33 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Centerfield Dec 22 2015 08:01 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

dgwphotography wrote: Centerfield wrote: I mean, except for Trekkies. OMG what dorks. Trekkers. Sheesh, get it right, will ya? Such a dork! (Puts Yoda ears back on)

Centerfield Dec 22 2015 08:05 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

themetfairy wrote: From a friend on Facebook - I know about no spoilers and all, but I really liked the part where Imperial stormtroopers pulled over the Millennium Falcon because Han was driving it in the fast lane at one quarter lightspeed with his left blinker on. I just saw this. Lol. My favorite was when he kept asking the waitress to have the Cantina Band play their music more quietly. "You'll wake up the whole damn galaxy!"

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 22 2015 08:45 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

dgwphotography wrote: Centerfield wrote: I mean, except for Trekkies. OMG what dorks. Trekkers. Sheesh, get it right, will ya? [Lifts hand, splits middle and ring fingers in familiar Vulcan greeting] [Makes wanking motion]

TransMonk Dec 22 2015 10:40 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

In preparation for seeing the new flick on Thursday, I have gone back and watched the previous films. I may never watch them again... First off, I had to purchase the six-movie saga on Blue-Ray (for 90-some dollars on Amazon...no streaming offered that I could see). I had never seen the original trilogy on anything other than the big screen or VHS, so the Blue Ray clarity did make it seem like I was watching some scenes for the first time. However, as I am sure has been bemoaned on the internet a trillion times, you cannot purchase the original theatrical releases of the movies from the 70s-80s. You can only get the remastered versions with the George Lucas 1990's cartoonish-CGI added. This pretty much ruins the original movies for me. I've been watching in machete order (IV, V, II, II, VI). The Phantom Menace is a disappointingly horrible movie. You really aren't missing much by skipping it. But, even the drop off from Empire to Attack of the Clones is monumental. The acting is bad, the script moronic, the pacing is jittery...George Lucas failed miserably by making the prequels (again, I don't think I'm giving away anything new here). Episode III is slightly better, but mostly because there is a sense of finality to it. I have Return of the Jedi on the menu for tonight. Ultimately, I have never been so happy to see Disney associated with anything. Even if it is only to wrangle the Star Wars film making enterprise out of the hands of George Lucas. I'm not expecting a resurrection from this new movie, but I do hope it washes some of the awful Lucas taste of the prequels and re-mastered originals away.

Edgy MD Dec 22 2015 11:07 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

The original releases supposedly will be returning, as a blue ray alternative or something. It's amazing. Disney, in their long and storied career, has probably never been more successful, but it's virtually all through acquired properties: Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm. It's like there's not an original idea in the shop — at least not one that they can't successfully bowdlerize during development (Frozen excepted).

Mets – Willets Point Dec 22 2015 11:16 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I haven't seen it yet, but don't hold your spoilers on my account. Disneys gone through several phases I. classic animated art films of the 30s & 40s, II. tv shows and theme parks of the 50s-60s, III. kind of living on legacy in 70s & 80s and putting out mediocre movies & tv shows & cable station (while expanding theme parks) IV. revitalizing movie industry wing with "grown-up" movies (Touchstone) and return to classic animated art films (with a modern sensibility) in late 80s and 90s, and V. the Google model of acquiring properties to create content and acting as a clearinghouse. Obviously there's some overlap in these phases.

Ashie62 Dec 22 2015 04:03 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I have never seen any incarnation of Star Wars. Odd.

Elster88 Dec 22 2015 07:11 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

The original releases supposedly will be returning, as a blue ray alternative or something. It's amazing. Disney, in their long and storied career, has probably never been more successful, but it's virtually all through acquired properties: Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm. It's like there's not an original idea in the shop — at least not one that they can't successfully bowdlerize during development (Frozen excepted). Maybe they'll buy the Mets. The movie was good. As you say, at least they are turning out good products with the shops that they buy. The Force Awakens was good.

Elster88 Dec 22 2015 07:13 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Mets – Willets Point wrote: I haven't seen it yet, but don't hold your spoilers on my account. Disneys gone through several phases I. classic animated art films of the 30s & 40s, II. tv shows and theme parks of the 50s-60s, III. kind of living on legacy in 70s & 80s and putting out mediocre movies & tv shows & cable station (while expanding theme parks) IV. revitalizing movie industry wing with "grown-up" movies (Touchstone) and return to classic animated art films (with a modern sensibility) in late 80s and 90s, and V. the Google model of acquiring properties to create content and acting as a clearinghouse. Obviously there's some overlap in these phases. What was it like seeing Snow White in theaters? Couldn't resist

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 22 2015 10:22 PM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Ashie62 wrote: I have never seen any incarnation of Star Wars. Odd. My cousin's wife, supposedly born in 1976 and raised in suburban Pennsylvania, has also never seen one. The irony is, she's been something of an Obama birther, and this is just one of many reasons she's given us to doubt her birth story.

Frayed Knot Dec 23 2015 06:53 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

I had never seen a 'Star Wars' movie either even though I was quite alive and breathing when it came out. I suppose I remember it coming out but I just don't recall there being that big a buzz about it at least not with the crowd I was hanging around with; maybe I was just hanging with the wrong folks (or maybe the right ones, I dunno). I didn't purposely avoid the movie so much I just simply never got around to it and found no reason to see a sequel having not seen the original (plus I tend to avoid sequels anyway). Then just this past Thanksgiving my sister insisted on a showing when I was at her place for Thanksgiving and suddenly three decades after the face I was a Star Wars virgin no more. The problem of course is that all these years after the fact the freshness isn't there, the graphics are no longer state of the art, and within days after seeing it I remembered almost nothing about it. To me it was a bunch of guys -- or robots of some sort -- shooting at each other (with the bad guys always missing of course) for reasons I could neither discern nor find the energy to care about ... although I'll admit that it probably didn't help that I nodded off during parts of it. Elster88 wrote: What was it like seeing Snow White in theaters? Couldn't resist Don't laugh. Disney kept many of its movies off the home video format for years after the dawn of the VCR era and so classics like that were still available only via the periodic re-releases they'd make in theaters. I don't believe I even saw 'Snow White' in a theatre but I did see their 'Fantasia', from the same era, at one multiple times. So while you may have to be somewhat old to have seen it that way you don't need to be real old.

Lefty Specialist Dec 23 2015 07:12 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Saw it. Loved it. A perfect successor to the original three movies. Sets up Episode 8 beautifully. Watched the 'original 3' the weekend before just to catch up and it was time well spent. The Prequels were annoying in that you almost HAD to go see them if you were invested in the franchise, and they were disappointing. But they've straightened up and they're flying right now.

Mets – Willets Point Dec 23 2015 09:40 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

Elster88 wrote: What was it like seeing Snow White in theaters? Couldn't resist Oddly enough, I saw a Snow White adaptation that was part film, part stage performance at Radio City Music Hall when I was a kid. I'd completely forgotten about that until you asked. Like Frayed Knot said, it was actually very hard to see the classic Disney movies if you were a kid in the 70s & 80s as they weren't on tv and weren't on video, but they'd occasionally re-release them for a theatrical run.

Edgy MD Dec 23 2015 10:59 AM Re: Star Wars - NO SPOILERS PLEASE!!!!

They released them on a seven-year cycle or so, which counts as a generation as far as kids go. It was brilliant bidness. The original Snow White run at Radio City closed in part because of all the upholstery cleaning and replacing necessitated by terrified children wetting their pants. I could never get past the operatic vibrato in the leading lady's voice. I was looking around thinking, "I can't be the only one who doesn't understand any of this."