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Have they announced what capacity he is participating? I assumed he will be kind of just showrunner...maybe lead writer, exec producer, find the right directors, that kind of role. If they are saying hes directing three, yeah, I doubt that.
What happened to B&W's other HBO show? The one about the modern Confederacy? Is that still happening?
Are they really gonna run episodic TV and a blockbuster franchise at the same time?
I still liked GoT, but my first thought is that this feels funnily like concession to the bros after their insistent complaining about Last Jedi (in which Johnson's twitter still gets replies in this vein to this day).
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The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
I'd rather see what Benioff and Weiss add to Star Wars than a show that cashes in on the depressing times of today. This is good news in my opinion.
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Honestly after such a huge uproar I can see them go EP and hand off the premise to a black showrunner while they abscond to a galaxy far far away.
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Yeah, I kinda assumed Confederate was on the backburner after the increasingly warranted public outcry for its tonal-deafness, and that this Star Wars news only added more credence to that.
Also I assumed they'd just be producing and writing the script for the first installment and breaking the story details for the trilogy rather than coming into it in anything resembling a directing capacity to take over their entire schedules. So all the groaning about Kennedy hiring more white male helmers, I say save your breath!.... for when she actually ends up doing just that!
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Same. This feels like an overcorrection.
Except Kennedy has done nothing but hire white dudes. And then there's the franchise history.
Huh, I hadn't read anything about that Confederate business. That's depressing. Internet is a huge tool, and it's being used by idiots.
So they fight Cthulhu in this?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Well we have to find out the origin of how Han knew "this is no cave".
Pretty funny. They shot the reaction BEFORE the trailer was released.
Really? Ha. How awesome.
Anyone here heard of the “machete order” for watching the Star Wars movies? It’s apparnetly for “purists” who also want to acknowledge the presence of the prequels or whatever.
Basically the viewing order is:
1.) A New Hope
2.) The Empire Strikes Back
3.) Attack of the Clones
4.) Revenge of the Sith
5.) Return of the Jedi
6.) The Force Awakens
7.) The Last Jedi
It completely eliminates The Phantom Menace (as it has no lasting consequences to the plot or characters).
This is apparently the recommended viewing order for newcomers to the series.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Yeah, I watched it this way at a Star Wars marathon a few years back. I dug how it preserves the mystery of Vader, even if it did mean I had to watch Clones again.
I watched it this way before The Force Awakens came out. I like the idea that it preserves the Vader-is-Luke's-father reveal and then gives you an extended backstory on Anakin.
I didn't eliminate The Phantom Menace, which seems like a silly thing to do. Anakin's relationship with his mother and the (albeit terribly done) reasoning behind his infatuation with Padmé get their groundwork there and his actions in Attack of the Clones become completely nonsensical.
Before The Last Jedi came out I watched all the movies in story-order, including The Clone Wars and Rogue One. I've seen them all too many times to really have a preferred order, but I liked watching them I-VIII just fine.
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
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lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
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Am I missing something really obvious in the reason behind calling it the “machete order”?
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
When you tell people you're screening Star Wars at your house in the "Machete order" they come over and you just show them Machete starring Danny Trejo seven times.
I was hoping to watch Star Wars with Danny Trejo, and when you watch with Trejo, you watch in whatever order he wants.
They chop it up.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Should it's be "cleever order" then?
Heh, depends on what you’re chopping.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
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