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O.Supreme wrote:I can't blame audiences though, after a decade of mostly bad films, we finally get a good one, and it will probably have the lowest box office of any. Positive word of mouth, or IBO might push it past TLK, but I doubt it, which is sad. Should have got off the Bay Train after movie #3 Hasbro.... Also, just for the record, the All Cybertron sequences were AMAZING, even if it was just blatant pandering to old fans like myself. I've been pushing since 1986 to have a full movie solely set on Cybertron, or other alien worlds, THAT would be truly amazing.
lhb412 wrote:Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
One of the most influential science fiction movies, heck, science fiction stories of all time. Looking back on it two things really jump out: how lean, mean and economical the movie is (it packs of enormous amount of stuff and just 80 minutes), and how sexual the chemistry is between the two leads - not something you typically find in a science fiction film released in the mid-fifties.
Disney chose to kill the EU
Dr Kain wrote:It's not that Disney chose to kill the EU, they just made them not cannonical so their movies didn't have to be restricted to the continuity the fandom made up.
YESDr Kain wrote:I don't get the big deal with Lando's droid. It was stupid,
NODr Kain wrote:but funny
O.Supreme wrote:Dr Kain wrote:It's not that Disney chose to kill the EU, they just made them not cannonical so their movies didn't have to be restricted to the continuity the fandom made up.
That's interesting, because I don't recall, when I picked up Heir to the Empire in 1991, and read it thinking...hey I should write letters to all sorts of other SW geeks, and we should create this *other* continuity, (because there was no *other* feeling to it. For pretty much anyone who read the Thrawn Trilogy prior to 2012, it was, for all intents and purposes episodes VII-IX) and create our own *fandom*, from which all other Lucasfilm approved/liscensed Bantam/DelRey novels, the licensed video games, RPG's, & animated series could be made. Nope, pretty sure Lucasfilm did that themselves. I just enjoyed the ride while it lasted.
Pretty sure I never saw a militant feminist/robot rights/sex droid in any of the other films or animated series, or read about in the nearly 100 EU novels...So it was NEW, I'll give it that, just really stupid & pointless.
jellydonut25 wrote:Lando's droid is a militant freedom fighter who is then made an eternal slave as a navigation computer.
And I'm almost 100% certain nobody writing this movie saw the irony of that.
Dr Kain wrote:Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn what you read or did not read because those stories are irrelevant.
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