Good or New Movies Review
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@Arkandel Well, I think the only way they could do it is as a Force Ghost. Especially considering the line "No one is ever really gone." before. So.. ymmv, but I'm guessing Glowy Palpatine.
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@Seamus It's likely, or a vision of some sort.
Plus, look. Palpatine would wipe the goddamn floor with anyone who still remains in the galaxy at that point. There's no Obi-Wan or Yoda hanging out in some backwater planet any more, Ren is hardly trained and even Kylo Ren barely has a functional freakin' lightsaber.
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@Arkandel Ian came out at the panel. It's confirmed he is present in the film, but not in what FORM.
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Clone; Dark Empire storyline in the comics. It ties Kylo to his grandfather, he gets to defeat Palpatine for good, ending the cloning process. Helps with the name, Rise of Skywalker, he gets the tie to his lineage, ends up good'ish.
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@Lotherio Sure, but - IMHO - it makes no sense to drag him out in the third movie. That should have been at least a two-movie arc for a villain of that magnitude (which the series, frankly, lacks).
But then again if every film had its own screenplay written completely independently of the rest... I could see that being plausible.
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@Arkandel I completely concur, a villain should have been built up over more movie arc. And its Star Wars, its villain should have more play up over the entire trilogy. Hints in the first, some big reveal in the second, and confrontation in the third.
I'm not saying its a good idea for the plot, especially if only played up in the third movie because it will waste time tying the story together over other plot development. Like, Finn's lineage (Maz noticed something in his eyes, she didn't see anything in Rey which goes with her parents were bums).
Only a guess, but like Palpatine and clones, I remember hearing that theory in the early 80s even before it went into the comics, so its not a surprise. Though overall, seems a little less continuity in this trilogy then in others, no telling what will really come out in the end until we see it.
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Or (double post sorry)
Rey: I think I hear something up ahead
Palpatine feint: I'm not dead yet ...
Holy Grail scene ensues, with Kylo taking money to clobber the nearly dead Palpatine over the head.
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@Seamus said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Arkandel The Palpatine laugh.
That Palpatine played by Vincent Price laugh!
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I finally saw Us.
It's a good movie, but it's not as good as Get Out.
Plus, I figured the "twist" out about 10 minutes in.
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@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:
I finally saw Us.
It's a good movie, but it's not as good as Get Out.
Plus, I figured the "twist" out about 10 minutes in.
When @insomniac7809 and I saw it, there were several people out in the hallway/restrooms afterwards complaining that the movie didn't make sense. And I don't mean the premise, which had a bunch of holes in it that you just kind of have to shrug and go along with. I mean they didn't understand the ending, where there's an entire flashback that literally explains what and how the "twist" happened.
I can only assume the people in the theater were morons.
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@Too-Old-For-This said in Good or New Movies Review:
I was a little surprised. We barely see Adam Driver at all in the trailer. Makes me wonder if they're gonna backseat him.
I see what you did there.
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Everyone get ready.....
Revan is coming
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@Runescryer YAAAAAS PLEASE. ALL IN.
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@Runescryer said in Good or New Movies Review:
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Below the article was a picture of Aflac and the following leading statement:
Ben Affleck is officially out as Batman and it's a pretty sad day.
But is it? Is it really a sad day? Is it not instead a relief for Ben as well as the rest of us?
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@Thenomain But I liked Batfleck.
I did hear somewhere Michael Keaton is onboard for Batman Beyond. That's exciting.
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@Ghost @Thenomain I really liked Ben as Batman. I think they could have done a lot with him had they decided to put in any sort of character depth to explain why he was so violent.
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The problem was never with the actors who, for the most part, were pretty good casting choices.
The problem was with the thematic cohesion the Cinematic DCU suffered from, and I don't mean all those movies should feel the same (Marvel's definitely don't - GotG is quite different than Iron Man... hell, Thor 2 is worlds apart from Thor 3).
But there was no unified, inspired vision at all there, no overall arcs, no greater story or even release plan worth a damn. Kevin Feige is wildly underestimated for what he brought to the table.
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I think the problem is they tried having one person at the helm and the Snyder-verse was a total disaster. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Zach Snyder. He's directed several movies that I thoroughly enjoy and rewatch on a regular basis; Dawn of the Dead(which kind of kicked off the whole 15 years of zombies dominating the horror genre), 300, Watchmen, and even Sucker Punch. I do not think he was ready to helm an entire cinematic universe. He tried implementing a unified vision but it just came across as clunky and awkward, IMO.
And I agree about Kevin Feige, he kept the MCU focused and helped keep things reasonably paced and easy to digest.
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@ZombieGenesis Directors are probably not good people for managing projects like that. Due to their natures they tend to be micromanagers and control freaks, and even when they are not the skillset itself isn't necessarily one that lets them create meaningful arcs and create 'universes' where multiple visions can coexist.
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@Arkandel True. I think that shows in the fact that he directed Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman, and Justice League. All of which came out in, what, a 4 year period? None of the movies got the attention they deserved(aside from maybe Man of Steel I guess) and I can imagine it was incredibly overwhelming for the guy.
To be fair though, the MCU had a lot of great things going for it. Kevin Feige for sure but Jon Favreau was also a huge influencer(which was a giant shock to me), and they also got an amazing slate of directors to bring those visions to life; Jon Favreau, James Gunn, Josh Whedon, The Russos...They did an amazing job of just finding the best people for the job and knew when to cut their losses(no more Iron Man movies), fix the things that were broken(Thor Ragnarok was so much better than the previous 2 movies), and to build on the things that were successful.
DC did none of these things.
