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Movie: Solo: A Star Wars Story

That was some good nerd shit.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:56 PM on June 2, 2018

Would possibly be better if it was the origin of, like, one or two things instead of fifteen.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:38 PM on June 2, 2018

Though, oddly, I actually enjoyed the mega, mega fanwank callbacks to Clone Wars and I guess prequel shit.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:39 PM on June 2, 2018

Star Wars droids will never be the same after 'Solo'
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:59 PM on June 2, 2018

Made it in 5 minutes in and gave up. Relentless YouTube snark is exhausting and sheds little to no light on anything.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:41 AM on June 3, 2018

It gets the capes.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:53 PM on June 3, 2018

Han as a character who falls for the same shit over and over pretty much works given what we've been given. His hard bitten exterior is a bit of a shell covering the truth that he is a total sucker.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 5:02 PM on June 4, 2018

Leia felt it though.

(Also they blew up the planet the hole was on, but the Leia feeling it bit is the bit that seals the deal in Star Wars land. No robot legs for Han.)
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:10 PM on June 5, 2018

Also turning up in years late sequels looking kind of grumpy about it and everyones happy to see him ever if it's some Von Daniken bullshit or he can't even be bothered to put on a costume and it's got Jared Leto in it.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:32 PM on June 5, 2018

Von Daniken bullshit with Shia fucking LaBeouf even... my god, he's worked with both of the assholes-who-are-kind-of-like-that.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:37 PM on June 5, 2018

Maybe he'll show up in Boba Fett and they can finally have their showdown over who is the most cool in concept but actually kind of sucky in terms of appearances on screen Mace killing his dad.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:20 PM on June 6, 2018

Way too many bits when Lando and L3 aren’t in it.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:03 PM on June 6, 2018

I sort of assumed he sprang 3 years getting kicked out of the academy, got busted down to whatever regular forces the Mud Troopers are (seems to be SW equivalent of Imperial Guard) and when we see him on Mud Planet that’s his first real deployment because otherwise he’d be dead already.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:06 AM on June 7, 2018

WIRED Podcast - Solo: A Star Wars Story Should Have Been Two Movies
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:16 PM on June 9, 2018

Also I have the artbook now and it is some good stuff. As ever there's a whole bunch of designs I like even better than the used one.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:17 PM on June 9, 2018

The Cape Room was in the escape boos and was eaten by a spacetopus.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:34 PM on June 9, 2018

Bit of an attempted Dread Pirate Roberts thing there that they don’t quite sell.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:53 AM on June 12, 2018

Technically the droids are Japanese peasants, cf Hidden Fortress.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:45 AM on June 12, 2018

TBH I suspect R2 talks like L3-37 all the damn time it’s just in beeps and we don’t hear it.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:08 AM on June 12, 2018

Solely because of the cartoons.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:46 PM on June 12, 2018

Movie: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

There's actually a few bits about this movie that strike me as clumsily done - mainly to do with setting up the rebels as getting stuck in a big spaceship being chased in an empty sector of the galaxy but then undermining that by having people constantly nipping onto and off of it seemingly at will, and which I think could all be avoided with a tighter script pass - but I'm glad to report that none of that really matches up with the bits that annoy the nazis, some of which were TBH my favorite… [more]
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:59 PM on June 6, 2018

Also everyone’s physics gripes about the chase would totally be fixed if the two ships were under constant acceleration.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:14 PM on June 6, 2018

Westworld: Journey into Night

I love murderbot show.

“I wrote that line for you...!”
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:38 AM on April 23, 2018

What that creepy William moment on the 'Westworld' premiere means for the future of season 2

More wanky bollocks in a JJ Abrams mystery box plotline getting in the way of robot! rebellion! action!, no doubt.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:00 AM on April 23, 2018

Westworld: The Bicameral Mind

That was fantastic.

And the hot takes on why it wasn't actually enjoyable aren't worth shit.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:38 PM on December 5, 2016

The ethics of ‘Westworld’: Those who fail to heed stories are doomed to recreate them
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:31 AM on December 6, 2016

My hot take counter to all the other hot takes: The big twists the Internet jumped up and down about having guessed were actually not the most interesting part of the story.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:00 AM on December 6, 2016

I, too, suspect we will see some Futureworld Shit going down.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:59 PM on December 6, 2016

The computer is actually inside a hollowed out Moon.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:59 PM on December 6, 2016

The writer was just stuck for something old-timey that would roll that day and figured the users wouldn't care.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2016

Nobody worries about the cows achieving sentience...
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:27 AM on December 15, 2016

You can leave just meat out in the sun all day, patch it up, pump in "blood" and have a working host, which suggests it's a little more durable than regular meat.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:45 PM on December 15, 2016

Maeve found a bit of bullet inside her so they don't just mulch the bodies. It does seem like it would be the most logical and hygienic approach though.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:26 PM on December 17, 2016

At least some of those are old model, but there's some confirmed meaty ones there.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:01 AM on December 18, 2016

Kill the fleshy ones!
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:52 PM on July 25, 2017

Glad that pissing around with surprise structural reveals is getting less of an emphasis.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:56 PM on April 13, 2018

Having watched 2.1 I think I need that. It’s that or go back and watch all of 1. Which is tempting, but I don’t really have the time.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:21 AM on April 23, 2018

Movie: A Quiet Place

I like how the basement whiteboard and newspaper clippings etc... are basically FPS enviromental lore dumps.

Particularly liked "WEAKNESS: ?????"

Turns out the answer was shotguns.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:32 PM on April 13, 2018

Not if you can’t rack them dramatically for the final shot.

(Which is something I liked immensely, but boy is this movie a weird mix off trying-to-be-artsy and total brainless cheese)
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:35 PM on April 13, 2018

It’ll be all about desperate searches for generator fuel to keep the CPAP machines going for snorers.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:51 PM on April 13, 2018

Best line.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:52 AM on April 18, 2018

Some kind of water storage this beasty messed up whilst freaking out?
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:11 PM on April 18, 2018

Does she even know it happened at that point? They have her looking away or distracted the first few times it happens.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:36 PM on April 19, 2018

Movie: Moana

We took our 5 year old and she was mostly okay with it, thougghvshe git scared and almost walked at some of the trailers. Probably wouldn't take a younger kid.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:28 AM on November 28, 2016

You're welcome.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:01 AM on November 28, 2016

Moana writers Q&A (podcast)
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:53 PM on December 28, 2016

I thi I it's more that they get to explore new places too, being voyagers again.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:32 PM on January 29, 2017

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Bombad Jedi

A tough sell. Toughest sell of all, really, in Star Wars terms. It ends up... not entirely horrible? It does not cause the entire animated franchise to burst into flames, at least.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:59 PM on December 25, 2016

Movie: Ghostbusters

On balance I think using it as they did worked out pretty well, but I've heard hints that it being filmed in the first place was at studio insistence and kind of contentious.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:41 PM on July 20, 2016

Just at a glance it seems to have done equivalently well to the other summer films in a year where no one summer film has really been the big one.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:46 PM on August 3, 2016