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challenge_hanukkah 22 Oct 2019 07:26:42 14,394 posts
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Are John Boyega and Denzel related?

beastmaster 22 Oct 2019 07:41:10 22,373 posts
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nickthegun wrote:
Source? Because that feels like bullshit

Hmm..it’s from Deadline and it’s for Atom tickets and not Fandango. Also first hour. Still not bad though.

https://deadline.com/2019/10/star-wars-rising-skywalker-pre-sales-nearly-double-avengers-engame-1202765636/

Edit: No news on UK tickets but it’s going to be today at some point. Was looking at the last Vue tweet about the film and some dude said he’d been constantly refreshing the website since 5:30am. No not me. Bound to be some nerd rage later today.

Edited by beastmaster at 07:48:42 22-10-2019

Tonka 22 Oct 2019 07:54:41 31,979 posts
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Not enough cute animals

Saul_Iscariot 22 Oct 2019 08:02:57 4,399 posts
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05:30? Fucking lightweight, I have been checking since 02:30. Mind you, I work night shift and a lot of Septics had been posting their tickets at Docking Bay 94 and I was getting some serious envy too go with the semi that the trailer gave me.

beastmaster 22 Oct 2019 09:36:44 22,373 posts
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Tickets on sale now. No problem booking mine.

Deleted user 22 October 2019 09:43:14

beastmaster wrote:
Tickets on sale now. No problem booking mine.

??? why would you have trouble booking???

JamboWayOh 22 Oct 2019 09:44:26 25,236 posts
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beastmaster wrote:
Tickets on sale now. No problem booking mine.

I'm confused, is the film having an extremely limited showing?

mrpon 22 Oct 2019 09:47:26 37,366 posts
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Graxlar_v3 wrote:

beastmaster wrote:
Tickets on sale now. No problem booking mine.
??? why would you have trouble booking???

It's tricky pressing the keys in your Ewok costume.

beastmaster 22 Oct 2019 10:06:24 22,373 posts
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mrpon wrote:

Graxlar_v3 wrote:

beastmaster wrote:
Tickets on sale now. No problem booking mine.
??? why would you have trouble booking???
It's tricky pressing the keys in your Ewok costume.

Don't you remember the internet rage of cinema websites crashing for the two previous Star Wars films? Same thing happened for Endgame. It was reported everywhere as well.It went fucking nuts.

Could be the cinemas have upped their game on the server front or (shock!) there's less demand to see this film. There's also the time as well. They went on sale at 9am with no previous warning whereas the last ones they announced the time and date a few days in advance.

Deleted user 22 October 2019 10:10:12

beastmaster wrote:

mrpon wrote:

Graxlar_v3 wrote:

beastmaster wrote:
Tickets on sale now. No problem booking mine.
??? why would you have trouble booking???
It's tricky pressing the keys in your Ewok costume.

Don't you remember the internet rage of cinema websites crashing for the two previous Star Wars films? Same thing happened for Endgame. It was reported everywhere as well.It went fucking nuts.

Could be the cinemas have upped their game on the server front or (shock!) there's less demand to see this film. There's also the time as well. They went on sale at 9am with no previous warning whereas the last ones they announced the time and date a few days in advance.

Nope, i really don't remember that, guess then that Episode 9 is shit then.

BreadBinLidHero 22 Oct 2019 10:20:16 10,801 posts
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mrpon wrote:

Graxlar_v3 wrote:

beastmaster wrote:
Tickets on sale now. No problem booking mine.
??? why would you have trouble booking???
It's tricky pressing the keys in your Ewok costume.

Glol

the_milkybar_kid 22 Oct 2019 11:35:54 8,474 posts
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Trailer did absolutely nothing for me. How they can club together a story from the dangling turd they're taking off from doesn't leave me with much hope. The fact the bought Palpatine back says enough. I don't buy that he was planned to be part of the plot years ago to be honest.

All a bit of a mess really.

Edited by the_milkybar_kid at 11:36:21 22-10-2019

Rogueywon 22 Oct 2019 11:42:13 12,387 posts
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My excitement level is now on a par with that which accompanies realising that the arrival of the quarterly office stationary order is just days away. And I'm not even talking about one of the big orders with the huge staples.

Edited by Rogueywon at 11:42:32 22-10-2019

JamboWayOh 22 Oct 2019 11:47:14 25,236 posts
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I'm going to watch it obviously but I have no overwhelming excitement for it nor an urge to book tickets for it 2 months in advance.

Edited by JamboWayOh at 11:47:36 22-10-2019

Malek86 22 Oct 2019 11:50:10 12,331 posts
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the_milkybar_kid wrote:
Trailer did absolutely nothing for me. How they can club together a story from the dangling turd they're taking off from doesn't leave me with much hope. The fact the bought Palpatine back says enough. I don't buy that he was planned to be part of the plot years ago to be honest.

All a bit of a mess really.

It's not like writing as it goes is uncommon. I mean, look at the old trilogy too. A new Death Star? Where did that come from? I'm sure it wasn't planned like that from the start.

But since I don't feel any attachment to any of the new characters, I don't really feel excited about this movie either. Just about the one thing I can look forward to is whether the droids are only there for comic relief or if they will have any real impact.

BinaryBob101 22 Oct 2019 12:07:11 27,755 posts
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It looks fucking gorgeous, but then so did TFA and TLJ.

There's no way it can end in a satisfactory way though.

It'll be a bit crap, be reviewed very well. Fans will rip it apart. Scorcese will say it's not cinematic. Feige will rescue it all. Until the cycle repeats again.

Just bored AF of commercial cinema and the machine.

Rogueywon 22 Oct 2019 12:15:20 12,387 posts
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I expect the normal reception for new Star Wars movies, where an initially positive reception sours rapidly in the following weeks. Hell, a lot of people quite liked the prequels on first viewing. When I saw Ep7, I loved it at first, but when I rewatched the Blu-Ray release downgraded it to "decent". When I saw Ep8 for the first time, I thought it was boring. On rewatch, I downgraded that to "utter toss".

elstoof 22 Oct 2019 12:20:07 28,125 posts
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Guarantee I’ll be about to rock up to the local Everyman at 1pm on the 21st, buy a ticket at the door and sit in a mostly empty cinema to watch this just like every other film I go to watch

Rogueywon 22 Oct 2019 12:24:48 12,387 posts
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Depending on length, I may wait for the home release. Anything over 2 hours in a cinema these days makes me grumpy. Skipped the cinema release for IT Part 2 on that basis.

JoelStinty 22 Oct 2019 12:32:40 9,530 posts
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Well I’m looking forward to it. Probably catch it on the Saturday though

Deleted user 22 October 2019 12:32:56

Still better than the prequels

d_h1234 22 Oct 2019 13:05:45 298 posts
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Malek86 wrote:

the_milkybar_kid wrote:
Trailer did absolutely nothing for me. How they can club together a story from the dangling turd they're taking off from doesn't leave me with much hope. The fact the bought Palpatine back says enough. I don't buy that he was planned to be part of the plot years ago to be honest.

All a bit of a mess really.
It's not like writing as it goes is uncommon. I mean, look at the old trilogy too. A new Death Star? Where did that come from? I'm sure it wasn't planned like that from the start.

But since I don't feel any attachment to any of the new characters, I don't really feel excited about this movie either. Just about the one thing I can look forward to is whether the droids are only there for comic relief or if they will have any real impact.

That's what I always think of when people say George Lucas is some sort of visionary genius, and had everything planned out to the last bit. He always knew Vader was Luke's father, he wanted the whole arc to be about Vader's redemption, etc. etc.

It's such bollocks, they were all making it up as they went and Lucas probably didn't even know people would love the film so much. Especially considering what we've seen him do with unlimited money and time (prequels).

disusedgenius 22 Oct 2019 13:10:05 10,677 posts
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I'll probably try to catch it opening night again. This film also looks like a right mess but it was great fun watching all the shitty takes coming in the week after TLJs release.

Rogueywon 22 Oct 2019 13:40:28 12,387 posts
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@d_h1234 Hah, they even had an alternate scope all ready for a lower-budget sequel to A New Hope, in case it only managed a middling commercial performance. Got rid of almost all of the expensive space stuff in favour of a more Indiana Jones-style adventure (and with a cheaper cast).

The alternative treatment was novelised as Splinter of the Mind's Eye and it should still be possible to track it down, if you want to try an alternate version of Star Wars where Luke and Leia weren't related.

BinaryBob101 22 Oct 2019 14:38:20 27,755 posts
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Written by Alan Dean Foster - loved that book as a kid. Yeah it's still on amazon.

Derblington 22 Oct 2019 14:42:02 35,161 posts
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d_h1234 wrote:
It's such bollocks, they were all making it up as they went and Lucas probably didn't even know people would love the film so much. Especially considering what we've seen him do with unlimited money and time (prequels).

True and false.
Obviously he couldn't predict the success and that led to new ideas taking shape, but he had an outline that served as the base core of the story - the details do change over time.

Same with the new trilogy - he provided a treatment of the trilogy to Disney but they chose not to stick with it (though used elements).

Edited by Derblington at 14:42:59 22-10-2019

Load_2.0 22 Oct 2019 14:56:37 33,582 posts
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Fucking Space Wizards.

The last film made me vomit so hard I almost passed out in the foyer.

I'm going to take an anti-nausea tablets in the queue for the midnight premiere of this new one.

mrpon 22 Oct 2019 14:58:20 37,366 posts
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Fainting in the queue y'say?

beastmaster 22 Oct 2019 15:22:46 22,373 posts
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The Critical Drinker is very critical.

Rhaegyr 22 Oct 2019 15:33:10 5,499 posts
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I was really looking forward to this (really enjoyed TLJ) but all the trailers I've seen and things I've read seem to be appeasing the fans who've been 'disgusted' by TLJ ever since it released, Wwich is a damn shame as I thought it was the best Star Wars film since Empire.

It'll just be another Marvel-like film now, snore.

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