I heard that too saving it for a movie night option with the kid that we all can tolerate.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising is a mostly acceptable action movie, but it failed Geography class.
Only one of the Kaiju could have possibly passed through Tokyo, and even then, it wouldnât have been anywhere near the life-sized Gundam in Odaiba. And even assuming they passed through Neo-Hyper-City-Tokyo, itâs 100km from downtown Tokyo (where the fight âtook placeâ) to Mt. Fuji, and itâdâve take the final Kaiju more than a few minutes to lope over there.
My wife and I went to see the new Jurassic World. It was kind of terrible plot wise, everyone does dumb shit and they have the OH NO THE DINOSAUR IS COMING RIGHT FOR US QUICK CLOSE THE DOOR OH NO THE DOOR IS STUCK! bit like fifty times. HOWEVER. The dinosaur on dinosaur violence is super cool and the main draw of the movie IMO.
So itâs kind of like the Transformers movies where they would have been infinitely better if they hadnât included humans and just focused on robot vs robot violence?
Yes, precisely. Also this gives me the best idea to make a movie of nothing but dinosaur vs. robot violence.
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I have practically nothing to do today, and went to see Sicario 2 at an early showing. It was good. Didnât have much of a message, even given how topical the ground it covers is, but the movie was filled with good acting, good action, good drama. I was entertained.
I also had my wifeâs moviepass on me, and could have walked right from Sicario 2 into Jurassic World 2 for free, and I just couldnât bear to do it.
Thatâs basically Pacific Rim though. The kaiju arenât much more than extra large dinosaurs for the most part.
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A very good point my friend. Still there should be more dumb movies like that.
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Went to go see Oceanâs 8 with Tallas. Was expecting a fun heist film, witty banter, and celebrities getting paid lots of money to hang out.
I got exactly what I was expecting and enjoyed it.
Once Upon a Time in the West â As a Morricone fan, when I heard one of the local art theaters was having a showing, I made sure to be there. Fantastic score, obviously. Part of what makes it work so well is how the jarring, diagetic harmonica interrupts every scene itâs in. We hear it because the protagonist is playing it and the other characters are hearing it, and theyâre either confused or initiating a fight/flight response. There are complaints that the movie is too slow, but maybe thatâs more of a problem for repeated viewings.
The Matrix â On the big screen. Still pretty goddamn fantastic. The only thing that struck me this viewing is how terrible Trinityâs dialog is for the âI love youâ scene. Sheâs a badass and has badass dialog everywhere else, but at the climax of the movie we get the dumbest wording ever. I wanted an Trinity-flavored version of Han Soloâs âI know.â
Solo â Mostly action set pieces with some funny bits. I cared more about Lando and L3 than whoever I was supposed to care about.
Solo, minor spoiler
Is this the first time droids-as-slaves was directly addressed in the movies? Since A New Hope and the jawas?
Minor spoiler answer - Maybe
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It was slightly addressed in Rogue One when K-2SO talks about not being allowed to have a blaster, but thatâs also because K-2SO used to be an emperial droid. We saw droids with weapons in the prequels, but not since. Maybe everyone, including the empire, decided it was a bad idea after the fall of the republic for some reason?
Really, almost everything relating to droids is very unexplained in Star Wars. How do they even work? Who made them? Where is the Droid factory?
Not going to spoiler this as it is about what happened in the prequel trilogy, but keep in mind that many of the Separatistsâ troops in the prequels consisted of armed droids.
I saw Oceanâs 8 over the weekend. I thought it was OK. There was nothing particularly bad about the movie, but there was nothing particularly great about it either. All the various actors and actresses were adequate, but something just seemed to be missing. I think they were let down by the script more than they did a bad job acting. The movie just seemed like it was very paint by numbers.
Thinking about it some more, maybe this is an unfair comparison, but the two biggest areas that I feel Oceanâs 8 pales compared to Oceanâs 11 is the main antagonist and the relationship between the two leads and the members of the âcrew.â
In Oceanâs 11, Andy Garcia is a great villain and antagonist. Heâs more than just an asshole and the audience canât wait for him to get his comeuppance. Plus, heâs the target of the heist and the target of Dannyâs revenge. He makes for a compelling bad guy. In Oceanâs 8, on the other hand, Richard Armitage just canât pull off being the villain the way Garcia does. I know thereâs a whole elaborate backstory as to why they target him, but at the same time, he just seems like a jerk pretty boy. He didnât exude any of the gravitas or malevolence that Andy Garcia did. Plus, he wasnât really integral to the plot the way Andy Garciaâs character was, owning the casinos that were being targeted.
As for the two leads and the crew in general, while Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett were both good, As I wrote above, I felt like the script and the material let them down. They just didnât have that bond or that witty banter that George Clooney and Brad Pitt had in Oceanâs 11. Oceanâs 8 just seemed to be missing some of the little touches that Oceanâs 11 had, like Brad Pittâs character eating something in almost every scene he was in.
Also, the crew in Oceanâs 11 felt like a family. Clooney was the âmomâ while Pitt was the âdad,â and thereâs this long running gag that everyone has more confidence in Pittâs character than Clooneyâs and that they didnât want to be called âOceanâs 11,â that he wasnât the boss. You didnât have any of that in Oceanâs 8. Maybe it was because in Oceanâs 11, the characters knew each other to some degree before they all get together, either personally, or by reputation, while in Oceanâs 8, all the characters are virtual strangers and unknowns to each other. In Oceanâs 11, there was a shared history that they built off of. In Oceanâs 8, there was none of that.
Overall, if Oceanâs 8 is on Netflix, give it a watch if you want. But I wouldnât pay full price to see it in the theaters.
The probe droid on Hoth had a blaster, and iirc IG-88 is shown holding guns in Empire so at least some droids have guns. According to the now non-canon novels droids are made all over the place but thereâs a few companies that have entire factory planets dedicated to making droids. Canât remember the names off the top of my head.
Ooh, youâre right. Itâs not very powerful though.
We also learn that
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The millenium falconâs nav computer is a droid AI.
Why isnât every Star Destroyer actually a Droid? Why isnât the Death Star a droid? People wonât need to do any space fighting or piloting if every ship has an AI like The Culture.
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The millenium falconâs nav computer is a droid AI.
Why isnât every Star Destroyer actually a Droid? Why isnât the Death Star a droid? People wonât need to do any space fighting or piloting if every ship has an AI like The Culture.
Novel spoilers
That was actually a big deal in the IG-88 novella. IG-88 wanted to and almost succeeded in inserting its AI into the Death Star II so it could use it to kill all organic life in the galaxy and create a droid utopia.
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Dang, that would have been a compelling plot thread to toss into RotJ.
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In the recent Darth Vader comics by Kieron Gillen, Dr. Aphra and Darth Vader by extension, have two droids that are kind of the âevil versionsâ of C3PO and R2D2. Triple Zero looks like a protocol droid, but heâs actually an assassin/torture droid. BT-1 looks like a normal astromech droid, but heâs armed to the teeth. Both go around wanting to kill pretty much every human they come across.
I thought it would have actually made a cool side movie like Solo or Rogue One, or even a trilogy. We beat the Empire but OH NO THEIR ROGUE AI STARTED A DROID REBELLION AND ITS KICKING OUR ASSES!
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Can an AI be strong in the force?