most "film buffs" I talk to tend to take the piss out of it, and I just don't see why. I found it freakin' stellar. So much fan service in there that fans "didn't know they wanted". My best friend hates TLJ, and thinks TROS was an apology for it, but that guy also likes Transformers, so he's a lost cause really.

The thing about TLJ is that is split the fanbase almost right down the middle. It's almost a perfect 50/50 for the love/hate relationship about it. I get the hate, but at the same time, what the fuck did you want, really? You want ANH/ESB/ROTJ again? Just go watch those.

Although, it should be mentioned that said best friend thinks that ROTS is the best in the series, so his opinion is pretty much invalid.

Disclaimer: I like ROTS just fine. It's arguably the strongest of its trilogy. But I have a weak spot for TPM( I watched it in the theaters at 13, and I still like it), so it's hard to admit ROTS being better.
AOTC is pretty bad though.

But at the end of the day, I guess I just appreciate all of them. For what they are. "kids" movies. TLJ was trying damn hard NOT to be that, and I think it succeeded, but some of my friends just wants that infamou "Star Wars" back, and are not able to comprehend that the series didn't grow with us, they were made for 3 different generations, and I think they all managed to do that just fine.

I find TROS to be a good ending to the saga. Sure, it could've been better, but it could've been so, so much worse. At the end of a 42 year run, you want to close it as safe as possible, trying to please the new and old fans, and I think JJ did a damn good job out of it. There are so many options he could've used, so many plot lines, so many chances, but in the end, he did what he did with TFA; played it safe, with a few twists. He did good. He didn't do excellent, but he did good.

thanks guys!
You can now find us on all your music providers.
Fold Decay - Flesh/wound should now be your favorite tune

It's actually blues-ish.

I'll post the dry tracks if you want them.

well, to be fair, that's also way, way before the internet was even a conceivable idea, and where you could even change the spoken language at the touch of a button. Back then, the odds of a movie trailer hitting you, was as big as the odds of you visiting your local theatre, and that they would have that specific trailer film.

I mean, that's a great poster and all, but I get why it's not standard anymore.

doesn't look random, really.

4K HDR. Man I love that shit.
I mean, say what you will about Film vs Video, etc.
But holy cow. I upgraded my netflix just to watch Stranger Things 2/3 in HDR, and my, that shit is off the hook. I got an HDR 4K TV primarily because of games, but HDR is pretty damn awesome!

as to the latest movie I watched? I guess that'd have to be "The Wandering Earth" on Netflix.
Now, that is probably the coolest thing I've watched in ages. It isn't good. It's surprisingly mediocre, but it's a spectactle well worth the time, and while the physics and story don't make sense at all, it's a well made movie I'd highly recommend, if only for the visuals!

I don't know if this counts as dubious. I'm in a band. We played covers. Then we made our own music.
This is the first time we performed an original song infront of a live audience.
It's called "Flesh/Wound", and falls in the hard rock category.
That's me singing.

http://www.facebook.com/folddecay/video … 334177552/

Would be cool if y'all hit that like button. But only if you actually like it. If you click it and didn't, I'll know!

Yes. All the yes.

But.

Remember that kids these days didn't grow up with cartoons, and more likely cartoons will be a niche product. I don't like that fact at all, but it's how it might come to pass. As such, getting some classics like Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, will, if not be as great as their cartoon counterparts, at least have a younger audience grow up with great Disney stories, and be just as nostalgic about those in 20 years.
It's not a bad thing, really. It's just that we grew up with what we now call masterpieces, the same way they will grow up with what they might come to call masterpieces in the future.

The problem I have with these remakes is not that they suck. I still haven't watched a single one of them, and I don't think I will, but they're just remakes. Taking the same story, and in some cases, the same voices(I'm looking at you, James Earl Jones), and the same music, and just applying it to a live-action or CG film instead. I'm not opposed to the idea, I just don't understand why it's neccessary to remake a film at all, unless it's something that clearly didn't have the budget to be what it wanted to be 30 years ago, and now is done "correctly". Most of these Disney classics didn't lack the budget per se, but were animated for reasons. Now, they have the budget they "deserved" back in the day, and that leads us to live-action or CG. Which is probably what they would've done 20+ years ago, if the tech was there, and we'd probably love it as much now as we did then if they did.
Toy Story is a great example, because it was what, 3 years after the Lion King, and a CG film. It did amazing back in the day, but we're not remaking it now looking better, because it was CG as good as they could back then, and while the sequels are not needed, they do get more impressive, technically each time.

I don't know. I don't have a problem with remakes, I just tend to not watch them. But I'm happy the next generation will, because they may not watch the older movies simply "because they're old". I'm quoting my 13 year old son here, who was hesitant to watch Back to the Future because it was old(but loved them), and if that's anything to go by, it's nice to know that even though our future generations may not watch what we did, they'll still love the stories they told, through a new media.

Jaysus, that's fuckin' dark.

I'll tell you what I think. I'm really excited for this, I really am!

But I live in Norway.