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that whole line kinda wtf's the whole jedi in those movies...
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I thought the rule of two wasn't a hard rule but one the sith lords bent or played fast and loose with quite frequently. I mean Palpy had Inquisitors who were basically junior sith lords, one of whom I'm sure would've taken Vader's spot in the event Vader died. Then in EU there's a mention that Maul was Palpy's secret apprentice whilst Palpy was still serving Plagueis, though that's not been confirmed onscreen. Not too mention Tyrannus was training Ventriss and later Savage. Also Vader was secretly training Starkiller to be his own sith apprentice. And I'm pretty sure he wanted Luke to become his apprentice as well.
I think rule of two is something Bane created to help consolidate his power and limit sith order infighting, but it was never meant to be followed super-strictly.
I'm more curious about their personalities and plotlines, if it mirrors anything like this last trilogy.
I just watched Serenity.
I gave it less stars than ROS but I think I enjoyed it more.
Serenity is heartbreaking for better reasons.
Are we talking about the same Serenity (2019)?
My kid sent me these:
Here's what I've been told from a source that worked on TROS. : saltierthancrait
Some Clarifications About My TROS Post and a Statement From My Source. : saltierthancrait
If you have been wondering what's up with the "JJ Cut" meme, this series of reddit dumps explains why one exists (three hours) and how Disney interfered with the film during production and as released, it sounds like they completely messed with the film, jiggered all the editing to hell, and excised 40 minutes of content and recut things to make no sense. IOW, it sounds pretty much like what rolled out.
The credibility factor for me is simply that I had trouble recognizing this as an Abrams film because of how amateur the story and cut was. Abrams has flaws we have discussed in this thread, but I have never seen him put together a poorly edited and frankly incoherent film like this one. Even his other film I hate (STID) pissed me off not because it was incoherent but because it was a cheap copy of ST2 and deadened the impact of that film. He typically does not make incoherent films, he can just enact a disappointing vision depending on his writing team. Also, we know the editing was done in a completely amateur/rushed fashion, during shooting, from the other article I posted based on comments by the actual editor who has done other films for Abrams. The vision described in these reddit posts and Abrams' disappointments with the released product sound more like what I would expect. It's really obvious how different even TFA is from TROS in terms of professional quality, TFA's sin was in trying to recreate ANH but it was still very coherent and with proper editing and arcing.
It looks like The Mouse might have fucked us all over.
And screw KK if she is the one who insisted on Reylo. Even the implementation was terrible.
I'm also wondering how much of TLJ pushback resulted in Disney becoming psychotically controlling on this release and completely shitting all over their own film rather than trusting Abrams.
Maybe they'll release an extended director's cut at some point. I think they owe it to the audience.
Disney is psychoticaly ravenous with their "vault" their profit margins would have to be really affected for them to shell out a "we made a mistake" cutI'm more cynical about Disney than most though so grain of salt.
Disney is psychoticaly ravenous with their "vault" their profit margins would have to be really affected for them to shell out a "we made a mistake" cutI'm more cynical about Disney than most though so grain of salt.
They don't have to market it as such, they can just call it the extended cut, sort of like we've seen with a lot of previous fantasy and sci-fi films like The Lord of the rings trilogy extended DVDs/Blu Rays. All they need to say is that it was too long a cut to release for theatrical audiences. Besides, you know they'd make a shit load of money off such a cut released as a "special edition" or however they want to label it. Oliver Stone has released like a zillion cuts of Alexander, almost enough to rival all of the various cuts of Blade Runner.
Christ, this is the same company that put out multiple versions of the Tron Legacy soundtrack and on top of that made like half of the score available as extra tracks you had to purchase after already buying the CD of the soundtrack album, when all of the commercially released music could have fit onto one CD in the first place. They have proven in the past they don't mind releasing blatant cash grab products as long as people are willing to shell out money.
So sure, I don't see why it would be a problem to first release a theatrical cut on Blu, then later put out extended cuts of the new trilogy. I'd consider buying extended cuts if they were actually going to be improvements on the theatrical versions.
This is a company for whom branding means more than R&D to Weyland yutani.
For a company that cares so much about branding, releasing a subpar cut of a film into theatres to fuck over the director and chopping up soundtracks so consumers have to not only buy the CD but go and purchase the rest of it as "bonus tracks" from multiple different streaming services certainly doesn't help their brand look better.