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@BradMichaelsson Agree with your points. I love Douglas, but the movie doesn't have that neon sleaze that Rourke could bring. Plus, it's directed by the wrong Scott brother. Although... I think Cimino dropped the ball on YOTD. Everything is primed, except for his execution of Stone's material.

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@joncassar "Forsaken" is one of my favourite westerns. It's just so good and I revisit it often. Should be discussed more. Great director and storyteller.

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@echo_coding @madcowpanzer Obi-Wan did go off world, though. Multiple times.

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@Moyer_the_Boyar Agreed. It needed to be more intimate and Herzog's performance was sufficient enough to cover all bases. In that scene alone, he conveys everything an audience needed to know. Bigger isn't always better. Thanks for sharing the post.

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@BasedPota18 Amazing. It's all there: The lighting, the framing, the emotion.

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@TSoS_ It looks beautiful with amazing lighting, but it's a ham-fisted redux of New Hope's Obi-Wan sacrifice. Plus, they let Chewie down with little emphasis on his mourning. Han is the emotional heart of TFA (and I really like the movie) and the subsequent two suffer because of it.

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@filmingwanderer TLJ is a good looking movie with a muddled narrative. 80% "let the Jedi end" with a 20% final coda of "Hey, the Jedi are cool and anyone can be one". RJ wanted his cake and eat it. Plus, if everyone is a Jedi, then nobody is.

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@SithZealot Sure, they could have produced a "one-shot" where we see Obi-Wan learn to commune with Qui-Gon and develop a strategy to protect Luke - make it more about the Force. But even then, OB's story isn't about him anymore. It's setting up the OT.

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@SithZealot Appreciate your opinion but have to disagree. There was little reason for it to exist. Following ROTS, Obi-Wan was in exile to protect the child. That's his only mandate. There was no other story other than to reflect and protect.

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@TSoS_ Absolutely. Ford slips back into the role like a glove and his interactions with Chewie were lovely. Shame TFA didn't bring the entire OT gang back together, though. Even for one scene. Would have been the aces.

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@sw_holocron It's got some amazing stuff: Kamino, Geonosis, the bewildering scene between Dooku and Obi-Wan, the opening chase on Coruscant... but also a bungled love story which really hampers the emotional wallop. Whatever, I still love it. And this.
https://t.co/pOnGxcbaAJ

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@Thebagmanuk @StarWarsDaily_ Fair enough, but Vader's comment in Star Wars gives the impression of a greater time lapse... like they hadn't met since Mustafar...

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@CopaExMachina In older action movies, it was always the heroes' odyssey - broken/traumatised at first, then tasked with getting back into the saddle to right a wrong, etc. They took you with them through the movie. Now, it appears Hollywood is embarrassed and would rather mock. Shame.

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@Firstscreamto I had the UK quad on my wall when I was a kid. That and this video cover blew my tiny mind back in the day. So colourful and garish. They fed my imagination for ages! Graham made those finger knives feel really dangerous.

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@Firstscreamto Agreed, the eye roll adds a real dark sense of the weird and elevates the atmosphere/fear of dread. You can tell Savini has seen things in his life and it's detailed in his art. 'Day of the Dead' always sticks with me for the same reason. Almost like he is exorcising a demon.

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@Firstscreamto Part 2 will always have my heart, but yes - this one is soooooooo brutal and really delivers on the premise. An all-timer, for sure.