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[Matthew @starmattwars]

@westerosies Brilliantly shot. Beautiful music. Bafflingly stupid. There would've been a revolt on a massive scale, smallfolk and knights tearing the Red Keep apart. The Reach lords, led by Lord Hightower, would march down the Rose Road with vengeance. Cersei would be dead within the month.

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@Mr_Rebs_ If there's no photo mode or theatre and they won't appear in the cutscenes, then why on earth would they spend precious time and resources adding skins you can't even see??? What is wrong with these idiots? Like, why not swap out some of the Infinite models for faithful CE ones?

[Joel @PoorlyAgedWho]

RTD went on that radio show to promote Tip Toe, fucking beaming and saying there was an exciting press release in the pipeline, only for it to be that him and his mates had high tailed it and that the show is over

The fucking nerve.

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@Halo_VFX @Halo Apart from the fact it sounds absolutely nothing like him, David Scully hasn't voice acted since 2013 and according to Steve Downes has retired. Just makes it all the more baffling as to why they're focusing so much on him when so much of Johnsons charm is the voice acting.

[Rube M @art_rube]

I love when ppl whip out doom eternals millenial unicorn skins as a defense as if that wasnt in a content rich, anticipated and well recieved new release - not the second outsourced attempt at remaking half of a 25 year old game

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@quinnthegm This is good news! Exactly what I was hoping for from the play. I'm lucky enough to have got tickets and I can't wait. Genuinely more excited about this than the TV shows. These quotes make me hopeful that they will do George justice. RSC brings a certain standard, too. 🤞

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@CriticlessBA Weird how you only name Kathleen and not Dave and Jon who actually wrote and shot this slop and have been producing low effort nostalgia bait trash for a while now. She's not been great but I'm tired of people singling her out like there aren't so many others to blame.

[#HYFR @bxns_hyfr]

The UK used to have starter jobs everywhere.

Bars, retail, waiting jobs, high streets hiring constantly.

You could walk into a shop or bar and start next week.

Now 300 people are applying for one Tesco shift.

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@harrystark96 @evolved117 The original Halo CE remaster was also outsourced to another studio. 😐

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@PutYourPinkyUp I never realised it until today, but if I hadn't actually (painfully) watched this show, I'd say this whole fight was AI-generated, lmao. How did anyone think this was okay to release?

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@gordsqueen I've worked part time, shops warehouse, etc. I volunteer at a well known local museum. I'm 2 years graduated with a software engineering degree that everybody everywhere told me would be the best thing to do. There's nothing. I'm stuck in the experience paradox. I can't get any.

[The Sietch of Sci-Fi | @TSoS_]

#TheMandalorianAndGrogu is the most meaningless project Star Wars has ever seen; a movie corporately engineered not to ruffle anyone's feathers. Wholly inconsequential, its persistent commitment to being inoffensive has become its greatest offense. It evades being a complete narrative failure by having no narrative at all and unlike Season 3 of this once beloved series, the movie sidesteps mischaracterising beloved characters by not characterising them in any way.

As Mando and Grogu tediously drag themselves from Point A to Point B and occasionally find out they should actually head to Point C instead, we learn nothing new about them. Din Djarin's journey towards becoming a walking action figure has finally been completed. I have never seen a lead character this fundamentally boring and utterly charmless. He barely speaks and even when he does, he never has anything important to say. He goes through no character arc, we learn nothing new about him and at the end of the story, he remains wholly unchanged.

The few conversations we get between our "characters" - most of whom are puppets or CGI creatures - showcase Jon Favreau's dialogue, which is so bad, it makes even George Lucas most hated Prequel scenes sound like they were written by Tony Gilroy. With almost no story to tell and characters who have nothing to say - the most insight into their psyche is Rotta telling you how hard it is to make a name for himself as Jabba the Hutt's Nepo baby - the movie instead pivots to heavy use of action sequences.

A few of them have genuinely entertaining moments, but most of them are far too long and utterly boring. Many of the fights feel completely weightless and oddly stilted; I have never witnessed an action movie with this little sense of momentum, which is strange, considering Favreau once shot Iron Man.

There is a single sequence in this movie that actually evoked the magical feeling of watching a Star Wars movie. For roughly 20 minutes, Grogu has to do things on his own and the puppetry, cinematography, music as well as the visual storytelling and gags go hand in hand to create a memorable, incredibly beautiful sequence. Had the entire movie been like it, I would be singing its praises. Alas, all good things have to end, as the movie plods forward to its boring finale where nothing remotely interesting happens. The focus on Mando and Grogu's father-son relationship feels strangely secondary to this movie; even after Grogu saves his father's life in a way that shows how much the child has learned, it is barely acknowledged in favour of quickly throwing our heroes back into action.

Everyone is really just...there. Embo is there, as is Garazeb Orellios. Colonel Ward - played by a bored looking Sigourney Weaver who completely phones it in here - gets roughly five minutes as the questmaster of Mando's story and has little influence on the plot. The villains are boring, one dimensional and unmemorable and disappear from the story for long stretches of time. Their motivations are either boring or nonexistent, but its no surprise in a story that really has nothing to say. If you're hoping for any insight into the New Republic and Imperial Remnant, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Though the cinematography sometimes evokes the feeling of being in a galaxy far, far away with, a few great establishing shots and a few interesting places (Nal Hutta was gorgeous!), this film still looks like a TV production far too often; utterly baffling considering the rumoured 166 million dollar budget. (Denis Villeneuve made Dune: Part One for the same price!)

There is a crowd of unequivocally positive people who are already defending this as "a fun summer blockbuster" that you should not care to dissect. Afterall, "Star Wars is just for kids!" These poor excuses for an inherently bad movie are especially funny, considering this kids' franchise started with movies so well made, they became the gold-standard for blockbusters.
3.5/10

[Warhorse Studios @WarhorseStudios]

You might have heard the rumours, it's time to reveal what we are working on.

🗺️ An open world Middle-earth RPG.
⚔️ A new Kingdom Come adventure.

We’re excited to tell you more when the time is right.

#WarhorseStudios #Annoucement #lotr #KingdomComeDeliverance

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@MaceAhWindu I get goosebumps every time. I remember sitting through the credits, contemplating what I'd just watched, and as it transitioned, I just shouted, "WHAT!" and teared up. Out of all the spin-off shows, this one more than earns the right to John Williams' main theme. Perfection!

[Cllr Lee Scordis @LScordis]

Hi Russell, considering I am the only Labour Councillor on the authority and I was not at the induction (as I have been here 9 years), this is a complete lie and a breach of standards @reformexposed

[Remnicore @Remnicore_]

You WILL wait 3.5 years for 8 more episodes.

They WILL range from painfully mid to awful.

You WILL clap when digitally de-aged Ewan McGregor dawns his Clone Wars armor and says “Hello there” in a flashback.

You WILL NOT cancel your Disney+ subscription when the season ends.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You can’t really argue this. They believe in investing in the people and infrastructure.

[Matthew @starmattwars]

@SirSnipeyy Oh fuck off they will won't they? Gonna have Thrawn coming out of the shadows or turning in a chair like Thanos 😂. I'm so apathetic about this shit. Everything Dave and Jon have worked on recently has been meh fan-service slop. Hope it's good though, but not holding my breath.

[High King Fëanor - Alpha Chad of Middle-earth @LostHistory9]

So let's break this down:

Sauron, in the canon, teaches the elves ring lore, and they forge the 9 and the 7. Then Sauron leaves and heads back to Mordor. Celebrimbor begins to worry, and so he forges the 3 rings as a failsafe. Then Sauron forges the One Ring, and all hell breaks loose. Eregion is sacked. The 3 rings are hidden, and the War of the Elves and Sauron gets underway.

In the show, Sauron teaches Celebrimbor....Master smith Celebrimbor....about alloys...then Celebrimbor forges the 3 rings....then Sauron leaves and willingly becomes an orc prisoner...then he comes back to Celebrimbor, and Celebrimbor forges the 9 and 7. Then Sauron makes Celebrimbor hallucinate while the sack of Eregion is taking place....then Sauron leaves with the rings....and he still hasn't forged the One Ring yet.....and now he's going to be creating the Nazgul with the 9 rings....all while still trying to prosecute his war against the elves that he didn't even really start...Again, I must reiterate...he hasn't forged the One Ring yet.

This show is very dumb.