Larry_O

It’ll work.

It’ll work

I am so happy to see this man getting his bag.

I’m super-curious as to whether it’s just flashbacks (I believe that will also be happening in Kenobi, as well as him in the suit) or if he’s actually going to be appearing as an apparition to Ahsoka.

Also: I know it’s simply a matter of time healing wounds, and the 20-year nostalgia cycle locking into place for revisiting stuff like this, but also: I really do believe a lot of the goodwill and reappraisal of the Prequel Trilogy is happening as sort of an after-effect of the prequels becoming nuclear-grade meme fodder. Like – the movies are still pretty terribly made movies by any metric, although if you grade on a Star Wars curve they upgrade to mediocre-to-poor. But the good feels that the best memes offer up have sort of transferred onto the movies themselves. To where people are watching the movies and not just getting the lizard-brain pleasure center hit of "OH, THAT’S WHERE THAT COMES FROM" and "OH, I RECOGNIZE THAT FROM THAT ONE THING" but also keeping in mind the residual happiness and familiarity they have with the characters FROM their second life as ongoing memes.

It’s fascinating, a little weird, kinda janky, and charming in its own way. Which is a lot of why Star Wars is so appealing to folks, honestly. So I guess it fits.

Anyway – really happy to see Hayden get that bag. Can’t wait to see him in Kenobi, and now this.

What Rudish & Co. have been doing with Mickey is nothing short of a miracle. Even when I was little I was never really a Mickey guy, but I can mainline those shorts into my eyes all damn day. And it feels like each one has minimum five laugh-out-loud visual gags in them.

I really, really fucking hope that it is just this weird, hyper-violent mess

This is basically like hoping a Star Wars movie will have outer space in it. You’re in luck! Because weird, hyper-violent messes are basically all Michael Bay ever makes!

This article is AMAZING. Thanks for this.

And not to minimize the amount of work that went into posting this by making a sideways comment that doesn’t really recognize the quality of the piece entire, but:

A Snow White/Disney Princesses fighting game would be a day-one purchase on whatever platform it lands on.

I didn’t badmouth them at all! I just said this movie looks more like THOSE than it does Heat!

(Three Fugitives is mostly just ok at best, but there’s a few legitimate laughs in there, next to some unintentional ones – but my memories of The Chase are that it’s honestly a very entertaining B-picture)

I’m also curious to see the response to your question! But (and I hope this doesn’t derail things too much on that note) I do want to sort of sidetrack for a bit and address this bit:

People digest things in different ways (I’m probably one of the few that DOESN’T think that Endgame is the greatest superhero movie of all time),

I was unaware this was a widely-held viewpoint! I was under the impression that even with Endgame being the highest grossing film of all time, most folks still don’t consider it the best in the genre. I personally go with Into the Spider-Verse on that note (with the Incredibles just behind it), but from my experience it seems like most people still tend to settle on The Dark Knight as the consensus "best Superhero Film of all-time."

Jesus, the trailer is 3min long. I’m guessing the movie will be closer to 3hrs, and extrapolating from what we’re seeing in this trailer, over the course of all three hours, there will be… 7 shots in which the camera is not moving. 4 of them will involve Garret Dillahunt’s character. They will be, on average, less than 1.4 seconds long.

So lets just go ahead and round up to 10 seconds of non-moving camera in this three hour movie that is being compared to "Heat" but looks to me more like its inspirations are Three Fugitives (the Martin Short/Nick Nolte comedy) and The Chase (the Kristy Swanson/Charlie Sheen comedy).

Word is that the script is honestly good, so hey, you might get dizzy and throw up by hour two, but at least you’ll want to pop a dramamine and finish the rest of the movie once you’re back from the bathroom. Plus Yahya and Jake? that’s good stuff right there.

Exactly!

I don’t mind that this isn’t exactly the game, because I think more adaptations of games (Games ESPECIALLY) need to not be "The game, but all cut-scenes" in order to be artistically viable. I do mind that it looks almost indistinguishable from any mid-tier cable offering from 2008. So that’s not good. And of course, it’s got Mark Wahlberg in it, which is a huge strike against it.

But I think an adaptation of Uncharted was always going to be a problem, and apparently always has been a problem, precisely because I don’t know how you make it without it feeling generic. The things that make Uncharted great are in the game design, and the gameplay. It’s not the story (as adequate a plot-mover as it is) and the characterization is almost entirely down to great voice-actors making a meal out of what is otherwise pretty generic action-movie stuff. Uncharted is a marvel of gaming because it’s great at BEING A GAME. It was never great at being a story, because its story is, like way too many video game stories (even the good ones) only there in service to making the gameplay great.

Uncharted is an action-movie mixtape, so far as its story goes. Its like a supercut of some 25 year old’s favorite flicks, but now you can play it. I don’t kno how you translate that experience, one built out of the shameless repurposing of other people’s movies, back into its own movie without it feeling generic as all hell.

Which is exactly what seems to have happened here.

In closing: Mark Wahlberg sucks, fuck Mark Walhberg.