The Book of Boba Fett

Fair. I'm one of those odd folks who misses the old epics like 2001 and Lawrence of Arabia. One of my rewrites was to turn Star Trek II and III into a single film (The Genesis Incident) with an overture and intermission, hearkening back to that. It doesn't work these days where the studios only care about seat turnover/tickets sold, but man it'd be nice. Can you imagine a four-ish-hour filmgoing experience with an intermission mid-season to talk about it in the lobby with everyone else there?
 
Inquisitor Peregrinus said:
Fair. I'm one of those odd folks who misses the old epics like 2001 and Lawrence of Arabia. One of my rewrites was to turn Star Trek II and III into a single film (The Genesis Incident) with an overture and intermission, hearkening back to that. It doesn't work these days where the studios only care about seat turnover/tickets sold, but man it'd be nice. Can you imagine a four-ish-hour filmgoing experience with an intermission mid-season to talk about it in the lobby with everyone else there?
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Hey I’m for it as long as there is official pee breaks. I hate leaving in the middle of a flick to pee
 
Inquisitor Peregrinus said:
That's one thing I miss about living in Japan. The new Space Battleship Yamato series that started, ugh, almost a decade ago, now... Each chapter as it came out had a theatrical release and then was collected in a DVD/Blu-Ray season/series box set: 2199, 2202, 2205... And all kinds of swag given out, too, at the theaters, for people who reserved online in advance, etc.

For all that, over here, we're all "This thing is a part of our cultural heritage -- it can never be redone!", they've maintained more of an attitude of "This thing is a part of our cultural heritage -- it's been a generation, how can we improve on it while respecting the spirit of the original?" Yamato, Gundam, Macross... They keep managing to reimagine these old properties in new, different, and, often, better ways, whereas we mostly seem to only be able to run ours (Star Trek, Star Wars, Transformers, etc.) into the ground. Over in Japan, Yamato, Gundam, and Macross stuff is still everywhere. When was the last time Star Trek merch was a hot prospect for store shelves? Even Star Wars is now more pegwarmers than desired products. You have to know what's coming and pre-order it from someplace if you want the merch you actually want.

I'd go see a full-season theatrical release of The Mandalorian. I saw the Clone Wars "movie" and it was an ex post facto agglomeration of multiple episodes covering two story arcs that they decided at the last minute to release theatrically. If it had been planned cinematically in the first place...
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Cultural thing.

There's a temple, Ise, in Japan that's rebuilt every 20 years (once a generation), using the same tools and materials that were used when it was built the first time (100's of years ago) - and it comes out better than most things built with modern tools. They're not making it better. Moreso reinforcing the history.

There's also the worlds oldest wooden building there, too at 1200+ years old. So, there are things they don't touch as well :)

I'd also wager that the newer versions in Japan aren't done out of creative bankruptcy as they are here. Or worse, shear laziness. That Battleship Yamamoto, i'd bet is done with respect for the originals and what came before and not stomping all over it out of arrogance/superiority/whatever.

Things CAN be redone with respect and care. Here, though, that's a completely foreign concept it seems.
 
Very difficult to compare the Japanese philosophy/society with the American one...apples and oranges as far as I'm concerned.
We all have our similarities...but on some levels (Traditions, History) it's impossible to do or think like the Japanese; it's not in our DNA;)
 
joberg said:
Very difficult to compare the Japanese philosophy/society with the American one...apples and oranges as far as I'm concerned.
We all have our similarities...but on some levels (Traditions, History) it's impossible to do or think like the Japanese; it's not in our DNA;)
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I went to Paris years ago. Turned a corner and there was a cornerstone on a building indicating it have been built in the 1200's. I just kind of stared at it and that building a few minutes being stunned at that realization that the building in front of me was 800 years old and 200 years ago there wasn't a single permanent structure in my country (unless you count the pueblos).

It's hard for a group of people to have that sense of actual history and tradition when they've barely got anything of their own.
 
cboath said:
I'd also wager that the newer versions in Japan aren't done out of creative bankruptcy as they are here. Or worse, shear laziness.
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Oh, I know. It's more what you mentioned with that temple, and what I wish George had made the final leap and done. Rather than keep fiddling with the original Star Wars, what if he'd revisited the story twenty years on and redone it "better" (tweaked slightly) and let both stand.

cboath said:
That Battleship Yamamoto --
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Yamato. Yamamoto was the Admiral.

cboath said:
-- i'd bet is done with respect for the originals and what came before and not stomping all over it out of arrogance/superiority/whatever.

Things CAN be redone with respect and care. Here, though, that's a completely foreign concept it seems.
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Exactly that. It's regarded as a duty and an honor to respect a cultural icon. I've read the interviews with the people involved in the new Yamato series and they all get it and the interviews are dripping with awareness of the charge they've been handed. The whole vibe of squeezing the last drop of fungibility out of a property before discarding it once no longer profitable isn't there.
 
I’ve been baking all day, finally got everything cleaned up and ready for tomorrow nights fett party
 
..oh the party? It’s only me showing up I don’t have any friends, anyone wants some cake, cookies and macrons come on over!
 
I just finished watching it with my own two original eyeballs and......................................................I'm not saying ****.
 
What a unimaginative waste of writing potential..
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38minutes long and all of 1:40 is escaping the sarlacc... These guys couldn't image themselves out of a paper bag

And the Theme sounds like something out of Beowulf
Also there's a bad editing "fuckup" at 22:23 and 22:26 where Boba falls down twice in a remarkably short amount of time...
 
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It's gonna be a slow burner, but I'm here for it. For all the complaints about Favreau & Filoni (& to a degree, Rodriguez) just playing with their action figures, I guess since everyone knows what their 'action figure' head story was, so this will never live up to that.

Here's where I'm coming from... I'm a 50 year old, with a sharp mind still, but a couple of disabilities. With all the talk about 'representation' in Hollywood, I can relate to a guy who used to be a badass, but the years have slowed him down.

I'll wait & see what the story ends up being.
 
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