Hooper's Cigar

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

@RPSCreative2 @madcowpanzer And Obi-Wan kept to his duty of watching over Luke by not going off world.

The Kenobi show is fan-fiction posing as canon. After Mustafar, Vader and Obi wan didn't meet again until their final duel aboard the Death Star. No I have not watched it.

@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.

@RPSCreative2 It also would've kept it smaller scale, which is what the show really needed rather than continually expanding and encompassing everything Star Wars.

This guy should've been the actual main villain, not Moff Gideon.

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

Genuinely one of the best looking cinematic scenes of all time imo

@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.

This is by far the best scene in this movie. Brilliant acting, brilliant lighting, a perfect death for Han Solo. Highly emotional, meaningful and still as sad as it was 10 years ago.

@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.

I really love how The Last Jedi ends. It doesn’t end with the Rebellion flying off into hyperspace onto their next adventure, it ends with a story. A story of a legend that reached the far ends of the galaxy. A story that inspired hope in those that may not have had any.

@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.

Genuinely think the issue with Kenobi is that people just didn’t get it. It was extremely clear, and maybe the show didn’t deliver as an episodic tale, but it was easily the most meaningful Star Wars to come out in years.

@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.

@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.

Harrison Ford is so unbelievably good in this movie.

@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. youtube.com/watch?v=06eQuE…

Is Attack of the Clones the most underrated Star Wars movie?

@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...

@RPSCreative2 @StarWarsDaily_ To be fair the time gap between Obiwan show and a new hope is like 10 years 😭

Did you like the Kenobi Show's portrayal of Obi-Wan Kenobi?

@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.

I threw on Hard Target and Cliffhanger for no other reason than noise, and I found myself glued to the screen. Yeah, they're badass, but I've seen them about a million times each. But there was something else going on. It was about how much thought we used to put into character, even if they were characters designed to get you from one action set piece to the next like you're on a roller coaster. So, what ties these two movies together? Okay, so we have two foreign directors [spits]. Renny Harlin and John Woo were masters of high-speed action mixed with slow motion. Both films were released months from each other in '93. Yet, we also have these reluctant heroes. Gabe in Cliffhanger doesn't want anything to do with a rescue in the mountains after his tragedy. Chance in Hard Target only wants to help find Nat's father because he's out of work and needs that $217 just to live. Both men grow throughout their movies. For Gabe, it's proven that community and relationships are stronger than any tragedy, but you have to fight for them. For Chance, the $217 is nothing compared to the fact that the forgotten class—especially those who bled for their country in past wars—needs a champion. They're over-the-top action, but these movies also gave a damn about their characters. They made sure that through the explosions, bullets, stabbings, or standing up on a motorcycle and shooting at an oncoming truck, the character had some semblance of a three-dimensional shape. I think within the last decade of movies and TV shows, we lost this art. A majority of the time, the characters seem flat, almost like empty vessels. More often than not, the main character in the modern era feels like a passenger to the spectacle rather than the driver of the action. These are considered mid-tier action films of their time. Well... maybe that's true for Hard Target; Cliffhanger was a bit of a critical success as much as a box office one. But both treated action the same way: they were physical challenges to their respective philosophies.

@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.

I adore this original FREDDY'S REVENGE artwork by the legendary Graham Humphreys. It also makes you crave a rewatch the moment you see it.

@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.

@RPSCreative2 Yes, it's the creative detail in Savini's work that gives me the chills. Those white eyes rolling back haunts the viewer long after the credits roll.

When you want to see some of Tom Savini's best work you watch THE PROWLER (1981).

@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.

After yet another rewatch I can confirm that Jonathan Liebesman's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING (2006) is the best TCM movie after Hooper's classic. What a nasty piece of work it is. 🖤

@VHSDVDBLURAY4K I always felt it was a family franchise - for all ages. Claiming fans disliking it not 'ageing up with them' is a misnomer. What about adult fare like "Andor"? Even the prequels walked the line with political subtext. Disney want their cake and eat it when it suits them.

Is Freddie Prinze Jr right about Star Wars fans ?

@cult_edge @Blakes7Diary Take my money! When is it released, please?

An important announcement about the upcoming Blake's 7 Production Diary Series C. @Blakes7Diary