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JCC Embrace The FU - Formerly the STAR WARS IS BAD thread

Discussion in 'Community' started by -polymath-, Oct 30, 2012.

  1. tom

    tom Chosen One star 8

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    at the orlando ones you could get tickets the day of the event no problem, but i have no idea if this will be the same.
     
  2. Rylo Ken

    Rylo Ken Force Ghost star 7

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    I have door-to-door service from my house to McCormick Place via the Green Line L to the McCormick Place stop.

    when do tickets go on sale?
     
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  3. firesaber

    firesaber Jedi Master star 4

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    Full Website and Ticket Details Coming Soon
    Tickets on sale June 5th at Noon CST

    www.starwarscelebration.com
     
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  4. Rylo Ken

    Rylo Ken Force Ghost star 7

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    thanks, I've signed up for alerts
     
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  5. Rylo Ken

    Rylo Ken Force Ghost star 7

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    You know how much I hate to keep harping on this, but in an alternate universe, these things would have been adjacent to each other for Chicago visitors:

    [​IMG]

    Although I'm not entirely sure there's any alternate universe where Chicago makes sound city planning decisions.
     
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  6. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    Solo at 70% Fresh on RT. Everyone I don't like/make fun of BTFO.
     
  7. Rylo Ken

    Rylo Ken Force Ghost star 7

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    Deadpool 2 has dropped a bit too. Let's assume that neither is a masterpiece.
     
  8. Lord Vivec

    Lord Vivec Chosen One star 9

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    I'm still a masterpiece though.
     
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  9. Diggy

    Diggy Chosen One star 8

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    Critics Consensus: A flawed yet fun and fast-paced space adventure, Solo: A Star Wars Story should satisfy newcomers to the saga as well as longtime fans who check their expectations at the theater door.


    Sounds good.
     
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  10. tom

    tom Chosen One star 8

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    reading some of the reviews they are counting as "fresh" reinforces the problem with rotten tomatoes scores. just one example:

    "Solo is not a bad film, just a relentlessly average one that has no reason to exist."
     
  11. Diggy

    Diggy Chosen One star 8

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    How lazy. The reviewer lifted that directly from here.

    metacritic has it as 65.
     
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  12. Rylo Ken

    Rylo Ken Force Ghost star 7

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    You have to admire the phrase "Check your expectations at the door." I don't think I ever heard it before The Phantom Menace was released. Since then of course it's always in circulation.
     
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  13. Sith_Sensei__Prime

    Sith_Sensei__Prime Chosen One star 6

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    Well, if it's any consolation, it really wasn't a Star Wars Museum, at least exclusively. It would have consisted of other works from comic books, movies, etc.
     
  14. DarthIntegral

    DarthIntegral JCC Baseball Draft/SWC Draft Commish star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA VIP - Game Host

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    "Don't Expect Much, and You Won't Be Disappointed"

    Solo: A Star Wars Story


    With tag lines / review like that, who couldn't be excited.
     
  15. Darth Guy

    Darth Guy Chosen One star 10

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    Critics generally don't seem to give outright negative reviews to big tentpole movies unless they're aggressively, almost intentionally bad-- the kind that squander the things that should be inherent to a large budget (effects, editing, costumes, cinematography, etc). Zack Snyder DC films, for example. Comfortable mediocrity of the MCU and Abrams vein get a shrug and an RT "Fresh" label.
     
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  16. TiniTinyTony

    TiniTinyTony JCC Super Bowl Pick 'Em Winner star 7 VIP - Game Winner

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    Avengers IW Spoiler reference concerning DP2
    If Cable isn't the hero and he doesn't kill everyone, then it'll be a bad movie.
     
  17. SuperWatto

    SuperWatto Chosen One star 7

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    Movie reviews are like ***holes, everybody's got one.
     
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  18. Rylo Ken

    Rylo Ken Force Ghost star 7

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    I prefer "Movie reviews are like mothers; everybody's got one."
     
  19. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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    I feel like that reviewer looked into my soul.

    Also: There are a few posters about whom I could say this.
     
  20. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    Since it’s in all the reviews, can I just say this?

    The origin of the name “Solo” is so horrendously stupid that you all boo-ed it out of existence even when people were trying to joke hyperbolically about the potential weaknesses of this film. This film not only actually uses said explanation but does so unironically.

    It is bewildering how dumb this whole project is. Stupefying.
     
  21. SuperWatto

    SuperWatto Chosen One star 7

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    Hodor
     
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  22. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    Yes, that’s another lazily written “too big to fail” cultural phenomenon.
     
  23. Diggy

    Diggy Chosen One star 8

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    It’s your posts?
     
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  24. Jabba-wocky

    Jabba-wocky Chosen One star 10

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    Are my posts phenomenal? I tend to feel they are workman-like and pedestrian in making whatever points that they do.
     
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  25. Ender Sai

    Ender Sai Chosen One star 10

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