Their new Ride Philosophy where you stand in line for a while before getting to an in-character briefing, which ends in a cool magic trick and you getting transported to a second in-character Line Waiting Experience before finally getting on the real ride is, actually, a pretty cool way to deal with how waiting in line sucks.
mid life career change to become an imagineer and finally design a line better than any ride in history
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look upon the diegetical stanchion and despair
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the imagineering documentary that they put out in 2019 is actually really fun (the middle parts kind of drag because they’re too much about the business) if you’ve been recently
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Still can’t believe people took Scorsese’s comment about how the marvel movies are theme park rides as an insult. Like is this not explicitly what they are trying to do with them? It’s the best possible way to describe what they are and aspire to be
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literally the best theme park rides are full of all this analog set-dressing technology from the 60s that you can still go back and experience in maintained, working condition
i appreciate learning about eg the monsanto tunnel of love as an unintentional hookup spot. more of an honest boardwalk feel to the whole place for it
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imo the MCU has always been a terrible marvel theme park - they have such an enormous catalog of fun and goofy shit to mine from (RIP James Gunn, good luck sorting out DC’s shitshow) and all they do is make the most droll fucking awful storylines based off of the most droll fucking awful storylines from the comics. You play stuff like the lego marvel games and it does it 100x better by having a little bit of a sense of humor and throwing wacky deep cut characters at you like THE LEADER and Damage Control guys while letting you run around Marvel NYC talking to or beating up a stunning amount of characters the MCU has never even bothered to touch. The MCU did damage control too but they made them like a hyper serious fed agency instead of like, “sitcom about the guys who clean up after the super-battles” which is ridiculous. Pretty much every crossover story they’ve adapted has been an incoherent mess and the worst of modern comics where it’s framed as an ideological struggle (see: Civil War, which is somehow more laughable in MCU than the comics) but is actually just an excuse for the heroes to beat each other up or suffer. We live in a very Brian Michael Bendis pilled world. We should have had shit like this in infinity war instead of a bunch of eugenics bullshit
PS: I haven’t seen any of these movies since black panther so if you argue with me I’ll let you win by default
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everyone keeps forgetting that scorsese vocally adored guardians of the galaxy
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They’ve only gotten worse since then
I do think some of the earlier ones kinda work in this way, like having Justin Hammer and the guy who talks to his bird be the villains in iron man 2. Or making the big reveal of captain america 2 be an ancient sentient nazi computer. They got stupider in a bad way since then instead of getting stupider in a good way.
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Yeah, winter soldier is one of the better movies because it’s an adaptation of one of the best captain america arcs ever. I was actually kind of annoyed w justin hammer in iron man 2 because he’s like one of tonys major villains, he has like the opposite ideology right, but the MCU literally loves sidelining decent villains immediately. One of the things that was fun to think about with the avengers game is that MCU Hulk has like no fucking villains so they have to use abomination, who is one of his powerful arch enemies, from the 2008 hulk movie and have him totally job out to the heroes because they don’t have any of his low tier guys to use.
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Back in star wars world, this episode has me feeling like I would be fine with the show continuing to be allotted one Glurp Shitto per episode as long as the rest of it is actually good. Because then that will be the only thing that gets spoiled on social media before I see it and the rest of it will still be a totally nice surprise. It’s actually a really good defense strategy!
Star Wars could really use one of those shooting gallery rides like Silver Dollar City has
i should probably ignore this along with all the other bait that popped up in the thread in the last 24 hours but i’d love to see receipts for this. if this is true it’s become impossible to google
i’m probably never gonna watch it but apparently diego luna is in andor and i think it’s cool that the guy looks so cool and getting work again after being away for. . .idk, a really long time.
andor is something i would strongly recommend to most people, even if they are generally avoidant of star wars stuff.
he is fantastic in that role too.
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i revisited the milk biopic a couple of weeks ago and his character made me bawl my eyes out
i would 100% watch whatever fifth element ass cop show that this weeks mandalorian decided to be. it would have been an all timer if it went into the droid rights plot that it almost set up though
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Disappointed they brought in a real count dooku did nothing wrong separatist holdout only to do him in super quick like that. Then again this is Star Wars so I’m sure he’ll be back and also get like a ten issue prequel comic book series of some kind. I don’t have the energy to explain this but it really does creep me out that this show seems to want to delve into the issue of whether imperials can be rehabilitated. Since we know how episodes 7-9 go I’m sure we can all guess how it will end up. I just don’t really trust these writers to do it in a thoughtful or responsible way. Something about the jokey inconsequential way jack black’s guy’s imperial past was dismissed as harmless but the separatist was a dyed in the wool psycho struck me as very… Neo liberal? Idk.i think maybe part of it is idrk at this point in the Canon how much about Dooku is really common knowledge. Like does the general public know he was a sith false flag basically? It seems unlikely. I think I’m just counting on Andor to finally address the issue in some way but I’m afraid they’re too obsessed with clout to address the more obscure space politics stuff in any kind of sustained way. I mean the new stuff they came up with is way better but I still want them to do like a geonosis truthers arc. Also all star wars in this era seems to loop back around to monarchist magic blood apologia and Andor seems like it might be the only exception
Oh the thing I loved about this episode was how much it felt like a Final Fantasy quest. Like not a side quest but also not one of the more serious main quests. Just some weird unexpected shit you get into when arriving in a new town. Also loved the mandalorian crew tossing a football in the establishing shot. They’re just space jocks! The Mandalorian vs Jedi rivalry is just the timeless conflict of jocks vs nerds, and only obi wan was a hot enough nerd to unite them
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my impression is that your supposed to think it’s sad that the republic gets owned and the separatists are “extremists” partially at fault I guess because they fought a war against the republic which is undemocratic, and naturally the imperials are the bad guys but have to be rehabilitated because of their lineage to the glory days of Democracy. star wars eu guys loved saying “Palpatine was just preparing the galaxy for a greater threat” they will always inevitably try to launder fascism
Saw Gerrera was right
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