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11 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

I swear that. It's more than dumb though, it's fishy now. The guy that started it got a bunch of media attention, then posted a big apology saying he's on pain meds from some accident. He directed everyone to his gofundme instead of the petition lol

Seriously? I hadn’t heard that. I only knew of the petition because WatchMojo did a video on it and it showed up on my feed. I didn’t even watch the video. 

Though it’s no worse than the guy who created a gofundme to “protect Betty White from 2016” and got six figures in donations. 

There's a petition to remove the movie from canon.

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Jerry Lawler

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Ric Flair

Besides the fact that Kylo carries on as Supreme Leader and the First Order is still in control, TLJ seems like the end of the trilogy. 

I’m pretty sure Roman’s going over Brock. Meltzer said with confidence around Mania 31 the next four Manias would be about Roman. And Kane is only in the match with Brock and Braun to eat the pin because they want to keep Braun strong.

31. Roman v Brock, Rollins cashed in. 

32. Roman v HHH, Roman won  

33. Roman retired(?) Undertaker. 

38 minutes ago, ChineseDemocracy2004 said:

What are the chances or Reign's winning again?

Dude don’t even joke about that! Well he is going over Brock at Mania, so maybe. 

In a perfect world we’d get Nak winning the Rumble and facing AJ at Mania, preferably main event. 

I'm picking Paige and Rusev for winning the Rumbles. I've never been correct, so we'll see.

Over-under on Phasma in EPIX?

What a fucking waste of a character in TFA and they bring her back after throwing her in the trash compactor on a planet that blew up. 

34 minutes ago, AxlsMainMan said:

Out of curiosity, is the 1994 "faces" VHS boxset worth much these days? Definitely one of my favorite Christmas gifts from when I was a wee lad. 

Not the full screen. I don’t know about widescreen. I bought it brand new at my local record store for like $20 because I’d lost the ones I’d been gifted back in the day. 

43 minutes ago, marlingrl03 said:

I have the originals on VHS (well, the ones from 97), have had em for years and am so glad that I do!

See if you can get a set of the “faces” release. It was the last time they were released on VHS before the special editions. Or you can get the 2006 DVDs that have the original as a bonus disc. 

22 minutes ago, Nicklord said:

True fans only watch on laserdisk 

Fuck, my local record shop refurbishes and sells players. I've been thinking about buying the 1994 "faces" edition that I have on VHS on Laserdisc.

By the way, what's the timeframe for merging these threads and allowing spoilers? I was going to change my signature to something from the movie, but I think it might be too spoilerish.

I've seen a few sites saying Christmas or day after Christmas.

As much as I think Rey should be a Skywalker, I believe she's a random. JJ said her parents weren't in TFA, then he rephrased it saying we don't find out who her parents are in TFA. Daisy said she was surprised people didn't realize who her parents were after TFA. It definitely does seem like Kylo is lying in that scene, though.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/star-wars-the-last-jedi-backlash-negative-fan-reactions-rotten-tomatoes-score/amp

MAGA-esque fanboys. Vanity Fair is fucking retarded. They're talking about how it got an A on cinemascore, so it must be great. Daddy's Home 2 got an A-. Boo 2 Madea Halloween got an A-.

3 hours ago, Amir said:

 

It was all a dream. I used to read Force Up magazine.

1 hour ago, James Bond said:

The prequels at least have some characters that I care about, like Kenobi. I can't say the same for the forgettable mess of Rogue One so that's why that one shoots right to the bottom for me.

I think that's it. I liked Rogue One, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why I didn't like it. I think it's there are no really memorable characters and they all die.

24 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

How about we pretend none of them happened and revive the old EU? 

I'm not even a fan of the EU, but from what I've read, it's better than what JJ and Rian have made. Except for clone Palpatine.

Fuck that shitty Jedi Prince series for kids was a better story.

By the way, for those who have high hopes for IX, it's JJ Abrams and Chris Terrio (Batman v Superman, Justice League).

34 minutes ago, Powerage5 said:

So am I the only person on MyGNR who liked it?  

The more I think about it, I liked it ok, but I would at most put it behind the OT and Revenge of the Sith, possibly even TFA and Rogue One. The Resistance plot (including Finn and Rose) was a bit boring. And also the fact that they really didn't answer any fucking questions from TFA kinda pissed me off.

Critics aren't going to say anything bad about post-Lucas Star Wars. George Lucas ruined the franchise, remember? Every film they make is going to be "The best since Empire" which is total bullshit. As much as I disliked TFA, I think it may have been better than TLJ.

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I think it was clearly changed, because a lot of it just doesn't fit together, and it honestly felt like a reboot of a reboot to me, like two directors fighting over a story and the second refusing to play nice, and just severing plot threads, making fun of them, and have characters nearly break the 4th wall to talk about them (as if they were even wondering in-universe) and say it literally doesn't matter as some sort of "gotchya" moment, as if incoherent storytelling between two writers is a gotchya, when the audience was just working with what they were shown was the key plot points from the first writer. It was one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in cinema.

Luke clearly left a secret map to where he was, left with certain people, that doesn't match him going to die, or only seeking the first jedi temple for no reason.

Snoke summoned Kylo Ren to complete his training - another plot thread out the window.

The saber clearly called to Rey, she clearly had visions of Luke's past before having visions of her own, she'd been dreaming of the island where Luke was as Kylo said when he got in her head. For it just to be tossed away without meaning is weak. It was a magic sword clearly calling to her as the center of the first movie's plot. I guess she still has the halves so maybe it'll amount to a double-bladed saber or something.

Rey's background was clearly intended as a mystery, she repeatedly talked about how her family was coming back, it was constantly teased as one of the main story points of the movie, even giving flashbacks to her parents flying away, Maz pointing out in shock that the Skywalker saber is calling to her now, asking Han who she was, etc. To just drop it and give some weird 4th-wall breaking theory discussion where Kylo talks about "the story" and "your parents were nobody" (as if it was meant to be a secret to Rey? She never claimed to not know who she was) was just weird and one of the most awkwardly fan-fictiony-dialogue scenes in the movie for me.

The sequel trilogy is just Han's dreams while he's frozen in carbonite.