I suddenly thought of that bit in season 1 when Carl weathers says baby yoda is trying to eat him and started cracking up
Combarieu declares that the songs of birds are not "musical" either, because they are "very difficult to take down in notation." See his Music-Its Laws and Evolution, 155. Will some divine power please create a "Musical" bird to sing the Air for G String in exact Equal Temperament for M. Combarieu?
In some ways it wasn't as bad as I had expected. In some ways it's trash. It takes like 10 minutes for Abrams to re-introduce Palpatine and suggest Rey is, in fact, some one. It was so half-assed and rushed, with very poor dialogue, it made me laugh
But then you're also sometimes reminded Abrams made a solidly entertaining TFA, and when this movie is all action and adventure it is entertaining. Rey and Kylo get to have some cool moments apart and together. And the one story thing that does still kinda work is their relationship, even though it's suddenly over.
Anyway the Palpatine plot and his relationship with Rey is totally nonsensical and has nothing to do with the previous movies and the other hero characters basically don't have any agency here. But I mean I do think Abrams is probably a better director of space action than Johnson. Finn and Rose's casino trip was conceptually interesting but the action was a low mark. And Space Dern is a cool character, but the dragged-out cat and mouse scenario with the villain ships was pretty dull as far as life-threatening dangers go.
So TLJ was better in almost every way but I still enjoyed parts of 'Rise' and it probably helps to spoil all the dumb plot turns in advance so that they just fly by
the theatre i go to i guess doesn't have enough new releases or whatever because of covid so they've been doing old movies, like after chadwick died they did 42 & BP and stuff. and i went to check in today and they're playing empire strikes back this week! i was gonna say i've never seen it in a theatre but i remembered they re-released these in the 90s with the few minutes extra right? but the only one i can definitely remember seeing in theatre was the original.. thinking i might finally get myself outta the house this weekend and into a big ol bucket of popcorn.
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Yeah, the ESB 40th Anniversary Re-release is out right now.
The main changes are the guy in the store-bought Wampa suit, McDiarmid as the hologram with some altered, heavy-handed dialogue, some new establishing shots of Cloud City, lots of windows and orange sunlight in the Cloud City interiors, the new Boba Fett voice, and INFORM MY STAR DESTROYER TO PREPARE FOR MY ARRIVAL!!! No deleted scenes.