Alex Daily! May 1

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#MovieThread VII: The Kino Awakens, Chapter Five — May Edition

From 2020 to 2025 I watched 2370 movies.
In 2026 so far I've watched another 127, for a total of 2497 movies.

This month:
* Finishing the X-rewatch.
* Probably Costner.

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I slammed through the films of Martin Brest slightly too fast, so it'll be a little bit before I start the next Blank Check miniseries, but in the meantime, let's just finish the X-rewatch, sitting down in front of the TV to watch —

#128, or #2498, 2018’s “Deadpool 2.”

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

Alright, Han's been frozen in carbonite for long enough, time to get him out, it's —

#129, or #2499, 1983's "Return of the Jedi." #4k83

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

Oh, right, not seen Jabba at all yet, in these, have I.

Quality of the scene added to "Star Wars" aside, it does feel right that he's in more than just the one of these.

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
How was the second Death Star constructed so fast?
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Looked at Wookieepedia, read that Sheev had the original designer of the Death Star executed over the thermal exhaust port flaw and then cloned so he could design the second one, sighed, and closed the tab. #starwars
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Bib Fortuna, one of the great gross pervert pervert stooges. Salacious Crumb, another great little creep.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Just so many wonderful masks and puppets at Jabba's house.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Threepio and Artoo have been sent to Jabba's to be traded for the Han block. Or, well, that's why Artoo has been sent here, to Threepio it's a ghastly surprise.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Hey, it's the guy from the cartoon in the Holiday Special, Bob Feta.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
The droids are here, Chewie has been brought in by a bounty hunter who'll turn out to be Leia in disguise, now we see Lando is here in disguise, too. From Jabba's perspective this is a home invasion thriller.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Being frozen in carbonite and then coming back out of it seems like a real dogshitter of a time.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Nothing about the outfit in which Leia is kept as Jabba's prisoner is particularly sexy in context, is it.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
I would simply not get caught by Jabba and/or fed to the Rancor.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

Luke kills the Rancor by hitting a spot in the right place — he gets it under a door, and then hits the button to close it with a rock.

Jabba's next step will be to feed him to the Sarlacc, a bigger, stronger, but also toothy monster he keeps in a different hole.

IT'S LIKE POETRY, IT FUCKING RHYMES

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Love the rubber Sarlacc prop. Just a big silly mess of teeth.
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"Twilight is upon me, and soon night must fall."

Yoda another one who doesn't have half as much presence in the original trilogy as you'd imagine.

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"Your father he is."

thanks yoda for restating that for the audience

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
As far as Luke is concerned, with a sample size of two Jedi dying in front of him, disappearing into the aether is just what happens when a Jedi dies.
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"You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father!"
"Your father was seduced by the Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker, and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. So what I told you was true, from a certain point of view."
"...A certain point of view?"

obi-wan fuck all the way off challenge 4aby

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Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

"Yoda spoke of another."
"The other he spoke of is your twin sister."
"But I have no sister."

kiss anyone lately

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

"Many Bothans died to bring us this information."

weird they haven't done Rogue Two yet

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Legends is actually fairly pure about depicting Bothans, so far — it's one of those elements like Yoda's species that seem to have been declared off-limits for anything but live-action to dig into.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Love an Ewok. Should watch those Ewok movies one of these days.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
This Endor chase sequence foresees the pod race — the same kind of danger, but for sport, the father as good at it as the son, etcetera. (Poetry.)
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yub yub
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"The Force is strong in my family. My father has it. I have it. And... my sister has it."

this is just a wonderful little scene, perfectly shot, terrifically scored

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"Somehow I've always known."

kiss anyone lately

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Picture's really slowed down here on Endor, though.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

Everyone has masters. Luke has Yoda, the rebellion. Vader has the Emperor.

Yoda's master is, really, his past, the rebellion's is justice. What rules over the Emperor? Hatred?

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

"Everything that has transpired has done so according to /my/ design!"

that time your sister kissed you, that, too, was the emperor

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
the difference between the George era of Star Wars and the Disney era is that when George repeats something it's like poetry, it rhymes, and when Disney repeat something, it's a cynical, creatively bankrupt rehash
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
All this talk about how killing the Emperor would mean Luke falling to the Dark Side. Nah, man. Emperor's a bad dude, he's gotta go, would improve the lives of most of the galaxy immeasurably, a pretty clean act of good.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

"There is no conflict."
"You couldn't bring yourself to kill me before, and I don't believe you'll destroy me now."

Luke's emo phase is marked mostly by his awareness of what kind of story he's in, and how those stories work.

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2

"Luke. Help me take this mask off."
"But you'll die."

only 13 minutes left [vader breath] it's fine [vader breath]

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
I'll concede: Those big eyebrows look insane, and George was right to erase 'em.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
In the end, Darth Vader is just an angry man in a suit, having waited too long to make amends.
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death star? i'll say
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"He's my brother."

Han, wide-eyed, remembers.

Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Love an Ewok party.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
Another one I'll concede: Prequel Anakin joining the Force ghosts is stronger than Unmasked Vader joining them.
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@Alexis baby Yoda tho
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
@B Baby Yoda is also like poetry, but mostly in the sense that he's beautiful and perfect.
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@Alexis I can forgive a lot just because he exists

Which is absolutely why Disney created him, but

Show threadSean KleefeldMay 2
@Alexis Be warned -- those are very much made-for-TV movies! They're not Holiday Special bad, but they're not good. Better than the Ewoks cartoon, certainly, but not by much.
Show threadAlex Daily! May 2
@SKleefeld Oh, no, I know. And that's why I haven't seen them, yet, really.