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[CRUMB – A Star Wars Story]

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            CRUMB – A Star Wars Story

Unexpected title shock:

100% agree. I was slightly concerned during the credits when I saw there were two separate editors - the legendary Thelma Schoonmaker and Claire Simpson (not a name I recognise but she edited Platoon, Someone To Watch Over Me & Wall Street, amongst others, so clearly not a neophyte) - but there are entire scenes/sequences in the trailer that simply don't feature in the final movie or are heavily truncated to within a gnat's crotchet of their life and it's almost as if they shot two films and left the better one on the cutting room floor.

Trailers are cut by trailer companies from selected footage supplied sometimes well in advance of a film's completion. They're not generally cut by the editors of the film.

I'll take my Afro-Futurism where I can get it.

That's the thing though: while I appreciate Wakanda is a thing unto itself, I'd rather have seen some current bantu/sub-saharan music in there somewhere, instead of what I am (possibly erroneously) seeing as the lazy equivalence of black african = black american.

That may yet happen in the film itself but this, I assume, is a trailer for the Yanks, in the broadest sense.

I'm a little more interested in Pete Milligan's comic of The Prisoner.

I'll take my Afro-Futurism where I can get it.

The comedian was believed to have been suffering from cirrhosis of the liver and died in London's Whittington Hospital.

I took it as fitting-in with the usual megafied tweaking of names and sayings by Wagner & Grant: no skin off my nose/no skin off my chin, God/Grud, Murphy/Morphy–Murph/Morph.

Question of Judgement – Prog #387

or The Dave Cullen Show if you want your Trek reviews from a right wing headcase conservative.

–puke–

For the first time in my life I'm regularly watching Star Trek, so it must be doing something wrong.

Not much point in 3D for this film. Not composed or shot for 3D, and dark as it is, would lose of lot of detail by wearing shades.

not sure where people are finding fault.

Because it's ridiculously overlong.

There's simply no need for this film to have a running time approaching three hours. What was released in the cinema should have been the director's cut.

According to the director it is his final cut.

I wouldn't say it's ridiculously overlong. I'd cut the last action scene down to a clip since it feels out of place as an attempt to add a tense, end-of-film climax when the film feels past that, and maybe try and conflate some narrative bits that are required to make the story still work – but to decide to snip things out solely for time in order to reduce it by 40 minutes to an hour or so would mean a lot of that pacing which some of us apparently appreciate, will be gone, because that's where most of the extra run-time is coming from: the mass accumulation of shots and reactions held for more than 3 seconds.

They just nipple clipped a Third Stage Guild Navigator.

any film that has call-backs to the prequel trilogy (overhead shot of Ren with the platoon of troopers) makes me sad.

But it looks much nicer this time. From the textures in that trailer it's like the best merge of practical and CGI; like they looked at the concept art and said, exactly that but make it move...and don't lose any of the detail.