Here's what that gas station in the opening scene looks like now from Google earth.

https://ibb.co/1vdHsKX

I know the big pickup in the opening scene was my stepmom's. She was an extra when they were filming in Austin.

I think you misunderstand my opinion of TLJ here.

Had this video been used to build a script for TLJ, it would have been better than TLJ because ANYTHING would have been better.

As evidence, we can compare TLJ to a two-hour video of a garbage fire, and indeed, the garbage fire would have had better writing.

The movie was terrible.

If they were going to have vaudevillian humour in the opening scenes with Poe prank-calling Hux---while dozens of star destroyers with hundreds (thousands?) of fighters sit there idle----they may as well have gone full 'Snakes on a Plane' B-movie fan service and let Ackbar do the same thing with an "it's a trap" gag. But that wouldn't do, because that would involve some kind of consistency. And one thing I can't stand is scripts and characters in stories that contradict their own being.

e.g. Luke "I see good in the most evil villain of movie history" Skywalker considering killing his own nephew, because maybe he's too far gone. Darth Vader wasn't too far gone, but somehow the son of Leia and Han was? See how that kinda goes against Luke's character? There are a million ways they could have written the fall of Ben Solo into the dark side that didn't involve violating the essence of existing characters.

A garbage fire wouldn't have done that. A garbage fire would have known better.

TLJ was terrible movie that just happened to have the massive budget for some cool special-effects scenes and some A-list actors wasted on an awful script with a thin, scattered plot.

Now maybe TLJ is your favourite movie, and if so, whatevs. We just have different taste I guess. I'm not going to get into a flame war over a garbage-fire.

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They left out the opening scene where someone dramatically discovers a discarded dead "D", leading to the maddening missing "M" mystery.

Well the opening scene in the classroom is a shot for shot remake of a scene from Akira, and the glowing eyed children is from Village of the Damned. So there's definitely a cinematic influence in there.

Except it's not really the opening scene. First we get the sepia tone flag, then old guy at the cemetery with the the big boobed girls.

Congratulations Mr. Galaxy!

'Thought this sift might be appropriate for your new status:
http://videosift.com/video/2001-A-Space-Odyssey-Opening-Scene

Agreed, love the flick-Seriously can't stand that frikkin' motif that Leone used for that harmonica Bronson carried around with him to constantly play that tired riff....Ugh!

Best scene, opening scene. Buildup to, and throw-down at the train station.

"Looks like we didn't come with enough horses."

(shakes head) "You brought two too many."

Deconstructing opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West has been added as a related post - related requested by enoch on that post.

I unashamedly loved this movie. I was vaguely aware of plot holes, but I really didn't give a fuck as I was simply enjoying myself too much.

Contrast that with Prometheus. I went expecting a good movie and after the frickin *opening scene* I was worried. By the halfway point, the sheer stupidity of the characters and the story had me rooting for everyone to die (and there wasn't even a central memorable villian to get behind!)

There were only a few things in Nolans Batman trilogy I didn't like: the over the top voice, and the fight scenes. (Batman is supposed to be one of the greatest martial artists in the world, and we didn't get one decent fight)

Jaw-dropping. And what's with the term 'officer involved shooting'. That's how the media describes a police shooting these days? Honestly, I am shocked. It's like the opening scene of the new Robocop film or something. Dystopian.

>> ^Fletch:

In reply to this comment by ant:
>> ^Fletch:
Reminds me so much of the opening scene of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Looks good.

Submit it.

Did that already, almost 6 years ago. Don't remember why I discarded it. I think it was deaded, and I couldn't find a replacement (or something).


Resubmit.

In reply to this comment by ant:
>> ^Fletch:

Reminds me so much of the opening scene of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Looks good.


Submit it.


Did that already, almost 6 years ago. Don't remember why I discarded it. I think it was deaded, and I couldn't find a replacement (or something).