Dec 24, 2016
Movie Meltdown - Episode 376 (For our Patreon supporters.)
This week is a multitude of
things. First off... it's our anniversary. So as we celebrate
crossing over into our 9th year of Movie Meltdown... we
also return to our semi-annual tradition of getting together to
celebrate - Life Day. And coincidentally, it also happens to mark
the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars
Story. So what better time to kick-off our new,
exclusive Patreon episodes then by gathering the gang
together to eat Wookie cookies and discuss the latest Star
Wars release. It sounds like a pretty great way to spend this
holiday season.
And as we realize we all want to
live in a Ralph McQuarrie castle, we also mention... Tarkin,
stealing the Hammerhead ships, creepy skin, as an insurgency,
sliced and diced, General Dodonna, everything has to be displayed
in a two-dimensional space, Wookie hairballs, it was baked in, the
final act, two-fifths of me is here, a suicide mission, hot Vader
action, super secret super weapon, moof-milker, setting the bar too
high, hearing a scream in a movie theater, who was the bad guy?,
the old butler, Frank's arm, the Alderaan mining explosions, the
times they see him... it's run, the horrors committed by the
military, It took a lot of people to put Luke into that X-wing, no
title card for one very important planet, being mildly evil, it was
nice to see Biggs, writing the score, Event Horizon... starring
Darth Vader, beholden to 70's technology, the CG question, Doctor
Aphra, jumping between scenes, space OSHA, Hogwarts, the U-wing
starfighter, telling all the tangential stories, not aging well,
Mustafar, it sounds like you're trying not to get a copyright
infringement right now, who doesn't have robot arms, Red Leader and
Gold Leader, architecture of the base, Orlando Bloom, a Jedi
Scientologist, finding Chopper, Peter Cushing, a Force truther,
Taken 2 and... I think that might be my favorite new
theory.
Spoiler Alert: Full spoilers
for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. So go watch the movie
before listening. You have been warned.
...we're just caught in the
middle of this. We didn't cause it. We're not here to fix it. We're
just going to be caught in it. And I like that idea of, they're
just spectators to... the powder keg that just went off."
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