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Asst Prof - Media at TCU, Co-Author, The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies and Digital Videotape, De Niro aficionado & Canuck living in DFW

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    1. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      Some of the ships in those movies are so gigantic that if they existed in our world they would cost 100 times more than an aircraft carrier, and people are actually on here asking why characters aren’t constantly flying them into other ships.

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    2. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      Also somehow this complaint avoids addressing the fact that we’ve now had eight of these officially canonical films and nobody thought of doing this on screen until now. Why didn’t somebody associated with the series think of doing it sooner? Because they didn’t.

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    3. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      The history of franchise filmmaking and the history of military combat are both filled with moments where somebody came up with some outrageous, surprising tactic that no one had thought of doing before. Why is it so hard to accept that this might not be one more such case?

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    4. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      As I’ve said in other threads, the Star Wars movies are filled with moments of self-sacrifice/suicide, intended to turn the tide of a losing battle, by colleagues a little bit more time to finish executing a plan, etc. This instance is completely consistent.

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    5. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      As for the physics or relative “unrealism” — what the fuck movie series have you all been watching? This is a series where outer space dogfights adhere to the rules of World War II aerial combat films, and people block laser bolts with laser swords. And there is sound in space.

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    6. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      Is it really realistic that Obi-Wan Kenobi could ride a wild bird lizard into combat, or that a giant worm could live inside of an astroid in the vacuum of space and, I guess, subsist on starships that land in its mouth once every 10,000 years?

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    7. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      There’s something profoundly unimaginative, and monotonously cold and spirit crushing, about the nitpicking of this particular scene in this particular movie. It speaks to a larger distrust of poetry and flights of fancy in popular culture.

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    8. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      It’s also one of the best examples I’ve seen outside of politics of how reactionary videogame “logic“ is selectively & and unequally applied to “prove“ a point that’s entirely, I suspect, about a deep emotional reaction the viewer doesn’t want to interrogate.

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    9. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      I would go so far as to say that the only way to reject this particular scene as legitimate and aesthetically pleasing is to make a decision to interpret it in the most ungenerous and unimaginative way possible, closing off “what if” and any sense of wonder.

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    10. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 22 Jun 2019

      I’m just so very sick of this particular argument, mainly because of how it exposes a disturbing, small minded tendency that seems to be creeping across the totality of popular culture year-by-year.

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      R Colin Tait  🇨🇦‏ @rcolintait 22 Jun 2019
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      I find this mode of thinking hard to get my students away from. I think it may be partly due to a move away from critical thinking in curricula (seriously) in favor of the idea that there is *one right answer*. It's one thing that comes from "teaching to the test."

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        1. R Colin Tait  🇨🇦‏ @rcolintait 22 Jun 2019
          Replying to @rcolintait @mattzollerseitz

          (But that's just a theory of mine, and I'm sure that there are a gazillion other things going on).

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        2. R Colin Tait  🇨🇦‏ @rcolintait 22 Jun 2019
          Replying to @JohnDellaporta @mattzollerseitz

          Oh yeah. Absolutely smart. They're just not trained to think expansively about texts, or that there is more than one argument for a single thing. Then the internet comes in doubly-enforces this tendency, so there is only one unified theory of Pixar Easter eggs rather than lots.

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        2. .ashley.  ✨ 🎙‏Verified account @AshleyEsqueda 22 Jun 2019
          Replying to @rcolintait @mattzollerseitz

          That's a REALLY good theory.

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        3. R Colin Tait  🇨🇦‏ @rcolintait 22 Jun 2019
          Replying to @AshleyEsqueda @mattzollerseitz

          Only one you could present among many others, but that's what I'm going with today. I have to spend a lot of time telling my students that there is no *right* answer (necessarily) only good argumentation.

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        1. raphael‏ @ge_ki_tsu 22 Jun 2019
          Replying to @rcolintait @mattzollerseitz

          that is really well put. i can imagine that being a substantial factor in the whole malaise. (probably also: ‘debate club winning’ over substance, stem over humanities, art *only* as craft…)

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        1. R Colin Tait  🇨🇦‏ @rcolintait 22 Jun 2019
          Replying to @rcolintait @mattzollerseitz

          I’m gonna add one more thing here and that’s about a thread of analysis that only reads the very surface of the text - or what someone else has said about it (like Wikipedia) instead of coming up with your own conclusions. It may also view the text incorrectly as a result .

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