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ALOL that was a good one.

NeverarGreat said:

Chase Adams said:

The shot where Ben Solo arrives on Exogol and the camera reveals an Imperial TIE next to a Rebel X-wing.

I guess I’m just a miserable killjoy who sees a short range fighter without a Hyperdrive and wonders how the hell it got halfway across the galaxy.

Should have been a later model. Also the markings on the X-Wing don’t match the OT and the helmet Rey wears looks weird.

Uhhhh on topic… I enjoy the Kimiji sequences both the way it all looks, the John Williams cameo, and the Force Link Duel.

I don’t know if there’s a thread somewhere but Empire of Dreams has a “we changed stuff” disclaimer at the start now. Presumably because it now includes the pink saber from 2004 and the Ewok eyelids from 2011, amongst other things.

Edit: I also watched the Clone Wars CGI movie. It was real bad. Like worse than I could have even imagined. Good grief.

Streaming exists so save money, so no thanks.

I just watched some of the first movie and I don’t like it. Not much else to say, it was the standard HD version not 4K but it looks way too cold (despite possibly more detailed than I’ve seen before).

I enjoyed the show quite a bit. It’s got the problem of many shows where the first and last two parts are all the best stuff, but overall nicely done. One part that left me puzzled was how the AT-ST was seen as any threat. Doesn’t the Razor Crest have guns? Can’t they hi-jack it stealthily? Can’t they get a couple of logs roped up?

If someone can explain tracking in this universe that would also be nice. Not exactly sure what’s going on, since it makes the ever present threat seem weirdly contrived. Also takes away from the actual bounty hunting since it’s more like bounty geocaching?

This game is great, except for the way it seems to take place just a few years after the prequels and yet they have all the technology from Rogue One. Pacing is weird on the later worlds though. I’m talking about after you meet that one certain bearded guy. Oh and glitches and stuff are still apparent. Also how many ponchos does one man need…

My final thoughts since I probably won’t watch this again… it’s actually good up to the Star Destroyer, in which you get “I’m the spy” and “you’re a Palpatine” and blah blah. After that the finale is so visually messy that I can’t really get into it just as an action scene. For its faults TLJ has very striking sequences at the end. This just made me tired.

StarkillerAG said:
I feel like your constant anti-Disney crusade makes you assume the worst sometimes.

???

I don’t think referencing the primary subject of this board is a “crusade”. Or how anything else I say on here is anti-Disney to be honest. Chill out.

Crazy I just saw another bigger version of that pic in another thread.

ATMachine said:

Nice. I used to have like a small print of that photo from somewhere, man that was a long time ago.

Temuera Morrison has (supposedly) been cast as Boba Fett in S2. Which means they want that 2004 ESB dub of Boba Fett to pervade into other media.

This only raises more questions.

StarkillerAG said:

Mielr said:

Has there ever been a silent screening of any of the OOT movies with a live orchestra? I always thought that would be a wonderful thing to see.

Yeah, that would be amazing. The SE live orchestra screenings were fun, but kind of counteracted by the distracting SE changes.

I don’t care for the scores for the PT very much. I think a lot of the overkill with the music was to try and distract from what was happening (or not happening) on the screen. ROTJ is my favorite of all the scores.

Agreed. I think Williams realized that the prequels were extremely boring, so he tried to compensate with lots of epic choir music. Padme’s Ruminations in particular sounds more like Gladiator than Star Wars.

That’s because John Williams could see all the freed slave/Ancient Rome vibes even if the film makers were too incompentent to actually execute those ideas properly. He’s a pro.

George once said that ‘once all the older VHS tapes are worn out the only thing left will be my version’.

Looking at Disney’s negative attitude towards film preservation even just recently I feel like they have the same idea. Eventually people will forget that Solo had directorial problems. People will forget that Star Wars 1977 didn’t include Jabba. People will even forget that Splash didn’t include CGI censorship. The digital domain will be the only thing left and they will own it.

They might not even know what it’s about… if there even is an idea. It seems like these projects get handed out so often to film makers now, some are likely to never materialise. Will the plans given to the Game of Thrones guys ever be used? Plus there’s the increasingly unlikely Rian trilogy.

StarkillerAG said:

Why is Ryan still here? I thought he was banned for his constant bad attitude long ago.

The dead speak!

They brought back the Brian Blessed commentary? Deal.

RogueLeader said:

You know, it is kind of surprising that they went into this trilogy knowing the main character would be female, but they didn’t seem to even consider hiring a female writer. I mean, clearly there were female cooks in the kitchen early on, like Kennedy and Hart. And I’m not saying men can’t write women characters, but I feel like Rey might’ve lacked something that a female writer really could’ve provided for her.

The problem isn’t new perspectives but the lack of good writers in general. All those millions spent without having something decent on paper. And they could have salvaged something, but they let JJ near the writer’s room and they gave Terrio more work for some reason.

Trailer
https://youtu.be/CiMdSM2PgeQ

Boba Fett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4QbxH1c3Gc

Greedo
https://youtu.be/SyBas3rMYAc

A Tale of Gonks and Jawas
https://youtu.be/41Zs-lpA5Qk

Admiral Ackbar
https://youtu.be/YI-B3_s-5Sw

Billy Dee Williams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCA0K4q19xQ

Dave Prowse
https://youtu.be/rsb4ZFcMbOo

Oola 1983 and 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkf-OnDzGp8

Lieutenant Renz - You Rebel Scum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HgTlnrwaSI

Chris Bunn - the Original Stormtrooper
https://youtu.be/7gAmdQCtGT8

Damn that is some fascinating stuff Adywan

Oh god the Cruisers on the left that are wrong… and this is the famous shot with the most elements.

It’s a dumb knee-jerk reaction but then “female-centric” isn’t a narrative description. Certainly not one that should be in news like this. It would be more appropriate to actually say what the focus is; Jedi, Underworld, Military etc. So logically they must be doing this to stir up all the channels that keep ranting about that whole The Force Is Female schtick. Now there are only ever extreme reactions after all.

NeverarGreat said:

I think the compositing is vague enough here to support any interpretation as to where the lasers are coming from.

I agree. The Falcon fires only a handful of times in the whole battle and they’re all similar. In the opening TIE attack it seems to come from a central position. As they swing under the frigate there’s a shot from an extreme angle as it comes in from above, then another as it cuts to an interior cockpit view. BUT this is the weird one, because if you listen it sounds like a snub fighter blaster shot not the Falcon gun turret sound effect. Is it a front cannon or just an X-Wing off to the left? Then you have the part shown above as it takes out the Interceptor.

It’s kind of debatable though. Even as it swings around right after the “they’re going after the medical frigate” line it’s not clear which guns are firing.