I feel I must turn in my Star Wars cred badge.
I just realized that Finn was named after Leia’s cell number.
I saw someone bumping threads in Off Topic today.
Well, apparently Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, had scathing things to say about LOTR and Narnia. He called Narnia sexist, and racist among other things, and seem to trivialize both series simply because their authors were people of faith. My brother in law says such an opinion is also apparent in the His Dark Materials series itself, so nope. I’m not really interested in reading it anymore. I’m not keen on being lectured why faith is stupid.
He can be agnostic or atheist or whatever, but holding himself as superior for it annoys me.
I happen to think that LOTR succeeds in part because it’s written by a person of faith, since there’s a sense that Tolkien has personal experience with idea of mythology as a source of heroism, beauty, and goodness. While there’s an allegorical aspect to some of his characters, they very much exist as complete characters without such interpretation. However I dislike Narnia’s straight up religious allegory, and I believe that Tolkien thought the same:
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.”
His Dark Materials sounds interesting, and I’ll probably read it sometime.
But back to Star Wars…
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
The Force Awakens
A New Hope
Attack of the Clones
The Phantom Menace
This list is neither real nor complete.
Why? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?!
There could be another scene of the Death Star after they set course for Alderaan, placed where the SE Jabba scene had gone. Show the Death Star arrive at Earth (Perhaps part of the reveal shot from Independence Day). Then when Motti says ‘We’ve entered the Alderaan system’, it could be edited to sound like ‘we’ve entered the wrong system’.
Indeed they are, for an empty glass may be filled whereas a filled glass becomes stagnant.
But I’m tall enough to take the high road.
^
Am I doing it right?
I have come to the conclusion that George Lucas must un-understand what what he has understood.
FTFM
FTFTFM
I’d rather have a sigh than a sighscraper.
…Anyway, to continue the Sail Barge discussion, I worked on reducing the green screen artifacts in Photoshop:
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/K7GNNN8X
Nice. But there is still a light source that is lighting up the edge of Luke’s face for some reason from the tip of his nose to his chin.
You could attribute that to the glow off of Han’s shirt.
I’m sure everyone knew what was going down on that bridge.
Here’s something for version 2 that I think makes a big difference, while still being subtle:
Blu-ray: 
Tech V2: 
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/FFCNNN8U
The blue appears in the starfield right at the end of the crawl, so I just restored it throughout.
Padme is still a queen of Naboo
Opening crawl:
The Nubian constitution has been AMENDED. After a long political battle arbitrated by a wise JEDI MASTER, democracy has been undermined by the removal of executive term limits. Nubians must now decide whether to launch a popular revolution against the young queen, a move which threatens to send the Galactic Senate into bitter DEBATE. . . .
This is what I’m talkin about. All politics, all the time!
Frink, I suppose now’s as good a time as any to say it, I want a divorce.
Sometimes you get carried away…
I think this is one film that will have tons more detail on the BD than in the print, especially in the shadows and highlights.
That image is what my film cell looked like before doing a 2nd and 3rd pass to get the shadows and highlights. Are you sure it isn’t that kind of issue?
Since we’ve already spent a whole movie with Jar Jar, his character must evolve going forward. I mean that literally. Since it’s been 10 years since TPM, he’s put on a lot of weight and his voice has gotten deeper. He’s becoming a Boss Nass figure in the Senate, and is actually one of the few senators who listens to the plight of the young and downtrodden in the galaxy. One of his primary interests is in demanding that the Republic enforce its anti-slavery laws (with the help of Anakin and Padme). He’s frustrated by the Republic’s lack of power as it is continually thwarted by local military uprisings and powerful galactic corporations.
Padme is still a queen of Naboo, and as such has some power in the Senate. She is also frustrated by the Republic, but she doesn’t believe that military might is the correct answer to the Republic’s problems. She prefers diplomatic solutions to problems, and has been working on the anti-slavery initiative for years behind the scenes, quietly convincing planetary leaders of the benefits of droid labor.
Anakin has become a prodigy Jedi. Obi-wan has grown to truly care about his student, and is proud of Anakin’s accomplishments. They continue to serve as the galactic law enforcement, but the Jedi Order is leery of the mechanization underway in the Republic. The Jedi view automations as unnatural and some even view them as evil. Droids are banned from piloting Jedi starships, and Obi-wan wants nothing to do with them. Nevertheless, Obi-wan has a defiant streak from his apprenticeship under Qui-gon, and is one of the few Jedi totally dedicated to finding and destroying the Sith menace, even going against Yoda at times.
The plot has similarities to AOTC in its broad outline. The senate is voting on whether to create a droid army to enforce their laws, and Padme has come to Coruscant to argue against the measure in any form, believing that the Jedi are capable of protecting the galaxy. Anakin is also against the measure, but secretly believes that a conscripted army would be an acceptable solution. He joins Padme’s side as the most outspoken Jedi on the counsel. Jar Jar merely wants an army of some kind. On the eve of the vote, word comes that there has been a droid uprising on Tatooine. Anakin and Padme return to Tatooine to find Shmi dead and her new husband Owen inconsolable. Anakin, through his mechanical brilliance, discovers that C-3PO has received a transmission from off-world which was distributed secretly encoded en-masse and had lead to the uprising.
Meanwhile, the uprising has spread to numerous worlds, including the highly mechanized Coruscant. Palpatine is apparently captured in the uprising. The government is incapacitated and communication impossible, so Padme, Anakin, and Owen leave to trace the transmission to its source.
Obi-wan has been working to track down the Sith for years, and at this time he gets a lead to the homeworld of the Nemoidians. Little does he know that it is the transmission that has drawn him there, and when he arrives he sees that the droid army of the Trade Federation (which has been decommissioned after the Federation fell out of power) has been building its own factories and generating massive armies of much more powerful droids, apparently on its own. The droids are cloning themselves at a tremendous rate, and Obi-wan is captured.
Our heroes infiltrate the droid’s factories and rescue Obi-wan, but not before Anakin is gravely injured and confronts his dark side. The Jedi, who are spread thin in the galaxy trying to protect against all the uprisings, can send only a few Jedi to fight the droids.
Palpatine, who had been ‘captured’ in order to lead his new mechanical army against the weakened Republic is thwarted when Jar Jar of all people arrives leading an army of eager new recruits to battle. It turns out that Jar Jar was able to rally the population of Coruscant and mount a rescue, and so the day is saved. Palpatine returns to the government with nobody the wiser, there’s a new Republic Army, and the droids are now resurgent throughout the galaxy where Episode 3 picks up.
Whew, that was a bit more long-winded that I expected.
Don’t forget Leia…Carrie’s health issues were a false flag. Disney ordered a hit.
That’s the reason for the ellipsis.
Not sure if posted yet:
Original maybe
Also I find this amusing:
Apparently light makes an arrow shape.
I think that the emperor would be a connection to the past in the new films, so… yeah, i miss this character. But it seems like Disney plan to erase ALL of the old characters in the sequel trilogy.
Like Luke, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO…
Having never seen it myself, I can confidently say ET isn’t that great of a movie as everybody says it is.
Having seen it, I can confidently say yes it is.
Having seen it, I can confidently say it’s fine. But not great. So Possessed wins this round.
Then you are lost!
but knowing a thing, can one do nothing?
You seek to ensnare me with words, Bene Gesserit witch!
A Jedi does not rummage for his lightsaber. He calls it with the force and it comes.
No matter how he retrieves it, that act cancels out the symbolism and meaning of him throwing it in the first place.
If he retrieved it during the battle with the Emperor, I would agree. After the battle, it makes little sense to throw away what for all we know may be the last lightsaber in existence. Being a Jedi doesn’t mean being wasteful.
