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#906199
Topic
The Star Wars Movie Score Unused/Replaced Music Restoration Thread (Released)
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Introducing Jar Jar

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9di14bDFNUXV6aWM/view?usp=sharing

Darth Sidious/Tentacles Take 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9X3N4Z081X2tzZ0U/view?usp=sharing

Darth Sidious/Tentacles Take 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9MDhEcklKSmJDeVE/view?usp=sharing

Theed Palace Arrival

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9V1VraERaaEFySUk/view?usp=sharing

You’re Under Arrest

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9WFhBT2lSMU5rR3c/view?usp=sharing

Arrival at Tatooine

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9NmJ0a19HZ0pmR3c/view?usp=sharing

Roll of the Die

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9dzFGRlgydUJHN2c/view?usp=sharing

The Flag Parade (Alternate Take)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9RUgzc0xORzM3emc/view?usp=sharing

The Podrace

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9aTU2RDZNODJ6ams/view?usp=sharing

High Council Meeting (Insert)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9WDdyaUh2cmF6U1k/view?usp=sharing

Anakin’s Test (Original)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9UFd1OUJnTnBkSnM/view?usp=sharing

Original Battle of Naboo Sequence Edit (Special Thanks to GoodMusician for his old Symphonic Forces videos)

The Armies Face Off

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9Y0hSSTJYYUY3MWM/view?usp=sharing

The Battle Begins

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9eE1SUEUtbUMxYUE/view?usp=sharing

Lazer Fight March

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9UXY4c21jYk5Rbnc/view?usp=sharing

Take To Your Ships

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9WFcyclVZR1RZUW8/view?usp=sharing

Take To Your Ships (Early Take)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9WXkwM2ZEWUhaelU/view?usp=sharing

The Big Army

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9MllqZGJMeDIzMEk/view?usp=sharing

The Droid Battle

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9UkdUS1FXNUx1eDA/view?usp=sharing

Up the Wire (Take 1)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9SkJEM21jU1A0N1U/view?usp=sharing

Up the Wire (Take 2)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9M0RTS0JsSmFaU2s/view?usp=sharing

The Great Duel Part 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9dHg0RlNvcDczVzA/view?usp=sharing

The Great Duel Part 2 / Crash Landing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9SDZ4LUpoRTh6ZHM/view?usp=sharing

Qui-Gon’s Noble End (Album Version)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9elNuTXVOZThaT2M/view?usp=sharing

Battleship Destroyed (Alternate Take)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9X2VTbjdJZDNyZXc/view?usp=sharing

Augie’s Municipal Band / End Credits (Alternate 1)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9RERtQzZENGlpVUk/view?usp=sharing

End Credits (Alternate 2)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxQSwI5aPja9dkdObkl5amM4ZnM/view?usp=sharing

Post
#794085
Topic
Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
Time

Hal 9000 said:

And a third thought: the poster strikes me as very photoshopy. I wonder if perhaps they painted the elements and composited them digitally. I'm not a graphic artist by any means, so I'm just wondering. I have been avoiding spoilers, but I am very curious why Luke is missing from it!

 Probably, as if you notice, that they slightly rearranged things between the Portrait and Landscape versions.

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#794068
Topic
Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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"Innovation, which is changing one's mindset, could be a very good value for science and economy but it's not necessarily for cinema, or drama, or music, or architecture. However it could be, supposing you can actually develop your innovative concept to a point when it paralels the effects and complexity of the previous way of thinking or paradigma.

You can relate this fascination with what's new even to the juvenile praising of plot-twists and the poor JJ Abraham's Mistery Box. There are whole studios (and viewers) that base their enjoyment of a movie (which, given a certain quality, could reach the level of being called a film) solely on the fact of being as ignorant as possible of the story. To these viewers the supposition of knowing the details of the plot would "spoil" the entire spectacle because their highest value is surprise, and because, to them the sense of fun lies in being dissoriented by the sudden rearrangement of plot-facts and questions instead of the traditional (+2000 years of history of art) extasis produced by overwhelming knowledge.

Traditional storytelling presents you a trouble, and, if the resource is used at all, Deus ex Machina helps you suddenly solve the puzzle thus generating pleasure by knowledge; even ESB works this way and even today Nolan is the Master of DeM IMHO (used this way). Nowadays is the other way round, DeM only helps bring more questions, and it gives pleasure by not knowing.

This is a different paradigma, and I'm not saying I'm against it because cinema has proven to produce great films using this plot-structure. On the other hand, mankind has proven to produce great art along history not using surprise as a value element at all. Take Aedipus and you know exactly how it is going to end, and it doesn't diminish it as a drama, and there are lots of good greek tragedies, and bad ones as well. Or take Les Miserables. Or even take any movie of Paolo Sorrentino (in my opinion the best film maker working these days); take for instance The Great Beauty: there are absolutely no big plot-twists, no innovations whatsoever and still the basic premise is developed brillantly, visually, musically and in the script as well; that movie in particular doesn't even have a plot other than presenting creatively the contradictions of life itself."

Post
#791135
Topic
What is your favourite star wars author mine is Timothy Zahn
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joefavs said:

EDIT: I also think Stackpole is pretty overrated. Granted, I only read the first X-Wing book, and that was actually pretty all right, but the duology he did for the NJO (I'm blanking on the name) was powerfully lame. The way he positions his own original character Corran Horn as this super cool guy at the center of everything who everyone loves and is best buds with Luke Skywalker just really rubs me the wrong way, especially because he only gets cameos in other books if he's even mentioned at all.

 Dark Tide: Onslaught and Ruin.

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#789216
Topic
Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
Time

joefavs said:

Just made a connection last night between Aftermath and what little we know of the Battle of Jakku that I can't believe escaped me at the time. Throughout the book, Moff Pandion keeps harping on the fact that Sloane is keeping the only Super Star Destroyer in service, the Ravager, hidden from the rest of the Imperial leadership. If there's only one SSD in the months after ROTJ, it has to be the same one that ends up wrecked on Jakku that the Falcon flies through in the second TFA teaser. This seems to be a strike against the theory I've seen tossed around that the mysterious Fleet Admiral at the end is Snoke, because the Admiral commands the Ravager and one would think it likely he'd go down with the ship. Of course, it's possible that it is Snoke and that he's no longer in command of the ship at the time of the battle, but I think it's more likely that we get either a new character in the vein of Thrawn (or, fingers crossed, a re-canonized Thrawn himself) mounting an Imperial comeback during the rest of the trilogy and ultimately having his last stand at Jakku.

 Apparently the explanation for the crashing of the normal Star Destroyer on Jakku is in the Young Adult novel Lost Stars.


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#788041
Topic
Star Wars: Episode VII to be directed by J.J. Abrams **NON SPOILER THREAD**
Time

Hal 9000 said:

Wow, I thought it was admirable they were keeping the novelization back until the movie was out, but the soundtrack even! I can't help but think it's mostly in vain with stuff like TFA Monopoly being released today. Still, it's a little less to try and avoid.

 Well, part of it is because all CD releases were moved from tuesdays to fridays.