General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 327

There’s a pipe. It’s a hookah. He smokes it. He keeps frogs in it. Eats one at some point.

SilverWook said:

A website with smaller images of the posters for informational purposes would probably fall under the umbrella of fair use. TFN has had a site with all the major posters, but not the more obscure stuff like posters sold in stores, and stuff only available through the original fan club.
http://www.theforce.net/collecting/posters/
I had the posters in the bottom right corner when I was a kid. My color choices with the magic markers might have been a tad off though. 😉

Yeah, TFN has an alright selection but it’s certainly not comprehensive and the quality is awful. A site with better information is https://www.cinemasterpieces.com/cinestarwars.htm but their photos are just that, photos. Most posters I have look ‘scanned’ rather than ‘photographed’.

Lord Haseo said:

Hardcore Legend said:
He failed at every task he was given in the film

So did Vader in STAR WARS…

No. Vader’s plan to find the hidden Rebel base worked.

Vader ‘killed’ Ben after a fair duel between the two. Ren murdered his unarmed father after tricking him into standing really close to him and stabbing him in the heart.

Ben…let himself be killed though…Why exactly are you using this in an argument?

Also Kylo killing his father in that manner is beyond sadistic. We never seen Vader do anything that cruel and he’s a fully formed villain.

So how does that make you want to root for Kylo Ren? Two old warriors, an apprentice and a master battled and one in the end ‘died’. Vader being on the opposite side of the coin as Obi-Wan makes him evil but cool. Do a lot of people find unarmed patricide in cold blood ‘cool’?

I don’t think he is a poorly written character, I’m just confused about what appeal he has to anyone other than his helmet.

Potential

Potential for what, though? Redemption? No thanks. To become even more evil so that he can one day be destroyed by a set of heroes? Ok. But it doesn’t seem like something to ‘root’ for, which is how this whole line of conversation started.

Diego said:

Gaffer Tape said:

Well, as you will later see in his abysmal dealings with Jabba the Hutt, Luke has some kind of inferiority complex that forces him to kill as many people as humanly possible.  I mean, sure, some Imperial forces might die if the AT-AT tips over due to a damaged leg, but if you really want to rack up a good kill count, blowing up the cockpit with an explosive is the safer way to go!

Speaking of which, what the hell was Luke’s plan for rescuing Han? As much as I love ROTJ, I’ve never been able to make any sense of the plan.

Good question. I don’t think there ever was much of a plan - just all about getting inside the fort, and take it from there. Worked out well, tho’. One would almost think it was in the script for them to succeed.

DominicCobb said:

Just met Rian Johnson . . . .

Awesome! Where the hell did you manage that?

I find it funny, that out of all the OT practical effects in Jabba’s palace, I find Jabba the most convincing and every single other Rubber-mask alien completely unbelievable, whilst in A New Hope I don’t.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this might be due to a bigger focus on “bigger, better, more” in RotJ, whilst in ANH it was the little things that mattered.

Any thoughts on this? Is it just me? Am I alone?

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Am I alone?

In understanding your question? Yes

Edit : and I don’t mean to be mean. I honestly am unsure what you are actuality asking.

Anjohan said:

I find it funny, that out of all the OT practical effects in Jabba’s palace, I find Jabba the most convincing and every single other Rubber-mask alien completely unbelievable, whilst in A New Hope I don’t.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this might be due to a bigger focus on “bigger, better, more” in RotJ, whilst in ANH it was the little things that mattered.

Any thoughts on this? Is it just me? Am I alone?

I agree with you. With ANH, Lucas had to manage everything with a very tight budget, so they had to focus on what little they could do. They felt forced to hide in the background or rethink what they knew wouldn’t work.
For ROTJ, instead, they were working with a very high budget and could even use assets from TESB. You can see their special effects, both optical and practical, had improved a lot, but they probably overdid in some cases, like you said, and this could’ve led them to rush some of effects to make it on schedule.

^ I agree.
Jabba is great (except that his mouth flapping up n’ down doesn’t match the sounds he’s making), but there are a lot of half-assed rubber masks that are too close to the camera and stupid, unbelievable designs like the blue elephant.

Hayden won’t be at the Last Jedi panel at Celebration! The chances of him in the movie went down!