Asteroid-Man said:
...soooooooo was anything done to fix the continuity mistake in terms cutting in cave? You know how Luke swipes 10-meters away from the Wampa and the arm falls into frame?
Every time I ask this question, people go off on a tangent about icicles and music and things that don't need to be changed.
I'm merely asking if this was even addressed by ady.
I don't know, but I don't recall it ever being something that adywan mentioned as bothering him in the scene.
It's interesting that yourself and DominicCobb seem to see this shot as looking very wrong, as it's never been something that stood out to me over the years personally. So I had another look at it in motion after your comments, and here's what I reckon -
The positioning still works fine enough for me I'd have to say - I don't see Luke as being a huge distance away from the Wampa at the point where he swipes his lightsaber...because the creature is meant to be very big compared to him anyway, and the camera seems to be close to the Wampa's rear view on top of this, perhaps giving you the impression that Luke is further in the distance than he really is, during the shot. But I just see Luke looking small compared to the Wampa, rather than being too far away from it in the distance.
In addition, the Wampa is still rushing towards Luke at the moment we cut to where he swipes at it, and at that point the main body of the Wampa totally obscures a lot of the swiping lightsaber anyway, so we can't see how close to Luke it's outstretched right arm was at this point. But while that overall shot works fine for me still, I'm really looking forward to seeing adywan's new Wampa look to replace the dodgy 'lunging' shot design before it.