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Alderaan

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#1071664
Topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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crissrudd4554 said:

I’m with Fang. I think the 2020 deal is the hold up. Just my opinion

Well, you’re entitled to your opinion. But it couldn’t be more obviously wrong. Disney has told you over and over again, explicitly and implicitly, that they have no plans…zero…of releasing the OOT.

Kathleen Kennedy is George’s evil minion at LFL. If you think she’s ever going to cross George, you’re obviously mistaken.

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#1071624
Topic
Last movie seen
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Sougouk said:

SkyderHouseMafia said:

IMDB Ratings for The Promise http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4776998/ratings?ref_=tt_ov_rt
10/10 - 53% of votes
1/10 - 44% of votes

There’s campaign to downvote the film going on and others trying to counteract it: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-is-losing-battle-online-trolls-992582

That is correct. They put those Turkish bots everywhere to downvote the film. They even had some groups buy out the entire Theater, then ask for a refund, to ensure the seats cannot be purchased again.

The Turkish government and lobbyists do this every year, when the Anniversary of the Genocide rolls around.

Turkey has released their own movie about World War 1, “The Ottoman Lieutenant”, starring Ben Kingsley.

Why would Ben Kingsley star in something like that?

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#1071617
Topic
Why Didn't Qui Gon Gin's Body Disappear Like Obiwan's and Yoda's?
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Chlorine said:

SilverWook said:

Again, no questions asked. It’s like buying a laptop from some guy in an alley, and using it to pay your bills online without checking for viruses and spyware.

Asking questions wouldn’t help though.
It’s really as black and white as

  1. use this shady army
    or
  2. have absolutely no way to defend from the Sith and their massive army at all

Sounds like the writer gave the characters a case of the stupids if you ask me.

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#1071616
Topic
The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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rodneyfaile said:

Everything went right for Luke in Star Wars. He learned the Force, joined the Rebellion, blew up the Death Star, and got a medal.

You seem to have forgotten the part where he whined and got bossed around by his Uncle. Then the part where he did a stupid and let the droid wander off. Then there was the time he got his ass kicked by a sand person and was being dragged around unconscious on the ground. Then there was that time his aunt and uncle got murdered and his home was destroyed. Then when he went to Mos Eisley he nearly got killed in the cantina. Then while training against the droid he got blasted over and over again before finally succeeding.

He also got dragged under the water and nearly drowned in the trash compactor. He had to look on helplessly while his mentor was killed. He watched nearly all of his comrades get shot down and die during the final battle.

And then he won.

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#1071601
Topic
Why Didn't Qui Gon Gin's Body Disappear Like Obiwan's and Yoda's?
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SilverWook said:

Alderaan said:

Just ignore the prequels and you don’t have to worry about **** like this.

Yeah, but it can be fun to deconstruct them sometimes. I sometimes learn more from bad movies than I do good ones. 😉

Yeah but it’s impossible to causally link the two different trilogies. They don’t even tell the same story.

I think it’s better to just view them as two different and separate things.

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#1071348
Topic
A.D. Anno Domini (1985) (* unfinished project *)
Time

Good news and bad news on this.

First, the good: I figured out that I had a latency problem with my audio playback. Found a workaround with another codec, and so everything is good now in Premiere Pro. Files have all been combined, everything is working smoothly now.

Bad news: the sync in the original files is all ****ed up and all over the place. For a few scenes the audio leads the video by a couple frames. Then there’s a scene where the audio lags by a frame or two. And so on.

Only choice now is to go back and fix the sync scene by scene … for all 9 or 10 hours.

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#1070457
Topic
The Force Awakens: Official Review Thread - ** SPOILERS **
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Darth Id said:

TV’s Frink said:

You are missing the point. …it boils down to the fact that it is applied to women 99.2% of the time

Yeah, because the fact that the character is a precocious girl is part of what makes it such a transparently pandering trope.

while men get a free pass in the same situation.

I sure hope you mean “male characters,” since I don’t think any “men” have any superpowers, let alone overpowered omnipotence on Squirrelface’s level. And in any event, no they don’t. Movies with invincible male leads who are never in dramatic peril (such as most Steven Segal movies, where he never once gets hit) are as shitty and uninteresting as any Mary Sue vehicle.

I don’t get why you are calling Daisy Ridley squirrelface all the time. Maybe you are trying to piss off the posse, I don’t know. It’s irrelevant to the argument whether you find her attractive or not, and makes you look like a dick.

TFA is a **** movie and if you want to criticize the filmmakers for being bad at their jobs and making a **** movie, go ahead. By all means I would agree with you. But this seems unnecessary and ridiculous and just detracts from your point.

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#1070427
Topic
The Worst Star Wars Characters
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CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

That burping toad creature in ROTJ. I always assumed that was an SE addition until I saw DE for the first time last summer.

Something we can agree on. This is another piece of evidence that shows OT Lucas and SE/PT Lucas are the same person. He didn’t change over the years. He just gained more and more creative control until he could indulge in bathroom humor and tonal nonsense as often as he liked.

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#1069953
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
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TV’s Frink said:

Dat_SW_Guy said:

The Phantom Menace (5.5/10)
Revenge Of The Sith (5.5/10)
Attack of the Clones (4.9/10)
Rogue One (0.9/10)

Sure, makes perfect sense.

TV’s Frink said:

And RO is worse than all of them by a wide margin…apparently.

You get so mad and cry because you think people post over and over again about how bad the Disney movies are, but then here you are. Every time a new poster comes along to tell you how bad they are, you get mad and cry about it. Post after post after post. Literally not one poster can say a negative thing about these movies without you and the posse chiming in.

Your fondness of these terrible movies is apparently not without a lot of insecurity.

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#1069415
Topic
George Lucas - your opinions of him? a general discussion thread
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He was one of several people who creatively collaborated to make the OT and its presentation magical. He deserves that much credit, but he is a fraud because he spent most of the last 40 years trying to take undue credit. Many of the things that people like most about the OT are actually not what he wanted at all. I do think he dislikes Empire Strikes Back, for instance. I do think the silliness in Return of the Jedi and the absolute juvenile presentation of the prequels are much more his M.O.

I think he just bought into the adulation and truly believed how great and talented he was, to the point where he thought he could just role out of bed and turn a vomit first draft into a movie after 15 years of retirement.