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No, Tarkin is definitely integral to the story of the Death Star and his role in the film was great if you don’t get hung up on the CG or voice.
Why do you feel this way? The only dramatic thing Tarkin did in the entire movie was to come and take Krennic’s command away from him. Everything else he did on screen was pointless filler.
There’s no question Tarkin was off. I think we can all agree to civilly disagree on matters of taste and what not if it comes down to that, and I feel like someone is entitled to think the CGI work was “good enough” for them if that’s how they really feel, but if someone actually came away from the film thinking Tarkin was spot-on, then I have to question either their sincerity or their attention to detail. They must either be the Kevin Smith type of fan, or they really don’t have the attention span for some things.
Either way, I think this whole CGI dead actors thing was in poor taste. Tarkin could have been alluded to in the dialogue, as Jabba and the Emperor were in Star Wars, without showing him on screen. The film would have benefited from concentrating the story on fewer characters, and in the case of the bad guys, Krennic’s role would have been far stronger.
Thanks Faith, I’ll try that out. I loved Harmy’s 2.7 for Star Wars that I didn’t have to burn a physical copy, I can just store it on PC and stream to my TV. Of course, I will probably decide to burn physical at some point, but it was more convenient that way.
VLC will play them fine.
MKVs won’t import into premiere, but the x264 video track inside them will. Therefore, if you convert to another container (like mp4 or .ts), or demultiplex with something like TsMuxer and import the video stream itself, it will be fine.
Thanks towne, appreciate it!
Any recommendations for download links with low spam/bundles?
Dude, everything about your picture is so much cooler. The carpet, the door, the lightsaber, the t-shirt, the mask…it’s the complete nostalgia package.
Nah, his kid’s pic looks better. And that’s the way it should be, right?
Everything is great now with Star Wars and I’ve moved onto Empire Strikes Back.
I downloaded the AVCHD file but didn’t have any DVD-DLs, so until I get to the store and buy some, I tried downloading the .MKV file. Did that successfully, but what programs are now recommended to play .MKV files? I’m not familiar with them.
Also, will these import into popular editing suites like Premiere Pro or Final Cut? Thanks.
Here is a link to a story about Carrie editing the script for The Empire Strikes Back on set. She’s well known now as a script doctor, but apparently she got her start by tightening up Lawrence Kasdan’s script for one of the great films ever made.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-carrie-fisher-writer-20161227-story.html
My favorite line of hers was always: “I am not a committee!”
Also loved her cadence in the scene with Luke on Endor.
This is my favorite Princess Leia music. I’ll have this on repeat tonight for you, Carrie.
Not the time nor the thread for that debate.
There shouldn’t even be a thread about it all. She graced us with her presence in films we’ve all loved for so long. We should be thankful for the legacy she left us, not pondering what the plot in the next movie will be without her, mere hours after she just died.
But that’s the last I will say on the subject.
She gave us everything she had (on screen) in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
That’s all we’ll ever need.
too soon
Very saddened to hear this today.
She brought a lot of entertainment and joy to so many people, and provided a role model for so many young women and girls over the years. RIP Carrie, a true loss for us all.
Luckily they couldn’t foresee this community.
Something we can agree on!
Fair point, Ronster. I guess we don’t know either way, but it’s unfortunate the way it turned out.
Back in the 1980s we had the following:
The picture quality of these copies was not good and deteriorated year after year, but I must have watched those tapes hundreds of times. Return of the Jedi was hard to see after a few years. Then Return of the Jedi came out on TV for the first time in 1989, and I remember being so excited because I could finally watch the entire movie all the way through the end.
By the 1990’s you could catch a random afternoon showing of any of the Star Wars films on cable. The FOX fanfare would start blaring when you flipped through the channels, and sometimes it would be another movie and you’d be disappointed, but often it would be Star Wars and you could stop everything you were doing and watch the movie for the next two or three hours. More popular were the weekend marathons, including one that I remember was hosted by Carrie Fisher, where the original Star Wars would play on Friday night, The Empire Strikes Back would play on Saturday night, and Return of the Jedi would conclude the trilogy on Sunday evening.
By those days, growing up through grade school and middle school, I was playing Star Wars on Nintendo and quoting Luke/Vader/Emperor dialogue back and forth with my Dad when I challenged him in some contest or game. I bought “The Faces” VHS box set in the mid-90s, the first thing I ever bought and owned on my own. Nothing brought me more joy than sliding those tapes out of their beautiful sleeves and popping them in the VCR, allowing me to toss out the faded bootleg cassettes I’d had previously, and replace them with (for the time) new and pristine tapes.
Ominously, they began with a message: “Own the Original Star Wars Trilogy: For the very last time”. That warning made no sense to us at the time. How could we have ever known?
Ronster said:
But it was a heavily cut down sequence. There were meant to be a lot more shot’s showcasing the weirdo’s in Jedha city. So many creature effects and animatronics were totally cut from this part it’s sad. we were meant to not only see the Local’s and the Kyber Miners but some of the abominations created by Dr. Evanzan called the Decraniated (Cyborg Slaves). We also miss a small part where a Bounty Hunter was tracking Dr Evanzan and Walrusman. All in all the sequence is cut down by about 3 - 5 minutes probably.
For me, what I keep coming back to is whether or not any of this fits into a narrative or could even be part of a film. If you have a story where Jyn is the main character, then why would it ever be necessary to spend 5 minutes following around some random weirdos on a tangent that is irrelevant to the main story?
That’s probably why it got cut and none of these gratuitous cameos should have even been in the film in the first place. Mon Mothma and Bail Organa? Absolutely. Tarkin and Vader? Possibly. But Dr. Evanzan and Walrusman? And R2D2 and C3PO? And another droid babbling about the odds of…something…why are these things in the movie? What possible creative vision could ever find room for nonsense like this in a well-told original narrative?
And the answer I keep getting stuck on is that it’s still about Lucasfilm and now Disney selling toys.
I’m starting to think you don’t like anything.
I liked the first act stuff with Rey in TFA. I liked the flashback sequence in that film. I liked the last Vader scene in R1. I like how it ties into the beginning of ANH. Just some examples.
TPM doesn’t have a good score, it has Duel of the Fates which is just OK and then a bunch of background music.
I mean, who can forget timeless classical pieces like “Anakin defeats Sebulba” and “Watto’s Deal and Kids at Play”.
I do think the space battle in R1 was much better than TFA, although not on par with the OT. TFA space battle was particularly disappointing because I remember the shot they included in the trailer looked so damn good.
TV’s Frink said:
Sounds reasonable.Luke force-throws a newer most dangerous ever Death Star into a supernova and saves the galaxy. The movie makes $500 million. Fans wonder why Kenobi or Luke didn’t do that to the other Death Stars or Starkiller. Some moderator on TFN proclaims that their force powers weren’t strong enough, but Luke trained for 30 years until he could do it. He found some ancient training method from some obscure world in some EU or Legends novel. Then someone asks why The Emperor didn’t force-throw the entire Rebel Fleet to the other side of the galaxy. Then a few people cry out “it’s just a movie, who cares!”
I fully expect these things to happen in the next movie. This is the direction the franchise has been going for almost 20 years.
Sounds extra reasonable.
The two posts in this thread before the last one were extra extra reasonable.
Honest Trailer of Attack of the Clones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJS-LPcFfw&t=24s
Starring: HAYDON’T ACT AGAIN
I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time!
I know a few, those comments are just getting old.
Which ones? I’d love to hear your opinion.
LexX said:
Like there isn’t bad films with great scores and vice versa.
I can’t think of any bad films with good original scores.
Of course, there are good films with bad or mediocre scores, but that might be due to the composer not being very talented, not having enough time or resources to work with, etc. There are even some great films that don’t have a score at all.
You need a better film if you want a better score. The composer gets his inspiration from what he watches on the screen.