Let’s see if bringing a new inquisitor (and checking all the woke boxes, since USA and western world are now consumed by it)
Anybody who brings up “wokeness” like that deserves a permaban.
I don’t think so. Attack of the Clones really illustrates how different characters are unable to live up to their own standards and often compromise themselves and their principles.
Examples:
Obi-Wan scolds Anakin for losing his lightsaber during the air speeder chase. He loses his lightsaber during his fight with Jango on Kamino.
Mace tells Palpatine they’re the keepers of the peace and not soliders. He cuts Jango’s head off.
Padme doing the same illustrates further how she fell in love with the wrong person but she doesn’t know it until later. However she still holds onto the belief there’s good in him when he completely succumbs and this trait carries over to Luke.
I do like that idea, especially since it implies Padme unknowingly was an enabler for Anakin’s lesser traits.
Wasn’t that impressed. Hopefully if the show isn’t great, it’s at least salvable with fanedits. That has become the new standard for most Disney Star Wars content for me.
That’s my attitude with anything produced after 1980 in this franchise.
I’m watching the Disney remake of West Side Story by Steven Spielberg. I’m liking it so far, but there are an awful lot of lens flares. Like a JJ Abrams film.
The young leads are lovely young people, i’m trying to understand why other than being an unnecessary remake this bombed so hard and lost like a hundred million dollars.
Well, the star (Ansel Elgort) got accused of some pretty awful things. That definitely didn’t help.
The creative spark, and life of Star Wars is George Lucas. I think Disney Star Wars is Star Wars in name only. Its creatively bankrupt, has nothing to say and completely uncreative. A bunch of noise and explosions and special effects. It’s exactly what Star Wars would have been if it was a Hollywood product.
Largely a complaint aimed at the sequel trilogy and JJ Abrams.
They got away with it in force awakens by making a fun movie after the execrable prequels, we thought it was a return to the good old star wars movies. Then we saw how they treated the legacy characters. Luke Skywalker a worthless maguffin. JJ was the absolute worst choice. Ruined the lore, and any potential for any more movies with these characters in the Saga.
I couldn’t disagree more.
TMP: age up Anakin
AOTC: existence
TCW ‘08: just make it TV episodes
ROTS: existence
Solo: no Darth Maul
R1: existence
ANH: recut the duel for faster pacing
ESB: restore “ok, hotshot”
ROTJ: condense the Jabba’s Palace segment by half
TFA: eliminate many prospective mystery boxes
TLJ: cut the one gratuitous shot of Luke in the milk scene
TROS: Rey nobody
Make each “episode” a TV season made up of different movies (the PT, Andor, Kenobi, Solo, R1, etc.).
I despise auteur theory and kind of worship culture it creates, which gives us such delights as “the Polanski letter” and Joss Whedon’s career/writing style. Before you say I just enjoy “popcorn movies” or “seeing the same things again,” I’m not keen on “movies by committee” either (i.e., I’ve never seen an MCU movie and intend to keep it that way).
My thoughts on the auteur theory can best be summed up by this video - Tommy Wiseau: The Last Auteur - Brows Held High. It’s a good summation of a bunch of Kael’s points, using Wiseau’s The Room as a thought experiment on auteurism.
I wish I had the capacity to write walls of texts to defend my favorite “auteur.”
Pauline Kael was right and film history has only proved her points.
I believe George and Mark Hamill over a corporation whose only objective was and is to make something for the fans and to please them.
What’s wrong with that?
The mistreatment of C-3PO in the prequels gave us Auralnauts’ Creepio, so I guess it worked out in the end.
YOU PROMISED ME FLESH!
Add farting noises when Vader has his meditation chamber closed.
I’d prefer the concert suite version of “Luke & Leia” for the ending.
You already said this 4 comments ago.
Oops. I is dumb.
Maurice LaMarche would’ve taken over voiceover duties for the PT and the games.
I’d prefer the concert suite version of “Luke & Leia” for the ending.
This finale was so bad… might be the worst piece of sh*t Disney created for the franchise along with TFA and TROS… Deux Grogu Machina is ruining everything again (they don’t even try anymore, just the way it’s moving is insulting to good taste in filmmaking).
I’m so concerned about Kenobi: can they ruin SW any further? 😕
Why don’t you quit if all it does is make you rageful?
How many people here are familiar with Chris-Chan?
I’m thinking of getting an RGH-modded slim model, so I can play all sorts of ROMs I got off the internet (piracy is essential to games preservation). and my old physical games. Playing various emulators on the console is also a nice perk, but they’re not as numerous as the x86-based emulators on the original Xbox (the 360 used PowerPC architecture).
I loved my old 360 and I use a wired 360 controller with my laptop. I just can’t do keyboard+mouse.
By definition Disney Star Wars is fanfiction because it isn’t from George Lucas. So i’m not surprised.
I haven’t seen Book of Boba Fett it or Mando for that matter beyond the Luke Skywalker episode and the first season episode 1.
Filoniverse is fanfic its always been. Its never been on the level of Star Wars 1-6. Even though Disney elavated it to such a canon status.
By no means is that condemnation the EU was also fanfic and so is the new EU.
I think that only the works from Lucas should be seen as canon, even bad ones.
I like Filoni fanfiction to a certain degree. I enjoyed Clone Wars and Rebels.
So, does that mean Deep Space Nine is fan fiction because Rodenberry isn’t involved?
I’m curious, CatBus – how much do you think AI upscaling can improve print scans to get mildly closer to camera negatives quality (in terms of making despecialization more seamless)?
It depends a little on how clever the AI is. The only project I’m really following along these lines is DrDre’s, and it looks like the improvements are modest but noticeable. I’m a fan of AI enhancement, but I’m not sure it could ever really approach camera negatives.
I agree with that. The source I’d recommend AI enhancement on the most is the 2004 HDTV/2011 blu-ray. It’s already negative-sourced and it has some shots that look better than the UHD release (in terms of DNR and power windows). The only limitation on that version is that it was (presumably) a 1080p scan and has crushed blacks throughout. With the latter, luma restoration from the UHD might be helpful.
I’m firmly on the detail side of the struggle. My personal goal is to be able to watch the Star Wars trilogy as if it had had a respectful Blu-ray release (we’re talking 1080p here, I’m not picky), akin to other classic films respectfully restored for the format. Imperfect authenticity isn’t a dealbreaker for me, as long as I can’t detect it.
I’m in that boat too. Fortunately, Harmy’s 3.0 seems like it will deliver in that regard (and in 4K, no less). I’d prefer to use as little projection print material as possible, just to make OOT shots possible/allow custom mattes to blend better. It’s why I’m also behind keeping the 2004 HDTV stuff around since it is negative-sourced versions of shots changed in 2011.
I’m curious, CatBus – how much do you think AI upscaling can improve print scans to get mildly closer to camera negatives quality (in terms of making despecialization more seamless)?
I prefer the route Adywan has gone with ANH:R HD, in switching between AI upscale BD and UHD depending on the quality of the shot (with unifying color correction, of course). That’d be the best way to structure a Despecialized version, IMHO (along with print sources). Like take a look at this example:
It makes sense to upscale BD shots when the UHD equivalents get bad. Likewise, luma and details from the UHD can enhance the BD well enough.
Ooh, Albertus! It’s such a wonderful font.
I was very unsure about adywan’s decition to give Boba Fett a new, finalised death scene given that he would now be returning very much alive. However, after watching what I just watched I have come to the conclusion that Boba Fett died in 1983 and fully support Adywan making sure he stays that way. Very much looking forward to seeing that happen.
It’s safer to assume that Mandalorian/BOBF Boba is a younger Jango Fett clone who believes he’s the real deal (and the other characters just humor him), kind of like how the Batman in All-Star Batman and Robin is likely a random asshole who found a Batman costume in a dumpster.
Can we leave discussion of Book of Boba Fett out of this thread? Adywan has never been beholden to canon before, his trilogy will be his trilogy.
Indeed we can. My bad :\
I was very unsure about adywan’s decition to give Boba Fett a new, finalised death scene given that he would now be returning very much alive. However, after watching what I just watched I have come to the conclusion that Boba Fett died in 1983 and fully support Adywan making sure he stays that way. Very much looking forward to seeing that happen.
It’s safer to assume that Mandalorian/BOBF Boba is a younger Jango Fett clone who believes he’s the real deal (and the other characters just humor him), kind of like how the Batman in All-Star Batman and Robin is likely a random asshole who found a Batman costume in a dumpster.