Bingowings

TV’s Frink said:

Bingowings said:

Got to go to work.

Reported.

I’m just being Frank.

Got to go to work.

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

I have this problem at work, with people seeing suicide and suicidal thoughts as selfishness so I do sympathise. Mental illness is like any other illness or injury so blaming someone for being close to death for being mentally ill is as helpful and as compassionate as blaming a person with cancer for having a near scrape with death.

While I agree, I do think it is important for those considering suicide to realize their death would hurt more than just themselves. I mean if were to kill myself right now(and I am not considering do so) can you imagine what it would do to my mother?

It is amusing to outsiders how Americans abuse the term rest in the context of bodily functions. Sorry to hear you relatives lost their jobs in that way. Currently that wouldn’t be legal in this country but post Brexit who knows what workers rights we will lose.

Maybe I missed something, but I don’t he told us why his father and uncle lost their jobs.

While I am glad that you have the capacity to see how killing yourself would upset people who know and care about you people who complete suicide are either so ill that they cannot or in so much pain that the perceived escape from pain outweighs such considerations. Either way the person is a victim of illness and not to be blamed. If you find yourself with a suicidal person the last thing you should do is to blame them. Try and convince them to stay and seek help for the sake of a potentially happier future them by all means. It’s hopefully what everyone here would at least try.

Bingowings said:

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

In terms of tone Aliens is more in line with films like Predator and the Terminator (no surprise considering James Cameron made that one) than the first film.
Alien is filmed in a matter of fact sort of way with a more consistent visual effects quality and with superior score and a more epic looking aspect ratio. Aliens is in places very tatty (like ROTJ and Temple of Doom), it’s quotable and fun action, rather than grim cosmic horror in vein of H.P. Lovecraft or the Demeter sequences of Dracula.
The Queen is amazing in Aliens and Sigourney plays it straight but then you have balance that against possibly the most annoying child actor performance in a major motion picture (Jake Lloyd’s antics are actually more tolerable than Carrie Henn’s mostly painful line delivery… mostly and her awful screeches) and James Horner recycling his other score (kept expecting the Klingons to turn up) and John Williams’ (as the atmosphere processor goes boom you can almost see Tarkin stroking his chin).
I like Aliens but it’s a very different film and yes barely feels like a sequel.

If you say so… * sigh *

Whatever

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

In terms of tone Aliens is more in line with films like Predator and the Terminator (no surprise considering James Cameron made that one) than the first film.
Alien is filmed in a matter of fact sort of way with a more consistent visual effects quality and with superior score and a more epic looking aspect ratio. Aliens is in places very tatty (like ROTJ and Temple of Doom), it’s quotable and fun action, rather than grim cosmic horror in vein of H.P. Lovecraft or the Demeter sequences of Dracula.
The Queen is amazing in Aliens and Sigourney plays it straight but then you have balance that against possibly the most annoying child actor performance in a major motion picture (Jake Lloyd’s antics are actually more tolerable than Carrie Henn’s mostly painful line delivery… mostly and her awful screeches) and James Horner recycling his other score (kept expecting the Klingons to turn up) and John Williams’ (as the atmosphere processor goes boom you can almost see Tarkin stroking his chin).
I like Aliens but it’s a very different film and yes barely feels like a sequel.

If you say so… * sigh *

Warbler said:

Jay said:

I enjoy Aliens for what it is, but it’s barely a sequel to Alien.

barely???

In terms of tone Aliens is more in line with films like Predator and the Terminator (no surprise considering James Cameron made that one) than the first film.
Alien is filmed in a matter of fact sort of way with a more consistent visual effects quality and with superior score and a more epic looking aspect ratio. Aliens is in places very tatty (like ROTJ and Temple of Doom), it’s quotable and fun action, rather than grim cosmic horror in vein of H.P. Lovecraft or the Demeter sequences of Dracula.
The Queen is amazing in Aliens and Sigourney plays it straight but then you have balance that against possibly the most annoying child actor performance in a major motion picture (Jake Lloyd’s antics are actually more tolerable than Carrie Henn’s mostly painful line delivery… mostly and her awful screeches) and James Horner recycling his other score (kept expecting the Klingons to turn up) and John Williams’ (as the atmosphere processor goes boom you can almost see Tarkin stroking his chin).
I like Aliens but it’s a very different film and yes barely feels like a sequel.

Editroid said:

Adywan, I just saw Rogue One for a second time, and I noticed that the X-Wing engines are pink, while ANH Revisited has them red. Also in ANH Revisited, I noticed that before Vader’s duel with Obi-Wan, the sound effect of his lightsaber turning on is not the “hissing” sound it usually has. Could you please fix them?

I’m not sure if that’s down to using the ‘restorations’ as templates rather than it being the original or superior colour choice.

Over Christmas I had a rather disturbing nightmare.
In the dream I’m sitting down with my sister to watch ‘Christmas television’.
I turn a channel and there is this rather freaky show where people wrapped in clear plastic like Laura Palmer but wiggling around and people were hitting them with cricket bats and sticks.
Horrified I turn the television off and apologise to my sister explaining I had no idea that the show would be like that.
She apathetically went out of the room and went back to bed (which was in some ways the worst part of the dream).

I have this problem at work, with people seeing suicide and suicidal thoughts as selfishness so I do sympathise. Mental illness is like any other illness or injury so blaming someone for being close to death for being mentally ill is as helpful and as compassionate as blaming a person with cancer for having a near scrape with death.
It’s not clever or grown up and you can get your relatives to talk to me about if it helps.
It is amusing to outsiders how Americans abuse the term rest in the context of bodily functions. Sorry to hear you relatives lost their jobs in that way. Currently that wouldn’t be legal in this country but post Brexit who knows what workers rights we will lose.

The one in my aunties front room ran off electricity so that had a lead.

One Day Like This : Elbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCJ7keVBj6Y

Why not call it Episode IV: A NEW HOPE Part One?

Rebellione : Their First Assignment

Being 3 or 4 and seeing the Holocaust episodes of the World at War and realising it happened and that the Victims and the Perpetrators were the same species as my parents.

I would remove all instances of Yavin V being named so should you watch ANH next you might think Leia cracked and gave the name of the base away when she gives Tarkin Dantooine as a vain attempt to spare Alderaan.

MalàStrana said:

ForceGhostRecon said:
(including Vader in his prime)

I have to insist, but the weird guy killing random rebels with a red lightsaber at the end is not Vader: it’s Jason Voorhees wearing a Vader halloween costume (Rogue One is the best Friday the 13th since Jason X !). So yep, you can end up with something far superior by removing the shitty parts: that’s the spirit of fanediting. If you love the film as it is, don’t change it. The slim thing is not even that terrible compared to the lack of good characters…

Vader is Jason anyway. He is an almost impossible to stop semi-supernatural, angry, scarred monster who kills people.

suspiciouscoffee said:

EDIT: I’m not helping…

Wrong photo

Mola Ram has kidnapped the children from a small village on Jeddha to dig for the kyber crystals. Han Duet (the other Han’s older brother) teams up with a dancing girl to try and rescue them which he does but they all get killed anyway when the Death Star fires on the planet.
French Biggs stabs his panicking rebel spy colleague on the Streets of Knowhere.

ray_afraid said:

Bingowings said:

Seeing how hands on Vader is in Rogue One the death of Captain Antilles looks a bit hokey. I don’t know if it could be done but if instead of just crushing his neck and throwing him against a wall it might be better if he let go of him and crushed his throat in mid air using the Force. This would make Motti seem a bit ignorant to ruffle the Sith seeing what we would then know was possible. Hopefully the arm of the Vader suit and someone dressed in the Captain’s clobber would be enough to pull off the trick.

I’d much rather see more of SW Vader than R1 Vader. Lifting a guy off the ground by his throat and breaking his neck one handed is much more intimidating, brutal and real than doing the same thing from a distance using magic.

No it isn’t I’ve done both and the magic is much more impressive. His little legs just dangling there and him all scared and everything… it was classic!

teharri said:

Nice.

Octorox said:

I’d be a little sad to see those scenes in a Prequels go only because I’m a big fan of the book Catalyst, which does a good job of tying them together with Rogue One. What about altering the plans in AOTC:R to look more like the ANH plans, something like this:

Yes that works.
The idea of Christopher Lee handing such a thing to Peter Cushing is too sweet to lose. As a Rogue Jedi he would probably know that the crystals in his saber would have other uses.

Seeing how hands on Vader is in Rogue One the death of Captain Antilles looks a bit hokey. I don’t know if it could be done but if instead of just crushing his neck and throwing him against a wall it might be better if he let go of him and crushed his throat in mid air using the Force. This would make Motti seem a bit ignorant to ruffle the Sith seeing what we would then know was possible. Hopefully the arm of the Vader suit and someone dressed in the Captain’s clobber would be enough to pull off the trick.

I’d replace all the music that was trying to evoke the main theme without being it with the main theme.
I would add a crawl.
I would remove all the captions for locations.
Was the bit on Knowhere even necessary?
If possible I would turn Tarkin into a hologram to pull him further out of the uncanny valley.
Drop most of the obvious fan service.
Drop some of the motivational speechy bits.
Try and make Leia look a little less artificial if possible.
If anything I would add even more smashed up Jedi related buildings so the Death Star really can clear out something substantial.

Well, I waited for my niece to come and see it with me but in the end I had to go on my own.
Generally I liked it.
Tarkin should have been a hologram and then he would have looked amazing in fact why did they expand that character and not Vader where JEJ is still around and the body can sort of be played by anyone in a mask (but not quite as we found out in ROTS and to a lesser extent here also)?
The new characters were good.
A few too many easter eggs for my taste.
Walrus man and Mr Squishyface get around a bit don’t they? Did we really need the rebel captain to call for escape pods as Vader is going all Jason Vorhees (that was brilliant… make a Vader, slasher movie the kids will go crazy)?
I know Frink is going to ‘call me out’ or whatever it’s fashionable for young people to say these days but some of this film looks really like our ROTJ mockups. Just like TFA.
There really is no excuse for not putting more John Williams themes in this. Some of the new music just sounds like knock off Star Wars music (like when a fan film is trying to avoid a cease and desist) that didn’t work as didn’t the captions telling me where the characters would later tell me I was going.
Like the TFA the strength of this film is largely with the new characters. Some of the dialogue is a bit too on the nose and sometimes really unnatural sounding and could do with a trim. I say it’s equal with TFA in negatives and positives and I look forward to seeing what the fan edit community do with it.
Hurray for Castle Vader and his funny butler guy at last. Don’t like sand but somehow really digging lava irregardless of the past history with the stuff. I really want to see more of that relationship. Does he make him dress up as Palpatine and bow to him for pervy reasons?

The screaming ab dabs.

And so it is.