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I guess that would be like the decision to have almost all the significant characters in the OT Caucasian human men, not to down play Beru or the Cantina twins or the woman straining peas in Mos Eisley.
They cut Koo Stark out of the first film. But oh gosh too many women now Jeeze Louise (or should that be Louis?).
I’ve just seen the trailer. So… another female hero? Why? We have a young chick as the lead character in the new trilogy. But the trailer seems … OK.
I hate that they simply use the nostalgic factor instead of doing something new. Hey look - the Death Star. AGAIN. Oh look - Star destroyers. I remember those from my childhood. Oh look - the boring woman from Episode 6 - I sort of remember her. I remember all those things, so I guess I have a reason to go see the movie it and buy some toys, sorry, I meant “action figures”, right?
Please be joking.
I had no problem with the Falcon being in TFA it was the plot similarities that annoyed me not the old kit or the really cool new characters (particularly the female ones what with it being the 21st Century and all).
The incident is mentioned in the crawl for the first film, Mon Mothma is in two films played here by the same actress as the chronologically earlier iteration.
I would be all for Caroline Blakiston being in a film between ROTJ and TFA it would make more sense than sticking rubber on Genevieve O’Reilly (born the same year as the series btw).
If they do something more with these characters (this is the importance of plot) It would only add value to a rather dull scene in ROTJ as on re-visiting that film we would see her as an actual character rather than an exposition tannoy.
It’s interesting that the dish is attached last on this Death Star but the station is built around it in ROTJ.
Has there been any information leaked on Diego Luna’s character? I liked the notion that he might be playing Biggs Darklighter; I’m not one for universe shrinking, but I think this would be a fitting way to see more of the character who, based on the deleted ANH footage and the radio drama, seemed pretty cool.
It’s not a universe shrinking idea to see someone we know to have been at a location at that location albeit a bit earlier than the time frame of the deleted scenes. I’m all for it.
I call it universe examining.
In light of new developments it might be fun to have one of the AT-ATs very briefly switch a red light on. Inside and outside the cockpit. That way it’s shown to be possible but not default and something done under certain conditions which doesn’t need to be figured out as opposed to having the red light on for one shot with no apparent reason to it.
Maybe it’s like a red alert in Star Trek and Needa is more ballsy than they were before the Death Star blew up 😄
Once again some of the images in that trailer look rather like some of the mock-ups for fan-edits that do or used to appear on this site 😄
The Death Star shot looked rather like Ady’s to these eyes.
All the AT-ATs have Cylon windows now.
I think this could turn into the real Episode 3. It looks incredible… Mustn’t get too optimistic 😄
I am reminded of Archie Goodwin’s film adaptations and newspaper strips in that everything we have seen before is very closely reconstructed but there is a lot of new and interesting stuff thrown in there too. It feels like the same universe but seen from another set of characters point of view which is exactly what the PT should have been.
The guy in the white water resistant cape looks like 1970s Ian McKellen.
Perhaps the Yavin sequences of ARSE should be left until after a certain stand alone movie is out on Blu.
There may be lots of useful background details which could be re-purposed by the looks of things.
Blame the G-Men.
Star Trek (2009)
After relentlessly trashing the idea of a Star Trek reboot for years, I finally caved and decided to give it a shot.
I actually quite enjoyed it. A-
J.J. Abrams seems to have pleased both old and new Trekkies with his 2009 one. The older ones hated Into Darkness but the new ones still liked it. Beyond looks like it’s going to move the entire fanbase back to square one, although I’m only judging by the trailer.
He didn’t please me.
It was okay but pretty much the same okay that Nemesis was.
Into Darkness is laugh out loud bad though.
I like Dean Gray : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiFiUlzsf0U
I would recommend Michael Mann’s The Keep but it’s still difficult to get.
I have the VHS and I had it on laserdisk but I had to get rid of it when I had to rid of my player and discs.
Manhunter is worth a watch.
Nice of you to consider it but going by his assistance to comedians paying homage to his performance I can’t imagine him minding.
That the film had interesting, well rounded characters that the audience can care about was one old idea I didn’t mind seeing rehashing 😄
It wouldn’t have been too hard to have mixed up things a bit more so Rey wasn’t living on Jakkuoine (the concepts of canals of water between the crashed wrecks suggestive of a paradise ruined by a war the locals had nothing to do with adds complexity to the story and the shared universe of these films a missed opportunity).
Having the superweapon either not destroyed or moving the aim of the attack against it to defend the doomed Republic capital would have made what the film does with the story ingredient very different from the other two times one was used. Similarly having the Republic have a Death Star which they are deliberating about using would have been a refreshing change by reversal.
The skies in these films are just not weird enough. One thing I like about The Navigator (1988) is how medieval eyes see modern landscapes as utterly alien. The OT had multiple suns, multiple moons, floating cities, gas giants, metal worlds. Things that make that most ubiquitous of landscape details, the sky, look unique and interesting. In terms of location Coruscant in the PT was an interesting backdrop, sadly to a very dull story. We don’t get much of that in this film.
The characters, good as they are do things we have already seen other characters do, often much better. I think they played too safe with the plot but did well with the characters.
^I think we took a wrong turn…
Wasn’t quite sure where to put this but there is a fair deal of JEJ lines in Under A Killing Moon you could use in your edits.
More of a misunderstanding than a misconception, but I used to think “There is another” referred to Darth Vader, because he ultimately is the one who defeats the emperor and I thought Yoda had the foresight to see this. Mind you I was very young at the time and the only prequel that had yet been released was TPM. Looking back, my misunderstanding sounds like something GL would ret-con into being “his original intention” nowadays.
I think this is just evidence of you young Darth Lucas being more insightful than middle-aged George Lucas.
Using this interpretation you can short cut the originally intended sister plot to have ROTJ as the ‘final’ episode without the need to make Leia Luke’s sister.
Frank De Felitta died a couple of days ago so it would be timely to recommend the very grim and unrelenting The Entity. Not for everyone but a very well made and finely balanced movie using a truly horrifying idea to the fullest.
The Ninth Configuration is eighties isn’t it? Doesn’t matter watch!
This.
As for my own suggestion: Phenomena.
Obvious date was obvious
The Ninth Configuration is eighties isn’t it? Doesn’t matter watch!
I wish Marvel would buy the rights to SuperGran and do a Jessica Jones style gritty version with SuperGran taking on razor gangs and the ice-cream wars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtymNiYlSD4
Maybe if the door could be brought down faster it would also serve underline how fast Rey’s reflexes are.
By way of a reminder… how can anyone forget memes of this magnitude?
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed
Keeping pushing this I know but is there any chance ?:
Palpatine to Vader : i am truely sorry for your lots
