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oojason said:

Why is that trooper wearing shorts…?

Looks alright so far. I personally don’t mind the 3D cel-shaded thing, I prefer it to the straight CGI animation of TCW and Rebels.

I’m hoping this is all from the first episode, though. If not, this show is going to get very bland, very quickly - I want to see some variation in locations and visuals rather than everything being bright, pastel, and on a water planet…

Hal 9000 said:

It’s the worst one.

TPM holds together as a… weird, sort of boring at times… movie. And AOTC is a misguided… boring movie with bizarre slapstick cartoon portions.

ROTS is largely a powerpoint presentation in which everything from the prequels metamorphosizes into the way it was for ANH. Nothing anyone does makes any sense, and it is where the reality of the fact that these were prequel movies rendered itself onto this movie. It’s crunch time.

I agree with this, except that I think AOTC is worse than ROTS. But all the things you highlight are the reasons I’ve never understood why ROTS is rated as highly as it is by most.

I mean, if you’re going to leave a thread, just leave it. Quoting your “I’m leaving” post whenever someone replies just shows you aren’t actually letting it go, even if you aren’t technically saying anything.

screams in the void said:

it is there , look at Vader’s eyes and then compare it to Tom Jung poster here…https://imgur.com/gallery/2JqSA even the colors are different.

Oh wow, yeah, I see it now. Huh.

Vader doesn’t appear altered at all in that image to me…

Agreed. I like the idea of more alien pilots, sure, but we all know how smoothly the Wampa went…

Handman said:

I don’t know. I think the company is forcing out all the old timers. It’s switched hands a few times. All the benefits he had no longer exist for people coming in now.

Yep, there’s the reason right there.

Sorry to hear about this, man. That really sucks.

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Thanks guys!

In doing the math, the weekly take-home pay actually works out to be about the same…but that’s because I’ll be working 40 hours a week instead of 50-60, so I’m still pretty happy with it.

Just got hired at a new company today! I don’t start until September, but it’s about a 50% pay bump, and I’ll no longer be working 10hr shifts or have to deal with night shift anymore!

Oh, and those covers all look fantastic, Falle! You’ve saved me the effort of doing the early-90s VHS covers in BR size! 😄

Same for TLJ:

And best quality of the AOTC logo from the same toy line (though it isn’t exactly the same as the other more “polished” looking one with the “Star Wars” logo outline like ESB):

Yep, those TPM/AOTC/ROTS ones are what I based mine on. Well, the ROTS one I used is that official one, and the AOTC one is as close as I can replicate it (I’ve never found it in high quality), but I made a TPM one based on that with a Star Wars “square” around it like on the ROTS logo.

There’s a TFA one that’s similar to the TPM one used for some toys - different font though, Trajan I think (used for the “EPISODE ##” in the prequel logos, but not the title itself, which I think was Albertus, as used on that action figure TPM logo). Here it is:

Xizor

Kanan

I liked Insurrection…

TiddySprinklesPimpBillion said:

heathen3017 said:

If memory serves correct, an extended version is shown from time to time on a Fox cable channel in HD. Does anyone have that?

You could cap it and make it yourself. This is lazy.

You’re just full of helpful advice, huh?

Would a Netflix capture or the iTunes release be higher quality?

That disc appears to be region B locked, though.

Mrebo said:

Jesus Frink is a terrifying idea.

But Mohammed Frink sounds oddly comforting.

… I’ll show myself out.

SilverWook said:

Handman said:

Yeah, it sucks. But it’s been that way for awhile.

It’s just getting worse, though. My grandmother had a friend who invented an electric engine sometime in the 50s or 60s, patented it, the whole thing. Apparently, the feds confiscated it as being a “threat to national security” and completely destroyed him. From what transpired with Tucker, that’s not too far fetched. I’m sure there are plenty of other similar stories out there.

I’m reminded of a stand up comedian’s joke I once heard about someone who announces they’ve invented an engine that runs on tap water, who’s quickly shot dead by a mysterious assassin moments later.

The late 1950’s series One Step Beyond, (similar to The Twilight Zone except the stories were supposed to be based on factual events) had an episode about an inventor who suddenly vanishes after demonstrating a pellet that turned water into gasoline.

There was an episode of The Lone Gunmen that dealt with a guy who invented a car that runs on water, too, if memory serves.

Mine definitely still does, though I bet most of the cartridges that worked for me in the early-mid 90s probably no longer do.

And CTR has better physics and more responsive controls than Mario Kart. It’s a clone of Mario Kart, sure, but I think it was more polished and more fun. Then again, I have massive Crash Bandicoot nostalgia and zero Mario Bros. nostalgia.

jrs81 said:

To be honest, I love the idea of two movies. JJ is probably regretting his backing out of 8, and two movies would give him a chance to have his “trilogy”. This would ALSO give our film editors more material to make a definitive 3 movie Trilogy 😃

Merge Episodes 7,8 eliminating the Episode 7 remake of 4, and eliminate the boring stuff in episode 8. They already merge together perfectly when we meet Luke on the island. My 2 cents.

I mean, it might be best case scenario for us as a fan editing community, but I think it would lose a lot of goodwill with general audiences. It would certainly turn me off of new SW material more than anything else Disney has done up to this point.

You can’t sell limited time releases, but you can certainly do them and enforce it easily. Hell, streaming might encourage Disney’s “in the vault”/rotating slate of availability model even more strongly than physical releases did. Make a big ad push for new subscribers every time they “generously” bring something popular “out of the vault” and onto the streaming service.