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#1342380
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The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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DominicCobb said:

Honestly the change was so straightforward I didnā€™t think it warranted a clip.

Hmmmā€¦ Did it require pure deletion of scenes or have you figured out how to rearrange?

Edit:

Found it!

DominicCobb said:

Yes Iā€™m doing that. You donā€™t learn Chewieā€™s alive until the destroyer arrives on Kijimi and Rey senses him.

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#1342117
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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snooker said:

I really hate to lose Klaud, though šŸ˜ž

I feel your pain, but he is a necessary loss if we are to implement your wonderful chess idea!

On that note, Hal, since we go from Palpy, to hyperspace, to chess, then to the giant iceburgā€¦ Could we perhaps cut out the middle man and have a VFX shot of the falcon exiting hyperspace straight to the iceburg? šŸ¤”

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#1342051
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Hal 9000 said:

This is NOT intended to represent a reservation I have about using the Falcon ending shot. This is such a nerdy thing to say that it would have rightfully been shouted down by people if this had been in the movie.

Butā€¦

The Falcon leaping right into hyperspace within a few seconds of taking off makes Hanā€™s efforts to escape from Mos Eisley in ANH seem overly cautionary. (Doesnā€™t seem like entering hyperspace from within an atmosphere or planetā€™s gravity would normally be a good idea.)

BUT, itā€™s a perfect visual ending for the story. Just felt obliged to throw a neckbeard comment in for devilā€™s advocacy.

Might I draw eveyoneā€™s attention to the moment in TROS immediately after the ā€œYou are a Palpatineā€ revealā€¦ Finn grabs Rey after she jumps out of the docking bay and, guess what? Poe jumps to lightspeed within Kijimiā€™s atmosphere!!! šŸ˜

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#1341995
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Hal 9000 said:

Here are the scenes or pieces that would be affected, unless I miss any:

  • Rey and Palpatine meeting (should be easy to handle through just deleting lines)

I will always have a certain fondness of the line:
ā€œLong have I waited, for my grandchild to come home!ā€

Solely because when I watched it in the cinema an elderly woman started bursting with laughter. šŸ˜‚

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#1341957
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Octorox said:

Itā€™s not her identity thatā€™s the issue, itā€™s her own acceptance of that identity. Earlier in the film, thereā€™s a scene where an alien child asks her what her family name is and she says her name is ā€œjust Reyā€ in a sort of sheepish, slightly forlorn tone. At the end of the last film, she came to the realization that sheā€™s a ā€œnobody from nowhereā€ but we can see in this scene that sheā€™s still not quite comfortable with that newfound knowledge. Itā€™s still a point of embrassment rather than pride. By taking it as a badge of honor at the end of the movie, sheā€™s fully actualized and completed her arc, whereas taking the Skywalker name feels to me like itā€™s a step backward. Itā€™s her clinging to an idealized version of the Skywalker legend as she did in the first half of the Last Jedi. She needs to be comfortable being ā€œJust Reyā€ before she can be ā€œRey Skywalkerā€.

These are all just my opinions of course, but I cared a lot about this character and was disappointed with the direction they took in tieing her identity to other people, whether itā€™s the Skywalkers or the Palpatines. As we see in the prequels, the Skywalkers and the Jedi as a whole have a complicated, messy legacy and while Rey learned from and was inspired by them, she could have also been the start of something new.

Perfect analysis. Couldnā€™t have said it better myself.

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#1341938
Topic
Dom's (Possibly) Useful TROS Edit (WIP)
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DominicCobb said:

I think the idea has merit, but Iā€™m skeptical. I agree with Hal I think itā€™d need to be accidental.

Fair enough! šŸ˜‰ Thanks for your input.
The one thing I like about the idea is that it works very well as a shocking reveal for Kylo Ren to give in the docking bay, I think krausfadr did a good job with altering Kylo Renā€™s lines in the clip for that scene.
However, I agree with basically every other concern mentioned by others about implementing this idea into the filmā€¦ šŸ˜•

For example, snooker pretty much somes up my thoughts here:

snooker said:

Rey killing her parents feels unearned and retcon-y to me? I can see the argument for it thoughā€¦

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#1341934
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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DominicCobb said:

This is looking great. I actually think there isnā€™t enough engine glow in snookerā€™s. If anything Iā€™d push the engine glow even more so that one doesnā€™t immediately notice any inadequacies with the model.

I agree.
This is another reason I like the previous clip a little better, I also think the movement doesnā€™t quite work as beautifully as it did in the other clipā€¦ But props to Poppasketti for giving it his all and trying something new! šŸ˜ šŸ‘

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#1341931
Topic
Dom's (Possibly) Useful TROS Edit (WIP)
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krausfadr said:

Chase, yeah but its not very popular so I have to talk to people here. Anyway the discussion is specifically about the possibilities for a Rey killed her parents edit which Hal is looking into.

While I do agree with you that it is worth discussing, I donā€™t see any indication that Hal is ā€œlooking into itā€ at this point in time. But seeing that this is Domā€™s thread, it really depends on whether or not he sees any merit in the ideaā€¦

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#1341921
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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poppasketti said:

Hereā€™s a new pass! I downloaded a new 3D model of the falcon and brought it into cinema4D and recreated the flight path. After chatting with snooker, it turns out itā€™s the same model heā€™s using. I think his engines look better, though! So weā€™ll see what options we come up with!

https://vimeo.com/414985184
pw: fanedit

This is great! (as always!) But I think I sort of preferred your previous clipā€¦ šŸ¤”

Also, has anybody else noticed that we see the very edge of the Lars homestead in this shot, so technically speaking, when the falcon passes over it the scale is incorrect. It should be much, much bigger. šŸ˜¬

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#1341613
Topic
The ā€˜Custom Special Editionā€™ That Almost Wasnā€™t, But Then Was (Released)
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Hal 9000 said:

Iā€™m afraid, in your angerā€¦ heā€™s recovering decently in a hospital bed.

Oh, shit! Didnā€™t realise there was a serious reason for his absenceā€¦ Hope my joke wasnā€™t in poor taste thenā€¦

Hal 9000 said:

RogueLeader just sent me the completed shots. THANK YOU THEY ARE PERFECT

Can we see them?

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#1341555
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Hal, youā€™ll be happy to know that after seeing some of the Kylo Ren audio work DominicCobb was doing on his edit, I began warming up to the idea that perhaps a Rey nobody cut is possible to achieve!

In saying this, I was wondering what might be the complete list of lines, scenes, references, effects etcā€¦ That might need to be cut or altered in order to facilitate a Rey nobody edit?

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#1341542
Topic
Small details that took you <em><strong>FOREVER</strong></em> to notice in the <em>Star Wars</em> films
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ZkinandBonez said:

I just realized that when Han rescues Luke during the trench run scene by shooting one of the TIE-fighters and knocking Vader out of the way, that we only see Han in close-up and then suddenly Chewie is in the co-pilot seat after the DS explodes. Since obviously someone would have had to be operating the laser cannons, and thereā€™s no one else available but Chewie, I wonder if they cut to the CU to avoid any continuity errors as Chewie is suddenly back in the cockpit shortly after. Looking at the scene now it really seems like Chewie was always sitting next to Han and they had to cut around it.

The Millenium Falcon has more weapon systems than just 2 quad laser cannons:

falcon

^Read label #50 and the armament subheading in the blue box.

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#1341539
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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idir_hh said:

Since you mentioned the blue, is it not wierd that Luke was all blue on Achto but on tattoine heā€™s just normal? I think that could be why I feel it looks a little off.

This is something I have been waiting for:

Bobson Dugnutt said:

Hereā€™s a version with the green reduced

fixed

And how it looks on the other shot

1
2

Once I have the Blu-Ray, Iā€™ll work on it, for now Iā€™ve only got screenshots

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#1341508
Topic
The Rise of Skywalker: Ascendant (Released)
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Jamesleaf said:
And if Hal goes with Sebastian Shaw for his ROTJ edit, Hayden Christensenā€™s ROTJ body could be up for grabs without it being a repetition of the previous imagery (though whether some technical wizardry to use that for Ben is beyond my know how - I leave that all of you. Hence why I stay quiet and just read usually. But itā€™s exciting!)

Ummmā€¦ Haydenā€™s head was just glued onto Shawā€™s body. They never changed the body, just the head. All the more reason why itā€™s so truly offensive.

Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nev5PTd2Esk