DominicCobb

Darth Lucas said:

bensmitty234 said:

Hey all,

I’m new here, but I was wondering if anyone is able to recreate the opening crawl of THE FORCE AWAKENS. It’s a silly thing, but I’m rather annoyed by the different font for the title compared to the previous films in the series. Look at the “O” in FORCE to see what I’m talking about.

Does anyone here know how to do this? PM me if you do.

The font is not different. It is different when compared to ROTJ and the prequels. But the font is identical to that of ANH and TESB.

Yeah I knew ESB but I just realized ANH myself. Only difference with TFA is it’s just a little thicker.

DominicCobb said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Just look at the capital R from the title cards for TFA and ESB. completely different

Edit: the text in the article is different from the shots from Adywan. Which is right?

Definitely ady’s. The pic in that article is fan made (notice “Has” and “Vanished” capitalized).

Ady shows that TFA and ESB’s font’s are damn near matches (looks to me like they’re the same with TFA’s just a little thicker).

It’s funny how people are going crazy over this small detail and calling it wrong when it isn’t really You’d think if people were being nitpicking about small details they’d notice a small detail like ESB’s font being “wrong” too, even though it was the first film to have a subtitle. This article even shows the two side by side but never once realizes they are the same: http://www.slashfilm.com/the-force-awakens-opening-crawl-is-wrong/

I guess when JJ and co. decided to “try very hard to duplicate” the original, they had some crazy idea to duplicate the font of the film that originated the subtitle. How dare they?

Also not entirely sure but I think ANH might have the same font as TFA and ESB. Which would mean of course that the three best movies have it so everyone should shut up about the other four as if they’re somehow more “right.”

IsanRido said:

Did he not participate to a degree in the editing of the first film?

He did and was also involved with the editing on ESB and ROTJ. Which was part of the point. He’s interested in editing to a fault because he’s less interested in screenwriting and production. One of the reasons why AOTC had so many reshoots is because George didn’t really figure out he needed important connective elements of the plot and character arcs until he started editing.

This is proof that sometimes you guys need to let a bit find its footing before you start bitching about it.

TV’s Frink said:

DISNEY SHOULD HAVE HIRED ME TO MAKE THE SEQUEL TRILOGY

I MAKE THE BEST TRILOGIES

ASK ANY TRILOGY IVE MADE

I count one and it’s not even done yet.

imperialscum said:

Lord Haseo said:

imperialscum said:

Lord Haseo said:

Also I nitpick a lot so the highest I’ll give a film is 9/10

Even if you think no film is perfect it is rather silly not to normalise your personal score scale to the film you think is the best, i.e. giving the film that you currently think is the best score 10 and then score the rest accordingly. What you basically end up doing is effectively using scale X/9.

Perhaps the only reason for not normalising that I can think of would be if you had a multiple personality disorder and you had to average the final score between multiple personal scores. But in that case you would have to sign your posts with “Team Lord Haseo” and possibly break the forum rules.

Seeing as how 10/10 is perfection and no film is perfect it makes perfect sense that I don’t rate anything close to a 10/10 because I rate things based on the dictionary definition of perfection. Not what I would deem as perfection.

What’s funny is that I can rate music, video games and even women close to 10/10 but not movies or books.

Well suit yourself. I was just trying to tell you that having imaginary reference (e.g. “perfection”) just reduces the resolution of your scale. It is like having a house with 10 rooms and refusing to use 1 of them, which effectively means you end up having a house with just 9 rooms instead.

Yep.

Weird that I’m taking imp’s side on this one. Has Haseo actually been the ultimate stupid asshole all along?

The Rock is kinda fun.

Honestly the animated Transformers movie isn’t all that good either.

It’d be great if they followed that series with a Kylo Ren line, but I doubt we’ll get anything that explores that topic for at least a few more years.

Let’s just hope they don’t start a Darth Maul series, though I wouldn’t be surprised.

Also, I just remembered there’s an Obi-Wan & Anakin series going on which not a single person seems to be talking about. Do I even bother asking if anyone has read it? How sad the PT. A comic with that name would have been very easily the most anticipated and sought after SW book pre-1999. Funny how times change.

Two weeks really isn’t that much time.

Tyrphanax said:

DominicCobb said:

Georgie is no stranger to retreads. It’s hilarious how some people are now retroactively considering the other Star Wars movies “original,” prequels especially.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a Lucas made Episode VII was just as much a SW “rip-off” as TFA. TPM already kind of was.

Read this and was like “Oh boy, here we go again.”

The entire argument is one big retread.

imperialscum said:

Lord Haseo said:

Also I nitpick a lot so the highest I’ll give a film is 9/10

Even if you think no film is perfect it is rather silly not to normalise your personal score scale to the film you think is the best, i.e. giving the film that you currently think is the best score 10 and then score the rest accordingly. What you basically end up doing is effectively using scale X/9.

Perhaps the only reason for not normalising that I can think of would be if you had a multiple personality disorder and you had to average the final score between multiple personal scores. But in that case you would have to sign your posts with “Team Lord Haseo” and possibly break the forum rules.

This might be your all time best post.

Dek Rollins said:

I’d also like to mention the previous existence of the Game Of Thrones books.

Not relevant in this instance. Posting that spoiler was pretty effed up Haseo.

I really want to read Poe, but I’m adverse to buying the issues. Don’t know if I can wait until December for the collected volume though…

Could be as simple as starting the third paragraph with meanwhile.

Very nice crawls by the way. I appreciate the thought put into keeping it consistent in tone and style. Have you considered making new PT crawls?

Georgie is no stranger to retreads. It’s hilarious how some people are now retroactively considering the other Star Wars movies “original,” prequels especially.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a Lucas made Episode VII was just as much a SW “rip-off” as TFA. TPM already kind of was.

For whatever reason I watched The Walking Dead all the way through season 5. Stopped being good after the first season. The sad thing is I wouldn’t put it past me to watch season 6 at some point.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

I don’t get people who don’t give any films a 10/10 or A+ or perfect score, simply on principle that “there’s no such thing as a perfect film”

Same. There’s no such thing as perfect, of course, but some things come close. Either way, films are rated on a scale depending on all the films. 10/10 or A+ shouldn’t be reserved for “perfect” films, it should be reserved for the best of the films.

TV’s Frink said:

DominicCobb said:

Before his time.

GOOGLE SEARCH STILL WORKS

But not quite the same considering avatars aren’t preserved.

moviefreakedmind said:

DominicCobb said:

Before his time.

By the way, did you miss Billy Ocean? I need to update that list.

I suppose.

Before his time.

Just got C-3PO. My first comic from the new canon. Excited to read it when I get the chance.

Random thought (though I suppose that’s what this thread is for) but I just realized TFA made more money adjusted for inflation ($241mil in 1977 dollars) than the original Star Wars did in its initial run ($215mil).

I think I’ve said this before but I’d like the anthology films to start with the “A long time ago…” card and then proceed to do whatever they want.

ELO binge. Been appreciative of their music for awhile now but never really dug deep. Now I can’t stop. Amazing stuff.

The stop bullying campaign, while impossible to make completely successful, does kind of work though. All my years in school I was never once bullied and, while I can think of a some cases of bullying that I was aware of, there were never any “bullies” and people generally knew that beating other kids up wasn’t cool and making fun of other kids usually just got you in trouble.

Now cyber bulling, that’s a whole other thing. Don’t know how they’re dealing with that, I was getting out of school when that was just starting to pick up speed (and my high school had no idea how to control it).