John Doom

JAR JAR BINKS DEATH PRINT review

https://youtu.be/ny851rnto0g?t=30

SilverWook said:

What might have been?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/michael-jackson-wanted-to-play-jar-jar-binks-in-%27star-wars%27/ar-AAdppkY?ocid=ansVariety11

MJ seems somehow to fit in the character :D

DuracellEnergizer said:

I don't think MJ would have gone with the pseudo-Jamaican accent, though. =P

I agree. Also, according to an early draft (http://web.archive.org/web/20141101101007/secrethistoryofstarwars.com/thebeginning.html)

Jar Jar speaks normal English, but is very child-like and emotional.

NeverarGreat said:

GeeTeeUK said:

Something seemed off to me about Chewie the moment I saw him - then I realised: they seem to have given him black, glassy, ewok-style eyes whereas he used to have people eyes.

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice this. I've been banging on to my mates about it but they all think I'm crazy!

Are you looking at the high resolution teaser? Because in that you can pretty clearly see the whites of his eyes.

"What are you looking at? Look at the camera, Pete! I shoot when I see the whites of the eyes."

(J.J. Abrams directing "Blue Harvest 7")

ATMachine said:

That's just silly. Vader is Vader, not Kyle Katarn.

 Vader is Vader, Luke is Kyle Katarn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPieVnevJZA

iRed4321 said:

I don't understand why there are this problem with the mask because I used the original cover.

"That is why you fail..." :D jk

Nevermind. I should ask the original author, then.

P.S.: This is roughly what I mean:

That's good: fans will be able to choose between dubbing names and original names (though, I hope they will never ask Disney for re-dubbings :D)

Maybe you should make Vader's mask a bit more blue like the background, because it doesn't seem to blend with the cover's back.

Bewy said:

And when Obi-Wan first mentions him in the Cantina, he calls him Chiktaba (in the French dub) :P

Which riminds me of Obi-wan's appearence on Hoth in the Italian dub :D

-You will go to the Dàgobah System...

-Dago-bàh System...?

team_negative1 said:

Vader sees Obi Wan:

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6Q5voVftecVl0c7Q5K

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k4HODudAueHkuwc7Q5L

 Is it just me or the audio seems a bit out of sync?

Right, on the right. I should've double-checked my post :\

:D I didn't know teams in 'merica do these kind of things. It almost sounds like they're promoting the new Star Wars movies.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Oh, I can't imagine how that will end. *rollseyes*

Yeah... that's what makes these comics so uniteresting to me. He may be defeated, but he HAS to eventually succeed.

Her failed marriage took a toll on her shape :D

What's with that "May the Forks" on the left? I know it's from the Simpsons, though.

Skippy The Jedi Droid said:

TPM Jabba has always bothered me. Why is he so grey? :D I know LD and DVD had the weird pink tint. Blu-Ray kinda fixed it but made Jabba look even worse :P He's obviously green in ROTJ and the animators know that. I don't believe he was aways like that in TPM. I found one picture (probably some kind of promo pic) from Google [...]

For the record, that's how he looks in the videogame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGp1R6qJDhk&feature=youtu.be&t=924

RU.08 said:

[...] I'm pretty sure they had no, uh, fire-trucking clue which file they were supposed to be rendering Naboo from!! It was a flipping lucky-dip each time!!

Yeah, I remeber the staff saying in ROTS's commetaries that it was hard to re-open the old models' files because they had become obsolete.

RU.08 said:

Here's a quick compare of a shot that was changed slightly for the bluray. More endless tinkering from Lucas.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/133266

I like how brightness and sharpening make the CGI look better than in the blu-ray :D

yoda-sama said:

Brilliant image, Harmy, though I think it needs more edits, I think it was always meant to have a digital rock obscuring part of it.

So true :D

But seriously, Harmy, no Jar-jar's bunny ears? Seriously? How could you overlook such a vital detail... :\

Yep: this is supposed to be the theatrical version. Just minor differences, though.

team_negative1 said:

 What's that blue paint in there? A printing issue? :D

ZkinandBonez said:

Well she wouldn't be the only one with a drink.

True, but that is not a common drink, though, according to Wikipedia:

[...] is a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused drink [...] It is also consumed in Syria, the largest importer in the world, and in Lebanon.

It's like they're recreating some sort of South American-like (or Middle East-like) setting.

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ZkinandBonez said:

(PS. Maybe I'm being a bit dense but I have no clue what you mean by "faceless.")

:D I mean that that alien's species seem to "suffer" of a disease even worst than Anakin's: not only he doesn't have eyebrows, he/she barely has a nose, no lips, no hair and has very little ears! They seem to have an almost shapeless face.

ZkinandBonez said:

[...] this could be quite close to what Maz Kanata might end up looking like in the film.

That is "faceless" :D

Is he/she drinking mate tea?

There are two drafts available (both written in 1981), but no shooting script, as far as I know.

John Doom said:

He's more spammer now than user. His account is banned and rotting. Yet, he shall have more accounts than we can possibly imagine.

SilverWook said:

This thread is getting an awful lot of spambots for some reason...

Well, I called it :D

We know the word "droid®" is ®egiste®ed as a t®adema®k of Lucasfilm Ltd., but how a®e we so su®e it was Lucas's idea? It could ve®y well be that someone inside the company app®oached him with this idea and they thought it would've been p®ofitable.

I wish you good luck, poita.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

poita, hope you will be "restored" ASAP! Good luck!

Don't worry: I think he's "fade-free".

P.S.: That logo on your radiographs looks suspiciously like the LucasArts logo. You got yourself powerful enemies with your work, poita...!

:D My 2 cents:

a) How much does the galaxy know about Jedi General Anakin Skywalker, (who in old cannon was wide known as "the hero with no fear")? Is his reputation wide known?

Nothing, I think, except for veterans (like some of the rebels). When a new order is established, it passes its own "damnation memoriae", erasing every reference of the traitors (i.e.: the Jedi) of the new regime.

b) Why is Vader so secretive about his identity considering that, had Mustafar never happened, his identity would have been public? Which leads us to

c) What is all that stuff about Vader's double personality, and referring to himself in third person? Vader IS Anakin Skywalker, and he knows it in the films, he says "I am your father". When he denies being Anakin in ROTJ, it could well be a metaphor of his election of the Dark Side to Luke.

He's not secretive, he probably just disown his own republican past and assumed his imperial fighting name.

I agree that it's a metaphor: throughout the movie, there's a distinction between Vader (the dark side) and Anakin (the good/light side) of "Mr.Skywalker".

d) If Anakin Skywalker, widely known as a war figure across the galaxy officially "died" in Coruscant, how comes he is no martyr to the rebellion, or never gets even mentioned, except as a "great pilot"?

Maybe he is considered as a martyr, who knows? We've seen just 6 hours of lore :D

Or, he "died" as a jedi knight in the clone wars, unknown by most people. Maybe he wasn't even considered as a Jedi, maybe the era of the Jedi was already ending.

e) If the Rebels held Anakin's figure as a martyr, how would that impact on Vader?

I guess it would put him to shame to be known as a hero to his enemy.

f)If Vader's identity was known, how would that impact on Luke between the rebels

They would reject his legacy, I guess. The imperial propaganda would use his name to justify their oppression.

g) How comes no one outside the rebellion recognizes/associates Luke Skywalker with the other "mythical" Skywalker that freed planets in the clone wars.

Again, either Anakin wasn't known outside of some people, or Skywalker is a relatively common surname.

h) If this happened, how would that impact on Vader?

We kind of already know this: it's his son, after all, "something" he may use to take over the emperor.

i) Would anyone who knew Darth Vader's identity inside the Rebelion (read Ahsoka or ObiWan if at some point he joins for some mission in the new cannon) keep it a secret, if Anakin's figure was to be held in high regard for morale of the troops?

Definitely. I know Anakin and Vader were two different men in ANH, but that's basically what Obi-wan did with Luke.

I actually meant AOTC's Geonosis's "epic" space battle :D, but you're right. They probably just used some random words, though, your usual journalistic rhetoric. Maybe it's their way to tell us we're supposed to look forward to see "epic" space battles in the next movies?

:D This is what really happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThqybbqC_eM&feature=youtu.be&t=120

Danfun128 said:

AntcuFaalb said:

SilverWook said:

Back to Star Wars please?

Yes, sorry!

Has anyone here ever played the Japanese NAMCO Star Wars game for the Famicom (a.k.a., NES in the US) that was released in 1987?

Don't confuse this with the JVC Star Wars NES game released in 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_%281987_video_game%29

I hear good things about it.

I have, and at one point made a video walkthrough before I deleted it. That game was hard on easy mode. Only a few lives, with seemingly no way to add to them. No passwords. No continues. Several Vader clones that transform into monsters (quoth the AVGN, "I am your father, and I am also a ****ing scorpion") The only way I was able to beat the game was savestates, and even then I died a couple times.

One thing to note is that the famicom and nes empire strikes back games are the same, the only real difference being the ladder has japanese text.

I'd love to see an anime (or even better, toku) adaption of the famicom star wars game.

I played that game myself some time ago. It was funny, more like a Star Wars parody, and it gives a sense of adventure and freedom (in using Force Powers and... getting lost :D ). Also, guess who gets a medal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TG3BEHdRHI&feature=youtu.be&t=2238

Frank your Majesty said:

Star Wars is again reduced to mindless action sequences. "It wouldn't be Star Wars without epic space battles." So where is the epic space battle of Empire?

I'd even say the first "epic" space battle was the one in Jedi, since that's the first one with capital ships on both sides. The dogfights around the first Death Star are intense, but for me they don't qualify as "epic".

I don't know if the Falcon's chase sequences are "epic", but I'd like to watch more of them. Funny thing is that they aren't great because of the special effects, but because of their impressive visuals.

P.S.: I found ROTJ's space battles boring. Thankfully, they didn't last as much as in AOTC...