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#768464
Topic
Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Akton said:

EyeShotFirst said:

RedLetterMedia just put up a Plinkett vid of TFA teaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93uSIKzPmik

 

Nothing too groundbreaking here, but I'm glad RLM is continuing their assault against those asinine "trailer reaction" videos - which reached levels of sublimity in Rich Evans' "reaction" to the original teaser. I think I would have preferred a follow-up to that (though it'd be hard to top).

I don't know if I'm reading too much into it, but I think Stoklasa is being cautiously optimistic about the new trailer. Just like his partner in crime, Jay:

https://twitter.com/JayBauman1/status/588790510988431361

Take the part where Plinkett says "the teaser doesn't show much. Just tell us what the movie is about!!!" and sighs with nostalgia "remember the old trailers?" and uses as an example the original teaser for Star Wars, which, like TFA's, tells us NOTHING about the movie!

And obviously the part at the end where he suddenly catches himself praising Star Wars for the same things he was poo-pooing a second earlier. That was on the nose.

At the end, how many of you caught the small, small message? I wonder if it's true or if it's more bait for the people who ask "more!" constantly.

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#767485
Topic
Suggestions for the New Forum
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Danfun128 said:

How about User Fragging? All of originaltrilogy.com becomes an MMOFPS running a html5 port of some variant of the Cube engine (Cube, Assault Cube, Cube 2, Red Eclipse, Platinum Arts Sandbox, Tesseract etc...)...

 ugh now I'm picturing every thread as an iteration of Ac_Douze, while in Off Topic Frink trolls everybody with a custom map featuring the Mighty LOLBunny and "Friday" playing on a loop in the background.

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#764803
Topic
Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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unamochilla2 said:

I think there's a minor one in ESB during the battle of Hoth. 

 I had to look it up, and it's minor, yes. It's a really quick shot of a rebel soldier, it's a slight zoom, not the exaggerated WHOOOSH that's in the trailer that goes from very far away to quite close to the action. It's a bit ridiculous.

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#764786
Topic
Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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I don't know who came up with the idea of using the "snap zoom" in all these big hollywood movies, but it looks stupid as hell.

It looks as though you have this really expensive movie, but some sequences were filmed by your dumb uncle with his Hi8 camcorder, and his finger constantly on the zoom button.

It's worse than shaky cam, which in itself has overstayed its welcome, way overused.

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#763060
Topic
Should The Off Topic Section be more moderated?
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Warbler said:

I believe off topic needs to be lightly moderated.  

YES. Strike that "lightly" and we're good.

I purpose Frink for off topic moderator.

No.

darth_ender said:

In all seriousness, I wouldn't mind SilverWook being a moderator here with a lighter touch.  He is pretty light as it is anyway.  Of course, he's the only regular mod of any sort for the whole forum most of the time anyway, since moth3r, Anchorhead, Jay, and whoever else may be a mod seldom stop by anymore.  It may just be too overwhelming for him to take on extra duties.

Yes.