Mocata

Well yeah especially considering the time spent on a KOTOR remake seems to be going on forever.

timemeddler said:

Roobyoo said:

A miserable box art would be the least problem. I’m going to buy a box set twice anyway, one sealed, one to watch - and those discs would just be replaced from the official box to a custom made box.

I’d be more concerned about stuff like dnr, and pink lightsabers than that.

Of all the things that arrived in 2004 I think I hated that pink saber the most, for what it represented. Suck a simple quality fuck up they chose to ignore.

Some new games!*

https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-fate-of-the-old-republic-trailer

https://www.starwars.com/games-apps/star-wars-galactic-racer

*what’s old is new again

Nice. They even go against brand and talk about how it was renamed. But again “a once in a generation event” for no reason? It better not be put in the Disney vault afterwards.

Vader calls Obi-wan his old master (and Tarkin replies surely he must be dead by now) so I assume so. Makes no sense in terms of time scale or prequel stuff but yeah. Unless Tarkin is thinking of another pupil of Obi-wan (aka Vader isn’t Anakin in 1977). Presumably there’s a bunch of new or PT era EU material around.

timmaaaah said:

To me, it is very important. Honestly, besides the changes in Jabba’s palace, I support all of the changes, particularly the end. I like how the shoddy superimposition is cleaned up too.
For ESB the only change I really don’t like is the stuff with the Wampa.

Really if I could I’d make my own cut but for all the times I have visited this site and been a member, I still don’t know how to get my hands on a single damn thing and it’s so friggin obtuse that it blows me away. It’s so frustrating. I end up just giving up after a time. It’s been years of coming back here with people insisting that these cuts exist and I always come up empty handed.

It’s not that obtuse you just need to find the googledocs guide that’s on here.

Yeah I must have missed that scoop…

Oh I always have time for ROTJ but it’s a non-specific comment that I find unconvincing from the director of Deadpool 3… but time will tell as ever. I hope my lack of enthusiasm is met by a perfectly adequate adventure movie.

JadedSkywalker said:

The tone of Return of the Jedi was all over the place though. People would know, if you said I want to style it like Star Wars 1977. Or TESB.

This and recent news of there being changes to the ending already don’t inspire much confidence. Even we just presume it’s shorthand for “fun” then it’s unclear how silly they’re thinking of being; Jabba sail barge escape level shenanigans, or teddy bears and Tarzan screams?

RM4747 said:

That guy with no name said:

Secondly, the color is unbelievably accurate. Dr Dre himself has proclaimed them the best he’d ever seen and is even basing his next 4K77 color grade on them.

If we assume this is getting a theatrical and home media release in 2027, wouldn’t that make 4K77/80/83 pretty much irrelevant? I’m surprised they’d continue to work on them.

If we assume it’s released and is real, and if there’s no sort of issue that screws up the experience or makes it all a waste of time. So far these are big ifs… don’t count your mynocks before they hatch.

That guy with no name said:

Mocata said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

JadedSkywalker said:

I’m really curious as to where they will get the original colors from 1977, 1980 and 1983 and to know they are accurate.

What references do they have. I’m somewhat skeptical because Lowry messed them up twice.

I don’t think Lowry “messed them up”. The DVDs and BDs almost certainly looked as George wanted them.

He just really loves magenta.

Which is odd, considering he oversaw and approved the gorgeous 1997 SE color grade lol…

It was only working with Lowry that he was able to realise his original vision.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

JadedSkywalker said:

I’m really curious as to where they will get the original colors from 1977, 1980 and 1983 and to know they are accurate.

What references do they have. I’m somewhat skeptical because Lowry messed them up twice.

I don’t think Lowry “messed them up”. The DVDs and BDs almost certainly looked as George wanted them.

He just really loves magenta.

If there are still loose ends after the upcoming Mando movie and Ahsoka S2 I think it’s safe to assume they’re wasting our time.

I honestly can’t remember what his movie is now, and really it doesn’t matter unless pics of a stage or location being built arrive.

I’d have to assume so too, but it’s an odd thing to suggest. There is no multiverse timeline stuff with SW… well not yet anyway.

It’s new characters, it’s a new timeline.

What?

How long has it been since the initial reveal, 2 years? He was talking about it in January before A Complete Unknown released but I don’t see any news after that. Same rules apply; if they don’t enter real production we can assume nothing is happening beyond a kind of annoying marketing tease.

NFBisms said:

Do you really think within a genre certain themes and topics become verboten?

Maybe not themes explicitly but how they’re presented. Otherwise a lack of tonal consistency appears or you get something like Rebel Moon. People already started saying that the serious conclusion to Andor doesn’t fit with the adventure plot of SW77. Think about it another way; does it make sense for the material to jump from Jar-Jar ‘whoops I stepped in the poopie’ jokes, to man being burned alive screaming? There has to be some overall balance, maybe not the content directly, but in the execution.

Fruit672 said:

Ok, lets get one thing straight, George Lucas is the Creator of Star Wars and every other property he has created; He will always have a say and the final say. If he wants something to be X, it should be like X and honestly he’s been pretty kind considering how straight up evil the “fans” have been. The “Fans” at some point start to get this ridiculous idea that they know better than the creator and should have control over what happens with his creations.

You don’t think this is an odd thing to say, on here of all places?

I guess it’s about a time and a place. Is the discussion of the wealthy one-percent, animal cruelty, or war profiteering appropriate for SW? Probably not. Does it lead to anything useful in a story arc? Nope. Those animals will be captured later and the arms deals with continue as if nothing happened, nobody really learns or progresses as a result (though that’s potentially a TROS issue). That being said it’s one of those things that even in a well written script (aka Andor) it doesn’t gel with the space opera genre itself.

They should have tried harder to make the Vader costume look crappier.

Does woke mean anything these days? I use to think it was something do do with common sense being replaced by box ticking and messaging but it’s hard to say any more. Overall I still like TLJ but it’s odd if you break it down in any detail. Grifters complaining about Hollywood will say the Rose side-plot is forced but fail to say how beyond the basics of a lame non-romance. Would they be complaining less if Finn and Poe Dameron did this mission or is that too gay for them (or Disney)? Does it make sense Finn gets talked down to about how evil the First Order is when he’s witness to a massacre?

Elsewhere things like Luke being in hiding to avoid the circular nature of the conflict makes some sense. Some people say he shouldn’t be shown as an old grouch. But can the same old heroics go on forever, can these characters be simplistic and static? Which to me is the problem with Rogue One… it’s just so bland and has more fan service and CG action than personality. The sequels might not have much to say but RO is just ‘here’s Darth Vader, please clap’, and then people do.

Oh I meant like a fan passion project not an EA product, which current LFL might have some vague chance of replicating.

Broom Kid said:

Make it anime

Rip off Macross

Done.

That TIE Fighter short from some years ago did it successfully. Less than 8 minutes long… it’s impossible to imagine them achieving this vibe in 8 episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9GRYa_3gno

Why? They don’t have a good track record on TV with characters that should be impossible to get wrong. Something like this would need much better writers than they have, and I’d have hoped for a movie budget.