Sure, but puppets and animation at least have the tangible feeling that human hands were involved, and there was really something there on the day (or after on a scale go-motion set). Your brain can just tell somehow. Bad opticals on the other and might be more of a problem, but there aren’t really many in SW.
Those kind of machinery / vehicle effects always stand out, but they are nice, I remember them in The Rescuers Down Under. Years later they’d be in all kinds of stuff.
Cool pic I guess, I wonder what the set behind the speeder will be…
Sheev was so dumb that instead of getting the secret from his master he killed him. Or wasn’t there a comic where they both shot their evil force into the universe to create Anakin… so maybe he did know the secret? I dunno.
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For the 50th anniversary they will probably edit the movie down into 50 vertical Tiktok videos to help the social media generation.
Seems more like a checklist of things that have been said already, I guess he just wants to say he’s done with it all. Which I can relate to anyway. Josh did a very good George Lucas at least.
ANH in particularly has lots of non-Zoomer-friendly scenes, like C3PO and R2-D2 slowly walking through the desert. That was so 70s.
I find this sentiment horrifying.
The ewok time warp segment is real though LOL
To be honest I was mainly just confused about what the last part even meant. Then I remembered that Filoni stuff and wished I didn’t.
JadedSkywalker said:
For some its the Saga of Darth Vader, they see Hayden Christensen as the icon.Groan. I get that the actor himself has seen warmer reception recently, but any new Vader stuff is just key jangling, especially in recent streaming shows. Which I guess these fans are okay with despite the same Disney source.
Dude he’s the Chosen One and he mastered both sides of the Force and can switch between them whenever he wants, he replaced the Father
Sure he did.
I’ve actually met people that claim they can’t tell if something is CGI. And there are people who defend the Prequels saying they can’t tell that the Clonetroopers are CGI.
I assume these people aren’t lying. There’s obviously some psychological aspect to this that isn’t well understood. To me, AoTC mostly looks like glossy shit, with some exceptions (some shots of Coruscant look cool to me).
They’re definitely lying, and most of those things have not aged well. The only exceptions are things like the scale miniatures, the Italy and Tunisia locations etc. Though I’d say certain elements of TPM hold up better, perhaps because of less blue-screen stages being used? Certain things in the movies seem intentionally designed to look like CGI which is weird. Like the trooper visors are way to fake-shiny, it could have been done differently.
JadedSkywalker said:
For some its the Saga of Darth Vader, they see Hayden Christensen as the icon.
Groan. I get that the actor himself has seen warmer reception recently, but any new Vader stuff is just key jangling, especially in recent streaming shows. Which I guess these fans are okay with despite the same Disney source.
Unfortunately general audiences might not see it that way. Just look at how many of them seem annoyed that people even talk about their desire to get it released. Like, how dare we even think about messing with with George’s true artistic vision etc. They’ve been fed that idea for so long now; if respect is due it’s not to SW 1977 and the ground breaking award winning original film… it’s respect for George or nothing; especially in the Disney era where they can say his story has been “ruined”. Despite all of the content he added between 1997 and 2005 being utter crap.
Uh yeah no need to get heated over this dude, just read up a bit. Save your annoyance for the inevitably disappointing news.
Weirdly I always remember Chewbacca being created with real mohair, but there’s not so much info for these. The few details available seem to suggest fake fur, maybe because they had to make a lot of them.
Definitely. A lot of Yoda’s teachings are about being afraid which leads to poor decisions. Fear led him into the path of Vader who was waiting to twist his mind, and letting Han die might have prevented it. It’s not “if you get married you’ll be afraid to be alone, so never get married or have attachment to anybody, and don’t feel anything for your family either”. If anything Anakin’s stupid love taboo plot cheapens Luke’s arc because it’s compassion over fear that saves the day. Unfortunately now the Jedi Order looks like a real life cult that takes kids and teaches them to forget their parents.
Well maybe lots of people enjoyed it when The Hobbit looked like a daytime TV reality show, but I hope it doesn’t come back.
One of Vader’s lightsaber hilts from ROTJ is being auctioned. It’s… expensive.
https://propstoreauction.com/auctions/info/id/456/
Darth Vader’s Hero Screen-Matched Lightsaber from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)/ Return Of The Jedi (1983).
Hidden from public view since its use during filming, this lightsaber now emerges for the first time in over 40 years. We are incredibly proud to present this grail-worthy piece of entertainment history and welcome all inquiries from collectors and fans alike.
Estimate: $1,000,000 - $3,000,000
If they can’t make gold standard movies like Star Wars and Indiana Jones work why bother.
Firstly that one Ecks guy said the new version of SW had grain, which sounds more realistic as a leak.
Second what are they talking about 8k 120FPS, that’s not a thing right? I mean I hope, the high-frame rate stuff always look like utter crap, I thought it died out.
For a thousand bucks I’d expect it to be the full globe at least, yikes.
does anybody know what hapend with this site? https://starwarsarchives.com/
it´s a long time offline…😦
It’s been “coming soon” for years, you have to go back to 2021 to get anything
https://web.archive.org/web/20210121230242/https://www.starwarsarchives.com/
Interesting but vague. Does anyone here believe that screenshot he posted was legit? It’s not a lot to go on.
A rumour where one dubious source is reporting from another
https://x.com/sw_holocron/status/1952757061600588113
Plans for the post-Episode IX era have reportedly been revealed
• It will be similar to the Mandoverse with multiple stories
• The first story will be Daisy Ridley’s NEW JEDI ORDER
• It will build toward a culminating event that brings back old characters
(Via: @DanielRPK)