Has it ever been explained why they don’t need droid control ships any more? In the old EU this was the whole reason nobody used droid armies - they relied on transmissions from a control point that could be easily jammed. But now in the other prequels and all the media that followed it’s never mentioned.
Please use a trigger warning before you post these kind of graphic images thank you.
Weird… the sky used to be really blue as well, so I think it’s just a contrast thing rather than any extra CGI detail.
Is that the same 1997 dewback or am I imagining things?
In Disney ad-speak it probably translates to a big cross-over story, with characters like Ezra and Asokha from across different shows joining up.
Luke would probably never have thought about leaving if a single port was so busy. There’s probably a thriving metropolis nearby if all that traffic came and went. Even the little CGI creatures ruin the idea that it’s a barren wasteland.
Have you ever seen Election and Election 2? Johnnie To not Reese Witherspoon that is. It has a very nuance power struggle with characters that are neither good nor evil, but are pushed towards power by personal circumstances and often just bad luck. Even if they don’t want it, each decision has a repercussion. Now that’s how you do a modern take on The Godfather arc. But since Anakin is barely a character in The Phantom Menace you’ve lost so much time. Really that plot could have been part of the AOTC crawl, then there should have been a movie before TROS like the Clone Wars show era. Ah well.
Since they decided she is ‘all the Jedi’ then logically she needs to become one with the Force or something.
I agree that the original version feels like a western setting. In fact the different area of Tatooine in the movie feel like a real place with not much of a spectacle, it’s my fave location. When you see the town after Luke sells the speeder it feels like there’s a maze of eerie streets and alleys just out of view, not a bunch of flashy big buildings. The new one is like generic sci-fi stuff with extra towers and domes everywhere. Like any boring city they visit in the animated shows, they usually look like that. Plus the 90s CGI textures look like crap. Like something out of any generic blockbuster of that time.
I’ve also heard they are continuing to shoot without anyone related to writing on the set. I would imagine that with or without him the production schedule has deadlines to meet.
Another problem with the Plinkett reviews is that they made people forget about the suppression of the original versions and think that the prequels were fans’ only grevience with Lucas, so Disney felt a lot of pressure to make sequels that didn’t resemble the prequels and no pressure to release the original versions of the movies. I wish Plinkett reviwed the Special Editions in additon to the prequels.
I don’t think we can be sure that the popularity of these reviews led to the ‘play it safe’ nature of the TFA. Mr Plinkett did state in his Star Trek 2009 review that J.J. should direct them though. Disney probably just read the general mood of the fandom at that stage. To test this theory he needs to do a 70-minute video about the state of the Special Edition changes, and we know he’s not a fan because of that interview with Alexandre Philippe.
But the whole reason they resonated so much with people is that they articulated very large problems with the films rather than nitpicks. Just look at the whole Jango Fett subcontracting meme someone posted recently. Or the way the Clone Wars is started under such incredibly weird and suspicious circumstances. The whole trilogy is like that; strange and massive logic holes. But each to their own, nobody has time to argue like it’s 2009 these days y’know.
They’re still doing it when they feel like it (Halloween Ends) but the schtick is probably done unless something particular comes around.
Personally I think that it’s impossible to deliver an adaptation I consider above “OK” but time will tell. I think Denis peaked with Arrival which did the protagonist perspective shifts better. Anyway I guess it will have to wait, I’d like to see Children of Dune done properly if things work out.
I enjoy them a lot, though it’s not like you can recommend them to casual viewers. But at this stage I think the conversation has gone beyond them because the internet has changed so much. They did a good post-PT/partial TFA review but struggled to say anything useful about TLJ for example.
I think you have to have some limits. Otherwise every battle would just be two opponents trying to break each others arms or skulls with the Force.
How embarrassing.
TIE beams are green not red.
Temeura Morrison as Boba Fett makes a lot of sense because he is objectively better at delivering his lines than Jason Wingreen did.
Most of your points I’d say are fair, but Jason Wingreen definitely did a better job with his lines. They sound way more menacing and less phoned in when he says them.
Definitely.
I’m glad he’s excited I guess, but at the same time I don’t know if making a movie in the most over-scrutinized franchise of all time is exactly the best move for Taika right now. Thor: Love and Thunder was an absolute disaster for Taika Waititi’s “brand”: people have begun to see him less as a funny guy who makes cool movies, and more as an immature manchild who doesn’t have the self-seriousness to handle a major franchise.
In my opinion, Taika needs to do what Robert Pattinson did after Twilight, and step out of the limelight for a moment. Make some good low-budget films, rebuild his image, and then, only THEN, do Star Wars and Akira and whatever else he has planned. Maybe then people will actually have confidence in him.
He’s made some great movies but I have no idea what went wrong on Thor… 4? Meanwhile he’s gone back to his usual schtick to make an underdog sports movie with Michael Fassbender. He should probebly move away from SW and that awful plan to remake Akira.
“Cool News: Tony Gilroy, creator/writer of @starwars #Andor, just announced that they are launching a website soon with all 12 scripts & tons of concept art - all free to read!” - https://twitter.com/yogoldsmith/status/1652825407652257792
I’ll look forward to that, especially the concept art!
Neat but also a shame it kinda confirms no printed book will arrive.
StarkillerAG said:
the two moments that everyone says were stolen (the cavalry arriving and the “I am” one-liner) are pretty common fantasy blockbuster tropes. Those moments were pretty dumb, don’t get me wrong, but not because they were ripping off Marvel.
That’s two things too many and frankly I find it suspicious, particularly when they’ve said other things like Rey Palpatine were changed at the last minute.
To make things worse a bunch of ideas were just stolen from Avengers: Endgame…
So what they’re hoping to achieve by making a new episode (beyond trying to forget that stuff) is a mystery.
Whether it could move or not is unclear, but I think it was able to fire at full power if they wanted? It’s very odd that no canon media from ROTS to Andor has ever shown the Maw Installation. Which means all this construction is done out in the open.
Palpatine and 10,000 Star Destroyer Death Stars was used in place of all kinds of real story ideas. I guess they think since it’s done they’re better to double down on that? What’s next, 10,000 Executor Class planet killers? The lack of writing ability is stunning.