It’s kind of debatable though. Even as it swings around right after the “they’re going after the medical frigate” line it’s not clear which guns are firing.
In my memory there was a deleted scene with General Madine using the guns but it’s not how that happened.
There are no forward facing guns shown on screen though, only torpedoes.
Empire Strikes Door - A Star Wars Mystery
The Ashens Bootleg Star Wars series
Fake SW Toys
The Fake Menace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px_wgohqYBM
A New Fake
The Fake Awakens
Return of the Fakes
Pirate DVD Showcase part 1 and 2
https://youtu.be/M6KMGfmI5UA?t=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6ji8uMengU
Space Wars C3PO bootleg
Bonus
Weird but real figures
Star Wars Figures in the 90s
Bend-ems
Han Solo through the ages
Hard to say. Looks like a boom pole or something across the ground. Better pics are tough to find.
It’s been a thing for a few years. But this month was when they got in their with that hashtag debacle.
Man I do not remember the OG Rogue Squadron launching an air speeder in outer space like that XD
Disney wants to legally own your tweets for using a hashtag
Yeah but we’re talking about JJ. He couldn’t even leave the gay subjext in Star Trek.
Isn’t there an English version from Return of the Ewok?
I love it. Bruce Willis and the guy who directed Cool Runnings, they were the real creators of Star Wars
^ arse?
Edit: as in is ‘can’ US slang for arse?
Confusingly I think the gold and silver 2004 boxes were both widescreen here, but one was a retailer exclusive.
Incorrect.
In what way?
In regards to the 2004 sets, Gold was Fullscreen and Silver was widescreen regardless of retailer.
Incorrect. 😉
Oh that’s not much of a race track. Probably just where he gives evil TED talks.
What in the movie itself? Like Palpatine is spending his free time watching sports on TV?
The number of capital ships alone makes it kind of ridiculous. Admiral Piett says they have orders not to engage, but what happened after DSII exploded did they all just retreat?
Well the only explanation for their retreat (or destruction) would be the one I mentioned before. See below:
Assuming the inspiration came from WW2 (as stated by Lucas), where ships were very vulnerable to air attack, I guess the same could apply to Star Wars universe. The explanation then could be that since imperial ships initially sent all TIE fighters to engage the rebel fleet and they themselves did not attack, their TIE fighter complement was destroyed by rebel fighters and ships. Then by the time the Death Star was destroyed, the imperial ships were left extremely vulnerable without any TIE fighter protection.
For example, in the pacific theatre of WW2, aircraft carriers were quite useless without aircraft cover (and other type of ships even more so by default) if enemy had air power. In both Battle of the Coral Sea and Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands Japanese basically achieved tactical victory, but since they lost almost the entire aircraft complement in the air attacks on US fleet, they were forced to retreat. Like I said, ships were very vulnerable to air attacks without air cover.
I understand this metaphor but Admiral Ackbar says that the fleet “won’t last long against those Star Destroyers” so we are led to believe they are perfectly capable of shooting down the rebel fighters.
The number of capital ships alone makes it kind of ridiculous. Admiral Piett says they have orders not to engage, but what happened after DSII exploded did they all just retreat?
I don’t think I’ve ever spotted the conehead one in the movie.
He’s right behind the Emperor as he comes down the shuttle ramp, you can see that hat LOL
Those are just his underlings wearing the Robes of Overt Silliness.
A SITH LORD??
I dunno, it always felt like such an underdeveloped concept. Something best left to deleted scenes and novelizations. Back in the day more sensible people ignored the whole thing and just used the term Dark Jedi instead. Now in ROS apparently Palpatine is “all the Sith” and has enslaved a whole planet of people to build monuments and ships I guess.
Death Star Movie Night
J.J. Abrams’ Editor Feels The Last Jedi ‘Consciously’ Undid The Force Awakens Story
Interesting. Why is the editor giving their take? Especially when the editing was so bad, maybe worse than the writing.
Confusingly I think the gold and silver 2004 boxes were both widescreen here, but one was a retailer exclusive.
Incorrect.
In what way?
Well you know the old saying, most of the time artists just remake the same thing over an over. Except George seems to have taken this too literally instead of actually directing something after 1977… well until TPM. Usually film makers make a rough and ready project, then try again and again with a series of new movies.
Yeah I remember The Matrix being the thing that showed people what advantages the format had. But I also remember it being a super new thing only bought by the people who also had rushed out and bought LD players. In 2001 I can clearly remember the only way to watch DVDs at our place was sat crowded around the new computer we just got! It wasn’t until 2003 when I heard people saying that VHS was well and truly dead.