Mocata

Death Star Movie Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edTOuk7iqmw

Haarspalter said:

J.J. Abrams’ Editor Feels The Last Jedi ‘Consciously’ Undid The Force Awakens Story

Source: https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1130804-jj-abrams-editor-last-jedi-consciously-undid-force-awakens

Interesting. Why is the editor giving their take? Especially when the editing was so bad, maybe worse than the writing.

crissrudd4554 said:

Mocata said:

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.

No I’m thinking a dialogue free dream or memory sequence. Maybe even something that mirrors Rey’s TFA vision. It can still lead into the Han reveal. A picture speaks a thousand words after all.

I don’t know, last time I tried to run original CD-ROM version of KOTOR (not even DVD!) it had all kinds of problems.

captainsolo said:

I remember Clone Wars being pretty good on a friends xbox. The one I never got to was bounty Hunter and I need to fix that.

Clone Wars was okay from what I remember, though it felt like a step down from Rogue Squadron 2. At least the on foot parts where better then RS3 though. I don’t remember Bounty Hunter being great though.

You know what I really want? (Well besides Rey having no last name and being at peace with it) But they had the Han Solo scene, which is pretty good. But they scrapped the Chewbacca scene. When instead they should have combine both, and have Leia’s last act of magical power be a vision young Kylo with Luke, Han and herself, like one last look at a happier time or whatever. No need for too much digital trickery. I don’t know, a space cook-out or something. Why is it so hard for them to do what makes sense…

It would have been better if the Dyad was actually a scheme all along so that their combined powers would resurrect Palpatine. Like he could be in a creepy Sith coffin or something. Some kind of long term plan that ties the story up and gives Snoke a real goal. Snoke can still be a clone for this to work. Then throw out the Final Order ships and have a secret vault full of new weapons, that’s an EU thing right? It would still be stupid but it’s better than nothing.

Univers Ultra Condensed?

Excellent work. I also could not stop laughing at the CGI Yavin, it’s been a very long time since I watched that version and I never realised it either.

Confusingly I think the gold and silver 2004 boxes were both widescreen here, but one was a retailer exclusive.

I never even knew EpI Racer had a sequel. But then again I was more of an F-Zero fan.

ray_afraid said:

Is it even a remake of Jedi Academy, or just a port of the old game?
Looks like a port. Looks awful.

Looks about the same. An actual upgrade of JKII and JA together in the same package might be worth it, but proper remakes take more effort I guess.

The Skywalker Legacy - Making The Rise of Skywalker

Spoilers obviously

Yeah that’s exactly it. Except only a few ships have that fuselage shape and nothing in the OT looks like that.

As for the forum sections, I don’t know. I can’t find anything any more.

They realised this by EpII and started making the vehicles more textured. Although the Trade Federation and the Chancellor’s ship at the start of TPM are more in line with what you’d expect. The problem is that everything is so busy looking in art direction terms. The Jedi Starfighter and other clone wars vehicles are really overdesigned, instead of being simpler reduced versions of what would follow. A lot of them look like what would have been post ROTJ. You can see some of them are intentionally made to look like 1950s cars in an attempt to reach for that “retro” aesthetic but I don’t think the results work.

Who are they kidding with that price! I think I paid that much a couple of months after it was released.

The discussion starts there and goes on a while.

There’s a variety of screenshots here if you look back. It’s much colder looking.
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/4K-restoration-on-Star-Wars/id/16857/page/283

Really? I thought it was still a thing, like those sets that a Blu-Ray and a 3D disc packed in, and they always had the nicer box art. For example something like Avengers End Game was on there when I was browsing.

JJ should have not been involved in writing. But I guess that’s what they offered him to come back at all? Should have just got a competent yes-man to give it the full ROTJ mirror image. Maybe sit Kasdan and RJ together and make them do a properly good script since they were the authors of the other 2 puzzle pieces. The so-called creative process is baffling, the way it was clearly rushed out instead of being carefully executed to tie the trilogy up. I don’t get a lot of big blockbuster decision making, there’s no brain power considering how much money is involved.

Ah that’s what I’m thinking off, the magazine cover. It’s weird though, the airbrushed look.

Has anyone seen a weird 3D version of each seperate movie being advertised?

Like this

https://imperialtalker.com/2015/07/10/driving-flying-into-a-tunnel-the-second-death-star/

On this page (not sure hotlinks work) what is the header image exactly? It’s not a screenshot from the film but it’s very familiar, is like a 1997 promo image?

It didn’t have to come out of nowhere as long as they referenced TFA properly. Starkiller could have been a test or a way of weakening the New Republic before the real masterplan was unveiled. It could have all been a way of doing something interesting… instead of nothing.