They didn’t break. However in an ironic call-back this battle was the one case on screen of them being incapacitated.
Is spice just ripped straight from Dune without them trying to hide it?
Stormtrooper helmets can’t even withstand a blow from a rock being dropped on them, never mind actual hand to hand weapons.
I actually felt like the jokes felt less well… jokey watching at home. Probably because there was no audience laughter. But that also means people enjoyed them at the time, before I heard any negativity. Other things also “felt” different, least of all the visuals of the movie were less striking on the smaller screen.
snooker said:
World-building can only be as interesting as the characters inhabiting that world, and all of the characters in the Prequel trilogy are so wooden. We see Mos Eisley for only a few minutes in Star Wars but it’s far more interesting and exciting than the Coruscant senate chamber.
Agreed. Tatooine as a whole in the first act of SW feels more fleshed out than anything in the prequels which just added that whole awkward Ben-hur slavery / racing pastiche.
Both are dystopias which by definition rely on being set in a real world that could have once been Earth. A twisted version of our world. Star Wars… is Star Wars. You know?
But THX is on Archive.org if you want it…
Hahaha YES. The comedy I’ve been waiting for.
Well, this is stupid.
The comments claiming that it’s because the effects are old are even more painful.
Right, like some of the old Y-Wing designs
That’s a new one, for sure.
I’m not sure if my ranking has changed since the last time I posted, but:
- Star Wars
- Empire
- Jedi
- TFA
- TLJ
… And then a huge dip in quality/enjoyment.- Phantom Menace/Rogue One
- Attack of the Clones/Revenge of the Sith
I’m not sure Rogue One is down with those others, despite not being a fan. But otherwise a fair ranking.
Not going to lie, the third instalment is very concerning to me now that Abrams and … some guy from Batman V Superman are on script duty.
Alternatively, the Oscar winning screenwriter of Argo.
Probably a blip
The villains and the Force went back to being interesting instead of embarrassing.
Meanwhile everything that crept in from the writing style of JJ-Trek is terrible, big loud emotional beats first, logic second. Especially Death Star III and R2D2’s magic map.
Not going to lie, the third instalment is very concerning to me now that Abrams and … some guy from Batman V Superman are on script duty.
Would be a weird move since Episode I-II-II already exist and are better than R1-VII-VIII…
Spending years watching this site trash the prequels for “ruining” their beloved characters and mythos but then championing this film as some innovative landmark is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day, thank you.
Comment of the year.
But only because I haven’t laughed so hard at a comment all year.
I was just going to say. I’ve missed this kind of thing since the other comedians all got banned.
The Director and the Jedi includes a heinous 2004 Special Edition ESB shot, I’m not pleased.
I want to see a standalone movie where the imperial officers that survived the events of Return of the Jedi get tried and hung for war crimes.
General Veers comes up for judgement
someone in the jury goes… ‘he’s sooo hung’
They included it as a secret in Rogue Squadron 3!
Just looks like the Rogue One designs to me. It’s okay I guess.
a Rik Mayall sense.
I don’t know what this means.
Well then this may offer more questions that answers… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA
ZkinandBonez said:
“Woof” ?
I’m assuming in a upset reaction sense rather than a Rik Mayall sense.
‘Rogue Squadron HD Remake in Unreal Engine 4: Defection at Corellia’…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVtbbB7iEFU
more content about the project here - https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsRogueUnreal/
Not bad but the amount of high contrast lighting and effects is ridiculous.
I like the Crimson Corsair and his first mate. A lot of the new designs fall into the same trap though - too beige and too stumpy. Like Hammerhead’s malformed cousins. There are no specific natives or groups like Sand People and Ugnauts.
Well he’s talking about how it was a great idea for a newcomer to come in and re-adjust a big budget project after production started. His story comes just one month before a film is released that suffered the same problem. Hmm.
But you don’t need to speculate, the stun is a visually different energy blast. It causes no physical burning or carbon scoring as Luke puts it. Everything else does. Maybe it’s not clear what happened to the troops, but I suspect that the fire and high temperature impacts kill them since they don’t react in any pain from the visible burns after they are down. I don’t think Han said “sorry about the mess” because Greedo was out cold and drooling on the table.
But the facts are the blue wavy projection style beam is for stun, as used in those two scenes. If people are secretly switching to a non lethal mode that also looks like their usual red blaster bolts so they can be more heroic or something, I’m not buying it. Han’s gun decimates the wall of Bay 94, and they usually do the same elsewhere. If the Imperial troopers wear armour to actually protect themselves then I don’t see that as a fact. It could be paper thin and designed for style over function for all we know.
DominicCobb said:
It seems like Jyn was originally a very different character.
Any character would be nice.
Edit: I’m gonna stop talking about this movie now, it inspires too much annoyance haha.