There’s a lot of garbage whether it was built by hand and composited later or not. Execution is everything. The one thing that always confused me was this effect
Didn’t ILM pioneer morphing back in 1990 or maybe earlier? Why is it nearly just as bad in the third movie …in a major scene?
C-3PO spouting hacky zingers in the droid factory and subsequent battle in AOTC. Nothing else even comes close.
Oh man I had actually forgotten this part. But yeah TLJ ruined everything
It’s called The Good Side in ROTJ.
Wait what? I have to upgrade to do 3rd party hosting? Guess that’s the end of photobucket for me.
Oh yeah it’s been dead a few months. Imgur or bust.
The Japan one actually has reasonable composition, the UK just draws the eye to that giant orange glow in the left corner for no reason.
The first SNES game is the most playable but it’s still full of terrible difficulty curves and cheap deaths.
I think ROTS is probably the worst because it’s trying sooo hard to be the bridge into the OT. I don’t really consider any of the PT better or worse that each in general film terms, they all just merge together. But when you’re genuinely supposed to see characters as the same people from a few decades later in the OT the third one implodes the most.
Did Boba Fett bring his lunchbox to the battle?
ChainsawAsh said:
The way Luke actually died. For no fucking reason. At all.Not. Fucking. Cool. Rian.
My nephew and I were discussing this…why DID he die? Did he use up all his life force when he astral projected? I mean, WTF?
I’m sure Official Lucasfilm product -
Well I’d say there’s a line in the movie that directly explains it, but then I’m not sure why you’re quoting posts from December.
SilverWook said:
Bambi?
Wait it is, haha what
Worst thing: John Williams’ weak and anemic score.
Couldn’t disagree more on this point, though I’d have liked to hear more new motifs in TLJ.
Okay, let me clarify. The score is good, but it sounds weak and anemic, mainly due to the freelance orchestra he’s using. Listen to the opening titles of TFA and TLJ, it sounds awful. Lacks any sort of “oomph”.
Oh, I 100% agree about the opening titles, but that’s not as big an issue with the rest of the score IMO. I do think the music is mixed too low in much of TFA, though.
The crawl in both sounds really tinny.
What else can I really say? I liked the movie but too much of the score sounds like ROTS drums or just the same arrangements of stuff I liked more in TFA. I get that people thought it developed those motifs, but I don’t agree.
But when THIS comes on it’s like an adrenaline surge right in the heart.
Well fine but Mocata said it’s “pretty weak.”
This is true.
I disagree.
There were a few points made about the music and I have to agree, in TLJ it’s pretty weak. I’ve listened to it a few times and seen the movie just recently, but it’s not growing on me. The Resistance theme was bland in TFA and here it just feels overused. I would have really enjoyed new pieces for individual scenes like ESB. Rose gets a theme but it’s bleh. There are no Asteroid Field moments. Even scenes like the Throne Room would have been given a unique tune back in the old days - which is where all the best stuff here (Luke and Leia, TIE Fighter Attack) comes from.
Stormtrooper helmets can’t even withstand a blow from a rock being dropped on them, never mind actual hand to hand weapons.
A lot of this can be put up to ‘Plot Induced Stupidity’, though that would tend to counteract my intention to use ‘on screen’ stuff as evidence. But I would prefer to think …
Oooo that’s a dangerous conflict of interests 😛
The Sarlacc is just a sandworm that isn’t very mobile. 😉
Haha not quite so almighty when its weakness is water and it can’t close its mouth.
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.