Yeah I’m not sure, you probably just need some sense of a crappy feudal system and a bunch of weird creatures to have that classic Tatooine atmosphere. Peasants, outlaws, warriors, bandits. However there’s also the WW2-in-Space idea that comes into play in the second half. You could build from either point to make a new story.
Star Wars is either A) the heroes journey or B) a space opera or C) a fantasy posing as sci-fi. Maybe these ideas have to be combined, maybe not. You can probably push outwards and make a Western or a crime saga without taking too much away. I don’t think AT-AT walkers, lightsabers or Imperial Stormtroopers are what makes it “feel” like Star Wars. These are just set dressing and hollow fan service.
- Block blaster bolts? (Vader in V)
Maybe.
Deflected into the wall.
Did a stormtrooper die by a blast in the OT?
Leia alone kills a few per movie.
It doesn’t have a name in the movies though. The closest is Luke’s “A city in the clouds”.
Han says it. But is that the planet or the city?
When did Vader and Luke fly in the movies? They made great jumps but no flying.
Vader does his little floating jump down the stairs in the ESB dual I guess. It’s more like flying when they started using it as a Super Nintendo animation.
- Does the ‘A-Wing’ aka A-Fighter in Return of the Jedi ever jump to/from hyperspace on screen?
In the shot where the fleet jumps to hyperspace, five A-Wings are seen jumping. They are very blurry though.
If you think about it, it’s pretty weird that all the fighters go to lightspeed separately and not inside the capital ships.
It wouldn’t look as exciting or lend it the feel of a last desperate assault with everything they’ve got.
The only Blu-ray problems with menus I’ve ever had are those discs that want to connect to an online service after you select the first option and it crashes. Had to just turn off the auto-connect settings and deny it when asked.
A long time ago, in this thread, someone shared a image comparing some frames from TLJ with old samurai movies. Now i can’t find anywhere! Would be nice if someone could point me to that pic, the act of kindness would be appreciated.
Cheers!
Just look up some pics from Ran and Kagemusha. Also go watch them.
At this point they could say the next spinoff was going to be a Taika Waititi film called Jizz Wailing Nights - A Max Rebo Story, and it would still be plausible.
Oh right that’s a thing today… but this is like plausible news right?
joefavs said:
I was more interested in a Lando movie than a Han one from the start, so I’m totally on board.
Yep.
Perhaps among fans alone… whoever they are. Judging something through aggregators, ratings sites, video reviews all that stuff is inevitably a flawed idea. Because even in the modern digital age they’re used by a niche part of the audience to begin with. Time will tell when people are less emotional I guess, just things slowed down after TFA. Like everything else. I’m actually anxious after so much debate to see it on Blu-ray. Then again I just watched Justice League and it was a truly bad film, it’s probably all going to be fine.
Okay rather than making another quote pyramid I will just say that yes I believe TLJ fans to be the majority. Or at least those whole liked it plus the viewers who thought it was average at best. The RT score has clearly been meddled with. However even if you don’t consider this the case their own score system is broken. Look at the average user review score = 3/5. Which equates to 60% which equates to fresh by their own rules. Hmmmm.
Meanwhile a site like IMDB which has no media value or current fashionable brand recognition has a pretty reasonable score above 70% after all the fuss died down. And this is even with the 1/10 member reviews that are at the bottom of the page being upvoted. Meanwhile home video sales on the likes of Amazon are selling out quickly. Maybe it’s supply and demand you say. But maybe this “polarizing” movie is no such thing and there’s just a vocal minority. You decide.
Spoiler https://twitter.com/MiracoleBurns/status/980125305372401664
There’s nothing in that definition that hints at it being a slur of any kind.
It does however give several examples that suggest the word is generally used in the context of a topic a majority thinks is bad. PT apologists makes sense, TLJ doesn’t.
It’s like a novel sigh of relief.
Anthony Daniels died in Spring 1978 and has been replaced by a Lucasfilm plant ever since.
Another week to go, I’ve tried to keep away from all the small clips of it that are online lately.
The Falcon is probably the one thing you can measure stuff against like the Star Destroyer’s main tower, the height of the Death Star’s docking bay area on the equator (and by extension the whole thing). Other stuff doesn’t really get shown at a close enough distance to judge.
Good actors becoming mediocre (and mediocre actors becoming bad) is probably due to the direction they’re getting, but sure that’s also a factor.
Why did Obi-Wan lie about not knowing R2? I know that it’s because the prequels were written after the OT and it was a mistake, but what’s the canon justification? I’m just curious.
He actually never says he doesn’t know R2.
He also never gives any indication of knowing him, or C-3PO. I would be bothered by that if I took the prequels seriously.
I mean I don’t deny that, it’s just weird to frame the question as why does “Obi-wan lie about not knowing R2?” when it really should be “why doesn’t Obi-wan seemingly make any recognition of R2?”
The only way to make sense of it all, is to just assume that Obi-Wan doesn’t give sh!t about droids. or is senile.
Someone involved in the PT was senile.
Not bad but I still associate that font they picked for TFA with Evil Dead II.
It’s the perspective or something where they painted over the original photo
http://www.starwarsarchives.com/dt_gallery/scene-04-icy-goodbye/
‘The Last Jedi cinemagraphs’:-
The sea being a different colour on the right is bugging me.
I was glad to see your comments of 4K not looking like film. I agree. Many films or TV programs I’ve seen in 4K have the soap opera look to it…kinds like 60 fps with LOTR did for me.
Ugh I forgot all about those Hobbit movies and that HFR gimmick. Is that idea dead? I hope so…
Who is “they”?
Y’know “them”.
“a must-buy for its reference UHD video presentation”
SilverWook said:
Sure! If you have a 100 inch screen in your house. 😛
They also said the Porgs were the worst thing to ever happen to Star Wars. Not sure you can take anything from them seriously.