Mocata

SilverWook said:
Bambi?

Wait it is, haha what

ChainsawAsh said:

JawsTDS said:

ChainsawAsh said:

JawsTDS said:

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.

TV’s Frink said:

Well fine but Mocata said it’s “pretty weak.”

This is true.

DominicCobb said:
No.

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.

VonKatzen said:

Mocata said:

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 😛

SilverWook said:

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.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Well, this is stupid.

Why Darth Vader’s Lightsaber Is Sometimes Pink

The comments claiming that it’s because the effects are old are even more painful.

Right, like some of the old Y-Wing designs

Handman said:

That’s a new one, for sure.

I’m not sure if my ranking has changed since the last time I posted, but:

1. Star Wars
2. Empire
3. Jedi
4. TFA
5. TLJ
   … And then a huge dip in quality/enjoyment.
6. Phantom Menace/Rogue One
7. 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.

DominicCobb said:

Mocata said:

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.

TV’s Frink said:

MalàStrana said:

Would be a weird move since Episode I-II-II already exist and are better than R1-VII-VIII…

paja said:

Ryan-SWI said:

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.

moviefreakedmind said:

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.