I hadn’t seen this international trailer yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=83&v=bEraJBiTIUY
C-3PO looks a lot better here than he did in TFA. I don’t know whether it’s the lighting or some extra polish or what, but he actually looks more real.
They’re quite nice. I always wish that they were more of a dangerous, crackling energy of the '77 version than the sanitized versions that came after, but this is about as good as I can expect while still holding to the established style.
I can’t find that version anywhere on the 'spleen.
Here’s an updated sheet with more projects:
And here I am, decidedly less spooky.
Just saw a trailer during the World Series. Great shot of Luke stepping into the cockpit of the Falcon.
It’s now up on the Star Wars youtube channel too:-
‘The Last Jedi : Awake’…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CB5SeBGkI
😃
Nice trailer. Since I have a compulsion, here’s the Luke and Falcon shot made to look more like it did in the olden days:
http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/K6GNNN8X
Also: http://generated.inspirobot.me/068/aXm3253xjU.jpg
mods please delete this thread.
I think you have to send a PM to the whole team for that to work.
But how long would that take‽‽‽!!!
Using interrobangs and exclamation marks together? Are you trying to destroy the observable universe?
Don’t worry, the invisible thread will remain unaffected.
Hey look, Off Topic is garbage again.
That can only mean one thing…the inundating of the radio airwaves with God awful Christmas songs. I love the Christmas season, but I loathe Christmas music.
Ho Ho Ho.
Also curious what happened to Vader’s red sabre. Did Luke retrieve it before Death Star II blew up?
It fell into a black hole and was transported to a galaxy even farther away. There it was found by a civilization of machine entities, who gave it intelligence and built for it a new machine body. It then took to roaming the universe, in search of its creator.
This is a quality post.
War of the Stars 2: The Future in Motion
After greatly enjoying the first edit, I embarked on this one and was not disappointed. Well, I thought Luke’s return to Dagobah was unnecessary, but other than that it was brilliant and entertaining to watch the paradox of condensing two films into one while incorporating as much superfluous deleted material as possible.
9/10 Chocolate Medals
I don’t mind that some people register only to ask for a certain edit. It’s one thing for a place like Myspleen where a lot of hit-and-run behavior is a problem, but for regular download links it shouldn’t be a problem. For people who want my ANH edit I request proof of Blu-ray ownership to the new users, and this allows everyone who’s truly interested to get what they want.
I’d say there are some important differences…
They say that you can kinda see Vader’s visage in this poster for The Last Jedi. If the filmmakers are smart they’d feature about as many cool flashback scenes with Vader in them as they possibly can. Vader is a very large part of this whole franchise whether he’s alive or dead. On an off-topic side note the porgs look ridiculous.
I disagree with everything you just said.
He’s the hero OT Forums needs right now.
I save them as well, but for The Dark Knight I only have one ticket stub so I’d like to hold onto it. Usually I have extras since my brothers give theirs to me, but alas they did not in this case.
As much as I hate the prequels, saying that the Holiday Special is better is absurd. The Holiday Special is the most boring piece of media ever created. It’s not so bad it’s good, it’s so bad it’s really bad.
It’s so bad that even the Rifftrax guys couldn’t save it, and I had to turn it off halfway through despite their valiant attempt to hold my interest.
Like I said, I just don’t find Jar Jar’s stupidity annoying. If anything it’s endearing. As for him being a racial stereotype, that’s simply ludicrous. What little evidence there is is circumstantial and laughably insignificant. The fact he doesn’t even look remotely like a jamaican alone should be enough to dismiss this claim. AotC Watto, on the other hand.
He’s not endearing to everyone. You don’t see Mr. Binks walking around Disney parks as other prequel characters do. Even Watto got a shop in the Orlando park named after him.
Does a character have to be in blackface before they meet your definition of being offensive to some people?
I don’t think George deliberately set out to make Jar Jar offensive. The problem lies in the culture that existed at Lucasfilm where anyone who could say Gee George, I dunno. Maybe that’s not such a good idea? was long gone and Lucas surrounds himself with yes men.
Yes to this.
I should add that in addition to my ideas above I would make the case to Lucas that it would be warranted for him to do a Special Edition of TPM to change some of the more unfortunate aspects of Mr Binks, and also to maybe edit out the Midichlorians.
Since Frink jogged my memory, what do you guys think about a current events thread separate from Politics? Or did we have one that died a slow death and I missed it?
Died a fairly sudden death, actually
JEDIT: yhwx found it quicker than I did.
At least that thread lasted for 14 pages. Look what happened to mine!
The thing that I like about Vader is that he begins the OT as the Archetypal Evil Henchman, and his mask is slowly lowered throughout the trilogy to reveal the conflicted character beneath. Most of the characters in Star Wars follow this pattern - they are established as strong archetypes, only to be revealed as a complexity or subversion of the archetype.
The problem with Kylo, then, is that he’s not really archetypal. He is not fully evil, he’s too tempestuous to rule yet too rebellious to be a henchman, too serious to be a comic villain yet too infantile to be menacing…
In short, he’s a walking contradiction at odds with the spirit of Star Wars. Only time will tell if it was a good move for the series or not, but I understand why people have a problem with him.
So I guess it’s okay for me to finally reveal my big ‘Snoke is Krennick’ theory?
That scar is clearly from a low-powered Death Star beam.
77-81: Star Wars
97: Star Wars Special Edition
04-11: big silly title ending in A New Hope
Rogue One Part 2 and Star Wars Episode 4: George Lucas’s Star Wars Special Edition Version 3: A New Hope
What’s Monday going to throw us?
The mainstream pick: Manafort
The wishful thinking: Jarvanka
The obscure but important curveball: Sater
The nobody of consequence: Pence (hee hee)
The beginning: multiple persons, like Manafort/Stone/Kushner, etc
Looks like the mainstream pick was right, with a side of Rick Gates.
And there’s a lot of damage at the reel changes.
Should I have kids, I probably won’t deliberately expose them to SW. It’s just not worth it being a SW fan. Instead I’ll show them stuff by Bergman and Kurosawa and co. and try to get them interested in classic foreign films.
I figure that basically all people being born this decade will be a part of Disney’s master plan for the franchise whether they like it or not. And since the OT can be a brilliant and transformative experience for a young child and gets much less effective if introduced at an older age, it would be a shame to deprive someone of that.
Of course I do not suggest depriving someone of the experience of good foreign films, but unless you watch a dub it’s going to require a child with the ability and patience to read for several hours at a time.
What I’ll never understand is how someone can find a story as “rich”, “expansive”, and overall “emotionally satisfying”, a version of the Star Wars universe where:
The main character’s parents were people that we’ve never seen or met, and will probably never get to see, barring prequels.
The princess character belongs to a family that (thanks to the Death Star) we’ve never met, nor whom we will ever learn about in potential sequels.
A solitary knight(Ben) with no family or progeny whatsoever.
A villain who for all we know is some one-dimensional guy behind the mask. Nothing to his past, other than having once been a student of the solitary knight character.
That’s the character dynamics of the stand-alone Star Wars film, in a nutshell. I can’t see a story with such characters going beyond a single film.
In The Fellowship of the Ring film, we don’t see the parents or progeny of:
None of the villains had parents that we know of, nor do they have progeny (except for perhaps Sauruman’s weird Orcs).
And yet, I still feel like I can just maybe see the story going beyond a single film.
The little-used Catastrophe mark. It’s an inverted trident signifying that the preceding sentence requires evil laughter.
