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DuracellEnergizer said:

darthrush said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Anakin Starkiller said:

the fact that we don’t end with Lando clapping has got to be worth something

Get on your knees and beg for forgiveness.

I don’t wanna know what happens after that.

The excommunication gets lifted.

That’s neither cruel nor unusual. I’m disappointed.

suspiciouscoffee said:

joefavs said:

I was really hoping they’d go the Indy route and make it Han Solo and the ______.

That’s the title for the sequels and later home video releases.

Han Solo and the Raiders of the Last Temple of the Kyber Crystal Skull

moviefreakedmind said:

The reason UBI is such a turn off for most people is that there are tons of people out there that don’t even deserve basic income, much like how there are welfare people that don’t deserve it. It’s inappropriate to reject the whole program or concept just because of the assholes that ruin it though.

I default to Gandalf on this.

UBI is a difficult concept, since it’s hard to know how society will be distorted if it is implemented. There have been some small-scale experiments, but I don’t think that any experiment will truly capture the psychology of the populace until UBI is implemented on a wide scale.

On the one hand, people obviously respond to incentives. The incentive, when given a sum of money, is to work less. When everyone has this incentive, productivity will naturally take a hit and prices will go up to soak up the increased demand. That’s the downside.

On the other hand, some money will always be better than no money and people will be able to make better choices about their future with the knowledge that there’s a steady flow of money into their pockets (hello higher education). It will also alleviate the most severe cases of poverty in the nation, a massive upside.

All in all, the upsides to me clearly outweigh the downsides.

I think the idea has promise, but would be very tricky to implement.

I’d keep part of Obi-wan’s ghost scene, so that it’s established that Luke has a twin sister. He simply doesn’t think that Leia fits the bill.

Here’s a potential ending:

-DS explosion. Han and Leia don’t speak.
-Ewok celebration. Luke returns, sees the ghosts. Perhaps there’s some ghostly echo from Ben to remind him of his twin sister.
-Luke and Leia discuss his family.
‘Luke what’s troubling you?’
‘Vader’s here. I’ve felt his presence. He’s my father.’
‘Your father?’
‘The Force is strong in my family. I have it. My father has it. My sister has it.’
‘That’s why I have to go.’
‘I wish I could go with you.’
‘You’ve always been strong.’
-Luke leaves, Han arrives and hugs Leia.
-Luke burns Vader’s suit.
-Pan up to the stars, and End Credits

Unfortunately, I don’t know if there’s a way for TFA to work without the knowledge that Leia is his sister, since Kylo’s entire being is built upon the assumption that Vader is his grandfather.

The easiest way to sever Leia’s blood relation to Luke is by recognizing that Ben could have easily been misleading Luke to keep the true ‘other’ safe. No fanediting is needed, except in the case of Episode 3.

I think it’s really jarring that Leia’s apparently looking out of the left hand side of the barge in one shot then the right side in the next. I suppose Han and Luke look a bit more natural, but that’s the tradeoff the editor makes.

The most jarring aspect of that scene for me has always been the unfortunate green screen however.

TV’s Frink said:

Is that Saw Gerrera?

Lies! Deceptions!

Also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/774w1j/tolkien_white_guys/

Of course they talk, Chewie and Rey can understand their avian language perfectly.

Thanks for the input - here’s the new version:
https://vimeo.com/238707800
Password: finn

I changed the first line, and I’m pretty happy with the flow now.

“I heard you’re looking for some labor.”
“To evade this First Order?”
“I was told you can get me to the outer rim.”
“You’d be safer here.”
“Neutral Ground.”

I liked the dismissive tone in Leia’s deleted scene ‘They must take action against this First Order’, but since I changed that for a better line reading, here it’s reinstated in the pirate’s first line.

I always thought that the hangar full of troopers was part of Vader’s plan - most halls were intentionally cleared of guards so that the rebels could return to the Falcon and get away.

I had a chocolate chip waffle at a hotel yesterday. No syrup for me. It was good.

Currently eating an apple. Granny Smith. Uniquely fierce tartness, exceptionally good.

I love it.

Just as people like it, I am less than happy with it 😛
It feels a bit too technical a discussion for the normal patrons of the castle upon rewatch, and I’m actually having a hard time following it.

Here’s a version that is a bit less ambitious but hopefully better conveys the Neutral Ground aspect:

https://vimeo.com/238245573
Password: finn

The subtext remains the same - an attack on the castle is a declaration of war.

The Witch

I thought this was supposed to be a terrifying horror movie, but I ended up laughing at the characters and rooting for the goat.

DuracellEnergizer said:

They can if they sit on a high enough stack of bodies.

What I thought you said.

6’1’’ as well.

I tried a bunch of different things, but this seems to work best:

“You’d leave neutral ground?
Violence here…
…would be war”

https://vimeo.com/238205548
Password: finn

This gives some idea of how ‘normal’ denizens of the galaxy feel about this situation - the First Order isn’t officially at war with the Republic until this attack, and even then they don’t take action. Hopefully that is enough to show that something is very wrong with the Republic, and very right with the Resistance.

Thanks!
I think putting the 97 DTS as default is a good idea.

😃

Here’s the mockup, with significantly streamlined subtitles: https://vimeo.com/238169635
Password: finn

Another even more blunt possibility is:
“I hear you’re looking for some labor.”
“Yes, but you need not fear the First Order here.”
“It’s neutral ground.”

Okay, this is something I’ve been working on for a while.

I realized while getting close to finishing the Technicolor ANH project that I wanted an original poster to go with it, and to use as DVD/Blu-ray art (if it was worthy). For these projects I like to give myself plenty of conceptual requirements to make it a creative challenge, and for this the requirement was to feature all of our heroes in a scene which occurred (or could have occurred) during the film.

There is only one scene in ANH that features all the heroes, and this is during the Death of Obi-wan. So I tried to find a way to make a dramatic composition of the scene, but the geography of the set meant that either Obi-wan or the other characters would be too far away to render in detail.

Switching gears and thinking it over, I realized that there was one other scene that could potentially work:

This meant contriving a moment before the destruction of Alderaan where R2 decides to show Chewbacca the Leia hologram. Since Han doesn’t seem to know about Leia on the Death Star, I had him turning away from the hologram, as if he’s just finished target practice and is going to hang around in the cockpit for a while.

This is just a sketch colored with Photoshop, so the details aren’t final. I’m considering making the hallway a more natural warm tone, for example. So, any thoughts on color/composition before final painting?

JEDIT 11-20-17: I’m in the middle of doing the final drawing, which is on full-size 27 by 40 inch Masonite. It’s a bit overwhelming, so in the meantime I’ve gone back and finessed the color and lighting of the sketch:

http://www.framecompare.com/image-compare/screenshotcomparison/WLLNNN8X
I tried making a warm-colored hallway but it was too distracting. Blue it is!

JEDIT 12-20-17: The final drawing is complete.

Now I just have to get to the painting!

Yeah, I was torn between making it cryptic so as to underscore the general theme of the castle (it’s a place where everyone finds a way forward) and being specific about its Casablanca-esque feel.

DuracellEnergizer said:

moviefreakedmind said:

darthrush said:

Warbler said:

I have a bad feeling about this.

I’m definitely not looking forward to the porgs myself. I can see everyone raving about the movie and always just adding in "oh and if only you could get rid of the Porgs.

They’re an ugly kind of manufactured cute.

Like E. T.

TV’s Frink said:

OH NO YOU DONT

You are flawed. And imperfect!