http://www.starwars.com/news/j-j-abrams-to-write-and-direct-star-wars-episode-ix?cmp=smc|1069686719
Noooooo
JJ Abrams is entirely unsuited to third acts, at least in a writing capacity.
So, why couldn’t they pack Anakin’s arm in some ice and reattach it in AOTC? It’s lying right there on the floor, not like they have to go looking for it. Okay, it might be a little bit shorter after, but seriously!
Maybe all the Midichlorians in it died, so he wouldn’t be able to levitate pears with it anyway.
Patting ourselves on the back are we?
I think they already confirmed that Shia will not be involved.
Not in 5 anyway, but perhaps he’ll return in later installments.
If we’re in the mood to look upon Crystal Skull with a more forgiving eye…
I hope that they find a way to use the character of Mutt going forward in a way that doesn’t make his inclusion in Crystal Skull an absolute waste. I know Shia has undergone a strange career reinvention of sorts, so maybe he’ll be open to do a more modern take on the ‘adventurer archaeologist’ who has to deal with the constant derision of people ‘debunking’ the tales of his adventures among aliens and ancient nuclear-powered Hindu civilizations.
I agree, E.T. is massively overrated.
Complete rehash of Close Encounters by studio hack Spielberg Disney-fied and dumbed down with bad child actors and ugly puppets 0/10.
Not sure if serious.
I remember an L.A. film critic panned E.T., dismissed it as a kid’s film and got a sackload of hate mail.
It would be fun if they remade it based on the original scary concept.
https://www.bustle.com/articles/26113-steven-spielbergs-original-et-concept-was-truly-frightening-photos
Just attempting to emulate some of our more flavorful posters.
I remember seeing that concept art years ago. Who knows whether it would have been better than what we’d gotten, but ET terrified me as a child, so mission accomplished on the horror front. I challenge anyone to gaze upon this alien thing and not get a sense of creeping horror:
There’s also no denying that E.T. is genuinely a masterpiece.
At least preserve some mystery for people who haven’t seen the movie before.
It’s not the first repackage to have spoiled the reveal of a small alien.
I agree, E.T. is massively overrated.
Complete rehash of Close Encounters Disney-fied and dumbed down with bad child actors and ugly puppets 0/10.
Oh wait, that might have been this.
There’s a Finn line you missed that I’d probably call the most accurate one for the majority of people here (and in general).
And you’re not enlightening us why?
I think greater humanization of Vader is warranted at that point in the story, regardless of what Obi-wan believed.
Something I’ve seen mocked up by AggeIw (https://aggeiw.deviantart.com/art/Give-me-a-Hand-216238791)
It also begs to reason why Vader would even scream over his mechanical arm getting severed. Maybe there were nerves connected during Vader’s suit construction or something?
3PO feels pain when he’s banged around, burned, ect. And the droids in the stupid torture scene are all screaming in pain. If they feel is somehow, I’m sure Vader does too.
It’s a confused issue for sure. Luke’s prosthetic hand has synthetic nerve endings, but this is presented in contrast to Vader’s robotic suit, which is ‘more machine than man’. If he does indeed have feeling in his robotic limbs, it would humanize him.
Not sure I can do much about that. Chopping up dialogue to make new dialogue is always dicey.
Ha.
There is one upshot of having 3 offspring of Han and Leia - Each one can channel a unique mix of the parents’ personalities. One may be the cocksure hothead, one would be the diplomat, and one could be very different to the others in some way. Since everyone would have imagined their own version of Han and Leia’s kids, this would give them what they imagined, and something more.
I don’t remember much about the EU. I read a bunch of the books as a kid, up until I got bored in the Yuuzhan Vong war. The big problem with most of them is that they failed to translate the deep themes of the movies into novel form. Star Wars, at least in the OT, wasn’t a comic book with villains of the week with splashy superpowers. Nor was it military science fiction, despite the name. The biggest missing element in the books was that they forgot (or were never aware) that Star Wars was an epic myth about growing up in rural America. Here we have a Midwestern farm-boy forever on the frontier, forever wanting to be elsewhere. It’s about him fulfilling the old American dream of becoming a self-made man, even if the dream threatens to become a nightmare. It is about navigating the desolate wasteland that is American folklore, a strange mix of alien cultures and Eastern Mysticism wrapped in a Western religious epistemology. Finally, it is about embracing the new folklore of pulpy romance and swashbuckling adventure in the movies, and making of it something more than its schlocky origins.
If you manage to make a story that taps into these themes, or similar themes of the 21st century, it won’t much matter if the story is sufficiently integrated with the EU.
The problem is that film used as a verb is quite efficient, compared to capture with a digital movie camera or even shoot in digital 4K.
And no one has coined a similar term that conveys the technology involved. We could steal a phrase from A Clockwork Orange and say we’re viddying it? 😉
I suppose video is sometimes used as as verb, but it still sounds weird.
Alright, they’ve all been posted as of page 5 or 6, so…
There’s still quite a few TFA quotes that haven’t been taken yet. Just a look at the script furnishes some functional examples:
No, that one! No. No. The one I’m pointing to! No. NO. NO.
Get off. Get off!
You know you can’t trust those little freaks! How long’ve we known each other?
Boys. You’re both gonna get what I promised! Have I ever not delivered for you before?
There was nothing we could’ve done. There was too much Vader in him.
Don’t be afraid. I feel it too.
If what you say about this girl is true, bring her to me.
It wasn’t all bad, was it?
I get any higher, they’ll see us!
Oh really, you’re cold?
Yeah, we gotta keep hitting it!
That girl knows her stuff.
You take the top. I’ll go down below.
The problem is that film used as a verb is quite efficient, compared to capture with a digital movie camera or even shoot in digital 4K.
I have fond memories of watching this as a child, but I’ve never seen the TV cut. I’d be interested in checking it out.
Please use the appropriate thread for reporting these things:
http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Dealing-with-People-Selling-Fan-Projects/id/56133
That’s really well done!
It would be interesting to see this without the childbirth at all, since it feels a bit unfitting with the grand, sweeping Leia theme. Other than that, brilliant.
This has probably been posted before, but I find it so hilarious that I cannot help posting it again.
“Little White Cuck Ball” and “Nebbish Beta Orbiter” are perfect lurker names.
I would hope not. Cuck has way too much baggage attached to it. It’s derogatory, offensive and borderline profanity in some corners of the net at this point. We’ve already had issues with offensive avatars in recent years.
Dare I even ask where that’s from?
No idea. I can remove it if it’s a problem, but the over-the-top derogatory labels are so plentiful that I am 70% certain that it’s a parody (and I meant that they’re amusingly dumb names for the Lurkers Name Suggestions Thread, not actual lurker names). I certainly took it as parody. There’s always the chance that it’s real, but that’s the internet.
This has probably been posted before, but I find it so hilarious that I cannot help posting it again.
“Little White Cuck Ball” and “Nebbish Beta Orbiter” are perfect lurker names.
Perhaps since the solar intake shot has been cut we can infer that it uses its primary weapon as the intake, so it must complete the task of draining the sun before it can fire. Also, if we eventually include scenes to suggest that the base will fire twice, it would be more clear that there is a reserve of solar energy.
A separate and probably unrealistic idea I once had included filming Fett crashing in the sand instead of into the sail barge. We would see him regaining consciousness just before the explosion of the sail barge, and then see him take off in Slave I after Luke and the Falcon part ways. He then shows up in the Battle of Endor, intending to take out the Falcon, but Lando outpilots him while his gunners ultimately take out Slave I. Again, I doubt it would work, but it was an interesting idea to me.
The problem is that he’s ineffective in both battles.
However, I think it’s a good idea to have him land in the sand, since he’s positioned towards Luke (and the sand) up until Luke’s infamous Force Kick where he’s seen flying at the barge at almost a right angle to Luke.
It would be a task of deleting Boba from that shot and instead having either a double or a CG Boba flying above the poor kicked guy towards the camera and out of frame to the left. While you’re at it, reposition Luke or the guy so that his kick actually lands.
JEDIT: Just had another idea. At the end of the infamous shot, Luke leaps down with his lightsaber in a downswing, but it doesn’t connect with anyone as usual. What if Boba flew headfirst into that downswing, and the next shot wasn’t him slamming into the barge but his head hitting the deck of the skiff? Then the next shot could still be his body (now headless) rolling down the slope into the pit.
It’s like poetry. Brutal, murderous poetry 😉
It should consist of Jabba reviewing different pizza places, climaxing with him reviewing Pizza Hut and saying that’s the best pizza that he’s ever ate.
Take it to the Holy **** Thread.
And why is his eye open? Your first reflex would be to shut them.
The eye-laser theory is looking better all the time.