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#1212627
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Ranking the Star Wars Soundtracks
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DominicCobb said:

OutboundFlight said:

DominicCobb said:

Being able to hum a tune or not is a bad barometer for the quality of a score.

It shows how well I remember the score itself. There isn’t any original music I remember from TLJ.

That’s a you problem.

Yes, each persons ranking stems from their own opinion.

I use that ranking to see memorable the music is. If you’ve ever seen the video essay “marvel symphonic universe” they go around asking people if they can remember music from certain movies. It is a good way to see how impactful a score can be.

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#1212485
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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pittrek said:

The “problem” with the “slavery is bad” point of view is that we talk about MACHINES. AKA tools. My computer doesn’t have human rights. My fridge doesn’t have human rights. The coffee machine which created the coffee I am drinking right now is not my SLAVE, it’s a tool which was created for making my life slightly easier.

Well there’s a big difference between R2 and your coffee machine. That being said, everyone disagrees that droids should have rights except L3. The characters around here are just as annoyed as we, it’s not a political message. Do you really think Disney is pushing for iPhones rights?

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#1212406
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SOLO: A Star Wars Story - Fan Edit Ideas Thread
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–Cut some of Han’s “good guy” personality, it’s fine for him to start out somewhat innocent but he’s been running scams off the street since he was 10. He is not a good guy.

–Cut from Correlia straight to the train. This would make it seem like Beckett and Han have been working together for quite some time, I don’t get how Beckett starts acting like he loves Han when he considered him annoying for the first half. The twist would pack a bigger punch. The war planet scenes are boring anyways.

–Rotoscope Crimson’s ship to outer space, would make it look fancier.

–Cut droid sex joke and Lando flirting with Han… very out of place

–I didn’t like Nest being a kid, but idk how to fix this. That old wise looking lady who pretended to be Nest during the battle would of worked. Or she never takes off the mask.

–Move Maul to post credit scene. Cut final Han/Nest where they tell him he is a good guy and should join the rebels.

–End the film with Han showing Lando the reward and saying, “I want in” followed by a more upbeat end credits song (I’m Han Solo?). This movie doesn’t need to follow the episodic rules, and the current ending overstays it’s welcome + the celebration music doesn’t fit this story.

And a second edit idea
Guardians of the Galaxy + Solo mashup! 70’s music everywhere! In all seriousness, this might make the otherwise dull movie fun.

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#1212391
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Ranking the Star Wars Soundtracks
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If you were to ask me to hum a piece of music from one of the Star Wars movies, I’d be able to do for every one except TLJ.

  1. Hope
  2. Empire
  3. Sith
  4. Awakens
  5. Phantom
  6. Return
  7. Clones
  8. Rogue One
  9. Solo
  10. Last Jedi

Is it wrong that I’ve near forgotten the Solo soundtrack an hour after I watched? Only thing I remember was that lame piece they kept recycling whenever Han did something good and pieces of OT music from the Kessel Run. At least I remembered something.

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#1212383
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<em>Solo: A Star Wars Story</em> — Official Review and Opinions Thread — <strong>SPOILERS</strong>
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Overall it was a good story. Really fun at times, but also pretty boring. I think more jokes would of helped kept the slower scenes exciting.

I have watched some reviews that say the film lacked substance… this is not the case for me. It’s a story about a teenager learning about the dangers of the outside world, and to never trust anyone. Han undergoes a positive change without “joining the rebellion”, Han being much more cynical later on makes sense given the time gap. Alden doesn’t give a perfect Han impersonation, but instead creates a new younger take on the character.

Lando was excellent. L3 was hilarious as a parody of SJWs. They kept playing up the monkey guy like he was some hilarious pilot but I didn’t think much of him. I wasn’t too sure about Beckett until the end, his message is superb. I would of preferred if Nest was a marauder, but at the very least don’t make her a 15 year old.

I thought Emilla Clarke did a bad performance. Whenever her and Alden were on screen together it felt like she was reading from the script, although I am interested to see what happens next.

Darth Maul’s cameo was amazing… at first. When they didn’t show his face I was really excited with his appearance (I knew he was coming but thought he’d been in the background like those cantina guys), him leading the Shadow Collective sets up so many stories. They could create an entire cinematic universe with the characters they’ve set up. That being said, they should of cut right after he showed his face. The CGI was worse than Battlefront II and I cringed when the lightsaber turned on for no reason. Would of worked better as a post credit scene.

Story wise I thought the beginning was convoluted, they should of cut Correlia or the Battle Planet. I did like the “crawl” of sorts they did. Once they went to Vos the story started for real. Liked everything after that.

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#1211582
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Random PT ideas
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What if “Padme” (name change needed) was the daughter of Palpatine. Anakin purposefully befriends the chancellor to impress his gf’s dad, who he originally finds old and aristocratic. Palpatine is initially annoyed by this (Padme doesn’t know he is a Sith) but when he sees Anakin’s powers decides to keep him around. When the Republic is reformed Anakin chooses Palpatine over Padme and the Jedi, for political reasons (doing a complete 180)

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#1205614
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Jon Favreau To Executive Produce and Write Live-Action Star Wars Series
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joefavs said:

By my count, Favreau is the twelfth white male to head one of these projects since the Disney buyout (fourteenth if you count JJ and Rian twice). Someone over there has to understand how this looks.

If 48 people came to Disney with pitches, and 12 were white men, 12 white women, 12 black men, and 12 black women, I hope Disney picks the 12 best pitches. True equality will be when no one even remotely considers physical appearance but rather how good they are for the job.

That being said, should the 12 best all happen to be the white men Disney shouldn’t be criticized. And considering white men make up the majority of the film industry (which hopefully will change), a more appropriate representation would be 35 white men, 6 white women, 6 black men, and 3 black women. In which case the probability of all best pitches being white men is much higher.

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#1204415
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Feedback Wanted: Alternate Mustafar climax for ROTS
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This cut has pros and cons. I agree that it makes Obi-Wan’s abandonment of Anakin more believable. It places the reveal of Vader onto RO, imo the shadow is far more epic.

At the same time, you’d be losing arguably the best performance in the trilogy. Also, how does Obi-Wan get Anakin’s light saber? If you recolored the lightsaber red for Mustafar you could write it off as a new one but if it’s blue that might be seen as a plot hole. Lastly, this cut makes Anakin’s defeat purely misfortune, instead of his recklessness causing his burns.

Both this and the original have their pros and cons. Personally I prefer the original, though this is a cool alternate take that could still work.

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#1202288
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<strong>DESTROY ALL JEDI:</strong> <em>The unfinished Tarantino-inspired prequel edit</em>
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snooker said:

I feel like this movie needs a purpose in the grander Star Wars saga.

First of all this edit looks really neat!

Maybe it could stand alone- this type of movie, while compelling, doesn’t fit the OT. By that I mean if they made an anthology movie like this people would say “it isn’t sw!” People complained about no crawl…

But more importantly by not connecting it with the originals you can tell a complete story. For the first time a PT edit doesn’t have to end leading into ANH. The dubbing let’s you tell an improved story and change scenes to have a completely different meaning.

For example, what if Anakin dies on Mustafar? Obi-Wan’s greatest fear was to fail a mentor, and he does. He now has to directly confront his fear and kill his best friend. Well, more like leave him for dead. Most PT edits need to warp a bunch of stuff up for the OT, but this isn’t needed for a story like this. It’d be a bit weird if this movie ends with Anakin reborn as Vader but the conclusion of the story told in a traditional English trilogy with all new characters (unless you made an all in one OT Tarantino).

BTW how are you doing this? Are you using a Japanese dubbed ROTS with custom subtitles or are you recording the Japanese lines?

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#1199500
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The Last Jedi : a Fan Edit <strong>Ideas</strong> thread
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I think removing the parent reveal entirely and saving it for 9 would be better, although we don’t know what footage 9 will provide us. I was still shocked on Kylo betraying Snoke and the potential of an alliance first time watching, it seemed Rian tried to kill the mystery box all in one go.

If Rey’s parents were nobodies, it doesn’t mean that her grandparents were nobodies. Kenobi? Before TLJ I was hoping Rey would be a Palpatine, as a foil to Ben Solo. Still technically possible…