RicOlie_2

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Weird. And LOL at that red text. :D

Warbler said:

how the heck are you able to drink and smoke weed right before work and during lunch break?   I would think most places would fire you for that.

 Who drinks weed?

Aside from rumors and speculation, which we probably don't need, all I can think of is interviews of the cast.

Posters and whatnot will come later, and those of course will be included, but since we don't have any now, that's less of a priority.

Well, the teaser trailer is already linked to in the OP, so number one is more or less taken care of. Naturally, however, it's the one we need to worry about the least, since it's almost certain to be kept up and put on Blu-Rays for years to come.

Ah, of course. Webpages aren't very permanent, I guess. Well, assembling them all into one spot would be a start. It would then be easy just to follow the links systematically and download the files. I would be willing to make a copy if people worked on assembling the links to them.

AntcuFaalb said:

.Mac. said:

Looks like the latest video for the UNICEF is online and it reveals a noticeably older Chewie! Unlike that image a while back we thought he'd look like (in there I didn't think he was "aged" enough), here his eyes look aged with more white around on his face, just like how an older dog would show age - I think he looks perfect now.

http://www.slashfilm.com/j-j-abrams-thanks-star-wars-force-awakens-set/

Please, please, please tell me there's someone here collecting all of this stuff: the teaser trailer (in HD); the UNICEF videos; the appearance on John Oliver; the leaked concept art.

If not, then can we get something going?

 If other people do most of the collecting, I'll stick it all in the first post so it's easy to find. It might be a bit much for one person to do, so I propose that everyone takes a certain range of pages (and lets us know which ones) and compiles all the links/pictures into one post, which I will then add to the OP.

I'll take pages 1-5 for now.

Pb3-c4

Fang Zei said:

The stuff that was added for the dvd was probably finished at greater-than-dvd resolution, maybe even full 2k, but those scenes exhibit aliasing and other issues compared to the rest of the blu-ray.

 Why do they have to be compared in order to exhibit those issues? ;)

Just like you have to reject the OT in order to properly dismiss the PT, right? Oh, wait, you don't.

Let's not start down that path again....

And I really want to see this film, but I can't.

Leonardo said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

Leonardo said:

Orang-ey, right?

 It looks strongly red to me, which was why I asked.

 I see orangey-red. As far as I'm aware I am only colour-blind to certain shades of green, so hopefully my eyes aren't getting bad at seeing reds as well.

 AFAIK, it's not supposed to get worse. That's why I was freaking out, because I remember being able to see the coat, long ago, on vhs.

Mine is red-green. It gets so frustrating at times.

 That's what I thought, but I supposedly had perfect colour vision once and now I don't. It's possible, however, that the tests they did before just didn't include the colours I can't see.

Ryan McAvoy said:

Leonardo said:

Orang-ey, right?

 It looks strongly red to me, which was why I asked.

 I see orangey-red. As far as I'm aware I am only colour-blind to certain shades of green, so hopefully my eyes aren't getting bad at seeing reds as well.

Lf2-f3

The red is there, though it looks a bit pink at times and is quite faint in most shots. It's more red/grey in some shots than others as well, but it isn't completely grey.

There, that's more like it...I guess.

Possessed said:

It's not a rotting corpse, it's Regan from The Exorcist, and she isn't dead. She's...wait for it... POSSESSED.  Get it?  It was just a clip from the exorcist of her laughing.

 I'll never understand the enjoyment people get out of watching people pretend to be possessed. I'd be about as eager to see that kind of show as I would be to see one featuring severely mentally handicapped people have seizures. Am I missing something here? :P

I keep forgetting this is the good news thread. Maybe it's time to drop this useless discussion.

Possessed said:

Maybe this will help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFpuPCpIuJw

Only about 35 seconds of this video is relevant, but it is in fact what is pictured in my avatar, laughing.

 I'm not sure if I want to see a rotting course corpse laughing, so I'll abstain and just take your word for it.

Possessed said:

RicOlie_2 said:

No, I haven't.

Lol?

 I'm trying to imagine your avatar laughing uncertainly, but I'm not managing it very well.

I'm assuming, of course, that this isn't just a fake head. It still wouldn't be kidding, however, it would be a mean prank. I'm unsure what you intended by your question....

Um...not...kidding...?

^LOL

Possessed said:

darth_ender said:

Possessed said:

NOT YOU DUMBASS.

Maybe I'm being harsh.  TOO BAD.

 The more I read from you, the less I like you.

Like I give a shit.  

I'm sure Ric knew I was kidding.  If not, then I apologize.  To him though, not to you.  It's a forum.  Think I care if you don't like me? Feel free to go fuck yourself, but don't feel obligated.  It's all personal choice.

Naturally I understood you weren't serious and took no offense, but note that the best way of kidding involves being funny.

rchdggr said:

[...] That is very OT to me. A regular guy. In the PT the heroes were anything but regular guys.

 I don't think I've ever really thought about that before, but it's true. I think that's one of the reasons people relate to the OT heroes so much more easily than those of the PT. Of course none of them were ordinary in the end, but they all had fairly mundane origins, Leia being the notable exception. Even she, however, was easy to relate to because she seemed normal, as if she had had a normal upbringing and had just happened to be a princess.

Now, if we contrast Leia with Padmé, there's a marked difference. Likewise, Anakin has an extraordinary life, going from a slave with incredible talents to a famous and powerful Jedi to a Sith Lord. Most of the main characters have superpowers, or are politicians, or are both. The ordinary people are either aliens who are next to impossible to relate to (take Jar Jar, for example) or have only minor or background roles.

The PT also focused too much on the wrong side of life. Star Wars was never about the politics, even though we could see they existed in the background, but the PT brought that into the forefront. We saw too much of the Jedi and learned too much of what they believed and taught for them to be cool or interesting anymore. It would have been better to see them more from the outside, or to focus on a small number of them, with the others being more in the background.

Ah, well, yet another area of the PT that went wrong, which makes the possibility of making something good out of it seem still less likely.

No, I haven't.