SilverWook

Nice discovery!

Smithers said:

MEH, started off really really bad. 40 minutes in, I was in agony, every line was cringe-worthy, there were too many references/fan-service moments, and characters spent a lot of time talking about things vs. letting the audience see it. Once we meet Lando the movie really picks up, lots of fun moments are sprinkled throughout and the action scenes were shockingly suspenseful as well! I liked how they DIDN’T include Jabba, Boba Fett, Leia, young Luke, or any of that kinda crap in there. The actor playing Han Solo was all over the place though, he wasn’t written to have an arc and the character seemed to constantly shift from coward to clever over and over again. I liked that there were a few genuine surprises in there near the third act and I thought it was great that the mentor dude gets shot (first) and the girl completely screws Han over, that was very anti-Hollywood of them. The Darth Maul scene was dumb and ill-fitting, I’m sure it’s just set-up for the Obi-Wan movie or something. Saw Gerrara’s humanized extremist rebels was a cool addition, I like Now I’ll just list all the things that really pissed me off:

• the humour (the theatre didn’t laugh once it was that bad)
• Han speaks wookie
• Solo is a name made up by a random imperial guy
• Han works for the empire
• Han putting the dice on the mirror 2900 times
• Han getting his signature blaster from the mentor dude
• Han pretending a rock was a thermal detonator
• Lando’s droid talking about equal rights (the audience groaned) P O L I T I C A L C O M M E N T A R Y
• Woody Harrelson’s crew showing up and then dying right away

Do you always care what the rest of the audience thinks? People cracked up in mine. YMMV

He doesn’t speak Shyriiwook very well, (which was really funny) just enough that a pissed off mud covered Wookiee becomes the best friend a guy could ever have. 😃

Han briefly served in the Empire in the later Han Solo books, so this concept is hardly new. He met Chewie as a result of that as well.

I didn’t count the number of dice shots.

He had to get the name from somewhere. Maybe he hated his father’s last name?

The thermal detonator ruse worked, didn’t it?

I’m sure there’s a deleted scene where he orders the blaster from an intergalactic Sears catalog or something. Pretty sure being given your signature gun is an old western movie trope.

It’s a sentient droid who’s really pissed off about other droids being slaves. A refreshing change from the usual obedient droids we’ve had in 99% of Star Wars. G E T O V E R I T

They didn’t die until near the end of the train heist. I was sad monkey man didn’t make it. I liked Woody’s lady friend too.

Why are you in this thread if you haven’t seen the movie yet?

I’d lay odds that they remake that game for modern systems now. Hopefully with better player control.

ZkinandBonez said:

I get the impression that L3 is going to be a mini-TLJ of sorts, where most people either love her or hate her.

Just for the record, I thought she was ok, though she did borderline on annoying. I liked her droid-revolution, and her introduction was fun, but in the in-between Falcon scene(s) she just got too weird and nagging for my taste. I guess they wanted to make good use of the character before she got killed off, whereas K2 got to be spread out over the whole movie so his odd personality didn’t feel as over-the-top.

On a side note, I’m glad she was done as a mostly practical effect. K2 look good, but L3 had more of a “physical presence” in my opinion.

Mind blown!

And buttons pressed. 😉

What can I say? I like sassy female robots. 😉

And let’s not forget the inspiration for our favorite protocol droid.

I’m of the opinion Lobot was at Cloud City before Lando won it.

If the inevitable Lando movie is set before Solo we might see more of her.

It’s iffy whether a droid’s brain can’t just be transplanted into a working body. Threepio got blasted at point blank range and didn’t die. Or did L3 take a shot to the head?

Maybe since the idea of organic/droid relationships was floated in the old Marvel comics more than once, it’s not bothering me at all. And Lucasfilm always had veto power over the comic storylines, (screams in the void posted about that in the SW Marvel thread recently) so one can infer they were okay with it back then.

Of course they have better resolution, but actors shouldn’t look like wax works. Predator is a prime example of this. The early Blu-Ray release, even though it’s an MPEG 2 encode, is way better.

Criterion is about the only label that gets things right. Now that they’re doing Kubrick films again, I may see that accursed pink tennis ball shot in The Shining finally fixed. That’s the only movie that’s going to make me invest in a fifth optical disc video format in my lifetime.

Some movies are going to be an upscale no matter if you’re watching 4K or not. Pixar has flat out said it’s not worth the time and expense to render their films at 4K.

You know we’re all going to be discussing 8K in a few years anyway. 😛

There’s a difference between romantic and sexual. I don’t think Lando was banging his female droid co-pilot.

Yes, there are some projects that are anal retentive to put it mildly. But I don’t think anybody here thinks the current Star Wars Blu-Rays look anything like film these days. Even Phantom Menace is a plasticized wax-work mess now.

moviefreakedmind said:

LexX said:

Many BD releases have gotten good video/audio reviews, like Jurassic Park, 007 films, Back to the Future etc. but on this forum people have had a different opinion as they have older releases and possibly even original audio tracks or film reels to make their point.

I’m just going to be completely honest with you, and some people here may get pissed off at me, but most people on here just generally aren’t the experts that they think they are, and that’s putting it extremely politely. Just because someone on this forum thinks that old laserdiscs or DVDs look better than a perfectly fine blu ray doesn’t mean that you should listen to them. The 007 films look great on blu ray, except for Goldeneye which wasn’t restored. But even Goldeneye still looks better than it did on DVD and VHS. I’m going to go out on a limb and wager that over 99% of blu ray releases are better than any previous home video presentation of the film in question. I think the OUT and the “accurate” (however the hell that’s even judged) Star Wars color obsession has gotten many people on this site to think that all modern home video is questionable and all old home video is inherently accurate when that’s not true at all.

Really? On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is the worst of the bunch. Whoever did color correction on that needs glasses. And some people around here have access to original prints of certain films so the original color timings are known.

And the inclusion of lossless original audio mixes is important to some people. Not everything has to be remixed in atmos, which most people aren’t even going to able to install the extra speakers needed in their ceilings.

They kept the 1993 Laserdisc masters around. And Fox may actually own the video master. It’s technically not even a Lucasfilm production.

TV’s Frink said:

DROIDS DON’T HAVE GENDER

Don’t tell Bender that! 😛

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

But those female droids were George’s, so they’re art. These were made by SJW Disney to increase their profits, so they suck. All they care about is money. 😉

Edit: I bet they forced Ron Howard to do it by holding a Pop-Tart gun up to his head.

A Pop-Tart gun? Tell me more!

What!? Where was Moroff?

Darth Lucas said:

Rent out the Chinese theater in Hollywood.

Hey, a guy can dream.

I think we can get this place down the street for a lot cheaper. 😛

Well, this is going to cause mass confusion. 😛

I forgot about that detail! I wonder if it was done to discourage nasty letters? I doubt that would fly today.

Not crazy about those digipack trays on the UK set. They have a tendency to crack over time.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Does there exist a project anywhere to restore STVI in something closer to Meyer’s preferred aspect ratio? I read somewhere that he preferred something around 1.85-2.0, but the Blu-Ray, at least the one I have, seems to be in 2.35 or so.

There was an open matte verison (1.33) on Laserdisc, VHS and VCD. The widescreen Laserdisc was about 2.00 aspect.

Ryan-SWI said:

SilverWook said:

Ryan-SWI said:

2. Tone down the amount of shots of the golden dice. We get it. TLJ reference. Don’t need to show us every five minutes.

How I’ve gone this many years without noticing that is embarrassing.

I stand corrected.

It happens to the best of us. 😃

lovelikewinter said:

Anthony Daniels was the voice of one of the droids in Kessel, I think.

I wonder if Maul will play into the Kenobi spinoff in that Obi-Wan leaves to confront Maul and ends up taking down Crimson Dawn and leaving Maul stranded on Malachor with a live action replay of their final duel for a coda.

I liked that we saw Corellia for the first time.

Going to see it again tomorrow with my bff so I can absorb more of the details. So far it was better than R1 for me, except I still love R1’s final act more. Better than 80% of the Marvel Movies (IM2, IM3, Thor 1-2, Hulk, Ant Man, AOU, Black Panther) and on par with GOTG for me.

I do wish they would have held it back til December though cause the normies are complaining about fatigue.

Daniels was listed in the credits.

ZkinandBonez said:

SilverWook said:

Fantastic Films magazine? They did a lot of wild speculating back in the day between sequels. I need to find those and see if anything was on the money.

I can’t say anything about Fantastic Films, but I did find some speculations in the letters page of some of the Marvel SW comics I recently got. Those readers did sometimes have quite on-the-nose ideas about the upcoming movies.

I think it’s especially funny to read the fan reactions to the Han-Leia-Luke love triangle prior to ROTJ. This one fan in 1980 even speculated that Yoda’s reference to “another” was a nod to a possible child of Luke and Leia. On the other hand, one fan unintentionally suggested that they were siblings while complaining about a lack of romantic tension between the two in the comic series.

I lament that those letter columns don’t make it into reprints. Maybe they’d have to track these people down to get permission?

And why the heck didn’t I ever write them a letter demanding Jaxxon’s return? 😉