SilverWook

Which one of us gets the gold medal and the Wheaties cereal box contract then? 😛

I see Yoda as always having had a mischievous side he had to keep in check being a proper Jedi master. He doesn’t have to be super serious all the time anymore. Being dead for 30 years is probably liberating. He could also be laughing because he knows the books aren’t even in the tree? Perhaps Frank Oz will chime in one of these days about it. He’s been fairly protective of Yoda.

And I think when the Yoda puppet is eventually seen in behind the scenes photos, it will become clear it’s the lighting that makes him look odd in certain shots.

Damn Windows 10 and it’s bloated updates. Lucky I had free internet in my hotel room this past weekend.

Since you can make Yoda say anything you want now, play him up as a pyromaniac? Burn Baby Burn! or Fire! Fire! Fire!

A non-corporeal being made out of energy manipulated energy already present in a growing electrical storm to cause a lighting strike. Is that so hard to figure out? Probably really easy on an island already dripping in Force energy to begin with.

Also, Yoda has had thirty years to learn some new tricks. He’s got lots of time on his hands.

Like they would ever tell us the truth about a president’s mental state.

Ewan looked like Obi Wan in the Jesus movie he did a couple years back too. Something not lost on those making fake Obi Wan movie trailers.

Just be glad we’re not getting the young unkempt Han hanging out with the Wookiees Lucas was going to pull for Episode III. 😉

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

yotsuya said:

How is Leia a princess?

When a prince and a woman love each other very much, they get “married” and the woman becomes a princess.

Actually, Leia is a princess because her adoptive mother was a queen.

It is not explained in the films. But as has been said, Warb, just because something is left unexplained does not mean it is unexplainable. Before you call out TLJ for not explaining things you wish it had, I suggest you read the novel because it might answer those questions.

Biological mom was a queen too, temporarily overlooking the business of Naboo electing their queens and forcing them to do Kabuki theater and change ouftits every three hours for their entire term of office. 😛

On my second 70mm IMAX viewing I realized we finally saw an older FO officer, the captain of the dreadnought. He could have been an imperial officer in the OT era. Also noticed some female FO officers. Were there any in TFA?

Another FO chap also looked a lot like the late Admiral Piett.

How is this not a cheap gimmick like 3D is often derided as being? 😉

Have laser beams firing out of the screen as Captain Eo did in it’s original presentation and I’ll be there though.

Warbler said:

SilverWook said:

I thought Yoda was just guiding the lightning not creating it.

sure looked like he created it to me.

Big difference between manipulating the weather to create lighting and firing it out of your fingertips. It’s been suggested in the past Yoda used the Force to make sure Luke crashed in just the right spot on Dagobah. That was some choppy weather he hit coming into the atmosphere.

yotsuya said:

Since when did movies have to start explaining everything? I don’t get that. Even books don’t. You explain what you need to get across the main points. Why can’t movies make you think? Leave things out and make you wonder? And just why does one force user doing something in one movie mean that no one has ever been able to do that before. that stagnates things. Lucas gave us new force powers in nearly every film. In Episode I, Qui-gon and Obi-wan run super fast. Why can’t they do that in the OT? Yikes, a mistake. Sorry, this is just a bit ridiculous. Any ongoing franchise is a living thing that grows and changes as each new installment comes out. With luck, the new ones enhance the old ones. But this idea that we’ve seen it before so these new films must follow those rules exactly is very funny to me. If you take that back far enough it means that we should have seen everything the force could do in ANH. Because everything since then had changed things. Oh my.

So here’s a big one that was never explained in the movies. How is Leia a princess?

Royal titles in SW seem to differ a bit to what we know on Earth. Bail Organa holds a title and is a member of a royal house on Alderaan, therefore that makes Leia a Princess.
Interesting that even the FO refer to Leia by her title. I presume the good guys do out of respect and honoring her late home world.
Oddly enough, we’ve never seen any kings in SW, not sure about the EU.

I thought Yoda was just guiding the lightning not creating it.

What does Phasma say to Finn before they fight? I still can’t make it out.

And holy crap! Did I see a well dressed Skeksis in the casino? It was right behind the little guy trying to play BB-8 slots.
First person who asks What’s a Skeksis? is going to make me sad. 😉

This came to mind when Snoke says Rey has spunk.
https://youtu.be/lwYdZ70yIxA

This song should follow Benicio Del Toro’s character around.
https://youtu.be/MvwrWI3RJuc

Saw it in 70mm IMAX tonight. When I heard the San Jose theater had undergone renovations I feared it might have gone digital. The water damage on the massive domed screen is finally gone! Some scenes seemed much darker than when I saw it digitally last month. Very strange. And no, I don’t think the projector had a bad bulb. 😉

I had a good chuckle at a bit of fuzz on the film that looked like some strange creature on the ocean horizon in one scene. You don’t get that with digital!

Nice to see the gate weave in the closing credits.

It didn’t occur to me until the second viewing that Kylo taking out the hangar bay is very similar to Anakin destroying the Trade Federation ship in TPM.

Didn’t notice the first time that a child’s voice says Rey’s name in the Dark Side cave. No idea what it could mean.

Mark Hamill is listed as playing another character in the credits. Was it just a voice or did he play an alien or something?

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

Closest IMAX laser system is the better part of two hours away from me. I’ve been thinking about making the pilgrimage for the last couple weeks but I haven’t found the time yet. I really hope I make it out there while it’s still playing.

There’s one in Reading, don’t know how far your are from there. I’ve never been but I’ve heard it’s a good one, though you have to walk through a Jordan’s Furniture to get to it.

That’s the one I’m talking about. I’m out in Fitchburg, so it’s a ways to go for a movie. Boston’s got one coming in, but I doubt it will be open while TLJ is still playing. Maybe for Solo.

Ideally one day every IMAX screen will be laser (hell, every standard screen too).

Can we keep the few still rocking with 70mm film? I’m not stuck on a really late train into San Jose right now for the fun of it! 😉

Arguably, the Han Solo movie will have bigger name recognition with causal and non fans than Rogue One did. Everybody knows Han and Chewie.

Hey, even George admitted the Speeder Bike chase in ROTJ was just the Death Star Trench with trees you can run into. :p

How many different ways can you have two spaceships chase each other?

suspiciouscoffee said:

SilverWook said:

That would be like calling Jabberwocky a Python film. (It has been advertised as such in the past.) Terry Gilliam’s 1984 would be more precise.

I was going to say that, but then thought he may ask who Terry Gilliam is, so I figured this way would be easier for all parties, if a bit less apt a description.

Good point!

Ah, I thought perhaps they just didn’t give a crap towards in the final years of VHS. Saved me having to plug another video source into my DVD recorder to get around that as I’m just after the audio.
Pleasantly surprised the tape is in great shape. Factory sealed or not, there was always the possibility it was exposed to a strong magnetic field or stored in a detrimental environment all these years.

MaestroDavros said:

SilverWook said:

MaestroDavros said:

Collipso said:

I definitely preferred the sound mix in TLJ than in TFA. Not even a question. Visual effects too, but the one scene where Luke is fishing (where he jumps and grabs that huge stick over the water) looked pretty fake to me. And of course the cgi horses looked very bad to me too.

Lightsabers looked too much like they were actually there - reminded me of a lightsaber toy or replica in some shots. TFA’s sabers were definitely better for me. And the screen wipes were either out of place or too fast.

Overall I really loved how the movie looked and sounded though, a lot more than TFA.

Regarding lightsabers however, TFA > TLJ.

Again, waiting for the Blu-ray to see the full film, but the lightsabers in TFA looked like they had weight to them, as well as a feeling there was actual energy being emitted. Sure, the white core could have been brighter, but if they look more like the prequels then TFA that seems like a step too far in the opposite direction.

Speaking of SFX, from what I have seen in trailers I still think the ships look kinda fake, especially after seeing how beautiful Rogue One’s enhanced recreations of the ANH ships were. Maybe when building CGI ships it helps to actually have a real world reference (meaning, something actually fully built in the real world) before the model is created but, I know, too expensive.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the OT models were laser scanned for Rogue One.

As a matter of fact they DID! Well, with the Star Destroyers they acquired all of the model kits that were kitbashed to create the original Star Destroyer model, scanned them, and painstakingly recreated the original model in the computer. From there they added more details, usually from other parts of the same kits. This process was used for all the recreations of the original models, and they look more lifelike for it, whereas the ST’s Star Destroyers look alright, but they’re too flat in terms of surface detail and lack a physical presence that the R1 CGI ships had.

Here’s a video where John Knoll discusses his work on R1, and talks about the Star Destroyer in particular starting at 12:47: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUafi3EWBY8

Awesome! Having seen the movie twice in 70mm, that attention to detail really paid off. Thanks for the link.

Depends on what kind of movie you’re making. People use everything from an iPhone to a DSLR these days.

That would be like calling Jabberwocky a Python film. (It has been advertised as such in the past.) Terry Gilliam’s 1984 would be more precise.

On a related note, I recently got my hands on a factory sealed remastered VHS circa 2001 with Dolby Surround for next to nothing. Going to capture it on the off chance it’s a different sound mix as opposed to a fold down of the 5.1 mixes that have been on every DVD and Blu Ray release this century.

Yes, I’m obsessed. 😉

The tape has no Macrovision copy protection at all. Yay!

^This! Especially if Jeremy can do some non action scenes in the costume. : )