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Smithers

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#940154
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suspiciouscoffee said:
One problem is the nauseating shaky cam and quick-cutting, especially in the opening sequence.

Another issue is the ugly, giant subtitles used to specify locations. Most movies may have these at the bottom or corner of the screen, small and out of the way. Civil War has MASSIVE TEXT BLOCKING THE ENTIRE SCREEN!

This. If I do a fanedit, I’m definitely cutting the opening action sequence, I could not for the life of me tell what the hell was going on on screen, it was almost as bad as Taken 3 IMO.

The huge text was way too overdone, many movies have text showing the location once or twice in the first few minutes of the movie but it happened after every single scene transition an made no difference at all. The fact that the characters are in a different story doesn’t actually make a difference, it should just cut directly to our other characters with a transitional musical cue and leave it at that. Helicopter shots and huge text are a thing of the past.

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#940127
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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DuracellEnergizer said:

I don’t see how Dooku and Hayden spinning coloured glowsticks above their heads in extreme closeup, CGI Yoda bouncing around like a constipated frog, CGI Palpatine leaping off the walls, or Obi-Wan and Hayden twirling their lightsabers around like synchronized baton twirlers could ever be considered visually stimulating, let alone appealing.

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#940118
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The Force Awakens : Fan Edit Ideas
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Hal 9000 said:

Someone was going to be working on isolating score from the films. Was that you, Smithers? This scene would be a good first one to do, since it’d be good to keep the foley even if the music gets changed.

Yeah it’s in the works. TFA has much more music in the centre track than the PT does. It’s a bit of a challenge but I’ll figure it out.

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#939992
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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Sheepish said:

And they whipped them out for every little thing. In the OT, when a lightsaber was drawn, the room got quiet. In the PT, it was every other scene. I get that it was a different time period, but I don’t care for that excuse. If Lucas had simply limited the amount of time you saw a lightsaber in the PT, he wouldn’t even have to write a spectacular scene for those moments. You would immediately feel excitement from the sight of the lightsaber. If Obi-Wan had never used his lightsaber until the fight with Darth Maul in Episode I, the scene would have been infinitely more impactful with the exact same shots.

This is very true, the lightsaber is a tool to convey the drama in a scene. It is less of a visual distraction than it is a way to make an emotional scene more interesting. It shows a characters anger or fear when they draw it.

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#939909
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HansiG said:

Smithers said:

Fant4stic: 4/10

That’s too generous

LuckyGungan2001 said:

Smithers said:

Fant4stic: 4/10

Took too long to get started but wasn’t completely terrible until the half-way point. Terrible CGI is basically unforgivable in the movie and a lot of stuff makes no sense. I don’t even know why I watched it.

You are being far too generous with your 4/10.

I may be a tad too generous but IMO the movie was mostly entertaining until they got their powers. From there it fell apart and continued to get worse until it was almost unbearable.

DuracellEnergizer said:
I have too much respect for the source material to even watch the trailer for that abomination.

I know it isn’t faithful to the comics at all but I won’t lie the trailer made the film look half decent

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#939871
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The Unofficial Complete REVISITED SAGA Ideas and Random Discussion Thread
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Scott109 said:

Over-choreographed? How is that possible? I actually prefer the lightsaber duels in the prequels to the lightsaber duels in the original trilogy. At least in the prequels the characters actually look like trained warriors and not like little boys playing with toy swords. The only lightsaber duel in the original trilogy that even had any real choreography was the duel on Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back.

I find it extremely irritating when characters constantly pause in the middle of sword fights in order to speak. When characters focus more on speaking than on actually fighting, the duel becomes unrealistic. Anyone in a life-or-death duel who focuses more on speaking than on fighting frankly deserves to die.

Why are you even on this site? I’m not even going to argue this with you just look up “Plinkett” on youtube and all the things you like about the PT will be ripped to shreds.

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#939767
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Lord Haseo said:

Smithers said:
but not as awesome as everyone says it is.

Even though this and saying it’s overrated are pretty much the same goddamn thing I hate when people say that shit. It’s pretty much saying “Everyone else’s opinion doesn’t matter except for mine”

I liked the movie, I just think it was just overhyped. I’ll definitely buy it when it comes out and I’ll probably enjoy it more the next few times around but I was just saying that all of the youtubers giving it an A+ was a little overboard.

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#939540
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Han - Solo Movie ** Spoilers **
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Density said:

The difference between McGregor playing Obi-Wan and this is that he was playing Obi-Wan at a totally different age from when Alec Guiness played him. So it wasn’t really the same role at all. Even still, he was a perfect fit in that his appearance, voice, and mannerisms were all uncannily similar to Guiness. On the other hand, we’ve seen Han at a younger age, not much older than the age this new guy will be playing him.

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