Swazzy

Obviously not a perfect equivalency, but Vader cuts down dudes with the lightsaber for the same reasoning The Emperor ever bothers to use lightning. Not as quick or efficient, but it allows these awful people to revel in their hatred and bloodlust. That’s the dark side operates. Vader’s also not entirely concerned with getting back the readouts to the technological terror the Empire has constructed, nor did he realize how close he was to them. Which isn’t nearly as damning of foresight when you compare it to staring your own daughter in the face and not realizing who she is. But hatred gives you tunnel vision in the Star Wars universe, I suppose.

TV’s Frink said:

Swazzy said:

I just got accepted onto the forum. Didn’t realize how many updates I’ve been missing…

How is the Space: 1999 restoration going?

Incidentally there was a series of miscommunications; Mike is actually now helming a 6K open matte restoration of Muppets from Space (1999). Needless to say, I’m quite excited.

(Legacy is still very much alive, Finnius is BS’ing you)

Star Wars

The Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Rogue One

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

The Blackened Mantle (2015 PT Rewrite/Fan edit)

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Star Wars Episode II: I Was Asleep for the Majority of its Runtime

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

*(Superior renditions of the PT include: TBM, Hal’s Edits, L8twrtr’s Edits, Frink’s edits, Auralnauts’ Edits)

I just got accepted onto the forum. Didn’t realize how many updates I’ve been missing…

‘Wobani’ - AKA the easiest anagram in all of Star Wars.

Despite the nonsensical probability of it all, I quite like how Artoo and Theeepio oversee every single entry in the series. They’re sort of the in universe audience/observers of the grand story, while being completely oblivious to the fact.

MalàStrana said:

TV’s Frink said:

Lord Haseo said:

Mavimao said:

MalàStrana said:

• “Star Wars fans only want one thing: Vader”
• “I will not condone a course of pointless fan films that will lead us to more nostalgia madness !”

This just goes to show how diverse the Star Wars fandom is and how impossible it is to satisfy everybody.

I forget who said it, but if ANH was released today, it would be crucified by today’s culture.

They’d be calling Luke a Mary Sue

No, because Luke is a dude, and we only make that complaint about chicks.

Only about chicks… and only when the character is a Mary-Sue, meaning badly written and ridiculously over the top (Luke in ANH is perfectly written). You don’t hear/read that about Casey or Athena in Tomorrowland or Joy in Inside Out. On the other hand, Erso is no Mary-Sue: she doesn’t do anything at all for 2 hours but when she does it seems “normal”, like the other characters, not out of character (the writing is still quite terrible though).

Jyn is equally as driven and physically capable as Rey, and for perfectly established reasons (in both cases). When she started scaling the floppy disc haven, I thought “why is she so conveniently gymnastic”, and then my mind immediately went to “oh yeah, having to fend for yourself in the wild for years on end does that to you.” Once again, neither Jyn nor Rey were chilling for nineteen years on a moisture farm, bitching and moaning about not getting to pick up power converters with their buddies.

Frank your Majesty said:

Maybe prominent isn’t the right word, but everytime he appears, he’s being hugely built up, completely relying on the fact that everyone in the audience knows him. He was blown up to appear more important than he really was.
The first scene in the castle was absolutely insignificant to the plot and Vader hacking through rebels seemed to be below him. In Star Wars, he could have single-handedly boarded the Tantive IV, killed all the soldiers and so on, but he sends stormtroopers to do that, because it wouldn’t be worth his time.

Seeing his shadow on the wall in the castle, one could equate to SW '77 pausing only to establish him, storming onto the Tantive.

As for doing menial work, EU/Cartoons aside, he hasn’t used the 'ol lightsaber in a while. The non-PT Vader lives and breathes hatred, so it’s more than anything a passionate display; Kicking the hell out of a few insignificants if only for funsies. Then, after those theatrics, you can take a breather and sent in the troops.

Finnius said:
he told me that he had already deleted all his external hard drives containing Legacy in order to make room for “Lunar” (his codename for the new project). Apparently the show lasted for 2 seasons and he was going to need all the space he had…and more…for his endeavor.

Tobar said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Of course he didn’t have sex with her. He’s a self-fertilizing hermaphrodite with no external genitalia; he literally couldn’t have sex with her.

Foreplay, on the other hand. . . .

Actually…

MalàStrana said:

Swazzy said:

MalàStrana said:

9. Rogue One: 0/10

Uh uh uh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc2kFk5M9x4

Rogue One… The movie so shitty I’m even beginning to re-evaluate TFA as something at least decent.

“This got Star Wars wrong by being different”

“It can’t rely on its own material and it’s too derivative of the Original Trilogy”

“If you do anything outside of what is from the Original Trilogy it’s automatically bad”

“Kids shouldn’t be exposed to gritty, darker movies. It should have been an Ocean’s 11 remake”

MalàStrana said:

Why would you fanedit such a perfect movie which is the best Star Wars since God spoke to Abraham ? You should fan edit this piece of shit called “A new Hope” in which there are several continuity errors.

You’re right, fans are blowing this film way out of proportion.

0/10.

MathUser said:

so you’re saying guardians of the imperial suite is a reference to storm troopers and the guardians of the whillis suite is a reference to rebels? Then what does Your Father Would be proud have to do with anything?

I was talking about the duration bar to the right.

MathUser said:

Swazzy said:

confused me for a minute…

Can someone explain this?

the duration bar is a lightsaber 😉

suspiciouscoffee said:

TV’s Frink said:

I used to watch Lazytown with my girls a lot. I was quite surprised to discover one of their songs went viral recently.

From what I’ve heard, it has to do with, at least in part, the fact that the actor of that villain got cancer and started a gofundme page to help pay for the costs. It helped spread the word when he did a live version of the song online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3pf7HCbtXo

and it was one of the most magical things to have come out of this year.

confused me for a minute…

[delete]

MalàStrana said:

not getting insulted for not loving a movie.

It’s not that your opinion was dissenting, but 0/10 is somewhat hyperbolic. Additionally you wrote off people finding anything good about it as being too young or falling for hype.

I suppose that’s a place more linked with guilt than angst. And sand.

MalàStrana said:

9. Rogue One: 0/10

Also, for some reason I welled up when Jimmy Smits was talking with Mon Mothma about “recruiting the jedi that served you in the Clone Wars”. Something just clicked for me right there. Like I could finally accept that the original six films, while half terrible, may really have taken place in the same universe after all.

doubleofive said:

Friend of mine says the R1 cinematographer mentions seeing a 4K DCP of ANH in this interview:

http://collider.com/greig-fraser-lion-rogue-one-interview

I have a theory about this, but it contains spoilers

doubleofive said:

Friend of mine says the R1 cinematographer mentions seeing a 4K DCP of ANH in this interview:

http://collider.com/greig-fraser-lion-rogue-one-interview

I have a theory about this: we see some of the pilots from ANH with footage taken straight from the original film. Was a restoration finalized to service this purpose? Or just generally for the cinematographer to get a feel for how the era is supposed to look?

Good lord, that looks brilliant!