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#723282
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Competing movies within a genre
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imperialscum said:

DominicCobb said:

People are really stretching the term "competing." 

Well the term itself is stretched in this particular case. There really isn't any kind of actual direct competition between films. Except maybe for the annual film awards. And hypothetically one stealing the profit of the other, but that doesn't really apply since it doesn't take a fortune to just see both. Both of which would then limit the entire thing to films released in the same year.

I assumed it meant a competition in terms of popularity in a given genre among the film fans.

 The accepted term for the subject of this thread appears to be "dueling movies" as pointed out by DominicCobb. Which is a very specific phenomena. 

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#723124
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Ruh Roh....

As part of last week's barrage of Episode VII rumors, we saw reports that mentioned the use of flashbacks to drive certain elements or plot points of the film. Being that flashbacks have never been used in any of the six Star Wars theatrical films, one could brush off the mention of them being incorporated into Episode VII and simply move along.

However, after video of the A New Dawn SDCC panel hit the interwebs yesterday, Lucasfilm's Pablo Hidalgo took to Facebook to make sure fans were all on the same page with what he said when he mentioned the use of flashbacks at the panel:

Looks like the Del Rey SDCC panel is up on Youtube. I will, as usual, stay the heck away from the comments, but I understand my quote about flashbacks has really fueled a lot of discussion about projects outside the subject matter of this panel. So at 4:20 mark (heh heh), what I said was, "But one of the conventions, as far as Star Wars storytelling goes, AT LEAST AS REBELS, is we don't do flashbacks." So there you go. Continue to debate endlessly.

So does this comment by Pablo leave open the possibility of flashbacks being utilized in some form in Episode VII or any other future Star Wars film? Sure appears that way to me.

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#723114
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Harmy's STAR WARS Despecialized Edition HD - V2.7 - MKV (Released)
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The original link worked just fine for me today.

I thought overall it was great but I do agree that the Williams Oscar clip doesn't feel very affective. His work was relatively unaffected compared to most of the other departments that won that year.

So as a potential skeptical viewer who might be watching this it does nothing to make me sympathetic to the project or the plight of the OUT.

Keeping in mind that the narrative script is finalized, there's a couple of ways I think that segment could be improved.

The first would be to replace Williams with the Oscar acceptance for Visual Effects. The quality of the clip isn't that great but their work was the most hard hit by the SE.

The second would be to create a quick montage of all of their wins. Which could go something like this:

"And the winner is...[quickly cut between the different presenters saying "Star Wars"]

Or:

And the winner for: [cut in quick succession to the award name (Film Editing, Sound, etc.] is...STAR WARS. *APPLAUSE*

That would help emphasis what an impact the film made on the industry.

Anyway, that's just my two cents. =)

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#722708
Topic
What do you HATE about the EU?
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Noah Niedzolkowski said:

The way how in the prequels they added way too many new planets, many of which were similar to the original trilogy's planets (for example: Geonosis is pretty much exactly the same as Tatooine), and seemed to forget about most of the planets from the original trilogy. For example: we never see or hear of Bespin, Yavin, Endor, Dantooine, Hoth, Dagobah and many others in the prequels

 Um first, this is an EU thread.

Second, there's an entire galaxy out there, why keep revisiting the same planets over and over again. It's a vast waste of potential. It also would have made zero sense to revisit most of those planets as:

  • Yavin IV - secret base
  • Endor - secret base
  • Dantooine - abandoned secret base
  • Hoth - secret base
  • Dagobah - secret hideout (which is featured in a ROTS deleted scene.)
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#722700
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<strong>STAR WARS: REBELS</strong> (animated tv series) - a general discussion thread
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DuracellEnergizer said:

And to do that they have to create a DayGlo Mandalorian graffiti artist?

I'm trying to remain cautiously optimistic towards this show, but this is looking more-and-more like a good example of the cure being worse than the disease.  

 On the surface of it, I'm not all that happy with the character either. But we'll have to wait and see how the character develops over time in the show before passing final judgement.