TMBTM said:
Disney did not de-canonize the Expanded Universe. Because it NEVER was officialy canon.
From the first Zahn trilogy they said (Lucasfilm) that if Lucas ever wanted to make movies set after ROTJ the stories could be totaly different.
Don't tell these guys that. They'll have your head.
Just got done watching it. Fantastic work Harmy! I can't express how wonderful it is to have the Empire Strikes Back...back! The despecialized shots are terrific and the color timing was superb.
I did notice something odd though. In the first shot after Luke has arrived on Cloud City and he's walking down that hallway toward the camera, the sky suddenly dims about a second after the wipe. I checked and it's there both on my blu-ray player and PC.
I'm digging it. Seems like they haven't finished scoring it though.
That would be telling...
The CG Clone Wars stayed clear of the stuff that happened in the Tartakovsky series.
I doubt it'd happen anytime in the near future but never say never. =P
You can't say something like that and not provide a link!
Howard was always a Marvel character. I'm sure the film rights reverted back to them decades ago but if it hadn't the the acquisition of Lucasfilm pretty much assures they have them now.
The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
Been in a music biopic mood lately. While the film never seemed to picked up its own kind of rhythm or momentum, Gary Busey did a great job in the title role.
Casting By (2013)
It's a travesty that Marion Dougherty never received an Oscar in her lifetime. The DGA is just ridiculous.
oh_riginal said:
I seem to be in the minority here, but I'd change the Ben's hut scene back to the theatrical version.
Nope, that's the one change that has always bothered me. The flow of the conversation just feels wrong now.
There are two real options and neither involve remaking either of the trilogies. From here on out Lucasfilm will either continue with the episodes or after IX they will shift to standalones only. They will NEVER remake ANY of the previous films. It will NEVER happen. The culture there of canon and continuity would never allow it.
Following down that rabbit hole to the original source of the rumor, it sounds very dubious. They say they "intercepted" an internal email but don't actually share it or provide any kind of details.
And then the second half of the article dives straight into fantasy with the notion that the prequels could be deemed Legends and scrapped. As much as I personally would love that, there's not a snowballs chance in hades of it ever happening.
DominicCobb said:
I get leaving out stuff like the identity of his father for a sequel, but simple stuff like his feelings about leaving Earth behind I think is rather essential to completely understanding the character.
Throughout the film they give lots of hints about the resentment he fills about being torn away from his family.
Again, we're just meeting the character in this film. If they were to give everything away in their first go there wouldn't be anything to explore about the character later on.
My biggest issue with that scene is actually his slave girl and what she does which I found totally random (though again I understand that they wanted to show the power of the orb, but still this was not the best way to do that I think).
Earlier in the film they show how cruelly he treats his slaves. In the scene in question, he just got done explaining how the infinity stones bestow awesome power to those with the ability to wield them. Overhearing that and no longer wanting to be enslaved and at the mercy of this psycho she makes a play to escape. I don't get what's hard to understand about that.
DominicCobb said:
If I have one complaint about his Peter Quill, it's that we don't get enough of him. There's definitely a lot about him that hasn't been said (how does he feel about being abducted? does he want to go back to Earth? etc.), and presumably will be in a sequel. But it really should have been said here.
The main purpose of this film was to establish the characters, organizations and settings of this world.
If they had explored those things about Quill in this film it would have been rushed. Leaving it to a sequel gives them an opportunity to explore it in depth in a story that has the potential to be more conducive to it.
I'm sure stuff like the scene with the Collector made comic fans wet, but, to me, it was just really weird and rather random and not entirely necessary.
I'm not familiar with the source material either but I think it's pretty apparent they're setting up the Collector to be a bigger character later on. It was already established in Thor: The Dark World that he posses one of the other infinity stones. And Benicio Del Toro is a big name actor that you don't waste on an unimportant side character.
This film is setting up a lot of things that will inevitably pay off in later sequels like Jon C. Reilly and Glenn Close's characters.
Anyway, the Collector scene was necessary from a storytelling perspective. First it allows for a breather in between action scenes and second it provides vital exposition that informs the main characters about what it is they're dealing with.
Might wanna check your monitor settings. That robe is dark brown not black. =P
I believe he wants photographic evidence of you at your keyboard whilst you were composing your review.
Detropia (2012)
I've been fascinated with Detroit for some time now. Brilliantly shot if a little short on content.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Hands down, best movie I've seen in years. Stop what you're doing and go see it right now.
DominicCobb said:
The Last Starfighter (1984) - Pretty fun Star Wars knock-off. Special effects aren't very good at all, but they're an interesting novelty. B
The special effects were revolutionary. It was the first time a film attempted realism with CG (TRON doesn't really count). Doesn't hold up in the least but its place in cinematic history should be acknowledged.
I'm still waiting for my own toy Gunstar.
AntcuFaalb said:
Ghostbusters: I enjoy 2 as much as 1. I hope a 3rd is made with Rick Moranis (partially) filling the hole left by Harold Ramis.
Alternatively, you could watch THIS! ;)
New Trailers:
Harmy said:
A) They say that the Rebels may be introducing characters, whom we will meet in the new film episodes and it will be a whole intertwined universe - I don't like this idea much, because I'm beginning to have quite high hopes for the new movies but so far, I like Rebels less and less with every clip I see from it - it reminds me of those Saturday morning cartoons, which I used to like as a little kid (who also loved the Phantom Menace) but when I see them today, they are super cheesy and lame. I wasn't a huge fan of TCW but I never got that feeling of a cheap 80s or 90s cartoon from it.
They don't say that. The interviewer asked if we'd be seeing characters from the show pop-up later in the live action films. To which they just said that they want each of the different mediums to push the Star Wars story forward.
B) They make a big deal about not wanting to shrink the universe, yet, just in the few clips released so far, we've already seen cameos of Obi-Wan, 3P0 and R2.
Obi-wan appears as a hologram recording and running into 3PO and Artoo in a starport is pretty tame. The focus isn't placed on these cameo characters, it stays centered on the show's main cast. If they start running into everyone from the OT then it becomes a problem.
C) "I love origins stories of characters that you think you know everything about and then you learn the real story..." Does he mean like Obi-Wan, Darth Vader or Boba Fett? Urgh...
He was referencing exploring the origins of the Rebel Alliance. You're just reading far too much into it.
D) It seems to indicate them being seriously misguided, if they think that the show has the look of McQuarrie paintings
This I kind of agree with you on. I don't think they've done a particularly great job of capturing the look of McQuarrie's art but I do think the influence of it is there. Especially in the designs of the environments and ships.
As to the custom brushes they mentioned. I think it was in the Look Ahead video where you get a really close up look at one of the characters and their face has a distinct airbrushed look to it. We'll need to see more of the show to really see the extent of that.
As for the designs of the characters themselves I think it's just a more naturalistic take on the Clone Wars style. Removing the hard edges.
E) Apparently the favorite SW movie of the current generation of Lucasfilm employees is TPM, because "that's the one they had as kids..." Really? Really? :-(
That sadly is just the reality we live in. As has been said before we lost a generation to the prequels. Thankfully those kids are mostly still interns and not the ones making creative decisions.
F) The lightsabers - this could technically fall under D but I think it's worth mentioning separately - they say lightsabers are designed to look like in the original SW. Well, from what I've seen, they really don't.
I think this comes down to their trying to recreate the look of the sabers only using footage from the SE. They are hand animating the blades and trying to recreate the technique used on the films but the source they're comparing it to is of course compromised.
Shucks, too bad it looks like this isn't going to happen:
The Palmer House - Twin Peaks Museum and Tourist Destination