Tobar

Alderaan said:

“LOOK GUYS IT’S IMPERIAL WALKERS JUST BLOWING UP THEIR OWN BASE FOR NO GOOD REASON”

When are they ever depicted destroying their own buildings? They’re taking shots at enemy troops.

Plinkett nailed this in one of his recent videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9-vP7kJheI

“The use of AT-ATs was purely fanservice, because when your own base has been infiltrated by rebels, you don’t use a scorched-earth, non-precision tac vehicle to attack them. You’re going to blow up you’re own ****. Who is their military tactician, Ray Charles?”

They aren’t AT-ATs. They’re AT-ACTS:

A larger version of the standard combat AT-AT, the AT-ACT walker features a dedicated cargo bed for the transportation of heavy building materials or combat munitions. It was deployed at major Imperial construction projects, such as shipyards and sprawling research installations.

“LOOK GUYS IT’S A DROID TELLING US ABOUT THE ODDS AGAIN”

Yeah, that’s what droids do.

Says who? R2 and BB8 don’t tell people the odds. “Come on Red” didn’t tell Luke or Uncle Owen the odds about anything before he blew his bad motivator. That one droid in the Jawa crawler didn’t tell anyone the odds about anything. There was that little droid on the Death Star that just ran away from Chewie.

Yeah, you might want to rethink this idea you had.

Artoo says the chances of survival…

Alderaan said:

“LOOK GUYS IT’S THE YOU JUST WATCH YOURSELF GUY AND HIS PAL BUTTFACE PASSING THROUGH”

Yeah, that was dumb. Could definitely have done without.

“LOOK GUYS IT’S JIMMY SMITS JUST STANDING THERE BUT AT LEAST HE WAS IN THAT ONE OTHER MOVIE”

Or you know, Princess Leia’s father, the guy who she states in SW sent her on her mission to begin with. Sounds like someone that would definitely show up in A PREQUEL TO SW

“LOOK GUYS IT’S IMPERIAL WALKERS JUST BLOWING UP THEIR OWN BASE FOR NO GOOD REASON”

When are they ever depicted destroying their own buildings? They’re taking shots at enemy troops.

“LOOK GUYS IT’S A DROID TELLING US ABOUT THE ODDS AGAIN”

Yeah, that’s what droids do.

“LOOK GUYS THERE’S A SHOT THAT LOOKS ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE ONE FROM DAGOBAH”

No one has any idea what you’re talking about here.

“LOOK GUYS THERE’S C3PO and R2D2 WHO DO NOTHING IN THE WHOLE MOVIE EXCEPT SAY HI WE’RE HERE”

Yeah, could have done without that.

Your complaints continue to prove you have a poor understanding of the film and possibly the franchise.

Yes.

Mithrandir said:

NeverarGreat said:
Furthermore, in the case of Tarkin, he distracted from the primary villain: Krennick.

I would say the main villain was supposed to be Tarkin all the way, and then Krennick was created just because by the very premise of this movie, the villain would have to be defeated and shown as incompetent, and going by his rank, position and reputation in ANH, Tarkin wouldn’t have been the case.

However, a Star Wars movie centered around the Death Star one week before the beginning of ANH without any trace of Tarkin would have raised a lot of questions as well.

I think the solution they found to solve this issue was, among many other things, elegant, regardless of how good CGI was.

^This.

And it all depends really, when it comes to CG. I still say Jurassic Park looks stunning to this day. I think RO’s Tarkin will age fine.

Another one!

I’M SOMEBODY NOW!

My parents had no idea and were surprised when I told them that he had died in 1994.

That’s awesome, and please do make that thread. I’ve been meaning to get that book myself!

Just stumbled upon this awesome looking show:

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The series will draw on hard science themes to tell the story and will be using practical VFX. We will be experimenting with actual models, and using high quality projected images as our space backdrops for our real sets.

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Shattered Empire is the best modern Marvel storyline that I’ve read thus far, followed by Kanan.

SilverWook said:

I don’t suppose you’re the proud owner of that original comic art page?

I wish!

Ronster said:

Then you have the chase between the Tantive and the Devastator. As it is in the film a chase is not exactly possible until Vader trudges back to his shuttle flys back to the devastator then flys off to get to the Tantive. This does not make sense either.

How does that not make sense. Would you have liked to see him teleported to the bridge of his ship?

Ronster said:

Remember the force will be with you… Always

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JS642fmhk0

There’s the Tantive flying back from it’s mission to tattooine showing up to recieve the plans from the original cut of the film whilst alongside the Devastator.

So…what you’re saying is you believe in the original cut of Rogue One Leia is successful in her mission to bring back General Kenobi from Tatooine.

Okay…

After the huge shoot out in the hallway there’s no denying her involvement. Captain Antilles and Princess Leia are both just delaying Vader for as long as possible, hoping Artoo can get away and find Obi-Wan. As for the transmissions being beamed. We don’t know if Vader saw that soldier hand off that data tape. His mission as mandated by Tarkin is to mop up the space battle and prevent ships from escaping. So he could have been on his way to try to stop the Tantive from launching. Alternatively, as the Tantive was docked inside of Raddus’ ship, Vader could consider them both just one vessel and as we saw, the plans were beamed up in about four or five chunks simultaneously.

I strongly believe that George “borrowed” most of Ki-Adi Mundi’s story for Anakin. There are a lot of parallels between the two characters. I used to have them all memorized but it’s been years since I last read those comics. The biggest one that comes to mind at the moment is that Mundi is appointed to the Council before achieving the rank of Jedi Master. If someone else wants to chime in with other parallels I’d appreciate it.

As for why I think this. George is well known for reading and enjoying all of the Star Wars comics. He’s been sighted numerous times from the prequel era through to the Disney era of coming out of comic shops with the latest issues in hand. In Attack of the Clones he canonized Aayla Secura a comic character and later in Revenge of the Sith name drops her master. He would later go on to introduce said character in the Clone Wars television series.

It’s also not without precedence. Quite a few character designs and locations from the Droids animated series found their way throughout the Prequels.

In this thread: people who have never heard of animatronics before.

Tobar said:

So while everyone’s been speculating about the appearance of Bail Organa, most have neglected this shot:

The hair looks too dark but he has the cheekbones and carries himself like Tarkin. Dunno…

So who called it…? =P

suspiciouscoffee said:

It’s the “Marvel Epic Collection” volume 1. It collects Star Wars #1-23 and material from Pizzazz #1-16 & Star Wars Weekly (UK) #60, according to the back cover.

Fantastic, glad to see the UK stories being preserved and presented!

Anchorhead said:

A very short prequel to Rogue One. 😉
https://youtu.be/Hh8sTR2b4zI
It’s an interesting 360 degree short from ILMxLAB. Navigation is in the upper left corner.

Watch this on a smartphone for best effect.

Someone hasn’t seen The Nice Guys… Gosling was great in that!

luckydube56 said:

I too question whether mo cap is at the point where it can capture micro movements of the face. I would think so but perhaps it is more work and more money than it is worth. I dont know.

It seems that overacting is currently the only way to bring life to CG characters. Golum is an example of that. He is overacted and it is fitting for the character. Same goes for Andy Serkis’ portrayal of Caesar in the contemporary Ape films. In contrast, Snoke looks somewhat wooden. CG does not seem to capture subdued performances well.

They can get very fine detail now.

Where are these ideas about Geonosis being in the film coming from? Rebels paid a visit to the planet before and it was already devoid of life. So that would be a major contradiction in the canon.

The Prequel novel deals with having to move the Death Star because Geonosis is relatively close to a major hyperspace lane and they want a more secure location. Which contributed to the 20 year delay for the project.

Then lastly, the very first teaser ever shown featured the Death Star hidden over a jungle planet. So I don’t see how Geonosis was ever in the cards.

darthrush said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

I wonder why they cut the scene of the tie fighter rising to meet Jyn on the comm tower? It was the most dramatic visual in all the trailers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNt40ufs-M8&t=32m17s

The TIE fighter rose up and was about to shoot Jyn but an X-Wing swooped in and destryoed it last second. Since the filmmakers felt like it was too repetitive with the AT-AT moment that happened minutes earlier, they decided to cut the sequence from the scene.

In hindsight, I’m actually happy they decided to cut it.

Where did that guy hear that? Reliable sources I’m familiar with have stated that was just a test effects shot that marketing decided to use.