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Comments section on a movie news site reporting on George’s set visit.

I’ve always been somewhat fascinated by the fanaticism I’ve seen in regards to defending the Prequel Trilogy. But it’s amazing how far removed from reality their latest tactics are:

The BIG difference between the PT and the new movies is that they actually used models and miniatures with motion control shooting while the new movies are using tons of CGI instead for the very simple reason that is the way it’s done now. In terms of practical effects it’s no-contest. The PT wins hands down.

PT spaceships were minatures, they weren’t in TFA…but PT aliens were mostly cartoon-like CGIs vs mostly state-of-the-art puppets/animatronics in TFA. So….50/50 haha.

Is this a joke?! The Force Awekens have more CGI than any other Star Wars movie. Prequels actually used more practical sets and miniatures than original trilogy. In TFA every ship, every space shoot is complete CGI. In prequels ships in space are miniatures. Practical effects.

Anyone else seen some odd examples lately?

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story “Creature Featurette”

I feel I can’t allow this thread to continue until it’s been pointed out that The Star Wars Holiday Special originally aired around Thanksgiving.

Thank you for your time. This thread may now continue as scheduled.

darthrush said:

Everyone says that it is very gritty, which surprises me in a good way.

I would have been surprised if it wasn’t. That’s the movie Gareth pitched to everyone in attendance at Celebration when the film was first announced. They hired a lot of crew from gritty war films to work on the film.

doubleKO said:

Signature images without animation are bad enough. I block them all, as a rule. (Tobar and CatBus have the exceptions to that rule).

Aww shucks…

Ol’ George paid a visit to the Rogue One set:

Gareth Edwards said:

There are two things that are incredibly surreal that you could do in your life, and I think number two is having to show George Lucas your Star Wars movie. Like it was really crazy, and I think number one is to be George Lucas and have someone show you a Star Wars movie. And so I felt for him and he was incredibly gracious. He joked a lot about how we should do more in the computer and not build so much. We didn’t take his advice, we tried to shoot as much in camera as we could.

French interview with Gareth Edwards

They’ve been in decline since at least Dragon Age II and there’s no sign of that stopping now.

Makes sense to me. Not that far off from how some of us treat Star Wars.

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The real reason is Billy’s health sadly.

People are going to be surprised by who the Force sensitive character is in this film.

I’m very wary of Andromeda. ME3 ended up as such a massive disappointment and every little snippet of dialog we’ve gotten from Andromeda has sounded really bland and generic.

Marvel’s Victoria Alonso on How Her Studio Tackles VFX Differently

Dek Rollins said:

Tyrphanax said:

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dahmage said:

(jif? no, lets stick with gif)

But… it’s pronounced like “jif.” That’s just how words (and acronyms) work, man.

Yeah that’s why I got my degree in Jraphic Design. I love the jraphic arts.

Generally, an acronym is pronounced the way it would be if a single word. Since “gif” has an “I” after the “G,” the “G” becomes soft. Deal with it.

I hope you enjoy your Christmas jifts this year.

Well I’m glad Malbus’ giant spoiler he dropped at Celebration hasn’t gone far. Or else that theory would have been shot dead on arrival.

Hardcore Legend said:

TV’s Frink said:

The J.J. commentary was a good listen. I only wish they had included another person, I always find it more entertaining when it’s a conversation rather than a solo-effort.*

*No need to make the Han joke unless you can come up with something really good.

Why include anyone other than J.J. since he’s the brains, sweetheart.

Well…I think there’s a pretty good argument to include Lawrence Kasdan the co-writer of The Force Awakens and writer of The Empire Strikes Back. I’d also love to hear from Kathleen Kennedy and her thoughts on bringing this all about. And then of course there’d be a lot of interest in a special commentary with Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford. Heck, a commentary from the folks at ILM would be fascinating. Point is, the buck does not stop with Abrams.

Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #1

Pretty solid. The Netflix series origin was basically a very faithful but condensed version of this. Bonus points for being inked by Al Williamson. I look forward to reading the rest.

SilverWook said:

Everyone start working on your Rogue One avatars. I have found mine. 😉

Man November came and went in a flash. RO time has come.

Huh, that’s cutting it pretty tight. He only had a month to do the score:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you were a late addition to the Rogue One crew…
MICHAEL GIACCHINO: Yes, literally the last thing I expected I’d be doing this month would be this. I mean we were literally planning a vacation when I got the call asking if I could come and talk to them about it. At the time, it left me with literally four and a half weeks to write. So it was one of those decisions where you’re like, okay, well… And I was talking to my brother about it. He goes, “Oh, come on. You’ve been writing this score since you were 10! You can do this.”

Source

Phew, just made it in and out before the site crashed. Didn’t get the perfect seats, but I got the ones right next to them. I am excite.

Yeah, getting that too.