I definitely think you could get away with a movie about a man in a helmet. Dredd is a good example, Iron Man as well (ignoring all the in-helmet HUD things, which is another possibility). Plus it serves the character; it's just who he is, to do anything else is a disservice to the character, as we saw in Clones.
Besides:
I so very rarely remember any of my dreams. I used to have fairly regular recurring dreams about Jurassic Park (which mostly involved running from dinosaurs and sometimes being killed, and one time involved talking velociraptors in cages) and another themepark that was Disneyland but with zoo elements and really weird.
Neglify is a Patman sock?
Ryan McAvoy said:
Tyrphanax said:
Sean Bean. Man's a genius.
Good call ^. I've opted to watch a few movies of questionable quality over the years, just because Sean was in them.
Me too. I really do think that he raises up a lot of bad movies.
I would update you on Alberta weather, but it seems that Ric has that covered already.
Now I just need to keep him from finding my tent in his back yard...
Sean Bean. Man's a genius.
Robert Downy Jr.
I'll post more when I think of them.
Frink's mom.
E3 was pretty great this year!
darth_ender said:
http://news.yahoo.com/slender-man-now-linked-3-violent-acts-200804382--abc-news-topstories.html
This kills the buzz.
Yeah. DICE has really stepped it up with the latest BF4 patch. Renewed a lot of faith in the company and the brand after they frankly bungled the release and first seven months of the game.
No, not the old one. The new one!
Kinda surprised there isn't a topic about this after a couple Google searches, but now we do!
Been watching E3 today, and wow. The Battlefront trailer was incredible. You get a real sense that they're taking a lot of care to make the game accurate from their location visits and their visits to the Lucasfilm archives. The textures on the Stormtrooper's helmet looks beautiful; definitely photosourced, which gives it that awesome OT hand-painted feel and makes me feel like the people at DICE actually care about the game and the universe (and especially the OT).
I'm sure the actual game won't look as amazing as their early in-engine renders, but if it feels like that, that's all that matters. We are definitely in the reborn OT era.
It's not that bad.
Yeah, I read somewhere that it was the actual first bit of the new canon. Made me want to run to the store and look for an Insider.
Yeah, DE. He seems to really fly off the handle at the slightest thing in the EU.
Anakin I could see as having uncontrolled bouts of saber-swinging rage, but I always saw Vader as mostly in control, in a sort of Bruce-Banner-Always-Angry way. I mean, there are obviously things that get Vader's goat, as we saw in Star Wars and Empire, but he always handled them with the Force, which just seems more "mature" to me. I feel like him just slicing poor Captain Needa in half wouldn't have had the same effect as "accepting" his apology in an unconcerned voice as he telepathically strangled him to death.
And, Wook, I always remember that moment from Splinter very vividly. One of the first pieces of EU I read as an impressionable child.
You know what's been annoying me lately? The fact that what could be amazing modern games are being robbed of features because of last generation's consoles.
As one example, I know that there are several things that would have been in Battlefield 4 that were dropped because the 360 and PS3 couldn't handle them, things like using a pistol with a ballistic shield, for one; all of the "Levelution" stuff from China Rising for two (the whole levelution concept never really swayed me either way, but for them to use it as this huge selling point, and then drop it entirely from the first expansion strikes me as a bit fickle). I know it's not just Battlefield that's experienced this.
I understand that last-gen people would whinge that they didn't get the same experience as current-gen people, but what can they expect when their console is almost a decade old?
What I don't understand is why kneecap a potentially great game in order to appease last-generation's customers? Wouldn't putting the best games on the next generation of hardware drive sales of that console? What's the incentive for the average Joe who is unconcerned about performance to buy the new console if the same exact game is also on the one they already own? Is the threat of people whinging really bad enough to justify shortchanging a game on features?
I certainly go out of my way to preserve the life of an outdoor bug that has decided to tour my indoor abode if I can help it. I figure that scooping the little guy up and tossing him outside is no more effort than killing it and disposing of its body. I figure if I was a tiny little guy just running around looking for food and something a thousand times taller than me came along, I would rather him not squash me.
Other than that, I do eat meat and am well aware of the hypocrisy of doing so. But maybe animals should stop being delicious.
sean wookie said:
Umm, hi guys.
Hey there!
Also, those D-Day photos were pretty amazing.
Back down to a cool zero ignores.
Maybe some kind of weird muscle knot that was undone by the impact?
Either way, that's great! Hope it stays that way.
Darth Lucas said:
I was just looking at various pieces of concept art painted by the great Ralph McQuarrie at the time the original trilogy was being made and I came across this piece, which I'm guessing was painted around the time of Return of the Jedi. Nothing special at first glance but then I realized that this looks just like something in a photo from the set of Star Wars Episode VII, recently taken by the people at TMZ! Now this doesn't really say much about the plot of the film other than confirming they are on Tatooine (which everybody assumed anyways from the sand), but to me this is the greatest find becuase it means they are still going back to the originals, paying homage through unused concept art from the man who really created the entire look of the galaxy. Little stuff like this makes me look forward to the movie more and more.
Just to add another thread to this, I just remembered that this gate design made an appearance in the Ultimate Sith Edition of The Force Unleashed.
Here's a link to it, please ignore the annoying commentator.
Bingowings said:
My hope is you could watch the ST without watching the OT and feel about Leia and Chewie the way OT viewers felt about Ben and Yoda only Leia is paid less and is more happy to be there :-D
This is also my hope of an eventual reworking of the PT.
Each trilogy should work on it's own and in concert with the others.
Here-here, bravo.
Thanks to Freak's posts, I have re-added my search bar.
Your dedication to that joke is inspiring, Sir.
Bingowings said:
If you look at the OT you have Vader, Ben, Beru, Owen, Threepio, Tarkin, Artoo, Yoda Mon Mothma and Palpatine definitely from the previous generation.
Even if the PT hadn't happen you could imagine them in an unmade history of the same universe.
Of those Owen, Beru, Tarkin, Ben (sort of) were taken out in the first film.
Yoda is 're'introduced in the second film and taken out in the third.
Mon Mothma plays like a cameo from an important character from the past and Palpatine (like Jabba) goes from being an unseen reference to a growing presence which is fully revealed in the final film.
I can imagine the OT characters coming in and out of ST in a similar fashion with only the droids being in every single film.
In this respect I'm not that put out if some of the OT cast (Lando, Wedge) aren't in Episode VII as they could end up doing a Mon Mothma and cameoing in Episode IX.
I agree with this. If they don't drop the big three entirely, more and more diminishing roles is fine with me.