The two different angles of the X-wing make me wonder if it's more of a 2D background prop to be seen from on angle only. The first picture looks normal, but the second... something is off, it looks smushed.
Just me? Anyone? No? Mom?
I'M LITERALLY DYING OF JOY
DuracellEnergizer said:
Casting a black woman to play a pasty albino character? That's going to look very bizarre on film if true.
Boo whiteface.
unamochilla2 said:
Beru's collar looks very 70s Tatooine. :-) Maybe those went out of style after 30+ years?
I thought that, too, but it falls apart when the new stuff looks like styles that were 20+ years old in 1970s Tatooine.
DuracellEnergizer said:
If only Dooku has been genuinely opposed to Sidious instead of being his undercover Smithers. He would have made for a far better, far more complex, character.
Totally agree. Would have loved to have seen Dooku not even know he was a Sith; like an undercover cop gone dark.
Maybe have it so the Jedi sent him out to sniff out potential Sith but they lose contact with him, and then just abandon him out there, claiming he "left" but basically just giving him up for dead, which would account for Dooku's dislike of the Jedi and his want to destroy Sidious.
I believe in an attempt to convince Obi-Wan to join him to defeat a larger evil (Sidious).
Much like Vader used a similar tactic with Luke on Cloud City, trying to convince the younger Skywalker to join him in order to destroy the Emperor and end the Galactic Civil War.
Web design is stupid.
Just be careful. Sometimes when you gays on the brain, the brain gays back onto you.
I dunno, I think the majority of posters here felt like making Boba sound like Jango was a really bad idea.
Ryan McAvoy said:
timdiggerm said:
Lupita Nyongo, long rumored, and Gwendoline Christie, have joind the cast.
F**K YES!!!
Lupita Nyong'o was so good in '12 Years a Slave' and Gwendoline Christie is hands down the best thing about 'Game of Thrones'. Somebody already gave her a Lightsaber a year ago ;-)...
Great! Maybe now people will stop whinging about whatever females/minorities quota they feel the need to foist onto everything!
DuracellEnergizer said:
Truth be told, while I do like the design of that gate, I feel it looks a little too ornate in comparison with its surroundings.
Maybe it's the gate to an as-yet unseen (possibly digital) ornate palace?
DuracellEnergizer said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
oh and I translated this...
"WARNING"
"291071"
(Yes I'm that sad)
Not sure what the symbol is
Maybe it's the Star Wars equivalent of the radiation/biohazard symbol.
Sarlacc pit in there maybe?
Okay. Stepping back a bit and being more objective...
The costume design (and the podracer bits) is a bit Prequel-y, I must admit. Just doing some comparisons with Tobar and there's a definite difference between OT and ST that leans more to the PT.
I am about to plotz looking at these. I love the design of that round building. It looks like maybe some desert swap meet of some kind? Amazing! THE ARCHWAY IS A MCQUARRIE DESIGN!
Very interested in the costume of the blonde lady. Looked like it had a helmet maybe? Very interesting stuff! Love that speeder design.
Looking at more, maybe the outskirts of a small down after a Tusken raid? Maybe Jabba's Palace has been taken over by traders or something (Notice that the electric Jurassic Park fence curves away from the rest of the set, maybe around the palace?)?! Boba Fett lives?!
Podracer engine?! I DON'T EVEN CARE!
Well, its goal is to annoy us to the point that we ignore it, intending to show us that we should be ignoring other obvious trolls, instead of engaging them.
It's like performance art or some shit.
Maybe it is Moth3r?
Yeah. I suppose I just need to sit down and force myself into watching them...
What is happening to our forums?
TV's Frink said:
Shit, dude, my daughter died seven years ago. Her future was taken from me right in front of my eyes. It was fucking terrible, and still is, but I got/get through it.
When the uncontrollable happens, we are not defined by what happens to us, but how we choose to react to it.
/thread, really.
Crow makes good points, too.
darklordoftech said:
Where do things that fall through Bespin (the gas giant) land?
Apparently they just get lodged in the Cloud City airshafts.
Love that Bob Fett.
In all seriousness, very excited for this. I can't imagine being a part of something so huge, even as just a bit part. Very excited to see these interviews.
Actually a lot of updating to do here.
Been re-watching the James Bond series to get the girlfriend caught up. She hadn't seen any of the old ones (super religious upbringing = not many secular movies seen).
We're well into Roger Moore now, with The Spy Who Loved Me. She loved Connery, was eh on Lazenby, and is getting tired of Moore. Seems about right. Interested in seeing what she thinks of Dalton and the early Brosnan flicks (she's seen Die Another Day).
Also saw The Desolation of Smaug. Decent film, I thought. I enjoyed it a lot. Jackson has fallen far too deeply into the CGI trap, a la Lucas, but at least the story, dialogue, and acting is still strong.
8/10 Arkenballs.
Saw Ghostbusters and Back to the Future a few weeks ago for my first time. Yes that's right. My cinematically-deprived girlfriend showed me BTTF for the first time. I have no excuse. Both great films.
9/10 Proton Packs and Clock Towers.
Face/Off. Total pile of shit. And this from a guy who doesn't mind a John Woo film now and then. Was utterly shocked to see it being totally lauded by critics and reviewers. At best it's a "so awful it's good" film. But it's really just crap.
5/10 Faces... Off.
300: Rise of an Empire. Also crap. 300 was okay as a mythological retelling of Thermopylae, but Rise doesn't really have any idea what it is, really. Lots of weird staring across large bodies of water at each other. An uncomfortable, weird and gratuitous sex scene. The whole thing was gratuitous, and not in a neat way. Felt like watching a low-budget film trying to cash in on 300's fame. Xerxes looks funny with hair. Eva Green was decent (and also indecent at one point). It's really interesting to note that when you look at fantasy medieval combat movies since 300, they've all tried to copy the style in some way, whereas if you look at Troy for instance, a very similar movie in many ways, the combat is totally different.
1/2 Faramir Eyes.
Troy. Several months back. Decent movie. 300 before 300 was 300. Different combat was interesting to see. I kept expecting to see Brad Pitt to slow-mo chop arms off, so the battle scenes felt a bit hectic and unfulfilling. Legolas played a very annoying Paris, and I only really felt bad for Eric Bana's Hector. Pitt was good as a callous Achilles. It was neat to see Ajax. Agamemnon was a jerk, and it was weird to not see post-300 Spartans.
7/10 Little Brothers.
There have been more. If I remember them, I'll post them.
The larger point of this post is that I've been feeling weird about movies lately. Maybe I'm just not a cinemaphile, but it's just so hard for me to watch movies. Even stuff I want to see.
Movies I've seen before I can rewatch endlessly, but anything new to me I just can't really bring myself to watch. It's like trying to get into a new TV series. People tell me that Game of Thrones or Braking Bad is great, and I'm sure it is, but I just don't want to make the investment into them.
It's annoying, because there are so many classic movies I haven't seen, some of them that I really have no right to have not seen (refer to the Ghostbusters/BTTF review above), but I just don't have the drive.
What's wrong with me?
Because the link doesn't go anywhere. <_<
mince pie filling, with a
That would be pretty cool.
Interesting.
