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#1000496
Topic
Star Wars: Rogue One - * Non Spoiler Discussion Thread *
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ZkinandBonez said:

dahmage said:

I am starting to think about tickets (no word on pre-sales yet?), and wondering if anyone has good information about any 70mm Film showings?

Probably a really dumb question, but do they even show digitally-shot movies on 70mm?

hm, well i guess i overly-quickly read the info about the filming, the camera used was indeed a digital camera, the Arri Alexa 65. I saw the mention of 70mm lenses and jumped to film in my head.

Well darn. I guess i will have to stick with the digital IMAX 3D, since i doubt there will be any other way to see this in large format.

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#1000414
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
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TV’s Frink said:

“The exhilarating eight-minute battle over Coruscant that opens Revenge of the Sith (2005), with its dense cloud of stately destroyers, swooping starfighters, and fiendish buzz droids, cuts optical pathways that are as graceful and abstract as the weightless skeins in a drip painting by Jackson Pollock. An ILM technician calls Lucas a “great master-weaver,” guiding and gathering the fine stitching of his army of gifted fabricators.”

“Well-written text.”

I don’t know, can delusional text still be well-written?

no, but mala is perfectly fine to like that scene.

you can tell the text is terrible when it starts referencing Jackson Pollock, as if bringing art into this makes it seem like a smart review. it seems like the kind of think i would find in the seat pocket of an airplane.

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#1000397
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
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MalàStrana said:

and then this: http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-George-Lucas-Is-the/134942

The exhilarating eight-minute battle over Coruscant that opens Revenge of the Sith (2005), with its dense cloud of stately destroyers, swooping starfighters, and fiendish buzz droids, cuts optical pathways that are as graceful and abstract as the weightless skeins in a drip painting by Jackson Pollock. An ILM technician calls Lucas a “great master-weaver,” guiding and gathering the fine stitching of his army of gifted fabricators.

the exhilarating eight-minute battle? exhilarating? i don’t think so.

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#1000378
Topic
Rogue One * <em>Spoilers</em> * Thread
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Lord Haseo said:

dahmage said:

Lord Haseo said:

Anchorhead said:

Lord Haseo said:

New Rogue One poster:

More Vader. Very disappointing.

It’s just a poster man…We don’t know how much actual screen time Vader will get.

or if he will even speak

I can only see that happening if he’s only in the film for like 30 seconds. Plus James Earl Jones still does good Vader voice work so it would be a missed opportunity not to use him while he’s still alive.

unless they save that for rogue two (i was joking about the speaking bit)

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#1000286
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Last movie seen
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finally saw The Revenant on demand, spread over two days, with subtitles and sound way low. not my favorite way to watch movies, but the new normal since we have a 13 month old.

I am pretty indifferent to it. Certainly having a movie set in the great outdoors makes it hard to make a movie, and they did a great job at that. But it isn’t a movie i am likely to want to see again. Leonardo DiCaprio did a pretty darn good job. As did Tom Hardy.

JEDIT: I give this a score of 7^

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#1000152
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Last movie seen
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generalfrevious said:

TV’s Frink said:

generalfrevious said:

Neglify said:

TV’s Frink said:

generalfrevious said:

Boyhood’s acclaim only represents the death of American cinema.

You might have said more but I stopped reading at this point.

I stopped reading when I saw the username.

That’s not fair.

Of course it is and his nothing to do with a film.

The dialogue feels like it was written in Korean, translated into Swedish, and then autocorrected into English. The main character is either or blank slate or a pretentious, cliched emo kid we don’t want to waste time with. It’s an overlong film that feels like twice is length because of the aimless structure. People who like this film are either critics who were paid off, or hipsters who think failing to follow the basic rules of filmmaking is groundbreaking. This film is indefensible.

well, i disliked the movie, but i know people who liked the movie, and it isn’t for any of the reasons you think. It is because of ‘coming of age’ and some people really like that type of movie.

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#999776
Topic
Lord of the Rings: Extended Editions Actually Suck?
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doubleofive said:

The Aluminum Falcon said:

On the contrary, I think the theatrical cuts are the ones generally with pacing problems.

Fellowship of the Ring, for example, in its theatrical incarnation feels very uneven to me, with the Mines of Moria scene seeming like a climax due to the overall faster pace/momentum of the film. It is then horribly distracting when you realize there is an hour left to the film. The Extended Edition, though slower, feels far more deliberate and what was originally intended.

The Two Towers loses a lot of the emotional development, and I never particularly felt the Extended Cut to be particularly ponderous.

Return of the King is long in any incarnation, with both versions feeling like they have uneven pacing. I still prefer the Extended for the world building, but it’s a major mistake to show the Army of the Dead agree to Strider’s terms beforehand.

I haven’t seen the theatricals in years, but I’m pretty sure I agree with Al here, especially the Army of the Dead thing. That moment when the ships pull into the port during the final battle was such a downer for me, as I figured this was a “pile on the good guys” moment, then Aragorn jumps down followed by the Dead. So good.

yeah, that moment was ruined by the extended edition, i fully agree. We should not have been shown whether or not Aragorn succeeded in recruiting them until the big reveal.

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#999645
Topic
<strong>STAR WARS: REBELS</strong> (animated tv series) - a general discussion thread
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Decent enough episode, some great space / space station in the sunlit clouds visuals. Decent enough story line although it didn’t have quite enough time to flush out. I did appreciate the call back to kallus and zebs episode from last year. So certainly not filler, but also certainly a mid season episode that isn’t as flashy.

JEDIT: AUTO CORRECT HAS NO LOVE FOR ZEB

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#997909
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<strong>STAR WARS: REBELS</strong> (animated tv series) - a general discussion thread
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TMBTM said:

Tobar said:

Also, it was very obvious who they were talking about in this latest episode.

In the trailer for season 3 we see two or three shots of a Sith like cloaked ghost fighting against Ezra and Kanan, and since all I’m waiting for in Rebels is a hint about Snoke I was prompted to think Maul talked about something evil that he sees in the Holocron, while Ezra is seeing something else.
Obviously the “Two suns” line is a BIG hint at Obi-Wan. There are all the chances in the world that Maul also saw Obi-Wan, it’s the obvious interpretation, indeed. But secretely I hope he saw something else…
As much as it is logical to have Maul and Obi-Wan confronting again, I feel like the Obi-Wan alive by the time of Rebels should be the hermit we know in Episode 4 and not a Jedi fighting old clone wars threats.

I think you are spot on with that last sentence. it would be very off-putting to me to see Obi-Wan fight maul this close to Episode 4.