dahmage

Mark Hamill says it’s not official.

God bless futurama

Tobar said:

Shopping Maul said:

Does it actually say that about the reactor in RO (genuine question, I’ve only seen the film once)?

“The reactor module, that’s the key…any pressurized explosion to the reactor module will set off a chain reaction that will destroy the entire station.”

Aren’t volatile reactors all the rage throughout the saga? Anakin blows up a Trade Federation ship by accidentally hitting the reactor with big torpedoes. Death Star II is all about hitting the reactor. The Super-Star Destroyer cops it in the ol’ reactor too!

Take it up with Star Wars (1977):
“The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will start a chain reaction which should destroy the station.” - General Dodonna, Star Wars

Look, I get it. Many fans didn’t think the initial Death Star takedown was plausible, and RO supposedly answers that age-old question.

Uh…what? “Many fans”? Gonna need to see some examples of that as I’ve never heard that brought up as an issue. Let alone enough to make it an “age-old question.”

Shopping Maul said:

I’m probably gonna get slapped here, but I despise this film. Talk about Special editions - this film is ‘Han Shot First’ on steroids. Placing the Tantive at the battle itself and having Vader - who had just seen the rebels passing the plans through a doorway - suddenly get his facts wrong (“several transmissions were beamed to this ship…”),

Several transmissions were beamed to the ship that the Tantive was docked inside of:

The data from the drive that Erso took was uploaded in four simultaneous transmissions.
The dialog from the film confirms this, “Admiral, receiving transmissions from Scarif!”
As for Vader’s dialog, humdinger has already addressed how Vader isn’t shown to know that a Rebel is trying to get the plans onboard the Tantive. At that time all Vader is concerned with is stopping anyone from escaping. Where the plans are is a secondary concern to stopping the Tantive from launching.

followed by an interrogation with Leia that doesn’t remotely reflect what Vader has supposedly just witnessed

They both know she’s been caught red handed but that doesn’t mean she has to capitulate and admit to everything or anything. In that situation all she can do is deny, deny, deny and hope that Artoo can escape with the plans. And Vader knows she’s lying and openly calls her out on it, “You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor!”

…and all so we can see Vader exhibit a particular badassery that he fails to wield ten minutes later in 1977?!?

As has already been pointed out, Vader was in a rush to stop the Tantive from launching before. By the time he’s caught up with them, they’re trapped with nowhere left to go. He doesn’t need to charge in. Why take the brunt of an attack when you have lackeys to do that for you?

Rogue One is by no means a perfect film but I would say it does an excellent job of capturing the feel of the OT era and of delivering on its original mandate which was to bring these opening paragraphs to life:

It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.

During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire’s
ultimate weapon, the DEATH
STAR, an armored space
station with enough power to
destroy an entire planet.

BINGO

v4 is pretty nice

As long as he keeps it on I’m happy. 😄

towne32 said:

Unkilted

This makes me uncomfortable

DuracellEnergizer said:

snooker said:

I don’t like that Disney has a monopoly on the rights to my entire childhood, personally. Freaks me out.

That’s why any Disney film I purchase in the future will be purchased secondhand.

I’d use my firsthand, but I’m elitist that way, so …

I agree that the first one is a tad overblown, no question there, but your corrected faces look too gray - especially in comparison to the color in the rest of the frame. certainly flipping back and forth creates this impression, and perhaps incorrectly calls it to attention, but that’s my feedback and i am sticking with it.

Brodnation said:

dahmage said:

Brodnation said:

schorman13 said:

Still wondering how tilted the other restorations are.

Tilted?

well, this one is quite untilted

Ooooh I thought that said tilted.

it does 😄

in the second row of thumbnails, i don’t like what happens to Leia’s and Ben’s faces

Physiological effects of hyperspace travel in confined spaces.

Brodnation said:

schorman13 said:

Still wondering how tilted the other restorations are.

Tilted?

well, this one is quite untilted

I jumped from 7 to 10 on my work laptop 6 months ago or so, and it is an improvement. There are a few UI changes that bug me as others mentioned, but unlike win 8 and early vesrions of 10, you can setup most things i a sane way now (start menu related, etc) so it is quite nice to use. and built-in ssh is a plus 😃

Awesome!

Crunko said:

I’m running a Star Wars beer dinner at the brewery I manage on May 4th.

Some of the beers lined up are called:

Order 66 - New England IPA
Atomic Tauntaun Overdrive - Strawberry habenero ale
That’s No Moon, It’s a Space Saison
Blue Milk - blue colored ale

And there’s a few more…

Very nice

Good rejoinder

Barely, and only in the beginning. But fair enough.

Um… Sure.

OutboundFlight said:

Star Trek style show starring Thrawn and his adventures in the unknown regions.

Neat!

Tobar said:

APOLLO 11 (2019)

WOW! This is a MUST SEE. Saw this up on a full size IMAX screen. It was glorious. I feel like I was there on launch day. The quality of the film was spectacular so clean and crisp. Almost like it was shot yesterday. I believe it’s only playing until Thursday, if you can GO NOW!

damn, i would love to see this. but i need to guard my “go see a movie in theaters” cards very closely…

Haha, good one’s you two.

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

paja said:

Today’s that Polish holiday where you’re supposed to eat a bunch of donuts.

Fat Tuesday is next week.

I’m going to abstain from video games for Lent.

I thought you weren’t catholic.

Lent is observed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent

Yes, I saw this all over my newsfeeds today. It is brilliant.

I like the general idea, but i too caution against too many subcategories.

everything in one place is a mess
a separate place for every is a graveyard - since there is no real search, people won’t know where things belong, so either we will get lots of dup posts, or else topics will just go dead as less eyes get into the various sub-forums.

K.I.S.S.

ChainsawAsh said:

The movie was a massive critical and commercial success. They don’t give a shit about a portion of the fan base loudly complaining on the internet.

If the majority people really hated it that much, the home video sales wouldn’t have been as good as they were.

TLJ made a ton of money. That’s all that matters to the studio. It’s a business, after all.

Rian made them money and was easy to work with (notice how TLJ is the only post-Disney movie without a ton of behind the scenes drama, reshoots, and crew shakeups). Of course they’re going to give him more movies.

Excellent as always.