These look great! Would you consider creating a 3 disc, main features only, whole-trilogy-in-one-box variant in the same style? I love these huge sets, but they’re rough on my ink/disc supply, especially considering how rarely I watch the special features.
Or maybe it was the 40th anniversary and they brought back as many people as they could and Hayden realized he liked it and could also make a ton of money selling pictures and autographs.
Hayden probably wouldn’t have made the decision himself, due to the harassment he received for his performance as Anakin. It wasn’t his fault, but fans still bullied him, just like Jake Lloyd. Thankfully Hayden didn’t go through an emotional breakdown like Jake did, but I think he was still hesitant to show up at another Star Wars event prior to Celebration 2017 in Orlando.
Yes I wouldn’t be surprised if he skipped prior celebrations because of the PT hate. But I’m sure those fears went away completely at the 2017 celebration and that’s why he’s back (i.e. not because of IX).
I agree that’s why he’s returning, and I’m happy Hayden is doing so. We’re not exactly sure if he’ll be in IX because of his presence at Celebration, or the many rumors about Anakin’s appearance. We shall see.
On a side note, I’m shocked that Mark Hamill isn’t listed as a guest. I know he’ll have a small, yet significant role in IX, but he usually comes to Celebration almost every year. Maybe he will be there, but his appearance will be a surprise in Chicago?
It seems like they’ve been announcing guests slowly over time to build up hype. They haven’t announced basically anyone who’s in the ST will be there but undoubtedly a significant amount of the cast will be at the IX panel as a “surprise.”
I do hope the entire cast is there. Obviously J.J. Abrams will be there, but I do hope that Hamill, Ridley, Driver, Boyega, Isaac, and especially Kelly Marie Tran are there.
It was reported a week or two ago that Oscar Isaac would be attending for the first time, but as far as I know there hasn’t been an official confirmation.
Possible poster leak: https://thegeekiverse.com/possible-star-wars-episode-ix-poster-leaked/
EDIT: beaten to it.
I think getting a new boxed set or sets by the time of the home video release of IX is almost a foregone conclusion. I also imagine TFA and R1 will be out in UHD well before that, in the run-up to IX’s theatrical release. I-VI are the real question. I could see it going either way, with them being released in the fall to build hype for the new film, or in the spring to cash in on the completist urge that many of us will have with the full ST in 4K on our shelves. Celebration will tell, I guess (or it won’t; I’ve got a terrible track record for these predictions).
I wonder if anybody can give me a hand with this; it might belong in the tech advice forum and if so I’ll gladly move it, but since it’s about a game and not a video issue I’m posting it here.
I just started a replay of Knights of the Old Republic, and this time through I thought I’d try it with this mod to replace the original score with John Williams music from the films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtMja_ADUac
I followed the instructions as presented in the readme file that came with the download, which amounted to deleting the existing music files and replacing them with the folder full of properly-labeled Williams stuff. When I launched the game again, it loaded fine, but there was no music at all, only the ambient sound effects. After that didn’t work, I noticed that the original music was all .wav files, but that the replacement music contained a mix of .wav and .mp3 files. I converted the .mp3s to .wav and tried again, and this time the game crashed after the studio animations before the main menu. I then dropped the original files back in and it’s running fine now, but I’d really like to get the movie music working because I’ve never been a fan of the KOTOR original soundtrack. Anyone have any ideas? I’m running the Mac OSX version from the app store. I could switch to the Steam version as a last resort, but I’d rather not spend the extra ten bucks if it can be avoided.
The current main Star Wars series (the one that’s just called Star Wars), will be ending with issue no. 67 and relaunching with a new no. 1 in the near future.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/02/15/big-changes-coming-to-marvels-star-wars-comic-line-for-2019/
Not a surprising move, given that the story is rapidly closing in on the events of ESB. I hope the new run picks up after ROTJ. It would be cool to start with the Battle of Jakku and cover the early days of the New Republic from there.
A video that every Star Wars fan must watch.
Great, now the algorithm’s going to be throwing more of this dumb bullshit at me for months.
All this talk of Wadi Rum makes me want to watch Lawrence of Arabia again.
Abrams confirms the end of principle photography and shares a lovely photo from the Jordan shoot (I assume):
https://twitter.com/jjabrams/status/1096496364576493568?s=21
EDIT: beaten to it.
This thread seems to always get bumped when I’m reading N.K. Jemisin. I’m now reading the first part of her Dreamblood duology, called The Killing Moon. It’s a lot more formally straightforward than The Broken Earth was, so it might be a better entry point to her work if TBE seems a little far-out. It’s a fantasy based in an ancient Egyptian-inspired world, which is a refreshing angle after having read so much stuff set in versions of medieval Europe. It’s focused a lot more on political intrigue than the other series as well; if you’re a fan of the King’s Landing court stuff in ASoIaF, you should check this out.
This looks pretty rad.
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/2/8/star-wars-outer-rim/
Interesting choice to use Harrison and Billy Dee in Alden and Donald’s costumes for the art on the Han and Lando cards. I dig it.
I’ll get ‘em. The “voting with your wallet” angle seems kind of moot with 4k77 in circulation; I’ve got two of the movies in near enough perfect quality (with the last one on the way) that I don’t much care anymore if they’re released officially. And I’m a lot more agnostic about the various cuts than most here anyway; I grew up on the SE and find myself revisiting it every fifth or sixth watch or so. As long as these discs don’t have the awful color issues that the blu-ray did, i’m sure I’ll get some use out of them.
Off the top of my head I think we’d probably start with Edge of the Empire, but I’d have to poll the gang to be sure. We do indeed play 5e, so if that’s an easy jump I’ll probably go for it at some point. I’ve actually got a few of the books from the WEG game that I snagged used from a comic shop, but given that not everyone in my group is a lifelong Star Wars diehard who’s going to be delighted just to see stuff from The Truce at Bakura or Dark Empire statted out, I figure it’s probably better to go with the game that’s based on a more current iteration of the canon. In any case, thanks a bunch for the resources!
Anyone have any experience with the current pen and paper RPG(s)? I’ve been considering picking up one or all of the core books and giving it a whirl with my D&D group. The way they’ve organized things is a little strange, though. Rather than setting it up like D&D, where the core books are game master’s guide, a player handbook, and a sourcebook (the Monster Manual), they organize it thematically. Edge of the Empire is scoundrels, Age of Rebellion is military, and Force and Destiny is Jedi stuff. The upside is you can play with just one of the core books, but the downside is that all the different stats and mechanics are in three different places. Anyway, I’m just wondering if anyone here’s played it and if it’s worth the time investment of learning a new system.
I, for one, would be totally fine with that.
I finally started Discovery this week and I’m nine episodes into the first season. I’ve got to say, I don’t get what all the hand-wringing is about. Sure, it’s got some tone issues, but show me the Trek other than TOS that wasn’t kind of wonky this early in its run (I’ve seen exactly none of Voyager or Enterprise, so if either of those are spectacular from the jump, I’m not aware). In any event, I am much more interested in continuing to follow this than I was at episode 9 of TNG, which is more than enough for me to continue to give it the benefit of the doubt for now. I’m really looking forward to catching up and seeing Pike’s Enterprise.
At least they actually have fun watching these movies, and their conversations are generally positive.
This. When your relationship with Star Wars consists largely of railing against Star Wars, you’re doing Star Wars wrong.
How on earth are people still interested in talking about this?
It’s more about the HDR than the actual resolution, anyway. I’ve found that the 4K releases of Star Trek (2009) and 10 Cloverfield Lane both look markedly better than the 1080p versions in spite of being 2k upscales because of the color.
Yeah, I don’t think I know a single person who even owns a 3D TV. Might have been cool to see those 3D versions theatrically, but I really don’t have any interest in watching them in my living room.
Anyway, I was sure we’d at least get TFA and R1 in UHD for Christmas since there was no new movie in theaters, even if the OT was a long shot. Since that came and went, I’m not expecting anything before IX comes out on disc. Hopefully they’ll do it so that I won’t have to re-buy too much. Be a shame if IX came out in a steel book that matched TLJ but then three months down the road we find out that the only way to get TFA in 4K is in a boxed set. I might hold out on the disc for the first time and just go digital for IX if we haven’t heard by then what’s going on with TFA.
I rewatched about half of the films since the last time I posted in this thread and I think I’ve arrived at my definitive ranking until IX comes out.
The PT is still kind of a toss-up, but the middle part of the list seems to have stabilized for me.
Star Wars: Alec Guinness
The Empire Strikes Back: Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher
Return of the Jedi: Mark Hamill
The Force Awakens: Harrison Ford and Daisy Ridley
Rogue One: Ben Mendelsohn
The Last Jedi: Mark Hamill and Adam Driver
Solo: Alden Ehrenreich
I’d add Alan Tudyk for Rogue One, but otherwise this is exactly what I was about to say. As far as the PT goes, Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor were the only actors who were any good. I guess Christopher Lee gets an asterisk since he did as good a job as anyone could ask for given the fact that he had nothing to work with, but when I think about acting in the PT, Ewan’s really the one who stands out. I suppose Ian McDiarmid was good for a while too, but he’s so god awful after going full Emperor in the back half of ROTS that I hesitate to praise what came before.
I really appreciate how they’ve managed to write Dr. Aphra and Sana Starros as scoundrels in the same vein as Han and Lando instead of falling back on gendered “femme fatale” tropes. I’d love to see either of them on screen at some point, they’re two of my absolute favorites in the new canon.
Hey, guys? Uhhh…
I finally got off my ass and applied for grad school. Let’s hope I have some much, much bigger good news in a couple months.
I got in.
So does anyone here play Star Trek Online?
I made a guy on there last week but I’m not very far into it yet. I started in the TOS part of the timeline but I guess there’s a fair amount of time travel? Some NPC recruited me to be a “temporal agent” after the tutorial.