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#1104745
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
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chyron8472 said:

chyron8472 said:

One thing I didn’t like about The Force Awakens was how Carrie Fisher seemed to have had one of those surgeries on her face that makes it impossible to open one’s mouth more than a slit nor produce normal mouth/cheek-related facial expressions. Her upper lip is nearly incapable of movement.

dahmage said:

classy post. you know, people age.

ray_afraid said:

In 40 years, I’d love to walk up to all the idiots that say these kinds of things, gasp and say “Damn! You look like shit! What happened? Drugs? Surgery? DAMN!

Why should I be chastized for wishing that Leia’s mouth/lips in TFA actually inflected? She looks like she’s trying not to move her mouth when she talks; nor do her lips curve down when she frowns or up when she smiles, and it bothers me.

My mum (is deaf) struggles to lip read some of her older friends these days due to the way people’s faces change around the mouth area (especially the ornamental groove and vertical rhytids) as they get older. It leaves a thinning of the area between the mouth lips and nose - appearing less curved and fleshy when younger - and due to the lack of fat/muscle there as we age - it can appear ‘flat’ or stiff.

Age can be a bitch - and affects some harsher than others.

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#1104347
Topic
Star Wars DVD Covers
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Free and easy to use photo or image sites like http://imgur.com/ may well be a lot better for linking pictures of covers and art etc on to here and other sites, for the future…

Photobucket has really dealt a lot of people a big blow by disabling their ‘3rd party hosting’ - a lot of quality covers and art etc lost over time…

 

 

some cool, yet simple and striking DVD covers from ‘Uebelator’ over at deviantart - https://uebelator.deviantart.com/gallery/

and lot more Star Wars stuff in his quality gallery

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#1103605
Topic
Episode VIII : <strong>The Last Jedi</strong> - film &amp; fan art, + covers etc
Time

a few cracking pictures starting to appear for this now… (especially as merchandise and promotional stuff is released) 😃

 

^ from https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/6xf0nx/new_poster_for_the_last_jedi/

 

^ from https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2017/08/new-promo-image-of-luke-skywalker-from-star-wars-the-last-jedi/

 

^ from http://movieweb.com/star-wars-last-jedi-plot-details-topps-trading-cards/

 

^ from https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/70ayt0/made_a_retro_the_last_jedi_poster/

 

^ from https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/707rhr/the_last_jedi_classic_poster/

 

^ from https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/758sef/i_did_this_yesterday_out_of_hype_for_todays/

 

and the official ‘The Last Jedi’ poster - released on the 9th October…

 

StarWars,com’s poster gallery for The Last Jedi - http://www.starwars.com/films/star-wars-the-last-jedi-poster-gallery?cmp=smc|1195790351

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#1103364
Topic
Blu-Ray and other HD box size STAR WARS covers
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Falle said:

[IMG]http://i65.tinypic.com/ci15w.jpg[/IMG]
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[IMG]http://oi68.tinypic.com/2djs382.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i66.tinypic.com/2w6wkmt.jpg[/IMG]

Still working on the seventh. The front took a while to make 😃 I might remove the stars though. But first, on to the back!

Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time… 😃

Welcome back - and cool covers.

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#1101689
Topic
Tyler0013's Boxless Boxset
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solkap said:

Just noticed something. On the Obi Wan leaflet, Chapter 44 should probably have a different title. “Luke and Biggs” fits the scene from the SE, but Biggs is not in that scene in the DE. It’s a scene between Luke and Leia.

But I do think your choices of shots for your cover art are superb!

I knocked up some chapter times for the DeSpecialized Editions a while back…

http://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/906562 (in this thread http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Inside-Covers-and-Inserts/id/47624 along with titles for ESB and ROTJ)

^ according to that ‘Chapters 24 & 44 were Chapter Titles with names from the Special Editions (‘Jabba The Hutt’ & ‘Luke & Biggs’)’ so may need changing - I just made up two titles to replace them in the link above.

 

Superb work Tyler0013 😃

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#1099927
Topic
Last web series/tv show seen
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DominicCobb said:

oojason said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Game of Thrones - anyone else feel like this season is the show on fast-forward? They should’ve stuck with two 10-episode seasons to even out the pacing instead of this weird 7- and 6-episode final seasons business.

Unfortunately that wasn’t possible given the technical and proficiency aspects of filming due to the stories told this season (20+ locations in 5 countries with several units) - plus the contractual aspects of the cast and crew (mainly time available)…

They had little option but to reduce the number of episodes - yet lengthen those episode run-times so in essence it is an eight episode season (fewer scenes apparently ended up on the cutting room floor for this season than previous helps).

I’m skeptical of this explanation. In previous seasons that’s kept them to the 10 maximum but there’s nothing new this season about the various locations and scheduling headaches that would require 3 less episodes. Only thing I can think of is their weather excuse (Winter being here and all) but that’s kinda silly because A) we haven’t seen much sign of winter outside of the North, and B) rarely are shows/films shot during the proper season (movie magic and all).

I think the real thing that happened was the show runners only wanted to do seven seasons, which meant that they had to jam pack the final/seventh season with a bunch of wrap up stuff. However two problems arose in that they had a 13 episode final season mapped out, but it was not feasible to shoot a 13 episode single season, and HBO wanted to stretch it out another year. So the season was split in two, and instead of taking the chance to look at how they could further flesh out their planned, rushed final 13 episodes and expand them into 20 (or hell, even 18 or 16), they probably got a bit cocky and thought “nope our plan is perfect, we don’t need anymore than that.”

Speculation but it seems to me to be the case.

A quick look into the ‘Inside the Episode’ videos by HBO may give an insight into the bars raised for this season compared to previous - as well as the time considerations for cast & crew contracts as a result, budgets and the (money-consuming) use of quality CGI. It’s also really 2 less episodes given the average running times…

Just my two-penneth, of course.

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#1099534
Topic
Last web series/tv show seen
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ChainsawAsh said:

Game of Thrones - anyone else feel like this season is the show on fast-forward? They should’ve stuck with two 10-episode seasons to even out the pacing instead of this weird 7- and 6-episode final seasons business.

Unfortunately that wasn’t possible given the technical and proficiency aspects of filming due to the stories told this season (20+ locations in 5 countries with several units) - plus the contractual aspects of the cast and crew (mainly time available)…

They had little option but to reduce the number of episodes - yet lengthen those episode run-times so in essence it is an eight episode season (fewer scenes apparently ended up on the cutting room floor for this season than previous helps).

Next season will mostly see near feature-length run-times to finalise the story.

Personally, I think this season struggled a little with the pacing in the first 2/3 episodes - but has hit it’s mark since then… (with one episode more to go - unleaked, anyway 😉)

 

Seems Star India and HBO Sweden & HBO Spain have played a blinder sidelining the hackers since their demands were made public - though HBO really shouldn’t have announced they were going to war on the pirates like that - it was only asking for trouble… (then and since) - which they found as quickly as Euron manages to dart around Westeros 😉