Hmmm, seems that converting .mkv to AVCHD is easy enough even for a doofus like me so I just might be watching this tonight after all!
I was hoping I could burn it to DL DVD and watch it on my PS3 (like i did with Harmy's DE AVCHD) but I guess that's not going to happen. The .mkv plays on my crappy laptop but it's too choppy to enjoy. I wonder if anyone is planning to make an AVCHD conversion or something?
Sooo, I downloaded the 720p DVD9 version. Do I just burn it on to a DL DVD disc as is ("write files/folders to disc" using ImgBurn)?
None of those parts add up due to the recent reveals of some characters names.
JawsTDS said:
rchdggr said:
It is obviously a Christmas calendar so..
Wow, I feel dumb.
I guess you can stop feeling dumb now. Damn, I was sure the 24th frame would reveal something! :D
It is obviously a Christmas calendar so..
My main concerns are the same ones I have with every BD release, DNR and edge enhancement.
Poe Dameron seems to be a full name so he probably isn't related to OT-characters. The name enforces my initial feeling that he might be "just an X-wing pilot" like Biggs, Wedge etc. The OT-pilots are well-liked by fans, the unsung heroes of the Rebellion if you will. Kinda makes sense to give an X-wing pilot a bigger role. That is very OT to me. A regular guy. In the PT the heroes were anything but regular guys.
I like the name, it has a nice ring to it and I can imagine me as a 7 year old and my brother arguing about who gets to be POE DAMERON! I guess my bro would have won the argument though, he has darker hair and him being a few years older seemed to help him get his way lol.
They weren't talking about the SEs, they were talking about a hypothetical OT with cgi effects replacing the practical ones.
Edit: whoops, I was supposed to quote something from the previous page, oh well, imagine a bunch of arrows here.
Yea, Boyega seems disoriented, maybe just realizing he is stranded in the middle of nowhere. I guess I should take another look at the leaked concept art!
^ I think the Falcon shot might be connected to the Boyega shot: the TIEs seem to be flying very close to the Falcon, perhaps in the very next frame one of the TIEs scrapes the Falcon, causing the TIE to crash land. The Boyega shot would then be about Boyega regaining consciousness (or just getting out of the TIE) after the crash. Maybe the ball droid finds him and notifies Ridley. This doesn't explain the imperial probe sounds but they maybe from an entirely different scene and added to that scene just because the sound is so recognizable and threatening. Maybe later on a probe droid comes looking for Boyega?
SilverWook said:
Another neat little detail I only now noticed, there's a long rifle style blaster strapped to the speeder, similar to what Luke had in the first film. It's only visible in the closeup, so the wide shot must be a different point in the story.
I was just about to point this out.
I don't know why I feel the need to defend the droid but I am pretty sure that it has similar compartments on the ball that other R2 units have. Meaning it is not less practical than say R2D2. I'm sure it can do all the stuff that R2D2 does (except maybe flying..) but is also faster when it comes to moving around.
I wish an official explanation about how the crossguard works would come soon so I can stop worrying about it.
Re: Stormtrooper boots. IIRC the OT stormtrooper boots were just regular Chelsea styled boots that were painted white. I assume the new ones are bit more "designed" than those.
^^ it "needs" an R2 head on top because it is an R2 unit. It just uses it's spherical body to move instead of legs with wheels.
Like I said earlier, there's nothing "incredible" about the droid. The head stays on top because it was designed to do so. The ball rolls forward and the head glides backwards on the surface of the ball the same distance (or the head spins the ball or whatever). It doesn't need wires to transmit commands from the head to the body/ball.
Truth is often stranger than fiction, now THIS is weird:
Yeah, no chrometroopers (yet?).
The droid is most likely the same size as other R2s. A lot bigger than a soccer ball so I don't think it will look like a soccer ball when it is next to something that gives it scale/perspective.
I don't think there is anything weird about the dome staying on. It is new technology. Something similar but cruder could probably be possible today with robotics, gyroscopes, magnets etc.
Boyega, Ridley and Isaac look great. Isaac reminds me of Wedge (hardly surprising).
I can't get enough of those cockpit and X-wing shots. I'm off to bed now, hopefully I'll have a dream where I am a X-wing pilot.
I forgot to mention the X-wing shots that are amazeballs.
^The Falcon looked thin to me too for a sec but it may have been the angle.
I hope they make the grossguard work in the film. It does look like another lightsabre could simply lop off one of the mini-blades at the root.
Teal/orange, shaky camera and the "typical fantasy film environment circa 2014-2015"-forest are my other (minor) complaints. I like everything else. I disagree with the Falcon shot criticism above. I could really feel the g-forces at play and the subtle streams of air really add to the realism. It may feel a bit weightless for a moment but maybe the Falcon WAS effectively weightless at that moment (think weightlessness simulation with airplanes that rise up and dive to achieve zero gravity momentarily). A nice thrill-ride shot with no distractions. I think it will be awesome in a theatre and in context/with build-up.
The rolling R2 was a bit of a jaw-dropper but it makes sense, 30 years and all that. I'm pretty sure it has compartments that open.
It does seem that Boyega's character has crash landed his TIE, maybe after fighting the Falcon? I guess Ridley's character finds him.
I noticed there are zero shots of stuff happening in space. The trailer better have some starfields and space battles!
I think it's up now! iTunes Trailers and YouTube! Can anyone confirm?
Yea I thought I saw some too. I tried to look for them in the subsequent TIE shots but I couldn't see any.
Somebody had left a hardcover copy of A New Dawn (the recent SW book featuring Kanan and Hera) in a place where the residents of our apartment building dump their unwanted but usable stuff. Neat!
Yup.
I am quite OK with people calling the film Star Wars either by it's title or by it's later retitling/"a.k.a. title". Implying that it is wrong or idiotic to call the film Star Wars by it's name is friggin' ludicrous.
Easterhay said:
darklordoftech said:
Furthermore, if I want to say that the world is flat, I have the right to do so. Nobody's going to stop me. Also, what I call a movie isn't an "intellectual argument", it's a choice of words.
I didn't tell you what you should call it. I simply said it's idiotic to do so when the film was only titled that for three or four years.
This is the most idiotic thing I've read in a long time.
I'm starting to like the typeface a lot. I think it's familiar, Star Wars-y yet distinct. Fits nicely next to these:
