timdiggerm

xxtelecine 7xx said:

oh_riginal said:

Gorilla said:

ray_afraid said:

^Yeah, I’ve thought the same thing. None of the plans he’s announced contradict anything from TFA, but, we don’t know everything he has planned.

Actually, a BIG change he was planning on making was having Lando and the Falcon not making it out of the Death Star before it explodes. I believe Adywan said he wanted to give more weight to the scene in the Rebel hanger on Home One where Han believes he’ll never see the Falcon again after he loans it to Lando for the battle.

I’ve never had a problem with any of Adywan’s decisions he’s made in his revisions to this point, except this one. I don’t like it at all. I hope very much he has reconsidered.

Pretty sure that was revealed to just be a joke, and everyone just took it as gospel.

At this point I don’t see how he could clearly do this because the falcon lives in the new movies

because the Revisited series is only six episodes and doesn’t care about anything else

ben_danger said:

Bingowings said:

Add staccato movements to the Rathars so they look more like stop motion creatures than CGI.

Did anyone ever try that with PT bits?

There was a guy with a thread…but it never really got finished?

MJR80 said:

Bingowings said:

So who is this Smoke then? Someone new or a mask concealing someone very old?

Not sure if anyone has said this, but:

If you play the Darth Plagues (spelling?) opera song (I cannot remember what is called) and Snoke’s music from TFA, it’s almost the same. Not sure if this is coincidence, but it’s interesting, to state the least.

If this is much more meaningful than “John Williams reused ominous music”…ugh

Also, her absence would have been conspicuous. Less so, now that we know what she does in the Galaxy and we may not need to see her again.

Also he’s got a distinctive face. It does help.

Don’t forget the cocky, suave dragon he played that one time!

Is The Onion’s TFA review using clips from Despecialized or GOUT? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVVUfqy9yRs

Alderaan said:

There is nothing like that in TFA. Rey’s force powers were all backloaded toward the end of the film. She doesn’t really struggle much or earn her successes. She fails at the Jedi mind trick once, but it’s more of a gag for the audience, because she immediately succeeds on her next try two seconds later. She summons the lightsaber past Kylo without any effort in the final duel, which is fine because I think it worked best cinematically that way, but there should have been earlier scene(s) to establish it.

I think this is indicative that her past includes Jedi training. She may have been at Luke’s academy, and was hidden on Jakku so Kylo couldn’t get her.

ZkinandBonez said:

Yoda Is Your Father said:

ZkinandBonez said:
I can’t remember hearing Snoke’s “there’s been an awakening” line in the film.

In the film, Kylo says to Snoke ‘There has been an awakening, have you felt it?’ and Snoke responds in the affirmative.

Wasn’t it Snoke who said it in the first teaser though?

Apparently so

http://www.slashfilm.com/force-awakens-trailer-voice/

AntcuFaalb said:

A leak from the upcoming Visual Dictionary: http://imgur.com/a/8oBYM

As much as seeing Maz is nice, the “OLD HABITS” section on Han is very interesting

Watched this over the weekend with friends and although yeah there are some things to fix as noted by everyone else, overall the effect was great. ROTJ is a better movie than I remembered, and the bad optical composites during the Sail Barge scenes are bad enough to evoke reactions from the audience. But no one commented on Sebastian Shaw’s eyebrows, which to me indicates that the switch to 35mm is successful there.

I love it when a plan comes together

Lasz said:

O, and can somebody please tell me how to change the layout of this new forum to something other then for myopic elderly people? You know, like smaller fonts, smaller everything, a bit more oversight, a bit more like what we had?

We’re still waiting on Jay to do that, yeah…

Well, at least we know the editor uses Markdown syntax…

Harmy said:

As for the re-comps, I think those I will leave for v2.5. The plan is also for v2.5 to have a more careful restoration of the 35mm shots, like stabilization and manual cleanup - in 2.0, they’ll probably stay as they are in the WP.

That’s good to hear. I watched a few scenes last night and noticed the jitter on the pan-up from the forest to fireworks at the end.

Re: the different sizes

There’s also the lack of a bajillion audio tracks

Not until George is dead.

And even then, do you want that? If they remake the PT, the OT is next/

blunt182 said:

Harmy, your NFO says the workprint is for quality control and it may have glitches.

Am I better off watching RETURN OF THE JEDI v1.0

Or is the workprint still better, despite glitches?

…wait are you saying it’s available? checks inbox repeatedly

When we do watch the workprint, what should we be looking for?

Yeah, mkv is still the way to go.

Yeah, it’s gotta be the post-battle fancy-dress time.

Well that is certainly an interesting idea, and I think a new one for ROTJ edits

TK428 said:

timdiggerm said:

TK428 said:

It’s probably nothing at all but Adam Driver appeared on the Tonight Show w/Jimmy Fallon last night and when Fallon was talking about his character he said “you play Kylo Ren” and Driver interjected “or Ren Kylo” and then Fallon made a joke about looking him up in a phone book (e.g. Ren, Kylo vs. Kylo, Ren).

I have had a long held suspicion that maybe, just maybe, Ren is Driver’s actual name. And that Kylo is just a title or a total misdirection by Abrams. I know there’s a ton of toys out there and promotional material that says “Kylo Ren” but I can’t help but thing in some way or another Abrams is messing with us (which I LOVE). I want to be surprised.

Abrams has a history of doing this with other projects. most notably the still unseen by me (I don’t dig Star Trek) Star Trek Into Darkness film where he went so far as to publicize a specific character as being “John Harrison” when in actuality the character was Khan. It’s not such a stretch to think that Abrams would do this in Star Wars.

Ren/Rey Solo twins? Kylo some sort of anagram for Skywalker/Solo? Obviously I have too much time on my hands, back to work.

Given that he’s Kylo Ren because he joined The Knights of Ren, the potential switcheroo is just a question of if the title should be a prefix (as with “Darth”) or a suffix (as with, apparently, “Ren”).

Right. But what if the ‘Knights of Ren’ title is a complete ruse?

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/12/star-wars-force-awakens-kylo-ren/2

There comes a point where, although we could doubt all information as ruses, it’s just pointless to do so?

TK428 said:

It’s probably nothing at all but Adam Driver appeared on the Tonight Show w/Jimmy Fallon last night and when Fallon was talking about his character he said “you play Kylo Ren” and Driver interjected “or Ren Kylo” and then Fallon made a joke about looking him up in a phone book (e.g. Ren, Kylo vs. Kylo, Ren).

I have had a long held suspicion that maybe, just maybe, Ren is Driver’s actual name. And that Kylo is just a title or a total misdirection by Abrams. I know there’s a ton of toys out there and promotional material that says “Kylo Ren” but I can’t help but thing in some way or another Abrams is messing with us (which I LOVE). I want to be surprised.

Abrams has a history of doing this with other projects. most notably the still unseen by me (I don’t dig Star Trek) Star Trek Into Darkness film where he went so far as to publicize a specific character as being “John Harrison” when in actuality the character was Khan. It’s not such a stretch to think that Abrams would do this in Star Wars.

Ren/Rey Solo twins? Kylo some sort of anagram for Skywalker/Solo? Obviously I have too much time on my hands, back to work.

Given that he’s Kylo Ren because he joined The Knights of Ren, the potential switcheroo is just a question of if the title should be a prefix (as with “Darth”) or a suffix (as with, apparently, “Ren”).

ZkinandBonez said:

Based on what we’ve seen/read so far about the plot it seems very likely that the film will open with Poe landing his X-wing on Jakku.

I think that’s correct, yeah.

(Also didn’t we get a confirmation somewhere recently that Anakin’s lightsaber had been recovered from the lower-levels of Cloud City by some maintenance people or something similar? So why would it be floating through space? Also how the heck could it get half the way across the galaxy from Bespin to Jakku?)

I believe the story is that Snoke (Kylo’s boss) collected it from Cloud City (with the duel still going on overhead) and we may still see this in a Maz-and-the-Force-enabled flashback. Much later, something happened (an explosion or something) that caused the saber to fall out of Kylo Ren’s shuttle…and land on Jakku.

joefavs said:

.Mac. said:

ray_afraid said:

timdiggerm said:
Bad news: Still opens with a lightaber floating in spaaaaaaace

Ugh… that’s such a stupid concept. Surely it can’t be true. Opening with something that throws reality so far out the window doesn’t set a good tone…

Can either of you or somebody explain what exactly is wrong with having a lightsaber/hand in space? In a sci-fi/fantasy universe, where there is the Force, sound in space, and multiple other laws of physics being defied (according to our world)… to me, a hand floating in space doesn’t throw reality out the window any more so. I’m guessing some think it’d surely evaporate when entering the atmosphere, or something? How do we know for certain it would or wouldn’t? It could also very well be a mechanical hand (where any remaining synthetic flesh may melt away) or maybe it’s encapsulated in something - we don’t know any details. So I do not understand how there’s a predetermined disgust in this concept when we haven’t seen how it plays out… if it’s even true. I’m open to it and will let the story tell me what’s going on.

My problems with it are A.) the six previous movies have opened with a spaceship sailing past, and breaking that pattern by showing literally anything else is going to leave a bad taste in my mouth, and B.) we see stuff burning up when entering the atmosphere in ROTS, so even if Star Wars does ignore some real-world physical laws, it’s established that it doesn’t ignore that particular one.

You know, although that’s true in a certain sense, really ANH opens with a planet.