timdiggerm

Well thank goodness they aren't visible onscreen.

Can't you just do a duck call with your hands?

TheBoost said:

generalfrevious said:

... ...a greedy bastard who bashes the system for the very thing he is guilty of. The Hobbit/Lord Of the Rings means nothing to him except as an intellectual property he can milk to build his second mansion. 

 While I usually don't think building narratives about creators is a useful way to analyze work, it might be worth noting that Peter Jackson still lives in the same house he lived in before starting LOTRs.

 With significant additions, no?

DuracellEnergizer said:

timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Whatever happened to Left and Right Earth?

 Well, Left Earth, aka Valinor, was removed from the normal world when the world was made a sphere at the end of the Second Age. Right Earth is never really talked about.

Ask a silly question, get a serious answer. 

 I thought I might try to revive Akwat's dream

People talking about differences in skin color & neck length should keep in mind that preproduction art does not necessarily match final designs. What a character looks like changes many times as they make a movie.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Whatever happened to Left and Right Earth?

 Well, Left Earth, aka Valinor, was removed from the normal world when the world was made a sphere at the end of the Second Age. Right Earth is never really talked about.

Orange skin, big eyes

I think you've confused crime against art with actual crimes.

Anchorhead said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

^Shame to waste a beautiful actress by having her play some goofy CG alien.

 I have to say, I've been very surprised by that also.  If I had her in the cast of a film, I'd want her on screen as much as possible.  That's an awful lot of talent and beauty to cover up with an animation.  

 As much as I get it, I guess this is a good way of showing that she's valued for her acting not just her looks, you know?

There's been speculation that the small person handing the lightsaber to Leia in the trailer is Lupita's character, in which case it looks like her skin may be orange now.

Now on youtube?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8pHKP-vv4

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/05/short-film-that-preceded-theatrical-empire-strikes-back-restored-on-youtube/

dan76 said:

IG-88 fighting Boba Fett inside Slave 1 from Empire. Apparently they spent two days filming this.

 Wait, what? WHAT?

Akton said:

Bingowings said:

Focusing on a core group of characters isn't universe shrinkage.

Falstaff appearing across a group of plays doesn't make Shakespeare's oeuvre smaller. It's enriching it with detail over brevity.

It is 100% fan service but fan service can be done well it doesn't have to be to the general PT level of naffness.

Adding new characters however is universe enlargement.

 Very salient points.

And, lest anyone forget, Boba Fett's very creation as a character was a kind of fan service... His appearance in the Holiday Special was, in essence, a fan service two years ahead of his first proper film appearance. What I'm hoping for in his possible inclusion in TFA, and his possible portrayal by an actor of such gravitas as Max Von Sydow, is to finally see some substantive incorporation of the character into the Saga; to justify the hype machine created around him that's nearly as old as the franchise itself. That'd be the very opposite of mere fan service. To me, fan service is Han Solo saying "I always shoot first" or some such stupid (but hopefully not inevitable) thing.

 Ugh, that potential Han line would be awful. :(

And his appearance in the HS is not fan service; it's promotion.

G E Predator said:

I'm now a follower ^^

 Aren't we all

fishmanlee said:

darth_ender said:

 and was it any different from the BD release?

 I have it, I think the only difference was it had the original clean audio without music added?

 That sounds useful from a fan edit perspective

I bet some of those adult animators even have sex in the privacy of their homes! OH NO!

generalfrevious said:

Ok what about Jakku? I hope it isn't Tatooine all over again, much like John Harrison was Kahn all along. We've seen that planet five times already.

 I wonder if Jakku will turn out to be a sad story. Beautiful world, turned to desert from the fallout of the massive battle that littered its surface with wreckage.

Anchorhead said:

 That color balance...AHHHHHHHHHH!

You inadvertently distorted the image in a way that looking at it gives me a headache! Couldn't you have taken it in a way where the colars truly resembles those of the original trilogy, rather than the orange and blue prequels?

I worry that it takes visual focus away from the X-Wing

I haven't seen the video yet, but that still is wonderful.

vexedmedia said:

Any update soon would be perfect given the recent hype surrounding The Force Awakens!

 uh... I guess so?

msycamore said:

SilverWook said:

There was an expectation after ESB that Star Wars was going to go on long enough for the actors to grow old in their parts. Weird Al referenced this in his Yoda song.

Starlog magazine even made jokes about their early 21st century incarnation that would come on a computer disk, and feature an interview with an aged Mark Hamill in his Jedi Master costume on the set of the latest episode. They couldn't predict their own demise, alas.

Never heard or been aware of such expectations. As I recall, there was uncertainty Ford would even do a third one at the time, (the character arc of Solo was basically complete by the end of the second film and he hadn't yet signed for a third movie like Fisher and Hamill) reports were that Lucas would make SW movies out of sequence with completely different characters after the third one, even back then.

 It checks out

Weird Al said:

Well, I heard my friends really got in a mess
So I'm gonna have to leave Yoda I guess
But I know that I'll be coming back some day
I'll be playing this part 'till I'm old and gray

See that barely-filled hole between ESB and ROTJ?

There's hope for Xizor yet!

if that's a thing anyone wants, I guess...

digitalfreaknyc said:

I'm betting most people have never seen this before...
It was filmed September 12, 1978 at Fox studios.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buRGuDX8Oek

It's....quite somethin'.

Unfortunately someone has rudely pasted some letters across the video, obstructing my view.

Bingowings said:

It would be nice to see the Falcon start off as a chrome saucer thing in the Naboo mode and then get progressively more grungy on the outside and lose the shag pile on the inside until it's the 'piece of junk' we all love as seen in ANH.

 This has some nice potential when paired with replacing Padme's ship.