timdiggerm

What do you think is the best line of dialogue in the Star Wars films, and why?

And finally – This might come as a shock considering what all the actors have been saying but not everyone is entirely happy with the way the movie is heading. Several people have told me they feel like they are just ‘going over old ground’ with the things they are being asked to work on. The feeling is that The Force Awakens is a rehash of the original movie and doesn’t have enough new ideas in it.

The prequels were full of new ideas and concepts but as one person put it to me there’s a ‘lack of imagination’ around The Force Awakens and everything is just a riff on what’s already been done.

JJ..... 

doubleofive said:

timdiggerm said:

The whales are definitely the best part of that cover.

I'm sure that the book is all about someone finding his discarded original gloves and using the DNA on them to clone the Imperial slaves who hand-stitched his gloves.

I think I remember that book being about some kind of prophecy that whoever had the glove could rule the Empire. Holy shit, they were some terrible books.

 After some Wookieepedia browsing, I can confirm this is true. Also, it's the book with Trioculus, Palpatine's three-eyed son.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'm sure Abramstrek will cough up its own lousy version one of these days, especially since it and the Prime Universe ostensibly share a common past where Voyager 6 fell into a black hole and was transported to Droid World.

 Already handled: http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Nero,_Number_Three

The whales are definitely the best part of that cover.

I'm sure that the book is all about someone finding his discarded original gloves and using the DNA on them to clone the Imperial slaves who hand-stitched his gloves.

Maybe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So...an editor

RicOlie_2 said:

Anyone care to inform this non-Trekkie what's so bad about it (aside from the ship being the wrong model, as mentioned by timdiggerm)?

 The big picture of Spock is his costume from the TV show, not the film.

The only planet they visit in the film is Earth, not that Archipelago-mess behind the Enterprise.

Also that's just some bad looking CG.

I really...it's not even the right version of the ship?! Surely that's not real.

That article reads like a fan who just saw The Phantom Menace on opening night

DuracellEnergizer said:

But my previous comment doesn't really fit in any of those threads, thus you are foiled. >=D

 What about http://originaltrilogy.com/FORUM/topic.cfm/What-are-you-INDIFFERENT-to-in-the-EU/topic/16215/ ?

brash_stryker said:

oh_riginal said:

doubleofive said:

obikal said:

Will there be 4 separate threads created soon to follow the progress on the other movies?  Or will there be 1 giant "Revisited Project" thread to track whatever is currently going on in the Adywan productions universe?

I don't think we've discussed it yet, but I would want to keep them separate, mostly so the people who don't care about his prequel edits can follow the RotJR news.

But that's up to Ady.

 Then maybe a ROTJ:R thread and a PT:R thread. Just two might be fine, rather than 4 separate threads. Just a thought.

That gets my vote. No way are the Prequels deserving of individual threads. Plus they're getting such a rejig that parts from one episode might end up in another, so it makes sense that they all be grouped together. 

 I third this idea.

I can not deny that the refit is a beautiful ship. 

Yes, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz56q4t6fek

Tobar said:

I'm not sure about that green.

Here are some vintage photos of the model before she was "restored" in the '90s.

Here's a thread dedicated to researching what was done to it in the '90s.

Colors and lights are funny, huh? That picture in your first link of the saucer from the side, looks exactly like what I saw yesterday. UV illumination & analysis has apparently confirmed that that's definitely the original paintjob. In fact, this article has a photo of that, plus confirmation that the very guy posting those pics, Doug Drexler, is on the advisory committee for this restoration.

I can't say for sure that they'll get rid of the 90s awful job, but I think it's likely. Dr. Weitekamp said near the end of her talk "I am well aware of the strong opinions in the fan community about the 90s restoration".

Marty.McFly said:

Geonosis. The one thing that bugged me the most out of all that sequence was, and still is Natalie Portman jumping/landing crotch first on the back of the Reek(?) beast thing. I mean, NOT ONE PERSON had the balls to tell GL jusy how stupid that looked? Come on! Ady, if you are keeping that in AOTC:R, please do something about that landing. Please!

 I feel pretty sure that a lot of AOTC's problems will get fixed, but first he'll color-correct the whole thing

I bet it had to do with the colors of different lights

I went to the National Air & Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center's Open House today (the second occurrence of an annual event), and got to see the original 11ft studio model of the Enterprise sitting right in front of me in the Conservation lab, not even in a glass case. Talked a little bit with the head conservator who's working on it, and then heard a talk from the curator who pushed for it to make it into the renovated main entrance gallery in DC in the next few years.

Click here to see my photos & notes.

Other notes:

• Yes it looks green
• No that's not because of decay or repaints
• The paint on the top of the saucer is definitely the original paint
• The Enterprise is green
• They still don't know if they're going to illuminate it. The original lights are gone, currently has 90s lights, but do they really want to rip out the innards again? Very tough decision.

DuracellEnergizer said:

This is the best thread I've ever created.

Yes indeed -- the best thread I've ever created.

Sure, in this universe

Which way?

I made a more accurate timeline.

SilverWook said:

Nice to see the movie being used for educational purposes. I learned a thing or two about editing playing with the CAV LD back in college on my own.

Can one really call the FX analog, when a computer controlled camera was used, and some of the tactical displays are early CGI?

Beside what 005 said, because they were composited w/o computers on film. Even if one of the elements you're adding is computer generated, it's generated onto film and then composited.

TV's Frink said:

PROBE DROID DANCE PARTY!!!

 http://imgur.com/a/EllLJ

darklordoftech said:

moviefreakedmind said:

darklordoftech said:

If this article is anything to go by:

http://www.cinemablend.com/m/new/How-George-Lucas-Star-Wars-7-Ideas-Were-Used-By-Disney-69271.html

 What?

If they don't care about Lucas's treatments, no way they're going to care about his special editions.

 There's a huge difference between an unused script and a thing the public saw.

oops wrong thread

Frank your Majesty said:

emanswfan said:

If I remember correctly, Vader has been used as a placeholder for multiple pieces of concept art.

 This.

There's also been rumors of a flashback scene