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With a tremendous amount of Flash? :(

Oh I see what you mean. If only there was some way to have the droids be very threatening, a close and clear danger. Like if they landed on a jedi fighter and started attacking with chainsaws or something. You could call them Chaindroids!

No but seriously, I think it'll still seem dangerous to the Jedi. It's a battle.

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Vladius said:

SilverKey said:

- Personally, I like the part where Anakin says he wants to go help out the pilot who has fighters on his tail. It makes him a bit sympathetic, and shows that the Jedi and their troops have gotten closer.

But he's a clone. They're meant to die in droves, and the whole point for them coming along was to allow the Jedi to get to Grievous's ship. There is no reason for Anakin to waste time doing that.

Well, no, they're meant to be cheaper substitutes than attempting to equip a diverse galactic population for war, not to mention the cost of losing your population to war. Treating them like disposable droids is pretty grim, and although this is Anakin and ROTS, that's probably not how he ought to be portrayed.

Those upgraded displays in Hoth Command are wonderful. Can't wait to see what they look like in the other scenes in that room. The upgraded holo-table at Yavin was one of my favorite things in ANHR, and I look forward to any similar upgrades to things in ARSE and ROTJR.

TV's Frink said:

Every time this thread is bumped I have to laugh at the title.

Every time.

It's true though. My first reaction to Hayden is ROTJ.

Wait wait wait, BDs are $10 now?

Man, I am really out of the loop.

That's been extensively covered, yes. Folks around here would rather alter ROTS so that Padme doesn't die than alter ROTJ to remove the line. It's doable.

The music was a little bit messy during the space battle, sounding like it was switching themes with every shot sometimes. On the other hand, the theme when they come sliding into the hangar and popping out with sabres was absolutely brilliant. Felt like Star Wars. That being said, the drums at the end were building, and then suddenly the mood of the scene completely changed. The transition to quiet was abrupt.

but, but but... but then we can't complain about continuity!!! D:

I saw a little bit of this on the big screen once, as they were showing it before Star Wars at The Senator screening in Baltimore, just until it was time to get on with the real show. Needless to say, the biggest the image, the trippier.

The most experience I have with such games is several games (although rarely did we successfully complete a story) of Paranoia. Its zaniness appeals to me well, so I'm not sure I'd enjoy the more serious ones.

Huh! Never noticed that thing, really.

..screenshot of crab claw?

I think he may have been replying to Purist's statement that even the ROTJ dialogue says nothing about a training relationship. Instead, it's explicitly stated.

Stuff like this is why the Marvel Comics are officially considered a lower level of canonicity than even the EU

Stop.

Don't talk about that here. Please see the thread Harmy linked to. That's where that discussion belongs.

The problem with physical media is that

1. It breaks

2. Distribution is slow and expensive compared to digital

3. Every time we want to make advancements in quality, they make you pay again. This last one is my biggest gripe with DVD-->Blu-->Future

4. Also, the proprietary nature of Blu-Ray sucks

For those of you who talk about how you don't get alternate commentary tracks, etc with digital

1. That's possible with digital

2. Most people don't care

Let's say this, then: Physical media is dying.

Alien and Prometheus are intended to take place in "The Future". I'm sure there are years assigned or whatever, but they are pretty unimportant other than of ordering events and placing them in The Future. Alien wasn't intended to portray an alternate future in which we never progressed beyond CRTs or regressed to CRTs or whatever; it's just that that's what was available (within budget, feasible, etc) to the filmmakers. If you gave the Alien team easy access to flatscreens or CGI-holograms back then, I bet they would have used those instead. Maybe they would have had them flicker or whatever, to demonstrate that the Nostromo is a hulking rustbucket, but they would have picked whatever they could that would indicate to viewers "This is clearly taking place in The Future".

The filmmakers of Prometheus have the same choice. Using CRTs, while consistent with the look of Alien, would have

1. Implied that these films take place in some sort of future/alternate-history in which we never progress beyond or regress to CRTs
2. Probably confused viewers. Not that they would have doubted it was the future, because spaceships, but it would have been weird.

The filmmakers either assume that the viewers can get over this discrepancy, being aware that Alien was made in the 70s, or are super-committed to not-being-George-Lucas (by which I mean making Special Editions), or both.

Anchorhead said:

To clarify: When I said it looked too 2012, I meant in regard to current visual trends in motion pictures, not a reference to the film 2012.  Prometheus looks like it was made now, instead of a setup to a film from 1979.

Ooooh that makes way more sense. Okay, cool.

I would like to remind everyone that I'm not some sort of "all film creativity ended in 1985" naysayer.

I did need this reminder.

I've openly welcomed some sequels, prequels, and remakes.  Even to films that were iconic in my world.  I'm completely ok with films that are new and\or current versions of older films, or are connected to older films.

and am thus interested in some examples, if you feel like it.

ray_afraid said:

I wanna point out that from what I know about the film, people who are interested in this only as a set up to Alien are in it for the wrong reasons and will be disappointed. To make a Star Wars analogy in regards to this as a Alien prequel, this won't be "Ah, so that's how Anikin became Darth Vader" it's more like "Ah, so that's how that dragon skeleton got there". Which is possibly a much more interesting story.

...did that make sense?

I could be wrong. There's a lot of conflicting info out there.

I'm pretty sure you're spot on.

in before someone says Ridley Scott

Anchorhead said:

I'm no longer interested in this film. After seeing these extended trailers, for me it's too slick and too 2012 with regard to cinematography and pacing.

Trailers are edited separately and differently than films. Also, comparing Ridley Scott to Roland Emmerich is ridiculous.

As a prequel, it also has the same issue that bothered me with Phantom Menace.  There is a huge technology step backwards for events taking place several decades later.  That's a story killer for me.  We're seeing Minority Report computers which, far into the future, will become the CRTs of the Nostromo. No thanks.

Bingo covered this.

Plus, I'm just not getting a good vibe from seeing so much about the derelict ship.  For me, the Space Jockey will forever remain a mystery, just as he has been for the past 34 years.

This is how many pre/sequels work - Something that wasn't explored in the original is explored. The process of revealing that and whatever it leads to can be a great experience, independent of the wonder you may have felt previously. Plus, one of the two writers is Damon Lindelof, previously on LOST. He's very good at showing the partial answer to a mystery while raising ten new mysteries. If it's mystery you want, Lindelof's your man.

Warbler said:

Matches Malone?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Matches+Malone

http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Matches_Malone

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Matches_Malone

Oh, so that's the plot. Pretty much what I thought, actually.

Not sure it explains the origins of the Xenomorphs, but maybe.