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unamochilla2

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#722100
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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I'm a little surprised they would try to connect this film with a pre-OT cartoon especially when the majority of casual movie goers probably won't even watch the show.  If the flashback is true, I wonder who they got to play a young Leia?  Or would it be a CGI Leia?

I have a feeling none of this true and that the robot hand we saw a few days ago is actually Luke's hand or simply Abram's showing us more practical effects as he's done with all the other sneak peeks.  He obviously wants fans to know that he is using a lot of practical effects.

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#721901
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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AntcuFaalb said:

I normally don't comment on (or give a shit about) appearances, but I am going to miss the "softness" of Princess Leia's face.

Cute!

Yeah, I know, age... but, still... :-/

 Not only age, but drug and alcohol abuse as well.  I think she looks great considering.  More importantly, she appears to be healthy and happy. We also have to remember that our princess is nearing 60.

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#721775
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Darth Id said:

All this talk about the Millennium Falcon, and I think we've forgotten all the iconic craft from the PT that I'm sure we're all waiting with bated breath to see in the ST.

I can't wait to see...

uh...

oh yeah!  The

SPACE GONDOLA!

Is that boat supposed to look like what I think it looks like?  Was this a subliminal message?

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#721507
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Episode VII: The Force Awakens - Discussion * <strong>SPOILER THREAD</strong> *
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Harmy said:

Well, the walls have similar angles but over-all, the design is completely different.

Right, but the Imperial influence is seemingly becoming more and more apparent.

EDIT: On second thought, many of the hallways in the prequels had a similar look as well before the Empire existed.

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#720090
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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moviefreakedmind said:

unamochilla2 said:

Didn't many of the cut scenes still end up in the film, just in an altered form?  Such as the Mos Eisley sequences and the Jabba sequence?  Those scenes had to have been restored in their original form before they were "enhanced" with CGI.

 Well, did they restore the mos eisley scenes and then destroy the negative by printing the CG directly onto the old film? Or did they restore it, digitally add the changes and add new parts into the negative and put the real parts into storage?

According to savestarwars.com, the original pieces are most likely in storage.  Therefore, the scenes were altered digitally.

The original pieces removed for the CG-enhanced shots are no doubt in storage. The original negative was fully cleaned and restored starting in 1995, and because parts even then were damaged or unusable had to have certain parts replaced with interpositive and separation master dupes, as well as having the optical transitions redone.

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#719604
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4K restoration on Star Wars
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moviefreakedmind said:

Well, I would assume so. Speaking of the Holiday Special, I recall something about how Lucas allowed a documentary filmmaker to have access to the original copy of the Holiday Special back in '04. If the Holiday Special (something I can assure you Lucas hated more than the OOT) was still in watchable condition after 25 years, I'm sure the original parts of the negative cut out for the SE are in a bit better condition then some people may think. 

 I take it the Holiday Special was shot on film, then?