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I don't know if I'm willing to pay to find out how R2 got turned into a soccer ball.
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Those fuckin' X-Wings. Those fuckin' Stormtroopers. I'm hyped.
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# ? Nov 28, 2014 19:21 |
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Seems promising enough.
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# ? Nov 28, 2014 19:34 |
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This is definitely gonna be awful, and I'm glad about that because 1) the poo poo-eating public can eat poo poo and 2) i LOVE to get mad about how dumb Star Wars is, in fact that is the main element of my appreciation of Star Wars, so in that sense I'm "looking" "forward" to the next movie.
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# ? Nov 28, 2014 20:22 |
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Looks pretty okay. If it's stupid poo poo like the Star Trek reboots I'll be okay with it; if it's stupid boring poo poo like the Star Wars prequels I won't be okay with it.
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# ? Nov 28, 2014 20:58 |
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I'm not sure how I feel about the classic "filming spaceships like WWII footage" cinematography vs. the trademark Abrams "filming spaceships like Transformers footage" dichotomy. The barrel roll unnamed Corellian Edit: there, you all happy now? Albu-quirky Guy fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Nov 29, 2014 |
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Albu-quirky Guy posted:Corellian corvette (that we all assume is the Millennium Falcon)
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 03:13 |
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Someone on TFN posted this, I laughed.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 03:18 |
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Albu-quirky Guy posted:I'm not sure how I feel about the classic "filming spaceships like WWII footage" cinematography vs. the trademark Abrams "filming spaceships like Transformers footage" dichotomy. The barrel roll unnamed Corellian corvette (that we all assume is the Millennium Falcon) shot looks wicked as hell, but it feels more like the new BSG than it does Star Wars. It's a YT-1300 light freighter, not a corvette. A corellian corvette looks like this:
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 03:25 |
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jivjov posted:It's a YT-1300 light freighter, not a corvette. A corellian corvette looks like this: Interestingly, the Corellian Corvette was an adaptation of the original concept for the Falcon. Still,
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 08:05 |
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Metal Loaf posted:Maybe it's not always elegantly done when Luceno does it, but it seems to me as though it's just a feature of how he writes in general and his world-building sensibilities (which I think are influenced a lot by Frank Herbert's Dune) in particular; indeed, it's my understanding Luceno received similar criticism when he was co-writing the Robotech adaptations with Brian Daley in the 1980s. That seems oddly appropriate, considering how much Star Wars was influenced by Dune.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 09:03 |
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:Interestingly, the Corellian Corvette was an adaptation of the original concept for the Falcon. Design notes: Too phallic. MUCH too phallic.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 09:59 |
So basically just a Corellian gunship?
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 10:32 |
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jivjov posted:It's a YT-1300 light freighter, not a corvette. A corellian corvette looks like this: Wait, did they put the rectangular deflector dish that was on what ended up being the Tantive IV in place of the circular one lost on the Falcon in a behind-the-scenes reversal of this that only nerds could appreciate? Abrams might just be as spergy as the rest of us.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 14:58 |
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Van Dis posted:This is definitely gonna be awful, and I'm glad about that because 1) the poo poo-eating public can eat poo poo You're probably a real winner at parties
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 16:28 |
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The mini blades on the guard of the Lightsaber only look dangerous to the wielder, not the opponent. The rotation in the Falcon scene was nausea inducing, and I saw a webm of someone who rotated the footage so that the Falcon doesn't appear to be spinning and it significantly improves the shot. All in all, the teaser was awful except the X-Wings, which were awesome because they're X-Wings.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 17:14 |
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Aurain posted:All in all, the teaser was awful except the X-Wings, which were awesome because they're X-Wings. Even the X-wing designs in the trailer were based on the original McQuarrie design rather than what it ended up being in the OT, just like the roller-droid was his original concept for R2-D2 and the gate-shaped building that Daisy Ridley is zooming towards is an original unused McQuarrie Tatooine design. They're really heavily mining McQuarrie for this movie, which makes me think that the rumors of John Boyega's character being a lightsaber-armed stormtrooper (as well as the chrome-armored stormtroopers) will also turn out to be true.
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Chairman Capone posted:which makes me think that the rumors of John Boyega's character being a lightsaber-armed stormtrooper (as well as the chrome-armored stormtroopers) will also turn out to be true. The closest thing we'll ever get to having an Imperial Knight on-screen.
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# ? Nov 29, 2014 22:34 |
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Are there any important plot points in the rogue squadron comics that I should be aware of before reading the books?
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 00:34 |
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Antequek posted:Are there any important plot points in the rogue squadron comics that I should be aware of before reading the books?
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 01:25 |
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You missed Horton Salm being a badass over Brentaal IV.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 01:32 |
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The last third of the comic is about how Isard comes to power which plays a bit into the book series. Also, Isard's Revenge is pretty much a direct sequel to the end of the comic and has a few returning characters, and the smuggler woman from The Bacta War is also introduced in one of the comic storylines, but the majority of the book/comic series are separate.
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Chairman Capone posted:The last third of the comic is about how Isard comes to power which plays a bit into the book series. Also, Isard's Revenge is pretty much a direct sequel to the end of the comic and has a few returning characters, and the smuggler woman from The Bacta War is also introduced in one of the comic storylines, but the majority of the book/comic series are separate. Isard's Revenge is a little weird without reading the comics. You can tell that you've missed something, sort of. It's also the worst book in the series so this doesn't really matter very much.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 03:03 |
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I think I might still check out the comic then, I'm trying to get the most out of the legacy canon before the new movie comes out. Just read the Thrawn trilogy, truce as Bakura and Shadows of the empire so now I'm moving on to X-wing.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 03:43 |
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Anyone have that picture of the dude with all the lightsabers poking out of his armor?
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 03:49 |
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buffybot posted:Let's not forget about ol' Saber Knees.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:05 |
How does he scratch his nose?
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 04:09 |
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Neurion posted:How does he scratch his nose? Very carefully.
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Antequek posted:I think I might still check out the comic then, I'm trying to get the most out of the legacy canon before the new movie comes out. Just read the Thrawn trilogy, truce as Bakura and Shadows of the empire so now I'm moving on to X-wing. Avoid anything by KJA. I obsessively read the Young Jedi Knights series when I was 11, and a year or two later I realized how poorly written it was. Literally everything that man writes is garbage. Most of the good Legacy canon are the short series, one-off books, and comics. Once you get into the 20 book series with the Vong there's maybe 5 books that are actually good, the rest are just worthless filler.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 05:59 |
Speaking of garbage, what is going on with those avatars? seeing them everywhere.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 06:02 |
pentyne posted:Avoid anything by KJA. I obsessively read the Young Jedi Knights series when I was 11, and a year or two later I realized how poorly written it was. Literally everything that man writes is garbage. However, reading Stackpole's I, Jedi take the piss out of the Young Jedi Knights stuff is pretty funny.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 06:09 |
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SeanBeansShako posted:Speaking of garbage, what is going on with those avatars? seeing them everywhere. They replaced the Newbie baby I think.
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Lucas was a dick to his wife (who was the only reason Star Wars is any good) http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com/marcialucas.html Read the whole article. quote:Biographer Dale Pollock once wrote that Marcia was George Lucas' "secret weapon." [i] Most people are aware that George Lucas was once married, and probably some are aware that his wife worked in the film industry herself and edited all of George's early films before their 1983 divorce. But few are aware of the implications that her presence brought, and the transformations her departure allowed. She was, in many ways, more than just the supportive wife--she was a partner as well. "Not a fifty percent partner," as she herself admits, but nonetheless an important one, and the only person that Lucas could totally confide in back then. Today, she has been practically erased from the history books at Lucasfilm. Looking through J.W. Rinzler's Making of Star Wars, she is mentioned only occasionally in passing, a background element, and not a single word of hers is quoted; she is a silent extra, absent from any photographs and only indirectly acknowledged, her contributions downplayed. In the documentary Empire of Dreams, she is barely even mentioned in passing, except when the narration states that she edited the film and Lucas says he "got divorced as Jedi was complete" in the last two minutes of the supposedly-definitive documentary. Other products fare not much better, since many of them are published through Lucasfilm; her entire existence has nearly been ignored. Marcia Lucas, the "other" Lucas, has basically become the forgotten Lucas. George had every nerd's fantasy happen to him? quote:"She was a knock-out," John Milius remembers. "We all wondered how little George got this great looking girl. And smart too, obsessed with films. And she was a better editor than he was." All hail the Mighty Lucas's intellect that you plebs can't understand. quote:...It also led to some tension in the editing room. Cutting the picture together in the attic of their home, the long work hours and strenuous circumstances of its making sometimes brought out unpleasantries. "I like to become emotionally involved in a movie," she says. "I want to be scared, I want to cry, and I never cared for THX-1138 because it left me cold. When the studio didn't like the film, I wasn't surprised. But George just said to me, I was stupid and knew nothing. Because I was just a Valley Girl. He was the intellectual... Nckdictator fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Nov 30, 2014 |
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jng2058 posted:However, reading Stackpole's I, Jedi take the piss out of the Young Jedi Knights stuff is pretty funny. I, Jedi is by far the funniest book in the old canon, if you read Kevin J. Anderson's poo poo.
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tribbledirigible posted:Wait, did they put the rectangular deflector dish that was on what ended up being the Tantive IV in place of the circular one lost on the Falcon in a behind-the-scenes reversal of this No one else has commented but I was thinking the same thing before I saw your post.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 07:48 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng Everybody needs to see this.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 12:37 |
Needs more awkward nineties CG.
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Carnaticum posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v93Jh6JNBng This is great. For some reason seeing Jabba was the part that cracked me up the most.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 15:38 |
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Nckdictator posted:Lucas was a dick to his wife (who was the only reason Star Wars is any good) The Secret History of Star Wars is overall a great book that I encourage anyone interested in either Star Wars or the movie-making process in general to read. It's also researched to an amazing degree and points out all the places in official Lucasfilm Making Of books where they whitewash/edit history to conform to what was the modern-day Lucas line. Another example in addition to the Marcia Lucas thing that comes to mind, in Rinzler's The Making of Star Wars, he has a section pointing out notes from Lucas supposedly from 1977 about midi-chlorians to highlight how Lucas "always" had that in mind, and only later on his personal blog stated that the midi-chlorian stuff was written in 2007 by Lucas to "properly update" his thoughts from 1977.
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# ? Nov 30, 2014 23:28 |
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The Secret History of Star Wars also includes the transcript of an interview from the seventies where Lucas mentioned midichlorians, I can't cite where in the book though as I only have it on audiobook.
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