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My wife has also asked that we get through all the movies, in order. And while I'm happy to oblige her, I always have to preface it with "We'll be going through the worst movies first, so yeah." And then we never end up watching them.
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Fast forward to the podrace and then end the film. Then fast forward to the Jango Fett dogfight and then end the film. Then fast forward to the high ground and then end the film. Then fast forward to the hallway scene and then end the film. Then watch them in order
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The full three laps of the podrace with extended racer intros has been the official cut since the 04(?) DVDs if not earlier. Not sure if the VHS release = theatrical release though.
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May 19, 2017 22:25
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Well that must be it because the last time I watched the whole film all the way through was back in 2012. Only ever had the VHS tape and the film is never played on television.
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May 19, 2017 23:42
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"In order" is release order  Thwomp posted:But that runs into the problem of prequels: plot armor. The recent Vader comic was really well received wasn't it?
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Everything is better formated like the Intro scrolling text, including nuclear blackmail: https://brorlandi.github.io/StarWarsIntroCreator/#!/AKjNv0aPr6AB3JyvWHi6
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Thwomp posted:But that runs into the problem of prequels: plot armor. Make a slasher film where Vader is the villain. The tension is in if the protagonists survive (or who survives). Vader doesn't have to die to be defeated.
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KIM JONG TRILL posted:Make a slasher film where Vader is the villain. The tension is in if the protagonists survive (or who survives). Vader doesn't have to die to be defeated. Seriously, this is what I wanted the Vader bit of Episode III to be instead of a cameo and terrible internet joke.
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So here's a fun thing I found. Fanfilm acting aside, that is some pretty neat looking CGI.
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I've got a soft spot for fan films. I still can't beleive the IMPS guys are plugging away at that project.
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I loved the animated Tales from the New Republic trailer from about a decade ago. And Trooper and George Lucas in Love are classics. I forget the name of it, but back in the early 2000s (possibly even pre-AOTC, definitely pre-ROTS) I remember seeing a mockumentary about Jedi street preachers in Auckland. The highlight of it was an unstaged segment where they got into an argument with actual born-again Christian street preachers about whether Luke Skywalker or Jesus was the real messiah. I wish I could remember where I saw it, since it was very much before YouTube made this sort of thing easy.
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May 23, 2017 18:10
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The best fan film is still TROOPS, the parody of COPS.
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Is Hardware Wars a fan film? That one's good.
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I still think the Sphere O Fear was a good name for the Death Star.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I still think the Sphere O Fear was a good name for the Death Star. Deathticle
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SeanBeansShako posted:I still think the Sphere O Fear was a good name for the Death Star. Pops Mgee posted:Deathticle Giant Hurt Ball!
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I'm currently on "Shatterpoint" and this is some grimdark poo poo  I'm wondering if this was written for something else and just adapted to Star Wars in the last minute. It feels like Warhammer 40k Catachans operating on pre-heresy Pythos. Catberry fucked around with this message at 05:09 on May 24, 2017 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:So here's a fun thing I found. Pro-click right here. StashAugustine posted:Shatterpoint is pretty clearly Apocalypse Now In Space Not that that's a bad thing. Actual Samuel L. Jackson has been in Apocalypse Now On An Island, I see no reason why his Star Wars character can do it in space.
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Shatterpoint is probably my favorite (of the few I read) Star Wars book. It's got my preferred interpretation of what the Dark Side is supposed to be, as well as the most plausible explanation for why the Jedi are so weirdly monastic.
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SirPhoebos posted:Shatterpoint is probably my favorite (of the few I read) Star Wars book. It's got my preferred interpretation of what the Dark Side is supposed to be, as well as the most plausible explanation for why the Jedi are so weirdly monastic. Having not read it, could you give a brief summary of both?
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Savidudeosoo posted:Having not read it, could you give a brief summary of both? The two are intertwined, but Mace Windu explains that when you have the ability to alter reality and change the way people think, a Force-sensitive individual needs to learn to rein in the impulse to try to fix everything for their own mental health. Otherwise, even if he or she has the best and noblest intentions, a Force-user is going to find that mystical powers does not actually solve all the galaxy's problems. Eventually the gulf between what one thinks he or she can achieve and what actually results causes a Force-user to go insane. "The Dark Side" is basically a short-hand for the mentality of trying to treat the Force as nothing but an 'I Win' button.
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Which is pretty close to the same poo poo Zahn talked about in the Hand of Thrawn 2-parter. I paraphrase and summarize as the Jedi follow a philosophy of "I listen to the Force, and the Force tells me what to do, therefore I am right" vs the Sith going "I tell the Force what to do, because I am right". Eventually on one side you get a twisted and mutated Darth Sidious giving the order to blow up entire planets.
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What if Rogue One had started with the Battle of Scarif and then instead of dying, Rogue One played the most dangerous game of phone tag possible as they keep handing off the plans to different ships to throw off pursuit? Edit: is this what it feels like when people feel the need to "fix" their partners? Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 18:46 on May 25, 2017 |
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Which is pretty close to the same poo poo Zahn talked about in the Hand of Thrawn 2-parter. I paraphrase and summarize as the Jedi follow a philosophy of "I listen to the Force, and the Force tells me what to do, therefore I am right" vs the Sith going "I tell the Force what to do, because I am right". Eventually on one side you get a twisted and mutated Darth Sidious giving the order to blow up entire planets. Also kinda fits with Kreia's "gently caress the Force no gods no masters" schtick
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Which is pretty close to the same poo poo Zahn talked about in the Hand of Thrawn 2-parter. I paraphrase and summarize as the Jedi follow a philosophy of "I listen to the Force, and the Force tells me what to do, therefore I am right" vs the Sith going "I tell the Force what to do, because I am right". Eventually on one side you get a twisted and mutated Darth Sidious giving the order to blow up entire planets. Didn't it also touch on something along the lines of using the force for big displays of power makes you, if not dark side, then a bit blinded to the more subtle guiding aspects of the force? I thought that was a neat idea. Especially since Zahn was trying to dial Luke back from being a super-saian force Goku other writers ran with.
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Luke seems piss weak in everything I have seen about him. He struggles to make a cooked noodle bend to his will while other Jedis his age could force smash spaceships.
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Honestly, I keep getting the feeling that being Force-sensitive in Star Wars is a curse, not a blessing. Don't know of any story that takes that mentality, someone strong in the Force who considers it a detriment and just tries to get on with life as a normal person.
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Cythereal posted:Honestly, I keep getting the feeling that being Force-sensitive in Star Wars is a curse, not a blessing. Don't know of any story that takes that mentality, someone strong in the Force who considers it a detriment and just tries to get on with life as a normal person. EU Leia basically went "yeah I guess I'm force sensitive but that poo poo honestly gets in my way, meh" most of the time. You can assume from TFA that she's probably pretty similar considering she's doing the same ol' poo poo she always did and the only time she displays any Force stuff is feeling her son murder her husband. Edit: Well, ex-husband I assume? Is there any clarification if they ever actually got divorced? Or hell that they actually got married?
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Questionable but probably justified use of the force: Clouding people's minds so they don't recognize you as the most famous Jedi ever. Dumb poo poo: Rebuilding one of Darth Vader's castles using the force and moving in because you're a weirdo.
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Casimir Radon posted:Questionable but probably justified use of the force: Clouding people's minds so they don't recognize you as the most famous Jedi ever. I honestly wonder if Luke, Rey, and Kylo will be going to Vader's Castle on Mustafar after it got name dropped in Rogue One.
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ImpAtom posted:EU Leia basically went "yeah I guess I'm force sensitive but that poo poo honestly gets in my way, meh" most of the time. You can assume from TFA that she's probably pretty similar considering she's doing the same ol' poo poo she always did and the only time she displays any Force stuff is feeling her son murder her husband. They did get married, and were still at least legally so as of Episode VII. They were just rather estranged
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Canemacar posted:I honestly wonder if Luke, Rey, and Kylo will be going to Vader's Castle on Mustafar after it got name dropped in Rogue One. Rogue One is amusing in some respects. You just know that every subsequent game and movie is going to have u-wings, Imperial battle droids, and that hovertank and act like they've always been there because suddenly they've been on screen. A concept art book for Force Awakens is very disappointing in that it shows a bunch of vehicles from the EU that were at one point conceived of being in the movie like Gladiator class star destroyers and TIE defenders and dark troopers, but were all discarded in favor of traditional and recognizable designs.
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Cythereal posted:Honestly, I keep getting the feeling that being Force-sensitive in Star Wars is a curse, not a blessing. Don't know of any story that takes that mentality, someone strong in the Force who considers it a detriment and just tries to get on with life as a normal person. I pretty much only exist in this thread to slob the knob of Kyle Katarn, but after the events of Jedi Knight he says "screw it" and suppresses anything to do with the force. Obviously that only lasts until some dinosaur dude kidnaps his girlfriend, but it fits.
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Just finished "The Medstar Duology" It's essentially MASH set in Star Wars and it's just adorable
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Catberry posted:Just finished "The Medstar Duology" While not Star Wars, if you liked MedStar you might like James White's Sector General series of novels. He wrote about a dozen of them from the early 1960s to the 1990s. They're set on a space station hospital with a mixed-species group of doctors performing surgeries on mixed-species patients while dealing with space station bureaucracy. They're really fun.
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Chairman Capone posted:While not Star Wars, if you liked MedStar you might like James White's Sector General series of novels. He wrote about a dozen of them from the early 1960s to the 1990s. They're set on a space station hospital with a mixed-species group of doctors performing surgeries on mixed-species patients while dealing with space station bureaucracy. They're really fun. I'll certainly check those out then!
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