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Uatu The Lurker
Sep 14, 2003

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Vinylshadow posted:

Much like TLJ, if you ignore the story, the visuals are very pretty - I wonder how the score-only viewing would feel once you finished it



I don't know that I'd call either of these shots especially pretty, but Kylo's flaming sword is one of the better ST designs.

Has anyone talked about what a weird went-no-where choice it was to turn Anakin's lightsaber into Excalibur yet

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Uatu The Lurker
Sep 14, 2003

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galagazombie posted:

We talked about it a ton thousands of posts ago. We mostly agreed it's part of the cargo cult method these movies were made with where they used important things from the originals without understanding anything about how context is what made those things important, not the other way around. One can see the exact same thing in Abrams Star Trek movies, where he inserts objects, names, and events from classic Trek in completely non-sensical ways.

Not JJ, but The Dice were fuckin' ridiculous.

Uatu The Lurker
Sep 14, 2003

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SuperMechagodzilla posted:

This is the usual case of people not being able to tell the difference between what they know and what the characters know.

Luke’s legal name is Luke Lars, and he was raised as the biological son of Owen and Beru. As in the old Spaceballs joke, Luke Lars is Anakin’s highly estranged (ex?) stepbrother's son, which means they have basically no relationship. Vader has no idea that Padme’s twins survived and/or got names, so why would he think Beru Lars’ son is secretly his dead kid?

The cover story only breaks when Luke Lars grows up to be a “you’re not my real dad” dipshit. He goes around calling himself ‘Skywalker’ after finding out he’s adopted - and that name ends up broadcast across the galaxy after he famously blows up the Death Star. The resulting stories of a ‘force sensitive’ hero named Skywalker (with a blue lightsaber!) immediately catch Vader’s attention, and that’s why Episode 5 happens. This is the opposite of a ‘plot hole’; it’s just the plot.

But anyway, going back to Episode 4, why would anyone care that there’s a guy named Benjamin Kenobi living on Jakku?

It’s especially funny when you consider that they spend basically 9 movies underlining that the empire/republic do not give a rats rear end about any of the people or events that transpire on Jakku in any meaningful way. He could have kept ob1 and still nobody would have noticed.

Uatu The Lurker
Sep 14, 2003

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Instead of linking the bait I already clicked, here are some screenshots; Eddie Redmayne auditioning for the role of Kylo Ren



Uatu The Lurker
Sep 14, 2003

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Vintersorg posted:

Yeah, shifted to the right.



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