Vader's never a leaping acrobat. More of a heavy presence, batting away or choking minions with a gesture. The ROTJ fight is far from overchoreographed when it comes to swordplay but every strike seems ready to overwhelm any defense.
The Rebels cartoon has done pretty well with that, and the recent Marvel comics as well.
― mh, Friday, 12 August 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
vader: no cloak but: with ~spats~
think about it, let me know
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 August 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
wth this trailer looks like trash idgi
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 12 August 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
vader vs Luke is ESB is the scariest vader, like he's this huge monstrous dude stalking and striking, it's the closest he comes to a horror movie character in the whole series.
― nomar, Friday, 12 August 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
also vader is introduced while choking a bitch to death as he holds them up in the air like a child
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 12 August 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
i liked vader's hint of a british accent in ep IV
― nomar, Friday, 12 August 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
It would appear that Gareth Edwards and his team have been drawing heavily from the Clone Wars + Rebels cartoons for their notes on setting and tone which means this is probably going to be AWESOME and also most of the characters are doomed
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 13 August 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
Giant gun backpack dude = toastYip Man = toastFelicity Jones = redemption martyr toastForest Whitaker = "Nah, I'll sit right here while they blow up my house with me in it" toastDroid = the droid always survivesDiego Luna = witness
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 13 August 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
NO SPOILERS TOMBOT
― Yes it has pickles and chicken...but...it doesn't have mild cheese... (stevie), Saturday, 13 August 2016 10:04 (seven years ago) link
Rosebud was his lightsaber.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 August 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Anyway, international trailer, couple of new bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48XWkN0jBQY
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 August 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
all the rebels look really dirty and haggard, so you know they got that right
― mh, Monday, 15 August 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
maybe not in the command center. Mon Mothma still looking senate-ready
― mh, Monday, 15 August 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
Many Bothans died getting her dry cleaning
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
v good
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
Ok, this is cute. I dig the klaxon mixing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMmiNeVrbDk
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 07:01 (seven years ago) link
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--m8qgvg1A--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/sjqq32orf3wyzxd5anqk.png
Why does this dude need to carry around so many iphones, though
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 5 September 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
Amazed he gets reception out there
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 September 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
one for each carrier, too difficult to swap sim cards on the run while wearing Death Gloves
― Anacostia Aerodrome (El Tomboto), Monday, 5 September 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
'everything that has transpired has done so according to my design'
https://spfaust.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/62535_jelanimemory1.jpg
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 September 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/sC9abcLLQpI
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
the dialogue looks terrible ("save the dream"???) but i'll watch the shit out of that
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
the dialogue has always been terrible
― a (waterface), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
it was relatively good in the last one
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:27 (seven years ago) link
true!
― a (waterface), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
this movie looks amazing, I don't care how corny the dialogue is
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
yeah this looks great
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
damn, that's an exciting trailer
the overhead shot of the giant half-buried jedi blew me away
― doo-doo diplomacy (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
jedi statue, i mean
this must be the trailer where they're afraid some of the audience won't understand the setting/premise because it sure spelled it all out
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Thursday, 13 October 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
Starting to look like Edwards was a good choice for this -- his tendency to concentrate on the human scale rather than spectacle, that got him noticed with Monsters, kinda backfired on him with Godzilla, where people just wanted more Godzilla. But this is a better sci-fi sandbox in which he can work that stuff out.
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 October 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
Certainly looks gorgeous
― Rob Boss (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
most definitely
the original trilogy had some lush planets but it was the forests of endor where it was fairly nondescript forest, or dagobah where the greenery was so dense it seemed claustrophobic
the beach/palm trees battle stuff in this looks ridiculous
― mh 😏, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
that's a generous interpretation of Godzilla Phil
― Number None, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
Well, yeah
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
oh cool a death star
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
lol did you just drop in here having read and seen nothing about the movie
― mh 😏, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
you bet!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
all I did was watch the preview
it also has a darth vader
― nomar, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
*whew*
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
Love everything about this trailer except for the music.
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:46 (seven years ago) link
That ain't A Death Star it's THE Death Star. Check yo'self, foo.
― GUNSHOW POOPHOLE (Phil D.), Thursday, 13 October 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
felicity jones seems kind of a bad actor - not sure about the plummy delivery
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 13 October 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
Οὖτι, it has THE Death Star. Well, the first one. It takes place before the original 1977 film and they steal the Death Star plans and do all the junk that was in the opening crawl of the first film to be released.
There, you know it all now, no need for further introspection
― mh 😏, Thursday, 13 October 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
That line about hope seemed really off and I'm wondering it if was a voiceover recorded for the trailer
― mh 😏, Thursday, 13 October 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
so i guess they are going to cover the info getting to Princess Leia in this, since ANH starts and she already has it. so maybe we'll see a cameo of young Leia.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 13 October 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
One would hope
― calstars, Friday, 14 October 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
Was there a rumor or confirmation Jimmy Smits was seen on set? I think they possibly did the next best thing and have the intel handed off to Leia's father at the end, with the implication one of his secret cells will handle it. They've structured a lot of the recent books/cartoons around the different rebel cells leading up to this point, with Leia making some appearances but most of it being handled by intermediaries, or in the case of really important intel, Bail Organa himself
― mh 😏, Friday, 14 October 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/05/rogue-one-star-wars-jimmy-smits