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― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
MCU muted colors suck and is why none of the films stand out visually. feels like a stylistic choice regurgitated from the 90s to pander to the manbaby demographic. there is a cultural line from Image Comics to Limp Bizkit's "Faith" to Gears of War to those "gritty", "dark", desaturated fucking movies.
Star Wars seems to sill be colorful though who knows w this Rogue One thing.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
Muted colors equalling "gritty"? -- I blame Matt Mahurin.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
the executives were losing their shit over Edwards' handling of this movie so I dont know if the final product is 'his vision'. it sounds like they basically fired him. I have a good source on this but I cant name names.. hes currently working on episode 8.
to compare, episode 8 is already in the can with about a day or so's worth of reshoots and about a year to do post production. rogue one is a dumpster fire that has 50m worth of reshoots being done the summer before release. I hope it works out.
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
I knew I could believe in Rian Johnson
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
If one judges by the look of the trailers Rogue One at least *looks* fantastic. Much more visually epic and exciting than JJ Abrams' "TV Guy With A Big Budget" approach on Force Awakens. If Edwards was indeed fired at would be cool if he went out with the best looking SW film to date.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
*it would be cool
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
I have a guy and he confirms what we all know: Darth Vader doesn't fuck. His dick did get burned off. fyi
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:18 (seven years ago) link
skipping this one if there isnt at least a jackoff sesh
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
not to be captain save a jj but if you think force awakens didn't look fantastic you need yr eyes replaced imo
https://cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/thefilmrealm.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/rey-sledding-force-awakens-900.jpg?w=768
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 05:37 (seven years ago) link
i'm psyched for Rogue One but Gareth Edwards track record to me is very much all hat & no cowboy as far as his "visually fantastic" style is concerned. Monsters and Godzilla were 90% insufferably boring sweaty characters staring at the horizon and/or running
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 05:42 (seven years ago) link
Xpost ) yes that was one of the few shits where I went "aaah". Not enough of them, imho. My eyes are fine.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 05:56 (seven years ago) link
Err "shots" lol
smdh
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 06:35 (seven years ago) link
tbh this is kind of a relief - the thought of a wheezing vader pumping away at some poor unfortunate with his armour round his ankles is... disturbing
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 09:58 (seven years ago) link
I find your lack of dick disturbing
― 6 god none the richer (m bison), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 11:57 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htqVHdIB2qs
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Thursday, 1 December 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/rogue-one-gareth-edwards-tony-gilroy.html
Optimistic about Gilroy being heavily involved why because he good at job
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 December 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
Not if you read what happened with the script to bourne 3
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 3 December 2016 07:33 (seven years ago) link
i was thinking the same thing
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 3 December 2016 07:36 (seven years ago) link
They should just hire workmanlike hacks from now on.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 3 December 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
The three Ip Man films are on American Netflix, and after watching the first one and consuming enough whiskey, I'm struck with a _strong_ impulse to find the filmmakers/studio execs and grab them by the neck & shoulders, yelling "Goddamit, you got Donnie Yen and Wen Jiang in a Star Wars film, don't fuck this up!"
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Friday, 9 December 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
Gilroy made Duplicity and Michael Clayton, right? Those are not great.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 9 December 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Michael Clayton is awesome, fuck you
― El Tomboto, Friday, 9 December 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
kingfish I think in terms of managing your own expectations you have probably made a gross error by watching Ip Man before going to see this. hindsight is always etc. though, it was unavoidable
― El Tomboto, Friday, 9 December 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/gareth-edwards-on-rogue-one-diversity-reshoots.html
I don't know enough about the business to tell how much of this answer is dancing:
A lot has been written about the reshoots that were done on this film, and it's rumored that Tony Gilroy came in and shot some of the new material himself. What really happened?Tony is a great writer and he had done a few days' work on Godzilla. We had always planned to do these pickup shoots, and in this day and age when everything has gone digital, you don't have to be so literal about preproduction, production, and postproduction — the whole thing blurs together. When we did the pickup shoots, Tony came in to write the screenplay for those scenes, and because we shot it documentary-style and had so much material, essentially, we ended up being a bit crunched for time. So we all dove in and did different things: Tony did some second-unit on the pickup shoot and so did I, and we went from 600 visual effects to 1,600 visual effects. The scope of the movie just got bigger, and so there was this divide-and-conquer mentality that went on. I think the results are really good and that's all that matters, is the movie.
Tony is a great writer and he had done a few days' work on Godzilla. We had always planned to do these pickup shoots, and in this day and age when everything has gone digital, you don't have to be so literal about preproduction, production, and postproduction — the whole thing blurs together. When we did the pickup shoots, Tony came in to write the screenplay for those scenes, and because we shot it documentary-style and had so much material, essentially, we ended up being a bit crunched for time. So we all dove in and did different things: Tony did some second-unit on the pickup shoot and so did I, and we went from 600 visual effects to 1,600 visual effects. The scope of the movie just got bigger, and so there was this divide-and-conquer mentality that went on. I think the results are really good and that's all that matters, is the movie.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 9 December 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
lol "documentary style"
― mh 😏, Saturday, 10 December 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
(Xpost) my takeaway: There was a lot of unscripted stuff (improv?) going on in Edwards' shoot and they got stuck with a ton of footage to wade through. Lucasfilm didn't want any waste so they called in Gilroy to try and make it all slot in. Or something.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 10 December 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/uhyisxycrq0b3lp7n29q.gif
yikes
― mh 😏, Saturday, 10 December 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
Tight
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 10 December 2016 01:40 (seven years ago) link
fart joke
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 December 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/12/11/strong-non-spoiler-first-reactions-rogue-one-star-wars-story
― Number None, Sunday, 11 December 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Got tix for late Wednesday showing. Can't wait.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 11 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
some complained about an abundance of fan service, with numerous in-jokes and references for die-hard fans
Oh nooooo
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
Please don't throw me in the briar patch, whatever you do
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
yeah that sucks, if true.
― "Stop researching my life" (Ste), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
well fuck there goes my plan to keep my expectations deliberately low
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Ste are you familiar with the story of the tar baby
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
lol
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
or br'er rabbit even ;)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
this gives me the same reaction a lot of people feel towards undecided voters
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 11 December 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/GermainLussier/status/807868306694602752
all of the little team-building cuts in the trailers were extra clips, maybe?
there were a couple lines that sounded like voiceovers just for the trailers
― mh 😏, Sunday, 11 December 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I was expecting one of the characters in the movie to say "in theaters Friday!" but apparently that line is not in the movie :(
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 December 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
disappointing
― mh 😏, Sunday, 11 December 2016 20:39 (seven years ago) link
reviews are in. The more negative takes sound sadly plausible
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/rogue_one_a_star_wars_story/reviews/?sort=rotten
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
although Richard Brody does rather undermine his credibility with this:
There’s none of the Shakespearean space politics, enticingly florid dialogue, or experiential thrills of the best of George Lucas’s “Star Wars” entries (“Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith”).
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, he wrote a piece on that last year in the wave of prequel revisionism:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-the-seven-star-wars-films-reveal-about-george-lucas
― jmm, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah I remember that now. That was a weird little interlude
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/review/rogue-one-adventure-star-wars-dark-side-247345
Liked it.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
That reminds me to remove bookmark
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link