1) they were protecting the only transport they have?3) it's in there, team "vaguely blend in" rush through it left-to-right as every one else is running right-to-left.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 23 December 2016 09:37 (seven years ago) link
Who, where, on Scarif? Jyn & Cassian aren't in their imperial garb in the trailer footage iirc.
― the year of diving languorously (ledge), Friday, 23 December 2016 10:26 (seven years ago) link
Sure, if you're asking "where's this footage from the trailer" the answer is the same as the rest of the footage - it isn't in the film. Canary Wharf is though.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 23 December 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
alright, i'll look out for it next time. despite enjoying the film i won't be rushing to see it again in the cinema, unlike TFA. possibly because it was less emotionally compelling, possibly because I have a baby now.
― the year of diving languorously (ledge), Friday, 23 December 2016 11:58 (seven years ago) link
it's on 123movies already...if you dare!
― Dominique, Friday, 23 December 2016 14:16 (seven years ago) link
The tunic/sleeve pens are apparently code cylinders, which technically match with the weird technology of the rest of the series by going with something akin to a USB stick as a secure log-in rather than a password.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Code_cylinder
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Friday, 23 December 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
Carrie Fisher in critical condition after a heart attack :(
― Number None, Friday, 23 December 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
Dang, just saw that news.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
Stable, last I saw ...
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
the "stable" message was unsourced, her brother mentioned not knowing where that came from. she's in the ICU:(
― mh 😏, Saturday, 24 December 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
Well, she's alive, at least. But there were reports she went a good 10+ not breathing. Good luck, Carrie Fisher!
God, this year has sucked so bad I forgot that Muhammed Ali died.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 December 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
honestly got chills when red leader/gold leader called in
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:26 (seven years ago) link
kinda weird they had these glorious HD views on the screen in the death star but then switched to ANH grainy views to show continuity i guess
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:29 (seven years ago) link
i liked that the uniforms were of a continuity with ANH - everybody has these stupid little five sided die pins or w/e
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:42 (seven years ago) link
Much like with Force Awakens, anybody notice the mirroring of shots from Star Wars? Stuff like the rebel dude in his crows nest at Yavin 4, who was shown twice, once to match the earlier movie, the second for a much different moment where they jack the impounded imperial ship.
One of the many, many callbacks: when Jyn is hiding in her bunker, she fiddled around trying to light what looks like the same type of lamp Luke uses on Dagobah.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Sunday, December 18, 2016 2:57 AM (six days ago) Bookmark'
blue milk at the beginning, stolen imperial shuttle with wonky security codes
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:51 (seven years ago) link
Anybody else get "Xwing"/"Tie fighter" flashbacks in this? They mention Admiral Thrawn by name, and several Y-Wings use ion torpodes to deactivate a star destroyeryup, i grinned like a motherfucker when this happened― Nhex, Sunday, December 18, 2016 3:04 AM (six days ago) Bookmark
ion torpedos weren't in any of the space sim games!
i totally thought the u-wing was a skipray blastboat though
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:53 (seven years ago) link
Also, is this the first SW with progress bars on a screen?
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:52 AM (six days ago) Bookmark
i always thought this was kind of a progress bar
https://i.imgur.com/tBWOxEL.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:00 (seven years ago) link
The weird ethnic casting bothered me a bit, i.e. "Let's cast actors who look like the citizens of countries from which we want to extract mega profits!"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, December 21, 2016 12:44 AM (three days ago) Bookmark
this is a weird cynical take - it's more about taking the original empire being composed of humans / rebels are humans + the aliens that the empire disdains and recasting that in a 2016 diversity light
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:03 (seven years ago) link
also, i suspect based on my memory of the conversation between Leia and Vader at the beginning of Ep IV that the events at the end of this film involving her don't quite line up logically w/her denials and Vader's line of questioning. I could be wrong. I had always imagined that there was a lot more subterfuge and secrecy as opposed to a huge Imperial-base destroying fight immediately preceding things. it's not a huge deal for me, it doesn't remove some of the mystery and enjoyment the way the events of eps 1-3 did.
― nomar, Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:55 PM (three days ago) Bookmark
i could imagine the corvette just jumping around on the run for like half a year, everybodys clothes getting really threadbare from having been washed so many times, the empire orchestrating a massive denial/coverup campaign
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:07 (seven years ago) link
I was annoyed not that they cast an Asian actor (there are no "Asians" in Star Wars world, anyway), but it seemed a little on the nose that they also made him a blind martial arts expert. Like, any of them could have been blind and good at fighting, they just happened to give those attributes to Donnie Yen.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, December 22, 2016 9:54 AM (two days ago) Bookmark
well - i liked it and i thought it was smart because it pivots the force back to its origins rooted in asian mysticism / buddhism with teeth. a strong rebuke of midichlorians. so having the two 'force users' or at least force sensitive characters, basically just two dudes who washed out of jedi training / would have been in jedi training if there were any jedis left, be asian, wandering around a temple (hokey religion) named jedha, self training with zen koans, building a lightsaber facsimile out of some inertial impulse that they can't explain - i liked it
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:13 (seven years ago) link
I prefer the analogue of the televised car chase that begins with a robbery and ends with a PIT maneuver but the driver still acts like they have no idea why the police showed up all of a sudden
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:14 (seven years ago) link
final shitpost: i hate that x-wingsand TIE fighters are the only starfighters they really bring back from the first movies. well they had y-wings here but only to link up to ANH. the new TIE fighter design they had at scarrick or w/e looked awful.
basically, needed more TIE interceptors imo
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:15 (seven years ago) link
― 龜, Saturday, December 24, 2016 11:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark
sorry, final final shitpost - part of the reason i loved this was you had a bunch of ppl doing fake international/european accents and/or modern american ones and then these two dudes w/ 70s americana sunbathed californian (californian?) drawls intermixed
― 龜, Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:20 (seven years ago) link
Leia did have a legit diplomatic mission in that she's trying to deliver evidence of the Emperor's weapon to the senate. She just had to meet up with informants in the middle of a battle, making the whole ordeal really suspect. And before she can drop by home, the senate's dissolved and home is blown up.
New mustache pilot guy was my favorite fringe character
― mh 😏, Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
General Merrick / Blue Leader
― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto), Sunday, 25 December 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
Why the hell did they awkward-plonk C3PO and R2D2 into the Yavin hangar when they could have had them show up on, I dunno, the Blockade Runner just like Princess Leia?Mind you, I did love the idea that the terrified guys at the start of ANH had recently seen Darth storm the corridor and trash 20 armed soldiers singlehanded.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 25 December 2016 06:53 (seven years ago) link
Asian lady x wing fighter !
― calstars, Sunday, 25 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
ok so the opening crawl of Ep IV:
It is a period of civil war.Rebel spaceships, strikingfrom a hidden base, have wontheir first victory againstthe evil Galactic Empire.During the battle, Rebelspies managed to steal secretplans to the Empire'sultimate weapon, the DEATHSTAR, an armored spacestation with enough powerto destroy an entire planet.Pursued by the Empire'ssinister agents, PrincessLeia races home aboard herstarship, custodian of thestolen plans that can save herpeople and restorefreedom to the galaxy....
During the battle, Rebelspies managed to steal secretplans to the Empire'sultimate weapon, the DEATHSTAR, an armored spacestation with enough powerto destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire'ssinister agents, PrincessLeia races home aboard herstarship, custodian of thestolen plans that can save herpeople and restorefreedom to the galaxy....
i guess it pretty much does line up with Rogue One. Leia and her "diplomatic mission" excuse still isn't exactly plausible deniability though.
― nomar, Sunday, 25 December 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Is Jaw Gerrera supposed to be some kind of Che Guevara ref
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 25 December 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
Yea he shoots Eva Peron too
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 25 December 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
Is Jaw Gerrera supposed to be some kind of Che Guevara ref― Οὖτις
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 25 December 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
Miguel Herrera iirc
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 December 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
We went and saw this again today and I liked it a lot better on second viewing. I didn't even notice the first time but along with no opening crawl this avoids a lot of other SW formalist gestures like the wipes between scenes; Edwards just uses straight cuts and establishing shots.
I really like the cleverness of the opening shot -- the pan up through the star field is standard stuff, then you get an encroaching triangular shape that looks momentarily familiar but turns out to be the partly-shadowed rings of a planet.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Monday, 26 December 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
AT-ATs and their pilots on winter recess vaca in Miami and vicinity
― calstars, Monday, 26 December 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
Thought this was way better than the last one. Albeit filled w plenty of lol / wtf / eyeroll moments
The scene where she's trying to send the plans by climbing to the top felt like I was watching someone play a video game
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 26 December 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
Like, why is there an opening-closing hatch she has to jump through? What possible purpose did that thing serve. Lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 26 December 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
dryer vent? didn't see any lint stuck in it though
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Monday, 26 December 2016 01:49 (seven years ago) link
Fairly certain the irising portal hatch she leaves the data tape room thru is a straight copy of the one atop the Falcon.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Monday, 26 December 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
Kinda references luke hanging on to the weather vane at the bottom of cloud city tbh
― 龜, Monday, 26 December 2016 02:13 (seven years ago) link
Agree master switch was stupid but they needed that to set up donnie yen's heroic death
― 龜, Monday, 26 December 2016 02:14 (seven years ago) link
s riptwriters were ruthless as soon as riz was was finished for purposes of advancing the plot they had a stormtrooper throw a thermal detonator inside the shuttle like bye
― 龜, Monday, 26 December 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
That too, but I meant that the hatch was physically identical
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Monday, 26 December 2016 02:33 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, December 25, 2016 8:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i thought her whole ending sequence, climbing up the tower, going to the first switch, then the second switch, was super video game-like, like there should've been little Objective Completed texts showng up in the corner of the screen
i was fine with the ridiculous elements, and like what ledge said above -- Re: the ludicrous technology design, really this is a feature of the SW universe -- let us never forget this entire series basically started as alternate universe flash gordon fanfic
― qualx, Monday, 26 December 2016 04:41 (seven years ago) link
also digitarkin was so bad, horrible idea that people would've loved to hold against lucas 15 years ago
is grand moff tarkin really such an important character that he needed to be included in such a capacity? when i was a kid watching ANH i remembered him as the nerd who got choked, who cares
would've probably been better if they cut the vader castle scene and just had the tear-thru-hallway scene be his first appearance
anyway yeah i liked this more than the last one, lower stakes i guess
― qualx, Monday, 26 December 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
also can a mod mass edit all of shakey's 8 million posts across all the SW threads and add "you cucks" at the end
― qualx, Monday, 26 December 2016 04:45 (seven years ago) link
I approve
― mh 😏, Monday, 26 December 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
Another thing was yeah in a new hope I just sort of assumed it was more subtle skullduggery leading to the plans leaking from the empire via leia not a full on space battle and two destroyed cities. Also forest whittaker's relationship w the lead was super underdeveloped and there were no stakes when he randomly decided he was going to let himself die for no reason
That said I think that the good guys were all gonna die freed this from being a new hope redux / five favorite ingredients in a new order like the last one
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 26 December 2016 07:37 (seven years ago) link
Tarkin is the military commander of the Death Star, and doesn't get choked by some jumped-up goth monk.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 26 December 2016 08:17 (seven years ago) link
well goes to show how significant a role he played in ANH
the entire subplot over who owns the death star IP could've been removed and the movie would've lost nothing
― qualx, Monday, 26 December 2016 09:15 (seven years ago) link
Cranic kinda reminded me of an evil Steve Coogan
― 龜, Monday, 26 December 2016 13:50 (seven years ago) link