I think I enjoyed TFA more. Movie felt a little disjointed to me (major LOLs though at Leia's "diplomatic mission" in light on the end). Imperial Droid was great.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
http://www.blindltd.com/rogue-one
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
How many posts are there on the Internet about how they use arabic numerals even though the alphabet(s) are all invented
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
It's funny that Lucas never "fixed" the Death Star plans in the OG Star Wars along with all the other stuff he "fixed," necessitating Rogue One using those plans that show the dish/laser on the equator, even though he stuck this into Revenge of the Sith:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/e/e0/The_Ultimate_Weapon.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091007163903
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
Compared to:
http://jeffbeaty.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/death-star-plans-on-screen.jpg
I like to think of one of the reasons for making Rogue One being to fix the giant plothole as to why the Death Star was able to be destroyed by two proton torpedos
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
like the original frankly. it fits more with the ridiculous limitations on their technology (storing plans on a floppy disk in a tower)
― akm, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
"I like to think of one of the reasons for making Rogue One being to fix the giant plothole as to why the Death Star was able to be destroyed by two proton torpedos"
this too
yeah i loved that. could have been stupid and unnecessary ala "midichlorians" but pretty clever and fitting imo
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
finally saw this; had no idea about the carrie fisher 'cameo' at the end so found that a bit touching actually; you only see the face for maybe 4 seconds.
this kind of thing will always be really freaky to me. I found it really unsettling in the new Tron movie too.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
I didn't mind either cameo but I feel like these are just the first shot in the future of this franchise where there will be luke skywalker stories with Mark hamill avatars as the central character.
― nomar, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
tbh we all knew they've been heading in this direction with the technology for decades. thankfully we'll get zombie hologram Marilyn Monroe before Skynet kills us all
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
so I understand that shooting for episode 8 is all done and wrapped up - unfortunately the likelihood of using a cgi Leia for episode 9 is pretty high, no?
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
Deathstar having a structural weakspot is not a plothole, it's the main plot driver for several of these movies.
pretty much everything Obi Wan says and does in his fight w Vader at the end of ANH on the other hand was rendered nonsensical by the following films.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
i imagine they'll kill her off between 8 and 9; if they are sensible they will. i wonder how far into writing 9 they are? is there a writer and director announced yet?
― akm, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
Fisher mentioned in Wishful Drinking that Lucas owned her likeness, so I'm guessing that would extend into the current films
― Nhex, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Some minor bit of solace:
http://www.avclub.com/article/billie-lourd-will-take-care-carrie-fishers-beloved-247774
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
I demand all Leia dialogue be performed by George Lucas wearing a Leia mask and a metal bikini
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
God, to sell your likeness...that seems very sad
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
TMZ and NY Daily News reporting that Debbie Reynolds was taken to the ER from her son's house, possibly for a stroke.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
i wonder how far into writing 9 they are? is there a writer and director announced yet?
Rian Johnson was supposed to be writing the story, if not the script. Colin Trevorrow is directing.
― Number None, Thursday, 29 December 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
not that we've seen how rian johnson does with the franchise, but i have high hopes and think they could do it smoothly
i just cracked up while watching tv because a new tv promo takes film footage where they say "rogue one" followed by the base flight control saying "there is no rogue one!" "there is now!"
― mh 😏, Thursday, 29 December 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
"First hit this beach switch to tell them we're going to transmit THEN drag this cable back THEN plug it in and hit a comm switch THEN plug in the tapes THEN hit another transmit switch oops your shit is misaligned? Somehow? so THEN make your way out to another switch THEN return to the transmit switch"
frankly i was surprised it was that easy!
but... no backups i guess? the empire totally just nuked its ENTIRE archive of technical research!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:48 (seven years ago) link
no-look force choke was doooooooope
saw it a 4th time today. overheard when I was leaving: "Only C3PO, R2-D2, Leia, and Darth Vader were in this from the originals. Where's everyone else?".
...
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
tho I do wonder, if people keep eating up these side stories, if someone will make a movie about the menial shit Luke does on Uncle Owen's farm
"not that we've seen how rian johnson does with the franchise, but i have high hopes and think they could do it smoothly"wait, what else in the franchise has he written?
― akm, Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link
"tho I do wonder, if people keep eating up these side stories, if someone will make a movie about the menial shit Luke does on Uncle Owen's farm"
2 hour film of someone herding nerfs
― akm, Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:32 (seven years ago) link
give the people the bela tarr star wars film they're demanding
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 29 December 2016 03:37 (seven years ago) link
the obvious side film, already several short stories and books, is obi wan on tatooine pretending not to be a jedi and dabbling in local affairs to both protect his charge and help the small-time frontier people he's sympathetic toward. like a western, but with sand people for natives and hutts for local crime
he can't be known so he is already the man with no name. writes itself
― mh 😏, Thursday, 29 December 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
there's a great comic about that
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 December 2016 04:19 (seven years ago) link
wouldn't be bad to give ewan mcgregor a chance to redeem his obi wan in a good movie
― akm, Thursday, 29 December 2016 04:35 (seven years ago) link
no no let's definitely do a CGI alec guinness
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 December 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
there's a movie where mcgregor plays jesus wandering the desert that is basically this idea
― Clay, Thursday, 29 December 2016 04:44 (seven years ago) link
I was referencing comics when I said short stories :)
― mh 😏, Thursday, 29 December 2016 04:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51_HeycfunA
If you mute the world's most obnoxious host, there's a lotta great archival footage in here of the cast doing media tours back circa 1977-1983. Peter Cushing, even. Interspersed with original toys commercials, recording sessions with Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones for a 1-800 number, etc.
Skip to 9:32 to see Carrie on David Letterman in 1983.
― THE SKURJ OF FAKE NEWS. (kingfish), Thursday, 29 December 2016 10:09 (seven years ago) link
btw my stupid gripe upthread about "when" they stole the Imperial ship was answered directly in the dialogue and I just must have been focused on something else the FIRST THREE TIMES when Cassian tells Bodhi "go get us a ride home" and dismisses him so he can *do what he came there to do*
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
also really appreciated Felicity Jones' smiles in this movie, they're always just a slight show of guarded pleasure.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
apparently, Ewan McGregor is actually campaigning to Disney for an Obi Wan flick too -- he'd even be the right age if they set it between Ep III and IV. As this is clearly a good idea, I don't expect it to happen.
― Dominique, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
I just remembered how much I liked Mendelsohn's reaction when the Imperials see all the bombs go off at the landing pads, and he turns around and everyone's just standing there.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
haha yeah I always laugh at his exasperated "are we BLIND?"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 December 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
yeah Obi-Wan solo flick. don't tell me Disney just gonna leave that money on the table.
on the bright side we will finally learn the origin story of Obi Wan's Tuscan Raider-scaring voice-imitation powers and why no other Jedi or Sith seems to use it.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 29 December 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
~places nerd hat firmly on head~
ACTUALLY, that was covered in the (now out of continuity?) novel Kenobi by John Jackson Miller, which was pretty much a Fistful of Dollar-type Western. IIRC he learns it from some mechanical sirens that settlers have set up to fend off Tusken attacks.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:35 (seven years ago) link
thanks for that video kingfish
obi-wan solo flick, though totally unnecessary (come all these prequels are) could actually work because we still have Ewan McGregor with us and he was the most consistently solid part of the prequels
― Nhex, Thursday, 29 December 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Beautifully rendered star destroyers in this. Very 2001-esque bright diffuse white. Or like photos from the moon with washed out white spacesuits against pitch black. Better sense of scale than seen in a Star Wars movie in a while.
― chinavision!, Thursday, 29 December 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
There was something pristine and.. er.. model-like about the spaceships, partic the star destroyers? During one shot my 8-y-o leaned over and said "it looks like Lego!"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 December 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah there was one shot where the star destroyer looked like a happy meal toy
― qualx, Thursday, 29 December 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
first 45 minutes was a real jumble, it took an extraordinary amount of effort on my part (maybe i am dim) to work out what was happening. the mind-reading monster wasn't even that scary because it wasn't foreshadowed or set up, it was just suddenly there. and then it was over. and dude was fine after a 5-second talking to. and it was obvious that riz was a good guy anyway. so there was no suspense. compare with the ear worm in khan!! i felt 5 steps ahead of all the other characters yet somehow still struggling to make sense of things. still fun tho!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 December 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
McGregor was horrible and the prequels should never be referenced again. Even Smits was pushing it.
― Number None, Thursday, 29 December 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RtJv4Dy.jpg
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Friday, 30 December 2016 02:37 (seven years ago) link