Star Wars Episode VII *MAJOR SPOILERS*

That version of ESB... there is another one...

  On 12/4/2014 at 1:22 PM, Squee said:

By the way, why on Earth is Luke's lightsabre in DVD release of the Star Wars: A New Hope non-Special Edition (the limited one) green?

 

Its not. I'm watching DVD non-special edition right now. Its whitish-blue.

Hey, how did people feel about Blade Runner: Final Cut?

I think it looks amazing but I like the messiness of the workprint

i just watched Return of the Jedi again, I didn't remember how many people/aliens Luke and co massacre on Jabba's ship, they blow the whole fucking thing up, pretty hilarious. Obviously Lucas had a hard on for swashbuckling pirate movies too. Mark Hamill's acting when he meets the emperor is so awful. He plays the naive kid role pretty well in New Hope and Empire but as soon as he becomes 'jedi master' his line delivery is borderline cringe worthy.

Just saw it as well and I agree. Kind of crazy how much slaughter we all cheered for. The film is an unbelievable technical achievement but some of the dialogue scenes are difficult to judge with mature eyes because they fall so flat. As far as I know the sequels were never a sure thing and it is near-impossible to plan for this kind of scale and growth with appropriate actors. The Harry Potter films certainly lucked out with Daniel Radcliffe.

this was better than i thought it would be

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  On 12/5/2014 at 10:52 PM, zazen said:

 

  On 12/4/2014 at 1:22 PM, Squee said:

By the way, why on Earth is Luke's lightsabre in DVD release of the Star Wars: A New Hope non-Special Edition (the limited one) green?

 

 

Its not. I'm watching DVD non-special edition right now. Its whitish-blue.

 

 

Sorry, I was not being very clear. The Special Edition version on the non-Special Edition version of A New Hope the lightsaber is green which doesn't make any sense?

  On 12/6/2014 at 9:26 PM, Squee said:

Sorry, I was not being very clear. The Special Edition version on the non-Special Edition version of A New Hope the lightsaber is green which doesn't make any sense?

Hmmm OK, you mean the Lightsaber colour in the special edition on the 2006 DVD is different to the 1997 special edition?

I assume its just yet another thing Lucas messed with. Perhaps to match it with the colour of Anakin's lightsaber in the prequels (its supposed to be the same sabre).

Lucas can't be bothered to watch the new trailer, apparently: http://www.avclub.com/article/george-lucas-cant-be-bothered-watch-star-wars-forc-212721

He doesn't want to spoil the movie. Although the trailer wasn't that spoilery as these things go.

Character names have been revealed:

Finn - black Stormtrooper

X-Wing Pilot - Poe Dameron

BB-8 - soccer ball droid

Rey - Han & Leia's daughter

Kylo Ren - the bad guy

  On 12/11/2014 at 10:55 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Character names have been revealed:

 

Finn - black Stormtrooper

X-Wing Pilot - Poe Dameron

BB-8 - soccer ball droid

Rey - Han & Leia's daughter

Kylo Ren - the bad guy

I like these names - very Star Warsey.

We're assuming Rey is Han and Leia's daughter, right?

Thank god Kylo Ren isn't a "Darth" - although he might turn out to be.

Ok, I'm calling bullshit here, a dumbass saber designed to cut your legs when you whip it out? JJ I'll give you a pass. But a gunsaber? Guns and sabers were separate for a reason, bc only Jedi could use them! Disney is just throwing the rules out the fucking window. Don't be surprised if JJ wants to direct a Star Wars/Trek crossover someday just bc he can.

i want the eznzea light sabre not the ezra one.

"mutli function"

  On 12/12/2014 at 12:29 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Ok, I'm calling bullshit here, a dumbass saber designed to cut your legs when you whip it out? JJ I'll give you a pass. But a gunsaber? Guns and sabers were separate for a reason, bc only Jedi could use them! Disney is just throwing the rules out the fucking window. Don't be surprised if JJ wants to direct a Star Wars/Trek crossover someday just bc he can.

 

Dude this is stuff from Star Wars : Rebels, not the movie.

But Star Wars has an immaculate, precious canon that's never been fucked with before now!

The canon has been fucked up tons of ways before (Splinter of the Mind's Eyes, tales of whatever, Boba Fett dead/alive/dead/alive, etc...).

he was being sarcastic phil.

  On 12/12/2014 at 2:15 AM, Philip Glass said:

 

  On 12/12/2014 at 12:29 AM, Rubin Farr said:

 

Ok, I'm calling bullshit here, a dumbass saber designed to cut your legs when you whip it out? JJ I'll give you a pass. But a gunsaber? Guns and sabers were separate for a reason, bc only Jedi could use them! Disney is just throwing the rules out the fucking window. Don't be surprised if JJ wants to direct a Star Wars/Trek crossover someday just bc he can.

 

Dude this is stuff from Star Wars : Rebels, not the movie.

lol

fun writeup on the meco Christmas album - http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2014/12/C-3PO-wookies-and-Jon-Bon-Jovi-the-crazy-true-story-of-the-Star-Wars-Christmas-album

mostly irrelevant except

Daniels: Every few weeks or months, some new [Star Wars] project comes up: Star Wars Rebels, The Clone Wars, now there’s Lego Star Wars: the Yoda Chronicles. I’ve just been writing for this new book, which is secret but coming out next Christmas, so it was very odd going back to Episode VII on the set because for me, I’d been doing this last week, voiceovers for the animation series but with a different style, I will tell you. The Yoda Chronicles are very funny, much of Star Wars Episode VII is not very funny, it’s really quite serious, so I had to slightly rethink. But it was totally normal to me — that’s really weird to say, isn’t it? But it’s normal to me to be C-3PO in these scenes. It’s totally normal to see Harrison Ford being Han Solo and Carrie Fisher being Princess Leia. It was not a shock to me. And for the people looking after me, my dressers and so on, they were ecstatic, because they had been fans early on and now they’ve joined the film industry as prop makers and model makers, and there they were working with the real C-3PO. It has become a bit of a family and having J.J. Abrams get so many of the original people back, it did feel like a family.... It’s not over yet, Episode VII will come out this time next year and we can do a re-record of Christmas in the Stars and find those other tracks.

Yeston: No, no, no. I’m still living with the guilt of it! [Laughs]

  On 12/15/2014 at 9:47 PM, bitroast said:

Daniels: Every few weeks or months, some new [Star Wars] project comes up: Star Wars Rebels, The Clone Wars, now there’s Lego Star Wars: the Yoda Chronicles. I’ve just been writing for this new book, which is secret but coming out next Christmas, so it was very odd going back to Episode VII on the set because for me, I’d been doing this last week, voiceovers for the animation series but with a different style, I will tell you. The Yoda Chronicles are very funny, much of Star Wars Episode VII is not very funny, it’s really quite serious, so I had to slightly rethink. But it was totally normal to me — that’s really weird to say, isn’t it? But it’s normal to me to be C-3PO in these scenes. It’s totally normal to see Harrison Ford being Han Solo and Carrie Fisher being Princess Leia. It was not a shock to me. And for the people looking after me, my dressers and so on, they were ecstatic, because they had been fans early on and now they’ve joined the film industry as prop makers and model makers, and there they were working with the real C-3PO. It has become a bit of a family and having J.J. Abrams get so many of the original people back, it did feel like a family.... It’s not over yet, Episode VII will come out this time next year and we can do a re-record of Christmas in the Stars and find those other tracks.

Just been reading up on Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) - he's been in all the films, but Lucas mocapped him for some of the prequels and replaced him with CGI. Typical lucas.

I just re-watched episode IV, and for the first 45 minutes (until they meet Han and Chewbakka) C-3PO is really the only character with any charisma and any decent lines (R2-D2 has the charisma, but no lines). Even Vader just seems muffled and rushed.

"Long long ago in a Galaxy far far away ..." is tacked on at the start in a different colour to the scrolling intro. I'd love to know who came up with 'Long Long ago...' and whether Lucas had anything to do with it. Its such a good way to set up - this is not anything to do with Earth's future, it was all long ago somewhere very far away. Quite an epic sci-fi mood setter.

  On 12/15/2014 at 11:01 PM, zazen said:

 

  On 12/15/2014 at 9:47 PM, bitroast said:

Daniels: Every few weeks or months, some new [Star Wars] project comes up: Star Wars Rebels, The Clone Wars, now theres Lego Star Wars: the Yoda Chronicles. Ive just been writing for this new book, which is secret but coming out next Christmas, so it was very odd going back to Episode VII on the set because for me, Id been doing this last week, voiceovers for the animation series but with a different style, I will tell you. The Yoda Chronicles are very funny, much of Star Wars Episode VII is not very funny, its really quite serious, so I had to slightly rethink. But it was totally normal to me thats really weird to say, isnt it? But its normal to me to be C-3PO in these scenes. Its totally normal to see Harrison Ford being Han Solo and Carrie Fisher being Princess Leia. It was not a shock to me. And for the people looking after me, my dressers and so on, they were ecstatic, because they had been fans early on and now theyve joined the film industry as prop makers and model makers, and there they were working with the real C-3PO. It has become a bit of a family and having J.J. Abrams get so many of the original people back, it did feel like a family.... Its not over yet, Episode VII will come out this time next year and we can do a re-record of Christmas in the Stars and find those other tracks.

Just been reading up on Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) - he's been in all the films, but Lucas mocapped him for some of the prequels and replaced him with CGI. Typical lucas.

 

I just re-watched episode IV, and for the first 45 minutes (until they meet Han and Chewbakka) C-3PO is really the only character with any charisma and any decent lines (R2-D2 has the charisma, but no lines). Even Vader just seems muffled and rushed.

 

"Long long ago in a Galaxy far far away ..." is tacked on at the start in a different colour to the scrolling intro. I'd love to know who came up with 'Long Long ago...' and whether Lucas had anything to do with it. Its such a good way to set up - this is not anything to do with Earth's future, it was all long ago somewhere very far away. Quite an epic sci-fi mood setter.

gah I forgot that the prequels established that Anakin built C3PO.

Those films were so horrible at linking up characters and events together to create the most uncanny and ridiculous coincidences out of what should just be normal occurrences in the original trilogy.