Star Wars Episode VII *MAJOR SPOILERS*

  On 8/11/2015 at 12:30 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Re-releasing the Lowry 2K restoration again as "The Complete Saga" right before the next movie, really? Notice no Disney logo on front or spine of box.

Got to make that long paper when you still can. Fox owning the rights to ANH for perpetuity will make it difficult to ever make a complete boxset of the movies. Or a release of the originals without the awful Lucas enhancements.

Yeah you can see that in the Disney Anywhere app, every film except ANH is included. I'm thinking maybe Fox has a deal to do home video releases until Force Awakens is released, or until the end of 2015, so they're going to that cash cow one last time.

  On 8/11/2015 at 1:28 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 8/10/2015 at 9:48 PM, Rubin Farr said:

In the old EU, Ties had no hyper drive or deflector shields so they were almost disposable, as were the pilots.

was this ever explained in any of the movies directly though? The old EU is not canon, and for many star wars fans never was (Even though many people were lead to believe it was).

  On 8/11/2015 at 1:28 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 8/10/2015 at 9:48 PM, Rubin Farr said:

In the old EU, Ties had no hyper drive or deflector shields so they were almost disposable, as were the pilots.

was this ever explained in any of the movies directly though? The old EU is not canon, and for many star wars fans never was (Even though many people were lead to believe it was).

It's impossible to reconcile the entire EU but large parts of it were acknowledged as on par with the film canon a long time ago, in a decade far far away (the 90s). It was viewed under a much brighter light before the prequels started happening, even with the blessing of GL himself in certain productions. Stuff like the ship profiles can't really be considered EU since all that stuff was documented in officially authorized trivia books, gathered from production notes and the likes.

From what I can recall a TIE-Fighter is able to stand on the ground by it's wings, but it cannot land or disembark in that manner, it's a rackety thing without air-sealing, life-support, hyper drive etc that relies on specific platforms and carriers for everything. So it's really odd seeing a TIE like that, it should warrant some new form of support, but it's likely just some good old creative license...

  On 8/11/2015 at 12:39 AM, delet... said:

They should remake the prequels. I mean hollywood remakes every other fucking story so why not the Star Wars. I don't think in this case anyone would mind a more streamlined and coherent backstory.

 

Holy FUCK. . . that's fucking genius. . . (yeah, why the fuck not?)

If they did this, they could get Evan Peters to play Anakin (S1 of American Horror Story totally made me think he would've been the perfect Anakin)

do we even need to focus on anakin. He becomes a dick, although you could perhaps find some clever non-lucas idea as to why he went dark side. He could perhaps have always been a dick and the antagonist. Arseholes breed and have children too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4CtXcjib4o

man ive watched it before but this is better than ever

  On 8/12/2015 at 1:36 AM, Nebraska said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4CtXcjib4o

they bumped the incredible hulk for this !!

Looks like the red arm is for real

  On 8/12/2015 at 5:28 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

 

Looks like the red arm is for real

 

 

 

Dunno why, but that red arm looks mighty fucking buff.

Every time I see new pictures, they just scream "STAR WARS" - JJ Abrams I think nailed the look/feel of the classic movies.

And no lens flare (yet)!

General Hux

  On 8/12/2015 at 7:12 PM, Rubin Farr said:

General Hux

 

can't carry the look like that dude did from raiders of the lost ark.

I'm not sure how I feel about most of the movie seemingly being on a desert planet.I forget if it's Tatooine or not.

In absolutely barely related news, I am currently playing through Knights of the Old Republic 1 for the first time. Is it's sequel as good as this one?

yeah looking at the stuff that's about it's looking promising hey (star wars I mean, knights of the whatever)

  On 8/12/2015 at 7:38 PM, Brisbot said:

I'm not sure how I feel about most of the movie seemingly being on a desert planet.I forget if it's Tatooine or not.

 

In absolutely barely related news, I am currently playing through Knights of the Old Republic 1 for the first time. Is it's sequel as good as this one?

Most Star Wars movies contain 3 planets, kind of an unwritten rule, so Jakku is probably the 2nd planet we see, after the massacre and Finn's mutiny, they track him down there in hiding. We also have a snow planet and wherever the village is that gets torched.

Ugh, those new stormtrooper helmets look ugly. It's like the old ones started crying/melting.

A flood of pics today

  On 8/12/2015 at 9:45 PM, Rubin Farr said:

i hope at some point in the movie, this dude uses one of the little lightsaber cross guard things to light up a cigarette.

it seems Kylo Ren is a member of an organizaiton known as "The Knights of Ren", so there may be more out there...purportedly a group obsessed with Darth Vader.

I really wanted to drive out to Pinewood and take a few pictures from afar when I was in UK, but that will have to go on the bucket list, same with Abbey Road.