50PoundHead
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I lost track during the prequels. Is Yoda dead?
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zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Really? Did you not watch the originals?
Lol his fight scenes were ridiculous? Dude is 2 ft tall and most of his enemies are twice or three times his size. I thought it was an accurate portrayal of his lightsaber dueling.
And it's obvious why they showed them battle with lightsabers.... that's what Jedi do. They battled with the force in the galactic senate or did you forget that?
Runnin
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Just saw it in 4D. I like 3D but the bouncing seats and water are more annoying than anything.
This one felt exactly like all the others, imo. They've certainly got their formula down. It's the same movie over and over. Without the visual effects they would need a lot more work on plot, character, writing, etc. It's a shame these kinds of movies make so much money.
This one felt exactly like all the others, imo. They've certainly got their formula down. It's the same movie over and over. Without the visual effects they would need a lot more work on plot, character, writing, etc. It's a shame these kinds of movies make so much money.
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
well, he died in the originals
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
Like I said, I lost track.
Give 50 some slack. All the movies he's seen in theaters dating back to Harold Lloyd silent films is impressive. That's almost a hundred years of movies 50 has watched.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
Why did he need a lightsaber though? Wouldn't the most intense display of power be to fight without lightsabers? I know they had the Senate fight and that was pretty cool. But it should have been entirely how they fought.
VirginiaBrave
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Anybody else notice how much Rey looks like Anakin's mother Shmi? Also the Rebel helmet belonged to a pilot named Raeh? The Rey name is a cover for sure. Dollars to doughnuts her given name is Padme. I am also pretty sure Han isn't dead. Nobody dies in SW until there is a funeral pyre unless you are Jedi then you just become one with the Force.
Because it's the Jedi grand master vs. A Sith Lord.
Showing them use force the entire time wouldn't have been as interesting. It's said Palpatine held back against Windu because he knew Anakin would come and save him but against Yoda he was going full force.
And also in the novelization it's said Yoda disarmed Palpatine during their fight but it wasn't shown on screen and the Senate camera was on for the entire republic to watch. That's why Palps started throwing senate pods and Yoda keeps his saber out because he had the upper hand.
goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
I always just took it that the Jedis used lightsabers cause they were pretty much based off being samurai and instead of the sword they used lightsabers cause that would make sense in a galactic story where lasers are used as weapons instead of guns
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If you're a fan of Star Wars or practically any big budget movie since '77 This is a great read. It's about how Lucas had to reinvent how movies were made in order for Star Wars to be a successful. Changed the future of movies.
50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
Fatty Arbuckle was awesome!
Yeah I've seen a few documentaries on this. He essentially had to craete his on visual effects studio for star wars because nothing else existed at the time.
Don't care what anybody says.
The prequels may be old but the CGI for hte most part still holds up.
Naboo, Coruscant, Gungan City, Mustafar, Alderaan, Genosis all very beautiful even with CGI.
I hope Rian and Treverrow expand the beautiful worlds in Star Wars. Starkiller Base was essentially Hoth, Maz Kanata's planet similar to Endor, Jakku obviously a sister planet of Tattoine.
The prequels may be old but the CGI for hte most part still holds up.
Naboo, Coruscant, Gungan City, Mustafar, Alderaan, Genosis all very beautiful even with CGI.
I hope Rian and Treverrow expand the beautiful worlds in Star Wars. Starkiller Base was essentially Hoth, Maz Kanata's planet similar to Endor, Jakku obviously a sister planet of Tattoine.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
The originals covered the majority of the climates we humans live in, Desert, Forrest, Swamp, plains, and tundras.
And I think the biggest issue with the CGI in the originals comes from the actors inability to properly interact with their environment. Which leads to slightly less natural things (like when Jango's head phases through the door of slave 1)
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
That's basically it. I mean Obi Wan says in the original the Jedis use lightsabers because they're not as clumsy as a blaster.
Lucas himself said he made them because he loved swordfighting.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
How wouldn't it have been interesting? Lucas could have invented force moves. Sidious attacks with force lightning, Yoda uses force shield. Yoda attacks with Force Push and Sidious redirects it. He could have created a whole new form of battle that would have lived on. We're seeing what's supposed to be the 2 most powerful force users in the universe, and they're lightsaber battling. And they're old ass men jumping around like crazy. In Empire Yoda can barely walk. Why couldn't we see something more like a chess match between 2 brilliant minds as in turn with the force as humanly possible. Instead we see dancing with lightsabers. The most interesting part of the battle was the start and right before the end when Sidious is trying to use Forcelightning on Yoda but he's stopping it. THat's the kind of stuff I want to see more of. I love a lightsaber battle, but why? Neither Yoda or Sidious brandished one in the originals. So why?
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
Dude was just desperately trying to do "Kurosawa in space." It worked.*
*(But "Kurosawa in the Old West" works, too, as Lucas knew; and likewise Kurosawa understood "Shakespeare in feudal Japan was dynamite replanting.)
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
Was pretty prepared to be let-down, but I thoroughly liked it. Not, perhaps, as magical as the first films—but I'll never have the opportunity to see these films with the child eyes by which I beheld the first trilogy. My biggest takeaway was the joy is back; some stumbling or narrative silliness is so much more forgivable when it's obvious the creators genuinely enjoy telling a story, as opposed to setting up the next action-sequence.
My other big takeaway was that Abrams seemingly (and excitingly) lifted the optics of that final sequence from Werner Herzog's 1976 film Herz aus Glas (specifically the penultimate moments of the "sea of time" coda)—not just choosing the Skelligs as his filming location, but also employing the circling "flying-crane" helicopter shot to emphasize the "man at the edge of the universe" notions they both seek to relate.
My other big takeaway was that Abrams seemingly (and excitingly) lifted the optics of that final sequence from Werner Herzog's 1976 film Herz aus Glas (specifically the penultimate moments of the "sea of time" coda)—not just choosing the Skelligs as his filming location, but also employing the circling "flying-crane" helicopter shot to emphasize the "man at the edge of the universe" notions they both seek to relate.