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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 5, 2018 1:29:57 GMT
Oh yeah. Originally, Lucasfilm hired Lord & Miller, the writers from the recent 21 Jump Street and The LEGO Movie, to direct this movie. But they didn't see eye-to-eye, and L&M were making a movie that was too much of a parody for Lucasfilm's taste. So they fired L&M and brought in Ron Howard to complete everything. That kind of shakeup could easily make this movie a complete mess.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 5, 2018 1:04:05 GMT
I don't have a good feeling about this one, but I'm still hoping for the best.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 3, 2018 15:48:28 GMT
Remember that scene near the beginning of the movie, where the two porgs are playing with Luke's discarded lightsaber? One has its foot on the trigger, and the other is standing right in front of the blade emitter. I read that in an earlier draft, they accidentally turned the lightsaber on.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Feb 3, 2018 4:24:42 GMT
Chewbacca brought porgs back on the Millenniums Falcon to feed the Resistance with.
Luke Skywalker's heroic stand against the First Order on Crait inspired millions throughout the galaxy... almost as many as the legend of Chewbacca's delicious porg tacos.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 29, 2018 22:39:00 GMT
You're not supposed to eat it, because it's Chicken Soap for the Soul.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 29, 2018 3:29:40 GMT
I think it was The Shadow. As in "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" Even though that was a radio series.
I guess in my dream universe, it was a TV series instead?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 28, 2018 21:08:36 GMT
Had a weird thought last night, as I was hovering between dreaming and awake. A woman who, when asked about her favorite TV shows, lists "The History" as her second choice. Because she thinks all of history is a work of fiction, and the history documentaries on TV are all spinoffs.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 20, 2018 4:50:14 GMT
What's interesting about the First Order walker, the AT-M6, is that it's even bigger than the Empire's walker. That GIF makes them out to be the same size, but the AT-AT is only about two-thirds the height of the AT-M6. So in some ways it's the First Order doubling down on the Empire's weird design decisions ("Make it even bigger!"). But in other ways it improves on its predecessor and fixes some design flaws. In spite of being taller, AT-M6 is designed to be more stable than the AT-AT. And it has sawblades on the front legs to cut through tow cables, so the "tie it up and trip it" strategy from Hoth won't work against it. And of course, it has even more firepower than the AT-AT, what with that ginormous cannon on its back.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 20, 2018 1:10:31 GMT
Yeah, replacing the Clones Wars AT-TE with the Imperial AT-AT only makes sense if you're favoring intimidation over practicality. That concept art would have made a bit more sense as the predecessor to the AT-AT.
Although there is one way that the AT-AT is better than its predecessor. Since the AT-TE is so low to the ground, they're oddly susceptible to individual battle robots with bombs on sticks. If you ever watched the Star Wars: Clones Wars miniseries (the one by Genndy Tartakovsky) there's a scene at the battle of Muunalist where a bunch of battle robots on speeder bikes, using explosive lances, destroy a whole bunch of Republic AT-TEs. Seriously, they just drive up to them from the side, jab the walker with their lance, and the walker lights up like a firecracker. Granted, that was a cartoon series where everything was a lot more explosive than usual—but even so, that strategy just would not work against a taller walker like the AT-AT.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 19, 2018 18:13:38 GMT
Yes, that would be very interesting.
On the one hand, I know a lot of fans would love to see a movie adaptation of the Knights of the Old Republic games. On the other hand, some of the compromises you'd need to translate a game to a movie might piss those same fans off.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 19, 2018 4:49:04 GMT
I've kinda been spoiled on the broad strokes of that one's plot.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 18, 2018 19:51:57 GMT
Yeah, a visual novel is basically like a video game RPG, except without the combat or "game" parts, so it focuses just on the characters and story. Sometimes there are branching story paths and different endings depending on your dialogue choices. But sometimes there isn't really interactivity, hence why they're "visual novels" instead of just "games".
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 14, 2018 5:50:44 GMT
So, we were disappointed at the complete lack of backstory for Snoke? According to this, Rian Johnson actually did have his backstory written ... but wound up leaving it out for pacing reasons. "or even J.J. may address it in the next movie." That would be kinda weird, but I wouldn't object to that.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 12, 2018 22:51:13 GMT
I think the main issue is that the Prequel Trilogy based most of the designs on a Zeerust aesthetic while the original trilogy went mostly for Used Future. Yeah, the OT was a 70s vision of the future, with dirt and oil stains on top to sell the illusion that people actually lived there. While the PT was a 00s vision of the future (with some 50s nostalgia mixed in, because that was also happening at the time) with less dirt, both for plot reasons and because it was harder to make CGI dirty. So the PT vehicles and such look a lot more advanced, even if they're supposed to be less advanced. Just like the original trilogy, then. Seriously, though: The original trilogy is still great, and the sequel trilogy has some problems. But the Star Wars talk on the rest of the internet has convinced me that the majority of the sequels' problems are just exaggerated versions of problems that were always there in the originals. I'm not sure how much of the vitriol for the new movies is because the problems are worse now, and how much is because the new movies don't have decades of nostalgia on their side.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Jan 12, 2018 20:42:23 GMT
Yeah, the prequels do really muddy the water compared to the OT. So many of the Republic vehicles seem to be more efficient and better-designed than the counterpart versions that the Empire would later use. I think the justification from the EU is that the Empire just got cheap, and focused on (1) intimidation and (2) ability to quickly crank out huge numbers, so the quality of the equipments suffered. So Clone Troopers had access to camouflage armor, yet the Stormtroopers only had the stark white armor, because that's more intimidating. The AT-TE walkers from the Clone Wars had six legs and a low center of gravity, while the Empire's AT-AT walkers had only four legs and were much taller, which made them scarier but also easier to tip over. And so on.
At least the technology for holograms and prosthetic limbs clearly improved between the PT and the OT.
I guess I am a bit worried that JJ Abrams isn't the best choice to make the conclusion for this trilogy. By his own admission, he likes introducing mysteries more than he likes solving them. Of course, given what I've heard about Jurassic World and The Book of Henry, it sounds like Colin Trevorrow would have been an even worse choice.
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