Star Wars 7 shit talk

j/k. Expanded universe. Novels, etc.

Let's not forget that Boba Fett's spaceship is a big metal elephant head, too

― glandular lansbury (sic),

and it was called SLAVE-1

The very first Star Wars figures were "mail away"

the pedantry

Do you expect any less itt

xxp

i kind of imagine BF listening to this in his spaceship on repeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzybwwf2HoQ

I remember really liking Boba Fett's spaceship.

The more I think about it, the more I realize that the spaceships and other vehicles in those movies (AT-ATs, etc.) were the main thing that I liked about them.

the Millennium Falcon was quite well detailed. I used to recreate the fight on Jabba's Sail Barge on the roof of the Falcon.

This is comprehensive and incomprehensible: http://screenrant.com/star-wars-journey-force-awakens-guide/

I definitely spent a lot of time trying to recreate these spaceships with my legos. I think the only ones I managed to do reasonable well were Tie Fighters.

https://lightsaber.withgoogle.com/experience

so how big is Adam Driver's lightsaber?

EU?

The more I think about it, the more I realize that the spaceships and other vehicles in those movies (AT-ATs, etc.) were the main thing that I liked about them.

the character and technology design of the original trilogy is nonpareil -- completely stunning -- i think people who dismiss these films think these things aren't important. but it all depends on how you look at it!

the world-building of the og trilogy is still pretty mindblowing even now, it's so immersive

the character and technology design of the original trilogy is nonpareil

lol i was picturing that too

One small bit in TESB I've always liked: after the Imperial troops have entered the Hoth bunker and Vader leads the way and the scene builds to the possibility of his and the gang's interacting but it doesn't come. It's the kind of small but essential storytelling touch that Kershner had that Lucas didn't.

xxxp tried four times, gave up.

i was intrigued by Kasdan saying he went off w/ Kershner to do his draft of the script. We forget that WGA credits and who wrote what don't often match up.

I'm sure this was posted way up thread but just in case any ship geeks missed it

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1NEKrnWO--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/xe0yjmmjhdedgykt0a1j.jpg

http://imgur.com/gallery/Zt9Y4

(massive gallery of models from the OT)

i was intrigued by Kasdan saying he went off w/ Kershner to do his draft of the script. We forget that WGA credits and who wrote what don't often match up.

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 3:34 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a good rule of thumb to presume that, credit or no, a director had a lot to do w/ shaping a film's narrative. unless one has evidence to the contrary.

leigh brackett's credit is widely viewed as a courtesy. i haven't read her draft (which is out there) but most people suggest it doesn't have a ton to do w/ what eventually became 'empire'.

The world building in Star Wars is definitely the main thing of it from the point of film history. For better or for worse. At some point 'amazingly build world' became 'hodgepodge of marketing posibilities'...

heh, that point was in 1977 (or before)!

i mean star wars was always about marketing! i don't think it's particularly cynical, either -- the marketing possibilities just dovetail with the world-building ambitions.

Perhaps not, but the wave it began became plenty cynical...

grownups say that now

i'll remember those toys fondly thank u v much

a director had a lot to do w/ shaping a film's narrative.

there are entire eras and settings of commercial filmmaking where this is not true

"grownups say that now

i'll remember those toys fondly thank u v much"

exactly. it's easy to get disgusted by the amount of tie in marketing these days, but these things made my life so much more livable in the late 70's. I can't even imagine life without my action figures when I was 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYyuo7gm-aQ

a director had a lot to do w/ shaping a film's narrative.

there are entire eras and settings of commercial filmmaking where this is not true

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, December 15, 2015 4:06 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, it depends... it's true of a lot of classical-era directors, and probably most contemporary hollywood directors.

are we gonna mention Victor Fleming again

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so i'm watching this 'despecialized edition' of SW and while it's amazing it seems to me (having recently seen a 35mm print from the film's original release) that it does retain some of the revisions (audio and video) made to the film since the 1990s.,

Ha. I was just thinking earlier today that I sure know an awful lot about Star Wars for someone with so little interest in the new movie.

xpost There are a bunch of 'despecialized' editions out there. There's at least one super-anal version that does try, as much as possible, to restore it to the original theatrical version.

There's at least one super-anal version that does try, as much as possible, to restore it to the original theatrical version.

that's the one I got; the one that got all the press = Harmy's Despecialized Edition. 17 GB! it looks great, but i'm not convinced that it looks and sounds like a 1977/78 version of the film. (which is complicated since there were at least three different sound mixes for the film's first release.)

in the print i saw recently, the early scenes on tatooine (sp?) were beautifully grainy -- almost foggy. like they were shot with a really, really long lens. some of that seems to be gone in all the video versions i've seen.

also the original shot of the death star exploding (in slight slo-mo) is lovely.

I'm totally bringing a bong to this

Didn't they release the original theatrical cut as a bonus disc on DVD a decade or so ago?

Yes but it was a shit transfer ripped from the 90s laserdiscs

Still worth it to not see A NEW HOPE in the crawl

yeah but

1) it's non-anamorphic
2) very soft and blurry (taken from old laserdisc transfer to which a bunch of cheap early-90s "digital noise reduction" had been applied)
3) has "ghosting" and other analog video artefacts
4) has all kinds of audio problems beyond that
5) IIRC it uses 1985 sound re-mix prepared for first VHS release, not 1977 (or even 1981) sound mixes (mono or stereo or Dolby surround)

(there's a wikipedia page that documents all this in more detail than probably any of us care to read about)

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