Star Wars 7 shit talk

Don't link to Collider.

They posted them here:

http://www.starwars.com/films/star-wars-the-force-awakens-digital-trading-cards

http://i.imgur.com/IJv4XKD.gif

What Is JJ Abrams Doing

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star wars episode iv: a new boak

Fake, there is no plumbing in the Star Wars universe

han spewed first

more good news

http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/george-lucas-disney-didn-t-use-my-ideas-for-new-st/368133

those lucas ideas in full:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/145/380385105_7095bf7ed8_z.jpg?zz=1

i watched "american graffiti" again recently, and i really think it's a marvel of popular filmmaking, and really well-directed. what happened to that dude?

it's p obvious what happened

He was finally able to afford those neck implants and they subsequently cut off his oxygen.

his obsession with FX really killed his genuinely good eye for imagery i think. there're some framing and shots in the first SW that are really excellent, particularly in the Tatooine scenes.

Yeah, and I was genuinely shocked at how good THX was when I watched it for the first time a couple of years ago.

i think w/the first star wars films (esp the first and second) he was really inspired and imaginative w/r/t setting and using real-world terrain to create alien landscapes, but he later became devoted to either revisiting previously trod-upon ground bc of fan service or simply creating uncanny valleyish new worlds wholesale out of CGI.

he initially had a good eye for design and framing - it's everything else about filmmaking that was a problem for him. I'm not that enamored of THX-113 (a monumentally empty film with an incredibly deflated, stupid ending) or AG tbh.

i tried to watch ag but i think i may have seen too many of the coming-of-age films that followed it

in the same sense where if someone saw the matrix for the first time today, the action sequences - since normalized by countless other action films - would stick out less than the leatherwear

yeah I watched Diner first and it made AG unwatchable.

i think w/the first star wars films (esp the first and second) he was really inspired and imaginative w/r/t setting and using real-world terrain to create alien landscapes, but he later became devoted to either revisiting previously trod-upon ground bc of fan service or simply creating uncanny valleyish new worlds wholesale out of CGI.

― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 5:18 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but how much does he really have to do with the second one? I mean if it weren't for Empire's imaginative scenes and great shots and character arcs and stuff, Star Wars would be this one gigantic hit movie, not a universe. Like Jaws or Jurassic Park where by and large the public forgets there even were sequels, and it's a distinct "movie" not a "universe" or w/e. I think Star Wars is totally fantastic in itself, a real blast to watch... not knocking Lucas's work on that one. Though I guess you could argue that he kind of lucked into awesome performances from Guinness, Ford and Jones, and without those it would probably be a much flatter space adventure picture, weighted so far towards effects and visuals that it's hard to watch for anything else.

The ads for the new Lucas fantasy movie look like he's finally made his dream of chittering, farting, bleeping wee imaginary creatures come true.

Ah, I saw the commercial for that out of the corner of my eye and didn't realize he was involved.

'story by' then three other writers on the screenplay.

Exec producer too.

oh here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9iLfD6xus

hoping the scene following the 'from the mind of george lucas' card was a deliberate choice by a less than admiring editor.

i watched "american graffiti" again recently, and i really think it's a marvel of popular filmmaking, and really well-directed. what happened to that dude?

― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, January 21, 2015 3:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he got divorced, estranged from his filmmaking posse, and got delusions of grandeur

Ha! Sounds extremely plausible. xp

imo THX-1138 works because it's mostly empty, it's a very aesthetic film with no real meat and leans heavily on the visual design and Walter Murch's work

"I was expecting something a little.... more." "What?" Amazing stuff.

That trailer does the thing where it cuts out the music to deliver a killer line like 8 times.

omg how LONG can a trailer be? what a disorganized pile of moments and bits.

the parts that make SENSE just make you not want to see the movie, as you just know the tedious fucking story beats it represents.

27% on Rotten Tomatoes, but a surprisingly generous review from The AV Club, which calls it "the Moulin Rouge of animated features."

(NB: director Gary Rydstrom is a very close friend of Lucas, and a 7-time Oscar winner for his sound work.)

I saw a video of George Lucas on some morning show where he was (rightly) talking about how the Academy is garbage, he's not a member, how Hollywood needs diversity before movies can be rightly diverse and I was nodding...

...but cringing every 30 seconds because he had to mention RED TAILS constantly. I probably should watch that movie! But his plugging and "I get diversity... RED TAILS" was pretty much him to a t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbbzaS8rcak

wish scorsese would grow back the beard

wish lucas would grow enough beard to cover his neck

But that's how he keeps track of where his jaw bone should be.

His current beard that is:

http://i2.wp.com/blog.gadgetsandgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/George-Lucas-The-Ewok1.jpg?resize=%2C

"I get diversity... RED TAILS"

#grocerybag

so this is Epic plus Arthur & The Invisibles except incredibly shit?

don't forget ferngully

http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/ships-activities/onboard-activities/deck-parties/star-wars-day-at-sea/

"galaxy"

Disney fostering disease transmission in a setting different than those recently publicized

Since joining Apple, Ive has occasionally taken on outside projects. In 2001, he created a white polystyrene box to house a book by Paul Smith. In 2013, an aluminum desk that Ive and Newson designed for the Project Red auction sold for $1.7 million. And Ive once sat next to J. J. Abrams at a boozy dinner party in New York, and made what Abrams recalled as “very specific” suggestions about the design of lightsabres. Abrams told me that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” would reflect those thoughts, but he wouldn’t say how. After the release of the film’s first trailer—which featured a fiery new lightsabre, with a cross guard, and a resemblance to a burning crucifix—I asked Ive about his contribution. “It was just a conversation,” he said, then explained that, although he’d said nothing about cross guards, he had made a case for unevenness: “I thought it would be interesting if it were less precise, and just a little bit more spitty.” A redesigned weapon could be “more analog and more primitive, and I think, in that way, somehow more ominous.”

https://vine.co/v/OJLnidqlPq2

JJ Abrams -_-

The Star Wars universe is getting its first LGBT character added to the official canon with the release of author Paul S. Kemp's upcoming novel Lords of the Sith, Big Shiny Robot reports.

The character, known as Moff Mors, is described by the website as "an Imperial who has made some very serious mistakes," but is still considered to be "an incredibly capable leader and spends much of the book working hard to prevent absolute failure." It's noted that "[Moff Mors] also happens to be a lesbian."

did... did they have to call the lesbian character 'moff'

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Moff

yeah that's not what i was getting at

At least they didn't make her a submarine commander

Moff Mons