Star Wars Anthology shit talk (Rogue One, Young Solo, TBD)

ok so the opening crawl of Ep IV:

It is a period of civil war.
Rebel spaceships, striking
from a hidden base, have won
their first victory against
the evil Galactic Empire.

During the battle, Rebel
spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the DEATH
STAR, an armored space
station with enough power
to destroy an entire planet.

Pursued by the Empire's
sinister agents, Princess
Leia races home aboard her
starship, custodian of the
stolen plans that can save her
people and restore
freedom to the galaxy....

i guess it pretty much does line up with Rogue One. Leia and her "diplomatic mission" excuse still isn't exactly plausible deniability though.

Is Jaw Gerrera supposed to be some kind of Che Guevara ref

Yea he shoots Eva Peron too

Is Jaw Gerrera supposed to be some kind of Che Guevara ref
― Οὖτις

Miguel Herrera iirc

We went and saw this again today and I liked it a lot better on second viewing. I didn't even notice the first time but along with no opening crawl this avoids a lot of other SW formalist gestures like the wipes between scenes; Edwards just uses straight cuts and establishing shots.

I really like the cleverness of the opening shot -- the pan up through the star field is standard stuff, then you get an encroaching triangular shape that looks momentarily familiar but turns out to be the partly-shadowed rings of a planet.

AT-ATs and their pilots on winter recess vaca in Miami and vicinity

Thought this was way better than the last one. Albeit filled w plenty of lol / wtf / eyeroll moments

The scene where she's trying to send the plans by climbing to the top felt like I was watching someone play a video game

Like, why is there an opening-closing hatch she has to jump through? What possible purpose did that thing serve. Lol

dryer vent? didn't see any lint stuck in it though

Fairly certain the irising portal hatch she leaves the data tape room thru is a straight copy of the one atop the Falcon.

Kinda references luke hanging on to the weather vane at the bottom of cloud city tbh

Agree master switch was stupid but they needed that to set up donnie yen's heroic death

s riptwriters were ruthless as soon as riz was was finished for purposes of advancing the plot they had a stormtrooper throw a thermal detonator inside the shuttle like bye

Kinda references luke hanging on to the weather vane at the bottom of cloud city tbh

That too, but I meant that the hatch was physically identical

Thought this was way better than the last one. Albeit filled w plenty of lol / wtf / eyeroll moments

The scene where she's trying to send the plans by climbing to the top felt like I was watching someone play a video game

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, December 25, 2016 8:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thought her whole ending sequence, climbing up the tower, going to the first switch, then the second switch, was super video game-like, like there should've been little Objective Completed texts showng up in the corner of the screen

i was fine with the ridiculous elements, and like what ledge said above -- Re: the ludicrous technology design, really this is a feature of the SW universe -- let us never forget this entire series basically started as alternate universe flash gordon fanfic

also digitarkin was so bad, horrible idea that people would've loved to hold against lucas 15 years ago

is grand moff tarkin really such an important character that he needed to be included in such a capacity? when i was a kid watching ANH i remembered him as the nerd who got choked, who cares

would've probably been better if they cut the vader castle scene and just had the tear-thru-hallway scene be his first appearance

anyway yeah i liked this more than the last one, lower stakes i guess

also can a mod mass edit all of shakey's 8 million posts across all the SW threads and add "you cucks" at the end

I approve

Another thing was yeah in a new hope I just sort of assumed it was more subtle skullduggery leading to the plans leaking from the empire via leia not a full on space battle and two destroyed cities. Also forest whittaker's relationship w the lead was super underdeveloped and there were no stakes when he randomly decided he was going to let himself die for no reason

That said I think that the good guys were all gonna die freed this from being a new hope redux / five favorite ingredients in a new order like the last one

Tarkin is the military commander of the Death Star, and doesn't get choked by some jumped-up goth monk.

well goes to show how significant a role he played in ANH

the entire subplot over who owns the death star IP could've been removed and the movie would've lost nothing

Cranic kinda reminded me of an evil Steve Coogan

Having read nothing about this before going in, I was fairly certain after a few minutes trying to place the voice that the robot was Dinklage pretty much doing his Imp turn.

yeah why did they have an american fake a british accent (unconvincingly) for a fukkin robot?

There are no British people in long time ago outer space. It's all just a strange coincidence.

The fake British accent is a telltale sign an imperial droid has been reprogrammed by the rebellion.

imo fake british accent is very empire/senate, that's uh totally what carrier fisher was going for when confronting vader

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent

*sighs*

Dick Van Droid

don't get me wrong, it's a RP thing, but there's no indication that it's a senate matters thing. So either Lucas didn't coach it, or he did completely randomly

I think she took that on from shooting all those early scenes with David Prowse and Peter Cushing? Then spent the rest of the time with Americans, which changed that up.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-hc-rogue-one-donnie-yen-20161217-story.html

Carrie Fisher died this morning.

http://people.com/movies/carrie-fisher-dies/?xid=socialflow_twitter_peoplemag

Oh fuck

RIP Carrie.

<3 ;_; heartbroken now

I heard about this five minutes after seeing CGI Leia on screen

yeah what a creepy confluence tbh. rip.

you prefer another target? a military target?

D Trump would be fine thanks

RIP. Now really looking forward to rewatching 'A New Hope' (almost started it at after midnight after getting home from 'Rogue One').

Also:
final shitpost: i hate that x-wingsand TIE fighters are the only starfighters they really bring back from the first movies.

I don't think the other fighters had been deployed at that point "historically." Tie Bombers appeared in ESB and the rest in ROTJ.

and now I'm going to be that guy:
ion torpedos weren't in any of the space sim games!

There were some kind of ion projectiles, I think in 'X-Wing: Alliance'

Worth a watch if you've never seen it - less a roast than a gleeful slice & dice

http://www.vulture.com/2016/12/carrie-fisher-roasted-george-lucas.html

http://i.imgur.com/kRsJpql.jpg

As a kid I noticed how that gun was exclusive to Leia and that action figure; it was never seen again.

There were some kind of ion projectiles, I think in 'X-Wing: Alliance'

― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, December 27, 2016 5:55 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark

ion pulses

finally saw this; had no idea about the carrie fisher 'cameo' at the end so found that a bit touching actually; you only see the face for maybe 4 seconds. I liked the movie on the whole but agree that the last 10 minutes were the best, once vader started spinning the lightsaber and cutting the fuck out of people. it would be excellent, I think, to get a full vader spin off film; but JEJ is sounding too old to do a full film, and I don't know if he could be convincingly recast. I'm curious about the reshoots as well; I think the plot resolution here was quite good and enjoyed that they killed everyone. But the indications seem to be that the original had them all surviving or at least running on the beach with the plans. who knows.

I enjoyed this a lot.

I think I enjoyed TFA more. Movie felt a little disjointed to me (major LOLs though at Leia's "diplomatic mission" in light on the end). Imperial Droid was great.

http://www.blindltd.com/rogue-one