All Things Star Wars Thread (Spoilers)

[gkIrish]

I also check my glasses and silverware at restaurants. You would be surprised how often they are not that clean. Much as I don't want some stranger's lipstick on my water glass I really don't want to shove some strangers glasses on my face.

I also find it hard to follow action sequences or anything else where you are looking around the screen instead of the primary focal point. They do such a good job with the periphery and subtle visual cues that I imagine it would drive me nuts trying to things up.

I haven't been to a 3D movie in the last few years where the theater doesn't give you brand new glasses so that's odd.

 

[calvegas04]

I thought Tark walking was a little odd and I thought Leia was done great but as someone else said seeing her from afar would have been better.

I knew there would be no opening crawl so that dint bother me but the way they did the logo was a little weird to me

 

[gkIrish]

I thought Tark walking was a little odd and I thought Leia was done great but as someone else said seeing her from afar would have been better.

I knew there would be no opening crawl so that dint bother me but the way they did the logo was a little weird to me

Did someone tell you or was this announced? I was very surprised about it.

 

[irishnd31]

I knew there would be no opening crawl so that dint bother me but the way they did the logo was a little weird to me

Agree, and that song they played while showing the title was odd and didn't give me the "Star Wars excitement" that the other movies have. Much prefer the crawl and original Star Wars music.

 

[wizards8507]

Did someone tell you or was this announced? I was very surprised about it.

It was announced.

 

[IrishLax]

Tark was done so well that my friends who aren't really "star wars people" had no idea that he was CG. After the movie one was like "wasn't he in the first one? did they recast him?" So I think there is confirmation bias from anyone who didn't like the CG tark.

CG Princess Leia was almost unnerving. I don't know why, it just was a little bit.

 

[RDU Irish]

I haven't been to a 3D movie in the last few years where the theater doesn't give you brand new glasses so that's odd.

Probably been six years since I went to a 3D movie. You guys have me there. Still don't like it.

 

[Cackalacky]

Tark was done so well that my friends who aren't really "star wars people" had no idea that he was CG. After the movie one was like "wasn't he in the first one? did they recast him?" So I think there is confirmation bias from anyone who didn't like the CG tark.

CG Princess Leia was almost unnerving. I don't know why, it just was a little bit.

Was Leia so creepy becasue we just saw her in TFA where she looks like she has been drinking Jawa Juice on Malastair for the last 30 years?

There were some very subtle CGI things that just did not seem right but overall it was not to bad IMO. But I think (for me anyway) it was very exciting to see the lead up to ANH. That pretty much overruled anything else I was paying attention to.

 

[GATTACA!]

Tark was done so well that my friends who aren't really "star wars people" had no idea that he was CG. After the movie one was like "wasn't he in the first one? did they recast him?" So I think there is confirmation bias from anyone who didn't like the CG tark.

CG Princess Leia was almost unnerving. I don't know why, it just was a little bit.

Yepp my wife had no idea Tark was CGI. I think it depends on weather or not you're looking for it. I've seen some reviewers say that it was terrible, and I just disagree. You can tell once you look for it, but regardless I think it is fantastic CGI work.

 

[gkIrish]

I've seen A New Hope at least 30 times and I had to pause and think about whether Peter Cushing could still be alive and caked up in makeup so I think it's safe to say they did a good job.

 

[calvegas04]

I've seen A New Hope at least 30 times and I had to pause and think about whether Peter Cushing could still be alive and caked up in makeup so I think it's safe to say they did a good job.

They did good, his movement was a little weird

 

[GATTACA!]

I've seen A New Hope at least 30 times and I had to pause and think about whether Peter Cushing could still be alive and caked up in makeup so I think it's safe to say they did a good job.

This is Tarkin from episode III

No italics

 

[ShamrockOnHelmet]

I'm the opposite, I think Leia was damn near perfect. Tarkin looked off to me.

 

[IrishLion]

Just saw it. So much awesome sauce.

That last 5 mins with Vader trying to chase down the disc with the plans was amazing. It was like a separate entity, or an epilogue that intentionally took on a different quality. I can't explain my feelings clearly, so I'll just say that I felt like I was watching a bad guy from a horror movie go through a gratuitous display of his murder skills... and I mean that in the best way possible. It could not have been a more perfect display of Vader, and it could not have been a better lead-in to the blockade runner.

Was I the only person in the world who didn't know they were all going to die? I read a review that was supposed to be non-spoilers, but spoiled that the end is "about sacrifice because they all die, but we knew that was going to happen" as if it was common knowledge. Is that misinformation based on the "Many Bothans..." line referring to DS2 plans, or did I miss something from ANH?

 

[wizards8507]

Just saw it. So much awesome sauce.

That last 5 mins with Vader trying to chase down the disc with the plans was amazing. It was like a separate entity, or an epilogue that intentionally took on a different quality. I can't explain my feelings clearly, so I'll just say that I felt like I was watching a bad guy from a horror movie go through a gratuitous display of his murder skills... and I mean that in the best way possible. It could not have been a more perfect display of Vader, and it could not have been a better lead-in to the blockade runner.

Was I the only person in the world who didn't know they were all going to die? I read a review that was supposed to be non-spoilers, but spoiled that the end is "about sacrifice because they all die, but we knew that was going to happen" as if it was common knowledge. Is that misinformation based on the "Many Bothans..." line referring to DS2 plans, or did I miss something from ANH?

I think most people assumed they all died because you never hear about Jyn Erso in Episode IV. But anything that said they'd die was either a spoiler or speculation.

 

[Cackalacky]

I think most people assumed they all died because you never hear about Jyn Erso in Episode IV. But anything that said they'd die was either a spoiler or speculation.

I think this is what you are saying but I am fairly certain I have read/heard they do all in fact die per the director. Disney was against it because of "Merchandizing Merchandizing Merchandizing!" But they allowed it to happen. Its strange because it rarely happens. I think it had to happen though to set the tone for ANH.

Maybe I am confused as I just had an argument with a fellow nerd that they in fact did not all die and it would be crazy for them to have died.

 

[wizards8507]

I think this is what you are saying but I am fairly certain I have read/heard they do all in fact die per the director. Disney was against it because of "Merchandizing Merchandizing Merchandizing!" But they allowed it to happen. Its strange because it rarely happens. I think it had to happen though to set the tone for ANH.

Maybe I am confused as I just had an argument with a fellow nerd that they in fact did not all die and it would be crazy for them to have died.

Wait, someone who has SEEN the movie is arguing they didn't die?

 

[IrishLion]

It literally showed them all meeting their demise one-by-one, until Jyn and Cassian got melted by the Shockwave together.

Unless we're talking about the fleet above the planet getting annihilated and the blockade runner being the only ship to survive, in which case I'm not sure.

 

[Cackalacky]

Wait, someone who has SEEN the movie is arguing they didn't die?

Yes. They contended that Jyn and Cassian did not die because we didnt actually see them die. I shot him down though. Lol

 

[IrishLion]

Two other things:

The chick that plays Mon Mothma is identical to the original. It is uncanny. Is that more CGI-aided work, or did they find a doppelganger?

When Admiral Raddus called for a Hammerhead Corvette, I got all jacked up. I don't know why I liked it so much, but I thought it was awesome. Maybe because the alliance is well-armed with diverse and useful ships, and becauss Raddus was aware enough to use one Star Destroyer as a weapon against another.

 

[ThePiombino]

Jyn's mother was force sensitive. She wasn't a Jedi and didn't have any powers, but she was definitely a believer in the "religion of the force." Jyn's apparent force sensitivity likely also had a lot to do with the Kyber crystal she wore around her neck.

For what it's worth, being a believer in the force =/= force-sensitive. I didn't see anything suggesting that Jyn or her mother were force-sensitive.

 

[Cackalacky]

Two other things:

The chick that plays Mon Mothma is identical to the original. It is uncanny. Is that more CGI-aided work, or did they find a doppelganger?

When Admiral Raddus called for a Hammerhead Corvette, I got all jacked up. I don't know why I liked it so much, but I thought it was awesome. Maybe because the alliance is well-armed with diverse and useful ships, and becauss Raddus was aware enough to use one Star Destroyer as a weapon against another.

She is a different actress and was actually cast in Episode III but her scenes were cut.

 

[IrishLion]

For what it's worth, being a believer in the force =/= force-sensitive. I didn't see anything suggesting that Jyn or her mother were force-sensitive.

He's getting that info from the book "Catalyst" I think, which is basically the prequel to Rogue One.

 

[Cackalacky]

Carrie Fischer had a massive heart attack yesterday on a plane. Currently in critical condition.

 

[wizards8507]

Two other things:

The chick that plays Mon Mothma is identical to the original. It is uncanny. Is that more CGI-aided work, or did they find a doppelganger?

When Admiral Raddus called for a Hammerhead Corvette, I got all jacked up. I don't know why I liked it so much, but I thought it was awesome. Maybe because the alliance is well-armed with diverse and useful ships, and becauss Raddus was aware enough to use one Star Destroyer as a weapon against another.

The Mon Mothma actress was cast for the prequels originally. There's a canon deleted scene with her and Bail Organa on the Revenge of the Sith blu-ray.

The hammerhead corvette is a throwback to the hammerhead cruiser from Knights of the Old Republic.

 

[ThePiombino]

He's getting that info from the book "Catalyst" I think, which is basically the prequel to Rogue One.

Ah hah! Did not read, so I stand corrected.

 

[GATTACA!]

I think this is what you are saying but I am fairly certain I have read/heard they do all in fact die per the director. Disney was against it because of "Merchandizing Merchandizing Merchandizing!" But they allowed it to happen. Its strange because it rarely happens. I think it had to happen though to set the tone for ANH.

Maybe I am confused as I just had an argument with a fellow nerd that they in fact did not all die and it would be crazy for them to have died.

It's actually the exact opposite of this. In his original edit Gareth Edwards didn't kill many of the characters because that's how he assumed Disney would want it. Then once Kathleen Kennedy saw the first cut of the film she told him he had to kill them all. That is one of the main reasons for all of the reshoots, and all the cut scenes that where in the first full trailer. My theory is that instead of Cassian shooting Krennic Jyn does. Then Cassian instead steals a tie fighter and that's the ship Jyn is walking towards on the catwalk in the trailer.

 

[calvegas04]

no one knew anyone was going to die until IP man told the whole world in a press conference that he dies

 

[Cackalacky]

It's actually the exact opposite of this. In his original edit Gareth Edwards didn't kill many of the characters because that's how he assumed Disney would want it. Then once Kathleen Kennedy saw the first cut of the film she told him he had to kill them all. That is one of the main reasons for all of the reshoots, and all the cut scenes that where in the first full trailer. My theory is that instead of Cassian shooting Krennic Jyn does. Then Cassian instead steals a tie fighter and that's the ship Jyn is walking towards on the catwalk in the trailer.

True regarding Edwards. It was assumed Disney would not want to kill everyone. However it was the producers that realized they needed everyone to die. Kennedy is with Lucasfilm not Disney. But after being presented with the revised story, Disney agreeed to alllow it.

 

[GATTACA!]

True regarding Edwards. It was assumed Disney would not want to kill everyone. However it was the producers that realized they needed everyone to die. Kennedy is with Lucasfilm not Disney. But after being presented with the revised story, Disney agreeed to alllow it.

I'll try and dig up the interview I heard it in, but I'm almost positive I remember Edwards saying it was Kennedy that told him he need to kill them off.