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One of the RotS novels more amusing adaptations is removing the Battle of Kashyyyk since it has nothing to do with Anakin's story Obi-Wan and Yoda Metal Gearing their way through the Jedi Temple and scaring the crap out of the clones is great too
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It's actually that you can't be too obvious. By the end of the film, you've literally got Padme doing banter while blasting brown-skinned people with a laser rifle in the space-mideast. Like, literally joking that killing people is way better than boring diplomacy. He believes in the Republic! In DEMOHCRACY!
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Delightfully, he's pretty much quoting Palpatine there.
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josh04 posted:Delightfully, he's pretty much quoting Palpatine there. ...dude I love these movies.
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i would edit this into my previous post but since it's at the bottom of the page i'll just put it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esf59wk1yFQ
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Matthew stover was way too good for the licensed fiction circuit in general. Love that guy to bits, I hope he's doing well
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No Mods No Masters posted:Matthew stover was way too good for the licensed fiction circuit in general. Love that guy to bits, I hope he's doing well I only ever read Traitor by him, and even though it contained zero characters from the films was one of the mots NJO-y of the NJO novels it was great
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I ended up donating all the star wars books from my broke brained teen days except my beat up af copy of traitor 
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From memory The Revenge of the Sith novelization came out before the film was released too, at least by a week or so. I remember this because I read a good chunk of it ahead of time then stopped to not spoil the film for myself. I also remember being bummed out at the films depictions of the stuff I already read.
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I did like the novel's Dooku fight a lot morequote:Now, as for Skywalker—
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quote:Now, as for Skywalker— 
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The only thing I remember from that book is Anakin finding Kit Fisto's grinning decapitated head on Palpatine's desk
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galagazombie posted:I was watching the AotC deleted scenes and wow they basically cut Padme's entire plotline. And it's got some juicy stuff too. She gives this whole speech in the Senate where she points out that authorizing an army and attacking the Separatists with it (looking at you here Yoda) will force the Separatists to retaliate in self-defense. Then she talks about how a war will just give the Republic an excuse to become a police state and take away everyones rights. I'd like to see a fan edit of RotS with all this put back in, which stands in contrast how every other movie that has a fan edit or I wish had one do it to take the worst scenes out edit 1: https://ifdb.fanedit.org/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-extended-edition-2/ or https://ifdb.fanedit.org/star-wars-revenge-of-the-sith-expanded-edition/ I'll probably go with the latter edit 2: This guy is awesome https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsCantina/comments/h0jsyz/ive_made_and_released_4k_and_1080p_extended_cuts/ galenanorth fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Jan 17, 2021 |
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When's the Attack of the Clones: Special Edition cut?
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Vinylshadow posted:I did like the novel's Dooku fight a lot more there are good parts of the book, but that 'lmao XD' line is not one of them
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the best part of that post is that the dooku fight actually does have some really good lines, just...not that one. in particular, i like the part where dooku accusing anakin of being overconfident and prideful get turned around on him, as he slowly realises that anakin and obi-wan baited him into thinking they hadn't learned anything at all and were fighting the same way they had at the end of Attack of the Clones, which then mirrors how palpatine baited him into thinking that he wasn't a totally expendable pawn that he would kill off in order to get closer to anakin.
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But what about the droid attack on the wookiees?
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Just watched Rogue One again for the first time since the theatrical release. It’s SO much better than the other Disney ones! It actually looks and feels like a Star Wars movie. You can feel the awkwardness in the pacing and editing from the re-edit Disney did to it, though, especially in the first third or so, with Jyn’s backstory and the characters getting together.
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The RotS novelization's best part is obviously when Anakin's using his murder of the Separatists as an excuse to work on his Vader brand of humor by doing cheap puns.
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YaketySass posted:The RotS novelization's best part is obviously when Anakin's using his murder of the Separatists as an excuse to work on his Vader brand of humor by doing cheap puns. Still one of the best non-finale bits of Rogue One. I just love that Vader probably only spared Krennic because he's hilarious.
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I rewatched the prequel trilogy yesterday and I can feel my midichlorians replicating. This morning confirmed that I have the power to will my spouse's COVID test to be negative.
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You couldn't have learned a power like that from the original trilogy.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Still one of the best non-finale bits of Rogue One. I just love that Vader probably only spared Krennic because he's hilarious. I really did love Krennic as this guy who absolutely no one except for Krennic himself takes seriously.
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nemesis_hub posted:Just watched Rogue One again for the first time since the theatrical release. It’s SO much better than the other Disney ones! It actually looks and feels like a Star Wars movie. You can feel the awkwardness in the pacing and editing from the re-edit Disney did to it, though, especially in the first third or so, with Jyn’s backstory and the characters getting together. Was there ever a write up on what got changed? I didn't notice when i saw it in the cinema, but did pick up on quite a few weird things (lines not matching lip movements was pretty common) on a rewatch at home.
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Rogue One is easily the best of the new movies. By a million miles.
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Snowman_McK posted:Was there ever a write up on what got changed? I didn't notice when i saw it in the cinema, but did pick up on quite a few weird things (lines not matching lip movements was pretty common) on a rewatch at home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOyD0zHQFsU The most noticeable thing is bald Forest Whitaker
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It’s aight. I just don’t feel much of anything while watching it. I like Krennic though.
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Neo Rasa posted:I really did love Krennic as this guy who absolutely no one except for Krennic himself takes seriously. One of the Thrawn books has him in conflict with Krennic over funds for the TIE Defender and Stardust projects and he's portrayed this way and it's great. The cape was his idea and one of his underlings wears one and it's even dumber. Was neat how each part of the Thrawn trilogy tied quite closely to a piece of recent SW side media, Rebels, Clone Wars and Rogue One.
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Vintersorg posted:Rogue One is easily the best of the new movies. By a million miles. Eh. Jyn Erso is by far the worst lead character in the films. Utterly without charm or charisma.
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Jewmanji posted:Eh. Jyn Erso is by far the worst lead character in the films. Utterly without charm or charisma. I prefer her to Rey. Rey is just all over the place.
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She’s pretty consistent until rise. She just wants to know who she is and find her family. That’s like her main thrust. She finds it at the end of TLJ. Rise is, idk.
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Snowman_McK posted:Was there ever a write up on what got changed? I didn't notice when i saw it in the cinema, but did pick up on quite a few weird things (lines not matching lip movements was pretty common) on a rewatch at home. I can’t find a definitive account of what happened, but if you google there is evidence of Tony Gilroy making some significant changes from Gareth Edwards’ final cut. One thing that’s pretty noticeable is how disjointed the beginning of the movie is after the pre title sequence. We jump ahead to adult Jyn, she’s in prison, jump to Cassian, etc...there are a lot of awkward cuts in the lead up to getting the story to and away from Jedha. Saw’s role is really strange if you think about it. He raised Jyn while being a key figure in the Rebellion, and somehow completely kept her away from it...and then abandoned her? And now they have essentially one conversation and he’s gone. We don’t have definitive proof, but it seems like what happened is that Jyn was originally part of the Rebellion from the beginning, and that part of the reshoots was making her more “innocent”.
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I just remembered how the Sequel Trilogy made use of legendary actor Max Von Sydow and loled.
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Vintersorg posted:Rogue One is easily the best of the new movies. By a million miles. It's far from perfect but this is true
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Grendels Dad posted:I prefer her to Rey. Rey is just all over the place. Rey is not good either, and certainly over the course of the trilogy it just gets worse and worse, but Daisy Ridley has a level of innate charm that helps each individual scene work, even if in context in makes no sense.
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nemesis_hub posted:.. Jyn was definitely still an extremist child soldier in the theatrical cut (Saw called her one of his best soldiers), but as you've noted the reasoning given by Saw is spurious - that he abandoned her because people were beginning to suspect her real identity. Jewmanji posted:Rey is not good either, and certainly over the course of the trilogy it just gets worse and worse, but Daisy Ridley has a level of innate charm that helps each individual scene work, even if in context in makes no sense. Now that we've established that a 'good protagonist' can be measured directly by their charm levels, we should also ask: why is it bad that an abandoned former child soldier orphan isn't personable, and why is it a good thing that an abandoned orphan on the harsh world of Tatooine is so affable?
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Rogue One would've been great if Jyn had just said "Uh, did anybody order the huge laser? How about NO" right before she got vaporized.
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A charismatic lead actor is very often a crutch for mediocre to bad blockbusters. That's practically their primary job. A mediocre to even bad actor can be forgivable in a good movie that gives them an interesting story.
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Jewmanji posted:Eh. Jyn Erso is by far the worst lead character in the films. Utterly without charm or charisma. Cutting almost all of the original characterization for her of being raised to be a hardened terrorist from a child probably had something to do with that. I haven't seen the actress in anything else so IDK where she stands as far as acting ability overall. Vintersorg posted:Rogue One is easily the best of the new movies. By a million miles. 
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Jyn being ‘uncharismatic’ owns. She gives the speech to the libs and it just fuckin bombs, except with the one left-leaning minority dude. Give her a gun and everyone’s scared because she’s an ex-con and doesn’t smile more.
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