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Dapper_Swindler posted:they definitely are. I am curious what this project will be. Yeah, I'm even normally on the lookout for "Female driven team" type projects as being gimmicky flash in the pan poo poo, but those two have established themselves as better than 99% of the industry and any company that gets either has made a good get, plain and simple
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effectual posted:The 3d rerelease was only like 2 years ago. How had you not heard by then how bad the prequels are? I actually watched the Red Letter Media of it before I went, so I should have known better. But I still swear revenge on Lucas
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I watched the 3D release of Episode 1, thinking it couldn't have been that bad. I was mistaken. I have a perverse fondness of Episode 1 because it was the only movie my father ever took me to.
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sleepy.eyes posted:I have a perverse fondness of Episode 1 because it was the only movie my father ever took me to. that's abuse
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sleepy.eyes posted:I watched the 3D release of Episode 1, thinking it couldn't have been that bad. I was mistaken. I have a perverse fondness of Episode 1 because it was the only movie my father ever took me to.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PdhARgL0c I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda interested in what George Lucas' Episode VII would be like. It would probably be bad, but I'd love to see his treatment.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the space battle in rots looks worse than any of the ones in the OT. That's because the Battle of Endor is one of the greatest feats of model work and practical effects ever put to film. The scene that always sticks out to me for being goddamn amazing is when the Falcon and crew are skimming along the surface of the death star weaving between construction cranes before diving inside followed by kamikaze tie fighter pilots.
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Gammatron 64 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PdhARgL0c The Adventures of Luke Starkiller, from the Journal of the Whills, Book 7: The Force Awakens. Also Lucas accusing people of not understanding the major themes of the stories and only wanting space battles.  Lucas is a better producer than writer (though American Graffti and THX-1138 are great, and I think its a bit of a shame Star Wars overshadows them).
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OldMemes posted:Also Lucas accusing people of not understanding the major themes of the stories and only wanting space battles. he quite obviously does not and if you have seven hours i have a set of moving pictures which prove this.
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Gammatron 64 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-PdhARgL0c George Lucas, making bad movies, giving good relationship advice. I now want to see him direct a Romantic Comedy.
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I don't know, what does it matter? We can't make a movie as good as the Titanic.
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Nym is one of the things from the EU I like. His bulge in the Essential Guide to Characters, however, makes me cringe.
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He's from the Starfighter games, right? His species deal is the older they get, the stronger they get?
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Otisburg posted:He's from the Starfighter games, right? His species deal is the older they get, the stronger they get? Ah yes, the G'amers.
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cmykjester posted:I don't know, what does it matter? We can't make a movie as good as the Titanic. You can tell everyone gave up on the prequels.  Just everything that is wrong with the prequels is this image. From the lighting that doesn't match across any of the different elements, to the shadows pasted over the guys walking, to the three guys mst3k'd onto the bottom of the screen. And people defend this.
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William Bear posted:Nym is one of the things from the EU I like. His bulge in the Essential Guide to Characters, however, makes me cringe. does he have robot arms? or just hosed up looking implants.
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randombattle posted:You can tell everyone gave up on the prequels. that's the best part of when cd defends the prequels. even though they're wrong about the plot/characters/etc not being utter poo poo, even if you accepted them as being right everything filmic about the prequels is just poo poo.
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randombattle posted:You can tell everyone gave up on the prequels. I never noticed the dudes in the corner before. How the gently caress does that happen? 
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I always thought that part of the problem with the movies is that Lucas is making them as a test run for new improvements in CG first and anything else second. So he just went "hmm let's film everything on greenscreen because we can technically do that now," without any consideration of whether that would be good at all.
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Groovelord Neato posted:that's the best part of when cd defends the prequels. even though they're wrong about the plot/characters/etc not being utter poo poo, even if you accepted them as being right everything filmic about the prequels is just poo poo. I don't think many people claim it's a well-made film, even the SMG types say it looks bad on purpose.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I always thought that part of the problem with the movies is that Lucas is making them as a test run for new improvements in CG first and anything else second. So he just went "hmm let's film everything on greenscreen because we can technically do that now," without any consideration of whether that would be good at all. star wars 4-6: the movie has complicated things in it that we need to invent new special effects for star wars 1-3: we have complicated new special effects so we need to invent a movie to put them into it is a f35 analogy
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:I always thought that part of the problem with the movies is that Lucas is making them as a test run for new improvements in CG first and anything else second. So he just went "hmm let's film everything on greenscreen because we can technically do that now," without any consideration of whether that would be good at all. iirc at the time of its release, the Phantom Menace was one of the first movies to be filmed completely digitally, which made editing way easier. Traditional film was a lot more expensive and this lent itself to an easier experience for Lucasfilm's sfx people. So I guess I'll just agree and say yes, laziness.
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phasmid posted:iirc at the time of its release, the Phantom Menace was one of the first movies to be filmed completely digitally, which made editing way easier. Traditional film was a lot more expensive and this lent itself to an easier experience for Lucasfilm's sfx people. My understanding was that Lucas kept changing things in the middle of production. Like the Jedi temple has spikes here now and the Senate building looks like this now. So the effects people had to constantly change previous shots to account for this new stuff. I have to imagine they started phoning poo poo in because they assumed this wasn't going to be the last change anyway.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I never noticed the dudes in the corner before. How the gently caress does that happen? It's because they're photoshopped in to confuse you lol 
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I think that's from a quiz game Lucasfilm did where the object is "find what doesn't belong" and those dudes are the answer, so congratulations, you found it.
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quote:The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit 2: On The Move > The Star Wars EU train that makes you cringe the most Corek posted:It's because they're photoshopped in to confuse you lol
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Corek posted:It's because they're photoshopped in to confuse you lol No I took that from the bluray copy myself. That shot is from several seconds after where the guys on the left are mysteriously absent. randombattle fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Nov 22, 2015 |
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Corek posted:I think that's from a quiz game Lucasfilm did where the object is "find what doesn't belong" and those dudes are the answer, so congratulations, you found it. Two things don't belong in this picture.
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 26 minutes and 37 seconds into the film.  You can even see how the scene was so bad it kills the 2 jedi walking away as they turn into ghosts. I mean there's even far worse scenes with cgi than that. randombattle fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Nov 22, 2015 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:you know whats worse. its from this http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_I_Adventures_10:_Festival_of_Warriors. a book for maybe 5 year olds. some fat loving nerd thought that this book needed to be cataloged and its parts and story put into canon. also there is a series of these books and they are all cataloged. "The Festival of Warriors is the most challenging athletic competition in Otoh Gunga. Hundreds of Gungans, including Boss Nass and Jar Jar Binks, participate in its main event, the Big Nasty Free-For-All. This year's Free-For-All is the nastiest yet, because of the unexpected arrivals of some very unfriendly droids. Who will win the race…and save the Gungans? "
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randombattle posted:
Wow I apologize. I've actually stared at the other image for so long I never remembered that. The "we added something weird" game I described was a real product though. Some trivia DVD game.
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:My understanding was that Lucas kept changing things in the middle of production. Like the Jedi temple has spikes here now and the Senate building looks like this now. So the effects people had to constantly change previous shots to account for this new stuff. there;s some video where you can see him looking at concept art stuff and he complains about how he has to write a script now. the poo poo was all done backwards.
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Instead of being mad at me, be mad at this:SuperMechagodzilla posted:The shadows are all fairly accurate for a big light source positioned above and directly behind the second-closest pillar. There are just two optical illusions that make the shadows look stranger than they actually are: SuperMechagodzilla posted:It's not poorly put together. The composition's alright. The only 'fake' part is the artificial sunlight. SuperMechagodzilla posted:In natural sunlight, all shadows will point in the same direction. (The sun is a single, huge, light source.) SuperMechagodzilla posted:For the shadows on the AOTC shot to make sense, the sun would have to be inside the building. SuperMechagodzilla posted:Consistency is always consistency with something. So, y'know, I'd ask if the style was consistent between shots, consistent from scene to scene, and/or consistent with the aesthetic of the film as a general whole. SuperMechagodzilla posted:
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phasmid posted:iirc at the time of its release, the Phantom Menace was one of the first movies to be filmed completely digitally, which made editing way easier. Traditional film was a lot more expensive and this lent itself to an easier experience for Lucasfilm's sfx people. phantom menace was the only prequel that they used traditional 35mm film
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Corek posted:Instead of being mad at me, be mad at this: the funny thing is smg did some really awesome and correct posts about bad shot composition in the avengers and then goes on to defend even worse shot composition right there.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the funny thing is smg did some really awesome and correct posts about bad shot composition in the avengers and then goes on to defend even worse shot composition right there. smg just takes the most controversial view possible when it comes to movies
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Last Chance posted:no My mistake. At the time, it was a big deal that photography could be done on the cheap using digital cameras, but reading the wiki it appears they only did that for limited test-shots. It also looks like VII will be filmed with 35mm too. I don't know about photography, but I had always assumed that there were no demerits to using digital film instead of traditional?
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phasmid posted:My mistake. At the time, it was a big deal that photography could be done on the cheap using digital cameras, but reading the wiki it appears they only did that for limited test-shots. It's probably more of a cultural thing with the project. Seems similar to they way they went back to a lot of practical effects and real sets. I would think that kind of atmosphere conducive to good filmmaking rather that whatever the gently caress Lucas was doing.
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