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euphronius posted:The best part of all seven movies is when Vader taunts Luke about Leia and Luke goes completely nuts and bashes Vader down eight his light saber with animalistic fury. The best scene is when young Anakin says "hit the nose", which is genius foreshadowing. The other best scene is when R2 accidentally plugs his USB into a power outlet. (#3 is the asteroid chase in Clones.)
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The sound the depth Charges make in that asteroid scene is really cool yeah.
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Jan 6, 2016 01:55
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All of you are being idiots. The coolest scenes are on Hoth- why the hell else would everyone be wearing such heavy coats?
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Jan 6, 2016 01:59
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The best scene is "no...NOO....YOU will die!"
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Jan 6, 2016 02:00
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euphronius posted:The sound the depth Charges make in that asteroid scene is really cool yeah. Even parodies get it down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI8aSJBC9u0
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Jan 6, 2016 02:02
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Red posted:Even parodies get it down: Hey buddy. I brought you some blue juice. ( seriously though Aotc looks amazing I love that movie).
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Jan 6, 2016 02:29
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turtlecrunch posted:I watched the SEs over the week before TFA came out and the cgi additions aged really badly, and that's why the originals should be available as blu-rays. Also Darth Vader shouts "noooo" when he tosses the Emp in ROTJ. I watched my Blu-Ray copy for the first time before TFA and that part was so jarring. I hadn't seen RoTJ in over a decade and I could still tell that didn't belong. "Hey, he's saying 'Noooooo' just like...loving Lucas."
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Jan 6, 2016 02:30
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Oh yeah, fun filmic detail. While thinking about matters, it occured to me that in ESB, the ground is always precarious. Ice, the inside of a space slug, swampy, suspended in the sky...
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Jan 6, 2016 02:41
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Filthy Casual posted:So is Clone Wars 3D any good? I really enjoyed the older animated show that got some run time on Toonami, I dunno if that's a reasonable comparison point. It's good, but it is unlike the Genndy Tartakovsky traditionally animated shorts, and it takes a while to get warmed up.
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Jan 6, 2016 02:44
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Red posted:Even parodies get it down: I've never seen this before. The sound mixing is loving insane; holy poo poo.
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Jan 6, 2016 02:46
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The Auralnauts Star Wars/Jedi Party series is legitimately amazing and I honestly don't look at Creepio the same way anymore.
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Jan 6, 2016 02:48
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In retrospect, the vast majority of my favorite scenes come from the prequels. Like, everything involving the Nemoidians. On the other hand, the definite worst scenes in Star Wars are all confined to Force Awakens and Return Of The Jedi. Stuff like the Leia reveal, and Maz.
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Wow that auralnauts stuff is insane. How old am I that I've never heard of it.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:
By Leia reveal do you mean the "Oh Leia's totally my sister!" thing with Obi-Wan or where Luke actually goes and tells her?
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euphronius posted:Wow that auralnauts stuff is insane. How old am I that I've never heard of it. They finished ep. 4 last month - so don't feel bad. Watch 'em in order to get all the jokes.
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computer parts posted:By Leia reveal do you mean the "Oh Leia's totally my sister!" thing with Obi-Wan or where Luke actually goes and tells her? Not speaking for SMG but that entire scene in the Ewok village on the bridge is absolutely horrid. It's a culmination of how bad Fisher and Ford are throughout the whole thing.
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Beefstew posted:The Auralnauts Star Wars/Jedi Party series is legitimately amazing and I honestly don't look at Creepio the same way anymore. I was shown them the other day and I completely lost it at "Friend Besto".
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OH MY GOD CREEPIO AND THE SINGULARITY ENGINE My skull hurts from laughing.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The twist is that - and I believe I wrote something about this in the previous thread - the natural love interest for Padme (in a conventional romance, with a love triangle) should be none other than the bumbling but kind-hearted Jar Jar Binks. We've all seen romantic comedies, so we know how this goes. Wait a second, Luke leaps the gently caress right out of that carbonite pit... What if Jarjar is really the father?
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Gonz posted:OH MY GOD That part was loving amazing.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The best scene is when young Anakin says "hit the nose", which is genius foreshadowing. Not a joke: foreshadowing for what? Haven't seen the movies in a while.
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Darth Vader screaming "NOOOOO!" when saving Luke's life is loving unforgivable to me. That scene is my favorite part of any movie ever and for me it's really unlikely it will ever be topped by anything. Maybe it's been awhile since you've seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOQI-LAEzM The swelling chorus, the way it tightens in on Vader's face, the way the lightning reflects off his mask, and especially, most especially, the way he looks at Palpatine, turns and looks at Luke and then turns and looks at Palpatine again... it's just my favorite thing. It's the best part of the whole God-damned series. It says everything while saying nothing. It's perfect. I guess Lucas was worried that we are all too stupid to understand what Vader was thinking. See back in the '70s they didn't have the technology to record someone saying "NOOOOOOO!" so back then it simply couldn't be added, but now that we do have the technology of recording sound and adding it to a movie it was part of the vision all along. But really, how can we expect the audience to understand even that? What if he's just saying "NOOOOO!" because the bolts are zapping him? Or maybe his lovely cybernetic legs were bothering him? It's still so unclear! I think it would be better and more artistic if Vader screamed, "I WILL NOT LET YOU KILL MY SON BECAUSE NOW I UNDERSTAND THE WAY YOU USE AND DISCARD PEOPLE AND HOW THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME AND AS SUCH I HAVE HAD A CHANGE OF HEART AND I AM NOW ANAKIN SKYWALKER AGAIN AND NOT DARTH VADER SO I SHALL LIFT YOU AND HURL YOU DOWN A BOTTOMLESS SHAFT IN ORDER TO KILL YOU SO YOU WILL STOP SHOOTING LIGHTNING INTO MY SON SO THAT MY SON SHALL LIVE INSTEAD OF DIE." Something like that would really clear up everyone's confusion about Vader's emotional state and motivations at that moment. And thank goodness! Who could possibly have known what he was thinking? I loving hate that change. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate it. I've never seen a version with it and I never will. It's like if Da Vinci had come back to the Mona Lisa a few years later and said, "You know, I always MEANT for her to have a mustache and, you know, I am the artist. Back when I painted this I didn't have any paint! But now that I do it's time to fulfill my original vision." I know this is all spergy  -ing but I don't care. gently caress that change. It didn't ruin my childhood or destroy Star Wars but it was 100% unnecessary and detracts from the scene rather than enhancing it.edit: Then we could call it the Mario Lisa.
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Corek posted:Not a joke: foreshadowing for what? Haven't seen the movies in a while. Jar Jar accidentally gets into a ridiculous slapfight with a servant-droid. Anakin tells Jar Jar to "hit the nose!", and it puts the droid into sleep mode. At the end of the film, the Gungan and Droid armies get into a pointless slapfight. Anakin 'hits the nose', and all the droids are deactivated.
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Nessus posted:Oh yeah, fun filmic detail. While thinking about matters, it occured to me that in ESB, the ground is always precarious. Ice, the inside of a space slug, swampy, suspended in the sky... Hey, that's a good catch. The only "safe" place is on board a ship that's in space.
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homullus posted:Hey, that's a good catch. The only "safe" place is on board a ship that's in space. Well, the Millennium Falcon is all put literally falling to pieces.
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Anakin saying noo is what he says when he does not want something. It's part of his character.
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homullus posted:Hey, that's a good catch. The only "safe" place is on board a ship that's in space. Cloud City is of course superficially safe but is literally a city floating in the sky
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Nessus posted:Even that's hardly safe. Leaving aside the scenes on Imperial starships, The lack of OSHA on the Imperial ships has been brought up before.
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Nessus posted:Even that's hardly safe. Leaving aside the scenes on Imperial starships, all of the protagonists are always wading through some kind of garbage. Probably the most stable is Dagobah but even that consumes the X-Wing. Hoth has "solid ground" but it'll kill your rear end. Luke's ok in his X-wing (when he's in space), and he and Leia are fine at the end of the movie.
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Interesting note: the entirety of Star Wars takes place in the vastness of space, emphasizing the futility of both the war and the stars
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Those Auralnauts videos have justified the existence of the prequels for me. Got legit hyped to see some of those dance fights.
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Just saw this in imax laser and holy poo poo, wow. best fidelity cinema experience I've ever had. 3D usually doesn't work for me very well but this was crystal clear and perfect. the blacks were insane - shots of grey ships in space were just stunning. the 70mm scene was really cool, wish there was more of it. movie still good.
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Phylodox posted:Those Auralnauts videos have justified the existence of the prequels for me. Got legit hyped to see some of those dance fights. They're all gold, even the other videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-GZJhfBmI
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Red posted:My least favorite thing about the prequels are the shiny, useless objects. I for one approve of shiny useless things in space opera movies. The genre lends itself to visual splendor.
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Nessus posted:Cloud City is of course superficially safe but is literally a city floating in the sky Cloud City is Alderaan except with clouds instead of mountains:           Like Lucas says, Cloud City is supposed to be a vision of Paradise. For Leia, it's a return to Paradise--a return to the safety and security of infancy. Notice how from the moment Leia sets down in Cloud City, she's variously doted on and squabbled over by a trio of men who either eerily resemble or literally are her father: Han, Lando, and Darth Vader. Leia can't help but feel uneasy despite being in such a seemingly wonderful place. She knows it's all an illusion, and that the superficial sense of security she derives from being under the protection of Han and Lando will last only as long as they do. She's dependent on them. Her fate, as always, is in the hands of men. Leia is defined by her fear that Han will abandon her, and by her fear that Lando will betray her. Indeed, both of the good men in her life end up letting her down, delivering her into the hands of the bad man, Darth Vader. This is the "Hell within a Heaven" Lucas speaks of, which is represented by the hellish carbon freezing chamber hidden in the depths of the heavenly city, where Leia loses everything, and is broken. It's at this point that Leia realizes she must claim her own heroic identity and free herself from the invisible chains the men in her life have placed upon her destiny, setting her up for the resolution of her arc during the opening act of Return of the Jedi.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I for one approve of shiny useless things in space opera movies. The genre lends itself to visual splendor. It wasn't visual splendour, though. It was garbage, much in the same way that a Big Mac is garbage next to a well-prepared meal. It's enjoyable on some level, but after the fact you realize it's just poo poo in comparison to what you could've had. The original Millennium Falcon looked so much better and more awesome than that shiny dildo Naboo ship ever did.
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Red posted:My least favorite thing about the prequels are the shiny, useless objects. It all means something, actually. PT6A posted:It wasn't visual splendour, though. It was garbage, much in the same way that a Big Mac is garbage next to a well-prepared meal. It's enjoyable on some level, but after the fact you realize it's just poo poo in comparison to what you could've had. The original Millennium Falcon looked so much better and more awesome than that shiny dildo Naboo ship ever did. What should the Queen's ship have looked like instead? Like the Millennium Falcon? How would that have made any sense on a thematic level? Why would the ship of a Queen look anything like the ship of a smuggler? Why would the Old Republic, a mythical time of splendor and wealth, look exactly the same as the Empire, a time of run-down degeneracy and artless utilitarianism? The prequels have a sleek, shiny, 1940's-50's Flash Gordon aesthetic. It makes perfect sense, and I can't think of a single way it could have been executed any better by anyone. It's actually quite audacious of you to be so overt in your contention that the PT's aesthetic is bad primarily because it isn't the same as the OT's. At this point, most people have (smartly) moved on from that line of argument, because of its obvious intellectual vacuity. Cnut the Great fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Jan 6, 2016 |
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PT6A posted:It wasn't visual splendour, though. It was garbage, much in the same way that a Big Mac is garbage next to a well-prepared meal. It's enjoyable on some level, but after the fact you realize it's just poo poo in comparison to what you could've had. The original Millennium Falcon looked so much better and more awesome than that shiny dildo Naboo ship ever did. Without even delving into the themes and ideas having distinct pre-fall and post-fall eras having different ships with wildly different aesthetics reflective of them and showing culture progression, even if backwards, I will just state the chrome and sleek designs of the ships in the PT, in fact, rule.
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PT6A posted:It wasn't visual splendour, though. It was garbage, much in the same way that a Big Mac is garbage next to a well-prepared meal. It's enjoyable on some level, but after the fact you realize it's just poo poo in comparison to what you could've had. The original Millennium Falcon looked so much better and more awesome than that shiny dildo Naboo ship ever did. The Falcon has always looked like trash and was intended to look like trash.
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