Tender Bender posted:

Billy Dee is still acting, why the gently caress isn't he here

Milky Moor posted:

In Rogue One, a Rebel Transport slams into Vader's ISD at 'accelerating to hyperspace speeds' and practically bounces off it. Vader's ISD is literally untouched.

(This is a great scene that depicts how immediately screwed the Rebels are, in comparison to TLJ where it's just 'cool')

AndyElusive posted:

He was at Star Wars Celebration and sounded like he'd be up for whatever. He'll pop up in something sooner than later.


Are you arguing with the opening scroll of ANH?

Turdfuzz posted:

for real none of the characters in the new movies are very sexual

Tender Bender posted:

I just watched Rogue One for the first time and that's a movie that understands how loving cool star destroyers are and shows it with the camerawork

Kevin Palpatine posted:

even rose kissing finn was a nonevent. maybe she should've just slurped his dingdong.

Gatts posted:

One thing I notice is that in Saudi Arabia and America, violence is A-Ok but sex isn't. Somehow sex and desire is bad and needs to be cut. As a kid I can watch Total Recall and the squibs go off but less so Sharon Stone get kinky.

I don't get it, but there it is. Conversely in the past, late night Canadian TV, I could get foreign movies on regular TV that were deemed too racy featuring graphic sex scenes in a movie called Golden Balls and it was A-Ok.

Gatts posted:

One thing I notice is that in Saudi Arabia and America, violence is A-Ok but sex isn't. Somehow sex and desire is bad and needs to be cut. As a kid I can watch Total Recall and the squibs go off but less so Sharon Stone get kinky.

I don't get it, but there it is. Conversely in the past, late night Canadian TV, I could get foreign movies on regular TV that were deemed too racy featuring graphic sex scenes in a movie called Golden Balls and it was A-Ok.

Gatts posted:

One thing I notice is that in Saudi Arabia and America, violence is A-Ok but sex isn't. Somehow sex and desire is bad and needs to be cut. As a kid I can watch Total Recall and the squibs go off but less so Sharon Stone get kinky.

I don't get it

IronicDongz posted:

https://twitter.com/EsPyramid/status/946559232744280066

Milky Moor posted:

That bit, and the "Every word you just said is wrong" bit, were so transparently made to be parroted back at people who say they don't like the film.

sponges posted:

I can’t wait to use the It’s Salt gif on TLJ detractors

an skeleton posted:

saw this movie again, absolutely incredible, 9/10 for me. so many arcs and themes and really good acting, especially by mark hamill.

Filthy Casual posted:

Turdfuzz posted:

did u like the part where the lil cgi alien goblin in the casino groped bb n burped n was drunk i thought it was very LOL!!! so good n very funny!!!

AndyElusive posted:

You joke, cus you're a gross and loud ape person but I legit found that alien to be amusing.

Dude plunked so many coins into BB-8 he ended up being able to use them to machine gun dunk some goddang prison guards.

quote:

Canto Bight, the opulent locale in The Last Jedi, brought us fathiers, Benicio del Toro‘s DJ, a bevy of fancy attire, and a little drunk alien trying to shove coins into BB-8. The guy that mistook our favorite spherical droid for a slot machine is Dobbu Scay, and though he’s a purely CG character, he was brought to life in a motion capture performance by none other than Mark Hamill.

The Last Jedi VFX supervisor Ben Morris told Nerdist, “Mark came to Rian [Johnson]. Mark’s done an awful lot of computer game voices for characters, but he’s never had the chance [to do mo-cap]. So, he said, ‘I want to put the dots on, man. I want to do that mo-cap thing.'”

The director obliged. “Rian made a little cameo for Mark,” Morris said. “We brought him after the main shoot to our ILM and performance capture stage in London. We spent an afternoon with him, staging those moments with Rian. That was quite bizarre.”

Morris continued, “We actually built the gigantic wire frame BB-8 that was a little to the right side so that Mark was the same height as the toad dude. So, we’ve got this enormous BB-8, like the Christmas bauble, that’s made out of wire. I think Mark had a great time. And we leave that as the basis for his performance ideas for the character.”

Creature shop head Neal Scanlan said they made a maquette of Dobbu Scay, who Morris affectionately calls “the toad dude” and combined Hamill’s mo-cap performance with puppeteers—Scanlan and Morris really work in tandem to bring the creatures to the galaxy.

Scanlan explained, “Digital made a very big version of BB-8, and so we performed it. Warwick [Davis] and Jimmy Vee played the real scale character with the real sized BB-8, and then the digital guys had a big BB-8 made and Mark played the character to the big BB-8. They motion captured his performance and then scanned in the characters and created it as a full digital character, which is great.”

So next time you watch The Last Jedi and see the little wobbly alien stuffing coins into BB-8, remember that’s Hamill in a mo-cap suit. If we’re lucky, Lucasfilm will share behind-the-scenes photos.

Milky Moor posted:

In Rogue One, a Rebel Transport slams into Vader's ISD at 'accelerating to hyperspace speeds' and practically bounces off it. Vader's ISD is literally untouched.

Gonz posted:

Y'know who did mo-cap for the little alien putting coins in BB-8?

Waffles Inc. posted:

Why not then...apologise to Poe? Reinstate him?

Ultimately as a manager myself if a subordinate made a mistake and I busted them down for it and then later found out that it had unambiguously saved the company I would surely at least eat some crow

an skeleton posted:

This being said, here are my main complaints for the movie:
* Leia force pulling herself back to the ship. I can't put my finger on what the problem here is, the execution just bugs me, I don't think it came off on screen the way they wanted it to for me.
* I'm not sure what Rey's arc is. They tried to sell her potentially going to the dark side but I ain't buying it. Kylo's character is much more compelling to me.
* Not enough role for aliens in this film. Everyone's a stinkin' human and aliens are relegated to the background. It's racist!

galagazombie posted:

One cruiser to take out a whole fleet of star destroyers as well as disable the giant B2 bomber is a kill-ratio any military leader would cream themselves over. We know they have droid ships and can put a hyperdrive on any small fighter. Scaling down you could smack any big ship with 1-2 droid kamikazes per target. Hux even realized Holdo was ramming and couldn't do anything to stop it with all his guns and tractor beams.

Barudak posted:

Is it just that this 3D version is garbage or all 3D versions are garbage or is it how this film looks because the divide between foreground action and the CGI backgrounds was so sharp it gave a lot of scenes an unnatural and poor mesh between actors and the CGI environments.

Ferrinus posted:

The fact that he realized and was too slow to stop it is the real key here. What specifically happened is that Hux let Holdo get too close without firing on her, because he was gleefully vaping the lifeboats instead. Once he realized what she was doing, he started firing, but was too late. The implication is that if he'd been wise to what was going on, he could've just turned his superior firepower on the approaching ship and dismantled it before it could A) get into close range, such that over the distance from its hull to his it'd still be a lump of metal going insanely fast rather than a phased-out ghost ship and B) charged up its hyperdrive to actually instantiate the jump.

We can synthesize this information from TLJ and also the bit where the star destroyer doesn't give a gently caress about the x-wings in R1 to determine that a lightspeed kamikaze is only effective from very close range (well within the range at which shields stop being reliable) and if the kamikaze has at least a sizable fraction of the target's mass. So, the actual use cases are pretty narrow.

galagazombie posted:

The Raddus was sitting outside range of their guns though. If you can't dodge from that range and you can't shoot at that range then points A and B don't really hold weight. Plus you wouldn't send like one fighter at a time. Look at those droid fighters in the prequels, send a squadron and at least one will get through.