STAR WARS! STAR WARS! STAR WARS

dbarila said:
TIL there is currently a new season of The Bad Batch running on Disney+. And I'm just like 🤷‍♂️
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At this point I soley watch that show for Omega's accent.

Edit: oh and it's also nice that they remembered Temura Morrison's Maori so all the clones arent white anymore.
 
DJSJ said:
At this point I soley watch that show for Omega's accent.

Edit: oh and it's also nice that they remembered Temura Morrison's Maori so all the clones arent white anymore.
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I didn't like their episodes on the Clone Wars and only enjoyed like 2 episodes in the first season so I'll just go on pretending I don't know about it 😁
 
dbarila said:
I didn't like their episodes on the Clone Wars and only enjoyed like 2 episodes in the first season so I'll just go on pretending I don't know about it 😁
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It's Filoni so its only a matter of time before grown up Omega shows up in The Mandalorian or Book of Boba Fett season 2.
 
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mrjoshuamccormack said:
Wow, I didn't realize Filoni was so disliked around here.
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this thread can be a challenging read sometimes.

anyway, i have determined that the funeral dirge from the last episode of andor is my favorite piece of star wars music since duel of the fates. not just for the music itself and the visuals that go with it, but the recording being so unpolished - you can hear the players breathing and valves being pressed, not everything is completely in-synch, ambient noise in the background, etc. - it all just reinforces the idea that this is all happening organically and with purpose. powerful stuff.

 
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After sitting on the shelf for a few weeks, I've finally stepped fully into Phase 2, and it is off to a fantastic start. I love how consistently good to great The High Republic books have been so far. So much fun, so much adventure, so many emotions and no duds! Being 150 years pre-Phase 1, it's easy to think things will be a bit more predictable here, but there are surprises aplenty!

I know @Jan and @DJSJ are already well on board, but I'd like to take another moment of encouragement to the rest of you - this shit is great!
 
It looks like we'll be getting solely TV content for the next 3 years as both the Patty Jenkins Rogue Squadron and the Kevin Feige led movie are both being shelved. Only Taika's movie is still in production but nothing has been started yet except for him writing it. Maybe we'll get more announcements of movies that will eventually be shelved at Celebration in London next month.
 
avecigrec said:
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After sitting on the shelf for a few weeks, I've finally stepped fully into Phase 2, and it is off to a fantastic start. I love how consistently good to great The High Republic books have been so far. So much fun, so much adventure, so many emotions and no duds! Being 150 years pre-Phase 1, it's easy to think things will be a bit more predictable here, but there are surprises aplenty!

I know @Jan and @DJSJ are already well on board, but I'd like to take another moment of encouragement to the rest of you - this shit is great!
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I need to take on phase 2 but have to finish the locklands trilogy first
 
"The Essentials Legends Collection" continues to keep putting out new editions of (mostly) great novels with absolutely gorgeous cover art, and now they're publishing my favorite 2 Star Wars novels ever. I might have to pick these up.
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so i finally watched the first star wars movie (don't worry I mean part 4 I was not starting with the prequels) and.... is it bad to say I'm underwhelmed... like luke gets his lightsaber but then never uses it throughout the whole film. it's clear that the film was probably already expecting the sequels because darth vader doesn't do much as a threat (he is just the big man in charge of a horrible system... if anything the other imperial leaders were the REAL villains) and most of what the force is is basically "believe this religion and you can be very lucky" (and unrelated but its sooo obvious that George Lucas added that CGI into the film, the CGI of 1997 has not aged well compared to practical effects from 1977), it was just a simple story of "guys have to go to an evil base, rescue the princess, and then shoot down the evil base"

I'm watching empire soon and I'm hope it fixes some of the issues I had, I know it has the lovable little animatronic that is yoda so I'm going to come in hoping for more energy and a bigger story than the first
 
duke86fan said:
so i finally watched the first star wars movie (don't worry I mean part 4 I was not starting with the prequels) and.... is it bad to say I'm underwhelmed... like luke gets his lightsaber but then never uses it throughout the whole film. it's clear that the film was probably already expecting the sequels because darth vader doesn't do much as a threat (he is just the big man in charge of a horrible system... if anything the other imperial leaders were the REAL villains) and most of what the force is is basically "believe this religion and you can be very lucky" (and unrelated but its sooo obvious that George Lucas added that CGI into the film, the CGI of 1997 has not aged well compared to practical effects from 1977), it was just a simple story of "guys have to go to an evil base, rescue the princess, and then shoot down the evil base"

I'm watching empire soon and I'm hope it fixes some of the issues I had, I know it has the lovable little animatronic that is yoda so I'm going to come in hoping for more energy and a bigger story than the first
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You have to think of the first film in the context of it's time. When it was release it was unlike any other science fiction that had been released. The worlds felt dirty and gritty, as opposed to sleek and shiney. The score was orchestral instead of synthesizers. He also wanted it to feel like a serial where you're just dropped into the middle of the story. I understand your criticism but at the time it was revolutionary.
 
dbarila said:
You have to think of the first film in the context of it's time. When it was release it was unlike any other science fiction that had been released. The worlds felt dirty and gritty, as opposed to sleek and shiney. The score was orchestral instead of synthesizers. He also wanted it to feel like a serial where you're just dropped into the middle of the story. I understand your criticism but at the time it was revolutionary.
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It was the first movie I saw in the theater and the film that made me fall in love with the movies.
 
dbarila said:
You have to think of the first film in the context of it's time. When it was release it was unlike any other science fiction that had been released. The worlds felt dirty and gritty, as opposed to sleek and shiney. The score was orchestral instead of synthesizers. He also wanted it to feel like a serial where you're just dropped into the middle of the story. I understand your criticism but at the time it was revolutionary.
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i can see that perspective... i didn't grow up around the time of seeing the original, and I can see how after people watched it it was very important and different for the time, I am more kinda just surprised that 45 years later this was the movie that became one of the biggest and highest grossing franchises ever

and empire was an improvement in every way, still not a die hard fan like many others but it is a great fantasy film
 
duke86fan said:
it's clear that the film was probably already expecting the sequels because darth vader doesn't do much as a threat (he is just the big man in charge of a horrible system... if anything the other imperial leaders were the REAL villains)
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Vader orchestrates the quick destruction of entire populated planet and forces Leia to watch everyone she's ever known die in front of her...that's pretty damn villainous. Later when he shows up at The Battle of Yavin he flies in and starts taking out Rebel fighters left and right. The Imperial officers are just pawns in a large fascist bureaucracy where Vader is the second and command the primary enforcer.

duke86fan said:
and most of what the force is is basically "believe this religion and you can be very lucky"
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The force is everything, everywhere. What is luck but things happening in your favor? Force sensitivity is the ability to commune with the living force; the sith might say they're bending it to their will and the Jedi would say they're working in harmony for a common goal, but the result is the same. Just believing in it will get you nothing, it takes a force sensitive being to be able to interact with it in any meaningful way.
duke86fan said:
(and unrelated but its sooo obvious that George Lucas added that CGI into the film, the CGI of 1997 has not aged well compared to practical effects from 1977), it was just a simple story of "guys have to go to an evil base, rescue the princess, and then shoot down the evil base"
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Trust me if you think the 97 CGI is dated you'd have a far worse time with the original. There's visible matte boxes around all the ships, the miniatures are obvious, the cantina looks much smaller, there's far less going on in Mos Eisley in general, the lightsaber effects are wonky etc. The 97 cut did wonders for ANH and Empire, it's mainly ROTJ that people have problems with.

And the basic outline is just the hero's journey. You take your character, take him out of complacency and into tragedy, have him trained by a mentor who sacrifices himself for the cause, which gives the protagonist motivation to complete the cause. There's thousands of films and novels that are based on these same basic principles.
 
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