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And why do I remember this 20 years after reading it?
I'm waiting patiently for Bossk vs. Chewbacca: Dawn of Justice.
Man I remember so much of that book. Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina too.
We need Star Wars themed reaction buttons at least through Dec 18th
'Give into Your Anger'
"Mind Trick"
That's where I think this will fail, Goyer and Snyder are not competent enough in my mind to pull this off.
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I have seen nothing to inspire confidence in this film.
But I'll give the trailer very faint praise: I didn't immediately hate Batfleck.
I never got the hate boner for Batfleck. That said, the power suit at the end makes him look like a 90s action figure.
"Red Saber"
"Green Saber"
"Force Lightning"
Its like they had a major brainstorm session to create the most adorable droid ever and they succeeded.
Should be smaller though. Make him about the size of a shoe and he'll be unstoppable.
Current running guess among the online robotics hobbyists is it's a gigantic, fancy Sphero:
They may be using omnidirectional wheels for "strafing", and then the head is built around a magnet that matches up to the internal central post, both of which are set up with rollers. That post then has at least one motor on it to point the head in certain directions rotationally, and may have a linkage to allow it to look down/up/to the sides, plus keep the head in a fixed position as the whole thing moves.
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I've gotten to the point that EVERY automatic door I walk through gets a Jedi hand wave before it opens.
It's pretty much muscle memory at this point.
I do the same, except I'm pretending to be Magneto instead of being a Jedi.
Compare it with The Force Awakens teaser trailer #1. We open on a familiar setting, day, desolate in the desert, with slowly building music. A dramatic voice provides context. Next, the Star Wars Drama Beat and a new face, a man startled, perhaps scared: looking around as if he's not sure where he is. The next beat is a droid on the same bright, sunny day: no drama, but it's moving fast. Blipverts of danger: stormtroopers. Guns. Deployments. Another new character, a girl, looks behind her as she desperately tries to start her speeder and races off away from whatever she was looking at. A misty day - but still sunny - as X-Wings fly low across water. A dark man walks through a dark wood, at night, in snow: and the voice speaks of the Dark Side. Finally: "...and the Light", at which point we have a triumphant swell of music and daytime shot of the Falcon flying by some (...classically colored?) TIE Fighters.
What are we shown in BvS? Darkness. Deep bass tones. The voice over speaks not of triumph, but of despair. "Is it surprising that the most powerful man in the world should be a figure of controversy?" "We as a population on this planet have been looking for a savior." "We are talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe." "Corruption. Chaos." "Maybe he's just a guy trying to do the right thing. We know better now, don't we." "Devils don't come from Hell beneath us; they come from the sky." "FALSE GOD." "That's how it starts. The fable. The rage. The feeling of powerlessness. That turns good men cruel." We see a plane (the batplane?) shooting at a guy taking cover behind a car. We see the batmobile lit by an explosion. We see Batman rising from ruins, watching over a city, and Batman in armor looking up into the sky - at Superman. He asks, "Tell me - do you bleed? You will." There is no triumphant swell, no vision of joy to dispel the gloom: but instead we get BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN. We close on an emphasis of two heroes fighting.
So what did TFA emphasize? Pending danger, potential threats - but hope. A return of the light. New heroes, but with familiar allies: closing on the swell of the Star Wars theme and the Falcon is a reminder that no matter how bad things look, no matter what threats are in the galaxy, there will be resistance, there will be good guys, and there will be Light.
BvS emphasizes darkness, despair, chaos. There is no hope, we have no heroes: those that we believed would protect us are too busy fighting each other. There is only darkness.
People forget how much cool tech got invented by film crews trying to get cool shots before CGI came along. I'm glad that we're back there again.
Practical effects are amazing. CGI is great for some of the larger set pieces and to add some extra "oomf" to scenes but practical creates something concrete for actors to interact with. Looking scared in front of a green screen will never be the same as having some dude in a monster suit coming after you.
"You enjoying your new superman movie, lil Timmy?"
WoW
Dear Satan.....
Sadly in the 80's excess he got Draids and passed away not too long ago.
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We can't have nice things like themed reaction buttons. We proved it by getting our star wars thread locked. Which then allowed for the takeover of all threads. Hail :hydra: !
Anthony Daniels was at the Star Wars celebration The Force Awakens panel.
"That Beat"
"Baby Time"
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The Thread Strikes Back!
Thanks, I'm just hopping between favorites on my phone so I miss new threads sometimes.
The thing that kills me the most about this is that it is the antithesis of everything my 33 years and anecdotal evidence has taught me about Superman and Batman.
Superman is hope. He is our better selves. He is what everyone hopes there child will be when they grow up.
Batman v superman's trailer suggests that he is the leader of a cult that worships him as a god of judgement.
Who has to be stopped in a direct physical confrontation by an older batman.
It is so perfectly wrong.
It could all be a red herring if we're leading up to the Justice League. Superman could be a passive role, or an investigating one, in regards to those cults or "False God" signs. The whole world could be painting him as a threat following the destruction of the last movie rather than him doing anything nefarious in this sequel. And then our main threat appears, the two work together, and the Justice League starts to take shape.
That said, I still don't have much hope for the movie being good.
I think that despite their flaws, the PT helps add to the OT, because it shows you how things were before the Empire took over. You see Palpatine rise up, Anakin fall, and Obi-Wan and Padme are unable to make a difference. The huge, glittering, powerful Republic gets subverted into the Empire. So, when you get to Yoda, you don't just see Yoda as the wise swamp muppet, you see that he was once one of the most powerful and influential people in the galaxy, living in a tower at the heart of civilization. When Luke trains as a Jedi, you have the impact of knowing how hundreds, thousands of Jedi couldn't stop the fall, and how his training really is one last, desperate attempt at fixing things. And when they finally win, that scene at the end of ROTJ with Luke and Leia and Han and Chewie and Lando and the droids around the campfire the extra context about what they defeated helps add to the moment.
Star Wars, for me, is a story about good never giving up. In the end, that's enough to defeat evil. The biggest flaw of the PT is one that it could not escape: it needed to tell a story about good giving up. The CGI was a problem, sure. But the biggest problem was that evil won, and that's just not a Star Wars thing. But you couldn't have told the PT without evil winning. The entire experience was doomed from the onset.
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I guess it sorta makes sense
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