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[Star Wars] The Last Porg (TAG ALL SPOILERS)
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Bounty Hunter Wars was awesome AF.
light spoilers, mostly just character appearances (including a close-up of Snoke and one of his Imperial Guard knock-offs)
https://hypebeast.com/2017/7/star-wars-snoke-skywalker-images-leaked
Also, the new crimson guard look kind of goofy with no visor or other way to see out of their helmets. I guess they've got some kind of vid screen inside, but there's no camera or anything on their gear. Maybe they just use the force?
Given the size of cameras that we have now, those helmets could have them and we might not be able to see them.
Or, maybe the face plate is transparent from the inside?
Micro probe droids nearby that send area video to the guard?
Lots of possibilities for a scifi setting.
That was a theory? Seems like a giant stretch, even if Mace didn't fall from a hundred story tower. Even "Rey is Obiwan's daughter" is possible because what was Obiwan doing those years Luke was growing up in? Although that would make me a little upset because from what we see Old Ben Kenobi doesn't have a job and would be a deadbeat dad.
Also thinking about it, if Luke is in his 50s or something that would also be a stretch. I assume Rey is in her early twenties. That gives a tiny window of that happening.
Fair point. Although I'm leaning towards Force shenanigans. Remember the scene of Obi-Wan training Luke aboard the Falcon?
I never bought it, but it was something to do with a Jedi should be able to break his fall using the force and fuck if I know.
My money is still on her being Skywalker, if only because it adds fewer moving parts than any other option. Even if you made it so she didn't have any special heritage, you'd then have to explain why a rando Force-sensitive is capable of dueling a Skywalker to a standstill the first time she touches a lightsaber.
I'm also really hoping they keep Finn just a (potentially Force-sensitive) dude who didn't drink the kool-aid. People have been theorizing that he's some sort of lost prince (since Leia was a princess) or even that's a descendant of Mace, which is just, ugh. Let's not make two of the four black film characters related to each other, please.
That being said one thing bothered me
But aside from that it nailed feeling like a grittier look at Star Wars without feeling grim dark or emo.
This is said with the caveat that large portions of his role were left on the cutting room floor.
As for Rey and Finn, I'd be okay with them both being original characters without a tie to the old trilogy guys. They clearly are setting up some shit with Rey's backstory, and the only likely answers would be her being a Skywalker/Kenobi. Of course, that's if they don't do some dumb cloning stuff or another goofy solution. I like the Kenobi theory just because it would be a nice story that Ben trained Vader and Luke, and then Luke trains Ben's kid to mow down his emo nephew.
Finn and Poe should absolutey stay unrelated. Also Snoke, I think the real story with him would be cooler if he's not like, Palpatine's uncle or whatever. That just feels like a cheap tie in like when they would over explain OT events in prequels and the EU.
Damn straight incest is icky.
They didn't know! No one knew! Everyone is so sorry!
R2-D2 knew, but thought it was hilarious so didn't say anything.
Snoke speculation (pure speculation, not based on anything)
Anyway, I rewatched the Force Awakens yesterday for the first time since it left the theatres. Every time I watch it, I love it a bit more. The whole superweapon is still superfluous, but it's really a small part of the movie and just a thing to move the plot along.
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R2 probably went "Yeah, I would totally date another Astromech. Humans have something against dating people from the same manufacturer? Y'all are weird."
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Also, on Snoke:
I can think of 3 entire movies that were too lame. But they still happened.
The bones of the prequels are good. Secret Sith in charge of Republic engineers destabilizing war to eliminate the Jedi and establish the Empire. But yeah, they were definitely undercooked.
I've seen at least one fan criticism and proposed rewrite of the PT which was stunningly better than what we actually got and used all the same characters.
Which was not to say it was an amazing set of rewrites, it was merely a good set of rewrites from some random guy on the internet made stunning by comparison to the bottom-of-the-barrel crap we got from the guy who made the stuff up in the first place. It's a damn shame Lucas bought into his own hype instead of recognizing that he's a decent big-picture guy and needs better writers to handle the details.
But hey, at least we got way too much green-screen used several years before it was actually ready. That was a really important thing to do. Very significant.
To this day, I think CGI still works better when it's used primarily to augment practical effects, see LotR vs the Hobbit movies. Look at how bugged people were with CGI Tarkin and Leia in Rogue One.
The best thing about the PT are both Clone Wars cartoons.
Yeah, but look how little they noticed the rest of the CGI in there (like the establishing shots of the city or the landscape or the skylines), or how much they praised the CGI on the Deathstar looking like it was done with models.
Bad CGI is bad, but a lot of good CGI doesn't get noticed. Whenever someone says CGI is bad, or CGI is only good in certain situations, it's very easy to point out that there's tons of CGI that's so good that people don't notice it.
I mean, they were kind of necessary for the story and the way there were put in was handled as well as could be considering one of the actors was dead, and the other one was significantly older (and way more awesome).
Mind you, I still haven't watched my Blu-ray copy yet, so my memories are still from the single movie theatre experience I had...
Preferred Tarkin to Leia, he was noticeable yet the longer he was on screen the more I went along with it. Leia was almost entirely uncanny valley.
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And yes, CGI Leia was not-as-good as Tarkin, but I still dug it.
That couple of seconds of CGI Leia was still too long.
Lighting may have been a factor. CGI Cushing was on the Death Star and in rooms with shadows, Leia had a big close up in a very bright shot.
Then he turned to the camera and my jaw hit the floor.
No, he wasn't 100% perfect, but he was 99.9% there, or near as dammit; and Guy Henry's actual performance was a spot-on tribute to the great Peter Cushing. And, to be honest, I thought Leia was just as well done, even if I'm not sure if I'd think that if we had more than just a couple of seconds of her.
I've come to realise that I don't care if a special effect isn't 100% perfect. Just like I don't care if there's a limitation on how a practical effect can be done in, hell, any old movie ever, not just Star Wars; I'm quite willing to forgive a slight imperfection in CGI as well if the overall effect is successfully achieved, and for me at least, Tarkin and Leia both did exactly that (both aided by the live actors' performances in both cases, which I think tends to go forgotten when they're brought up - although obviously, again, Guy Henry had a lot more to work with than Ingvild Deila did).
What I do like to see is discretion on the part of filmmakers as to whether a practical effect or a CGI one is going to work better for a particular shot/scene/character/background/vehicle/etc, and use the better method for the given situation.
I still love seeing Tarkin and Leia when I pop in the Blu-ray. Every time.
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