Maybe Avatar 2 will make 3 billion globally. So what. Let them eat cake. It won't touch TFA's 800 or 900 million domestic.
So what. Let them eat cake. It won't touch TFA's 800 or 900 million domestic.
In an alternate universe, Force Awakens has surpassed Avatar's global numbers and Khev is thumping his chest and posting that it's global "victory" matters
Rey's Theme, Kylo's Theme, and March of the Resistance are getting much deserved praise as they should. Only on this site have I seen a couple folks convince themselves that the score wasn't up to par.
Show me.
And nobody here said the score "wasn't up to par", they said it wasn't really memorable and average.
Show me.
I liked TFA. I couldn't give a rats ass if it passes Avatar for #1... It's not like I'm getting any of that money.
Why because if I do your contrarian posts will stop? Somehow I doubt that.
But one example: Soundtrack Review: Star Wars The Force Awakens | Soundtrack Geek V2
And another, take note of post #805 and beyond: *** Official Star Wars Ep. VII: The Force Awakens Discussion Thread. Spoilers Alert! - Page 41 - Movies (Theatrical) - Home Theater Forum
But we get it DiFabio, you thought it was "pretty good," nothing to get worked up over, and now it's your mission to temper the enthusiasm of those who loved it and failing that throw a wet blanket over any discussion that doesn't agree with your oh so discriminating tastes. Good luck with that.
''Ooohh, big budgets. Big Budgets not make movies great''
Unless they build a life-size Star Destroyer I think we're at a point where we wouldn't even notice if the budget were bigger for episode 8.
And I think the incentive to make a good film will already be there.
But I'll give you Rey's theme, there's a nice jingle to it.
Then, out of nowhere, we (and when I say we, I mean you) edit our posts to include defensive comments about the freakin' soundtrack. What's that about man?
Too true, but I never want to watch a movie and actually notice where they ran out of money on screen. A good example is that horrible painting of the Falcon that Han and Lando stand in front of in ROTJ. We *know* they were damn well capable of having a life size Falcon there as one appeared in ANH and ESB but clearly they just didn't want to spare the expense for that one scene and it has forever stuck out because of it.
I agree that with regard to TFA there really wasn't a single moment where I thought that the film would have benefited from having more money anywhere. Maz was supposed to be a puppet and I wish she was but the Art Book said that they altered her to be mo-cap CGI due to lack of time, not money.
Disagree.
She had unusually good skills piloting the Falcon, knew how to fix the Falcon, understood Wookie language and helped Han and Chewie get out of that jam with the gangs then Han offered a job. (Han knows he's getting old)
Remember after initially getting the Falcon Han was just going to dump them off.
Hell he asked Luke to join up after just shooting two TIE fighters.
Im sure Leia would've said something by the end of the movie. I mean it's her niece, a fellow Skywalker!
There was one more after Maz and Snoke.
That fake looking buzzard/vulture on Jakku tapping away with his beek.
One scene featured an alien creature that abruptly pops up out of the desert landscape with glowing, flashlight eyes that make it look like a distant cousin to the Jawas of A New Hope. Abrams later called it "a classic old-school seesaw puppet. We just buried it in the sand, and Neal Scanlan, the creature guy, pushed down on one side and the thing came up on the other side." At the session, the scene, with the alien suddenly sticking its head over a dune, got a big laugh. Some perfectionist suggested a few digital polishes, but Abrams was wary. "it's so old school and crazy," he said. "We could improve this thing, but at some point do we lose the wonderful preposterousness?"
Its not a secret. Difabio is a grade A downer in this thread.