Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12/18/15)

[Khev]

This is how I know TFA is better than BvS, because it makes me so much happier to be in this thread.

 

[Ondi]

 

[jye4ever]

Yoda's face is creeping me out!

Just soooo wrong!

 

[kryptonianmutie]

That chick in the middle is cute, I wonder whatever happened to her.[emoji6]

 

[Asta]

 

[jye4ever]

That's why I was floored by how well she did in the movie!

 

[Khev]

That's why I was floored by how well she did in the movie!

Seriously! It was one of the few things I was vocally opposed to prior to the film's release and then boy did she prove me wrong.

 

[kryptonianmutie]

She looks like Frank Miller's poorly aged version of Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Returns.

 

[Khev]

Did anyone else notice that a few select Leia scenes in TFA seemed to be slightly out of focus compared to the rest of the movie? Her hugging Han goodbye is one example. I wonder if she requested to not get the full HDR treatment.

 

[jye4ever]

Holy crap you just found a perfect role for her!

 

[IrishJedi]

Did anyone else notice that a few select Leia scenes in TFA seemed to be slightly out of focus compared to the rest of the movie? Her hugging Han goodbye is one example. I wonder if she requested to not get the full HDR treatment.

I doubt it. Carrie Fisher doesn't seem nearly that vain. If anything, JJ made that decision for whatever reasons.

 

[Kamandi]

It really was jarring to have ROTJ not have one single full size Falcon exterior among all four films. That alone was a standout distraction. And to have it replaced with such terrible matte paintings (they even give it a close-up, ugh!) was even worse.

They did assemble the Falcon for a sandstorm scene that was unused. I suspect they f'ed up the Falcon filming this scene and had to used matte shots as an alternative to repairing the full size set.

Also not one single scene where Harrison Ford is actually in the cockpit (or inside the Falcon at all.)

The Falcon was very underused in ROTJ, one of the things I dislike most about the film. They also didn't show any interior aside from the cockpit with Lando.

The Millennium Falcon is not a spaceship. It's a character, an important one, more than any droid or alien.

Also Han himself is just so happy go lucky (even in peril, even when thinking he's losing the girl he likes, etc.) Jedi is just kind of a fun silly romp that somehow with even having the Emperor himself on hand just never feels like it has the stakes of the other three films.

Jabba the Hutt is a fearsome gangster who rules his piece of the underworld thanks to a bunch of Pig Guards, Belly dancers and Muppets. And Boba Fett, who stands around doing nothing until it's time to die. There are so many things where Lucas was off his game in Jedi. The cast knew it too. Ford could give a rat's ass and was phoning in the whole thing.

TFA was a decent goodbye for Han Solo, far better than ROTJ. I don't think the next two films need to add to the body count.

I never realized that if you watch TFA and then go BACK to the OT that *it* becomes its own fascinating "prequel" trilogy. "Well duh Khev, they came out before the sequels so obviously they'd technically be prequels." I just mean you can have fun watching TFA as the "beginning" and imagine yourself trying to piece together the backstory of this previous time (that of the Empire) with previous heroes and villains of myth (this apparently legendary Darth Vader guy and some great guru called Luke Skywalker.) When I started the marathon with TFA still fresh in my mind it was amusing to pretend that TFA came first and that we'd all had years to imagine what Vader and Luke and the Empire in their prime must have been like and THEN the OT came out to fill it in.

TFA is a great jumping on point for a new Star Wars fan, although it might be hard for a noob to ignore the story similarities of ANH right after seeing TFA. But treating the OT as a prequel chaser after meeting Grand Jedi Master Skywalker with Rey - yeah, that's a hell of an introduction.

 

[Khev]

I doubt it. Carrie Fisher doesn't seem nearly that vain. If anything, JJ made that decision for whatever reasons.

I guess the focus puller could have dropped the ball a couple times and Abrams still liked the takes enough to use them but it just seemed suspect since it was done at least twice when Carrie was on screen. But the image was crystal clear when she first met Han and said "May the Force be with you" to Rey so maybe it really wasn't anything deliberate.

 

[Khev]

TFA is a great jumping on point for a new Star Wars fan, although it might be hard for a noob to ignore the story similarities of ANH right after seeing TFA. But treating the OT as a prequel chaser after meeting Grand Jedi Master Skywalker with Rey - yeah, that's a hell of an introduction.

It certainly is!

 

[kryptonianmutie]

Holy crap you just found a perfect role for her!

[emoji38]Yeah I think the only person who loves that book more than me is Zach Snyder. I've been dreaming of a live action version ever since I read it as a teen and whenever there's an actor or actress that resembles a character I get a little giddy inside, but that's a discussion for another thread.

 

[Asta]

That's why I was floored by how well she did in the movie!

Seriously! It was one of the few things I was vocally opposed to prior to the film's release and then boy did she prove me wrong.

They'd tightened her face up so much she could barely perform vocally.

Getting Carrie into the film looked like a desperate yet necessary act. Would've made much more sense for her to be the one killed off, preferably before she opened her mouth.

Just a shame it was Harrison who didn't want to have anything more to do with the series.

 

[Centurion]

 

[jye4ever]

So Luke trains her but Snoke seduces her to the dark side because he really wanted her.

She kills Kylo since there can only be 1, making Han's death pointless lol.

Yup, that's what I get from that photo.

 

[Adolfo]

Damn you're good...all I thought it was an elf asking for directions to The North Pole

 

[Darth Snoopy]