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

[Rorywan]

I googled it. They were sniffing gas of some kind.
Huffing and puffing... .......puff!!!!!

 

[Prime Clone]

Sorry folks, spent so long trying to get Tapatalk to capitalise (unsuccessfully) I didn't notice the auto "correct".

Blasted newfangled technology, wouldn't have happened in my day.

Still, it provided an amusing diversion for several posts!

 

[YoNoSe]

Random thought: Is it weird that we don't see any other BB units? I know Poe says BB-8 is "one of a kind" but I figured that was in the R2 sense of having a lot of personality.

 

[TURINS~BANE]

We wait 30 years to see Han and the original Cast back on the Falcon...And Han
Gets murdered, and Luke is seen for seconds At the very end..unbelievable

Still a great film though, good restart for the Sequel Trilogy, I believe JJ did a good job.

 

[cmiller99]

Random thought: Is it weird that we don't see any other BB units? I know Poe says BB-8 is "one of a kind" but I figured that was in the R2 sense of having a lot of personality.

They certainly exist - Ren, Hux etc certainly know what a BB unit is, because when Ren literally "forces" Poe to tell him where the map is, there's no scene where Ren goes around saying "what's a BB unit? Does anyone know what this is? Anyone?".

So yeah, we don't see one but I'm pretty sure they exist elsewhere.

 

[TonTon]

I'm pretty sure there's at least 7 others.

 

[rushmore223]

They certainly exist - Ren, Hux etc certainly know what a BB unit is, because when Ren literally "forces" Poe to tell him where the map is, there's no scene where Ren goes around saying "what's a BB unit? Does anyone know what this is? Anyone?".

So yeah, we don't see one but I'm pretty sure they exist elsewhere.

I still have a hard time believing BB-8 is a practical effect. I know it's real, I even understand how it works, but it just seems too damn cool to be real.

 

[Rorywan]

I still have a hard time believing BB-8 is a practical effect. I know it's real, I even understand how it works, but it just seems too damn cool to be real.

He is and he isn't though. He is a push along puppet on a rod and he is CG at times. The fully automated one they had on stage wasn't used in the movie,
Very cool though I agree.

 

[RIDDICK]

I'll take dwarf in a trash can over cgi'd puppet any day.

 

[rushmore223]

He is and he isn't though. He is a push along puppet on a rod and he is CG at times. The fully automated one they had on stage wasn't used in the movie,
Very cool though I agree.

Oh, I wasnt aware that it's a puppet. Cool that they could make it for real though, even if that version wasn't used on screen.

 

[Khev]

Oh, I wasnt aware that it's a puppet. Cool that they could make it for real though, even if that version wasn't used on screen.

Yeah, they had a guy pushing him around (sometimes at a full sprint,) while another guy remote controlled his head, etc., and then they digitally erased the puppeteer. BB-8 was only CG in a couple scenes like when he was rolling up the walls of the Falcon.

 

[rushmore223]

Yeah, they had a guy pushing him around (sometimes at a full sprint,) while another guy remote controlled his head, etc., and then they digitally erased the puppeteer. BB-8 was only CG in a couple scenes like when he was rolling up the walls of the Falcon.

Thanks for the pic! Guess a gyro ball probably wouldn't have fared very well trying to move around in sand.

 

[Khev]

Thanks for the pic!

Sure.

 

[karamazov80]

I always wondered what droid poop looked like. Thanks, Khev.

 

[kryptonianmutie]

How does one get a job pushing a ball around the desert while dressed like Bruce Willis from Unbreakable?

 

[YoNoSe]

Practice, practice, practice?

 

[rushmore223]

How does one get a job pushing a ball around the desert while dressed like Bruce Willis from Unbreakable?

I'd love to see that resume.

 

[jye4ever]

James Cameron - aka the King of the World - wasn't a big fan of J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.


In a student interview on YouTube (as picked up by BMD), Cameron very diplomatically stated that he thought "this film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before".


"George Lucas is a friend of mine and he and I were having a conversation about it the other day. I don’t want to say too much about the film, because I also have a lot of respect for J.J. Abrams", Cameron began.


“I have to say that I felt that George’s group of six films had more innovative visual imagination. This film was more of a retrenchment to things you had seen before and characters you had seen before and it took a few baby steps forward with new characters. So for me the jury's out. I want to see where they go with it."

 

[cmiller99]

“I have to say that I felt that George’s group of six films had more innovative visual imagination.

Hmmm... of course, Mr Avatar-digital-wasteland-man would say that.

 

[a-dev]

''Retrenchment''....consulting dictionary.com for that one....


edit - well, it is a word. Honestly never encountered it before.