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[brandonh83]

Rewatching the duel, so do I. Such an awesome fight.

Brother. Like, I get why people are hating on that part. It's a scene from a prequel. But it actually makes plenty of contextual sense. That complaint is an example of people bitching just to do so.

It does look silly,

I like it and I think it looks silly in that gif. That's because it's made to look silly.

 

[Secret Fawful]

i legit hope there's no opening scrawl. i just want the movie to go IN.

Maybe they'll open it with some WW2 style newsreel footage, and end it with Jabba's son giggling and farting into the camera. Oh wait, that already happened in a Star Wars movie.

 

[sc0la]

Absolutely no chance, lmao.

It'd be funny if that actually did happen and they just started the movie out of the blue, though.

I bet Disney is contractually obligated to include the crawl on main saga films, not that they would want to ditch it.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Why didnt they use Williams music tho? Was it not ready? Loved the trailer music nonetheless.

They did. They just didn't have him arrange these specific pieces and record them with the orchestra.

Williams working on the first trailer with original music specifically for it is NOT a thing that happens. It's really rare, in fact.

 

[half a moon]

How will the crawl work with the SAG thing? Lucas left the guild to do it.

 

[brandonh83]

They did. They just didn't have him arrange these specific pieces and record them with the orchestra.

Williams working on the first trailer with original music specifically for it is NOT a thing that happens. It's really rare, in fact.

Is that even confirmed that he did that?

 

[OldRoutes]

How will the crawl work with the SAG thing? Lucas left the guild to do it.

It's probably seen as an exception. But good question...

 

[Flow-Walker]

How will the crawl work with the SAG thing? Lucas left the guild to do it.

It wasn't a SAG thing, it was the DGA and they're a lot more lenient in 2015 than they were in 1977.

 

[brandonh83]

The normal crawl will be there and it will be great you fucking heretic heathens.

 

[Fj0823]

I loved the Mortis episodes. This lists them as ambiguously cannon, does anyone know what the status of that is?

The story happened, it's canon. Wether what the characters saw was real or not. That's up to you.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

How will the crawl work with the SAG thing? Lucas left the guild to do it.

The crawl never had anything to do with SAG. It was a director's guild thing, and I believe the rule's since been done away with, or if it hasn't, it's easily waived, considering the sheer number of movies you've seen since 1977 that don't feature any credits at all before they start.

Is that even confirmed that he did that?

Pretty sure Abrams was the one who said he was doing it. Could be wrong on that. But it was definitely known he was recording the trailer music for that first teaser.

 

[half a moon]

Oh aight coo

 

[jett]

I love that part of the duel. Two near-equals testing one another on their prediction capabilities.

 

[BocoDragon]

How will the crawl work with the SAG thing? Lucas left the guild to do it.

It was the director's guild actually (naturally)

It wasn't the crawl that was the problem. It's that the crawl setup meant the credits were put at the end of the movie. That was a no no back then.

That's how old Star Wars is. Think how many movies don't have credits floating over top of the beginning anymore. A lot of them don't even put the title at the beginning anymore...

 

[Grover Cleveland]

This will spawn a stream of posts saying the same shit we've heard over and over and over "no emotion, no weight, dancing with glow sticks, over the top, silly"

but Anakin vs. Obi-Wan is awesome...until they start talking.

"Well from my point of view the Jedi are evil"

goddamnit George

 

[CreepingFear]

This will spawn a stream of posts saying the same shit we've heard over and over and over "no emotion, no weight, dancing with glow sticks, over the top, silly"

but Anakin vs. Obi-Wan is awesome...until they start talking.

"Well from my point of view the Jedi are evil"

goddamnit George

Only a Neogafer deals in absolutes!

 

[Bobby Roberts]

"Well from my point of view the Jedi are evil"

goddamnit George

There's been an ongoing series on Wired from a guy who hadn't seen any of the Star Wars movies before now and was going through them (in release order, of course)

He JUST finished Episode III.

Although by the time Obi-Wan left him to die in the lava of Mustafar, Anakin was so irritating that I didn’t really care what happened to him. Anakin’s delusional reasoning can be interesting to watch, yes, and his massacre of the young Padawans was inhumane. But mostly, he’s just a weak-willed creep. “From my point of view, the Jedi are evil”? What kind of villain gives an IMO disclaimer? From my point of view, you’re boring, Anakin.

 

[Toxi]

There's been an ongoing series on Wired from a guy who hadn't seen any of the Star Wars movies before now and was going through them (in release order, of course)

He JUST finished Episode III.

He recognizes the movie's best attribute.

But even when Anakin was being his most insufferable self, I still got to watch a villain who owns his depravity: Palpatine. He luxuriates in emotional manipulation, and the pure sensuality of his malevolent Svengali-ing of Anakin makes the movie. He delights in playing the role of a concerned, noble leader of the Republic, and then fights the Republic’s greatest defender in that very same Senatorial hall. This is true heinousness, people.

Palpatine’s sinister speech in the Senate, employing a righteous narrative of restoring faith and peace and creating “a safe and secure society” as justification for wresting power, is the clear highlight of this movie. And it prompts the only decent line from Padmé: “So this is how liberty dies … with thunderous applause.”

Ian McDiarmid is just so much fun to watch.

And I love how he didn't know Yoda was done with a puppet in Empire Strikes Back.

 

[nictron]

The story happened, it's canon. Wether what the characters saw was real or not. That's up to you.

It's real to me. Thanks!

 

[brandonh83]

Funny gif you have there ma jett but still not really a counter-argument.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

 

[Toxi]

 

[Secret Fawful]

I kinda wish Palpatine always looked like he did in the OT. Before the prequels, as a kid, or at least before Sith, I just assumed Star Wars was a world in which a wizard could come to power by being a wizard. Didn't matter that he looked like Satan's butthole. Was also more fun to imagine that he got so ugly because of the Dark Side, or by being an alien, not because he stuck his finger in a light socket during a lightsaber battle.

 

[Palpable]

 

[Randam]

There's been an ongoing series on Wired from a guy who hadn't seen any of the Star Wars movies before now and was going through them (in release order, of course)

He JUST finished Episode III.

Anakin ruined Vader and so ruined the whole franchise.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

I kinda wish Palpatine always looked like he did in the OT. Before the prequels, as a kid, or at least before Sith, I just assumed Star Wars was a world in which a wizard could come to power by being a wizard. Didn't matter that he looked like Satan's butthole. Was also more fun to imagine that he got so ugly because of the Dark Side, or by being an alien, not because he stuck his finger in a light socket during a lightsaber battle.

I've always worked under the (incorrect) assumption that the OT/second half of ROTS look was what he looked like the whole time.

He was just able to mask his appearance using the Force because wrinkled up slimy looking freaks generally don't get far in politics. But once the Jedi decided to attack him it didn't matter anymore and it even played nicely into his "I'm the victim, not the cold hearted mastermind behind this whole mess" story that he spun with the Senate.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Anakin ruined Vader and so ruined the whole franchise.

That's not what he's saying at all, though.

Probably because even as a first-time viewer he understands how ridiculous that notion is.

Bad movies don't make good movies worse just because they share a name.

 

[QuantumZebra]

That's not what he's saying at all, though.

Probably because even as a first-time viewer he understands how ridiculous that notion is.

Bad movies don't make good movies worse just because they share a name.

Yep.

Matrix 1 is still GOAT cyberpunk. 2 and 3 can be forgotten.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Anakin ruined Vader and so ruined the whole franchise.

Not this shit again.

 

[TAJ]

That's not what he's saying at all, though.

Probably because even as a first-time viewer he understands how ridiculous that notion is.

Bad movies don't make good movies worse just because they share a name.

It's easy to say that but every time Vader comes on screen I see a whiny kid.
And the prequels made me hate Yoda.

 

[inm8num2]

Bad movies don't make good movies worse just because they share a name.

Someone hasn't see Teen Wolf Too.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

It's easy to say that but every time Vader comes on screen I see a whiny kid.

That's a you problem, though. I see Dave Prowse/Bob Anderson and hear James Earl Jones.

Someone hasn't see Teen Wolf Too.

Used to have that shit on a SLP VHS tape w/ Ghostbusters II and Beverly Hills Cop II

It was a pretty disappointing tape. We sent it back to our friend's house with instructions to dub off some better shit.

 

[inm8num2]

Used to have that shit on a SLP VHS tape w/ Ghostbusters II and Beverly Hills Cop II

It was a pretty disappointing tape. We sent it back to our friend's house with instructions to dub off some better shit.

And then the tape came back with Jaws 2, Caddyshack II, and Police Academy 2.

 

[Fj0823]

Man, he was having a blast with his role. lol

 

[phazedplasma]

yeah as terrible as those scenes were im glad he got to cheese around on set like that. Seems like a fun dude.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

most underrated unintentionally funny Palpatine moment is his reaction shots to Anakin and Dooku fighting

"Yea!"

 

[Bobby Roberts]

And then the tape came back with Jaws 2, Caddyshack II, and Police Academy 2.

No lie, I'm pretty sure Police Academy 3 was on one of those tapes!

(That one wasn't bad, if I remember right)

 

[TAJ]

most underrated unintentionally funny Palpatine moment is his reaction shots to Anakin and Dooku fighting

"Yea!"

Naw, it's when Ani chops up those battle droids that are flanking him on Grievous's bridge.

 

[TheDinoman]

Man, he was having a blast with his role. lol

Palpatine/The Emperor really was one of the few redeeming factors of the prequels.

Sure it's a shame he had to be in such terrible movies and did some pretty dumb things himself, but the character is just so wonderfully evil, it doesn't even matter. Unlike just about everyone else in the PT, he actually has a passion (being fucking evil and loving it) and he even has a clear motivation and goal he's working towards.

 

[chesspieceface]

I loved the Mortis episodes. This lists them as ambiguously cannon, does anyone know what the status of that is?

Why wouldn't they be canon? Those 3 episodes were the best of the series for me, because of the lore they expanded upon. Great stuff.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

I've fallen

and I can't get up.

 

[T-0800]

I kinda wish Palpatine always looked like he did in the OT. Before the prequels, as a kid, or at least before Sith, I just assumed Star Wars was a world in which a wizard could come to power by being a wizard. Didn't matter that he looked like Satan's butthole. Was also more fun to imagine that he got so ugly because of the Dark Side, or by being an alien, not because he stuck his finger in a light socket during a lightsaber battle.

The book of ROTS says his 'mask' was removed and showed his true self.

 

[kaiju]

New Newsweek cover (without text):

 

[AdventureRacing]

Palpatine/The Emperor really was one of the few redeeming factors of the prequels.

Sure it's a shame he had to be in such terrible movies and did some pretty dumb things himself, but the character is just so wonderfully evil, it doesn't even matter. Unlike just about everyone else in the PT, he actually has a passion (being fucking evil and loving it) and he even has a clear motivation and goal he's working towards.

I haven't watched them in a while but is that paragraph essentially quoted from the RLM review?

 

[Einchy]

New Newsweek cover (without text):

That reminds me, the best part of Episode I was the queen's outfits.

Whoever was the costume designer for I did a fantastic job.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

I haven't watched them in a while but is that paragraph essentially quoted from the RLM review?

That's kinda what Dinoman does, it seems.

 

[raphier]

http://i.imgur.com/U10yZOt.jpg

absolutely iconic costume, I wouldn't mind Space Game of Thrones with these attire styles for royalty.

 

[RyanDG]

http://i.imgur.com/U10yZOt.jpg

absolutely iconic costume, I wouldn't mind Space Game of Thrones with these attire styles for royalty.

I've always thought that Dune needed another shot on film...

 

[Secret Fawful]

The book of ROTS says his 'mask' was removed and showed his true self.

I did hear the novelization was better than the actual movie.

 

[shira]

That reminds me, the best part of Episode I was the queen's outfits.

Whoever was the costume designer for I did a fantastic job.

Pssst that's sabe