Star Wars: The Force Awakens |OT| A New Hope

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It weirds me out how those that are on the Dark Side refer to it as the Dark Side. I watched episode 3 again for the first time since it hit theaters this weekend and seeing Palpatine keep saying dark side dark side dark side to Anakin to try and convince him to come over seems like something he should've worked on. It's a hell of a harder sell to tell someone to come over to the Dark Side than it is to tell someone to come to the interesting side or something differently that doesn't immediately sound you sold your soul to the devil or some shit.

They need to hire some consultants, they clearly have a messaging issue
 
Sephzilla said:
Luke Force chokes guards at the start of the movie, walks into Jabba's palace and straight up threatens everyone immediately, tells Leah to blow up Jabba's raft probably murdering a bunch of innocent people in the process, and then later in the movie snaps when Vader threatens Leah going Dark Side.

The movie at multiple points makes you think Luke is walking the line towards the Dark Side (including having him dress in all black).

The Emperor tempts Luke towards the Dark Side by saying that Luke will be powerful enough to destroy the Emperor if he goes to the Dark Side. "Strike me down with all of your hate and your journey to the Dark Side will be complete"
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From what I remember though what Luke wore in RoTJ was originally supposed to be the Jedi uniform.
 
Sephzilla said:
Plus in a deleted scene from ROTJ, Vader is talking to Luke through The Force while Luke is building his lightsaber. So that could also be causing him to go a bit more Dark Side. I actually like Luke going boss-mode a bit in the early parts of the movie though, it makes him feel a lot more imposing and a more powerful and grown up person compared to where he was in Star Wars and Jedi. It also makes the moment near the end of the movie where he rejects the Dark Side a bit more satisfying.
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What's the length of time between Empire and Jedi?

As a kid I assumed it was at least a couple years, since Luke is a straight up boss between Empire and Jedi, but after my rewatch last week I pieced together that: #1. Lando/Chewy immediately left Cloud City to start plans in motion to retrieve Han and #2. Luke doesn't see Yoda after his last scene with him in Empire until post-Jabba's Palace in RotJ. I mean, can we still assume a decent length of time passed?
 
shortsFortallPeople said:
It weirds me out how those that are on the Dark Side refer to it as the Dark Side. I watched episode 3 again for the first time since it hit theaters this weekend and seeing Palpatine keep saying dark side dark side dark side to Anakin to try and convince him to come over seems like something he should've worked on. It's a hell of a harder sell to tell someone to come over to the Dark Side than it is to tell someone to come to the interesting side or something differently that doesn't immediately sound you sold your soul to the devil or some shit.

They need to hire some consultants, they clearly have a messaging issue
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Same thing as the Brotherhood of evil mutants
 
Interfectum said:
To me RotJ is the Emperor's throne room. That's the scene I always think about when talking about the movie. Easily one of the best scenes in the series if not the best.
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It's the best part of the movie, for sure, the space battle is far too short to be anything substantial and the battle on Endor feels more like filler than anything else (mainly because Han and Leia are so wasted). The power play between the three men in the Throne Room is amazing and written so well.
 
Jabba the Hutt's reveal is so well done, he's genuinely terrifying and the puppet effect makes him look so real. Shame that that whole sequence gets ruined once they get to the Sarlaac Pit and things stop making sense lol.
 
Sephzilla said:
I'll give my full opinion. Empire is the best all around movie but ROTJ is my personal favorite. The Emperor's throne room scenes > Luke vs Vader in Cloud City.



The complaint about ROTJ that always makes me scratch my head is when people get upset and say that Ewoks beating Imperial Stormtroopers makes no sense, but then they turn around and say they want the Empire to build the Death Star shield generator on a planet of Wookies.
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Emporer's throne room scenes are my favourite in the entire franchise but I'm not sure if VI is my favourite movie, probably goes to V for me.
 
brandonh83 said:
So do we really have to listen to Trevorrow sucks Episode IX gonna suck until 2019 when it turns out to be good? Because if so that's annoying as all hell. None of you know how he'll do. It's kneejerk cynicism because you didn't like his dinosaur movie. I didn't like Brick or Looper but I'm not worried about VIII because it's a different thing and I trust that Rian, in conjunction with Kathleen and the others at Lucasfilm will ensure that it's good.

People were also moaning about Abrams at first because Into Darkness gave them cholera or something and lens flares, yadda yadda. Jurassic World wasn't even badly directed.
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I like everything that Johnson has done- not only from a script standpoint but from a visual standpoint He has a very strong sense of style and I think that's a great thing to have in a Star Wars movie. I feel the same about Abrams- the dude may ape Spielberg a bit much but there are worse directors to aspire to visually. Hell, I was even impressed with the episodes of Alias he directed and the Lost TV pilot was very strong visually as well.

In both cases I trust the directors as long as the script is there.

Trevorrow, meanwhile, is quite bland visually. I enjoyed JW well enough but I was constantly thinking that almost every setpiece would have been better with someone with a better command of the camera. So that concerns me with regards to Episode 9.

brandonh83 said:
Martin Campbell made Casino Royale, as well as some of the worst movies I've ever seen like Vertical Limit. So I'm not so sure you can really make an educated guess because that would require so much more knowledge and foresight than any of us here have.
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Campbell shoots good action consistently (including Vertical Limit IMO). Even Legend of Zorro was well shot even if it was poor in pretty much all other areas. So I would absolutely trust Campbell provided the script is good.

Trurl said:
Of the three main actors, Mark Hamill is the person who seems to care in Jedi. Compare him and Fisher during the forest chase scene.
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I kind of feel like Hamill always puts in good work and effort. I was watching some Wing Commander cinematics the other day and he was quite good in them even with the rest of the mid 90 FMV cheese.
 
90sRobots said:
Han tells Luke in a smart-assed way that his vision is getting better. Also note he's making direct eye contact with Hamill when he delivers that line! Also it seems Ford's direction is to react to the stuntwork at hand.

Like Oscar Issac said:
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I don't think you've made a post in this thread that wasn't at least mildly irritating, so well done on that, I guess.
 
Does this mean the fanboys'll finally shut up now that they have their nice, safe rehash movie?

srsly, I'll see it a hundred times if it does it.
 
I have successfully made it over a year without catching any spoilers. Shit is getting real close now.

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The temptation is real.
 
I think for me I am excited for a new star wars, but keeping my expectations restrained at the same time.

Looking at the twitter reactions give me some hope that it is going to be good but honestly just having the old crew in it again is exciting enough.
 
JumPeRJumPzZ said:
People should just watch the movie and then decide if its good. This reviewers have always a different taste than you..
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Unless the movie is absolutely and universally terrible which I don't think it will be. Just go in and judge the movie for yourselves. I don't plan on reading any review because because they tend to reveal too many little tidbits imo
 
Crusader said:
All the "George Lucas Raped My Childhood" shit. I get it, people hated the last three, but with such intensity, kept up for 16+ years? C'mon.
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I think what keeps the prequel hate truly alive and intense is the fact that Lucas seemed to keep going back and making the original trilogy worse with each re-release. What Lucas did to the climax of ROTJ felt like it was almost spiteful. I think people would be more forgiving of the prequels (a little) if Lucas at least left the other movies alone.
 
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