Etrian Oddity
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Technically it's plasma, isn't it? It's just redirecting the power of a sun, unless I'm mistaken.
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[SPOILERS] Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Thread #3) - That's Not How the Force Works
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If you could time travel into the 1970s... "This is what Star Wars will look like one day"
In my mind, Star Wars always looked this amazing. It didn't of course, but my imagination took it to this kind of a place. I still can't get over the fact that it doesn't have to any longer.
Pulled this out of that VFX reel:
I'm planning to see TFA one more time, near the end of its run. .gifs like this are making awfully hard not to go this weekend.
30yearsofhurt
Member
I'd really like a gif of Rey eating her dinner where she puts on the helmet.
She just looks like such a nerdy fangirl.
She just looks like such a nerdy fangirl.
I always forget to ask, is that sups loses to be a scavenger going to pick up shit from the tie that's not even done crashing yet? If so I love that shot.
Yup, it's a scavenger from the village. It's like Christmas to her. :lol
BreezyLimbo
Banned
It looked like she was hiding, because right after the gif ends she kinda jumps behind the dune and ducks to hide.
Chuckie
Member
I thought that was to start scavenging actually. I could be wrong of course.
This is how I interpreted it as well. I loved that bit. The movie would have been more or less the same without it, but adding a scavenger actively following this dog fight to its end so he/she/it could scavenge it is subtle well done worldbuilding.
It also seemed to be a small quick throwback to the original concept of the opening sequence in the art book where a derelict Star Destroyer crashes into Jakku and a swarm of scavengers immediately race to it Mad Max style. This is where we originally meet Rey.
Still being floored by this post. Specifically this part:
"The first Death Star is the symbol of the technological bureaucratic monstrosity of the Empire. Its a gray, featureless world brought down by the colorful alliance. The second Death Star is a spiders web, representative of the labyrinthine plotting of the Emperor as he attempts to pull all his enemies into his trap.
Starkiller Base is nothing short of the Dark Side of the Force itself. Its a decaying corpse of a world, with the remaining trees a fake organic shell around the cold mechanical might within. And more, it literally sucks the light out of the galaxy as its powered. Starkiller Base is the logical extension of what the villains have wished to do to the galaxy all along."
Like I (and many others before) have said ... The First Order just want to be like the Empire. Sure, it's lazy to just have another Death-Star type weapon ... but it works and doesn't bother me
Yeah, plot-wise it's a bit juvenile, but there's pretty solid meaning behind it and it serves as a wrap-up for the ultimatum weapons in the Original Trilogy.
Where are the bad guys going to go from here? We have two more films to come.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
This is worldbuilding done right. Not like the "funny" CG animals added in background shots in the Special Editions.
I think one of the film's greatest triumphs is how human they made all the little details.
Episodes 1-6 were cartoony in their presentation of bystanders, alien or human. The cantina aliens. Original Jabba. Every alien in Phantom Menace.
But in TFA, they made the choice to treat the aliens just like people. Marginalised. Suffering. Struggling along.
I remember when the stormtroopers raid the settlement at the beginning on Jakku, that alien with a bovine-like head screaming while he's being restrained - the look of sheer horror in his eyes while it's happening. He's not a cartoon. He's like a real being who is being assaulted.
Goes all the way to people in the backdrops like those scavengers we're talking about. There's real history there, a real story behind these people taking cover while the TIE fighter crashes.
Great writing.
Booker Dewitt
Member
I understand the mechanical reasons and thematic reasons why. And in a fantasy movie aimed at kids, don't really care about plausibility. It's more that in a film so referential and committed to proving it knows what it is, I thought it was a subtle reference that was also used to establish and build a character.
EDIT: Thought it could be anyway.
The Librarian
Banned
Yes please.
You know another way Star Wars has treated its female characters badly? We haven't seen a female-female friendship in the movies.
Oh, Star Wars...
Blue Ninja
Member
I just need it to come out on Blu-Ray already. My dad's the one who introduced me to Star Wars back when I was a kid, and he's going through some stuff right now that's made it impossible for me to even get him excited to go see this one.
I just want to be able to grab some chips, pop in the disc and enjoy the movie from home, so he can watch it with me.
That's what I'm wondering. Weird that all these gifs are popping out otherwise.
Well, Padmé seemed really fond of the way that one hand maiden took that bomb explosion.
There actually were plenty of chances. Leia could have had an interaction with Mon Mothma (instead of just sitting next to Han when they discussed the attack on Endor) - Padme could have befriended Beru.
It took 7 movies to pass the Bechdel test, and just barely (Maz Kanata's conversation with Rey in the basement. And even then, they did talk an awful lot about a man - Luke)
the VFX reel.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1170231
edit: oh, i just had some inspiration!
has this been made before?
What's tickled me even through the old Legends timeline is that in a galaxy where building planet-destroying weapons is not only possible but ridiculously common, out of all the spacefaring species and possible permutations of genuinely warlike dispositions out there, the majority of them are built by humans.
we truly are the worst species
edit: oh, i just had some inspiration!
has this been made before?
Wouldn't use, people seem to be absurdly touchy about anything Star Wars in public because spoilers and conditioning despite the fact we're way more than a month out.
Heck, post TR-8R and get chewed up.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
I think the closest we got to seeing a female-female friendship is in AOTC when Padmé's sister teases Padmé about her "boyfriend" Anakin... in a deleted scene.
The Librarian
Banned
#almostprogress
to be fair, the death star was designed by the Geonosians.
... you guys, having watched the movie 6 times and just watched the VFX clip again - Poe is one to really spew a lot of symbolic quotes.
"While there is light, we still have a chance" (talking about the sun, but also foreshadowing the moment when Kylo decides to kill his father)
"Our job's done here, let's go home" (after blowing up Starkiller base) feels very intentional in a meta narrative kind of way as well. The "job" was to re-create what made StarWars StarWars, ... now let's go 'home'. (similar to "Chewie, we're home", of course)
We set up our hero, we've shown our villain, we found some friends, we destroyed a Super weapon. Our job's done here.
A. Those aren't laser beams.
B. They're actually moving at least thousands of times the speed of light judging by the time they took to travel between star systems.
The deleted scenes (plus i believe novelisation) show how despite her career she is more interested in having children/being a mother and is jealous of her sister, her maternal instincts make her relationship with Anakin more understandable (allegedly)
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Rogue One
rumors actually say that the Geonosians never managed to make it work and that it's a human scientist who finally made it functional.
yeah, it was still designed by the Geonosians. Their intent was to design a battle station that would be able to destroy entire planets.
We were talking about morality, not engineering prowess
wrong thread?
i checked Reddit and didn't find a Star Wars pic on page 3, but one of you getting pretty buff. good job!
Maybe it's a slow motion video.
Truth be told there's two completely separate scale/physics issues with that one shot, heh.
- Something travelling the speed of light should appear to the camera all at once, since, you know, it IS the speed of light. Backwards if it's travelling faster than the speed of light. This is of course completely ignoring the whole 'lol it's slow' issue.
- Moon will never be that close in proximity to a planet without crashing into it from gravitational force
But whatever, it's a movie and it's Star Wars, it doesn't have to make perfect sense.
The 2007 Death Star novel was written specifically to reverse the complete shitting up of the lore behind it and reconcile all the disparate mentions of it, in large part thanks to the PT.
Of course, it's similarly non-canon now, but I wonder how much of Rogue One will borrow from existing EU. If there's a Kyle Katarn Imperial-turned-mercenary-turned-rebel analogue (who actually doesn't turn out to be a Jedi) I'll be a happy camper.
Film hasn't leaked, I'm pulling all these gifs from the VFX reel myself, just cropping it to the finished shots in the lower right corner.
Another link to the FX reel, along with a small article about it: http://oneperfectshotdb.com/news/the-visual-effects-of-star-wars-the-force-awakens/
Thanks for all the .gifs griffy, great work.
Thanks for all the .gifs griffy, great work.
User 73706
Banned
welp
I love it too, in fact her whole introduction sequence. That scene was like Luke playing with his models. Luke however seems bored and trapped at his Uncle's, Rey is independent. And while socio-economically trapped on a tradepost planet, she seems ever so optimistic about her life's prospects. She is very much a self-made woman.
Yes
Leatherface
Member
So I just went to IMDB to check out user reviews for movies and in doing so noticed the new Star Wars and was curious about what people thought. To my surprise the user review section was completely spammed with 1 star reviews. Really? 1 star? The WORST possible movie imaginable? All those user accounts should be banned immediately for mucking up legitimate and honest reviews. I really hope this isn't a sneak preview of what we can expect going forward with IMDB. I haven't bumped into this too much with other movies but being such a high profile release seems to have brought out the trolls. Meh.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Considering that MRA is mad and boycotted the movie, I can imagine that alot of petulant men are the ones spamming 1 star reviews. Par for the course for a wildly popular movie @_@
whoa.
Not so much that. Some fans are still angry that the EU got wiped out and have been spamming novels with one star ratings as well. Plus you got fans flipping out about you know what BECAUSE HOW DARE THEY. And then you got the Lucas lovers who think only he should do anything Star Wars.
The whole MRA thing is a non factor for the most part.
Count Dookkake
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Ha, that's pretty damn cool. The game looks so beautiful and sounds great to match, pity it's so shallow.
You got to wonder what it took to take down a SSD, those things were so massive. The one destroyed in ESB was nothing but pure luck.
The overall rating is still at 8.5/10, so that loud minority isn't doing much to the aggregate. Star Wars has so much baggage though that there's always going to be some subset that hates any given installment for some reason, and TFA has the added benefit of having a competent female protagonist that will anger some subset of idiots, and Lucas having nothing to do with the new film which means it isn't a "real" Star Wars movie so some other subset is mad about that, etc.
Haven't read it yet, but apparently it was(canon EU spoilers)
it was purposefully scuttled
well, the Rebel attack aimed to disable the weapon of Starkiller base. Blowing it up was a nice side effect of them shooting the oscillator right when it was fully charged, thereby overloading it.
If their attack had been successful earlier, the thing would've just shut down, i guess.
So i don't think that "soft" deterrent would have been worth the hassle dealing with the native species.
One might even say that the rebels didn't bat an eye when attacking a huge laser shooting space station next to a moon inhabited by fuzzy little bear creatures.
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