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Star Wars Celebration 2017 |OT| A thread forty years in the making. You'll be Omazed.
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Haloid1177
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Celebration hasn't even started yet but you people sure got a jump start on it all.
Bobby Roberts
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Omazement
WadiumArcadium
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It's a sink being thrown at the cruiser if I remember correctly.
The drums at the start always get me excited but it all goes a bit downhill after the opening.
BrokenFiction
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This is just like standing in the queue line.
molnizzle
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Yeah, because you guys are so invested in Nien Nunb and unnamed pilots 34 and 87 screaming into their comlinks for 3 seconds in Return of the Jedi
Those are the faces of pure investment, right there.
The space battles aren't awesome because you actually give a fuck about the (mostly unnamed) people rocking back and forth on a gimbal. They're awesome because of the way they're shot, cut, and scored.
Rogue One's battle is planned out better, shot better, executed better. It's the best space battle in the series. There are obvious objectives, they all make visual sense, you can see them happening, track the action as it's happening even across cuts back down to the planetand also, the way the ground battle feeds the air battle and vice-versa is also done better in Rogue One than it is Jediand that's not even getting into the fact the VFX work is fucking flawless, as is the sound design and score.
You fuckin' kids and your hard on for Jedi's climax has become this recursive feedback loop of overinflated importance to the point where even attempting to speak to it critically causes you to curl up like pillbugs (or droidekas) and nope out.
"where is the tension"
Yeah, Jedi's space battle was loaded chock full of "tension." Sure. I don't know what movie you're talking about, but it's not Return of the Jedi. That space battle is pure spectacle. Nothing more. GREAT spectacle, sure. And on the strength of that spectacle alone, it used to be the best space battle in that series.
It isn't now.
Look at all the facts in this post.
Just look at them.
For real though. The best space battle is when Padme's ship exploded in Clones and Corde or whoever the fuck she was died.
"I've failed you, senator."
Still no closer to understanding that line.
"ah failed ya SENATUR"For real though. The best space battle is when Padme's ship exploded in Clones and Corde or whoever the fuck she was died.
"no"
edit: ^ dude why. why you gotta beat me like that
Anakin in the hypothetical scenario were he reached his full potential.
Episode III Anakin would get rekt
For real though. The best space battle is when Padme's ship exploded in Clones and Corde or whoever the fuck she was died.
"You did good!"
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PeskyToaster
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I actually love Rogue One's space battle. It has a race against time, heroic sacrifice to delay inevitable, and just in time arrival. I've said this before but there's no better moment than when a fleet arrives from hyperspace and the s-foils are being locked in attack position. Squad leaders are rattling off jargon and all the pilots are sounding off.
ANH trench run is tense but it's not the best space battle simply because it's very understated, to a fault. I mean the Death Star is planet sized and they send like 5 fighters to defend it.
Also you don't need to personally know every detail about the pilots to be invested in them and their cause. Every death is a huge blow to the rebels while it's a non-event for the Imperials which creates sympathy for the cause and the underdog nature of it. People beg for smarter movies but want to be spoon-fed exposition and emotion or else they don't feel anything. Might as well make all the pilots dogs
if you want cheaply squeeze emotion out of soulless viewers.
ANH trench run is tense but it's not the best space battle simply because it's very understated, to a fault. I mean the Death Star is planet sized and they send like 5 fighters to defend it.
Also you don't need to personally know every detail about the pilots to be invested in them and their cause. Every death is a huge blow to the rebels while it's a non-event for the Imperials which creates sympathy for the cause and the underdog nature of it. People beg for smarter movies but want to be spoon-fed exposition and emotion or else they don't feel anything. Might as well make all the pilots dogs
or horses
matrixman92
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damn, might miss some of the first panel. Gotta go to toys r us to get the celebration Thrawn funko pop
WadiumArcadium
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It brought us seismic charges so it's got that going for it.
After seeing Rebels, Ben
BrokenFiction
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But it has aggressive negotiations!
I can't wait for the next series.
Well what about this?!?!
Daisy doesn't skip leg day
Bobby Roberts
Banned
KILL THEM ALL, PADME
Yo is that Luke shot at 1:40 new? Did they just sneak the first tidbit of footage into their youtube show?
I just compared it to TFA on Netflix, the shot definitely is different there. Maybe behind the scenes footage from TFA?
Bobby Roberts
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Nah, I think they showed that a year ago. There was a video when Episode 8's first day of shooting was announced, I think.
BrokenFiction
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I think it's from the Ep 8 Begins Filming teaser they put out last year.
I believe that was taken from the "First day of shooting" video they released for Last Jedi a year or so ago.
BrokenFiction
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Jeebus, I wish this thing would start already.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Ehhh...
...Kyle Newman's on the show this week.
...Kyle Newman's on the show this week.
beef?
Love each other
Bobby Roberts
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I'm not particularly a fan of basically anything he's ever done. Or said.
The Smuggler's Bounty series aside, though. That stuff is pretty cool. Although my enjoyment of that is primarily due to the voice actors themselves.
Bobby Roberts
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