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Star Wars Episode VIII Production Thread (Principal Photography Complete)
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Another video here
http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2016...the-starwars-episodeviii-set-at-pinewood.html
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http://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2016...the-starwars-episodeviii-set-at-pinewood.html
At the bottom
Some royals visited the set. Not much new really, but you get to see Luke, Rey, Finn and Chewie together in the same photo
There might also be a glimpse of a new ship?
Short vid with BB-8
It's an A-Wing.
Creepy but cool
Never considered a stun person would wear a face mask that is 1-2-1 of the actor, makes sense i suppose.
Well one thing ive been thinking, since the republic fleet is gone, we might get alot of throwbacks
Bring
Me
Y WINGS!
And B wings
Maybe its Poe and Finns mission to uncover old remnants and ships to build up the resistance.
Why should he suddenly drop his signature spaceship?
WyndhamPrice
Member
The lack of ship diversity was so lame in TFA, I'm glad they seem to be fixing that. Their reasoning for limiting it in the first place was so flimsy to begin with.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I want A-Wings, I want Interceptors.
I need interceptors.
Hell, I thought it was a missed opportunity that Kylo's shuttle didn't have the wings rotate forward to suggest that look as opposed to them simply folding down.
brandonh83
Banned
They X-washed all the ships.
WyndhamPrice
Member
They were just the right ships for the job, that's all
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Yup. Because when your finale depends on multiple bombing runs, you leave out the bombers.
Y-Wings had two cracks at Death Stars before this and couldn't get the job done. Now they're riding the bench like they deserve.
And last time I checked, it was an A-Wing that brought down the Super Star Destroyer in ROTJ too.
How would you bomb a hole that is on a wall and then has a 90 degree turn inside?
Death Star 1 - Blown up by an X-Wing
Super Star Destroyer - Taken down by an A-Wing
Death Star 2 - Blown by an X-Wing and some garbage.
Get to the back of the line, Y-Wing!
Your missions in Rogue Squadron 1 sucked, anyways!
Wedge only destroyed the shield generator of the generator of the second deathstar, the Millenium Falcon brought that thing down.
He was barely a wingman.
Wedge at least gets the assist. He's the John Stockton of the Star Wars universe.
Y-wings are the best because they're ugly and clunky.
They're supposed to be stripper models of these thrown back together for the rebels. Think of them as big bomb dropping hot rods.
We need some B-Wing in the mix though. Those are my fav.
BrokenFiction
Member
The OG Y-Wing toy was awesome, though, because you could remove all the engine struts and a few other pieces and when you were playing it looked like an awesome crash happened if you shot it down.
(oldest pic I could find)
(oldest pic I could find)
MHWilliams
Member
Some royals visited the set. Not much new really, but you get to see Luke, Rey, Finn and Chewie together in the same photo
Must be a blast for Ridley and Boyega to meet the Royals, since they're English.
Yeah, but thats a drawing and not a movie
Yup. Looks badass.
It seems kinda non carrier friendly though with DAT footprint.
I can see them do something similar that empire did with the Ties to solve the problem you named - I would do it that way
The funniest thing in the movie is way Chewie nods when the gangsters say Han ripped them off twice before. Cracks me up every time.
WadiumArcadium
Member
I'd forgotten that part until I rewatched it last night. It is underrated.
QuantumZebra
Member
this all day
A New Hope is straight classic, but to me a good analogy for the two is Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2... both are in the same vein, and one stands tall as the original, but the follow-up is just head and shoulders better overall.
TFA=ESB>ANH>ROTJ>Guardians of the Galaxy>Galaxy Quest>Turds>Prequels
LegendofLex
Member
This will depend very, very much on how fondly its two sequels are viewed once they come out.
I don't think this is a fair comparison though because there's literally no way TFA can make the same lasting footprint ANH did. A New Hope changed movies in a big permanent way.
Liquidsnake
Banned
They will look at it as the rebirth of a franchise, because thats what it is.
the best of all 7 maybe not, but the rebirth. Its a very important movie.
The Resistance Transport in TFA (the one Leia gets out of) has parts of it repurposed from a B-Wing, so you sort of already have.
And thats the way it should be remembered, because, and this is now my opinion (because I am going against the opinion of other people...) I can only shake my head when people say that this one is supposed to be better then anything of the OT.
I straight up think The Force Awakens is better than A New Hope. A New Hope is a great historic movie but I kind of feel like nostalgia goggles blind people to its rough spots. But I'm admittedly a bit of a minority in general because I think A New Hope is the weakest of the OT.
WadiumArcadium
Member
It's the start of a new era of Star Wars, but I think it's a genuinely great Star Wars film as well. Which puts it above Jedi for me. Jedi has greater highs but TFA is better paced, better looking and just more enjoyable to me.
johnnywheels
Neo Member
I completely agree, TFA will hopefully carry the reputation they have rolling
The Rebels episode with the first B-Wing was pretty sweet
SomeRandomWeirdGuy
Member
I love the A-Wing/B-wing/Interceptor/etc, but why not some new ships? People will be able to know it's Star Wars even if they don't wear the OT like a suit of clothes.
I'd be cool with just updated versions of the OT ships (TFA's X-Wing has some minor differences). The ships in ROTS weren't that radically different from the ships in the OT either.