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kwaigonegin

kwaigonegin

Colonel
Anyone here not seen R1 yet? I watched it yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. It was very dark by SW standards however it ties in real well with ep. 4 and certainly blended in well with the originals.
I noticed they did do a few cameos of past characters and environments as fan service.
I liked this one a lot more than TFA and Vader is awesome! He is every bit as menacing as how I remembered him to be when I watched him as a kid!
 
MwRYum

MwRYum

Major
kwaigonegin said:
Anyone here not seen R1 yet? I watched it yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. It was very dark by SW standards however it ties in real well with ep. 4 and certainly blended in well with the originals.
I noticed they did do a few cameos of past characters and environments as fan service.
I liked this one a lot more than TFA and Vader is awesome! He is every bit as menacing as how I remembered him to be when I watched him as a kid!
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Well it supposed to be dark because it's right before the Episode IV, and the Galatic Empire was, at that time, at the apex of its might. So it's should be dark.
 
Equation

Equation

Lieutenant General
kwaigonegin said:
Anyone here not seen R1 yet? I watched it yesterday and was pleasantly surprised. It was very dark by SW standards however it ties in real well with ep. 4 and certainly blended in well with the originals.
I noticed they did do a few cameos of past characters and environments as fan service.
I liked this one a lot more than TFA and Vader is awesome! He is every bit as menacing as how I remembered him to be when I watched him as a kid!
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Yep, George Lucas just didn't have the technology back than to portray Vader like a bad ass like he's suppose to be.:);)
 
AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
I saw Passengers. This is a movie where the script was on the 2013 or 2014 Blacklist in Hollywood. The Blacklist is a list of good scripts rejected by the studios for various reasons where they think it would be a hard sell to audiences and not make a profit even though they're considered "good" scripts. When I went to film school it was taught there were rules to be followed solely in order to get audiences to like a movie. In this case there was a violation of one of those rules where you're to avoid unlikable acts by the protagonist. Given that... in my opinion it was much ado about nothing. The story is what you probably think it's about. It's nothing complex. It was a predictable movie. The only thing that was "deep" is the reason why it was said it was unsellable to the studios. Without it they would have an even less interesting movie.

How was the movie even produced if the studios rejected it in the first place? Maybe because they changed the script hence why the "violation' wasn't such a big deal in my eyes. Or maybe because Wanda studios help produced the movie which puts less risk on Sony/Columbia.
 
MwRYum

MwRYum

Major
kwaigonegin said:
Yeah the Vader in R1 end scene would totally kick the Vader of literally just a few days later in the movie timeline.
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But back then (in Episode IV) Darth Vader's most memorable performance is the "I find you lack your faith disturbing" while demo the force choke, him kicking ass and taking names are in later movies and other medias.
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
I watched R1 yesterday It was great but what really worked and blew my socks off was Tarkin.
The last on screen Tarkin was Reveng of the Sith and well.. Tarkin-revenge-of-the-sith.jpgHe looked either like Odo from Startrek DS9 or some kinda Alien hybrid or a Puppet like Robot chicken. I don't know if they tried to use an actor in makeup but it did not work for that cameo. Obviously They couldn't get Peter Cushing as he passed twenty years ago.
So in Rouge one they managed to digitally recreate Peter Cushing's Face It was amazing I mean he was delivering like it was Peter Cushing one of the Greatest English actors of the 20th century.
They hired on living English actor Guy Henry who has a similar facial structure, build and is a very accomplished Actor in his own right. then Digitally grafted on a 3D recreation of Peter Cushing's face and had him stand in. and the delivery was perfect. I mean I did not remember until I walked out of the Theater and said "wait a second Peter Cushing is long dead!"
 
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PanAsian

Major
AssassinsMace said:
I saw Passengers. This is a movie where the script was on the 2013 or 2014 Blacklist in Hollywood. The Blacklist is a list of good scripts rejected by the studios for various reasons where they think it would be a hard sell to audiences and not make a profit even though they're considered "good" scripts. When I went to film school it was taught there were rules to be followed solely in order to get audiences to like a movie. In this case there was a violation of one of those rules where you're to avoid unlikable acts by the protagonist. Given that... in my opinion it was much ado about nothing. The story is what you probably think it's about. It's nothing complex. It was a predictable movie. The only thing that was "deep" is the reason why it was said it was unsellable to the studios. Without it they would have an even less interesting movie.

How was the movie even produced if the studios rejected it in the first place? Maybe because they changed the script hence why the "violation' wasn't such a big deal in my eyes. Or maybe because Wanda studios help produced the movie which puts less risk on Sony/Columbia.
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Can you be more specific? Or would that be a spoiler?
 
AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
PanAsian said:
Can you be more specific? Or would that be a spoiler?
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Yes it would be a spoiler since it basically deals with how it ends. There are some reviews out there that talk about it. They don't even mention the Blacklist part but they discuss the very part why the studios stayed away from it. So the studios do seem to know their stuff.
 
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