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Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson 2017)


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3 hours ago, Pieter_Boelen said:

Did they deliberately cut off the tops of their heads, or is that just my phone display?

If they did, weeeiiird design choice...

 

 

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On 7/14/2017 at 8:20 PM, Woj said:

It worked! I got an alert that Amazon had it, and I checked the link, they had 19. I opened the app and they had 9, so I hit 1 click and fortunately found it in my cart at the MSRP of 119 instead of a third-party markup. It sold out in mere minutes after getting the alert. I received another alert shortly thereafter, but I won't buy likely buy another.

 

Sweet!

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18 hours ago, Not Mr. Big said:

 

 

Cool video.  I liked the shot of the red sand blowing over the camera man.


Laura Dern looks cool!

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I'm so excited to hear what source music Williams wrote for the casino. It looks ripe for some bizarre and inspired writing from him! What are the odds of another alien band? :D

 

He obviously had something interesting in mind if he insisted on writing it (after passing the buck on TFA).

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Williams was pretty forthcoming about that for TFA. He's just keeping a low profile at the moment.

 

I get the impression this film had far less music recorded than TFA (ie, less rewrites, possibly more sparsely spotted). Not only is Johnson less meddlesome than JJ in the edit suite, but I've got a feeling there was a tonal synergy between Johnson's vision and Williams' writing.

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I didn't think it were possible, but I think I'm more excited about this Star Wars score than I was about hearing TFA.

 

How is that possible?!

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3 hours ago, crumbs said:

I didn't think it were possible, but I think I'm more excited about this Star Wars score than I was about hearing TFA.

 

How is that possible?!

Can't really agree. TLJ hype has yet to go into full gear for me. A big part of it is that we still don't have a clear picture of the new thematic associations or action set-pieces as we did with TFA (which had major plot leak and was generally the "establishing movie" of the trilogy).  I've yet to see anything new from TLJ that looks thematically promising.  It's cool that Rian Johnson is directing and all but I'm not exactly squirming in my seat with excitement to hear "Rose's Theme" or "The Porgs".  

 

Then again, a lot of this is due to the fact that the plot and characters are (rightly) so vague at this point.  

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They're making quite a big deal out of those porgs, aren't they?

I expected them to just be background characters; but could they have some actual story involvement?

I'm not convinced on overly cute characters being involved in the story... there's something that seems potentially too silly in that...

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Gotta give Chewie something to do on the island. A few scenes with R2, Chewie and the porgs sounds fun!

 

And I believe Williams will give the porgs a flighty, woodwind motif, maybe flute, as opposed to a theme. His motivic associations in TFA were a noticeable deviation from the long-lined melodies of the OT (an evolution which started in the prequels). A lot of his TFA motifs are barely a few notes long and don't exactly develop as the film goes on (map theme).

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3 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

For real.  Boo to the person who said his work on Lost World was ugly.  Beautifully shot film.

 

That was me and one nicely shot sequence =/= a beautifully shot film. For everything nice that he did I could post three shots of mediocre photography that summed up Spielberg's DGAF attitude on the film. Not saying Kaminski is to blame for shot choice but they've had consistently superior work in almost every other collaboration.

 

The daylight scenes atop the cliff-side camp spring immediately to mind, as Kelly sits on the car hood. And the trailer interior that follows. Pedestrian shot choices & mise en scene, like a low budget TV drama. I've always found that long zoom shot of Roland leading the hunters (the shot immediately after the "moveable feast" line) an utterly bizarre creative decision.

 

As with KOTCS, you can tell when Spielberg was picking and choosing when he gave a shit. All the crypt stuff is dull and visually unimaginative. The jungle scenes look terrible. Almost the entire opening sequence looks great (and was the first stuff they shot - coincidence, or Spielberg losing interest after a month?)

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Originally when Indy used his whip to grab the gun from that Russian soldier, he grabbed it around the trigger and shot another Russian by pulling the whip. How awesome would that have been?

 

They cut it, naturally. Can't have Indy shooting anyone! It's like Sigourney Weaver took over the franchise.

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9 hours ago, Not Mr. Big said:

R.I.P Episode VIII

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Yep, my point exactly.

I saw that before posting here and thought it went a li'l bit over the top...

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2 minutes ago, mstrox said:

It's going to be a Little Golden Book or something similar.  Something for toddlers or the earliest readers.  Maybe I'll pick it up for my 18-month-old.  I don't think it was made to appeal to JWFans.

 

Reasonable perspective not allowed here

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