DarthDementous

If it's not in her book or her screenplay, it's bullshit.
 
It's like Mel Gibson receiving praise after the release of Expendables 3 for saying how his character had saved oppressed people from persecution in his youth or fought in the civil Rights movement.
 
Should Gibson get praise for such claims?
 
Opportunism has to be called out wherever it comes from.

Sonic was always the personification of the worst tropes of 90s kids marketing.  This looks like the movie the character deserves.

It thubverted ekthpektathunth

Solo was a mess, it was a severe mishandling of marketing and the fact that they had so many issues during production with the firing of the original directors. The end product is what you'd get if you pulled an all-nighter on an assignment, you did the research, you've got the quotes and supporting arguments, you've got the references and bibliography all cited and correct, but you left it to the day before it was due and it shows. 
 
But TLJ, a mess? Nothing would suggest the production process didn't go smoothly and end result was anything but a disaster, it was just not what a majority of the audience had expected.

Clean up a mess? @rough cut  Imagine the stress, the pressure of nearly a decade of a void of Star Wars films, the aftertaste of the Prequels, the legacy and nostalgia of forty plus years leading up to The Force Awakens. It must've been insane and would've given me panic attacks!
 
One of the things I found interesting about the process on that film was just how involved Abrams and Kasdan were and their collaborative nature in going for walks, talking for hours about the story, really trying to wrap their heads around how they were going to bring Star Wars back. I was more interested in that aspect when the film came out because from all accounts Disney and Lucasfilm had a positive front, constantly reassuring the fans that this was something special, and for a while, it didn't seem like a mega corporation making a product, it felt like they were invested in creating a good film first.
 
They put on the same face with TLJ and I felt completely at ease going in that what we were getting was more of what TFA and Abrams had given us. Like others I was disappointed, I wasn't sure why at the time, but nowhere in that period of absorbing what I'd just seen did I feel betrayed or disheartened or thinking that this film was poorly thought out - I really believed it was a problem I had disassociating myself from my expectations, my feelings and thoughts. 
 
Is TLJ a mess? No. Is it different to what I had expected after TFA? Definitely. Is it a problem inherent in the management and creative side of Disney, Lucasfilm, Rian Johnson, Kathleen Kennedy etc? Not really, it's more the negative emotions surrounding the film that have impacted how I'm going to respond to the next film and that means that instead of feeling reassured Abrams is returning, I'm feeling like this film coming up will have to temper the expectations more than TFA, it has more riding on it because it has to end this series. Not cleaning up a mess, more like polishing a tarnished medallion. 
 

Not sure if joking or not... Star Wars movies are known for their excellent art direction.

I love that, even though he works on these films, Mark Hamil is saying it like it is!
 
I'm not even sure I agree with him, but you gotta admire his attitude.
 
He's the man!

Mutt died on the way back to his home planet

Ah, I see what you're saying now.  Yeah, I can agree with that.  I can admit when I'm wrong.

But so much of the jungle chase was shot legitimately, albeit in the cushy safety of Hawaii, before Lucas and ILM cartooned it to hell and back. What started as just covering up tire tracks from the camera track ended up coating the entire screen with relentless CGI foliage. The result is a blurry, cartoony mess. The sword fight atop the cars is surely the worst offender (yes, even worse than swinging with monkeys in the vines). It's even replete with a godawful fake lens flare smeared all over the frame, as if to hide the godawful CGI all over the shot.

 

 
What the actual fuck was Spielberg thinking when he signed off on that? If nothing else, Spielberg has always had an astute eye for poor CGI but he just didn't seem to care with KOTCS.
 
You're right though, watching this documentary on how much was done practically really is an indictment on... something! I'm not sure if it's the colour gradist, Kaminski asking for bloom/smoke, an ILM compositor on steroids, or Spielberg himself, but all this work just looks like a mess of over-processed digital rubbish in the final cut. The jungle-specific stuff starts at 11:00 and it's just depressing how much better everything looked BEFORE they smeared digital plants all over the frame. Ironically, they cite the reason for this as, "selling it to the audience that they're driving through a jungle, not on a road." Fail much? All they did was make it look like a Pixar movie and draw attention to the fakeness of the imagery, when it was shot in a real jungle!
 
 

I really hope Williams keeps up this momentum and vibe as he works his way through TROS.

glad to see that there's people out there that also enjoy this score and want a more comprehensive version of it. keep up the great work guys!

watch the crystal cave Falcon scene from The Last Jedi, one of the TIEs shoot the square radar dish off.

watch the crystal cave Falcon scene from The Last Jedi, one of the TIEs shoot the square radar dish off.

This?
 
 

Like, "Williams acts professionally and respectfully asks that the process be different for Episode IX" turns into "WILLIAMS SAYS EITHER ABRAMS GOES OR I GO!"

Around 6:45
 

I have been a fan of Star Wars since I saw Episode IV: A New Hope on VHS when I was six or seven years old. Star Wars is my favorite franchise. The story, the characters, the Maestro’s music. I own the first eight chapters of the Skywalker Saga, the entire set of The Clone Wars (until season 7 premieres with the launch of Disney+, in which I will subscribe to catch that), Solo, Rebels and Rogue One. I also own many of the novels, including Queen's Shadow, Dark Disciple, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, the novelization of Solo, The Rise of the Empire, Thrawn, Thrawn: Alliances, Ahsoka, Leia: Princess of Alderaan, Lost Stars, Heir to the Jedi, The Aftermath trilogy, Last Shot, Bloodline, Phasma, The Legends of Luke Skywalker, the novelizations of Episode VII and VIII, and I look forward to the novels coming out. I am really looking forward to catching The Mandalorian on Disney+. Seeing the entire saga thus far, it will be really exciting to see the final chapter play out in Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. I am really looking forward to experiencing everything that Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge has to offer. From the small glimpses seen and the details I've read, Batuu and Black Spire Outpost sound like a very interesting place to visit. I am really excited!

Looks like times are hard on Tatooine. 3PO has to earn some extra cash grinding the pole at the club
 
 

I hope Luke is talking to Kylo when he says he's passed on all he knows, because he aint passed on shit to Rey. Well I guess he did tickle her hand with a leaf, which is pretty much equal to what Yoda taught Luke.

Here's something I've been working on for the past few months, hopefully some of you on here will find it interesting!
 
 
 
Only just seen this...this is awesome!
 

Sounds like snippets from a sequel to RotJ Williams wrote in 86. 

Is this the Coke ad?