King Mark 3,631 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 It's like were in JWfan from 2002I can;t find the Star Wars Prequel Ressource thread but this could be interestinghttp://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-star-wars-battlefront-will-be-shown-at-e3/1100-6419470/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 "The Empire Strikes Back" is probably the corniest of the six, by today's standards. If they announced a similar title for VII, people would tear it apart. It's like one step removed from "Luke Saves the Day."The people who would tear it apart would be mostly male nerds whose sole raison d'etre is to bicker over fucking subtitles of genre movies. Quintus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Fuckin' eh. Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,300 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 "The Empire Strikes Back" is probably the corniest of the six, by today's standards. If they announced a similar title for VII, people would tear it apart. It's like one step removed from "Luke Saves the Day."The people who would tear it apart would be mostly male nerds whose sole raison d'etre is to bicker over fucking subtitles of genre movies.That's really all I meant by it. Is there anybody else in the world who complains about movie titles, anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Plenty of people here complain about The Battle Of The Five Armies.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,300 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I won't say I rest my case, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Star Wars: 'Day one' shooting begins http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27426140 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Begun...this Clone War has! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,719 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I'm betting they're shooting Han's death scene first!Greedo's grandson will shoot first this time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Smeltington and fommes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafeUnderHill 205 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,383 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Awesome, Henson-esque creatures! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Looks like a cross between and Yak Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,349 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 So real it looks like CGI! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,796 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Looks like a cross between and Yak Facei think it is the 1st one.Way of implementing TCW canon into the new films...The film is going to look like the phantom menace SFX wise. Though the CGI will be decades better. Which is not bad isnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 This looks like fucking Dark Crystal! Ugh!Now make sure you harvest every ounce of pre release information, leaks and preview footage while posting countless speculative posts in the many months ahead and then of course your eventual lengthy and thorough reactions after seeing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Oh God...not again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,796 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 So in the end...isnt it ironic that a new Star Wars film is going to have the 'lets use muppets and not CGI everywhere' sentiment that the hobbit was going to have with Del Toro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,370 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 that the hobbit was going to have with Del Toro?Source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 http://www.totalfilm.com/news/guillermo-del-toro-spills-more-hobbit-info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 This looks like fucking Dark Crystal! Ugh!Now make sure you harvest every ounce of pre release information, leaks and preview footage while posting countless speculative posts in the many months ahead and then of course your eventual lengthy and thorough reactions after seeing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 So in the end...isnt it ironic that a new Star Wars film is going to have the 'lets use muppets and not CGI everywhere' sentiment that the hobbit was going to have with Del Toro?Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,383 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 So in the end...isnt it ironic that a new Star Wars film is going to have the 'lets use muppets and not CGI everywhere' sentiment that the hobbit was going to have with Del Toro?That's not irony. SafeUnderHill and Once 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 But puppets and animatronics are a lost art. Everyone who knew how to make them properly is dead. They should use CGImaybe JJ was standing in front of a giant green screen and the whole background is fake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 So in the end...isnt it ironic that a new Star Wars film is going to have the 'lets use muppets and not CGI everywhere' sentiment that the hobbit was going to have with Del Toro?That's not irony.It is... from a certain point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafeUnderHill 205 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Frank Oz is dead? Since when? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Since about ten years ago or longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,796 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 It's ironic, because SW under George lucas was always driving on the contrary direction, and people always liked PJ's LOTR (and del toro's ideas for the hobbit) for not using so much needless CGI.And then PJ's hobbit happened and JJ's Star wars is happening...Who knows GL can still return and wreck it all again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Frank Oz is dead? Since when?http://en.mediamass.net/people/frank-oz/deathhoax.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,796 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Since about ten years ago or longer.he is not...Yoda, the puppet is dead since more than ten years though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datameister 2,045 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I have wondered, with all of the recent advances in technology that seem to be all about new digital techniques, have prosthetics improved at all? Have we been able to produce more realistic models or have advances just helped reduce the cost of things. Or is there no real change since there has been little development in the field? Development in the world of practical effects definitely seems relatively slow these days...but then again, when the design and execution are sufficiently brilliant, there really isn't that much room for improvement anyhow. I mean, you can go all the way back to, say, the mine car chase in TOD, and there are miniature VFX shots in there that pretty much look indistinguishable from reality. I mean, there's also some bad bluescreen matte work and some pretty poor continuity when it comes to the speeds of the mine carts, mostly when switching between miniature shots, bluescreen shots, and conventional live action shots. But there are moments in that sequence in which there really is no room for improvement. I'd say the same goes for some of the practical dino shots in JP, for instance. Then again, theme parks continue to show slow but steady improvement in the quality of animatronic figures. At Disneyland, for example, there are recent developments like the cars in Radiator Springs Racers or the latest incarnation of Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln. These are extremely impressive machines that are capable of highly realistic motion. In fact, they're often toned down from their full capabilities, in order to reduce wear and tear while they perform 12-16 hours every day for decades on end. When shooting a film, you don't have the same concerns...the figure just has to work for the duration of production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I wish a lot of film makers would return back to physical models and only use CGI when necessary. A lot of CGI does look fake, especially for ships. I mean grant CGI material has come along way but it doesn't hold up to the beauty of a physical model IE: The Millennium Falcon and Super Stardestroyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Lol I genuinely did think Frank Oz died about 10 years ago and had no idea about a hoax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Looks like a cross between and Yak Facei think it is the 1st one.Way of implementing TCW canon into the new films...The film is going to look like the phantom menace SFX wise. Though the CGI will be decades better. Which is not bad isnt it?Yes, visually TPM is the closest comparison I think. It's exactly what I thought when I saw the video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 That alien doesn't look Star Wars to me. Same problem the prequels had. It's because none of it is designed by Ralph McQuarrie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 It's more Jim Henson than Ralph McQuarrie, but it's better than this POS. Smeltington 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 The dump I took this morning is better than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I like the fact that everyone assumes the merchant alien that waddles past Abrams is part of the movie. How do we know it's not just a get-up made specifically for the trailer, to incite online conversation for the next 19 months or so? I mean, are the red four door behind the tent and the woman with a fanny pack who appears at the very end going to be in the movie too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,300 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I don't really see why it wouldn't be in the movie, but I'll be surprised if it's more than just something that passes by in the background. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I don't really see why it wouldn't be in the movie, but I'll be surprised if it's more than just something that passes by in the background.Honestly, that's exactly what I expect it to be for. Looks like alien crowd filler for a marketplace. Something like that doesn't need to be front and center or attract attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Bantha poodoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Oh god people are already dissecting and whining about the bleedin' special effects and creature designs in this thing. This video is a well meant little introduction to the production from its excited new director, little else. Get a life!I agree with the comment above that says that particular creature is charming background filler. But noooooooo, the geeks online are displeased because the alien being is OBVIOUSLY supposed to be a major new character who is a fucking Jedi. DarthDementous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 These are Star Wars geeks, what do you expect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafeUnderHill 205 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 And it could be all the better for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,349 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I thought it was very well done, but I wonder, will this be a creature-heavy movie? Is this what the fans of Star Wars want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 They want Ewoks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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