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Author:  MrChris [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 20:31 ]
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FUCJUNG AWSSOM
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 20:33 ]
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Pew pew pew! Missile launchers vs at-ats! Boom!
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 20:34 ]
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Da daa da da da DAAA daaaa
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 20:38 ]
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PEW PEW PEW
Author:  Satsuma [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 21:04 ]
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Nazis! Telephone pole! Jet Li! Jennifer Lawrence! Beach ball! Girl Anakin! A black man! Machete in glasses!
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 21:05 ]
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Don't be negative you
Author:  Firefox [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 21:33 ]
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Proper full-fat X-wing fighters! Awesome!
Author:  DavPaz [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 21:40 ]
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Saturnalian wrote:
Nazis! Telephone pole! Jet Li! Beach ball! Girl Anakin! A black man!

Yay!
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 21:41 ]
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PEW PEW
Author:  Cras [ Fri Oct 14, 2016 23:38 ]
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Saturnalian wrote:
Nazis! Telephone pole! Jet Li! Jennifer Lawrence! Beach ball! Girl Anakin! A black man! Machete in glasses!


Yay!
Author:  TheVision [ Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:54 ]
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Saturnalian wrote:
Nazis! Telephone pole! Jet Li! Jennifer Lawrence! Beach ball! Girl Anakin! A black man! Machete in glasses!


Yay!
Author:  Findus Fop [ Sat Oct 15, 2016 18:38 ]
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That's three yays in a row. Please tell Karen O she can come in. (With her tatties)

Yay sat!
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Sat Oct 15, 2016 18:56 ]
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Saturnalian wrote:
Nazis! Telephone pole! Jet Li! Jennifer Lawrence! Beach ball! Girl Anakin! A black man! Machete in glasses!

Yay!
Author:  Grim... [ Sun Oct 16, 2016 11:23 ]
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Findus Fop wrote:
tatties

Yay!
Author:  Grim... [ Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:40 ]
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https://twitter.com/AngrySalmond/status ... 76/photo/1

£22 for a Storm Trooper decanter.

Image
Author:  KovacsC [ Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:47 ]
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Fab :)
Author:  Zardoz [ Tue Oct 18, 2016 10:10 ]
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Will this film concentrate on how Kit Fisto earned his name?
Author:  MrChris [ Sat Dec 03, 2016 18:20 ]
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Alan Tudyk appears to be involved in this!
Author:  Curiosity [ Sat Dec 03, 2016 18:21 ]
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MrChris wrote:
Alan Tudyk appears to be involved in this!


Yes. He voices the robot.
Author:  MrChris [ Sat Dec 03, 2016 20:24 ]
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Ah. It doesn't sound like him at all!

The more trailers I see for this the more I'm convinced this is going to be amazing. We've got tickets for 6.30 on the 15th.
Author:  Grim... [ Sat Dec 03, 2016 21:54 ]
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MrChris wrote:
Ah. It doesn't sound like him at all!

He's also the bad guy in Wreck It Ralph.
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 15:43 ]
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FOUR HOURS
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 15:44 ]
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PEW PEW PEW
Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 15:45 ]
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MrChris wrote:
FOUR HOURS

Squee!
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 15:45 ]
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I really can't wait. I'm not paying much attention to work this afternoon.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 15:52 ]
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MrChris wrote:
I really can't wait. I'm not paying much attention to work this afternoon.

Me either, but for different laziness related reasons.
Author:  MaliA [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 15:54 ]
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WAIT A MOMENT I could go tonight as Porthos, Athos and the other one are in Buxton! Or brew beer. Hmm.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 15:57 ]
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MaliA wrote:
WAIT A MOMENT I could go tonight as Porthos, Athos and the other one are in Buxton! Or brew beer. Hmm.

Seeing as which thread you're in, I think we know the answer.
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 16:01 ]
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MaliA wrote:
WAIT A MOMENT I could go tonight as Porthos, Athos and the other one are in Buxton! Or brew beer. Hmm.

Choose wisely.
Author:  Morte [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 16:02 ]
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Star Wars seen.

Excellent...Alan Tudyk steals the show as the Imperial droid. Some reviews complained that it was too slow at the start but I didn't think that and thought it rocked along at a fair old pace. My only concern is the OTT amount of fan service in it but elements of the fan service were excellent and in keeping with the story (keep an eye out for some recognisable X-Wing and Y-Wing pilots) and some of the production / character design harked back to the original McQuarry concept art.

Overall: Many bananas
Author:  Squirt [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 17:09 ]
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Morte wrote:
Alan Tudyk steals the show as the Imperial droid.


I loved his line about
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everyone else dying in the cold, dark vacuum of space

- made me proper chuckle.

I thought Forest Whittaker over did it a bit, I really liked the ground assault sections and the way the Rebels aren't quite as shiny and goody-goody as they sometimes come across as.
Author:  Morte [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 17:57 ]
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I thought while watching it that it proves that Star Wars can do slightly 'darker' stories and don't have to lean heavily on existing characters to present a definite Star Wars film.

The more I think about it, the more I find to like about it.
Author:  Squirt [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 18:12 ]
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Morte wrote:
I thought while watching it that it proves that Star Wars can do slightly 'darker' stories and don't have to lean heavily on existing characters to present a definite Star Wars film.

The more I think about it, the more I find to like about it.

I think the universe is interesting and well defined enough that they could make a film totally removed from the main film arc and it would work fine. You could make a film about a rag tag group of space outlaws doing something daring somewhere, without any Jedi or Death Stars or Grand Galaxy Saving Feats and it would still be recognizable as a Star Wars film if done right.
Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 18:23 ]
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Awesome. I couldn't go till tomorrow evening but I'm really looking forward to it.
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 22:39 ]
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It was fucking brilliant. Can't wait to watch again.

Squirt, absolutely. There is a whole mythos, aesthetic and well, ecosystem to it and it would stand up well as a setting for many sorts of film. The bit in the space trading post was great.
Author:  MrChris [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 22:46 ]
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The bit with
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Darth Vader boarding the rebel ship
was pretty brutal. I was also slightly surprised that literally
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every one of the main cast died
Author:  MrChris [ Fri Dec 16, 2016 0:01 ]
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Also, there were a fair few bits in the trailer that weren't in the film, interestingly
Author:  Squirt [ Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:00 ]
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MrChris wrote:
There is a whole mythos, aesthetic and well, ecosystem to it and it would stand up well as a setting for many sorts of film. The bit in the space trading post was great.

I think a proper Star Wars espionage film set somewhere like that would be awesome - especially as a 15 cert. Imperial mole in the rebel spy ring, a brutal head of Imperial secret police, a jaded rebel spymaster and a population who'd actually rather they were just left in peace and are a bit ambiguous about the whole rebellion thing to begin with.
Author:  Dr Zoidberg [ Fri Dec 16, 2016 23:27 ]
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That was glorious. There's a few bits that could have been improved, but it was perfectly Star Wars in the way that the prequels weren't.
Author:  Zardoz [ Sat Dec 17, 2016 14:02 ]
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Really enjoyed that.

Star Wars is back on form.
Author:  KovacsC [ Sun Dec 18, 2016 21:24 ]
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That was amazing. Want to see it again.
Author:  Hero of Excellence [ Mon Dec 19, 2016 0:27 ]
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MrChris wrote:
Also, there were a fair few bits in the trailer that weren't in the film, interestingly

Yeah, I was surprised by that, to be honest. Most likely explanation being that the trailer featured footage from before the (allegedly quite drastic) reshoots. Beginning to wonder if the film was even darker before reshoots were demanded by Disney.
Author:  Curiosity [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 2:06 ]
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Loved that. I too noticed that there were a lot of stuff in the trailer that didn't make the film. Someone Gaywood knows who does SFX for big films (Avengers etc) told me that they do about six versions of each scene anyway, one for the first trailer, another for the next one, one for the initial cut of the film, etc. So I can certainly understand there being differences, but it was especially noticeable.

Overall though, I thought they nailed it. So much so that I think it will make enjoy Ep4 more.
Author:  Zardoz [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:34 ]
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Make enjoy Ep4 more you will.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:36 ]
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Hero of Excellence wrote:
Yeah, I was surprised by that, to be honest. Most likely explanation being that the trailer featured footage from before the (allegedly quite drastic) reshoots.

I think so. Interesting piece from the Guardian about this: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg ... s-trailers

This would be my main criticism of the film. I thought it had odd, lumpy pacing, where (I suspect) the stitches are showing between the pre-reshoot and post-reshoot material. Ideas are introduced but abandoned, or something is setup and then immediately brushed away. Vox does a good job of nailing the issues: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.vox.co ... oid-google

I still enjoyed it, and the last act is great. But it wasn't nearly as good as TFA for me, which had a defter touch with its characters.
Author:  Curiosity [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:53 ]
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I think that TFA benefits from being able to let the characters breathe more. You can get to know them a bit without their character/story arcs having to move too far. With Rogue One you need to have these brand new characters introduced and have everything happen to them within just this one film. K2 and possibly the blind chap aside, I don't think the characters were massively memorable. Most of them are fine, and I did care what happened to them, but that's about all. Part of the risk of having an ensemble cast in a compressed action film.

There are definitely parts of Rogue One I liked more than TFA, but also vice versa. I'd put both in the top half of Star Wars films though.
Author:  Cras [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:02 ]
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The prequels, Caravan of Courage, and the Star Wars Christmas special don't exactly make that a high bar.
Author:  Curiosity [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:19 ]
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Cras wrote:
The prequels, Caravan of Courage, and the Star Wars Christmas special don't exactly make that a high bar.


I like the prequels more than most, tbf.
Author:  Zardoz [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:50 ]
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I was more :'( at
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The poor Warbot bit

than the
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very hot sunset
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Dec 20, 2016 22:42 ]
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That moaney article was illinformed bollocks, rich. Eg the whole "ooh but at what point in the civil war was this set" - read the fucking rolling text at the start of ep4 - this was their first victory in battle. The "they never fully explained what saw's lot were doing", did the guy need this spoon-fed? They were extremists, this was explained fairly explicitly. Etc etc. The film was ace, anyone who thinks otherwise is objectively wrong.

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