Star Wars -- droppings

[foxytaur (imported)]

with this one!!!!(come on guys, can we deviate just this once. I dreamed of grad with this theme instead)

http://m.youtube.com/results?q=starwars ... WJPp5qpbe0

(the new hope ending theme btw, I can't get these posted links to work on my tablet)

[Riverwind (imported)]

You know when the first movie came out we did not have the visual graphics we know and love today, this was great stuff we saw. Today we look at it and shrug but then it was the leading edge.

River

[foxytaur (imported)]

Actually River I find a lot of films are going downhill as a result of too much CGI and fancy graphics filling in the void of terrible plotlines, scripts and acting.

I was meehhhhh....with padme's acting in Starwars episoide 3 very much towards the end of the film.

For a good film there must be a balance achieved with graphics , plot and acting

http://www.joblo.com/hollywood-celebrit ... me-amidala

NB = One thing I could never agree on was the whole midichlorians bullshit. Its as if the force is dependent on these specialized cellular structures. Anakin has the highest level of these. (Even more so than jedi and ancient sith from the past[old republic era before prequel films])

yet his jedi abilities are rookie at best to let's say someone such as Darth Revan or Marka Ragnos or Freedon Naad(old republic jedi's found in the books and bioware games)

[Riverwind (imported)]

Let us not confuse the story line and the talking points in the move with anything that was good, it was not at any point Shakespearean in nature, lets face it any 6th grade student could do a better job, it was all about visual effects and the last movie made with the fight at the end of the movie was one of the best on record and could not have been done without CGI.

River

[foxytaur (imported)]

Found this vid Mix of Monty python and starwars. It's pretty funny

http://youtube.com/#/watch?v=5BDO3pyavO ... BDO3pyavOY

[cheetaking243 (imported)]

Actually River I find a lot of films are going downhill as a result of too much CGI and fancy graphics filling in the void of terrible plotlines, scripts and acting.

I was meehhhhh....with padme's acting in Starwars episoide 3 very much towards the end of the film.

For a good film there must be a balance achieved with graphics , plot and acting

With the Star Wars prequels, it was definitely the writing. NO actor or actress can sound good saying lines like "You are so beautiful..." "only because I'm so in love." NO!!! NO, NO, NO!!! The writing student in me just cringes thinking of all the things that are wrong with those lines. And stuff like "you're going down a path that I can't follow?" Again, NO!!! Nobody talks like that! It really feels like zero effort was put into making the dialog credible in this film. And let's be honest, the direction through most of the movie wasn't that great either, at least as far as getting emotion out of the characters is concerned. There is this one sequence in Episode III where they are all falling down an elevator shaft, with a 2-ton car falling right behind them, and there is like ZERO concern on any of the characters' faces, even after they escape certain death by mere inches. But not in a "it's cool, we got this" way, just in a dead-eyed expression kind of way that really makes it feel like the whole thing is fake. I didn't believe for one second that that elevator car was really about to crush them, because no matter how good CGI effects are, they're always going to look fake if the actors don't react to them properly. And the new Star Wars movies used so much green-screen that it's virtually impossible to get realistic reactions to all of the techno-wizardry going on around them. In the original Star Wars, this wasn't a problem. You could see that Luke was scared, you could see him gazing up at these amazing things and actually being intimidated, and could practically see the adrenaline pumping through his veins. This has been lost in the recent films. Yes, the effects look much better, but at the same time they look faker because they don't exist in the physical world.

This is one of the reasons why I love the visual effects work on "Lord of the Rings" so much better... because rather than going full-CGI, they still used sets and miniatures and character makeup. And as such, it has a level of visual credibility that other fantasy films don't. You can tell that everything has physical mass.

Man, I'm really starting to get off topic from where I started here... I can't help it, I'm just a total nerd that loves nitpicking the little details in film production, comparing things, and seeing a good movie that blows my mind in terms of what's possible to show on screen.

[foxytaur (imported)]

Yo River, Ever heard of the starwars kid?

That canadian kid who's friends at the time leaked a video of him lightsaber fighting himself and releasing it over the net.

Fuck I remember when I first saw it I downloaded it through Kazaa.

Then studios across the globe began tampering with the video and adding special CGI , sound effects , the works LMAO

here's his story

http://www.businessinsider.com/where-ar ... kid-2010-5

here's the original clip

http://youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&v=HPPj6v ... %26gl%3DCA

my fav edited clip LOL

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3GJOVPjhXMY& ... GJOVPjhXMY

NB = Most, if not everyone, know who Ghylain Raza is. I just wanted to post this cuz those were good times. When I first downloaded and watched it I peed myself from laughter

[Riverwind (imported)]

Not sure what you were linking to but this is what came up,

Golden Eagle Snatches Kid

River

[foxytaur (imported)]

you know its my mobile tablet again, half the time im on the go. ugh.....ill fix it soon

strange though, links are working on my Mac OS X and tablet

[fhunter]

you know its my mobile tablet again, half the time im on the go. ugh.....ill fix it soon

strange though, links are working on my Mac OS X and tablet

Remove '#/' from them, and they will work.