Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
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DickTrickle
Definitely NOT Furor Planedefiler
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They would have to redo all of the CGI. Maybe it was impressive at the time, I don't remember, but it has aged incredibly poorly.
Famm
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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It was never good. Bunch of green screen dogshit. There's plenty of older sci-fi movies that hold up much better with mixed practical effects and even shit like matte painted backgrounds that have more soul and character than the sterile uncanny-valley mess Lucas vomited out.
Miguex
The lad himself
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Jive Turkey
Karen
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It's weird because Phantom Menace did have some pretty decent CG work - Sebulba looked pretty awesome, as did Watto - but it steadily declined with each instalment. Seems like they just tried to have way too many CG shots and they didn't have enough time to finesse it all... or finesse any of it, really
Khalan
Trakanon Raider
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TPM had the most practical sets out of all of them, after that George basically went full CG retard.
Jive Turkey
Karen
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The absolute lowest point for the entire series was that fucking conveyor belt scene in Attack of the Clones. Looked like a cartoon
Famm
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Clones and Sith sucked ass. I've always been on record saying TPM was the "best" of the prequels. It was fatally flawed in multiple ways but it was less awful than the next two. It would have been an almost passable movie to watch on netflix or something if not for the bogged down middle part full of terrible "politics" and trade negotiation bullshit. Most of the child Anakin work is cringeworthy, and of course Jar-Jar, midichlorians...ok well not sure what I'm defending anymore. The CGI was less offensive and the lightsaber fight was at least "ok".
Famm
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Hoss
Make America's Team Great Again
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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Do you mean the window scene? Yea, he did.
Though in fairness in the prequels lightsabers were like mass produced by the Chinese in Guangdong, so whatevs.
Also, what the fuck he could have just done literally anything, got back up on the platform, force pulled Palpatine down to die... wtf lol I hate those movies.
iannis
Musty Nester
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Jesus. It's like he tried to make them into childrens movies and just failed.
Like some california housewife who is good with children and all of her friends tell her she should write a childrens book... and she does... and it's so creepy and fucked up that you can't understand what she was even thinking.
Like some california housewife who is good with children and all of her friends tell her she should write a childrens book... and she does... and it's so creepy and fucked up that you can't understand what she was even thinking.
rhinohelix
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There is that whole story of how Star Wars was originally not great, and his wife, who was an editor, cut it down and pieced it together to make it the classic that it was. I mean, it was his story and his ideas but of all people, she was the only person who could tell him no. Of course, by the time RoTJ came out, they were estranged and she was having an affair with a carpenter or woodworker or something like that but there is series of articles(?) that delves into it.
EDIT:https://web.archive.org/web/20140211...rcialucas.html
rhinohelix
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ohkcrlho
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Yeah no talking about star wars not that horse shit.
In the star wars films blasters have basically obsoleted the light saber, they are an archaic weapon used only by the jedi. They are akin to the sabers that marines use in ceremonial dress, in a real fight they are going to use guns.
By the time lucas went all ewoks and shit he did have luke using his light saber to deflect a few blaster shots but thats because lucas is terrible and luke only had about a week of jedi training. Vader was able to deflect blaster shots using only the force, luke had to channel the force into his lightsaber skills to deflect them.
But again lightsabers were only used in duels, luke was running around with a blaster in all 3 films and it was always the first weapon he turned to. Had he been stronger in the force he probably could of gotten away with only the lightsaber and the force like vader, or the force alone like the emperor.(or yoda. He never used a lightsaber either)
All other uses of lightsaber were practical applications, like cutting things open, or when han used it to slice open the tantun to keep luke warm, etc.
Contrast that with the faggot films of your generation where jedis pull out there lightsabers when they smell poison gas.
Lol, should of been *opening title sequence * "smell that? Its poison gas. Oh shit we're dead" *lightsaber noise* *uncontrollable coughing fits/death rattle* *roll credits*