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Re: Star Wars Episode VII - Title revealed!
Someone who goes out their way to say this trailer special effects are worse than the prequels... Jesus Christ.

Of course not, but there's definitely something a bit jarring about seeing the classic ships with such modern camerawork.
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Yeah, jarring is a good word. Everything looks familiar, yet subtly wrong somehow. I don't think that its going to impact my enjoyment of the movie at all, but so much about movie making has changed since Jedi, and my brain is struggling to reconcile those changed with the classic imagery on the screen.

It was less of an issue for Star Trek, fir example, because the look of everything was updated and significantly changed vs the sixties version. Same goes for the prequels - everything looked so different that I never really connected it in my mind to the SW of old the way this does.

It's not bad, our even unexpected, really. But it is a little... well, yeah, jarring.
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When did Lucas go back and add a musical number to A New Hope?
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Like an alien musical number?
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God the RotJ special edition changes were so brutal.

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Luis, I'm talking about the entire 4 to 6 set.
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I'm for one perfectly content seeing the awesome effects and oh my god dat Falcon
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Offline MP-Ryan

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Not going to lie, that teaser made me unreasonably excited, stupid lightsaber crossguard and all.
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Maybe it's not a crossguard? Maybe it's for situations like this:

Where instead of disengaging and striking again, you just have to swivel a little and the other guy has a new hole in his face.

 

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Finally the sane brigade has arrived

 

Offline Bobboau

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thing about those guards, rotate them 135 degrees and they lose all criticism.
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Looks like a good way to lose your forearms to me.  Though, given how easily a forearm is replaced in the SW universe, maybe that's not such a big deal.
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Offline StarSlayer

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Re: Star Wars Episode VII - Title revealed!
If they had forward swept the quillons like you see often with the cross guard of medieval Irish claymore it would have eliminated the possibility of the emitters getting taken off, increased the range of motions for your lead hand, and created a perfect blade trap.



Still if they really go all in for the Kunst des Fetchens with this new saber I'll not care about minor technical gripes.  Plus the new X-Wing design is starting to grow on me, aside from the odd split wing it otherwise nails the original McQuarire concept.

I do love me some original McQuarrie X-Wing


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Offline Colonol Dekker

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I want more outrider.
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
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-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
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-Inferno R1
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-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline An4ximandros

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Re: Star Wars Episode VII - Title revealed!
There was a leak a while ago about how there would be a cross-guard saber... same source said the stormtrooper guy turned force sensitive after picking up Luke's lightsaber... :/

 

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The rolling Droid bothers me more than that saber

Yep, that thing worried the **** out of me. The rest of the trailer didn't convince me one way or the other. I'm still going to keep my mind open and not make any decisions about the film either way until I see it.
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Did no one think to apply the GEORGE LUCAS filter???

[edit]it's cool ya'all i figured out that "rocket science n ****" (youtube tags), sorry for messup
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I lol'd.

 

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ahahahaha

 

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Bwuahahah. Brilliant!
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