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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Discussion Thread

Hard to be a Princess of a planet that doesn't exist anymore.
 
I still can't get over the Darth Jar Jar theory. I've been reading the new sub r/darthjarjar for the last week expecting to find something to shoot it down, and except for a statement from George Lucas' publicist stating that the theory is "categorically untrue", everything seems to fit. What could have been...

What's also interesting to me is that this by no means redeems TPM even slightly. It's still a terrible, terrible movie by almost every standard, and it's even more infuriating now how badly they botched Jar Jar's character by making you detest him for all of his 80 or so minutes of screen time.
 
KickballDeac said:
I still can't get over the Darth Jar Jar theory. I've been reading the new sub r/darthjarjar for the last week expecting to find something to shoot it down, and except for a statement from George Lucas' publicist stating that the theory is "categorically untrue", everything seems to fit. What could have been...

What's also interesting to me is that this by no means redeems TPM even slightly. It's still a terrible, terrible movie by almost every standard, and it's even more infuriating now how badly they botched Jar Jar's character by making you detest him for all of his 80 or so minutes of screen time.
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When I first saw TPM, I was quite disappointed. At the time I thought that it was mostly due to the fact that I had grown up on the original movies (the first movie came out when I was 7) and that my disappointment was more about the fact that I was seeing the new movie as an adult and not as a child. Then I saw it again and I realized that it just sucked. I took my son to see it when he was 7 (when it was re-released in 3D). He thought it sucked too.
I am cautiously hopeful that the new movie won't suck.

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KickballDeac said:
I still can't get over the Darth Jar Jar theory. I've been reading the new sub r/darthjarjar for the last week expecting to find something to shoot it down, and except for a statement from George Lucas' publicist stating that the theory is "categorically untrue", everything seems to fit. What could have been...

What's also interesting to me is that this by no means redeems TPM even slightly. It's still a terrible, terrible movie by almost every standard, and it's even more infuriating now how badly they botched Jar Jar's character by making you detest him for all of his 80 or so minutes of screen time.
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Here is my buddy's email rant about it:

OK, just read that Jar Jar thing and its bullshit. People aren't physically interacting with him because all of the green screen and CGI inserts mean that you have to block most shots without a precise location of the character (granted in TPM they had a physical actor to help, but in the 90's you still had to leave more room to insert CGI, lest you have to reassemble the cast for reshoots), and as I learned from countless hours of Simpsons DVD commentaries, animation directors are given a lot of freedom to design shots, and they do what they can to make those shots more dynamic and visually interesting, hence the elaborate movements.

And Jar Jar isn't a Yoda analogue in the prequels, he's meant to be a C3PO & R2D2 analogue. Lucas said the the droids were modeled after the peasants in Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, which was also what the plot of the early drafts of Star Wars were based on, back when it was about "Anakin Starkiller." The Phantom Menace actually bears the strongest plot resemblance to The Hidden Fortress, where a ronin/general helps escort a princess after their village is taken over, with a former slave joining them on the way.
 


so excited. also, if you look closely, Admiral Ackbar is at that Resistance meeting.
 
Listen here you millennial shitbags, Star Wars belongs to Gen X.
 
From an upcoming Christmas commercial for Star Wars toys:

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Yeah. I've seen that suggested. I think it's very likely Rey is a force user by the end of the film, but I don't think that commercial is a huge spoiler.
 
so finn is a storm trooper and sees them burn a village of some sort? he then goes awol? couple of quick chewbacca sightings.
 
deaconson said:
so finn is a storm trooper and sees them burn a village of some sort? he then goes awol? couple of quick chewbacca sightings.
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Finn gets PTSD from the village raid. Unhappy with the Empire's mental health care coverage, he goes AWOL and becomes a homeless vet, roaming the galaxy and pandhandling for money, McDonalds, and Mad Dog. He is picked up by Han and converts to the good guys when told that their health plan treats all PTSD claims seriously, even bogus ones.
 
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