does anyone know how the gaudy kenobi / vader lightsaber duel remake was made? it looks like some of it is obviously just sort of manipulating footage from the original or adding new backgrounds and effects and stuff, but other shots seem completely new. are they just full cgi? i get that this thing is distasteful aesthetically and narratively but i think it’s still kind of cool from a technical perspective. like, this is much more sophisticated than most of the attempts ive seen online to edit the three prequels into one decent movie. they all just seem sloppy to me.
while i also get that it is bad i don’t really understand the virulent hate for it. but i guess all the comments of people like ‘i’m going to edit this in to my file of episode iv’" are kind of irritating. i think after the special editions came out maybe i just decided that the original star warses might be cooler as a kind of endlessly remixable thing. i want to see every bad taste star wars nerd make their own perfect vision of what the movies should look like. though yeah i would probably prefer this community to focus more on reimagining the prequels because i think there’s a lot more potential for improvement there.
someone should do the inverse of this, and recreate the climactic battle from Episode I so that it is a tense standoff with no acrobatics
I’m no technical expert, but it looks like they had new people do the new fight, put them in a CGI’d set, and superimposed Ben’s head when necessary. Maybe they even used something like deepfakes. I dunno.
I agree that it is pretty impressive as a fan project. The effects look pretty good. And Opinions aside about directing/editing: I like the implications that this would have been our first preview at what it looks like when real force pros get it on.
This is cool, it’s like a nihilistic space nazi recruitment video. Join the empire, you’ll probably die but you’ll get to have the most expensive ships and look hot
I just realized that the rise of skywalker refers to one person. I was somehow thinking it was about the skywalkers, plural. That’s more mysterious than I thought and I like it
Much of the internet seems to think it means the name itself. As a moniker for a new order, replacing the Jedi.
I think that’s really dumb. personally. But a ton of people are supporting the idea and I’ve even seen more than a couple of people claim they thought of it on their own. **(I don’t mean anyone on this forum. This is not directed at any of the talk on this forum).
I don’t think its that and I hope it isn’t that. As I said before, I think its probably referring to Kylo Ren. As he is the only known, living Skywalker.
Yeah, see, the name in German is Der Aufstieg Skywalkers, which is one person. If it were the name itself it would be Der Aufstieg der Skywalker. So that clued me in. Unless I’m totally off base here and my language skills are failing me
That’s interesting. I think the English title was meant to be ambiguous, pre-release. But there is only one known Skywalker, at this point. So, that possible meaning from the German title, makes sense.
God damn it I’ve scrupulously been avoiding everything to do with that show and now I’m going to have to have some peripheral contact with it. I am very unhappy about this.
gotta go look for that thread then. Yeah, the Avenger movies are always the weakest Marvel films, so it was no surprise to me. People around me in the theater were bored out of their skulls, I could tell. And they made fun of the emotional moments, so I don’t think they quite worked. This was all teenagers though
well fwiw I saw it twice and neither time were there any obnoxious teenagers making fun of it. there was one guy who was real excited and was ‘whooping and hollering’ a lot during the final battle. several people were openly bawling at the end.
Oh no I disagree with this, seeing movies in the theater is only way to tolerate most of them. I mean jesus can you imagine watching Avengers Endgame at home alone on your couch, there’s only so much Flow Free you can play
