Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Pre-release)
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It's kind of a toss-up. Octopussy has a more polished look, a far superior score (Barry, of course), and yes, Maud Adams. But it isn't terribly good overall, and sorry, Bond should never, ever be put in a clown costume.
NSNA is not great but still fun and quite watchable. Interestingly, just like TB, it also bogs down during the underwater battle. And a lot of folks like Kim Basinger in general, but her Oscar-worthy acting was way ahead of her. She's terrible in this film.
It was not a cool move to release NSNA in the same year, either. Okay, make a movie you can legally make but no need to be a **** about it.
NSNA is not great but still fun and quite watchable. Interestingly, just like TB, it also bogs down during the underwater battle. And a lot of folks like Kim Basinger in general, but her Oscar-worthy acting was way ahead of her. She's terrible in this film.
It was not a cool move to release NSNA in the same year, either. Okay, make a movie you can legally make but no need to be a **** about it.
Wolfsburg
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I haven't been keeping up with the discussions lately and maybe it's already been mentioned, but has anyone noticed that the Deathtrooper commandos have the exact same "belt buckle" as Vader, and a groin plate that is very similar, except in plastic...errr...plasteel and not leather.
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LorduDesign
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Wow! That's great find! Haven't noticed it till now!
Here's what I noticed:
Riz Ahmed's character appears to wear some kind of Imperial flight suit. Probably one of TIE pilot ones... not an expert in that area.
Also he owns Kobold style (although much thinner and vertically bigger) droid caller which might be connected to one of main characters - droid K-2SO, considering rumours about his past as enforcer droid in Empire forces.
Here's what I noticed:
Riz Ahmed's character appears to wear some kind of Imperial flight suit. Probably one of TIE pilot ones... not an expert in that area.
Also he owns Kobold style (although much thinner and vertically bigger) droid caller which might be connected to one of main characters - droid K-2SO, considering rumours about his past as enforcer droid in Empire forces.
similar but not the same
The pilots never wore gray. The Stormtrooper pilots we saw in the films wore black flight suits. And the non-Stormtrooper pilots (which we only ever saw in the comics, and they are thus not beholden to adhere to) wore a dark charcoal gray. The only folks we saw wearing the shade of gray pictured, even allowing for grime and wear, were the scanner techs in ANH and the AT-ST drivers on Endor -- both seem to be associated with technical servies (sensor systems and large-scale shield generators), so I've tacitly dubbed the light gray (including the light gray jacketed officer in ANH) as something equivalent to Combat Engineers.
--Jonah
Wolfsburg
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Ah yes, well perhaps not literally exactly the same as Vader's might not be quite as wide, but it's otherwise about as close as it can be from what can be seen.
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Might be overthinking it. I think it's entirely possible it's meant to be a well worn faded black jumpsuit. Or not. Who knows? The fact he's a pilot might be a clue though.
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I don't know about "overthinking", so much as just thinking. Maybe I'm weird, but I feel for the universe to feel as real as possible, there needs to be internal structure and rules for the setting. Verisimilitude. One aspect of that is that the uniforms actually mean something. That said, I'm not opposed to the Combat Engineers having their own pilots, as well. The Stormtroopers have their infantry and officers and pilots and armored-vehicle operators. The Imperial Starfleet does, too. So far we've seen techs/infantry, officers, and armored-vehicle drivers in that same light gray. And given as factionalized as the Imperial forces are (or as the Emperor encouraged them to be -- a trait he's demonstrated all the way back), I'd expect to see the ISB, Imperial Intelligence, and any other group to be equally cliquish and untrusting of the other elements of the Imperial military.
--Jonah
Trust me, I find that incredibly frustrating -- and have al the way back to Return of the Jedi. I didn't like the new Rebel uniforms (and am so happy to have "summer" versions of the Hoth uniforms in R1 there are no words). I didn't understand, at the time, why this guy in charge of the Death Star had a Captain badge, but was called "Moff" (and, as I got older, all the other uniform discontinuity). I am so tightly braced or R1 mainly due to Ben Mendelsohn's character's uniform not being an accurate recreation of either the ISB uniform of ANH or the Grand Admirals of the EU, but rather an odd blurring of the two. I am so nervous it will be exactly as sloppy is it currently seems to me. The same brand of sloppiness that saw Admiral Yularen in the Clone Wars because Dave Filoni thought he was a Grand Admiral in ANH (until someone sat him down and explained things).
God, I would practically saw off limbs to be in a continuity-enforcement position at LFL... >_< If the universe the story is set in doesn't follow any internal rules of consistency, it weakens any stories set in it. Imperceptibly to most people, but it's still there.
--Jonah
We'll see. I disagree, by comparison with the black on the Imperial cog patch on the shoulder. I have some old black shirts. It's fascinating to see which fade red, which fade green, and which fade gray -- but none of them, over decades, in some cases, have faded anywhere near that much.
--Jonah
--Jonah
Looks as though he could be in an AT-ACT there in the photo. The netting on the left looks like something seen in Rey's AT-AT she was living in many years later.
Color and photos is a funny subject. A friend of mine schooled me on this very subject. He needed to color match a specific item, and managed to view the original, as well and bring a pantone book to color match the colors. He was able to show me in his office several stock photos of the item, both, with flash, no flash, daylight...etc. In every photo, the color of the same object differed, He then took out the pantone book and showed me the actual (or very close to) colors of the item. It was amazing how very different the colors were depending on the light and other factors.
Which is something most people don't even realize, unfortunately :unsure add to that which monitor you see said photos on, and which settings is in use :lol All of which could make just about anyone a little crazy.
jhazard
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not to mention that reflected light and transmitted light also muddy the waters, so what are on a computer screen will differ from what you see on a printed piece.
that said, I thought the EW photos matched the "look" of the trailer... Best I can remember anyhow
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that said, I thought the EW photos matched the "look" of the trailer... Best I can remember anyhow
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Jaitea
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