Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[Himmel]

Originally Posted by pikeman1

new pic

Any bets that background is Skellig....the place where Luke is rumored to be...and if that's it...then we have just been given a taste of Kylo vs. Luke fight.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Terminated

Any bets that background is Skellig....the place where Luke is rumored to be...and if that's it...then we have just been given a taste of Kylo vs. Luke fight.

If you believe the rumor sites, has to be...

[Show spoiler]Yavin. Kidnapping Rey.

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by Terminated

Any bets that background is Skellig....the place where Luke is rumored to be...and if that's it...then we have just been given a taste of Kylo vs. Luke fight.

No way....Luke will only be in the movie for 5 seconds at the end!!! Possibly a post-credits scene with Nick Fury!!

[Riddler The Slag]

I do not see Star Wars starting the post credits scenes stuff.

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by Riddler The Slag

I do not see Star Wars starting the post credits scenes stuff.

God I hope not. Keep that amateur hour S$%# to the Marvel flicks.

[Riddler The Slag]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

God I hope not. Keep that amateur hour S$%# to the Marvel flicks.

Whats your beef with post credit scenes?

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by Riddler The Slag

Whats your beef with post credit scenes?

Over-used nowadays. Sickening how today's audiences whine when there isn't one. Save for Iron Man, the only other good ones were at the end of Strange Brew and Ferris Bueller.

[CinemaBlu]

Originally Posted by Riddler The Slag

Whats your beef with post credit scenes?

I think they're stupid and annoying. Anything worth including should be included in the body of the film itself.

The worst is when bloopers are added to the credits. I really hate that.

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by CinemaBlu

I think they're stupid and annoying. Anything worth including should be included in the body of the film itself.

The worst is when bloopers are added to the credits. I really hate that.

Yeah, they remind me of a mid-90's sitcom!

[Al_The_Strange]

I can always take or leave stingers. The Marvel ones have been a hit and a miss; the one from IM2 leading into Thor was exciting at the time, the sandwich-eating scene is amusing, but some of the others were confusing until Avengers cleared it all up, and the GOTG stinger is pointless.

I love bloopers when they're included in comedies and really stupid movies (like Charlie's Angels), all of which have levity anyway. I don't want to see them in a serious movie; it would ruin all sense of immersion.

I'm 99.9% certain the main Star Wars movies won't have stingers, ever. Not sure about the spinoff projects though, it'll depend on how uniform they keep these things.

[greg_achen]

Originally Posted by aiman04

I knew about the disagreements with Ben Burtt but I thought the sound mix for The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones turned out fine. The scoreless seismic charges scene was a good call by Burtt. Then I felt it was a bit tame with Revenge of the Sith but then Gary Rydstrom was not involved.

The Phantom Menace was fine, but what they did to the AotC score was a complete and utter travesty. It's not just the droid factory that was a hatchet job, but the throughout the entire movie, music from TPM was copy and pasted into scenes (in addition to reusing AotC ques ad nauseam). The final score as heard in the AotC film is downright painful and always takes me out of the film. Revenge of the Sith is better in that there isn't as much reused music and the reused music used is a bit more integrated and sounds more natural to the scenes. However, what Ben Burtt did to John Williams' AotC score is nothing short of insulting.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Over-used nowadays. Sickening how today's audiences whine when there isn't one. Save for Iron Man, the only other good ones were at the end of Strange Brew and Ferris Bueller.

Young Sherlock Holmes, Best stinger ever.

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Young Sherlock Holmes, Best stinger ever.

I have to admit I've never actually saw more than 5 minutes of that film. Does it allude to a sequel that never happened?

[klauswhereareyou]

Originally Posted by greg_achen

The Phantom Menace was fine, but what they did to the AotC score was a complete and utter travesty. It's not just the droid factory that was a hatchet job, but the throughout the entire movie, music from TPM was copy and pasted into scenes (in addition reusing AotC quest ad nauseam). The final score as heard in the AotC film is downright painful and always takes me out of the film. Revenge of the Sith is better in that there isn't as much reused music and the reused music used is a bit more integrated and sounds more natural to the scenes. However, what Ben Burtt did to John Williams' AotC score is nothing short of insulting.

From what I understand Williams was not there (he was scoring Minority Report and the whole end battle was not finished and he didn't want his score thrown out like with the Battle of Naboo that just uses large chunks of the Duel of the Fates concert arrangement) so I get the recycling to a degree, but the way it was edited in there was just totally incompetent!

[CinemaBlu]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

I love bloopers when they're included in comedies and really stupid movies (like Charlie's Angels), all of which have levity anyway. I don't want to see them in a serious movie; it would ruin all sense of immersion.

It's bad for comedies too. The inclusion of bloopers in the credits is a blatant insult to the viewer. It's an admission by the filmmakers that they consciously made a stupid movie and they took your money and wasted your time with it anyway. No sincere filmmaker with belief in the strength of their film, even if it's a comedy, would include bloopers in their credits.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

I have to admit I've never actually saw more than 5 minutes of that film. Does it allude to a sequel that never happened?

If you really want to know....

[Show spoiler]at the end of the credits, the audience discovers the uber-villain of the film is future uber-villain Moriarty.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by CinemaBlu

It's bad for comedies too. The inclusion of bloopers in the credits is a blatant insult to the viewer. It's an admission by the filmmakers that they consciously made a stupid movie and they took your money and wasted your time with it anyway. No sincere filmmaker with belief in the strength of their film, even if it's a comedy, would include bloopers in their credits.

A Bug's Life? Monsters, Inc.?

[CinemaBlu]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

A Bug's Life? Monsters, Inc.?

Those don't count. They're sort of a parody of what I'm talking about. I love Pixar and they put a lot of work into creating those fake bloopers.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by CinemaBlu

It's bad for comedies too. The inclusion of bloopers in the credits is a blatant insult to the viewer. It's an admission by the filmmakers that they consciously made a stupid movie and they took your money and wasted your time with it anyway. No sincere filmmaker with belief in the strength of their film, even if it's a comedy, would include bloopers in their credits.

I just see it as filmmakers having fun. I find it somewhat refreshing to see fun on a set, rather than having it be all serious, stiff, and stressful all the time.

Goes to show how differently everybody views things. In retrospect though, bloopers are probably best seen as a separate, optional bonus feature.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by CinemaBlu

It's bad for comedies too. The inclusion of bloopers in the credits is a blatant insult to the viewer. It's an admission by the filmmakers that they consciously made a stupid movie and they took your money and wasted your time with it anyway. No sincere filmmaker with belief in the strength of their film, even if it's a comedy, would include bloopers in their credits.

How do the kids say it...lolwut?

How is it a blatant insult to the viewer to include a little outtake along with a cast member's name in the credits? A lot of movies will put the cast credits up over a montage of stills from the film (putting the various names to faces).

What's the difference?