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isn't most iconography nostalgic?

BurtReynolds wrote:isn't most iconography nostalgic?

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but yeah, its a shame that a movie with such iconic ship designs only inspired others to recreate those ships again and again, rather than be inspired to create new iconic designs. That's humanity for you.

guys, it was literally a 2-second heads up. not sure why this is a big deal.

@SkitchP wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:isn't most iconography nostalgic?

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how dare you.

Chris_H_2 wrote:guys, it was literally a 2-second heads up. not sure why this is a big deal.

Only to me!

I didn't really catch on to the Falcon line, and since its been pointed out here it doesn't bother me one bit. Its a cool-as-fuck moment and it got cheers in the cinema I was in.

I guarantee, if they'd not said anything and just had Rey/Finn run to the Falcon without any sort of clue/build up then people would complain. It wasn't even that big of a telegraphed moment. The scene was flying along at such a fast pace; Finn & Rey running towards the first ship, delivering the line, first ship exploding, Falcon reveal was about 6 seconds in total.

BurtReynolds wrote:but yeah, its a shame that a movie with such iconic ship designs only inspired others to recreate those ships again and again, rather than be inspired to create new iconic designs. That's humanity for you.

Burt, this was a bad post.

I love you guys pointing to cheers of the crowd as proof of anything.

Generally people audibly cheering at movies are fools.

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dimejinky99 wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote: Contrast that with Lando being Finn's father (which I don't think is a remotely true rumor btw). That would just be terrible.

and pretty racist, tbh

yeah.

Anakin creating C3P0: Complete shit.
Rey and Finn stumbling upon The Falcon in an old junkyard/battlefield planet: not so crazy (given the setting)
Kylo being related to the Skywalkers: Completely fine.

Them stumbling on the Falcon there didn't bother me. It was the tipping of it ahead of time.

Tipping of it?

I don't follow

Before they see the shiny new ship, they say the whole "pile of junk" line about the offscreen falcon. At that moment it was obviously going to be the Falcon. Then the shiny new ship blows up and they reiterate the pile of junk line and then show the falcon. The first mention of it felt entirely gratuitous to me, and blew the reveal entirely. I knew from that moment the shiny new ship would not be an option and that they would turn and end up on the Falcon.

Interesting.

How else would you have it happen?
The rumour was Rey meets Han and Chewie digging around endless sand dunes looking for it and find it just in time to escape. Falcon is the first old character you meet in the film. Its reveal has to be great. Was for me.
Surely this way is better.

zeb wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:but yeah, its a shame that a movie with such iconic ship designs only inspired others to recreate those ships again and again, rather than be inspired to create new iconic designs. That's humanity for you.

Burt, this was a bad post.

Its a little overly cynical, but bad? Come on!

@SkitchP wrote:I love you guys pointing to cheers of the crowd as proof of anything.

Generally people audibly cheering at movies are fools.

I would tend to agree with that. My point is that if an entire room of people cheer at a small moment, I would be inclined to believe that something had been done well.

That tiny moment was a nice little setup for the Falcon

Nah, Burt's post was right on the money.

Your problems are with movie making devices failing.
Not with Star Wars devices. This was a pure Star Wars device in the discovery of the falcon. It worked perfectly in that light.

Daniel Bryan wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:I love you guys pointing to cheers of the crowd as proof of anything.

Generally people audibly cheering at movies are fools.

I would tend to agree with that. My point is that if an entire room of people cheer at a small moment, I would be inclined to believe that something had been done well.

That tiny moment was a nice little setup for the Falcon

The audience clapped and hooted at the end of my midnight showing of Phantom Menace.

@SkitchP wrote:Jurassic World was significantly worse than Jurassic Park 3: Look Out Run.

BurtReynolds wrote:

zeb wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:but yeah, its a shame that a movie with such iconic ship designs only inspired others to recreate those ships again and again, rather than be inspired to create new iconic designs. That's humanity for you.

Burt, this was a bad post.

Its a little overly cynical, but bad? Come on!

There were clearly different ship designs between the prequels and the original trilogy. VII seems to be set about twenty years after VI, how much radical reimagining of ship design do you expect in that period?

The flashback sequence. Shot badly but it's here
http://s174.photobucket.com/user/dimeji ... 3.mp4.html

McParadigm wrote:The audience clapped and hooted at the end of my midnight showing of Phantom Menace.

Of course they did. What else would you reasonably expect? It was the end of a midnight screening of a new Star Wars movie.

McParadigm wrote:

Daniel Bryan wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:I love you guys pointing to cheers of the crowd as proof of anything.

Generally people audibly cheering at movies are fools.

I would tend to agree with that. My point is that if an entire room of people cheer at a small moment, I would be inclined to believe that something had been done well.

That tiny moment was a nice little setup for the Falcon

The audience clapped and hooted at the end of my midnight showing of Phantom Menace.

1999 was a strange year.