Star Wars 7

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slipstream 1985

12,127 posts

178 months

Tuesday 10th June 2014
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Carl_Spackler said:
Not wide enough to take a couch though
rebel scum

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Tuesday 10th June 2014
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Guvernator said:
Halb said:
Indy 4 was st because it was st (so was st Leboef), Harrison wasn't st.
Sorry I have to disagree, his acting was still great but he definitely seemed to be struggling visibly with a lot of the action stuff IMO. In fact there were points where I was wincing in sympathetic pain as he tried gamely to do the physical bits and it was all a bit sad that they felt compelled to put him through the wringer for a 4th outing.

I just hope they leave the older actors with some of their dignity intact and relegate them to the "wise old sage" roles rather than trying to get them to do all the leaping around.

Mind you I had the same sense of discomfort with Peter Cushing and Ian Mcdiarmid in the NT. Sorry to all the wiser PH'ers on this thread (I am getting there too) but I just don't think old folks look cool or very convincing when fighting.
I think both LaBoeuf and Ford have admitted that Indy IV wasn't done very well.

I don't remember Peter Cushing having a very active role, he just had to do stand there and exude menace, and every time you see him in close up you have to realise he's wearing comfy slippers.

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Tuesday 10th June 2014
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Halmyre said:
I don't remember Peter Cushing having a very active role, he just had to do stand there and exude menace, and every time you see him in close up you have to realise he's wearing comfy slippers.
I think he meant Christopher Lee. It's an understandable mistake since he and Peter Cushing are so closely associated with each other due to Hammer Horror films.

Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 10th June 08:22

AshVX220

5,929 posts

189 months

Tuesday 10th June 2014
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robemcdonald said:


MH with a lighsaber (ignore the mouse). Looks like the personal trainer is working.
Cool, I'm guessing MH was guest of honour this year at Disney's Star Wars weekends.

Guvernator

13,104 posts

164 months

Wednesday 11th June 2014
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JonRB said:
I think he meant Christopher Lee. It's an understandable mistake since he and Peter Cushing are so closely associated with each other due to Hammer Horror films.

Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 10th June 08:22
Yep always get those two mixed up for some reason :-)

At any rate I just didn't find his fight scenes believable, especially his 3 way with Anakin and Ben. I know "the force" is supposed to be the deciding factor in a jedi or sith's skill level but in practical terms, it was blatantly obvious that the two younger jedi would have literally run rings around him. They were literally flying around him while he was rooted to the spot. They kept having to use close up shots of his head and shoulders to hide the fact that he just wasn't very mobile. Made for an awkard looking fight scene IMO and the same could be said about the Emperors face of off against Mace Windu and his two pals. The way he dispatched the two jedi again looked very awkward, largely due to the fact that Ian would have been limited in his ability to fling a light sabre around convincingly.

I just hope they have the sense to learn from these scenes and either change the style of fighting or if they insist on sticking with the whirling dervish stylised fighting, realise that that sort of lightsabre duelling is a young persons game.

Emeye

9,773 posts

222 months

Wednesday 11th June 2014
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Halmyre said:
I think both LaBoeuf and Ford have admitted that Indy IV wasn't done very well.

I don't remember Peter Cushing having a very active role, he just had to do stand there and exude menace, and every time you see him in close up you have to realise he's wearing comfy slippers.
LaBoeuf is always saying his films are crap - IIRC he said the same about Transformers 2 - he was right, but it didn't stop him being st in Transformers 3. I'm starting to see a common link between all these st films that LaBoeuf is in.......

richtea78

5,574 posts

157 months

Wednesday 11th June 2014
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He's a prick who ruins everything he is in

JonRB

74,401 posts

271 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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Having just re-watched "Tron: Legacy"... I think Disney can do this.

rufusruffcutt

1,539 posts

204 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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Oh no, Han's broken his ankle.


central

16,744 posts

216 months

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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central said:
I opened that story in a tab, then forgot about it and went back to it around 30 mins later, forgetting it was the mash.
Thought this bit was real, it could have been.
He added: “It does create a degree of uncertainty, but thankfully this will be the last Star Wars film made by and with real people.” hehe

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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Halb said:
central said:
I opened that story in a tab, then forgot about it and went back to it around 30 mins later, forgetting it was the mash.
Thought this bit was real, it could have been.
He added: “It does create a degree of uncertainty, but thankfully this will be the last Star Wars film made by and with real people.” hehe
Hayden Christiansen is real?!?

central

16,744 posts

216 months

FourWheelDrift

88,378 posts

283 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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I think the Falcon is in need of a 100,000,000 parsec service.

Foliage

3,861 posts

121 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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FourWheelDrift said:
I think the Falcon is in need of a 100,000,000 parsec service.
Curiously a parsec is a measure of distance not time, its 2.06AU

FourWheelDrift

88,378 posts

283 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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I know that's why I used it. smile

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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biggrin

Daniel1

2,931 posts

197 months

Friday 13th June 2014
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Foliage said:
FourWheelDrift said:
I think the Falcon is in need of a 100,000,000 parsec service.
Curiously a parsec is a measure of distance not time, its 2.06AU
It's a bit bigger than that.

Johnny

9,652 posts

283 months

Saturday 14th June 2014
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rufusruffcutt said:
Oh no, Han's broken his ankle.
Just seen that... My lodger came home and told me the big door at work had fallen on someone, but he didn't know who.

Glad it was no one important! wink

y2blade

56,029 posts

214 months

Sunday 6th July 2014
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