AxB Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Empire readers just last month voted Empire Strikes Back the best movie of all time. But most of them are at the exact right age for it to have made an impression when they were at their most impressionable. It's funny watching Star Wars (It wasn't called A New Hope then, so it's not called A New Hope now) now, because at the time it was both applauded and criticised for being (the movie equivalent of) a high speed spotfest, with no time for selling or storytelling, just racing to the next big move. Whereas now, with everything that's come since then, it actually seems quite slow and quiet. Also, swinging on a rope over a large drop used to be considered REALLY EXCITING~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 It still is if it's not all green screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Anybody else's enthusiasm for this drop off considerably when they heard the rumor that Mecha Palpatine was going to be the villain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 After back-to-back "JJ is directing/We're throwing out the whole EU" whammy, I thought my enthusiasm couldn't be any lower. I've been proven wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 I didn't hear mecha-Palpatine, I heard that the villain was a Sith Inquisitor like the ones that are going to be introduced on the new animated series. Screw you guys, this shit is going to be great, my hopes are as high as ever, and there is no possible way that I'll ever be disappointed...I'm going to need to be held by a woman with a large bosom aren't I? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Mecha-Palpatine is such a dumb idea. He was vaporized in the heart of the Death Star's reactor, how do you rebuild from that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 That Mecha Palpatine rumor has to be bullshit. I also saw another rumor that it was just Palpatine that would be in it. I could see ghost Palpatine appearing to some Sith apprentice, but I wasn't sure if Sith could do that. Shit, Anakin/Vader did, but that was post-face turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Using the rpg rules (so take that with what ever grains of salt you want) Force Ghost is open to both sides 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Using the rpg rules (so take that with what ever grains of salt you want) Force Ghost is open to both sides Well that and there was no real opportunity in either trilogy for a sith ghost, as palpatine is the Alpha Sith, at least since the great hyper space war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Maybe it's a clone? Everything and everyone in the former extended universe was a clone at one point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 That's why it's the FORMER extended universe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I didn't hear mecha-Palpatine, I heard that the villain was a Sith Inquisitor like the ones that are going to be introduced on the new animated series. That was the original rumor. Another report came after that saying that Palpatine was the villain, but that Ian McDiarmid wasn't being brought back to play the part. This led to the speculation that the cloaked cyborg-looking figure from the leaked production art was rebuilt Mecha Palpatine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 He is not mecha Palpatine unless he is giant, otherwise he is just a cyborg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 I didn't hear mecha-Palpatine, I heard that the villain was a Sith Inquisitor like the ones that are going to be introduced on the new animated series. That was the original rumor. Another report came after that saying that Palpatine was the villain, but that Ian McDiarmid wasn't being brought back to play the part. This led to the speculation that the cloaked cyborg-looking figure from the leaked production art was rebuilt Mecha Palpatine. Link to said leaked production art? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Spoilered for size: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Spoilered for size: Oh God no. . . If we lost Grand Admiral Thrawn for that bullshit. . . .(yeah I know they were never making that storyline) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Phantom Menace deserves all the hate it gets. count me among those that hated the podrace. Ep. 2 i thought was OK at the time, but upon a marathon of all the movies a year or two ago found that i enjoyed it quite a bit. Ep. 3 is fantastic. i really liked it in theaters and i'd put it up against New Hope or Return of the Jedi anytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Phantom Menace deserves all the hate it gets. count me among those that hated the podrace. Ep. 2 i thought was OK at the time, but upon a marathon of all the movies a year or two ago found that i enjoyed it quite a bit. Ep. 3 is fantastic. i really liked it in theaters and i'd put it up against New Hope or Return of the Jedi anytime. The only real flaw in ep.3 is that christensen either lacked the talent for the heel turn, or lucas couldn't get it out of him. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 I honestly hate Clones way more than Episode 1. Episode 3 works more than it doesn't, and I would certainly listen to an argument that it's better than Jedi. Better than Hope? Nah. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 So many crazy rumors this week...including the big one, plus the debut of Rebels tonight. Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I'm not sure if I hate "The Big One" or Mecha-Palpatine/Reborn Vader more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 There is not a chance in hell that rumor is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I would say the same. But Super-Healing-Factor-Blood Matrix Khan takes out a Klingon Ship with a hand rifle he can fire one handed. Yeah, JJ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Link or spoilers for 'the big one'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Luke goes Sith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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