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I saw it day before yesterday. Thought it was average at best and I won't be buying it on br when it releases.
Watched it tonight on full fat IMAX at GSC after doing the same with TFA. The difference is night and day between 2D and watching it on a purpose build mega screen.
Liked Vader showing up and watching about half a dozen ships destroy themselves trying to do a hyperspace jump through his star destroyer.
K2 with another imperial droid in a headlock interrogating its memory. Oh, and the grenade exchange 😀
Also liked seeing the dirty side of the alliance, just need to get another film showing things from the death star plumbers perspective and we're sorted 😉
Lastly Culture films would be difficult to do. How would you ever convey the personality of a mind or someone glanding something? That said Consider Phlebas is a good shout, Player of Games is a good book but would need FAR too much explanatory dialogue and I think we can agree that even if Excession is about the best of the lot (for the Mind dialogues alone) it would be a complete car crash.
EDIT: The last standalone is Boba Fett, NOT Vader!
Judging by many of the comments here, this was a fan's film and the detailed intricacies of the SW story that evidently was told in a way that appealed to fans of the wider story and background. Reading these comments makes me wonder if I watched the same film. Can someone explain where in the timescale of the SW series this is supposed to be? There didn't seem to be much Jedi stuff going on.
Right before A New Hope. Jedi's are wiped.
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I wonder if everyone's favourite Chiss art critic will appear in Ep VIII or IX?
I would love to see a film of some of the Iain M Banks stuff
I'm just finishing [i]The Algebraist[/i]. It's probably unfilmable really, but it'd be hilarious to watch someone spunking a trillion dollars of budget on trying. 🙂
It would take months to agree on any of the pronunciation for the culture!
Saw it last night, liked it better than TFA. As said, proper sense of being at war and having to do some bad stuff. CGI Tarkin and Leia good but no chance of passing for real - Tarkin being in it so much just hammered that home for me.
Favourite bit for me was when the rebel ships pop out of hyperspace (or whatever) and the empire fleet is right there, properly took me back to how much I loved that bit at the end of Return of the Jedi. The whole space battle bit was awesome, much better than the X-wings in TFA which just didn't move like real things.
Didn't really get the bit about the need to hook up the cable, it was a bit clunky but I was happy to go with it in the end.
Lastly Vader just slaughtering his way on the ship at the end made me look at him in a bit of a new light, like an actual properly bad guy rather than just the enemy - that hasn't really come across in the other films IMO.
mikewsmith - MemberIt would take months to agree on any of the pronunciation for the culture!
Marain has a welsh ll in it so that's me screwed.