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Yeah it's a big Maybe.
I believe he would say something similar to Don Bluth when he left Disney. Their films are toothless and without the art of hand drawn animation.
I guess it would depend on the idea of improved. Before the time travel I'd say Biff was getting paid pretty well as a manager of some sort and was having George do all his work for him. So he was getting a lot of reward for very little effort. Afterwards he was working a fairly tough manual labor job that paid only as well as he could find clients.
In the future he does have a grandson. So I suppose he was still able to find a wife or potentially a girlfriend for a set amount of time and have a family of some sort.
Umm okay. The prequels are just as much cannon as the originals and they clearly show the Death Star in early concept before the clone wars.
I'd say Luke was fighting for his life against Vader. And again Rey had no training and had more power than Luke after working with 2 Masters.
The equivalency would be Luke taking down Vader at first Death Star. Actually less cause he actually was being trained before they arrived.
I'd say the Jedi in the prequels are at the top of their power. Mace and Yoda are both strong enough to nearly defeat Palps and he was the top of the long line of Rule of Two. Also consider Obi-Won and Anakin were both incredibility powerful for their age.
One of the key purposes of the clone wars was to thin out and drastically weaken the Jedi. Palps knew taking over the senate would be a chess match, but toppling the Jedi was a much more combative campaign.
1. Finn could use it to fight another regular no problem but he used it with success against Kylo which should have mopped the floor with both him and Rey as he'd been trained for years and was a powerful force user.
2. After a few hours with Ben Luke couldn't do much of anything. After a few days with Yoda could struggle with telekinesis and use the force to aid his physical movements(speed, agility, jumping, flips) and could use a sabre competently at best, but not even close to the level we see from Vader or Knights in the prequels.
Yoda warns Luke not to go because Yoda know he's going to get mopped by Vader and most likely captured by the Emperor. Yoda knew Luke needed far far more training to even have a chance at confronting Vader.
Yet Rey with no training uses force powers and has sabre combat ability better than Kylo.
4. As far as movie canon goes I didn't see the Jedi stripping kids from their parents. All we see is Qui-gon offering a better life to Anakin. Anakin had a choice, Qui-gon never forced him. Even then the council turns him away. They don't seem desperate to train or kill him before he can get dangerous. They don't seem interested in him at all and I'd say that's how they would treat most that were too old to be converted or refused to join them.
As far as brain washing the kids at a young age I guess that is a valid argument but I'd say the parents have a choice if they want to give their child to them. I'm assuming life as a Jedi was pretty good. They don't seem to need for much, have very high status, and grow to become some of the most powerful beings in the Galaxy.
3. Good points on Luke and Leia but it supports my claim that an untrained force sensitive isn't all that dangerous to the Jedi. Without training they might be better than most at debate, negotiation, pod racing, gambling, and skilled shooting.
Could be wrong about this but I think the Death Star was more of a creation by the Separatists as a whole. More likely an idea cooked up by the trade federation and was being designed into practicality by a collation of others.
The separatists were gathering on Geo and discussing their alliance, war plans, and separation from the Republic. I'd say what the Geo's had in the hologram was the unfinished concept designs brought to the meeting as a strategic proposal. Hence why they handed it over to Dooku during the retreat instead of keeping it themselves. I doubt the tech challenged Geo's designed the DS themselves.
We don't see it again until the empire is formed and it's under construction. I'd say the leaders of the Separatist (which was just a big game designed by Palp) were the only ones that knew about it. Once they were killed by Anakin, Palps further developed the designs and started construction.
This is based just on what we see in the movies not supportive outside canon.
I don't think they're forcing people to be trained. If a child is identified as being force sensitive they probably offer and recommend training them but don't require it. They weren't interested in training Anakin at all and he had the high potential of any identified user. It seems if a force sensitive isn't trained they really can't do much with the power anyway. Maybe be really good at playing cards.
Luke/Leia before Obi Won couldn't do much of anything force related. Anakin before Qui-gon was only able to race with hyper fast reflexes that other non-humans could do without the force.
To me it seemed as if a force user still needed years of training before being able to correctly and effectively wield a lightsaber and use telekinetic abilities.
It wasn't until those garbage sequels that characters seemed to be magically blessed with powers and lightsaber wielding abilities.
Prequels-
Obi-Won: If you spent as much time practicing your saber skills as you do on speeders you'd rival Master Yoda.
Implying that time and effort spent practicing saber combat makes you better.
Sequels-
Rey is the best light saber duelist in history after picking one up.
From what I've seen, Splinter was Lucas's back-up plan. He'd already secured the rights to the sequel in his contact for Star Wars. He gave up points and upfront money in exchange for rights to merchandise and copyright on all material and sequels.
However, Lucas wasn't sure Star Wars was even going to be a success. So with Foster he developed a script for a very low budget sequel.
As for making things up, I'd assume when it comes to creation and writing most people have a general outline and grow their story around that. I don't think it was any different with Lucas. If you look at early concepts and ideas for the original movie it was massively different than what he ended up with.
Probably can't directly blame Nick. However, Ingen never would have brought the T-Rex if their original mission had succeeded. Also Nick stole the bullets else Roland would have killed the rex vs putting it to sleep.
I disagree. I watch movies that are current releases and think about how much better they could be. Anymore I have to go back and watch movies from the 80s-early 2000s just to remind myself that movies are good.
Especially wide blockbusters. They're almost all happy meal movies full of cheap junk and sugar. The last movies I watched and thought I couldn't have made suggestions that would massively improve the finished product were Ex Machina, Nightcrawler, and Moneyball. And those were almost a decade ago.
Yeah but it doesn't make any sense. I suppose to devalue Ludlow but in reality it makes next to zero sense that the men would listen to the guy who's chiefly responsible for all their misfortune and probably the deaths of many of their crew.
Disagree. I find it a hard fall from the first and 2nd movies. To me the 2nd one lacked the budget and cast but still had the feel and a humors script similar to the first. Chris Gartin(Grady) actually did a great job and played off Fred Ward and Michael Gross very well. Grady was actually a very likeable character and added a lot to the overall film. Not bad for a TV/Video actor.
This one seemed far cheaper than even the 2nd one and the cast didn't have any chemistry. The humor was also far off the first 2. It seems Brent Maddock(the Director) was far less talented than his buddy S.S. Wilson. The 2nd movie seemed like a featured intended for wide release but was strapped with a DTV budget. This one had a very DTV feel to it all the way down the story and script.
Also, using the CGI crutch with DTV budget early 2000's CGI was a really bad move.
I think it was less of trying to be safe from the Graboids and more of trying to find other people for help. Their current predicament was that they were trapped with no cars or communication. And the Graboids were slowly destroying their town's buildings that they were hiding on. On top of that they only had a limited amount of food and water.
Bixby would at least have supplies, communication, and vehicles. Also, with man eating worms entering a large town I would assume the authorities and national guard would get dispatched and kill them fairly quickly.
I would say the look of the film was largely up to the cinematographer and director. I think they were going for a western look along with a nod to the old monster movies of the 60's 70's. I would say that was the reason for the warm lighting and slight grainy look of the video.
So yeah I would say they were intentionally trying not to make the movie look like other modern releases of the time, and were instead trying to make it look like a western from the 70s. I personally think it looks great and adds a layer of uniqueness to film.
It could be. Again, it's all scripted. But, if you watch this clip the girls eyes are the same for both Brandon and David.
So what did they do different? Like I said David had a poor opening giving up way to much value at the start and then continued to bomb all the interactions such as over complimenting, escalating to fast, failing the eye test, and speaking way to fast and showing a level of social uncomfort or anxiety.
What did Brandon do? He came over and was actually given immediate value from David(which was actually david's only good move but ironically it really only benefited Brandon) and matched the girls level of energy being very relaxed and calm. He then aced the eye test(whether luck or attention) while still being very chill and relaxed.
It was at this point that the blone was reaching out to him giving him David's shot as a sign of approval. He then asked a very easy, normal and leveled question (what do you guys do for fun?) to which the blonde gives him a shit test (Karate!). And before Brandon has a chance to pass or fail, David interrupts with another very high energy chop move and then asks the girl to dance which was probably the final nail in his coffin as she nor her friends liked him or where even comfortable with him yet.
At this point regardless of looks Brandon looks like the much higher value guy. He's coming across as much more socially calibrated(having aced all the tests and correctly matching the groups energy level) and independent of outcome. While David looks like a awkward fool dancing around and having fumbled all the interactions. Also, David is then asked to dance with one of the wing girls. Which I'm sure the blone girl saw and added even more value to him. He then politely declines and gives himself even more value as he shows he doesn't need attention from the girls and has high standards.
I disagree that his boss was better looking. I'd say they were more or less equal without one having an appearance advantage over the other. It's all scripted obviously but I'd say the girl was more into Brandon due to his behavior and not necessarily looks.
David (Brandon's Boss) was clearly on the edge of drunk and was throwing himself at the girl. His approach was too much too fast and clearly at a different energy level than the girls he approached. Then fumbled almost every line or interaction including trying to impress her with how successful he was and then he wanted to buy them all drinks. He didn't wait for her to say anything or respond at all. He spoke too quickly and then sorta forced her to dance with him. Also his dance moves weren't helping him in the situation. He gave off the vibe that he was really into her, was drunk, and wouldn't take any hints to slow down with his escalation. To the girl I'm sure this was unattractive behavior.
So I'd say it was more of what David did wrong than the girl simply picking Brandon based on looks.
Maybe, but that movie would have cost 150M+. I'd say the first 15 minutes of the movie cost more than the rest combined. Could be that one of the big appeals of the first was it's 22M budget. The studio and other producers involved probably wanted to keep the scale of the original to guarantee similar profits.
Talk of trilogy is around and if so I'd expect another 15-20 min dedicated to flashback of the aliens taking over followed by another hour to complete the story.
It's smaller scale but I find its unique in a way. Rarely do we get an end of the world from alien invasion told in such a small scale fashion where we learn little bits of the event piece by piece by characters personal experiences. Remember this story is told from the character's prospective. So maybe they didn't see how the world ended. Instead we're only given what they have experienced along the stories from others.
I know the movie is different than what actually happened but just based on the movie.
Why did they trade Jeremy? Billy and Pete were all about bringing in Jeremy against all the scouts advice against it. Their point being he got on base at a high rate compared to his contract price regardless of his life style and declining physical attributes. Then Billy trades him mid season but it's never stated why. I guess we could assume that he wasn't playing well but this would provide more evidence that Billy and Pete's idea was flawed.
Careful. Bay is a producer of these movies.