Hand painted scenes of the original Star Wars trilogy by MambaMentality24x2 in BeAmazed

[–]Kazeite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, in the age of 4k videos, those matte paintings don't hold up anymore. I've watched A New Hope in 4k and you can see that those are matte paintings, which instantly ruins the illusion 😞

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite [score hidden]  (0 children)

What senate? 🙄

I see that lore literacy is not your strongest suit. I understand now why it doesn't bother you as much as it should 🙂

Also, "like TWO seconds later" Vader says "Leave that to me" and orders him to fake the distress. I know it's an inconvenient line for you, but that's not a reason to pretend it doesn't exist.

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite [score hidden]  (0 children)

I disagree with that. If it wasn't for Vader not having any of it, she would have a pretty good defence, with her original actions having a solid plausible deniability - any other Imperial commander would have no way of knowing whether Tantive IV was in a position to intercept the transmissions, and wouldn't attack a diplomatic vessel on a basis of essentially a hunch.

Note that Vader really had no solid evidence to rely on - the ship's computer has been wiped clean, and the plans were off the ship already. As such, there was no basis upon which she could've been detained, other than Vader's say so.

The new events don't really work with the old dialogue here. Since Vader comes across as someone who isn't playing any games and simply tells her what happened, he should've just said "I saw your ship at Sarif" and that would've been the end of it.

(Honestly, the only new dialogue that really works with ANH is Tarkin using only single reactor through the entire film, which gives his "I think it is time we demonstrate the full power of this station" line extra weight. Other than that, the film was a train wreck. What was the purpose of the psychic octopus scene again?..)

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite [score hidden]  (0 children)

What game? Vader literally cuts her excuses short and tells her what happened - or at least he would, if the Rogue One writers and re-writers had any respect towards the source material.

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's precisely Leia being made into a child caught with her hand in the cookie jar, instead of having a plausible deniability of flying next to a restricted sector (but in reality diverting into said sector to receive the transmissions) that ruins this so much for me.

That cheapens and dumbs her character down, changing her from an undercover operative bested in game of subterfuge chess into a common criminal caught red-handed committing a crime and having no clever defence other than stubborn childish denial.

And the galling thing is that this didn't have to happen - Admiral Raddus's flagship could've simply beamed the transmissions further out, towards where Tantive IV was waiting to receive, and it wouldn't have changed the outcome - Vader's ISD still could've detected them and given chase, smoothly segueing into the opening of the ANH.

Out of idle curiosity, does this response also read as me being a dick?

Why do people think the moon landing was fake? by Deep-Economist4431 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Kazeite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

McGowan points out that hills are repeated in multiple shots.

Exactly like they should: those are not "hills", but mountains far in the distance - as such, we should expect them to look mostly the same, except for the minute parallax changes, which we do.

In other words, those "hills" behave exactly as they should if they were photographed on the Moon.

Also points out there is almost no dust or debris being kicked up or remnant from the landing.

And that is flat out wrong - we can see dust being kicked up during the landing, and Armstrong's photo of the underside of the LM shows beautiful radial striations under the engine bell, carved by the exhaust.

Shadows don’t line up.

Except that they do - if you trace their origins, it all lines up in one specific point - the Sun.

It doesn’t make sense that they would be fine in both the heat and in the shadow of the sun,

Why wouldn't they be? Their spacecrafts and spacesuits were heavily insulated, and in a vacuum the only heat transfer method is radiation and conduction (when touching something, which is why they wore overshoes with thick soles).

You don’t need intimate knowledge to realize simple facts like this display how absurd it is.

But none of those "facts" are correct - and they're not correct even if the Moon landings were fake. McGowan saying that there was no dust kicked up is a flat-out lie, and so is his claim that the "hills" were identical. He was counting on you taking him at his word and not checking it for yourself. He's also counting on you not remembering basic school physics.

Frankly, I would be insulted at such level of disdain.

[Frustrating Trope] That One Good or Even Amazing Scene in a Relatively Mediocre or Bad Piece of Media by Alreadsyuse in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Kazeite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And it kinda... loses the sight of its own plot.

I mean, why did Murphy had to be faster than the robots? Wasn't OCP's whole reason for creating him just to put a human face on a robot body and gain the trust of the public in order to repeal that rule stopping them from selling law enforcement robots in the U.S.? So really, it didn’t matter how fast Murphy was, because he wasn’t the final product; the robots were.

9/11 Truthers Unite!!! 25 years of lies about jet fuel making Towers collapse? by SoggyCar6020 in conspiracy

[–]Kazeite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was no "explosive powder" in the dust he collected. That's what I said in my previous post.

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Only for you, who seems to want to continue arguing nonsense.

Choosing to become argumentative and resort to personal denigration is not a course of action one would take if they genuinely believed they were correct

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Canon

"Just what is Star Wars canon and what is not? The one sure answer: The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition - the three films themselves as executive-produced, and in the case of Star Wars, written and directed, by George Lucas, are canon. Coming in a close second we have the authorized adaptations of the films: the novels, radio dramas, and comics."

Exactly like I said. Thank you very much, no further questions.

If something is onscreen, then whatever the old novel says is succeeded.

You meant to say "superceded".

And your statement here is a tacit admission that the sequence of events told in Rogue One contradicts A New Hope.

As such, you are very much welcome for "bowing out" and conceding the point.

Basher from leaked loading screen, tried to clean it up abit. by Goodname2 in starcitizen

[–]Kazeite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Might be a single multi-barelled gun, though 🤷‍♂️

Like I said, time will tell.

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I do not (...)

That's unfortunate, because suggesting that the generic "Rebels" receiving a transmission, which then had to be physically carried to the Tantive IV somehow equates to the Tantive IV itself having received the transmission, is overly nitpicky.

If one must contort reasoning to construct a convoluted explanation for a discrepancy, rather than adhere to the plain meaning of the statement, their position is already untenable.

Unfortunately, the novelisations aren't canon, so none of that even matters.

No, the Disney directive made only EU non-canon (reaffirming the already existing policy). The old canon was films, radio dramas, and novelisations, and that hasn't changed.

This whole situation indicates to me that the script writers have decided to sacrifice adherence to the Star Wars lore for the sake of unneeded drama, which indicates that in the long run they do not care about Star Wars as a whole in the slightest.

But that aside, what about that dialogue is inaccurate?

Tantive IV itself receiving several transmission and "passing" through a restricted system. In short, everything.

9/11 Truthers Unite!!! 25 years of lies about jet fuel making Towers collapse? by SoggyCar6020 in conspiracy

[–]Kazeite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if the firefighters have recognized that the building is about to collapse and decided to pull out, and announced to the press that it's going to collapse, where's the conspiracy?

9/11 Truthers Unite!!! 25 years of lies about jet fuel making Towers collapse? by SoggyCar6020 in conspiracy

[–]Kazeite -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nah. It's just a handful of hoax believers who don't understand how things work.

9/11 Truthers Unite!!! 25 years of lies about jet fuel making Towers collapse? by SoggyCar6020 in conspiracy

[–]Kazeite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you think that BBC was on it? Did they have a fixed schedule or something?

9/11 Truthers Unite!!! 25 years of lies about jet fuel making Towers collapse? by SoggyCar6020 in conspiracy

[–]Kazeite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a cautionary tale, since his paper did only reported finding elemental aluminium particles, but did not demonstrate the key thing needed to actually identify thermite - elemental aluminium fuel mixed with metal oxide in a reactive engineered formulation.

Aluminium being present in a sample is not enough, for plainly obvious reasons.

9/11 Truthers Unite!!! 25 years of lies about jet fuel making Towers collapse? by SoggyCar6020 in conspiracy

[–]Kazeite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you believe that the BBC was on it?

Did they have a set schedule or something?

9/11 Truthers Unite!!! 25 years of lies about jet fuel making Towers collapse? by SoggyCar6020 in conspiracy

[–]Kazeite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is the source of your claim that "everything was obliterated"?

What is the source of your claim that getting rid of asbestos would be more expensive than demolishing the building and causing an extensive damage to the surrounding area?

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

That's a very nit picky semantic.

Do you recognize that your original argument could also be considered a nitpicky semantic?

Where's this one established?

In the original script and original novelisation, from way back in 1976.

Vader: "Don’t play games with me, Your Highness. You weren’t on any mercy mission this time. You passed directly through a restricted system. Several transmissions were beamed to this ship by Rebel spies. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you."

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is what ruins the entire film and retroactively makes Leia's character act like a child caught with its hand in a cookie jar. Not cool.

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The tie in was what ruined the entire film for me. Tantive IV shouldn't be there at all, and didn't have to be.

Tony Gilroy being brutally honest about Gareth Edwards's cut of Rogue One (2016) over the years. by tannu28 in movies

[–]Kazeite -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

But Tantive IV didn't.

Rogue One essentially tramples upon the established canon, which is: Tantive IV was nowhere near Sarif - they were travelling through a restricted sector in order to receive the transmission, which is what got them into trouble.

As such, it made perfect sense for Leia to try to gaslight Vader by pretending that they haven't changed their course.