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Star Wars: The Force Awakens [** SPOILERS FROM POST 4472 ONWARD **]
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Really? I think the mask is amazing. Just like the stormtrooper design it plays on the emotive form; an angry scowl featured upon a featureless face. It's very clever. All the Star Wars universe "bad guy" designs often feature very simplistic routes to define their stance in the universe. Take Darth Vader; a skull in a nazi helmet with a furrowed brow. It's so bloody simple but so effective.
The mask is essentially a direct rip off Darth Ravan's ... Although Ravan's would be considered less emotive, but both are very, very simple and very cool, but most importantly very in keeping with the sw universe.
The mask reminds me of the cylons from the original BSG for some reason (it does seem kind of toasterish :pac:) or even the sith from The Old Republic, who wear armour/helmets.
Here's revans mask, originally a mandalorian mask:
Really? I just think the light sabre is cool. It's all jagged and flickering suggesting that it wasn't made properly because the maker didn't have the right training (that has been done before in the sw universe).
I don't really get the George Lucas reference. Is it because he introduced mauls double blade? Well aside from the fact different variations of lightsabres have been present in the sw universe well before the prequels were drummed up I thought it did a pretty good job.
Sith, or whatever this guy is, have a history of making sabre more ornate and dangerous. People are assuming their hand guards but they're more likely offering an extra point of attack, something else sticking out that can cause damage. The point is it's not supposed to be practical...
At the end of the day it just looks cool. He just looks like a proper dark, evil knight. Brief nailed.
It just seems unnecessary and just there for the sake of it imo. I mean they just ripped off this classic :
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Really? I think the mask is amazing. Just like the stormtrooper design it plays on the emotive form; an angry scowl featured upon a featureless face. It's very clever. All the Star Wars universe "bad guy" designs often feature very simplistic routes to define their stance in the universe. Take Darth Vader; a skull in a nazi helmet with a furrowed brow. It's so bloody simple but so effective.
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While their certainly a lot of Nazi iconography in the star wars films think you'll find the helmet were more modelled on Bushido(Samurai) helmets rather then Nazi ones.
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Oafley Jones wrote: »[pedant]It's Lightsaber people. Lightsaber.[/pedant]
As a proud owner of a Master Replic's Vader RotJ lightsaber, I know
Phones tend to split the words though0 -
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As a proud owner of a Master Replic's Vader RotJ lightsaber, I know
Phones tend to split the words though
Got the Anakin one myself. :pac:
I see that Disney are finally going to make proper use of the licence in their parks. The wreck that is Disney Hollywood Studios is getting a 14 acre SW land. Two main attractions. One is a MF simulator and the other features a battle between the New Order and the resistance.0 -
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That's a huge step down for Abrams and Johnson
I liked Safety Not Guaranteed and all, but it wasn't exactly the height of auteur driven indie cinema. Jurassic World was as blandly directed a blockbuster as one will find. The other two are much more aesthetically minded directors (I've said it before, but I almost think Rian Johnson is too good for the franchise), well capable of visual spectacle of the old-fashioned kind. While the (slightly baffling!) commercial success of Jurassic World clearly makes Trevorrow an attractive draw for studios, he has yet to prove himself anywhere near a director on the level of the other two. Here's hoping he disproves that here. But can't help but see him as a significantly weaker choice than Johnson and Abrams - but at least it frees those two up to hopefully make some more original fare 
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Official poster has been released and it's suitably Star Wars, with that classic cinema poster look that's so evocative. Love the use of vertical lines:
http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2015/08/ep7poster.jpg
Orange and goddamn teal :P
Cool poster though
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